Thank you for the submission! I have an audio processing disorder, and it is cool to learn that I may have my piano and choir teachers to thank for becoming so functional despite it.
That isn't a typo. Dot3-Dot4 is the grade 2 braille contraction for "st", just as the symbol at the end of the sign is short for "er". (I'm also unsure why they called out one contraction as wrong, but not the other one?)
Actually, there's good reason for using something that slips on a finger. Aiming a camera at something you can't see with your head would be a lot of trouble. Exploring things by touch is much easier and more accurate. Take the price tag reader, how would you know if the tag it was reading was attached to the shirt you were considering without feel? It could be reading the price for a different product right next to it. Until we can read data straight into our visual cortexes, I think a smaller version of something like this will beat out geordi's visor.
Thank you for posting this! I helped a friend with a painting job that we didn't have time to do right. When I asked her how it came out, she said it was good mostly but sometimes looked bad when the light hit parts of the wall or at certain angles. Then I visited and it looked so awful. I had assumed she was just being nice and wanted me to feel ok about it all, but no one else seemed to notice it either. You have just cleared the whole thing up for me.
Although I think it's necessary to make genes and their functions incapable of being patented, the current system does have one advantage that we will have to seek to duplicate: centralization. If you have a rare genetic disease, as I do, you currently get the test from exactly one company. Your results come back complete with comparison to everyone who has ever had reason and opportunity to get tested for mutations to that gene. This is very helpful prognostically.
"The ban would restrict the sale of sodas to no more than 16-ounces, and would apply to both fountain and bottled drinks. It would not apply to diet sodas, fruit juices, dairy or alcoholic drinks. Sodas sold at grocery and convenience stores would be exempt as well."
The two largest groups of christians in the world, the Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox, accept evolution. Christianity is not limited to american evangelicals.
One of my state's senators states on his website that his pen 'n paper mail doesn't reach him for over six weeks because of security concerns. That's often after the vote on whatever you are trying to bother your congress person about.
At least in Heroes 6, offline play is a somewhat crippled version of the game. It is missing a major level-up mechanic and makes you unable to access your normal saves.
Oscar was amputated at 1 1/2 and grew up an amputee. An adult runner couldn't switch over and have a chance in hell of making anything out of them. As it is, he's one of many double amputee runners from the paralympics using the same technology, and he beats the others of his kind consistently. It's not his prosthetics, it's him.
ALS is incurable. We have a drug that extends life by about three months, but it costs about $1000 a month and had terrible side effects. We have some symptomatic treatment: antispastics, bipaps/ventilators, feeding tubes, etc, but that's it.
If you want anything beyond that, you need to try out unproven stuff. Some people go out of the country to take their chances with wild clinical trials or pure charlatans. It isn't the medical system's fault in this case - they have tried nearly everly legal drug in mice models. Nothing had budged anywhere.
Hawking was diagnosed with ALS before motor neuron disease names became more distinct. Today, what he has is called Spinal Muscular Atrophy, stage 4. ALS is a disease of both the upper (brain into spine) and lower (spine to muscles) nerves. SMA is a purely lower motor neuron disease. The opposite is Primary Lateral Sclerosis, a motor neuron disease of just the uppers. We MNDers stick together, so he's still in our club.
While no one would mistake a body builder for obese, for cost reduction programs BMI is generally calculated and dealt with in a database. Your local doctor doesn't mark that you're obese, you just get a call from your insurance company who's never met you, they just look at numbers. You would then have to prove you're not obese, or in the case of that infamous baby, that you shouldn't be denied things because of it in your situation. BMI as a measure works only with hands on care.
This proposal certainly isn't that... in the article the slipped in "chronically ill" in one of the later paragraphs. I was born with a genetic defect that causes my spine to slowly self destruct, definetely not my choice there. People don't choose to have fibromyalgia, psoriasis, etc either.
And obesity's strong poverty connection makes it hard to call it a "choice". When my family was eating on $40/week for all of us, the medications ate up a chunk of that, what was left over was enough for a sausage and potatoes style diet. We would have loved to afford salads...
I second this! I'm not sure why we as geeks continue to portray the any-geek-girl-will-do caricature. My husband and I have been married for years. We aren't cardboard cut outs: he doesn't have the patience to read a good science fiction novel and I gave up on programming a long time ago. We do, however, play games together, work for different parts of our local science fiction convention, etc. We went to Gencon for our honeymoon. My sister and bro-in-law play in a D&D group two days a week, watch anime, etc but split on video games and reading fanfiction. Both couples are happily married, and together we are raising my niece who at age 4 can name dice properly, has a video of her rolling her first natural 20, and knows which covenant are the most difficult to kill in Halo. (That last bit is from my father, actually!) Sure, our deprived guys didn't grow up watching Blake's 7 or Dr Who, and we don't play video games as 24-7 as they would prefer, but that's the difference between real people and stereotypes. The other difference is that they, like most geekish fellas, won't jump at anything that moves and knows what open source or otaku means.
I run the same version of Wordperfect I started with back in Dos 3.x on my Windows XP computer, and it works fine. (I did lose the awesome shortcuts guide that you layed over the top of the F-keys, so I can only do the things I remember the shortcuts for, like spell checking, saving, etc.) I have copied it from machine to machine since the early 90's, as our copy came on 5 1/4's, and I haven't had a drive that size in ages.
Aside from ideological objections, I have a simple logistical one... multiplayer games stink for those of us with disabilities. My games must revolve around me, waiting for me to hit the next button, and must not punish me harshly and irrevocably for poor mouse ability. I am playing through Baldur's Gate again, and I do so slowly and with many, many misclicks. But BG gives me infinite pause time to get all the commands in that I need to to play well, and allows to me fix my mistakes. Civilization happily autosaves every turn so that I can roll back killer mistakes. Multiplayer games wait for no man, and they are the province of the able bodied. Even "social connection" doesn't appeal... I can slowly play an overly easy MMORPG like WoW, but I can hardly drive my character and type to people at the same time! And passing kiddies don't need to feast their eyes on my staggering, inept playstyle. LAN games are ok, where friends can play to your limitations, and turn timers can be turned off.
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I presume it is a reference to the Stephen King book.
Thank you, that was brilliant! I don't think an epic sci-fi move based on Tetris could beat that Youtube video.
Thank you for the submission! I have an audio processing disorder, and it is cool to learn that I may have my piano and choir teachers to thank for becoming so functional despite it.
That isn't a typo. Dot3-Dot4 is the grade 2 braille contraction for "st", just as the symbol at the end of the sign is short for "er". (I'm also unsure why they called out one contraction as wrong, but not the other one?)
It sounds kind of like a thompson turkey. http://www.no37.net/index.php?n=Know.ThompsonTurkey
Actually, there's good reason for using something that slips on a finger. Aiming a camera at something you can't see with your head would be a lot of trouble. Exploring things by touch is much easier and more accurate. Take the price tag reader, how would you know if the tag it was reading was attached to the shirt you were considering without feel? It could be reading the price for a different product right next to it. Until we can read data straight into our visual cortexes, I think a smaller version of something like this will beat out geordi's visor.
Thank you for posting this! I helped a friend with a painting job that we didn't have time to do right. When I asked her how it came out, she said it was good mostly but sometimes looked bad when the light hit parts of the wall or at certain angles. Then I visited and it looked so awful. I had assumed she was just being nice and wanted me to feel ok about it all, but no one else seemed to notice it either. You have just cleared the whole thing up for me.
Although I think it's necessary to make genes and their functions incapable of being patented, the current system does have one advantage that we will have to seek to duplicate: centralization. If you have a rare genetic disease, as I do, you currently get the test from exactly one company. Your results come back complete with comparison to everyone who has ever had reason and opportunity to get tested for mutations to that gene. This is very helpful prognostically.
"The ban would restrict the sale of sodas to no more than 16-ounces, and would apply to both fountain and bottled drinks. It would not apply to diet sodas, fruit juices, dairy or alcoholic drinks. Sodas sold at grocery and convenience stores would be exempt as well."
This is still a release candidate, I believe, so wait for the final version?
The two largest groups of christians in the world, the Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox, accept evolution. Christianity is not limited to american evangelicals.
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One of my state's senators states on his website that his pen 'n paper mail doesn't reach him for over six weeks because of security concerns. That's often after the vote on whatever you are trying to bother your congress person about.
At least in Heroes 6, offline play is a somewhat crippled version of the game. It is missing a major level-up mechanic and makes you unable to access your normal saves.
You're thinking of Indiana, and I don't think it actually ever passed.
Oscar was amputated at 1 1/2 and grew up an amputee. An adult runner couldn't switch over and have a chance in hell of making anything out of them. As it is, he's one of many double amputee runners from the paralympics using the same technology, and he beats the others of his kind consistently. It's not his prosthetics, it's him.
Many audio versions of the captcha work very poorly, unfortunately. If a site is too captcha dependent, I just give up on it more times than not.
ALS is incurable. We have a drug that extends life by about three months, but it costs about $1000 a month and had terrible side effects. We have some symptomatic treatment: antispastics, bipaps/ventilators, feeding tubes, etc, but that's it.
If you want anything beyond that, you need to try out unproven stuff. Some people go out of the country to take their chances with wild clinical trials or pure charlatans. It isn't the medical system's fault in this case - they have tried nearly everly legal drug in mice models. Nothing had budged anywhere.
Hawking was diagnosed with ALS before motor neuron disease names became more distinct. Today, what he has is called Spinal Muscular Atrophy, stage 4. ALS is a disease of both the upper (brain into spine) and lower (spine to muscles) nerves. SMA is a purely lower motor neuron disease. The opposite is Primary Lateral Sclerosis, a motor neuron disease of just the uppers. We MNDers stick together, so he's still in our club.
While no one would mistake a body builder for obese, for cost reduction programs BMI is generally calculated and dealt with in a database. Your local doctor doesn't mark that you're obese, you just get a call from your insurance company who's never met you, they just look at numbers. You would then have to prove you're not obese, or in the case of that infamous baby, that you shouldn't be denied things because of it in your situation. BMI as a measure works only with hands on care.
This proposal certainly isn't that... in the article the slipped in "chronically ill" in one of the later paragraphs. I was born with a genetic defect that causes my spine to slowly self destruct, definetely not my choice there. People don't choose to have fibromyalgia, psoriasis, etc either. And obesity's strong poverty connection makes it hard to call it a "choice". When my family was eating on $40/week for all of us, the medications ate up a chunk of that, what was left over was enough for a sausage and potatoes style diet. We would have loved to afford salads...
I second this! I'm not sure why we as geeks continue to portray the any-geek-girl-will-do caricature. My husband and I have been married for years. We aren't cardboard cut outs: he doesn't have the patience to read a good science fiction novel and I gave up on programming a long time ago. We do, however, play games together, work for different parts of our local science fiction convention, etc. We went to Gencon for our honeymoon. My sister and bro-in-law play in a D&D group two days a week, watch anime, etc but split on video games and reading fanfiction. Both couples are happily married, and together we are raising my niece who at age 4 can name dice properly, has a video of her rolling her first natural 20, and knows which covenant are the most difficult to kill in Halo. (That last bit is from my father, actually!) Sure, our deprived guys didn't grow up watching Blake's 7 or Dr Who, and we don't play video games as 24-7 as they would prefer, but that's the difference between real people and stereotypes. The other difference is that they, like most geekish fellas, won't jump at anything that moves and knows what open source or otaku means.
I run the same version of Wordperfect I started with back in Dos 3.x on my Windows XP computer, and it works fine. (I did lose the awesome shortcuts guide that you layed over the top of the F-keys, so I can only do the things I remember the shortcuts for, like spell checking, saving, etc.) I have copied it from machine to machine since the early 90's, as our copy came on 5 1/4's, and I haven't had a drive that size in ages.
He left all the digging tools behind??? He couldn't have at least packed them into his ridiculously noticeable passion purple SUV?
Aside from ideological objections, I have a simple logistical one... multiplayer games stink for those of us with disabilities. My games must revolve around me, waiting for me to hit the next button, and must not punish me harshly and irrevocably for poor mouse ability. I am playing through Baldur's Gate again, and I do so slowly and with many, many misclicks. But BG gives me infinite pause time to get all the commands in that I need to to play well, and allows to me fix my mistakes. Civilization happily autosaves every turn so that I can roll back killer mistakes. Multiplayer games wait for no man, and they are the province of the able bodied. Even "social connection" doesn't appeal... I can slowly play an overly easy MMORPG like WoW, but I can hardly drive my character and type to people at the same time! And passing kiddies don't need to feast their eyes on my staggering, inept playstyle. LAN games are ok, where friends can play to your limitations, and turn timers can be turned off.