sgiitk
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Let me add a bit - Diabetes can be of two varieties:
1. Type 1 or Juvenile: This is mostly from birth. The body is incapable of producing insulin. So injection is the only fix available.
2. Type 2 or middle age: This is very rare in youth. With time the insulin production declines. Moderate diabetes can be controlled by diet. Otherwise meditation is necessary - ideally in combination with diet control. Here medication is used to boost natural insulin production.
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Is it dinc or dinc2. I need the upgrade for dinc2
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This is a Philips Series 8xx. See the three rows of cutters in the blades. Please compare with the pic of the regular range which has a single row. The wet and dry type also have a single row but the profiles of the comb (the outer part of the cutter which is visible) is totally different - two types of apertures.
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i just bought a norelco for $80 in DC a month ago and its amazingly better than my older phillips [rs. 4-5 k at croma a few years ago]:
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- the charge lasts twice as long as philips
i have been using electric shavers for 15 years now without any side effects and my beard is NOT coarser or 'circular' as mentioned in prev posts here
Norelco is the Brand Name used by Philips in the US. So you have a Philips. The stuff you get in India is the absolute bottom end and the cutters wear out in under a year. I hope never to buy these again. $80 is about Rs4k while the ones here retail for under 2k. You get what you pay for.
The one you have is a series 7 or lower. The cutters are in three rows in the new series 8, while up to 7 you have a single row.
The newer ones all use Lithium cells, thus the longer battery life and reduced charging time. There used to be fast charge (1 hour) even around 1990 in the models sold in the UK. Only these are capable of being used on mains for shaving.
- the charge lasts twice as long as philips
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@abhisathe; Reliance entered GSM more as a tool to negotiate a lower royalty with Qualcomm. Old habits die hard.
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How about the Liva or the about to be introduced Brio. The Japs give you far more peace of mind, and are surprisingly easy on the pocket to maintain. By all accounts the maintenance of a higher end car like the Civic is about the same or even lower than a mid ranger like the Accent!
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I have been with the since the DAPO days. Excellent coverage and sound quality (much better than GSM where I have BSNL). One drawback, sets available from RCOM and the market are not great. So you have to go to some of the vendors here if you want a decent handset. Most of them are professionals and will 'hand hold' you all the way.
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Its a paid software linked with MAC address of your PC. So its impossible to get it free or to cr**ck it.
We should buy our software, but one must say that if there is enough need it is bound to have been cracked. The most common way these days seems to be ro replace one or more DLL files.
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@aalok; I agree 100%. I have +91 in the majority of my numbers with no issues in calling. I have the same settings as you suggest.
Only occasionally I have problems with sms, even a 0 prefix does not work. I now I use Handcent and whenever this is happening manually remove the +91 or 0 from the number. Apparently, you cna sms anywhere in India without a 0 prefix.
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I have +91 prefix on most of my contacts on my Incredible 2. No problems call. Assisted dialling off, country set to India (404). Automatically converts +91 to 0091!.
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I hear now on the Incredible 2 it only works with Gingerbread. So those with Froyo (OTA is not available in India) will be stuck.
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When a giant who is so iconic hangs up his boots things will change. When Jobs quit (or was forced to quit) Apple was in the dumps. He comes back, electrifies things and they are back at the top. I do not expect innovations to dry up immediately - there must be some in the pipeline.
It is indeed a sorry feeling that we will not have Steve Jobs to look up to (and sometimes kick around), but then this is life. with his health reports it was on the cards for some time.
Apple will no longer be the iconic innovator any more. I hope they do not descend to being another HP! Also, I expect their shares to take a hit, and maybe one day we may see Maple (Microsoft + Apple) or Gaple (Google + Apple). One can only dream.
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Now you will soon have the new joker in the pack - Google using its Motorola Mobility hammer. Apparently, Apple may have hell to pay when they start unleashing their 1700+ patents!
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I sold my 8330 through a Mobile Dealer. The MEID and AKey for this BB had been registered earlier by Hitesh. The chap was able to activate it for his customer with no hassle through the WW.
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May I ask the Congresswallahs. Have they forgotten that in the freedom struggle how many laws were deliberately broken. Have the forgotten Gandhiji?
One interesting observation, the mood was far more aggressive yesterday, portraits of Bhagatsingh, slogans of Inquilab Zindabad and singing of Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ....
Arun Jaitley was correct when he asserted that no politician alive today could have collected the crowds of the magnitude.
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Excellent. I love the simple look.
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Now we can see what was the force of Gandhiji's satyagraha, and how he mobilised the masses. Agreed the media was not there, and one could not expect All India Radio to be exactly objective. So it was the local vernacular press which did the job.
One interesting question,"Were the Intelligence Agencies sleeping?". No wonder the same thing happens every time there is any problem. If as per Chidambaran & co the decision to Arrest Anna purely a local police decision.Of course it was still being claimed that the decision tor release him was again a totally police decision. Then what were Manhmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi trying to meet and discuss in the afternoon. Who is trying to take whom for a ride? Are we that dumb?
Even the incident at Rajghat where 2000+ people congregated, with no prior intimation should have been a warning.
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@csmart; I too had an Epic4G. No sweat with +91 on sms. Maybe I had set the code correctly to 00 for +! I could not get +91 to work for by BB8330 so edited all +91's to 0.
The only point I have problems calling/sms'ing on the Epic was my daughter-in-law who has a 776 number (Karnataka Airtel, I think). It works fine with 0. I had once contacted Reliance CC and was escalated quite a bit. The lady there was monitoring while I was sending out sms'es, and finally suggested that I stick to 0....
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I am using +91 happily in my Incredible 2. You have to feed the phone as to what + means. Once set to 00 (set region to India - 404 for Radio) I have no problems. sms sometimes fails (about 10%), but resending without any prefix (no0 even on out of region nos) works. Please make sure (if you have it) to disable Assisted Dialling and restart (clear the cache).
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I be getting from USA so be it Philips series 8
US will be Norelco. The nomenclature may also change. You can see the multirow cutters immediately.
As for stories about beard getting messed up, they can be termed (not appropriately) old wives tales. I have been on electrics for almost 37 years, so if beard was to go knotty it would have one. I use electric every day (or even twice when I have to go out in the evening).
There was one occasion about 20 years ago when I left my Electric at home as the place I was going to had very frequent power cuts (my shaver was mains only) so thought I will use a blade for 10 days. After the first three days it was hell. The skin becomes softer when you are not scraping it every day.
For those contemplating a switch go 100%. The first 3 weeks will be hell, and then bliss. You and the beard take some time to get used to the new protocol. The biggest problem - learning to shave before washing your face!
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I have been using Philips since Nov 1974! Go for Philips (Norelco in the US) any day. The current best are either Wet & Dry or 8- series. 8-series has triple row of cutters. My son and I got ours from Dubai a couple of months ago.
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Silly system - just confirms my view that Tata are also a 'near' sarkari company.
In India we have evolved a code system using missed calls, and I have seen it in use right from the last 1970's on DoT phones.
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Hitesh; Yes. UP has an obsolete Form 31/32 scenario. One of these (which is commerce and which personal I do not recall). Of course the transporters in Delhi have two rates, one with and one without the forms! UP has done away with checks at every border. I regularly drive to Gwalior, and remember incessant traffic jams at the UP-MP border. Now they are history. In fact it has been calculated that the fuel burnt plus the delays cost many times more than the Octroi revenue!
I sincerely hope that the GST does away with this. We actually get Akhand Bharat.
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Had to pay Octroi (or rather Hetal had to) on a phone shipped back to him. They have scanners so need not even open the packet.
UP may be Ulta Pradesh but did away with Octroi ages ago (at least 15 years). I am indeed surprised that MH still has this archaic tax. We are talking of a single entity for India (GST) and there are places with state level barriers (WB and UP are the worst by the looks of it), and even city level barriers. Heard ages ago that Octroi is the biggest source of moolah for the local mafia (aka neta).
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A couple of additional points:
1. Yes, hereditary factors are important in Type 2 Diabetes. One parent 20%, both 80%.
2. Strict diet control can do wonders. An Uncle of mine was diagnosed as a diabetic when he was about 50. Now he is only 93. He has controlled his diabetes totally with diet for the past 40+ years. But very few of us can manage his discipline.