Does she carry a glucogon shot with her?
My daughter never goes anywhere without hers, and all family and teachers have been trained to use it if they ever find her passed out. It's a massive dose of sugar that will instantly shoot her blood sugars to the roof if she ever goes hypoglycemic to the point of losing consciousness.
To the question of counteracting a full dose of the pump's entire reservoir, I don't know if the amounts of glucogon in the shot would be sufficient, but we've been told it's a pretty massive dose for emergency situations. As in "If you find her unconscious, give her this shot 1st, call 911 2nd."
Also, the new T-slim pump uses a new system where insulin is relayed from a main reservoir to a tiny holding area from where insulin is actually pumped down the tube to the port. In theory, the person in never directly exposed to the full reservoir.
There's a similar movement afoot in advertising that goes by the equally dumb buzzword of "Consumer (or User) Generated Content". Under the guise of advertising that's more "in touch" with consumers, agencies are letting the public create their campaigns for them. Be it ketchup or Doritos or whatever, the result is usually only "in touch" with the person who made the poorly produced, half-baked idea, and then it's ability to resonate falls of sharply beyond that.
To the folks making comments to the effect of "But what about smaller bands? They didn't have advertising money building up their brand in the past," keep in mind that this is just one new business model for music, not the new model.
This obviously wouldn't have worked as well if they were not Radiohead. In previous/. articles, folks pointed out other labels/bands who have done this before (to less notoriety). But Radiohead was in a position to make this work. They made some money and built up a ton of buzz and goodwill for "brand Radiohead" and likely got a lot of new people interested in their music.
There's no use in wringing your hands and fretting that this "just can't work" as the new model. There will soon be creative new ideas springing up to replace this or take a new twist on it. Bare Naked Ladies had the cool thumb drive thing. Radiohead did "pay what you want" on a large scale. I've seen local bands' CDs stapled to phone poles. Someone is bound to come up with something new that works on a smaller scale.
The most exciting thing about watching the current music distribution scheme kill itself will be the innovative and creative ways that musicians (both popular and emerging) come up with to distribute their music and make some money in the process.
"We are not building a GPhone; we are enabling 1,000 people to build a GPhone," said Andy Rubin, Google's director of mobile platforms, who led the effort to develop the software.
I'm won't argue with you about how much better it would be if the iPhone were open for development, but I think that statement is a little dramatic. I have an iPhone (unhacked) and I find it very useful with all the stock applications. I can text message, keep calendars, take photos, watch YouTube clips, check stocks, use Google Maps, check the weather, set alarms, takes notes, email, buy music, make calls, listen to music, watch videos, and use the web.
I consider that pretty useful, at least for me. Again, it'd be far cooler with an open platform, but it's far from useless.
Wow! I cannot imagine that Apple, the creators of ITMS would possible let you use your own mp3s for ring tones without having to pay for it
I have a SLVR with iTunes. I can still mount the phone and drop MP3 clips and audio into the phone to be used as ringtones. Apple made sure the iTunes was locked down. The iTunes is not the whole phone.
You're answering of the previous posters speculation with your own speculation is... just speculation. At least the iTunes/Motorola account is anecdotal.
But when the battery on your iPod dies, your entertainment ceases for a while. However, when your phone battery goes dead, it can be a matter of life and death
I would think carrying one converged device plus an extra battery would be less cumbersome than two separate things. Just a thought.
Question:
How many of the folks Apple is targeting for this phone, would you say are the kind of folks who write their own apps for their phones?
It's not commonplace to load your own apps onto an iPod and those seem to be doing alright. It's the same market, more or less, I would guess.
I would think you would want the top security guy doing more about the security problem besides a six-month implementation of "Operation Adhesive Primate" to show off how bad things were.
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Does she carry a glucogon shot with her? My daughter never goes anywhere without hers, and all family and teachers have been trained to use it if they ever find her passed out. It's a massive dose of sugar that will instantly shoot her blood sugars to the roof if she ever goes hypoglycemic to the point of losing consciousness. To the question of counteracting a full dose of the pump's entire reservoir, I don't know if the amounts of glucogon in the shot would be sufficient, but we've been told it's a pretty massive dose for emergency situations. As in "If you find her unconscious, give her this shot 1st, call 911 2nd." Also, the new T-slim pump uses a new system where insulin is relayed from a main reservoir to a tiny holding area from where insulin is actually pumped down the tube to the port. In theory, the person in never directly exposed to the full reservoir.
I know. Can you imagine how cool the retirement gift would be once that was up? Make a gold watch look like pocket change.
While it certainly seems to be an odd choice for ruggedizing this device, I can see how certain large nutshells would make for quite a sturdy case.
"Dude, that fall took like 3 seconds! ... What? ... It took 1.85 seconds?! Awww, man. No way! Hey, does anyone have any Funyuns?"
There's a similar movement afoot in advertising that goes by the equally dumb buzzword of "Consumer (or User) Generated Content". Under the guise of advertising that's more "in touch" with consumers, agencies are letting the public create their campaigns for them. Be it ketchup or Doritos or whatever, the result is usually only "in touch" with the person who made the poorly produced, half-baked idea, and then it's ability to resonate falls of sharply beyond that.
And right before their roll-out of Maple Smoked Bacn...
Sun to shine where the sun don't shine in the land of the rising sun.
"You have aquired an enemy target. Cancel or Allow?"
I just bought one.
This obviously wouldn't have worked as well if they were not Radiohead. In previous
There's no use in wringing your hands and fretting that this "just can't work" as the new model. There will soon be creative new ideas springing up to replace this or take a new twist on it. Bare Naked Ladies had the cool thumb drive thing. Radiohead did "pay what you want" on a large scale. I've seen local bands' CDs stapled to phone poles. Someone is bound to come up with something new that works on a smaller scale.
The most exciting thing about watching the current music distribution scheme kill itself will be the innovative and creative ways that musicians (both popular and emerging) come up with to distribute their music and make some money in the process.
From TFA:
isn't a universal opinion.
No, really! I don't want to start a flame war with this guy.
They have a short discussion about peppers starting about 9:15 in.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14948199
I consider that pretty useful, at least for me. Again, it'd be far cooler with an open platform, but it's far from useless.
http://www.koinup.com/
I don't think I like where you're going with this argument.
-B. Bonds
Wow. Where once there was one hair, there are now two.
You misspelled IANAL.
I have a SLVR with iTunes. I can still mount the phone and drop MP3 clips and audio into the phone to be used as ringtones. Apple made sure the iTunes was locked down. The iTunes is not the whole phone.
You're answering of the previous posters speculation with your own speculation is ... just speculation. At least the iTunes/Motorola account is anecdotal.
I would think carrying one converged device plus an extra battery would be less cumbersome than two separate things. Just a thought.
Question:
How many of the folks Apple is targeting for this phone, would you say are the kind of folks who write their own apps for their phones? It's not commonplace to load your own apps onto an iPod and those seem to be doing alright. It's the same market, more or less, I would guess.
I would think you would want the top security guy doing more about the security problem besides a six-month implementation of "Operation Adhesive Primate" to show off how bad things were.
Everyone, I'd take note of this one.
It'll be a karma jackpot to link back to in a few years.
Slashdot posts yet another Apple story, and they again get hammered with a bunch of people configuring pimped Dell's but never buying them.