As a father of diabetics I have to say that the article's premise is just plain wrong. As a diabetic (or as anon-sighted person) you have the right to demand reasonable accommodation of people around you. Diabetics needs to know how much carbohydrates there are in a food product they are about to eat to be able to inject themselves with the right amount of insulin to prevent high or low blood sugars (high blood sugars being less dangerous than low). It is reasonable that producers of food that sell their product on the open market supply that information so there is a law for that. It so happens that this law also makes provisions for the declaration of other ingredients as well, benefiting not just the diabetic.
As a non-sighted user you have a similar right to expect, and demand, reasonable accommodation. And again, such accommodation does not just benefit the non-sighted, as has been pointed out in other threads. As is the case with the declaration of content in food, at least in the US, its the law that you have to make reasonable accommodations for the disabled in publicly available software for sale.
This was three years ago now so you milage may vary.
I worked for three years in a customer support setting in Melbourne, Australia for a large US software company. I now work for the same company in the US in development.
In Australia the dress code was smart casual unless you were meeting with customers which I sometimes did. Smart casual meant clean clothes with no holes and at least a collar on the T-shirt. Fridays where casual dress day so any type of T-shirts and shorts were allowed.
In California and development how you dress is not an issue at all. What is comfortable for a person is OK. The competence level is the most important, not how you are dressed when you put that level of competence to use.
I think the difference between Australia and California is an issue of traditions, not principles. Businesses in Australia have had a formal dress code for a long time. The code will evolve until everyone is comfortable with what they have I am sure. I remember reading an article in an Melbournian newspaper about a small company instituting a Formal Dress Friday when everyone was required to dress in at least a suit. All other days it was smart casual and people got really creative and came in to work in penguine gear and long black sleaveless dresses. Going to party after work was a breaze. You didn't have to go home to change what you were wearing.
Electrolux of Sweden has a machine called Trilobyte that can recharge it self. See http://www.trilobite.electrolux.se/ . It is much more expensive though.
Take it from someone who has learned this the hard way: you have to be able to talk to each other about everything. If you cannot, you are bound to do things that she doesn't like and don't do things that she likes. You will also do potentially the right thing but at the wrong time.
Many women, my soon to be ex-wife included, thinks that if you do things because they (the woman) has asked for it, you don't mean it. That is of course bull but that's what they think. Its probably a remnant from childhood when Mom really did know what you wanted without you having to tell her and if she didn't, you soon liked what she did do for you, because it was her doing it.
Its part of growing up to be able to say what you want and recieve it without resentment. Some women, and I guess some men as well, never reaches that maturity or reaches it too late for their first love to enjoy it.
I have had to learn a lot of endocrinology to care for my two diabetic children and this article makes a lot sense to me. In essence it is saying that the way we get our calories matters more than the amount and that is because of the way our bodies has worked since very early in our evolution. Insulin, which is the hormone that makes it possible for us to use the sugar released from our stomachs into the blood stream after we eat, is also necessary for our bodies to store excessive sugars as fat (for consumption at a later time when we might not have food). This function was useful when we were hunters and gatherers since it was not always possible to hunt or gather something all the times we were hungry. Now, in this current situation, when we have food every time we are hungry, if we eat more carbohydrates than we can use for the moment and little fat the presence of insulin will convert the excess carbohydrates as fat. After 2 hours of insulin secretion the system will have no more insulin available and the storing will cease for the moment. If we eat the opposite way: (a lot of fat and very little carbohydrates there will be very little insulin secretion because the beta cells in the pancreas secretes exactly as much insulin as needed at any given time). That means that the body will quickly use up the carbohydrates and then use up the remaining fat since there is no carbohydrates available and because there is no insulin present (it has been used up by the carbohydrate burning). This all makes sense to me based on the admittedly limited knowledge I have of endocrinology. Perhaps someone who knows more endocrinology can correct me if I am totally wrong.
Minority Reports is all that AI wasn't: dark and interesting not dark and... dark, futuristic and believable, not futuristic and unbelievable, action packed and fast, not action challenged and slow.
It's basically a "film noir" mixed with a Sci-Fi thriller. A top police officer is suspected of a crime and has to fight hard to be exonerated and find the real perpetrator. This is an old theme but it feels fresh here because it is set in the future and because the crime he is accused of has not yet happened. The twists are many and it's hard to predict the outcome because of the new format. I have seen nothing like it before. It suited my tastes perfectly.
Because I speak Swedish I thought I'd share with you all what Dr. Solomon that operated on Anderton said in Swedish. It adds very little to the story but it was funny. He is talking to his lovely assistant: "Wipe your a**, woman [actually closer to "bitch"] and come out here and help me." This references the lack cleanliness in the doctor's office. She comes out singing a traditional Swedish kids song: "Little frogs, little frogs. Neither ears nor tails do they have. Neither eyes nor tails do they have" which is a reference to the operation that's about to take place. The real song does not talk about eyes.
IE has had this functionality for at least two years now. See this page for a download.
It says that it works only for IE 5 but I have used it for 6 months now with 6.0 without problems. I use it several times a day for Google and Dictionary.com searches and for internal DB searches that has simple URL access like the internal phone book.
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As a father of diabetics I have to say that the article's premise is just plain wrong. As a diabetic (or as anon-sighted person) you have the right to demand reasonable accommodation of people around you. Diabetics needs to know how much carbohydrates there are in a food product they are about to eat to be able to inject themselves with the right amount of insulin to prevent high or low blood sugars (high blood sugars being less dangerous than low). It is reasonable that producers of food that sell their product on the open market supply that information so there is a law for that. It so happens that this law also makes provisions for the declaration of other ingredients as well, benefiting not just the diabetic.
As a non-sighted user you have a similar right to expect, and demand, reasonable accommodation. And again, such accommodation does not just benefit the non-sighted, as has been pointed out in other threads. As is the case with the declaration of content in food, at least in the US, its the law that you have to make reasonable accommodations for the disabled in publicly available software for sale.
It even does it for sites that don't have a corresponding domain name. If you type "new york times" you correctly get nytimes.com.
See Tom's Hardware for an article on D-Link's Repeating WAP.
I worked for three years in a customer support setting in Melbourne, Australia for a large US software company. I now work for the same company in the US in development.
In Australia the dress code was smart casual unless you were meeting with customers which I sometimes did. Smart casual meant clean clothes with no holes and at least a collar on the T-shirt. Fridays where casual dress day so any type of T-shirts and shorts were allowed.
In California and development how you dress is not an issue at all. What is comfortable for a person is OK. The competence level is the most important, not how you are dressed when you put that level of competence to use.
I think the difference between Australia and California is an issue of traditions, not principles. Businesses in Australia have had a formal dress code for a long time. The code will evolve until everyone is comfortable with what they have I am sure. I remember reading an article in an Melbournian newspaper about a small company instituting a Formal Dress Friday when everyone was required to dress in at least a suit. All other days it was smart casual and people got really creative and came in to work in penguine gear and long black sleaveless dresses. Going to party after work was a breaze. You didn't have to go home to change what you were wearing.
Electrolux of Sweden has a machine called Trilobyte that can recharge it self. See http://www.trilobite.electrolux.se/ . It is much more expensive though.
It also stops IE's Javascript Error window from staying up long enough to be read. I now use PopUpCop. It has been really good so far.
Take it from someone who has learned this the hard way: you have to be able to talk to each other about everything. If you cannot, you are bound to do things that she doesn't like and don't do things that she likes. You will also do potentially the right thing but at the wrong time.
Many women, my soon to be ex-wife included, thinks that if you do things because they (the woman) has asked for it, you don't mean it. That is of course bull but that's what they think. Its probably a remnant from childhood when Mom really did know what you wanted without you having to tell her and if she didn't, you soon liked what she did do for you, because it was her doing it.
Its part of growing up to be able to say what you want and recieve it without resentment. Some women, and I guess some men as well, never reaches that maturity or reaches it too late for their first love to enjoy it.
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I have had to learn a lot of endocrinology to care for my two diabetic children and this article makes a lot sense to me.
In essence it is saying that the way we get our calories matters more than the amount and that is because of the way our bodies has worked since very early in our evolution. Insulin, which is the hormone that makes it possible for us to use the sugar released from our stomachs into the blood stream after we eat, is also necessary for our bodies to store excessive sugars as fat (for consumption at a later time when we might not have food). This function was useful when we were hunters and gatherers since it was not always possible to hunt or gather something all the times we were hungry.
Now, in this current situation, when we have food every time we are hungry, if we eat more carbohydrates than we can use for the moment and little fat the presence of insulin will convert the excess carbohydrates as fat. After 2 hours of insulin secretion the system will have no more insulin available and the storing will cease for the moment. If we eat the opposite way: (a lot of fat and very little carbohydrates there will be very little insulin secretion because the beta cells in the pancreas secretes exactly as much insulin as needed at any given time). That means that the body will quickly use up the carbohydrates and then use up the remaining fat since there is no carbohydrates available and because there is no insulin present (it has been used up by the carbohydrate burning).
This all makes sense to me based on the admittedly limited knowledge I have of endocrinology. Perhaps someone who knows more endocrinology can correct me if I am totally wrong.
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... dark, futuristic and believable, not futuristic and unbelievable, action packed and fast, not action challenged and slow.
Minority Reports is all that AI wasn't: dark and interesting not dark and
It's basically a "film noir" mixed with a Sci-Fi thriller. A top police officer is suspected of a crime and has to fight hard to be exonerated and find the real perpetrator. This is an old theme but it feels fresh here because it is set in the future and because the crime he is accused of has not yet happened. The twists are many and it's hard to predict the outcome because of the new format. I have seen nothing like it before. It suited my tastes perfectly.
Because I speak Swedish I thought I'd share with you all what Dr. Solomon that operated on Anderton said in Swedish. It adds very little to the story but it was funny. He is talking to his lovely assistant: "Wipe your a**, woman [actually closer to "bitch"] and come out here and help me." This references the lack cleanliness in the doctor's office. She comes out singing a traditional Swedish kids song: "Little frogs, little frogs. Neither ears nor tails do they have. Neither eyes nor tails do they have" which is a reference to the operation that's about to take place. The real song does not talk about eyes.
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IE has had this functionality for at least two years now. See this page for a download.
It says that it works only for IE 5 but I have used it for 6 months now with 6.0 without problems. I use it several times a day for Google and Dictionary.com searches and for internal DB searches that has simple URL access like the internal phone book.
The good Doctor