Your eye doctor will probably tell you that the average age at which most people require glasses is 45.
Good point. A friend of mine experienced the same thing and he was younger, but then again, there may have been other factors. I wonder, though, if there is any correlation between the conversion to LCDs and eyesight.
It's time to get active. Get in your hummer and drive directly to your representative stopping only for gas and let him know that those damn hippies are squeezing the poor people by pushing for alternate energy sources. Think of the cost and the waste of time.
Sheesh, let's give those oil companies a break. They've had to deal with alot lately. The government just yanked their subsidies right out from underneath them. Now they have to pay more taxes just because they made a few billion in pure profits. Cmon, folks, there are alot of countries who have bigger budgets than the oil company profit margins. 40 billion just doesn't get you to first base anymore.
And don't get me started on those senior citizens who have to choose between eating or heating their home. It's a well known fact that we don't need as much food when we're older.
And those pesky endangered species. I say, if they can't take the heat, then they shouldn't be on the planet in the first place. A risk to our food supply, you say? Ha! Beer's safe, isn't it?
I've heard that its better to use lower wave lengths and lower intensity for your background color and higher wave lengths or mixtures for the forground color. The greater the contrast between the two colors the better.
Don't know if this really works, but using colors like blue and purple seem to strain my eye whereas using yellow for the background and black for the foreground is easier on the eyes.
Finally, some eye strain comes from the fact that we tend to blink less when staring at the screen. It helps to consciously blink to keep the eyes watered.
Disclaimer: I'm not an eye doctor though I play one on TV.
I worked from '81 to about 2001 using CRTs and my eye sight remained essentially constant. Then, I started doing all of my work on a CRT and my eye sight in one eye deteriorated significantly (from 1.25 to 1.75 dioptrine).
I don't know if this was just coincidence since I was approaching fifty, but a friend of mine reported a similar experience who is significantly younger.
Since then, things have remained more or less stable. Your mileage may vary.
IBM was the monopoly, but they were chopped down by Compaq. Compaq was the monopoly, and they were chopped down by Microsoft. Microsoft was the monopoly, and they were chopped down by Google.
When did Compaq chop down IBM? And when was Compaq a monopoly? Microsoft still is a monopoly as is Google for all intents and purposes. But they are monopolies in different markets.
For example, the two sides have agreed that information that reveals race, religion, political opinion, health or âoesexual lifeâ may not be used by a government âoeunless domestic law provides appropriate safeguards.â
So, they want data about your race, religion, political opinion, health and sex life. They just have to agree to provide safeguards about its user. Hmmm. Why do they want that information? I thought this was about terrorism.
Driving and calling (even hands free), texting, or doing anything else (tuning the radio, setting up your nav system) for that matter is just dangerous.
I suppose you're going to add reading signs, passing, looking in your rear view mirror and checking your speedometer to that list?
Let's get real, driving requires being aware and multi-tasking. Perhaps you have a problem with that, but I don't.
I'll agree that texting is probably one of the things that we shouldn't be doing, but tuning the radio or talking hands-free is something that I am completely capable of doing without sacrificing concentration on the road.
I remember that the government was not fully Y2K compliant and overnight they became 100% compliant. The reason: any system which was not compliant was declared secret, thereby leaving the only reported systems those that were Y2K compliant.
Lately I've been having problems with Fonts between platforms, even with Sun's JRE. I think some fonts are not available on all platforms. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a common fixed-sized font between the three (Open Solaris, Linux and Windows). "Monospaced" was yielding different results between the three.
As for not being able to read any text at all. Wow, that is a definite show-stopper.
I think that if you looked at the software 10 years ago, you'd find that it did less, was less stable, and was less secure. I know that I'm doing a lot more with my computer these days than I ever did 10 years ago and my programs crash less. Hell, my development environment alone is light-years ahead of where it used to be. You are talking about the Windows world. If you expand that to include Unix, VMS and so on, it might be true that it did less, but it was very stable.
Yes, nowadays everyone has the 2GB of RAM, due to Windows Vista, so it isn't a problem. Yeah, but if you're running vista you have about 1 MB left over from your 2GB when Vista's done.
IcedTea only had to implement the 4% of Java that wasn't GPLed.
Although 4% doesn't sound like much, it's actually just short of 8 billion lines. It sounds unbelievable that they could accomplish that so quickly, but Java's strength is in making it easy to write large amounts of code.
Huh? The whole project is 6.5 million lines. 4% comes out to 260,000 lines according to my calculator.
Had sun GPL'd java YEARS ago,.NET would be nowhere today. Too bad for them, at this point it is far far too late and.NET has essentially taken over the rein of next-generation development. What are you smoking? Java has a much higher penetration than.NET.
Many companies will give you a cheap short-time license for doing a pilot or something like that. I've never heard of MS doing that. Sun will let you try out their hardware. Alot of the software is open source to begin with.
Also consider that when something goes wrong with Solaris or Windows, you file a ticket and come out smelling like roses when it's speedily resolved. Well, that's assuming that it does get speedily resolved. Now-a-days, though, if you recommended Windows, some owners or managers are going make you justify the extra cost and the extra down-time.
In my industry, I get judged on something NOT going wrong and I can achieve that better with Linux or Solaris. Solaris with Sun hardware is probably the best solution, but it's expensive.
Actually, he's right. Low latency doesn't necessarily mean real-time. Real-time (or "Hard" Real-time) means knowing exactly how many clock-cycles a particular task will take so that it can be coordinated with another real-time device.
But, for some applications, real-time means that a transaction will happen "now" and not several seconds later.
Thanks for the reference. It looks beautiful. I may plan a visit. I'd actually consider moving to a place like that, but I'm too dependent on my high-speed (30MB) internet connection;-)
I think the reference was to the Nuremberg trials, not POW camps.
But, using the "we are at war" excuse gets very dangerous allowing the government and the military to lock anyone up indefinitely without Habeas Corpus just be saying "he's a terrorist".
Let's not forget, we let several hundred of those interned at Gitmo go after holding them for several years. Either they were never a threat or we let terrorists go free. Which one was it?
Are we "At War" just because we have enemies? Then every nation is always "at war"... Very scary direction we're heading in.
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But I have to wonder, is it really all that different to paper voting?
Yes. It is significantly different than E-Voting in at least one important way: paper votes are counted in the open and are re-countable.
Your eye doctor will probably tell you that the average age at which most people require glasses is 45.
Good point. A friend of mine experienced the same thing and he was younger, but then again, there may have been other factors. I wonder, though, if there is any correlation between the conversion to LCDs and eyesight.
It's time to get active. Get in your hummer and drive directly to your representative stopping only for gas and let him know that those damn hippies are squeezing the poor people by pushing for alternate energy sources. Think of the cost and the waste of time.
Sheesh, let's give those oil companies a break. They've had to deal with alot lately. The government just yanked their subsidies right out from underneath them. Now they have to pay more taxes just because they made a few billion in pure profits. Cmon, folks, there are alot of countries who have bigger budgets than the oil company profit margins. 40 billion just doesn't get you to first base anymore.
And don't get me started on those senior citizens who have to choose between eating or heating their home. It's a well known fact that we don't need as much food when we're older.
And those pesky endangered species. I say, if they can't take the heat, then they shouldn't be on the planet in the first place. A risk to our food supply, you say? Ha! Beer's safe, isn't it?
I've heard that its better to use lower wave lengths and lower intensity for your background color and higher wave lengths or mixtures for the forground color. The greater the contrast between the two colors the better.
Don't know if this really works, but using colors like blue and purple seem to strain my eye whereas using yellow for the background and black for the foreground is easier on the eyes.
Finally, some eye strain comes from the fact that we tend to blink less when staring at the screen. It helps to consciously blink to keep the eyes watered.
Disclaimer: I'm not an eye doctor though I play one on TV.
I worked from '81 to about 2001 using CRTs and my eye sight remained essentially constant. Then, I started doing all of my work on a CRT and my eye sight in one eye deteriorated significantly (from 1.25 to 1.75 dioptrine).
I don't know if this was just coincidence since I was approaching fifty, but a friend of mine reported a similar experience who is significantly younger.
Since then, things have remained more or less stable. Your mileage may vary.
IBM was the monopoly, but they were chopped down by Compaq. Compaq was the monopoly, and they were chopped down by Microsoft. Microsoft was the monopoly, and they were chopped down by Google.
When did Compaq chop down IBM? And when was Compaq a monopoly? Microsoft still is a monopoly as is Google for all intents and purposes. But they are monopolies in different markets.
Yes, but in order to produce all that corn, a huge amount of rain forest is being decimated.
That actually makes sense!
(Damn, I have got to find time to see that movie!)
What movie?
It's not in the best interest of the government to limit the ability of data centers to collect private data about American citizens.
There, I said it. ...
"Knock. Knock Neo ..."
...yet.
My thoughts exactly.
From the article:
For example, the two sides have agreed that information that reveals race, religion, political opinion, health or âoesexual lifeâ may not be used by a government âoeunless domestic law provides appropriate safeguards.â
So, they want data about your race, religion, political opinion, health and sex life. They just have to agree to provide safeguards about its user. Hmmm. Why do they want that information? I thought this was about terrorism.
Driving and calling (even hands free), texting, or doing anything else (tuning the radio, setting up your nav system) for that matter is just dangerous.
I suppose you're going to add reading signs, passing, looking in your rear view mirror and checking your speedometer to that list?
Let's get real, driving requires being aware and multi-tasking. Perhaps you have a problem with that, but I don't.
I'll agree that texting is probably one of the things that we shouldn't be doing, but tuning the radio or talking hands-free is something that I am completely capable of doing without sacrificing concentration on the road.
I remember that the government was not fully Y2K compliant and overnight they became 100% compliant. The reason: any system which was not compliant was declared secret, thereby leaving the only reported systems those that were Y2K compliant.
Lately I've been having problems with Fonts between platforms, even with Sun's JRE. I think some fonts are not available on all platforms. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a common fixed-sized font between the three (Open Solaris, Linux and Windows). "Monospaced" was yielding different results between the three.
As for not being able to read any text at all. Wow, that is a definite show-stopper.
Although 4% doesn't sound like much, it's actually just short of 8 billion lines. It sounds unbelievable that they could accomplish that so quickly, but Java's strength is in making it easy to write large amounts of code.
Huh? The whole project is 6.5 million lines. 4% comes out to 260,000 lines according to my calculator.I just tested it on Ubuntu. The fonts are not as attractive as with the Sun JDK. And the resident memory usage was about twice that of the Sun JDK.
Not sure about the speed. But first indications are that I will be staying with Sun's JDK.
It just shows that MS never intended to support an open format.
... again.
We've been duped
In my industry, I get judged on something NOT going wrong and I can achieve that better with Linux or Solaris. Solaris with Sun hardware is probably the best solution, but it's expensive.
Actually, he's right. Low latency doesn't necessarily mean real-time. Real-time (or "Hard" Real-time) means knowing exactly how many clock-cycles a particular task will take so that it can be coordinated with another real-time device.
But, for some applications, real-time means that a transaction will happen "now" and not several seconds later.
Thanks for the reference. It looks beautiful. I may plan a visit. I'd actually consider moving to a place like that, but I'm too dependent on my high-speed (30MB) internet connection ;-)
(http://www.scotland-photo-library.co.uk/photonet/orkney/orkney.html)
I think the reference was to the Nuremberg trials, not POW camps.
But, using the "we are at war" excuse gets very dangerous allowing the government and the military to lock anyone up indefinitely without Habeas Corpus just be saying "he's a terrorist".
Let's not forget, we let several hundred of those interned at Gitmo go after holding them for several years. Either they were never a threat or we let terrorists go free. Which one was it?
Are we "At War" just because we have enemies? Then every nation is always "at war"... Very scary direction we're heading in.