Damn, if there ever was a time to be wearing that tin foil hat...
Don't even bother. It's just going to get sucked into the core of the MRI unit anyway. Not only can they read your thoughts, they can rip the foil hat right off of your head without even touching you. Ahhhh!
We support both Toughbooks and Lifebooks here. What they really need is a roomfull of Nurses and their 4 year old kids. We had one returned because the nurse couldn't connect to the network. Upon inspection, I found a yellow gummi bear firmly pressed into the RJ45 connector. It's pretty hard to configure the DNS settings of a yellow gummi bear. Maybe it's easier with the red ones?
Seriously though, we're moving back to Fujitsu's over the Panasonics. The Toughbooks (at least the T2's we have) haven't proved to be all that tough and their customer service leaves a lot to be desired. Fujitsu had problems in that department as well, but lately has made strides in the right direction. We need the touchscreens for this application (our RN's complete tons of medical assessments using checkboxes) so that kind of narrows our choices.
Well, the other reason it works is because people apparently are asking their doctors about these products just like the ads tell them to. If they didn't, I'm sure the marketing budgets would be drastically reduced.
The problem with insurance carriers eliminating reimbursements is that it's denying coverage for someone who potentially actually needs the drug. I'm on a medication now that would cost me 5 times what it does if it wasn't covered by insurance. And no, I didn't ask my physician about it. He recommended it to me.
That said, I used to work in the industry and have seen a lot of questionable or even downright unethical activities both on the part of the physicians and the company representatives. The reps are under a tremendous amount of pressure to get 'their share' of their assigned market area and that pressure sometimes motivates them toward sleazy practices. I've also seen countless cases where patients were given expensive new drugs when the older and less expensive generic products would have worked just fine. This practice is at least partly responsible for the growing number of drug resistant bugs that we're seeing now and adds a huge cost to health care which already eats up more of the GNP (I think 17% at last report) than any other expense.
If you're using blades and pack them tight enough, they'll generate enough heat on their own. Oh yeah, and if you remember to leave one RU empty, it's the perfect size for a pizza box warmer. That's why my fantasy server bunker smells like mozzerella and oregano.
Dude, get up on the wrong side of the internet this morning? The point's been brought up many times other places in this thread that a lot of these machines could remove moisture from the air prematurely (ie artificially) - therefore adversely impacting other areas. Any thing you do to artificially affect the environment has an unintended result, however small.
The point I was trying to make, and that you obviously missed, is that heavily populated areas already artificially affect climate. Want to argue that? Stop posting as AC if you want to have a discussion.
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I was originally inclined to agree with you, until I thought about the fact that populated areas already interfere with the environment to a noticable degree. You have air conditioners making the outdoor air warmer and removing humidity. You have concrete and pavement that artificially hold heat way after sundown and much longer than normal soil would, and on and on.
I can't see how a few hundred of these things, placed strategically would have any more of a negative impact than these factors. In fact, they could potentially be a sort of a civilization mitigator in a way. Someone please correct me if my thinking is wrong here.
lol...after actually RTFA'ing (a little) apparently Novell actually was involved in the earlier development - perhaps before then went to the dark side ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsigned with Microsoft.
Anyway, back on topic. Can anyone tell me why this is not just another implementation of SSO which (I saw Novell's original version and loathed it) is usually a really bad idea?
This explains it. We in the south have finally managed to have one of the most significant cold fronts of the year. Every/.er worth his salt knows that more pirates = less global warming. Logic dictates that this must be a direct result of the proliferation of all the Canadian pirates.
I really wish I had points today to mod you up. And I wish I'd seen this post about six months ago. I'll be dating myself here, but I clearly remember walking with my mother in a strip mall years ago when this song came on over the PA system and it has stuck in my head ever since. Something else reminded me of this song a few months ago and thanks to Amazon, I was finally able to find it on one of those Billboard compilation disks. So now, any time I like I can put the CD on, close my eyes and think about a sandy haired kid walking holding his mom's hand while we window shopped in Key Biscayne. Great memories!
Admittedly this if off topic and I'm sure you know this already, but Japan is not the only place with great music. My wife is Colombian and since knowing her, I found a whole new world of latin music that I didn't know existed. We both have a pretty ecclectic music collection from artists all over the world and music is truly one of our shared passions. If you're interested, check out some of the Putumayo collections (they're sold here at Whole Foods and other markets or available on line). We have 6 or 7 of them now and they're all excellent - especially the Brazillian ones.
Seems a bit nuts to kill all the bateria (yogurt is essentially a culture of bateria) and then add them back in again.
I used to work in a hospital pharmacy and we stocked several products for doing that very thing. Some patients who had severe infections and aggressive antibioitic therapy would have their natually occuring intestinal bacteria wiped out. These products were given to the patients to help restore the bacterial flora and the ability to digest food without discomfort. IIRC, most of the products were essentially just cultured lactobacillus strains but an MD or pharmacist could elaborate.
I think it's also a case of us all being sick of frivilous litigation. We've had it with the "I'm a fat tard, let's go sue McDonalds, Wendys, KFC..." type lawsuits and this one falls in that category, IMHO. The/. community is not so much defending MySpace as it is condemning these type of ridiculous suits that do nothing but enrich the trial attorneys. And until people who bring frivilous litigation to the courts are held accountable for wasting the Court's (read Taxpayer's) time and money, it's not going to change.
On another level, I've also always had something of a problem with the "It takes a village to raise a child" mentality. It's one thing for a community to work together to promote a safe environment for kids. But it's quite another to expect the schools, your neighbors, television, the web, Wii's and whatever else to raise your children for you. It's the parent's responsibility and the most important one that they will ever have. Generally speaking, bad things don't happen nearly as often to children who's parents are actively involved in their lives.
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We support both Toughbooks and Lifebooks here. What they really need is a roomfull of Nurses and their 4 year old kids. We had one returned because the nurse couldn't connect to the network. Upon inspection, I found a yellow gummi bear firmly pressed into the RJ45 connector. It's pretty hard to configure the DNS settings of a yellow gummi bear. Maybe it's easier with the red ones?
Seriously though, we're moving back to Fujitsu's over the Panasonics. The Toughbooks (at least the T2's we have) haven't proved to be all that tough and their customer service leaves a lot to be desired. Fujitsu had problems in that department as well, but lately has made strides in the right direction. We need the touchscreens for this application (our RN's complete tons of medical assessments using checkboxes) so that kind of narrows our choices.
...checks calendar... Yep, only 4 days until patch Tuesday. Gonna have my Word patches ready this month, Bill?
Admittedly offtopic, but I once knew a blonde who signed up for a lecture on boolean cubes.
She got really miffed and stormed out when she found out it wasn't about making soup.
Well, the other reason it works is because people apparently are asking their doctors about these products just like the ads tell them to. If they didn't, I'm sure the marketing budgets would be drastically reduced.
The problem with insurance carriers eliminating reimbursements is that it's denying coverage for someone who potentially actually needs the drug. I'm on a medication now that would cost me 5 times what it does if it wasn't covered by insurance. And no, I didn't ask my physician about it. He recommended it to me.
That said, I used to work in the industry and have seen a lot of questionable or even downright unethical activities both on the part of the physicians and the company representatives. The reps are under a tremendous amount of pressure to get 'their share' of their assigned market area and that pressure sometimes motivates them toward sleazy practices. I've also seen countless cases where patients were given expensive new drugs when the older and less expensive generic products would have worked just fine. This practice is at least partly responsible for the growing number of drug resistant bugs that we're seeing now and adds a huge cost to health care which already eats up more of the GNP (I think 17% at last report) than any other expense.
Not to worry. It's probably just a video of his server morphing into a puddle of molten metal.
If you're using blades and pack them tight enough, they'll generate enough heat on their own. Oh yeah, and if you remember to leave one RU empty, it's the perfect size for a pizza box warmer. That's why my fantasy server bunker smells like mozzerella and oregano.
Dude, get up on the wrong side of the internet this morning? The point's been brought up many times other places in this thread that a lot of these machines could remove moisture from the air prematurely (ie artificially) - therefore adversely impacting other areas. Any thing you do to artificially affect the environment has an unintended result, however small.
The point I was trying to make, and that you obviously missed, is that heavily populated areas already artificially affect climate. Want to argue that? Stop posting as AC if you want to have a discussion.
I was originally inclined to agree with you, until I thought about the fact that populated areas already interfere with the environment to a noticable degree. You have air conditioners making the outdoor air warmer and removing humidity. You have concrete and pavement that artificially hold heat way after sundown and much longer than normal soil would, and on and on.
I can't see how a few hundred of these things, placed strategically would have any more of a negative impact than these factors. In fact, they could potentially be a sort of a civilization mitigator in a way. Someone please correct me if my thinking is wrong here.
lol...after actually RTFA'ing (a little) apparently Novell actually was involved in the earlier development - perhaps before then went to the dark side ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsigned with Microsoft.
Anyway, back on topic. Can anyone tell me why this is not just another implementation of SSO which (I saw Novell's original version and loathed it) is usually a really bad idea?
Anyone else read that as Novell Identity Protection Software and thought WTF? It is definitely beer-thirty.
This explains it. We in the south have finally managed to have one of the most significant cold fronts of the year. Every /.er worth his salt knows that more pirates = less global warming. Logic dictates that this must be a direct result of the proliferation of all the Canadian pirates.
I really wish I had points today to mod you up. And I wish I'd seen this post about six months ago. I'll be dating myself here, but I clearly remember walking with my mother in a strip mall years ago when this song came on over the PA system and it has stuck in my head ever since. Something else reminded me of this song a few months ago and thanks to Amazon, I was finally able to find it on one of those Billboard compilation disks. So now, any time I like I can put the CD on, close my eyes and think about a sandy haired kid walking holding his mom's hand while we window shopped in Key Biscayne. Great memories!
Admittedly this if off topic and I'm sure you know this already, but Japan is not the only place with great music. My wife is Colombian and since knowing her, I found a whole new world of latin music that I didn't know existed. We both have a pretty ecclectic music collection from artists all over the world and music is truly one of our shared passions. If you're interested, check out some of the Putumayo collections (they're sold here at Whole Foods and other markets or available on line). We have 6 or 7 of them now and they're all excellent - especially the Brazillian ones.
Before I saw your 5 digit ID, I was all ready to say "You must be new here, welcome to /."
I kid, I kid.
This guy was probably one of the sole survivors who ate Godzilla eggs keeping the population down. Now they're in for it. "Oh no, there goes Tokyo!"
Third was the machine guns that, when swung to the front, had a nasty habit of shooting their heads off.
Well it certainly gives the term "Blue Screen of Death" a whole new meaning.
Or getting them to say "paper or plastic?"
I think it's also a case of us all being sick of frivilous litigation. We've had it with the "I'm a fat tard, let's go sue McDonalds, Wendys, KFC..." type lawsuits and this one falls in that category, IMHO. The /. community is not so much defending MySpace as it is condemning these type of ridiculous suits that do nothing but enrich the trial attorneys. And until people who bring frivilous litigation to the courts are held accountable for wasting the Court's (read Taxpayer's) time and money, it's not going to change.
On another level, I've also always had something of a problem with the "It takes a village to raise a child" mentality. It's one thing for a community to work together to promote a safe environment for kids. But it's quite another to expect the schools, your neighbors, television, the web, Wii's and whatever else to raise your children for you. It's the parent's responsibility and the most important one that they will ever have. Generally speaking, bad things don't happen nearly as often to children who's parents are actively involved in their lives.