I've gone trough lasik this year... my miopia wasn't high... 2.5 or so... I liked the results... there are halos around lights at night, but nothing like what they show at http://www.lasiktruth.com/... in fact, their site seems to spread lot o FUD and what they really want is gather people to do class actions...
What I perceived (and almost nobody talks) is a loss of contrast... I can see less in a dark room (dark==at night, with lights off... just the dim from the street)... the halos I really can't say much... with glasses you see halos around lights at night... and without them my vision blurred... so I don't have a parameter to say if the halos are worse or not... go to a specialist, then go to another... take your exams... people with high (+6) miopia are more subject to retinal problems after the lasik...
These people will complain when the messages "You are not authorized to listen that music in this computer/player/radio" etc... and start dumping brand new players/radios/computers in the trash and start to buying the cheap old-styled products made somewhere in the far east... where the industries are greed as any others, but seem to don't be stupid enough to let the marketing hype drive them...
Re:How do we distance ourselves from the thieves
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"The words download or p2p and the phrase fair use have no place in the same breath.
I am all for ripping CD's to put all my music on my computer, so I can shake up all my CD's, make my own playlists, and the like. This is fair use."
If I have some CD's that are the same as the ones of someone else... that other person put them on a P2P network... I don't have the expertise to encode CD's by myself (I do... it's a supposition:-)... I download these files correspondig to my CD's... why there is no fair use here? I just skipped the enconding part... Am I lazy? maybe... but someone had the work to encode the files and think it's ok to offer the enodes for the ones who are lazy, dumb, owners of slower machines...
Anyway... I don't care much... I hope that the media giants start to flood the market with DRM encoded devices so they can also blossom and thrive in the market, just like the Divx (the standard movie player, no the encoder Divx:)... oh... divx is dead? Nobody wanted to pay the rest of their lives to watch a movie that they "owned"? you got the point...
In Brazil (were I live) we have near 15% of illiterates in the population. They can vote (but they aren't obliged, as people older than 65yrs) We are using voting machines during 5 years or so... they are fast... the results of a presidential election are known about 6 hours after the election ends (don't forget that Brazil is almost the size of USA!) with 98% (or more) of the votes counted... and we have regions like Amazon, with very difficult access... the system is based in numbers... each candidate gets a number... when you type it in the machine appears a picture of the candidate... if it's really your candidate choice you confirm your vote, or else you can correct it... the system permits blank and null votes (it happens since voting is mandatory here, so some people null or blank they votes if they think that no candidate deserves his/hers vote)
So... no rocket science here... and already done... I remember that after the Bush election some represenatives of the company that make the voting machines here went to the USA to offer these machines...
By the way, before anybody ask... the votes are encrypted, the data is dumped in front of testimonies (from government and parties), the data line used are encripted too (they use VPN-like networks)... pretty secure...
Instead of using ball-bearings (for the disc plates) it uses a liquid-suspension system. It's more reliable, you'll have a higher durability, possibly it's less noisy and can run faster. Since it's a new technology (and cool) it'll cost higher too...
If these guys Klebold and the other were warezing they wouldn't had the time to make bombs and store weapons... they should be very busy being 3133t D00dz...
Re:Darn, now on the next Karoake night...
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What a bet... for a non native speaker Portuguese is hell to pronounce... you'll have to find someone to coach you to do this:-)
By the way... sing the anthem only until the first chorus... it's acceptable and very usual to sing only the first part since it's quite long... if this satifies us, Brazilians, that is ok to you pay your lost bet:-)
Re:Brasilians do not have last names?
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About the written things in the shirts, I didn't paid attention to them (I was yelling like a madman...), so I don't know what player's shirt you're talking about. But the were varius messages types... messages about winning the cup for the 5th time, messages to relatives, to the Brazilian public...
Re:Brasilians do not have last names?
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Vampeta is a nickname:-) It's a mix of "vampire" and "capeta" (devil). He got that nick when he was a child and his theeth were changing and fell...
It should be some kind of funny nickname that kids call themselves to bully each other and (at least in Brazil:-) ) if you don't like a nickname and express it... well, you've got a nickname:-)))
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That's easy to explain... here in Brazil people are called by their first name, calling somebody by it's last name is unusual (it happens mostly when there are two people with the same first name, so one is "elected" to being called for his last name...). So all these players are known here by their first name... it would be very confusing for the Brazillian public see in the player's shirts their last names... even for foreigners, since almost nobody knows Ronaldo's last name (I know... but I forgot:-)
One question: Metallica is sueing (or trying to) users that have been distributing their music. I OWN various Metallica records (LPs)... Cant I LEGALLY download the songs from these records? If I can, and I download it from another user, that also own original records, isnt it legal? Like a website that claims no responsability for piracy or copyrights infrigements, hasnt a person the same rights that a website? He/she owns that record, ripped and encoded it to MP3 and let it in his/hers computer to be shared to other people who owns the same records. If someone who hasnt the right to download it isnt that the only person who can be sued?
It seems that everybody is ranting about the homepage being hosted at AOL and having just comments and almost nothing of mathematics... so here we go, first a link to a page at USP (Univerty of Sao Paulo) where we have reference to his works (two):
Slashdot Mirror
I've gone trough lasik this year... my miopia wasn't high... 2.5 or so... I liked the results... there are halos around lights at night, but nothing like what they show at http://www.lasiktruth.com/ ... in fact, their site seems to spread lot o FUD and what they really want is gather people to do class actions...
What I perceived (and almost nobody talks) is a loss of contrast... I can see less in a dark room (dark==at night, with lights off... just the dim from the street)... the halos I really can't say much... with glasses you see halos around lights at night... and without them my vision blurred... so I don't have a parameter to say if the halos are worse or not... go to a specialist, then go to another... take your exams... people with high (+6) miopia are more subject to retinal problems after the lasik...
These people will complain when the messages "You are not authorized to listen that music in this computer/player/radio" etc... and start dumping brand new players/radios/computers in the trash and start to buying the cheap old-styled products made somewhere in the far east... where the industries are greed as any others, but seem to don't be stupid enough to let the marketing hype drive them...
"The words download or p2p and the phrase fair use have no place in the same breath.
:-) ... I download these files correspondig to my CD's... why there is no fair use here? I just skipped the enconding part... Am I lazy? maybe... but someone had the work to encode the files and think it's ok to offer the enodes for the ones who are lazy, dumb, owners of slower machines...
:)... oh... divx is dead? Nobody wanted to pay the rest of their lives to watch a movie that they "owned"? you got the point...
I am all for ripping CD's to put all my music on my computer, so I can shake up all my CD's, make my own playlists, and the like. This is fair use."
If I have some CD's that are the same as the ones of someone else... that other person put them on a P2P network... I don't have the expertise to encode CD's by myself (I do... it's a supposition
Anyway... I don't care much... I hope that the media giants start to flood the market with DRM encoded devices so they can also blossom and thrive in the market, just like the Divx (the standard movie player, no the encoder Divx
In Brazil (were I live) we have near 15% of illiterates in the population. They can vote (but they aren't obliged, as people older than 65yrs) We are using voting machines during 5 years or so... they are fast... the results of a presidential election are known about 6 hours after the election ends (don't forget that Brazil is almost the size of USA!) with 98% (or more) of the votes counted... and we have regions like Amazon, with very difficult access... the system is based in numbers... each candidate gets a number... when you type it in the machine appears a picture of the candidate... if it's really your candidate choice you confirm your vote, or else you can correct it... the system permits blank and null votes (it happens since voting is mandatory here, so some people null or blank they votes if they think that no candidate deserves his/hers vote)
So... no rocket science here... and already done... I remember that after the Bush election some represenatives of the company that make the voting machines here went to the USA to offer these machines...
By the way, before anybody ask... the votes are encrypted, the data is dumped in front of testimonies (from government and parties), the data line used are encripted too (they use VPN-like networks)... pretty secure...
Instead of using ball-bearings (for the disc plates) it uses a liquid-suspension system. It's more reliable, you'll have a higher durability, possibly it's less noisy and can run faster. Since it's a new technology (and cool) it'll cost higher too...
If these guys Klebold and the other were warezing they wouldn't had the time to make bombs and store weapons... they should be very busy being 3133t D00dz...
What a bet... for a non native speaker Portuguese is hell to pronounce... you'll have to find someone to coach you to do this :-)
:-)
By the way... sing the anthem only until the first chorus... it's acceptable and very usual to sing only the first part since it's quite long... if this satifies us, Brazilians, that is ok to you pay your lost bet
About the written things in the shirts, I didn't paid attention to them (I was yelling like a madman...), so I don't know what player's shirt you're talking about. But the were varius messages types... messages about winning the cup for the 5th time, messages to relatives, to the Brazilian public...
Vampeta is a nickname :-) It's a mix of "vampire" and "capeta" (devil). He got that nick when he was a child and his theeth were changing and fell...
:-) ) if you don't like a nickname and express it... well, you've got a nickname :-)))
It should be some kind of funny nickname that kids call themselves to bully each other and (at least in Brazil
That's easy to explain... here in Brazil people are called by their first name, calling somebody by it's last name is unusual (it happens mostly when there are two people with the same first name, so one is "elected" to being called for his last name...). :-)
So all these players are known here by their first name... it would be very confusing for the Brazillian public see in the player's shirts their last names... even for foreigners, since almost nobody knows Ronaldo's last name (I know... but I forgot
One question: Metallica is sueing (or trying to) users that have been distributing their music. I OWN various Metallica records (LPs)... Cant I LEGALLY download the songs from these records? If I can, and I download it from another user, that also own original records, isnt it legal? Like a website that claims no responsability for piracy or copyrights infrigements, hasnt a person the same rights that a website? He/she owns that record, ripped and encoded it to MP3 and let it in his/hers computer to be shared to other people who owns the same records. If someone who hasnt the right to download it isnt that the only person who can be sued?
I don't know... I prefer to think that if no photons (light) are being reflected, the body becames black, instead of invisible or transparent... :-)
It seems that everybody is ranting about the homepage being hosted at AOL and having just comments and almost nothing of mathematics...
o /0/1/0/all/1/1
:-)
:-)
so here we go, first a link to a page at USP (Univerty of Sao Paulo) where we have reference to his works (two):
http://xxx.if.usp.br/find/gr-qc/1/Fran+De+Aquin
then we have a link to the "Gravitation and Electromagnetism ; Correlation and Grand Unification" article:
http://xxx.if.usp.br/html/gr-qc/9910036
if there is someone who can understand all the mathematics, physics and equations and can offer comments, it would be appreciated...
the second article's title is "Gravitation, Electromagnetism and Superparticles in the Initial Universe" and the link:
http://xxx.if.usp.br/html/gr-qc/9905050
with more equations...
By the way... the AOL page is much more beatiful than the papers