Pain isn't a problem. The needles are short, and sharp and you are injecting insulin into fatty tissue around your abdomen usually (although I also use my thighs at night). As long as you don't use the same needle for too long (i.e making it blunt) then you don't even feel it.
As for finger-pricking, same rule applies, don't use the same lancet (skin puncturer thingee) too long and it doesn't hurt at all.
When your injecting 6 times a day like myself, you get used to it pretty quickly:-)
Times have changed from when you had to draw insulin into a hypodermic from a vial.. now we just dial the amount, jab, press and go:-)
I am a type one diabetic, who doesn't test levels any where near as much as I should. While I can clearly see that continuous blood glucose monitoring would be a god send, it's not quite what we need.
Now if we could combine continuous monitoring with an insulin delivery device, in such a way that the monitor controls the delivery, that would be pure heaven.
Imagine, insert an insulin and mabe a glucose cartridge every week or so, the monitor tells the device to deliver insulin when it detects a rise in glucose, and tells the device to deliver glucose when the glucose levels drop to hypoglycemic levels.
You could do anything you want, safe in the knowledge that your diabetes management device would keep your levels within not only safe, but healthy levels.
No more worrying if your late with dinner, or early with dinner - the glucose and insulin doses will even it out, want to go for a run, just go - the glucose will make up the shortfall if needed, want to veg out on the couch, by all means - the device wil just supply a little more insulin to cover your lazyness. It'd be like having a superislet (islet's are the cells that produce insulin for you non-diabetics).
I think the delivery is the easy bit, you could just strap a small device with a needle to your arm or something. The monitoring is the difficult bit, from what I know of the current continuous monitors they are neither accurate or infact particularly continuous.
I'd like to fly all day, and I know I should be a commercial pilot (an ag pilot none the less), but I have diabetes (type 1 (youth onset, insulin dependant), not type 2 (old fat people mostly)) so that just can't happen no matter how much I want it.
Sometimes we just have to make the best of a bad situation.
it reminds me of a "commercial" in a South Park episode a couple seasons back.
Bad TV aside though, it kinds looks very cheesy as a toy itself. It needs to be scaled up for the adults in the audience, to have more "intelligence", can the "dance program", and R2's cool hologram projector wouldn't be bad either please:-)
You got to remember, this is Maxtor we're talking about, 40G is probably reasonable knowing that !
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The cold hard fact is that if an asteroid wants to hit the earth it is going to hit the earth. There is more or less NOTHING we can do with our present technology, or technology in the forseeable future.
Even with this, 19 year lead in time I'd be surprised if the collective powers that be could get something organised to nudge the asteroid far enough off course that it ceases to be a threat. Most asteroids are not found until far far closer than this.
The ONLY way our species will survive is to expand off planet - for a multitude of reasons, not the least of which is asteroid collision wiping out THIS colony.
But being your own god brings it's own little problem, as demonstrated by H2G2
-------- Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic. ------
Developed being the operative word. Large parts (most) of the world is not considered the "developed world" and thier growth rates just keep on climbing.
People will not just "stop" reproducing, people generally believe it's thier "right" to procreate. And unlike bacteria we do not generally allow people to just die off, no matter how shit things are for them. With our advanced (compared to other species on this planet) medical knowledge we keep people alive as long as possible. And BECAUSE of that, there will be less available resources per person, and thus our standard of living must decline.
It has already been calculated that there are NOT enough resources on the planet for everybody on the planet to have a high (by western standards) standard of living - there just isn't enough space on the planets surface for that.
But the population keeps growing, and it's not going to stop, because unless forced to do so, people WILL reproduce, through accident or design. Human intelligence and free will is both our advantage and downfall.
Look at China for example...thier policy (is it still in action ?) of 1 child per family was/is a direct response to a population crisis - it didn't fall back to a natural system where the population growth rate declined because things weren't looking good, people STILL reproduced, so the authorities had to step in and forcibly change the growth rate. Look how abhorrent that was to western cultures.
But what makes you think that other cultures will be different and not require intervention to prevent over population ?
Decreasing the population is a good thing. Why ? Because it's not that we are going to pollute the earth, or burn it's natural resources, or anything so cataclysmic. We are simply going to run out of room.
The worlds population, on average, DOUBLES every 47 years or so. That means, long before I am dead, there will be (at current rates) TWICE the number of people on the planet - that's 12 BILLION, how would you feel about twice the number of people in your neighbourhood ?
Long before my children (if I have any) are dead, the population will quadruple (24 Billion), and before thier children are dead the population is 8x what it is now, and that's in only 150 years or so !
That's 48 BILLION people in 150 years, which most would agree is a number completely unsupportable, not without some extreme reductions in the standard of living for western cultures, to the level of 3rd world countries.
The long and short of it is, in just 50 years things will begin to get tight and unless there is a population "cull" or planetery migration, there will soon be nothing but starving, dehydrated, dead and dying humans on the planet.
We have to leave earth or start reducing the population, and we have to start NOW.
Your post got me to thinking. I think we can all agree that 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the best scifi films ever, but how many people think that there can ever be a film made like it again, ever, at least in Hollywood.
Sadly, 90% of the movie watching public expect the things you say, helicopter chases, plenty of sex, lots of violence, a solidly bad guy and a solidly good guy. Without lots of sex, violence, action or comedy films just won't sell in the market - 2001 had none of that but it's regarded as one of the best (scifi) films.
I think we are destined to never see another 2001, it just can't happen, not until that 90% of the population becomes educated.
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The only problem with writing on screen is you have to hover your hand over the screen, if you rest it on the page while writing then it screws everything up. Now if they could instead of being pressure sensitive be light driven or something (like the old "light pens") that would be much better.
I don't know what kind of consumer protection legislation you guys have in the states, but in New Zealand we have this thing called the "Fair Trading Act". I'm pretty sure in this country the situation would violate the act in several places.
Firstly, as you say the fitness for it's purpose - if you buy a product for it's advertised purpose and it cannot fulfill that purpose then you are entitled to a refund.
Secondly, misleading advertising, if they say in the advertising this machine is great for gaming etc, or even that it is 1.1g (and the throttle to 500mhz) then that is blatently misleading and they would have the book thrown at them.
Also, why have internet access WHILE your watching the movie? I can see it while your waiting for it to come on, or while your waiting in the lobby, but yeesh.. heh
Or you could either engage in polite conversation with the person next to you, watch the avderts, or even, horrors, not arrive insanely early.
What's next, "wireless public toilets", arrive 1/2 an hour before you have to pee so you can browse the web for a bit ?!?!
It's like WAP on cell phones... yeah I guess it's interesting, never mind that it's utterly pointless for 99% of the population.
I'd imagine that the mac scans the bus looking for devices when it powers up. Probably it looks at the CD in the drive in this process - wether or not it actually boots from it in the end - and gets mighty confused. Shouldn't people be able to use the hidden mechanisim inside the CD drawer though (use a paper-clip to access it) to eject the CD and all would be well again ?
This is a Bor-5 VKK (Spacecraft) and was used to test the aerodynamic characteristics of high altitude and extreme speed and heat on a space vehicle. It is an exact 1/8 scale model of the Russian "Buran" space shuttle.
It wasn't an auction of Buran, or any of the other shuttles, but of a test shuttle, not only not space capable but also 1/8th the size.
I also thought that Buran was a name like Soyuz or Apollo - applied to all ships of the class. That's different that our shuttles, which have unique names.
No. Buran is the name of the first shuttle that was completed and space-flight tested (it did an unmanned orbit and return - quite a feat, something the US shuttles have never done).
I believe number two, which was almost completed was called Pitchka, meaning "Little Bird", the remaining ones were not officially named (they were only partially completed).
1) I wasn't aware that any Russian shuttle, let alone Buran itself was being auctioned - just did a search on/. and no sight of an article about it, except the one from mid last year when they auctioned a scaled static tester.
2) The Yahoo article says a shuttle of the type was in the hanger at the time of the incident, but doesn't say if it was Buran or not, I had a feeling Buran was in a covered but not enclosed storage.
3) People died in this, that's a little more important than any shuttle.
Two Words... "Google Cache". Of course, they specifically requested permission from the site before the blatantly copied the material from this site to thier caching servers, didn't they ?
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Pain isn't a problem. The needles are short, and sharp and you are injecting insulin into fatty tissue around your abdomen usually (although I also use my thighs at night). As long as you don't use the same needle for too long (i.e making it blunt) then you don't even feel it.
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As for finger-pricking, same rule applies, don't use the same lancet (skin puncturer thingee) too long and it doesn't hurt at all.
When your injecting 6 times a day like myself, you get used to it pretty quickly
Times have changed from when you had to draw insulin into a hypodermic from a vial.. now we just dial the amount, jab, press and go
I am a type one diabetic, who doesn't test levels any where near as much as I should. While I can clearly see that continuous blood glucose monitoring would be a god send, it's not quite what we need.
Now if we could combine continuous monitoring with an insulin delivery device, in such a way that the monitor controls the delivery, that would be pure heaven.
Imagine, insert an insulin and mabe a glucose cartridge every week or so, the monitor tells the device to deliver insulin when it detects a rise in glucose, and tells the device to deliver glucose when the glucose levels drop to hypoglycemic levels.
You could do anything you want, safe in the knowledge that your diabetes management device would keep your levels within not only safe, but healthy levels.
No more worrying if your late with dinner, or early with dinner - the glucose and insulin doses will even it out, want to go for a run, just go - the glucose will make up the shortfall if needed, want to veg out on the couch, by all means - the device wil just supply a little more insulin to cover your lazyness. It'd be like having a superislet (islet's are the cells that produce insulin for you non-diabetics).
I think the delivery is the easy bit, you could just strap a small device with a needle to your arm or something. The monitoring is the difficult bit, from what I know of the current continuous monitors they are neither accurate or infact particularly continuous.
But only as far back as when the worm hole is created in the first place.
I'd like to fly all day, and I know I should be a commercial pilot (an ag pilot none the less), but I have diabetes (type 1 (youth onset, insulin dependant), not type 2 (old fat people mostly)) so that just can't happen no matter how much I want it.
Sometimes we just have to make the best of a bad situation.
Man, please tell me that American television commercials are not as bad as this
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it reminds me of a "commercial" in a South Park episode a couple seasons back.
Bad TV aside though, it kinds looks very cheesy as a toy itself. It needs to be scaled up for the adults in the audience, to have more "intelligence", can the "dance program", and R2's cool hologram projector wouldn't be bad either please
You got to remember, this is Maxtor we're talking about, 40G is probably reasonable knowing that !
The cold hard fact is that if an asteroid wants to hit the earth it is going to hit the earth. There is more or less NOTHING we can do with our present technology, or technology in the forseeable future.
Even with this, 19 year lead in time I'd be surprised if the collective powers that be could get something organised to nudge the asteroid far enough off course that it ceases to be a threat. Most asteroids are not found until far far closer than this.
The ONLY way our species will survive is to expand off planet - for a multitude of reasons, not the least of which is asteroid collision wiping out THIS colony.
But being your own god brings it's own little problem, as demonstrated by H2G2
--------
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
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GNOME isn't a window manager. Neither is KDE for that matter (although KDE has it's own window manager I think (kwm ?) but GNOME does not).
Developed being the operative word. Large parts (most) of the world is not considered the "developed world" and thier growth rates just keep on climbing.
People will not just "stop" reproducing, people generally believe it's thier "right" to procreate. And unlike bacteria we do not generally allow people to just die off, no matter how shit things are for them. With our advanced (compared to other species on this planet) medical knowledge we keep people alive as long as possible. And BECAUSE of that, there will be less available resources per person, and thus our standard of living must decline.
It has already been calculated that there are NOT enough resources on the planet for everybody on the planet to have a high (by western standards) standard of living - there just isn't enough space on the planets surface for that.
But the population keeps growing, and it's not going to stop, because unless forced to do so, people WILL reproduce, through accident or design. Human intelligence and free will is both our advantage and downfall.
Look at China for example...thier policy (is it still in action ?) of 1 child per family was/is a direct response to a population crisis - it didn't fall back to a natural system where the population growth rate declined because things weren't looking good, people STILL reproduced, so the authorities had to step in and forcibly change the growth rate. Look how abhorrent that was to western cultures.
But what makes you think that other cultures will be different and not require intervention to prevent over population ?
Decreasing the population is a good thing. Why ? Because it's not that we are going to pollute the earth, or burn it's natural resources, or anything so cataclysmic. We are simply going to run out of room.
The worlds population, on average, DOUBLES every 47 years or so. That means, long before I am dead, there will be (at current rates) TWICE the number of people on the planet - that's 12 BILLION, how would you feel about twice the number of people in your neighbourhood ?
Long before my children (if I have any) are dead, the population will quadruple (24 Billion), and before thier children are dead the population is 8x what it is now, and that's in only 150 years or so !
That's 48 BILLION people in 150 years, which most would agree is a number completely unsupportable, not without some extreme reductions in the standard of living for western cultures, to the level of 3rd world countries.
The long and short of it is, in just 50 years things will begin to get tight and unless there is a population "cull" or planetery migration, there will soon be nothing but starving, dehydrated, dead and dying humans on the planet.
We have to leave earth or start reducing the population, and we have to start NOW.
Now we know how the phrase "Jesus Christ" came to be a term of awe, or frustration or anger, as in... "Jeesus Christ! Look at the guy explode !" :-)
Your post got me to thinking. I think we can all agree that 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the best scifi films ever, but how many people think that there can ever be a film made like it again, ever, at least in Hollywood.
Sadly, 90% of the movie watching public expect the things you say, helicopter chases, plenty of sex, lots of violence, a solidly bad guy and a solidly good guy. Without lots of sex, violence, action or comedy films just won't sell in the market - 2001 had none of that but it's regarded as one of the best (scifi) films.
I think we are destined to never see another 2001, it just can't happen, not until that 90% of the population becomes educated.
brings a whole new meaning to "stealing yourself away" really :-)
Yea, but think of the ready supply of carbonated water for Coca Cola & Pepsi :-) Who needs fish when we have Coke !
So much more happens in the 3rd series that, well, suffice to say it'll blow your socks off when you do get to see it.
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The only problem with writing on screen is you have to hover your hand over the screen, if you rest it on the page while writing then it screws everything up. Now if they could instead of being pressure sensitive be light driven or something (like the old "light pens") that would be much better.
Firstly, as you say the fitness for it's purpose - if you buy a product for it's advertised purpose and it cannot fulfill that purpose then you are entitled to a refund.
Secondly, misleading advertising, if they say in the advertising this machine is great for gaming etc, or even that it is 1.1g (and the throttle to 500mhz) then that is blatently misleading and they would have the book thrown at them.
Or you could either engage in polite conversation with the person next to you, watch the avderts, or even, horrors, not arrive insanely early.
What's next, "wireless public toilets", arrive 1/2 an hour before you have to pee so you can browse the web for a bit ?!?!
It's like WAP on cell phones... yeah I guess it's interesting, never mind that it's utterly pointless for 99% of the population.
I'd imagine that the mac scans the bus looking for devices when it powers up. Probably it looks at the CD in the drive in this process - wether or not it actually boots from it in the end - and gets mighty confused. Shouldn't people be able to use the hidden mechanisim inside the CD drawer though (use a paper-clip to access it) to eject the CD and all would be well again ?
It wasn't an auction of Buran, or any of the other shuttles, but of a test shuttle, not only not space capable but also 1/8th the size.
No. Buran is the name of the first shuttle that was completed and space-flight tested (it did an unmanned orbit and return - quite a feat, something the US shuttles have never done).
I believe number two, which was almost completed was called Pitchka, meaning "Little Bird", the remaining ones were not officially named (they were only partially completed).
1) I wasn't aware that any Russian shuttle, let alone Buran itself was being auctioned - just did a search on /. and no sight of an article about it, except the one from mid last year when they auctioned a scaled static tester.
2) The Yahoo article says a shuttle of the type was in the hanger at the time of the incident, but doesn't say if it was Buran or not, I had a feeling Buran was in a covered but not enclosed storage.
3) People died in this, that's a little more important than any shuttle.
Two Words... "Google Cache". Of course, they specifically requested permission from the site before the blatantly copied the material from this site to thier caching servers, didn't they ?