19, actually, with leap months added in 7 of those years; the months mostly alternate 29 and 30 days to correspond to the actual moon. It's a little more complicated, though, since due to restrictions on which days of the week certain holidays can fall, the lengths of both regular years and leap years vary slightly -- they're normally 354 days and 384 days respectively, but can have a day subtracted or added.
Sort of -- it would be possible to take them out, but as they saturated those pixels of the sensor, the only thing it would be possible to do would be to replace them with black, which isn't particularly more true than white. Anything else would just be Photoshop tricks, which are likewise not particularly true. As it is, they do provide some information, since their size is dependent on the brightness of the star.
And ironically Kodaks business plan of sell the camera for cost and over charge for the film is alive and well in the printer/ink business.
For now... printing is already on the decline. It's probably not going to drop off quite the way film has, but there are already a lot of things that people used to print that they now just carry around on smartphones, or display on cheap LCD screens. The printer/ink business model will survive a while longer, but it's going to get steadily less profitable as people use ink at slower rates.
Maybe in the time it takes them to build the railroad L.A. can build a functional public transit system.
Or, you know, they could just have rental car agencies at the train station. I realize that this is a novel idea that no other form of intercity transit has tried, but I bet it would work.
Um, that's true of Pentax, too. The lenses that work with my K1000 (fully manual film SLR, production started in 1976) still work great with my K10D (digital, released in 2006). The newest lenses that lack aperture rings won't work with the manual body (at least not other than wide open), but that's true of Canon and Nikon, too. This also means that you can get some very good older lenses on eBay for very reasonable prices ($50-$100 each), as long as you don't mind some manual control (which is not that hard to learn -- before all of the automatic stuff came out, anyone who wanted to take pictures had to deal with it, and without even the benefit of instant feedback that you get now with digital).
I haven't tried the entry-level Pentax dSLRs, but I've heard good reviews of them, and I can say that the mid-level is great. They don't make a "pro" level dSLR (in other words, full frame), but I don't think that matters much for most people.
The one disadvantage of SLRs is that they're big. Even if you're just carrying the camera with a single lens, it's still going to be pretty bulky, weighing in at over a pound. Definitely not something you can slip into a pocket "just in case you want to take a picture". For that, I recommend something like the Canon S90/S95/S100, which combine a good lens and sensor with a small size and some optional manual controls (very useful as you learn more about photography and become smarter than the camera). They still don't compare to an SLR, but there's an adage in photography that the best camera is the one you have with you.
If it does work, it still works by producing heat. That would be real handy for home heating, but it's not trivial to turn heat into electricity. In particular, it's much easier to do it efficiently with giant steam turbines. This is the same reason you don't have a coal-fired generator in your basement: it's not that you couldn't, but it would be inefficient compared to a large power plant.
People act in what they believe is their self interest. There are a lot of factors that can make that behavior different from their actual best interest. Many of those factors are also predictable, but figuring out all the interactions between them gets pretty complicated.
Bullshit. If this were actually true, we'd have a working socialist system by now, like much of Europe. As it is, most Americans are too invested in the possibility that they could win the lottery and then the government might take some of their "hard-earned" money away from them to actually do anything like this. Self-interest is only effective if people are smart enough to figure out what is actually in their interest.
No safe amount? Then I guess we're all screwed, because there will always be microscopic traces of mercury in the environment. Unless you stop eating entirely, you're probably going to be ingesting at least a few atoms of it on a regular basis. Same with uranium, arsenic, and any number of other toxic elements.
Those are good points, but I think your last paragraph is incorrect. 3% of the population is in prison at any given time, but there isn't total replacement every decade; some of those people are in for long term sentences, some are repeat criminals who keep going back, and some are people who actually learn a lesson, turn their lives around, and do find jobs in the regular economy. "Have you ever been convicted of a felony" keeps people out of a lot of jobs, but not all. So I suspect the percentage of people who are no longer in prison, can't find regular jobs, and don't go back to prison is much lower.
It's pretty hard to take high dynamic range photos with (or of) something that's moving -- it relies on taking multiple exposures at different exposure levels (either shutter speed or sensitivity) to overcome the limited dynamic range of digital sensors.
You don't, but that's okay -- spinning up a new VM is just one thing to try. If the problem doesn't reoccur, then you've saved yourself a lot of time and hassle trying to figure it out. If it does, then it can still help you eliminate some possible reasons.
If you're an idiot, yes, you'll just keep creating new VMs and not solving the problem. But you're not an idiot, right?
As a rule, the symptoms don't just come out of nowhere—if you're driving, and start to go hypoglycemic, you just pull over, treat it, wait 15 minutes, and start up again. (There is a such a thing as hypoglycemia unawareness, in which the symptoms do come on much faster and at a lower level of blood glucose, but that's an individual-specific thing that results from having too many lows to begin with, so it doesn't affect the general population of diabetics.) The bigger danger, as I said in my reply to sheepweevil, is in situations where you're less likely or able to notice the symptoms.
No, there's nothing to prevent you from giving multiple consecutive boluses. I occasionally eat enough in one sitting that I need about 30 units, and I just give myself a second bolus right after the first one. (More often one of them is actually a dual or square wave, but it does happen that both of them are normal boluses.) It's designed to guard against human error, nothing more.
As for the dangers of hypoglycemia... yes, it is fairly easy to treat a hypoglycemic seizure. I've had quite a few of them, though none since getting a pump ten years ago. But I was also lucky enough that someone else was there to help me each time. If one of those had happened while I was alone, it could easily have killed me, especially if it were induced by a significant overdose, rather than just a bit too much long-acting insuling and being tired enough that I didn't wake up when it hit. If you're unconscious, you can't eat glucose or give yourself a glucagon injection. And if you're already asleep, you might not notice the bolus being given, and you might not wake up for the hypoglycemia, either, or might wake up too late—I had one instance in which I woke up low, started shoveling glucose tablets into my mouth, and still lost consciousness and started seizing before they hit my bloodstream. Again, there were people around, but if there hadn't been, and especially if there were still a significant amount of insulin in my system at that time, I probably would not be here talking to you.
There's an optional remote control for the Paradigm that can be used to deliver insulin. It's a $150 accessory, and of the several pumpers I know (including myself), I don't know anyone who has one, but it does exist. Since you have to turn on the option from the pump (Utilities -> Connect Devices -> Remotes, on the 723), it's probably impossible to exploit on someone who doesn't already have a remote, but it seems entirely plausible to do so if they do.
And I'm right there with you on the CGMSs. Bloody useless (literally) -- I tried it for about a month and gave up. They might work better for people with nice, consistent schedules for eating and exercise, whose blood sugars don't change that much or that rapidly, but if you have that I don't see why you would need a CGMS in the first place.
We really only use our binocular vision for depth perception at fairly small distances (less than 10 meters); more than that, and we're just relying on things like relative size, perspective, and motion parallax (which assist at smaller distances, too). If we're designing robot surgeons or something else that needs equally fine sensitivity, then yes two cameras would be the way to go, but for most purposes they're just unnecessary.
Quite. With those, and also with the rise of automobiles in China and India, the average speed of the human race is undoubtedly increasing -- large numbers of people traveling at between 40 and 400 km/h will more than cancel out a handful who are no longer traveling faster than the speed of sound.
Now, if we could just get some of those high speed railways here in the U.S., maybe my personal average speed would increase a bit (or at least my personal average speed when I'm moving faster than a walk, since otherwise it will still average out to my total distance traveled over the time I've been alive).
Since this relies on chemical properties of dissolved radioactive elements, it shouldn't have any effect on deuterium and tritium bound up in water molecules. Deuterium isn't actually radioactive, but tritium is, so there could still be some radioactivity. I don't know how much tritiated water is likely to be contained in conatminated water, though (it might vary depending on the source), so it might not actually be that much of a problem.
You probably have to sign something that allows them to replace components in the course of the service, so no. Theft would be if they came to your house in the middle of the night and replaced the screws in your iPhone without handing it to them.
For backup: if you want effective offsite backup, you need two backup drives (in addition to the presumably external drive you get to hold the primary copy of the data). One backup drive is onsite, and gets updated frequently (like every time you add new photos to it), and the other is offsite, and is updated only when you get a chance to go to the offsite location (possibly by simply swapping it with the onsite backup drive). If you have an offsite location that you can visit very frequently (like a workplace), you might be able to get by with just one backup drive, but that may take more effort, and requires that the primary copy of the data be in the same location as the only backup on a regular basis.
The other thing that's important is a good organizational system for your photos. I currently use Aperture, which isn't bad if you have a Mac; Lightroom is supposed to be pretty good as well. I'm sure that there are consumer grade options that are also decent -- just make sure that they can handle the size of library you need (i.e. check the reviews). Make sure that it stores the images in some transparent format (i.e. an ordinary directory structure) or incremental backups will be impossible -- in some cases (like Aperture) you just have to set the options correctly to do this.
It's useful if you want a big screen compared to a phone (useful for watching movies, or reading), but want something that's a bit lighter than a netbook (it's only 1.5 pounds, most netbooks weigh about twice that). Personally, I'd rather have a phone plus a netbook, because I want the extra capabilities of a real computer, but my girlfriend, who has neither a smartphone nor a netbook, loves her iPad.
Indeed. But a bad camera can still hinder a good photographer. If your camera takes half a second between pressing the button and taking the exposure, it's much harder to take action shots (unless they're very predictable action shots). If your lens can't focus at close distances, it's much harder to take photographs of small things. If your camera doesn't offer control of aperture and exposure length, it's harder to take pictures of contrasty scenes.
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19, actually, with leap months added in 7 of those years; the months mostly alternate 29 and 30 days to correspond to the actual moon. It's a little more complicated, though, since due to restrictions on which days of the week certain holidays can fall, the lengths of both regular years and leap years vary slightly -- they're normally 354 days and 384 days respectively, but can have a day subtracted or added.
Sort of -- it would be possible to take them out, but as they saturated those pixels of the sensor, the only thing it would be possible to do would be to replace them with black, which isn't particularly more true than white. Anything else would just be Photoshop tricks, which are likewise not particularly true. As it is, they do provide some information, since their size is dependent on the brightness of the star.
And ironically Kodaks business plan of sell the camera for cost and over charge for the film is alive and well in the printer/ink business.
For now... printing is already on the decline. It's probably not going to drop off quite the way film has, but there are already a lot of things that people used to print that they now just carry around on smartphones, or display on cheap LCD screens. The printer/ink business model will survive a while longer, but it's going to get steadily less profitable as people use ink at slower rates.
Maybe in the time it takes them to build the railroad L.A. can build a functional public transit system.
Or, you know, they could just have rental car agencies at the train station. I realize that this is a novel idea that no other form of intercity transit has tried, but I bet it would work.
Um, that's true of Pentax, too. The lenses that work with my K1000 (fully manual film SLR, production started in 1976) still work great with my K10D (digital, released in 2006). The newest lenses that lack aperture rings won't work with the manual body (at least not other than wide open), but that's true of Canon and Nikon, too. This also means that you can get some very good older lenses on eBay for very reasonable prices ($50-$100 each), as long as you don't mind some manual control (which is not that hard to learn -- before all of the automatic stuff came out, anyone who wanted to take pictures had to deal with it, and without even the benefit of instant feedback that you get now with digital). I haven't tried the entry-level Pentax dSLRs, but I've heard good reviews of them, and I can say that the mid-level is great. They don't make a "pro" level dSLR (in other words, full frame), but I don't think that matters much for most people. The one disadvantage of SLRs is that they're big. Even if you're just carrying the camera with a single lens, it's still going to be pretty bulky, weighing in at over a pound. Definitely not something you can slip into a pocket "just in case you want to take a picture". For that, I recommend something like the Canon S90/S95/S100, which combine a good lens and sensor with a small size and some optional manual controls (very useful as you learn more about photography and become smarter than the camera). They still don't compare to an SLR, but there's an adage in photography that the best camera is the one you have with you.
If it does work, it still works by producing heat. That would be real handy for home heating, but it's not trivial to turn heat into electricity. In particular, it's much easier to do it efficiently with giant steam turbines. This is the same reason you don't have a coal-fired generator in your basement: it's not that you couldn't, but it would be inefficient compared to a large power plant.
People act in what they believe is their self interest. There are a lot of factors that can make that behavior different from their actual best interest. Many of those factors are also predictable, but figuring out all the interactions between them gets pretty complicated.
Bullshit. If this were actually true, we'd have a working socialist system by now, like much of Europe. As it is, most Americans are too invested in the possibility that they could win the lottery and then the government might take some of their "hard-earned" money away from them to actually do anything like this. Self-interest is only effective if people are smart enough to figure out what is actually in their interest.
No safe amount? Then I guess we're all screwed, because there will always be microscopic traces of mercury in the environment. Unless you stop eating entirely, you're probably going to be ingesting at least a few atoms of it on a regular basis. Same with uranium, arsenic, and any number of other toxic elements.
Those are good points, but I think your last paragraph is incorrect. 3% of the population is in prison at any given time, but there isn't total replacement every decade; some of those people are in for long term sentences, some are repeat criminals who keep going back, and some are people who actually learn a lesson, turn their lives around, and do find jobs in the regular economy. "Have you ever been convicted of a felony" keeps people out of a lot of jobs, but not all. So I suspect the percentage of people who are no longer in prison, can't find regular jobs, and don't go back to prison is much lower.
It's pretty hard to take high dynamic range photos with (or of) something that's moving -- it relies on taking multiple exposures at different exposure levels (either shutter speed or sensitivity) to overcome the limited dynamic range of digital sensors.
You don't, but that's okay -- spinning up a new VM is just one thing to try. If the problem doesn't reoccur, then you've saved yourself a lot of time and hassle trying to figure it out. If it does, then it can still help you eliminate some possible reasons. If you're an idiot, yes, you'll just keep creating new VMs and not solving the problem. But you're not an idiot, right?
As a rule, the symptoms don't just come out of nowhere—if you're driving, and start to go hypoglycemic, you just pull over, treat it, wait 15 minutes, and start up again. (There is a such a thing as hypoglycemia unawareness, in which the symptoms do come on much faster and at a lower level of blood glucose, but that's an individual-specific thing that results from having too many lows to begin with, so it doesn't affect the general population of diabetics.) The bigger danger, as I said in my reply to sheepweevil, is in situations where you're less likely or able to notice the symptoms.
No, there's nothing to prevent you from giving multiple consecutive boluses. I occasionally eat enough in one sitting that I need about 30 units, and I just give myself a second bolus right after the first one. (More often one of them is actually a dual or square wave, but it does happen that both of them are normal boluses.) It's designed to guard against human error, nothing more.
As for the dangers of hypoglycemia... yes, it is fairly easy to treat a hypoglycemic seizure. I've had quite a few of them, though none since getting a pump ten years ago. But I was also lucky enough that someone else was there to help me each time. If one of those had happened while I was alone, it could easily have killed me, especially if it were induced by a significant overdose, rather than just a bit too much long-acting insuling and being tired enough that I didn't wake up when it hit. If you're unconscious, you can't eat glucose or give yourself a glucagon injection. And if you're already asleep, you might not notice the bolus being given, and you might not wake up for the hypoglycemia, either, or might wake up too late—I had one instance in which I woke up low, started shoveling glucose tablets into my mouth, and still lost consciousness and started seizing before they hit my bloodstream. Again, there were people around, but if there hadn't been, and especially if there were still a significant amount of insulin in my system at that time, I probably would not be here talking to you.
There's an optional remote control for the Paradigm that can be used to deliver insulin. It's a $150 accessory, and of the several pumpers I know (including myself), I don't know anyone who has one, but it does exist. Since you have to turn on the option from the pump (Utilities -> Connect Devices -> Remotes, on the 723), it's probably impossible to exploit on someone who doesn't already have a remote, but it seems entirely plausible to do so if they do.
And I'm right there with you on the CGMSs. Bloody useless (literally) -- I tried it for about a month and gave up. They might work better for people with nice, consistent schedules for eating and exercise, whose blood sugars don't change that much or that rapidly, but if you have that I don't see why you would need a CGMS in the first place.
We really only use our binocular vision for depth perception at fairly small distances (less than 10 meters); more than that, and we're just relying on things like relative size, perspective, and motion parallax (which assist at smaller distances, too). If we're designing robot surgeons or something else that needs equally fine sensitivity, then yes two cameras would be the way to go, but for most purposes they're just unnecessary.
Quite. With those, and also with the rise of automobiles in China and India, the average speed of the human race is undoubtedly increasing -- large numbers of people traveling at between 40 and 400 km/h will more than cancel out a handful who are no longer traveling faster than the speed of sound.
Now, if we could just get some of those high speed railways here in the U.S., maybe my personal average speed would increase a bit (or at least my personal average speed when I'm moving faster than a walk, since otherwise it will still average out to my total distance traveled over the time I've been alive).
Since this relies on chemical properties of dissolved radioactive elements, it shouldn't have any effect on deuterium and tritium bound up in water molecules. Deuterium isn't actually radioactive, but tritium is, so there could still be some radioactivity. I don't know how much tritiated water is likely to be contained in conatminated water, though (it might vary depending on the source), so it might not actually be that much of a problem.
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Just read the whole thing (and watch the video); it's worth it. This happened less than a month ago, between a couple of friends of mine.
This seems like it would be really annoying if the power supply to the screws gets interrupted.
You probably have to sign something that allows them to replace components in the course of the service, so no. Theft would be if they came to your house in the middle of the night and replaced the screws in your iPhone without handing it to them.
For backup: if you want effective offsite backup, you need two backup drives (in addition to the presumably external drive you get to hold the primary copy of the data). One backup drive is onsite, and gets updated frequently (like every time you add new photos to it), and the other is offsite, and is updated only when you get a chance to go to the offsite location (possibly by simply swapping it with the onsite backup drive). If you have an offsite location that you can visit very frequently (like a workplace), you might be able to get by with just one backup drive, but that may take more effort, and requires that the primary copy of the data be in the same location as the only backup on a regular basis. The other thing that's important is a good organizational system for your photos. I currently use Aperture, which isn't bad if you have a Mac; Lightroom is supposed to be pretty good as well. I'm sure that there are consumer grade options that are also decent -- just make sure that they can handle the size of library you need (i.e. check the reviews). Make sure that it stores the images in some transparent format (i.e. an ordinary directory structure) or incremental backups will be impossible -- in some cases (like Aperture) you just have to set the options correctly to do this.
It's useful if you want a big screen compared to a phone (useful for watching movies, or reading), but want something that's a bit lighter than a netbook (it's only 1.5 pounds, most netbooks weigh about twice that). Personally, I'd rather have a phone plus a netbook, because I want the extra capabilities of a real computer, but my girlfriend, who has neither a smartphone nor a netbook, loves her iPad.
You don't need to remember it -- that's what /etc/hosts is for. Copy it in once, and you can use a name just like it was registered.
Indeed. But a bad camera can still hinder a good photographer. If your camera takes half a second between pressing the button and taking the exposure, it's much harder to take action shots (unless they're very predictable action shots). If your lens can't focus at close distances, it's much harder to take photographs of small things. If your camera doesn't offer control of aperture and exposure length, it's harder to take pictures of contrasty scenes.