HP calculators still being sold, but nobody is sure for how long. There was thread discussed at hp.misc.calculators (that can be read at http://www.hpcalc.org). One thing is certain: the division responsible for R&D new HP calculators, the ACO has been closed during the merge with Compaq (http://www.hpcalc.org/goodbyeaco.php). In five years from now, HP will be recognized as a brand of so-so printers, shitty computers, not as an inovative and ingenious company as once has been. But that's the life... and Carly won't be near the mess... But that's my opinion...
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The study isn't a junk... just a well-done misguidement.
The study says: IT industry thrives were there is no piracy, the numbers don't lie!
Numbers don't lie, but only talk what was asked...
So, the ratio is GDP/piracy... Do the study again but with "per capita revenue"/piracy and the benefits aren't apparent.
By the way, the graphics showing the employement in the IT field and the projection (with a lower by 10% piracy) is flawed.
I live in Brazil, the graphics shows a small growth in the 2000-2002 period. In fact we had a shrinking in the IT field in this period, largely due to dotcom crash AND a sinking economy due internal and foreign problems AND an investiment cut from telco companies.
The piracy slowed a bit since when people buy a new computer here usually you get at least the OS pre-installed (windows 90% of the times), sometimes a office suite (MS again) and cheaper programs (games, utilities...) in supermarket shelves
Here you can go to jail up to 2 years (as many other countries) if a pirate software is found in your computer and the fine is up 3000 (three thousand!) times the value of the pirate(s) software.
The title "engenheiro" (engineer, in Portuguese) can only be used in Brazil by someone who cas taken an engineering course (mechanical, electrical, civil...) AND has to be an intern a minimum number of hours AND has to present a project to be judged and qualified by a group of professionals (can be their teachers, invited engineers..) and I think it's right, as the Texas state wants to do.
If companies think that without an engineer title in front of their staff visit cards can be a desservice to them, well... hire engineers or start thinking in another title.
I'm not being disdainful of programmers but using a title that implies a very high degree of responsability, when you don't have that responsabily isn't right. As an engineer if you make some mistake in a project your title can be revoked and you'll NEVER could work as an engineer again, much less use the title. That won't happen with a programmer.
Is this way with doctors, lawyers and other professionals. Giving a title to someone that hadn't taken the necessary steps to be eligible to it isn't even honest.
IMO oppinion the position of Florida who makes it illegal to expand the term "MCSE" if you aren't an engineer is even bland, a company like MS, Novell, Cisco, couldn't give a title engineer in their certifications. That person isn't one, period! Want a title that means "Someone With Very Large Knowledge" about something? Invent one... I think that AMA wouldn't applaud a company that starte using the title MD in their certifications if that person isn't a medical doctor
That kind of con that you told is very common in Brazil... lots of variants... sometimes about a lootery ticket that the person (the con artist) don't know how to exchange, sometimes somebody with a large check willing to exchange for a very smaller value so can go home (usually a small country town) earlier... and even being a very known anecdote everyday somebody falls into that con.
I don't think so... I think that US will try to force simmilar legislation on other countries (by means of commercial treaties, intelectual properties agreements, etc).
Since the US is such a commercial and industrial giant most countries will change laws to not loose commercial oportunities and we'll get at, some point in the future, a estagnation in inovation (or at least, innovation that doesn't pay royalties to some IP-only company).
Brazil has some of it's plants patented by foreign companies, that used breachs in their country of origin to patent these plants as medicines as if they had discovered it's medicinal properties... someday I'll discover that some IP fscked company has patented guava-tree leafs as a medicine for stomachache and that is an inovative use, but that is as fact known in Brazil since the days of my grand-grand mother (and before that, probably) and nobody patented it (how do you patent common-sense or folklore?).
This is dishonest from a ethical point of view? Yes, but companies aren't known for being ethical, they exist to profit.
IP laws are popping from everywhere. I think that some day you'll have to pay a tax for saying "Mickey".
I pity the guys living in US, but I pity them 'cause I see that as what will come to the rest of the world. They are only suffering first, we're the next in line...
The DLC 40 was roughly on par with a 486 DX33, but I played timeless and ambience in 386 33 at work and they were ok.
what kind of video card that old computer have? maybe you are stuck with an old oak67... a cirrus 1M will do... and what sound card? you've got a old sb with straps?
oh, those were the days... no PnP, we had to configure cards by strapping them... and we were so poor that I had to cut wire and mold plastic to make my straps:-))
By "new package" Mandrake meant to say "the things that we'll put in one install disk, to please everybody", not a new packager.
RPM is good enough... ok, it may be perfected, as everything else in the world, but start to reinventing the wheel is useless!
If that "votation" for the first disk goes ok, the user that wants a development machine, or the user that wants a simple (web,mail,sql...) server, or the coder guy, all will be satisfied just downloading the first disk.
The other disks will take the "superfluous" stuff.
I don't think that you can run it under windows. Doesn't all Tran demos use pmode.exe? You said that your old 486 can't run it (too slow) are you sure? I used to watch it with a Cyrix 486 DLC 40 MHz and I remember that was ok...
I think that the PC demos were chosen due to the demodvd authors being from the pc scene and due to (possibly) more people are familiar with the pc demos.
I really don't know how popular the amiga demos were, since amiga is a plataform almost inexistent here in Brazil, but I watched some avi's from amiga demos and they really kick ass... mainly when you look at the release date and compares with a pc demo from the same year. The effects made with the amiga could only be done wih a pc years after, after the evolution of cpus and killer 3d cards.
but I'm waiting for a volume 2 with the amiga demos.
What can you expect from a company that is waiting for a MS schedule to launch a product? Ok... MS can be a company run by Borgs and the like but everybody knows that MS doens't stand to a release date. If you wait for them... well, you'll miss the bus:-)
I dont think that users expect a hollywood-like production for a game. We expect a cool, addictive and fun game. That super-production started years ago when people started to realize that (video)games had a huge market, involving billions of dollars and would eventually become a bigger industrie than movies. Then, like hollywood, we started to see prima-donnas (a la geroge romero), expensive budgets and teams and games that sucked a lot. I think that games like quake, half-life, unreal, civilization and others are very good games per-se, and are improved with flashy graphics and thunderous music but some companies start with a press release and every month a pic from the glass walled studio, a box game designed by h.r. giger and not a freaking demo from the game, that will be released next summer, or next hollyday or next-you-choose. One or two years after the first promised release date you read that company x went bankrupt or that the team developing game x was dismissed due to never ending costs of production. In 1993 we started to see the 3d fps dominate the market, but one of the best games was UFO (or Xcom-Ufo defense) from microprose, a turn-based strategy game with so-so graphics but a incredibly addicting (and good) gameplay. I almost failed at colleges exams because I couldn't stop playing:-)
Every invention seems to be "discovered" by many unrelated people at same time. Here in Brazil and France we recognize as the airplane inventor Alberto Santos Dumont. He flew a machine named 14-Bis at Paris on the 23rd/oct/1906 in front of the public (AFAIK the Wright brothers flew in front a selected audience, not a public demonstration).
A 14-bis picture can be seen here http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Wright_Bro s/1906/WR9G1.htm it looks today as it was made "backwards" as the sustentation wings are in back part of the plane.
The 14-bis also is recognized as the first motorized airplane, it used a 50hp motor to fly, the flying machine from the Wright brothers was more like a glider.
of course tobacco and alcohol are evil, not p0rN
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I don't smoke and don't drink alcohol 'cause they are the way of devil inside you...
p0rN on the other way is good, since I run a huge p0rN site, collect p0rN movies and use my holy stick to beat the evil from bad girls:-)
When Geordi, Data and Wesley start talking about how to solve problems people say they talk gibberish, like a mechanics trying to deceipt a customer... it's only high physics that we don't understand today, but in the future will make sense, so they can save the Enterprise again!
I know that because I read (in The Sun, I think) that the Star Trek episodes come from the future in capsule times to Gene Roddenberry (he is a refugee from future). In fact, Star Trek is a soap opera from the future. Gene's relatives send the episodes to him so he doesn't feel so far away from home...
That's enough, if I talk more Ashtar Sheran will send that Xemnu boy to get me... and I have to make a call to these Bogdanov brothers, I have some theories that I wish to share with them.
US$249 for a skate board with a handle bar?
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Skateboarding AIBO
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Too expensive... Seems that everything Aibo-related is very expensive... Using some hacked software for Aibo I think that one can make a skateboard, surfboard o paraglider for Aibo, the stunt bot:-)
Whatever... outlook was an example... Wine isn't an emulator, but creates an intermediate layer (an emulation layer?:-) so a Win app can run under Linux... Due to the misterious ways that software use to assign itself to run applications (or extensions, if you prefer) Wine was handling attachments (maybe one with a.pif,.bat,.exe or a.scr?)... It's a merit to Wine, but IMHO not big deal, even expected...
The same will happen with other types of infected executables... in various degrees, since I think that Wine wouldn't accept a FORMAT C: like command... at least, I hope so...:-)
Now, if Wine could be polited to handle the old DOS demos (if you never heard about demos look at http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/ ) THAT would be a great day for mankind:-)
Wine is supposed to run Windows apps... a virus is a Windows app as any other... If the Wine user is running Outlook what else he can wait for? The vulnerabilities still there...
I would prefer the Roomba vacuum cleaner... for only US$200 you get a fancy chassis, a pair of wheels, sensores (IR and bumpers), reachargeable battery and a charger... with a pic or 8051 controller board you can write a program to deactivate mine fields, lawn mower, cat persecution... or maybe just something with a keyboard so you can program roomba to go 3 feets forward and back:-)
There are two alternatives in this case: the kernel hackers buy a BK license or they stop using it.... hmmm three... someone can write a simmilar app... it's not the end of the world... RMS has a valid point, but the tone was almost religious... like a preacher telling you that you'll go to hell because you read some mithical literature...
That is it! Lets stop bank robbers! From now, every truck, SUV and cars with enough space to put a bank money-bag is out-lawed!
Oh... car manufacturers are a big industry too? Well... lets just try to stop and arrest the bank robbers... but these teenagers W@r3zK1dd13s chipping they consoles will pay! We'll lock them away with the murderes for life, no less!
But there is a picture of the candidate when you vote! You type the number,a picture appears and you press the CONFIRM button... the ballot plays a sound to confirm too (for blind people)...
look for a simulation here: http://eleicoes.uol.com.br/urna.jhtm
if doesn't open a simulation, click at the phrase with bold letters
Nope... it's required, but you can justify (since you can only vote in the city that you registered to vote) or you can pay a fine (around US$1,00, but the electoral judge can, basing his judgement on the voters income, charge up to US10). There are other penalities, if didn't justified neither paid the fine: you can't participate in public concourses (for employment with the government)... but you can't go to jail... by the way, during a 72h period (48h before and the election day) you can only be arrested if you are caught red-handed... I think it's done to avoid that people in small towns be sent to jail to change their mind about voting for a given candidate or to get sure that one candidate don't get votes... from the criminal point of view, I think it's a disaster, but.... é a vida:-)
"If I am a potential customer of BigSoftwareCo and I have two equal options of a) paying BigSoftwareCo $1000 for their products or b) downloading it for free from your warez site, which am I going to do? Maybe a), maybe b). "
Joe Bloe, 14 yrs old, hear that a software called 3D Mage Whiz is used to do SFX for Hollywood and costs US10.000. Joe Bloe downloaded it, installed, played and forgot it in the HD depths...
Joe Bloe is a "potential customer"? The hordes of kids that downloaded a copy of 3d studio, maybe one with a KewL L0g0 from the KR@ck L337 Te@m, in the early 90s were "potential customers"? I don't think so... but for BSA, always trying to blur the line of theft and copyright violation, they were...
Theft is theft, copyright violation is copyright violation...
Don't stand so close to protect the industry... they are only trying to get a way to rob your rights as a customer... we're going to a digital world, soon you'll be surprised how little you can do with things that you *think* that you own... give enough "rights" to the industry and they will say how many times a year you can listen to your cd or if you are allowed to go to the bathroom during the comercials, since "users who skip commercials are thieves", as one of these types said...
Your case is very specific. And if I were an astronomer I sure wouldn't do a lasik... About the improving of the surgery, I agree with you... ten years ago myopia corrections were made with diamond tipped scalpels and a very firm-handed surgeon... But I think that the advances you go in the direction f minimizing the corneal depth burned by the laser... always less than the past...
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HP calculators still being sold, but nobody is sure for how long. There was thread discussed at hp.misc.calculators (that can be read at http://www.hpcalc.org). One thing is certain: the division responsible for R&D new HP calculators, the ACO has been closed during the merge with Compaq (http://www.hpcalc.org/goodbyeaco.php). In five years from now, HP will be recognized as a brand of so-so printers, shitty computers, not as an inovative and ingenious company as once has been. But that's the life... and Carly won't be near the mess... But that's my opinion...
The study isn't a junk... just a well-done misguidement.
The study says: IT industry thrives were there is no piracy, the numbers don't lie!
Numbers don't lie, but only talk what was asked...
So, the ratio is GDP/piracy... Do the study again but with "per capita revenue"/piracy and the benefits aren't apparent.
By the way, the graphics showing the employement in the IT field and the projection (with a lower by 10% piracy) is flawed.
I live in Brazil, the graphics shows a small growth in the 2000-2002 period. In fact we had a shrinking in the IT field in this period, largely due to dotcom crash AND a sinking economy due internal and foreign problems AND an investiment cut from telco companies.
The piracy slowed a bit since when people buy a new computer here usually you get at least the OS pre-installed (windows 90% of the times), sometimes a office suite (MS again) and cheaper programs (games, utilities...) in supermarket shelves
Here you can go to jail up to 2 years (as many other countries) if a pirate software is found in your computer and the fine is up 3000 (three thousand!) times the value of the pirate(s) software.
The title "engenheiro" (engineer, in Portuguese) can only be used in Brazil by someone who cas taken an engineering course (mechanical, electrical, civil...) AND has to be an intern a minimum number of hours AND has to present a project to be judged and qualified by a group of professionals (can be their teachers, invited engineers..) and I think it's right, as the Texas state wants to do.
If companies think that without an engineer title in front of their staff visit cards can be a desservice to them, well... hire engineers or start thinking in another title.
I'm not being disdainful of programmers but using a title that implies a very high degree of responsability, when you don't have that responsabily isn't right. As an engineer if you make some mistake in a project your title can be revoked and you'll NEVER could work as an engineer again, much less use the title. That won't happen with a programmer.
Is this way with doctors, lawyers and other professionals. Giving a title to someone that hadn't taken the necessary steps to be eligible to it isn't even honest.
IMO oppinion the position of Florida who makes it illegal to expand the term "MCSE" if you aren't an engineer is even bland, a company like MS, Novell, Cisco, couldn't give a title engineer in their certifications. That person isn't one, period! Want a title that means "Someone With Very Large Knowledge" about something? Invent one... I think that AMA wouldn't applaud a company that starte using the title MD in their certifications if that person isn't a medical doctor
That kind of con that you told is very common in Brazil... lots of variants... sometimes about a lootery ticket that the person (the con artist) don't know how to exchange, sometimes somebody with a large check willing to exchange for a very smaller value so can go home (usually a small country town) earlier... and even being a very known anecdote everyday somebody falls into that con.
I don't think so... I think that US will try to force simmilar legislation on other countries (by means of commercial treaties, intelectual properties agreements, etc).
Since the US is such a commercial and industrial giant most countries will change laws to not loose commercial oportunities and we'll get at, some point in the future, a estagnation in inovation (or at least, innovation that doesn't pay royalties to some IP-only company).
Brazil has some of it's plants patented by foreign companies, that used breachs in their country of origin to patent these plants as medicines as if they had discovered it's medicinal properties... someday I'll discover that some IP fscked company has patented guava-tree leafs as a medicine for stomachache and that is an inovative use, but that is as fact known in Brazil since the days of my grand-grand mother (and before that, probably) and nobody patented it (how do you patent common-sense or folklore?).
This is dishonest from a ethical point of view? Yes, but companies aren't known for being ethical, they exist to profit.
IP laws are popping from everywhere. I think that some day you'll have to pay a tax for saying "Mickey".
I pity the guys living in US, but I pity them 'cause I see that as what will come to the rest of the world. They are only suffering first, we're the next in line...
in the early 80`s Atari had plans for a "exercise-bike". Look at a picture:
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http://www.atarihq.com/othersec/puffer/puff521.
that was fora 5200 videogame, but Atari intended to make models from the VCS to the 400 and 800 computers.
More info at http://www.atarihq.com/othersec/puffer/
The DLC 40 was roughly on par with a 486 DX33, but I played timeless and ambience in 386 33 at work and they were ok.
:-))
what kind of video card that old computer have? maybe you are stuck with an old oak67... a cirrus 1M will do... and what sound card? you've got a old sb with straps?
oh, those were the days... no PnP, we had to configure cards by strapping them... and we were so poor that I had to cut wire and mold plastic to make my straps
It's not misleading!
By "new package" Mandrake meant to say "the things that we'll put in one install disk, to please everybody", not a new packager.
RPM is good enough... ok, it may be perfected, as everything else in the world, but start to reinventing the wheel is useless!
If that "votation" for the first disk goes ok, the user that wants a development machine, or the user that wants a simple (web,mail,sql...) server, or the coder guy, all will be satisfied just downloading the first disk.
The other disks will take the "superfluous" stuff.
I don't think that you can run it under windows. Doesn't all Tran demos use pmode.exe? You said that your old 486 can't run it (too slow) are you sure? I used to watch it with a Cyrix 486 DLC 40 MHz and I remember that was ok...
I think that the PC demos were chosen due to the demodvd authors being from the pc scene and due to (possibly) more people are familiar with the pc demos.
I really don't know how popular the amiga demos were, since amiga is a plataform almost inexistent here in Brazil, but I watched some avi's from amiga demos and they really kick ass... mainly when you look at the release date and compares with a pc demo from the same year. The effects made with the amiga could only be done wih a pc years after, after the evolution of cpus and killer 3d cards.
but I'm waiting for a volume 2 with the amiga demos.
What can you expect from a company that is waiting for a MS schedule to launch a product? Ok... MS can be a company run by Borgs and the like but everybody knows that MS doens't stand to a release date. If you wait for them... well, you'll miss the bus :-)
I dont think that users expect a hollywood-like production for a game. We expect a cool, addictive and fun game. That super-production started years ago when people started to realize that (video)games had a huge market, involving billions of dollars and would eventually become a bigger industrie than movies. Then, like hollywood, we started to see prima-donnas (a la geroge romero), expensive budgets and teams and games that sucked a lot. I think that games like quake, half-life, unreal, civilization and others are very good games per-se, and are improved with flashy graphics and thunderous music but some companies start with a press release and every month a pic from the glass walled studio, a box game designed by h.r. giger and not a freaking demo from the game, that will be released next summer, or next hollyday or next-you-choose. One or two years after the first promised release date you read that company x went bankrupt or that the team developing game x was dismissed due to never ending costs of production. :-)
In 1993 we started to see the 3d fps dominate the market, but one of the best games was UFO (or Xcom-Ufo defense) from microprose, a turn-based strategy game with so-so graphics but a incredibly addicting (and good) gameplay. I almost failed at colleges exams because I couldn't stop playing
Every invention seems to be "discovered" by many unrelated people at same time. Here in Brazil and France we recognize as the airplane inventor Alberto Santos Dumont. He flew a machine named 14-Bis at Paris on the 23rd/oct/1906 in front of the public (AFAIK the Wright brothers flew in front a selected audience, not a public demonstration).
o s/1906/WR9G1.htm
A 14-bis picture can be seen here http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Wright_Br
it looks today as it was made "backwards" as the sustentation wings are in back part of the plane.
The 14-bis also is recognized as the first motorized airplane, it used a 50hp motor to fly, the flying machine from the Wright brothers was more like a glider.
I don't smoke and don't drink alcohol 'cause they are the way of devil inside you...
:-)
p0rN on the other way is good, since I run a huge p0rN site, collect p0rN movies and use my holy stick to beat the evil from bad girls
When Geordi, Data and Wesley start talking about how to solve problems people say they talk gibberish, like a mechanics trying to deceipt a customer... it's only high physics that we don't understand today, but in the future will make sense, so they can save the Enterprise again!
I know that because I read (in The Sun, I think) that the Star Trek episodes come from the future in capsule times to Gene Roddenberry (he is a refugee from future). In fact, Star Trek is a soap opera from the future. Gene's relatives send the episodes to him so he doesn't feel so far away from home...
That's enough, if I talk more Ashtar Sheran will send that Xemnu boy to get me... and I have to make a call to these Bogdanov brothers, I have some theories that I wish to share with them.
Too expensive... Seems that everything Aibo-related is very expensive... Using some hacked software for Aibo I think that one can make a skateboard, surfboard o paraglider for Aibo, the stunt bot :-)
Whatever... outlook was an example... Wine isn't an emulator, but creates an intermediate layer (an emulation layer? :-) so a Win app can run under Linux... Due to the misterious ways that software use to assign itself to run applications (or extensions, if you prefer) Wine was handling attachments (maybe one with a .pif, .bat, .exe or a .scr?)... It's a merit to Wine, but IMHO not big deal, even expected...
:-)
:-)
The same will happen with other types of infected executables... in various degrees, since I think that Wine wouldn't accept a FORMAT C: like command... at least, I hope so...
Now, if Wine could be polited to handle the old DOS demos (if you never heard about demos look at http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/ ) THAT would be a great day for mankind
Wine is supposed to run Windows apps... a virus is a Windows app as any other... If the Wine user is running Outlook what else he can wait for? The vulnerabilities still there...
I would prefer the Roomba vacuum cleaner... for only US$200 you get a fancy chassis, a pair of wheels, sensores (IR and bumpers), reachargeable battery and a charger... with a pic or 8051 controller board you can write a program to deactivate mine fields, lawn mower, cat persecution... or maybe just something with a keyboard so you can program roomba to go 3 feets forward and back :-)
There are two alternatives in this case: the kernel hackers buy a BK license or they stop using it.... hmmm three... someone can write a simmilar app... it's not the end of the world... RMS has a valid point, but the tone was almost religious... like a preacher telling you that you'll go to hell because you read some mithical literature...
That is it! Lets stop bank robbers! From now, every truck, SUV and cars with enough space to put a bank money-bag is out-lawed!
Oh... car manufacturers are a big industry too? Well... lets just try to stop and arrest the bank robbers... but these teenagers W@r3zK1dd13s chipping they consoles will pay! We'll lock them away with the murderes for life, no less!
But there is a picture of the candidate when you vote! You type the number,a picture appears and you press the CONFIRM button... the ballot plays a sound to confirm too (for blind people)...
look for a simulation here: http://eleicoes.uol.com.br/urna.jhtm
if doesn't open a simulation, click at the phrase with bold letters
Nope... it's required, but you can justify (since you can only vote in the city that you registered to vote) or you can pay a fine (around US$1,00, but the electoral judge can, basing his judgement on the voters income, charge up to US10). There are other penalities, if didn't justified neither paid the fine: you can't participate in public concourses (for employment with the government)... but you can't go to jail... by the way, during a 72h period (48h before and the election day) you can only be arrested if you are caught red-handed... I think it's done to avoid that people in small towns be sent to jail to change their mind about voting for a given candidate or to get sure that one candidate don't get votes... from the criminal point of view, I think it's a disaster, but.... é a vida :-)
"If I am a potential customer of BigSoftwareCo and I have two equal options of a) paying BigSoftwareCo $1000 for their products or b) downloading it for free from your warez site, which am I going to do? Maybe a), maybe b). "
Joe Bloe, 14 yrs old, hear that a software called 3D Mage Whiz is used to do SFX for Hollywood and costs US10.000. Joe Bloe downloaded it, installed, played and forgot it in the HD depths...
Joe Bloe is a "potential customer"? The hordes of kids that downloaded a copy of 3d studio, maybe one with a KewL L0g0 from the KR@ck L337 Te@m, in the early 90s were "potential customers"? I don't think so... but for BSA, always trying to blur the line of theft and copyright violation, they were...
Theft is theft, copyright violation is copyright violation...
Don't stand so close to protect the industry... they are only trying to get a way to rob your rights as a customer... we're going to a digital world, soon you'll be surprised how little you can do with things that you *think* that you own... give enough "rights" to the industry and they will say how many times a year you can listen to your cd or if you are allowed to go to the bathroom during the comercials, since "users who skip commercials are thieves", as one of these types said...
Your case is very specific. And if I were an astronomer I sure wouldn't do a lasik... About the improving of the surgery, I agree with you... ten years ago myopia corrections were made with diamond tipped scalpels and a very firm-handed surgeon... But I think that the advances you go in the direction f minimizing the corneal depth burned by the laser... always less than the past...