On a tinfoil hat conspiracy sidenote: I was an eye glass wearer for a very long time. My vision deteriorated every year or two it seemed. I stopped wearing glasses a few years back and tried some of the eye exercises (as a friend recommended) and I was able to drop my driving restriction and I pass every eye test I've taken for the past few years -- without my glasses on. Anyone else have similar problems with glasses?
I, personally, had terrible vision until I lost my glasses (turns out my baby sister hid them in the freezer). After weeks of going without them, they started correcting themselves.
What exercises were you doing? That's an important detail. I'm interested in adopting some, myself.
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It's due to trademark issues, actually.
You can't trademark numbers. Giving your products numeric names is a legal minefield.
At the time of the Pentium, they added an actual name, and post Pentium Pro (the 686), they dropped the numbers.
My boss scouted at a local high school for a bright, trainable student with some PC experience. We threw him at some simple jobs that were eating up our time.
We were able to make some large changes with him doing the footwork. He had a relatively easy job with good direction and excellent education, and left with a resume and references that any of his peers would have killed for.
It's a JOKE. I know the sense of humor gets a little hazy with age, grandpa, but the guy I was talking about would have laughed, and he's got twenty years on you.;)
I know very well that we don't have to stop moving as we grow older. I am a young man, but one with an active lifestyle (thankyouverymuch), and I don't intend to slow down just because of the number of years I've been around. That's part of why people who refuse to do anything but what they've always done aggravate me: Because I know they are capable of so much more. Age is just a number.
And I, myself, have considered learning RPG and OS/400 just so I can maintain old systems. I'd be careful with your work as an example, though. The internet and Java both became popular when you were in your prime.:)
If I'm doomed to be writing Python maintenance scripts for boxes running the 2.6 kernel until I retire, so be it!
Yes, they do exist. Ours is hidden away in a windowless office, accompanied by his AS/400 and potted plant. What does he do all day? No one knows. Whatever it is, it's not much, and most of his hours are spent checking stock prices and surfing eBay. Some say he used to code RPG, and that when something goes wrong, he may still...
Yes, old programmers live secluded lives as they find jobs where they live maintaining their ancient code. Never fired, because the companies are too afraid of the cost of switching to something modern.
Yes, today you may be aggravated with that faceless entity who refuses to do something as simple as ODBC. Realize that he won't do it because he's running a prehistoric edition of OS/400 and realizes that he won't be able to maintain an upgraded install.
We should get the most from everyone, use whatever methods work, and not critisize a teacher for reaching 10% of his students that might otherwise not understand.
I gave it up because of stability issues, but using window translucency, tinting, and shading (via Xorg's Composite and Render extensions) REALLY helped improve my productivity.
Seriously.
It allowed me to keep an eye on multiple window levels at once, yet everything but my current window being tinted darker ensured that my focus stayed where I needed it. That and the shadowed windows also helped me identify things much faster.
If it's just used for eye candy, it can be distracting, but used properly I found it helped me a great deal.
I disagree with your suggestion to get budget RAM.
While it's not necessary to get overly-expensive RAM as most overclockers would want, some one building their own system should be looking to a quality name-brand for their RAM.
Any time you have a system malfunction due to bad RAM, it's usually hard to diagnose and incredibly frustrating. The best RAM maintenance is preventive.
The reason name brand RAM is important is due to the origins of budget RAM: Most budget sellers get their RAM from batches that didn't meet the specs of the original manufacturers.
You don't want to trust your system to that. Buy Micron (Crucial), Viking, or Kingston.
It was a joke. Maybe SF needs free sarcasm detectors along with its free wi-fi.:)
Although... a) Most crime deterred by gun ownership involves the knowledge that retailiation is possible, and not actually drawing a gun. b) London has its trouble spots and stories. c) Counter-example: Austrailia.
Are people really going to be out in the streets using free wi-fi?
For a while, I'm sure. Eventually, as blood runs deeper in the streets of San Francisco due to their new city-wide weapons ban, I'd imagine that most of the time they'll be hiding out in their houses next to their wired connections.
I loved City of Heroes. It was a beautiful feast of pure joy.
For about half an hour.
It became pretty apparent that there is only one mission: Go beat every one up. That's it! Oh, I forgot: You could also find some things by clicking on boxes as you... went to beat every one up. That by itself is fun for a couple of minutes.
Now, EQ and WoW both got dropped by me due to the grind, but there were at least places to explore, puzzles to solve, things to learn... In other words, there were things to do.
City of Heroes had nothing else, excepting the opportunity to look at the (gorgeous) scenery and earn the next superpower. I kept playing after hearing tales of the game play, social interaction, and mission variety opening up after a certain point. I found none. My contacts and missions looked different, but acted exactly the same.
Had there been more social interactions that were relevant to game play, or game play designed to really let people feel in-character... Or any number of things, it could have been better. The entire time I played, I felt like I was playing an engine demo released before their content.
City of Heroes brought to the table the BEST game in years... that gave me no compelling reason to play.:(
How this is more cost-effective--or more effective, period--than low-cost color PDAs with CF microdrives. Surely the higher resolution, larger screen, and more flexible OS would be better?
It's true that high-capacity microdrives are more expensive, but that's still a lot of photos at that resolution.
However it compares, it awfully neat, though, and a good example of how technology can be a real life-improvement above pure entertainment.
Actually, this causes TREMENDOUS problems for just the sort of people who don't want to use another program.
One of the most common tech support calls we get is from someone who can't receive their email, because some equally technically inept person decided to email them several megabytes worth of photos. Whether due to slow connection speed or their email or anti-virus software choking on a large file, it just doesn't work properly.
Many of these people stubbornly continue to use email for file transport, despite the problems it causes for them and/or others.
If everyone were on IMAP with decent IMAP clients and we could get rid of UUENCODE, no one would be complaining.
Unfortunately, that's not the case, so I cringe at the thought of a camera that could create even more problems for my customers.
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I honestly don't know how bad my vision was. I could just *barely* read without my glasses.
My problem was being cross-eyed.
I do believe exercise can help the eyes. However, I attribute my very sudden vision improvement to a miracle from God.
On a tinfoil hat conspiracy sidenote: I was an eye glass wearer for a very long time. My vision deteriorated every year or two it seemed. I stopped wearing glasses a few years back and tried some of the eye exercises (as a friend recommended) and I was able to drop my driving restriction and I pass every eye test I've taken for the past few years -- without my glasses on. Anyone else have similar problems with glasses?
I, personally, had terrible vision until I lost my glasses (turns out my baby sister hid them in the freezer). After weeks of going without them, they started correcting themselves.
What exercises were you doing? That's an important detail. I'm interested in adopting some, myself.
It's due to trademark issues, actually.
You can't trademark numbers. Giving your products numeric names is a legal minefield.
At the time of the Pentium, they added an actual name, and post Pentium Pro (the 686), they dropped the numbers.
That's what helped us get out from some load.
My boss scouted at a local high school for a bright, trainable student with some PC experience. We threw him at some simple jobs that were eating up our time.
We were able to make some large changes with him doing the footwork. He had a relatively easy job with good direction and excellent education, and left with a resume and references that any of his peers would have killed for.
It's a JOKE. I know the sense of humor gets a little hazy with age, grandpa, but the guy I was talking about would have laughed, and he's got twenty years on you. ;)
:)
I know very well that we don't have to stop moving as we grow older. I am a young man, but one with an active lifestyle (thankyouverymuch), and I don't intend to slow down just because of the number of years I've been around. That's part of why people who refuse to do anything but what they've always done aggravate me: Because I know they are capable of so much more. Age is just a number.
And I, myself, have considered learning RPG and OS/400 just so I can maintain old systems. I'd be careful with your work as an example, though. The internet and Java both became popular when you were in your prime.
If I'm doomed to be writing Python maintenance scripts for boxes running the 2.6 kernel until I retire, so be it!
We have an old programmer here.
Yes, they do exist. Ours is hidden away in a windowless office, accompanied by his AS/400 and potted plant. What does he do all day? No one knows. Whatever it is, it's not much, and most of his hours are spent checking stock prices and surfing eBay. Some say he used to code RPG, and that when something goes wrong, he may still...
Yes, old programmers live secluded lives as they find jobs where they live maintaining their ancient code. Never fired, because the companies are too afraid of the cost of switching to something modern.
Yes, today you may be aggravated with that faceless entity who refuses to do something as simple as ODBC. Realize that he won't do it because he's running a prehistoric edition of OS/400 and realizes that he won't be able to maintain an upgraded install.
And realize that one day... that man will be YOU.
We should get the most from everyone, use whatever methods work, and not critisize a teacher for reaching 10% of his students that might otherwise not understand.
You mistyped '90'.
It could be argued, but honestly, all that's needed is a published specificatin or adhering to a known standard. Not that hard.
If you can do it without crashing, that is!
I gave it up because of stability issues, but using window translucency, tinting, and shading (via Xorg's Composite and Render extensions) REALLY helped improve my productivity.
Seriously.
It allowed me to keep an eye on multiple window levels at once, yet everything but my current window being tinted darker ensured that my focus stayed where I needed it. That and the shadowed windows also helped me identify things much faster.
If it's just used for eye candy, it can be distracting, but used properly I found it helped me a great deal.
Sorry about that.
:)
I need more sleep. I promise, I do norally read the comments I reply to.
I disagree with your suggestion to get budget RAM.
While it's not necessary to get overly-expensive RAM as most overclockers would want, some one building their own system should be looking to a quality name-brand for their RAM.
Any time you have a system malfunction due to bad RAM, it's usually hard to diagnose and incredibly frustrating. The best RAM maintenance is preventive.
The reason name brand RAM is important is due to the origins of budget RAM: Most budget sellers get their RAM from batches that didn't meet the specs of the original manufacturers.
You don't want to trust your system to that. Buy Micron (Crucial), Viking, or Kingston.
If the GIMP is ten years old, that says a lot about my own age.
I refuse to accept this arbitrary number!
When you'll be tired of walking, you'll move back to the city, where most people belong anyways.
Thanks for handing that ruling down from on high.
Yes, I think people and communities should be laid out differently, but y'know, I don't build them. Nor do all of us have a choice of where to live.
That's not to mention the plight of the handicapped. Or emergency need.
Getting rid of cars sounds nice, but it would cause a lot more problems than it would solve. People lived sparsely before cars, you know.
Well, when teleportation is perfected and made available to the masses, we can consider getting rid of cars.
How else do you propose to get rid of cars for those of us not living in densely populated cities with public transportation available?
It was a joke. Maybe SF needs free sarcasm detectors along with its free wi-fi. :)
Although...
a) Most crime deterred by gun ownership involves the knowledge that retailiation is possible, and not actually drawing a gun.
b) London has its trouble spots and stories.
c) Counter-example: Austrailia.
Are people really going to be out in the streets using free wi-fi?
For a while, I'm sure. Eventually, as blood runs deeper in the streets of San Francisco due to their new city-wide weapons ban, I'd imagine that most of the time they'll be hiding out in their houses next to their wired connections.
Yes, they've manage to not include in their list a SINGLE game I care about!
Seriously. Wow.
I loved City of Heroes. It was a beautiful feast of pure joy.
:(
For about half an hour.
It became pretty apparent that there is only one mission: Go beat every one up. That's it! Oh, I forgot: You could also find some things by clicking on boxes as you... went to beat every one up. That by itself is fun for a couple of minutes.
Now, EQ and WoW both got dropped by me due to the grind, but there were at least places to explore, puzzles to solve, things to learn... In other words, there were things to do.
City of Heroes had nothing else, excepting the opportunity to look at the (gorgeous) scenery and earn the next superpower. I kept playing after hearing tales of the game play, social interaction, and mission variety opening up after a certain point. I found none. My contacts and missions looked different, but acted exactly the same.
Had there been more social interactions that were relevant to game play, or game play designed to really let people feel in-character... Or any number of things, it could have been better. The entire time I played, I felt like I was playing an engine demo released before their content.
City of Heroes brought to the table the BEST game in years... that gave me no compelling reason to play.
Yes, actually, and quite successfully.
But you make an excellent point.
How this is more cost-effective--or more effective, period--than low-cost color PDAs with CF microdrives. Surely the higher resolution, larger screen, and more flexible OS would be better?
It's true that high-capacity microdrives are more expensive, but that's still a lot of photos at that resolution.
However it compares, it awfully neat, though, and a good example of how technology can be a real life-improvement above pure entertainment.
Actually, this causes TREMENDOUS problems for just the sort of people who don't want to use another program.
One of the most common tech support calls we get is from someone who can't receive their email, because some equally technically inept person decided to email them several megabytes worth of photos. Whether due to slow connection speed or their email or anti-virus software choking on a large file, it just doesn't work properly.
Many of these people stubbornly continue to use email for file transport, despite the problems it causes for them and/or others.
If everyone were on IMAP with decent IMAP clients and we could get rid of UUENCODE, no one would be complaining.
Unfortunately, that's not the case, so I cringe at the thought of a camera that could create even more problems for my customers.
Jurrassic Terrarium?
I'm curious as to what oh-so-reliable dating method they used.
DON'T DEAL WITH THESE PEOPLE... Good video cards come out of Canada (ATI), NOT Asia!
Hate to break it to you, but ATI doesn't manufacture their own cards any longer.
"but Topher Grace as Venom?"
Seriously, that's as lame as having a goofy nerd like Toby McGuire as Spider-... er, damn.
Spider-Man was a goofy nerd from the very start. Have you been paying attention?
It's much like ordering tea from a Nutri-Matic.
You get something that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a game.