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is it humor? taks

i have a very hard time reading regular books. even the tech stuff is difficult. i bore too easily i think. i'd rather play, too. i did read, and enjoy, the hitchhiker's guide books. laughed my arse off, actually. taks

walsingham, i'm assuming you're old enough to not have to worry about type-1. type-2 can be staved off, but probably not indefinitely. if you know someone that has diabetes, have them check your blood an hour after eating (easy to do). if it is over 170 or so, go to a doctor for a formal test. taks

i'll be using fedora core 5. taks

i'm gonna dual boot shortly. i use linux extensively at work (the system we're developing is built around linux embedded into single board computers) and have opted to continue some of that work at home. it is stable as hell though a little difficult to learn for non-computer/geek types. taks

geek stuff: Independent Component Analysis by Hyvarinen, Karhunen and Oja Optimum Array Processing (Detection, Estimation and Modulation Theory part IV) by Van Trees Adaptive Blind Signal and Image Processing by Cichocki and Amari my head hurts. taks

they've known for some time... at least, more than a decade. my best man is also type-1 diabetic and he and i have discussed the subject numerous times over the last decade which we've known each other. i would imagine you are correct in your assumptions about why you were never informed of the link to type-1. it is a different beast for sure. no need for a doctor to muddle the issue. btw, my son is in 2 studies, but my wife dropped him from one because she doesn't want to get his blood drawn as often as they require (he has issues with it). at first, she thought 1 sample worked for both studies, but the recent request for another sample made her change her mind. i'm not 100% if DAISY/TEDDY is the study john is sticking with. i'll check tonight. maybe. the "trigger" theory holds that something tips off the immune system, something external such as a virus or something in the diet. my best man's daughter is also type-1, and she was diagnosed when she was very young (under 2 i think). however, she also had a very stressful (health) 6 months prior to the diagnosis, which may hold a few more clues. a noble goal, certainly worthy of as much attention as possible! taks

the pancreas is killed by your own immune system. this is why they cannot simply provide transplants, since the body's immune system will attack the new pancreas and the whole process will begin again, i.e. the transplant will be killed, too. actually, the whole pancreas is not destroyed, simply the cells that create insulin, called beta cells. of course, without these cells, it is all but useless anyway. if you do a search on diabetes and "auto-immune" you'll find several hundred thousand links. here's one from the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse. it should be noted that type-1 and type-2 are VERY different. type-1 is auto-immune, and the pancreas (eventually) cannot produce insulin at all. type-2 is not auto-immune, and the pancreas usually still produces insulin, though the body sort of becomes immune to the insulin. at first, the pancreas just produces more insulin, though over time, it cannot keep up with the increased demand. taks

uh, i never said you do. i said my son has the gene. not everyone that has the gene acquires diabetes. there is a trigger that causes your immune system to go haywire and attack your pancreas, i.e. diabetes is an auto-immune disorder. my son is in a study, DAISY, that is attempting to uncover what that trigger is. they think the trigger is diet (not sugar from what i've been told). i've also read that chicken pox is a trigger since many people that get diabetes show symptoms within 5 years of getting the pox. this is why i said "it runs in families." my father and grandmother (his mom) both had type-2. i am "genetically predisposed" to get type-2. taks

not just a big part, it is inherited. type 1 has a gene that has been identified, and my son has it, though i'm not sure about type 2 other than it runs in families (mine included). even with the gene, my 3-year old child has less than a 5 percent chance of contracting the disease. he's in the DAISY study, for what it's worth. his mother is type 1. taks

my current thought: how i can get high resolution timer support on an SB-1A implementation of the MIPS64 -5kf core in user mode. i know the answer, but insanity is defined as repeatedly conducting an experiment with a known outcome and expecting different results, and i appear to have caught that disease. oh, the answer is that it is only possible in kernel mode because, brilliantly, broadcom protected all of their timers in the CP0 registers which means they can only be accessed in kernel mode. this means i need to build a kernel module, which is sort of screwy in the newer kernels (linux 2.6.15). grrrr. taks

that's why i use "darth" in my sig. darth moth. much more creative (ahem, hehe... ) taks

we've been watching some of the "off network" shows. the closer has proven to be rather funny. kyra sedgewick is hilarious. it can be a bit sappy, but definitely entertaining. monk is also hilarious if you can handle his idiosyncratic behavior (obsessive compulsive). no real good sci-fi shows that i know of (i don't count dr. who because it is not really high production quality... i do love it, however). i suppose the 4400 is getting pretty sci-fi, or something. they're all getting to the point where they almost have super powers, so if you think it's cheezy now, it'll only get worse. psych is funny, too. taks

96.8, actually. barely made it past 80 today in the springs. rained, too. again. taks

no problem. sarcasm is difficult to infer from a post without proper smilies. i shoulda used the instead! taks

Nitpick alert: Global Warming is not to blame. What is to blame is those who perpertrate actions that cause global warming. That, or the evolution of the planet, to which the cause of global warming is a part of. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> there's nothing to nitpick. i was being facetious, i.e. sarcasm alert was in order! taks

we're nearing a peak, if not already there. i suppose GW is also to blame for the excessively cold winter europe had this year... taks

it got down to 40 last night where i was... of course, i was in breckenridge, CO, camping on dillon resevoir after spending all day at the beer festival held at main street station (in breck). :wub: mark

i believe forgottenwars is the most comprehensive. taks

actually, that is precisely what happens. we jump up, and the earth responds in some miniscule fashion, and then, we fall back in unison with the earth's return to us due to gravitational pull. the net result is that we are back to equilibrium pretty quickly. oh, and the above hypothetical also assumes, hypothetically speaking, that everyone is jumping on a relatively concentrated section of the earth. you think new orleans was bad in the dome during katrina? ha! good fun! taks

yup, alanschu. i'm actually hoping your hypotheticalness rubs off enough on the nut-cases, btw. you can probably get a good deal on tape-drive backups now, hades. taks

oh, this does not take into account the fact that the earth's orbit will stabilize to an equilibrium based on its revised mass. of course, if all the nut-cases that think this is a good plan really want to jump off into space, i will not try to stop them. taks

as long as you are orbiting the sun with the earth, you are contained within the system. yes, in order to effect the orbit around the sun, the mass must leave the earth's orbit. if they left the earth's orbit in a straight up jump? well, you could figure out the balancing equations (force and momentum i'd assume) and determine the net effect. probably not much compared to the mass of the earth. all human life combined is probably 6B * 100kg (worst case, average is actually less than 100kg, more like 60-70kg) or 600B kg whereas the earth is 5.9742

i should have said "it isn't ONLY insignificant, it is nonexistent!" yes, zero is not unlike, well, zero. taks

It's probably going to be like Oblivion. So, I would call it an Action-RPG. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> oh, OK, i heard about it early on, but haven't followed up. great, i'm no fan of oblivion or morrowind, so this ought to really get me going. taks