I feel genuinely happy every time I hear that someone else has discovered the advantages of a low carb lifestyle! Eating low-carb isn't necessarily about extreme dieting like Atkins (<20g carbs per day), but about making good, educated dietary choices. If you're active and healthy, the body has no problem processing things like rye bread (the proper, dark brown, brick-like type) and brown rice. =)
Glad to hear I did some good today! Go buy yourself a bag of raw paranuts. I always keep them around for snacking, especially at work. They contain 3g of carbohydrates per 100g, as well as a good bunch of protein, a ton of good fats, and good stuff like calium, calsium, magnesium, etc.
Fantastic! Don't be surprised if the AHA or the similar associations for diabetes, cancer etc. contacts you with a job offer. With more and more proof amounting that fat intake has nothing to do with the explosion in health problems, they need a new excuse so they can keep getting money from the grain/corn industry for pushing carbohydrates as healthy. You, good sir, have just provided it: Crime
Check out the documentary "Fat Head". The creator went on an all-McDonalds diet for 30 (well, 28) days because he couldn't get the maths presented in "Supersize Me" to fit. His concept for this diet: "I have a brain". He started out obese as defined by BMI, but with low LDL and high HDL cholesterol as well as good triglyceride values. I'm not gonna tell you what his "~2000kcal a day, low-carb"-McDonalds diet did to his body, but on his follow-up visit to his doctor, said doctor uttered with disbelief painting his face: "I don't like what you're proving here..."
I'd also recommend the documentary "Fat Head", as well as "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes and any of the books written by Dr. Michael R. Eades and his wife Dr. Mary Dan Eades. Dr. Atkins treated thousands of patients in his time so anything he's written is probably quite good too.
Come on slashdot, educate yourself on diet! There are a lot of bright guys (and gals?) here, and though diet might not be as interesting to most of you as theoretical physics or maths, good dietary choices might very well keep you alive 20 years longer and keep your brain and body fresh and fit for the rest of your life.
In true slashdot tradition I didn't read the linked article, but blaming increased levels of ADHD on pesticides from fruits and veggies..? Come on! Fruits and veggies are a huge source of carbohydrates, bested only by grain, corn and candy/soda. Reduce your hyperactive kids intake of fast carbohydrates (rice, potatoes, bread, not just candy and cake) and he/she will no longer be hyperactive or have problems concentrating.
I'm sure the AHA wouldn't advice people to get 50-60% of their daily energy intake from carbohydrates when science a 6th grader can comprehend shows large amounts of carbohydrates aren't good for you.
I was hoping for someone to mention insulin and sugar!
Watch the documentary Fat Head. It's quite informative and entertaining.
I have to ask though, as a bit of a champion of low-carb: do you eat potatoes, pasta, rice, bread, etc? Eating one regular size potato does the same to your blood sugar and insulin production as half a cup of sugar and no one in their right mind would suggest downing half a cup of sugar was healthy. Rice and a lot of breads and pasta actually have a higher glycemic index than sugar, which means it raises your blood sugar faster than eating sugar.
For those who don't know, insulin is secreted into the blood stream as a response to eating carbohydrates which are converted into blood glucose (sugar), because elevated blood glucose (hyperglycemia) is toxic. Insulin is a signaling hormone which tells the cells to take up sugar from the blood while also blocking the effect of all energy-releasing hormones such as glucagon. Also, when fat cells convert glucose to fatty acids for storage (which is a one-way process btw), an enzyme is produced that allows the fat cells to take up free fatty acids from the blood stream effectively giving you a "double whammy".
Also, there are quite obvious correlations between the explosion of overweight and diabetes type 2 and the sudden "fat phobia" so-called experts developed a few decades ago. One such researcher is Ansel Keys with his "7 country study" in which he studied the correlation between fat-intake and heart disease in 22 contries, then conveniently selected the 7 that would show that fat causes heart disease (because, that's what any respectable scientist would do when his full dataset shows no such correlation and funding is on the line). In addition, there is the undeniable fact that we as a species have become what we are eating meat and fat. We wouldn't need brains if apples and potatoes abounded all year around, hunting on the other hand.. So, we have millions of years hunting game and evolving to eat said game, roughly 10.000 years of agriculture and 30-40 years of corn, grain, sugars and starch and the (according to the AHA, not-at-all-)corresponding explosion in overweight, diabetes, stroke, cancer, heart disease, depression, etc.
Long story short(ish): Carbs make your body produce insulin. Insulin stimulates fat storage and blocks breakdown of fat.
On a somewhat related note: Insulin is pro-inflammatory, so elevated levels of insulin can cause (or at least seriously worsen) conditions like fibromyalgia (inflammation of muscle tissue), Alzheimer's, heart disease (inflammation of blood vessels, "plack"), psoriasis, arthritis, and many more.
If all we get is a 100-fold increase in speed, how is this better than graphene? IBM already has graphene transistors running at 100GHz which is quite the speed for something this early in it's infancy. A computer build using graphene would work the same way as our silicone computers, to the extent that we could have a (prototype) THz computer running our current-day software within a few years.
Why even bother with all this quantum stuff, except for research and furthering our knowledge?
Huh? I have no clue what stuff you use but Sterilan, the stuff I use with great success (nothing else does anything but mask the smell for a couple of hours), has some effect on the bacteria that produce stink while living off the impurities in the sweat.
The only people who should use medical-grade antiperspirants are those whose primary problem is the amount of sweat, not smell.
What you describe was in part what they did with the SNES. A lot of game cartridges contained extra hardware for 3D, bitmap rotation, sound, etc. but in this day and age, how would you put hardware equal to what's inside a PS3 inside a cartridge? The PS3 is insanely expensive, gets hot even in it's current form factor.. if you could stuff all that hardware into a SNES-size cartridge without heating issues and keep the price around $40, you'd get a freaggin' Nobel price.
Completely wrong. The value I buy from Blizzard is not their client, it's their servers and the insane amounts of updated content. If I want to use said client for private servers, Blizzard isn't losing revenue. If they considered the client a sellable product in it's own right, they wouldn't be giving it away for free.
Playing WoW on private servers is more like reusing the Happy meal box from McDonald's as a lunchbox. You didn't pay for the box, you payed for the contents of it. McDonald's doesn't lose money if you choose to put a home-made burger in said box.
I agree (if I understood your post correctly). People don't want to pay $50 for a game that is, more likely than not, shit. I think the only games I've ever bought were bargain bin spur-of-the-moment purchases, and a few bought online (on Steam, WoW, etc.) where convenience combined with my want for some entertainment right now trumped my innate cheapness.
I can either:
Spend time going to town and shopping for the game I want
Give $50-60 to some store for a physical medium I can't backup
Go home and hope I didn't just waste said money on crap
..or..
Spend 5 minutes finding a torrent
Spend 20 minutes downloading the game
Try it out for free
Same thing with movies. It's (mostly) not that I'm cheap, it's that convenience trumps pretty much anything. If I want to watch a movie and have to
A) go for a drive, pay $8-10 to rent a movie, and drive back to deliver it the next day, or
B) Spend 30 minutes downloading it
Hm, real tough choice there..
The solution? Let me quickly and easily pay an amount of money small enough to be "insignificant"* to access high-quality content.
*By "insignificant" I mean you probably don't even think twice about spending, say, $10. If the price tag says $50 though, you'd probably have to think it over.
Or make a quality game, like Chrono Trigger. Huge world, multiple endings, long but focused storyline(s), characters progressing differently depending on who you team them up with, and a lot more that makes the game hugely replayable and enjoyable.
For extra senses, see sensory substitution. Tons of research show again and again that sensory information from outside sources (camera, touch-gloves, balance magnets, compass etc.) presented to the brain through the skin/tongue using vibrators or electrodes are integrated into ones perception of the world.
I don't think you can record your dreams since every brain is rather different, but research has shown that what you see is "projected" onto your visual cortex in a way that makes it possible for researchers to guess what you are looking at (at least basic shapes) with rather low-res medical imaging equipment.
If you want you can learn to communicate while you dream though. Lucid dreaming is when you become aware that you are in a dream without waking up. Paired with EOG and the fact that your eyeballs actually move left/right corresponding to the direction you look in the dream has allowed a few people to output morse code while dreaming, communicating from a "different world". =P
- Even if it did make any sort of sense, it's extremely disrespectful and, frankly, anti-scientific to call someone a moron based on their beliefs. You can't be a scientist without an open mind. You can't have an honest discussion without basic respect. In defending Science, please attack the argument and not the person.
I'm inclined to disagree. You can't call someone a moron for not having all the facts, but when someone willfully ignores the entire concept of fact.. Well, political correctness and politeness be damned, "moron" is far to mild a word.
I would mod you up if I had any points. Simple, true and to the point. There really isn't anything more to it.
Well, perhaps apart from how different doing said calls would be on Linux, Windows, OSX, etc. I don't know, but if that's how it's done for images and fonts, I fail to see how video should be any different (if a tad more complex). My OS, and thus any software running inside it, can display png files. My OS has a build-in h.264 decoder, but even Chrome (the only h.264 capable browser I have installed) is doing a rather shitty job at rendering said video format. It runs smoothly, but it uses far more resources than seems justifiable to do so.
I'm sorry, I just have to pop by and point out how hilarious I find it when people go that far out of their way to be different and stand out. I know there are divides between generations. I know I am just 24 and still already despise everything the "kids these days" listen to (techno/trance/dance/whateverthehellitscalled/hip-hop, it's just machine beats and a woman moaning, or some black dude rapping about bling and the bitches he's fucked).
Some things just aren't music. Pulse Demon.. man.. I don't even know what that is. Even Scooter sounds good compared to that. Even Norwegian Lene Alexandra's "My boobs are OK!" seems like great artistry! I might be missing out on a great joke here but rest assured that somewhere, someone is smoking weed/drinking, going on about how fucking fantastic Merzbow is and how anyone who doesn't "get it" just aren't smart enough, open enough, they're conformists, whatever imaginary bs lets said looser kids feel superior for a while.
Sort of like whenever someone makes some completely retarded piece of "modern art", like a red circle on an otherwise huge, blank canvas, and goes around with their little possy of "art-knowers" looking down at everyone who dares point out that a red circle on a piece of canvas does not, in any damn way, constitute art. =P
Congrats on coming out of the closet! It's not an easy thing to do, least of all when you're young!
Seriously though.. People generally don't change much beyond what is needed to get by. I'm nearly half-way to 50 and I still love me some A-Team, MacGyver, and whatever else I watched 10 years ago. The things that have changed is a growing ability to do boring shit I don't like at all because I have to, and extending my diplomatic skill enough to eventually land me in a relationship I'll be able to stay in long enough to have kids.
I'm always going to love my childhood/teenage favorites. I might change, but I'll still force my kids to watch the Rocky, Rambo, Alien(s) and Terminator movies with me, and MacGyver on dvd/bluray/whatever will have it's place of honor in my living-/mediaroom!
The reason pancreatic transplants aren't performed is that the chance of rejection is 100%. Your auto-immune system is already attacking anything that secretes insulin.. An insulin-producing organ from someone else would most assuredly not stand a snowballs chance in hell.
There have been trials though. A few years back two diabetics here in Norway were "cured" by pancreatic transplants. They still had to live in virtual bubbles though because of the very strong immunosuppressive meds they were on. Despite the drugs, they only remained non-dependent on injections for about 12-18 months or so before the organ was put out of commission, so it's sadly not viable cure at all.
Another procedure that could (in theory) work is to have your immune system and bone marrow destroyed chemically, then receive both a bone marrow and pancreas transplant from the same donor. The chances of finding both from a compatible donor aren't exactly convincing though, and there is of course the chance of the "new" immune system that follows your transplanted marrow will accept the pancreas but reject the rest of the body, promptly causing your death.
There are some viable solutions though, like creating some sort of protein or something that to the immune system looks like insulin. Then administer huge amounts of this fake allergen to the patient to desensitize the immune system (similar to what is done with things like pollen allergies). The problem here is that no such substance exists as of yet, and you can't exactly give someone a superdose of insulin. Death isn't really the best solution, after all.. x)
Another being looked into encapsulating cells (in this case, insulin producing beta-cells) in some sort of alginate made from seaweed. This allows insulin and nutrients to pass to and from the cell, while making it "invisible" to the immune system.
Another seemingly promising solution is the theory that the immune system keeps attacking our beta-cells because of an on-going pain response triggered by the immune systems attack itself. Break the circle, and your body recovers most of it's insulin producing capability for at least a couple of years before something (like inflammation, etc.) causes you to need treatment again. I don't know how relevant this research is with regards to humans, but in animals injections of powerful anti-inflammatory drugs directly into the pancreas has reduced or abolished the animals insulin dependence for a year or two.
Btw, I am as I said a Type 1 Diabetic. These days, I am playing around with a ketogenic diet, and I am currently taking 20 units of 12-hour insulin (Insulatard) each morning. That's it. Do the opposite of what the "FAT IS THE ENEMY"-evangelists have been preaching the past 40-50 years and all of a sudden every health marker is even better than before, and I need less medication than most Type 2 diabetics.
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I feel genuinely happy every time I hear that someone else has discovered the advantages of a low carb lifestyle! Eating low-carb isn't necessarily about extreme dieting like Atkins (<20g carbs per day), but about making good, educated dietary choices. If you're active and healthy, the body has no problem processing things like rye bread (the proper, dark brown, brick-like type) and brown rice. =)
Glad to hear I did some good today! Go buy yourself a bag of raw paranuts. I always keep them around for snacking, especially at work. They contain 3g of carbohydrates per 100g, as well as a good bunch of protein, a ton of good fats, and good stuff like calium, calsium, magnesium, etc.
Fantastic! Don't be surprised if the AHA or the similar associations for diabetes, cancer etc. contacts you with a job offer. With more and more proof amounting that fat intake has nothing to do with the explosion in health problems, they need a new excuse so they can keep getting money from the grain/corn industry for pushing carbohydrates as healthy. You, good sir, have just provided it: Crime
Check out the documentary "Fat Head". The creator went on an all-McDonalds diet for 30 (well, 28) days because he couldn't get the maths presented in "Supersize Me" to fit. His concept for this diet: "I have a brain". He started out obese as defined by BMI, but with low LDL and high HDL cholesterol as well as good triglyceride values. I'm not gonna tell you what his "~2000kcal a day, low-carb"-McDonalds diet did to his body, but on his follow-up visit to his doctor, said doctor uttered with disbelief painting his face: "I don't like what you're proving here..."
I'd also recommend the documentary "Fat Head", as well as "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes and any of the books written by Dr. Michael R. Eades and his wife Dr. Mary Dan Eades. Dr. Atkins treated thousands of patients in his time so anything he's written is probably quite good too.
Come on slashdot, educate yourself on diet! There are a lot of bright guys (and gals?) here, and though diet might not be as interesting to most of you as theoretical physics or maths, good dietary choices might very well keep you alive 20 years longer and keep your brain and body fresh and fit for the rest of your life.
Nah, I agree. He's probably an avid WoW player.
In true slashdot tradition I didn't read the linked article, but blaming increased levels of ADHD on pesticides from fruits and veggies..? Come on! Fruits and veggies are a huge source of carbohydrates, bested only by grain, corn and candy/soda. Reduce your hyperactive kids intake of fast carbohydrates (rice, potatoes, bread, not just candy and cake) and he/she will no longer be hyperactive or have problems concentrating.
I'm sure the AHA wouldn't advice people to get 50-60% of their daily energy intake from carbohydrates when science a 6th grader can comprehend shows large amounts of carbohydrates aren't good for you.
Oh wait..
I was hoping for someone to mention insulin and sugar!
Watch the documentary Fat Head. It's quite informative and entertaining.
I have to ask though, as a bit of a champion of low-carb: do you eat potatoes, pasta, rice, bread, etc? Eating one regular size potato does the same to your blood sugar and insulin production as half a cup of sugar and no one in their right mind would suggest downing half a cup of sugar was healthy. Rice and a lot of breads and pasta actually have a higher glycemic index than sugar, which means it raises your blood sugar faster than eating sugar.
For those who don't know, insulin is secreted into the blood stream as a response to eating carbohydrates which are converted into blood glucose (sugar), because elevated blood glucose (hyperglycemia) is toxic. Insulin is a signaling hormone which tells the cells to take up sugar from the blood while also blocking the effect of all energy-releasing hormones such as glucagon. Also, when fat cells convert glucose to fatty acids for storage (which is a one-way process btw), an enzyme is produced that allows the fat cells to take up free fatty acids from the blood stream effectively giving you a "double whammy".
Also, there are quite obvious correlations between the explosion of overweight and diabetes type 2 and the sudden "fat phobia" so-called experts developed a few decades ago. One such researcher is Ansel Keys with his "7 country study" in which he studied the correlation between fat-intake and heart disease in 22 contries, then conveniently selected the 7 that would show that fat causes heart disease (because, that's what any respectable scientist would do when his full dataset shows no such correlation and funding is on the line). In addition, there is the undeniable fact that we as a species have become what we are eating meat and fat. We wouldn't need brains if apples and potatoes abounded all year around, hunting on the other hand.. So, we have millions of years hunting game and evolving to eat said game, roughly 10.000 years of agriculture and 30-40 years of corn, grain, sugars and starch and the (according to the AHA, not-at-all-)corresponding explosion in overweight, diabetes, stroke, cancer, heart disease, depression, etc.
Long story short(ish): Carbs make your body produce insulin. Insulin stimulates fat storage and blocks breakdown of fat.
On a somewhat related note: Insulin is pro-inflammatory, so elevated levels of insulin can cause (or at least seriously worsen) conditions like fibromyalgia (inflammation of muscle tissue), Alzheimer's, heart disease (inflammation of blood vessels, "plack"), psoriasis, arthritis, and many more.
I do my gaming in =/ because, come on.. what percentage of games aren't huge let-downs?
If all we get is a 100-fold increase in speed, how is this better than graphene? IBM already has graphene transistors running at 100GHz which is quite the speed for something this early in it's infancy. A computer build using graphene would work the same way as our silicone computers, to the extent that we could have a (prototype) THz computer running our current-day software within a few years.
Why even bother with all this quantum stuff, except for research and furthering our knowledge?
Huh? I have no clue what stuff you use but Sterilan, the stuff I use with great success (nothing else does anything but mask the smell for a couple of hours), has some effect on the bacteria that produce stink while living off the impurities in the sweat.
The only people who should use medical-grade antiperspirants are those whose primary problem is the amount of sweat, not smell.
What you describe was in part what they did with the SNES. A lot of game cartridges contained extra hardware for 3D, bitmap rotation, sound, etc. but in this day and age, how would you put hardware equal to what's inside a PS3 inside a cartridge? The PS3 is insanely expensive, gets hot even in it's current form factor.. if you could stuff all that hardware into a SNES-size cartridge without heating issues and keep the price around $40, you'd get a freaggin' Nobel price.
Completely wrong. The value I buy from Blizzard is not their client, it's their servers and the insane amounts of updated content. If I want to use said client for private servers, Blizzard isn't losing revenue. If they considered the client a sellable product in it's own right, they wouldn't be giving it away for free.
Playing WoW on private servers is more like reusing the Happy meal box from McDonald's as a lunchbox. You didn't pay for the box, you payed for the contents of it. McDonald's doesn't lose money if you choose to put a home-made burger in said box.
I agree (if I understood your post correctly). People don't want to pay $50 for a game that is, more likely than not, shit. I think the only games I've ever bought were bargain bin spur-of-the-moment purchases, and a few bought online (on Steam, WoW, etc.) where convenience combined with my want for some entertainment right now trumped my innate cheapness.
I can either:
..or..
Same thing with movies. It's (mostly) not that I'm cheap, it's that convenience trumps pretty much anything. If I want to watch a movie and have to
A) go for a drive, pay $8-10 to rent a movie, and drive back to deliver it the next day, or
B) Spend 30 minutes downloading it
Hm, real tough choice there..
The solution? Let me quickly and easily pay an amount of money small enough to be "insignificant"* to access high-quality content.
*By "insignificant" I mean you probably don't even think twice about spending, say, $10. If the price tag says $50 though, you'd probably have to think it over.
Or make a quality game, like Chrono Trigger. Huge world, multiple endings, long but focused storyline(s), characters progressing differently depending on who you team them up with, and a lot more that makes the game hugely replayable and enjoyable.
"Recently" as in "in the sixties". Read up on sensory substitution. Absolutely fascinating stuff!
For extra senses, see sensory substitution. Tons of research show again and again that sensory information from outside sources (camera, touch-gloves, balance magnets, compass etc.) presented to the brain through the skin/tongue using vibrators or electrodes are integrated into ones perception of the world. I don't think you can record your dreams since every brain is rather different, but research has shown that what you see is "projected" onto your visual cortex in a way that makes it possible for researchers to guess what you are looking at (at least basic shapes) with rather low-res medical imaging equipment. If you want you can learn to communicate while you dream though. Lucid dreaming is when you become aware that you are in a dream without waking up. Paired with EOG and the fact that your eyeballs actually move left/right corresponding to the direction you look in the dream has allowed a few people to output morse code while dreaming, communicating from a "different world". =P
- Even if it did make any sort of sense, it's extremely disrespectful and, frankly, anti-scientific to call someone a moron based on their beliefs. You can't be a scientist without an open mind. You can't have an honest discussion without basic respect. In defending Science, please attack the argument and not the person.
I'm inclined to disagree. You can't call someone a moron for not having all the facts, but when someone willfully ignores the entire concept of fact.. Well, political correctness and politeness be damned, "moron" is far to mild a word.
I would mod you up if I had any points. Simple, true and to the point. There really isn't anything more to it.
Well, perhaps apart from how different doing said calls would be on Linux, Windows, OSX, etc. I don't know, but if that's how it's done for images and fonts, I fail to see how video should be any different (if a tad more complex). My OS, and thus any software running inside it, can display png files. My OS has a build-in h.264 decoder, but even Chrome (the only h.264 capable browser I have installed) is doing a rather shitty job at rendering said video format. It runs smoothly, but it uses far more resources than seems justifiable to do so.
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I'm sorry, I just have to pop by and point out how hilarious I find it when people go that far out of their way to be different and stand out. I know there are divides between generations. I know I am just 24 and still already despise everything the "kids these days" listen to (techno/trance/dance/whateverthehellitscalled/hip-hop, it's just machine beats and a woman moaning, or some black dude rapping about bling and the bitches he's fucked).
Some things just aren't music. Pulse Demon.. man.. I don't even know what that is. Even Scooter sounds good compared to that. Even Norwegian Lene Alexandra's "My boobs are OK!" seems like great artistry! I might be missing out on a great joke here but rest assured that somewhere, someone is smoking weed/drinking, going on about how fucking fantastic Merzbow is and how anyone who doesn't "get it" just aren't smart enough, open enough, they're conformists, whatever imaginary bs lets said looser kids feel superior for a while.
Sort of like whenever someone makes some completely retarded piece of "modern art", like a red circle on an otherwise huge, blank canvas, and goes around with their little possy of "art-knowers" looking down at everyone who dares point out that a red circle on a piece of canvas does not, in any damn way, constitute art. =P
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Congrats on coming out of the closet! It's not an easy thing to do, least of all when you're young!
Seriously though.. People generally don't change much beyond what is needed to get by. I'm nearly half-way to 50 and I still love me some A-Team, MacGyver, and whatever else I watched 10 years ago. The things that have changed is a growing ability to do boring shit I don't like at all because I have to, and extending my diplomatic skill enough to eventually land me in a relationship I'll be able to stay in long enough to have kids.
I'm always going to love my childhood/teenage favorites. I might change, but I'll still force my kids to watch the Rocky, Rambo, Alien(s) and Terminator movies with me, and MacGyver on dvd/bluray/whatever will have it's place of honor in my living-/mediaroom!
Are you claiming that films like Kill Bill (also by Disney) don't stand on their own feet?
Are you claiming that Kill Bill and it's like stand on their own feet because of advertising directed at children..?
Greetings, fellow Type 1 diabetic!
The reason pancreatic transplants aren't performed is that the chance of rejection is 100%. Your auto-immune system is already attacking anything that secretes insulin.. An insulin-producing organ from someone else would most assuredly not stand a snowballs chance in hell.
There have been trials though. A few years back two diabetics here in Norway were "cured" by pancreatic transplants. They still had to live in virtual bubbles though because of the very strong immunosuppressive meds they were on. Despite the drugs, they only remained non-dependent on injections for about 12-18 months or so before the organ was put out of commission, so it's sadly not viable cure at all.
Another procedure that could (in theory) work is to have your immune system and bone marrow destroyed chemically, then receive both a bone marrow and pancreas transplant from the same donor. The chances of finding both from a compatible donor aren't exactly convincing though, and there is of course the chance of the "new" immune system that follows your transplanted marrow will accept the pancreas but reject the rest of the body, promptly causing your death.
There are some viable solutions though, like creating some sort of protein or something that to the immune system looks like insulin. Then administer huge amounts of this fake allergen to the patient to desensitize the immune system (similar to what is done with things like pollen allergies). The problem here is that no such substance exists as of yet, and you can't exactly give someone a superdose of insulin. Death isn't really the best solution, after all.. x)
Another being looked into encapsulating cells (in this case, insulin producing beta-cells) in some sort of alginate made from seaweed. This allows insulin and nutrients to pass to and from the cell, while making it "invisible" to the immune system.
Another seemingly promising solution is the theory that the immune system keeps attacking our beta-cells because of an on-going pain response triggered by the immune systems attack itself. Break the circle, and your body recovers most of it's insulin producing capability for at least a couple of years before something (like inflammation, etc.) causes you to need treatment again. I don't know how relevant this research is with regards to humans, but in animals injections of powerful anti-inflammatory drugs directly into the pancreas has reduced or abolished the animals insulin dependence for a year or two.
Btw, I am as I said a Type 1 Diabetic. These days, I am playing around with a ketogenic diet, and I am currently taking 20 units of 12-hour insulin (Insulatard) each morning. That's it. Do the opposite of what the "FAT IS THE ENEMY"-evangelists have been preaching the past 40-50 years and all of a sudden every health marker is even better than before, and I need less medication than most Type 2 diabetics.