Anyone who has ever worked for the fed would realize how much paper work is involved in everything. I have friends who have seen them put a bar code on a mouse and keyboard and then go back to make sure the mouse hadn't been stolen every year. It would of course be MUCH cheaper to buy a new mouse each year. Luckily they don't barcode mice anymore:) Anyway, when you see how much paperwork is involeved with trivial things it is no wonder you get an insane amount of paperwork when you want to do something important. Remember when NASA lost a probe becuase they didn't convert to metric right? On the bright side, with all that checking and rechecking I bet that probably won't happen the shuttle. Of course it is easy to see that they have gone way past overkill. BTW, is it me or was the way CNN put the story in a tiny window VERY annoying?
Humans spend the first several years of their lives learning how to interact with the world by moving things. Now we want to throw that away and make them interact by moving muscles or thinking of white elephants or whatever. Why? I guess on a space suit it might be nice because it is compact. But for most people I see this as only a niche product. The article seemed to say that it is cool that they are doing this, they didn't really go much into why.
So far the average joe hasn't been to concerned with copy right laws. He may have been a little bit concerned when he first learned of Napster, but mostly he has just ignored this entire thing. I guess he has been to busy having 2.3 kids and living to an average age of about 70. Eventually (I hope) someone will go to far with this and the average Joe will finally do something about it. If he can no longer tape things off of the HBO connection that he stole fair and square will he finally ask what happened to fair use (or as he knows it -- that law thingy that allowed him to use his beta max back in the 70's.) Only time will tell.
That site was great! Certainly worth $100 a month. Did you see the lesbian animation? Wow that was hot:) Only problem was the site was slashdoted so badly it took as long to load the 5k site as it would to load a modern porn site.
Umm, What did intel add to the 8086 that made ibm take it over the z80? I thought big blue went for the 8086 because they didn't want the new pc to compete with their existing line of computers. If I recall Bob Cringley's book Accidental Empires, he said Bill G insisted that IBM go with a 16-bit cpu. So big blue picked the lamest 16-bit cpu they could find. I guess they should have used the m68k like apple did; then we would all have ppc's in our linux boxes.
The computer, the radio and canned food as we know it today came from many inovations made on both sides of the Atlantic. I am not sure why you HATE Amercians so much. Maybe you should seak profesional help? Also, we are all not descended from Europeans. The Native americans are descended from asians who came acrossed the Berring Straight during the last ice age.
I wonder what the Hormel (?) company thinks of their main product now being ascociated with unwanted email. Have their teams of lawyers had anything to say about it yet? Personally I think canned meat that can congeal back together after it has been sliced can't be good. Anyone here actually eat real Spam? Guess Hormel can't do anything about the Monty python sketch since it is satire.
Actually, if you look at the waves traveling in a single mode fiber you will see that most of the wave is traveling outside the fiber in the surrounding cladding. kindof like in a high speed coaxile wire: most of the energy is travels as microwave radiation between the inner and outer cable.
Ok, I think someone already mentioned that if the real part of the index of refraction (n) is less than one than light goes faster than c. The speed of a single frequency is equal to c/n. This however is just the speed of a single frequency. If you send a pulse through you will find that dispersion will slow the pulse down meaning that the pulse will ALWAYS travel less than c (pulses are made of many frequencies -- the frequencies travel at different speeds this slows down the entire pulse.) So yes a single frequency can travel in material (many metals for example have indices less than one but the also have high imaginary parts of the index of refraction which means there is a high amount of absorption.) But you can never send information faster than c so this doesn't break any laws of physics. The article wasn't very technical so it is hard to say but I imagine that there is some non-linear effect that is causing the light to bend in a strange way. I'd have to read the original article to see what is going on.
If you were an alien trying to take over the world wouldn't you want to distribute your own OS to the people of the earth. An expensive OS which allows the aliens to collect lots of money in their quest. An OS with good enough marketing to get their system installed on most computers all over the world. However they would want the OS to crash a lot. This would make us waste our time dealing with registries or what ever when we should be watching out for the up coming take over. It would have to be closed source so we wouldn't be able to tell that the OS was written in some alien computer language. It seems clear that Bill Gates is really an alien and windows already is alien technology!
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When the I love you et al virus was going around
all the windows users sent us warnings about it
even though we didn't care since we weren't
using windows. Now that there is a virus for linux
let's send warnings to all of our friends who
run windows. It is a bit childish but it will give
us some revenge for having to wade through the
millions of warnings about different viruses:)
Yeah, that stuff they coated the hindenburg with was just ground aluminum. They did it so the ship would reflect the sun light and wouldn't heat up and expand during the day. Look at your beer can. It is hard to believe that ground and processed right it would make a very nice bomb. Rocket fuel is nasty stuff. The stuff they use in the space shuttle can't be put out once it is ignited ( what are you going to do -- cut off it's oxygen supply? The stuff was made to work in the cold vacuum of space.) The safety people get real concerned when you start playing with rocket fuel.
To just give everyone two computers? Computers aren't that expensive. Most people I know who do classified work on their computer have a jaz drive that they can boot off of. They pull the network cable, and the hard drive (which is usually on a removable mount) stick the jaz drive in and boot off of it. Seems to work reasonably well after all how often do you have to do classified and unclassified stuff at the same time? The only way you can be 100% sure this won't be cracked is to in fact get two computers.
I am not sure if he always wins because he is a better chef or not. I think the judges shouldn't be allowed to know whose food they are eating. Also it seems that while the judges are all Japanese sometimes the Iron chef's opponent isn't. Could it be that this gives the Iron chef an advantage? If nothing else he knows how to cook for the pallete of people from Japan. Anyway he wins so often that sometimes I wonder if it is fixed. The time limit is interesting though. You have to cook good food fast!
This is going to put miners out of work. Hopefully it will also decrease the cost of mined goods and increase the economy such that those people can get better jobs somewhere else. I think the interesting thing that may happen is that entire towns may go under. There are a lot of mining towns in west virginia and else where that may soon be ghost towns!
You probably can't put it on a fighter jet cause it is to big. You need a plane as big as the 747 just to carry it all. The point will be to blow up in coming nuclear missiles. This thing will probably only work at high altitudes since non-linear optics would limit the range of a laser that powerful close to the ground. And no, you can't just put a mirror on the missiles. There is no way to make a perfect mirror. The mirror will still absorb a small amount of the power; this power will at least be enough to screw up your mirror so that the second blast will surely kill the missile. I believe this is some kind of chemical laser. I wonder how long you will have to wait for the next pulse? You will probably need the 747 to be escorted by fighter jets to stop the enemy (whoever that would be) from blowing it up.
You think that when you buy a car from GM Ford or Chrysler you are buying an american car? Where have you been? Ignoring for a second the fact that chrysler is now owned by a German company -- do you think that american cars are only designed in america? Companies routinely trade and sell designs, and the car's parts are assembled all over the world. There is no such thing as an american or japanese or german car. Ok maybe there are 1 or two exception but I bet that at least 98% of the cars made are made of parts assembled in several countries.
Ok, they suck for playing games, but there are other uses for computers than playing games. Fact is the s3V's are cheap as dirt. And I don't mean that high quality top soil either. If you are using your computer for simulations or as some type of server than you don't need a zillion dollar card. S3V are fine for viewing basic plots or running netscape. You can use the money you save on the card to buy more ram or a faster cpu. Never had a problem with XSV 3.x when I was using them but I never tried under 4.0.
Every few months it seems some expert theorizes that sega is dead and that they will have to sell there soul (or work for MS -- same difference) to keep alive. The same thing with apple. How many times was apple supposed to die? Apple is alive (although not doing as well as others) because they can make a living by holding on to a small niche.
Hopefully the video game market has grown enough to allow someone to stay alive by only holding onto a small band of die hard fans.
Anyway, apple isn't doing as well as other companies but they aren't dead -- and will probably live on way into the future. Likewise Sega isn't dead either. Yes they are loosing money but the DC really hasn't been out long enough to really start rolling in the dough and the market for consoles in Japan isn't what it used to be.
Anyway, don't panic and don't count the DC out yet. It is games that sell consoles and I think we will all agree (except maybe for the diehard sony fanboys) that RIGHT NOW Sega has got the games. If you have the great software sometimes you don't need the most powerful hardware.
Also notice how the article never once mentioned coin-ops. How can you even talk about Sega without mentioning that they dominate the arcades? I think the fall of the arcade has as much lead to Sega's recent trouble as anything else. Also is everyone else looking forward to Shen Mu as much as I am:)
This is the 3rd or 4th time sega has said that they were going to concentrate on software. Each time people say stuff like "Oh my god Sonic on ps2!" or "How could they kill the DC?" Let's not panic here. Yes, there may be sega games on other consoles. In fact there already are a couple of sega games for the gameboy (no sonic games and I believe sega didn't publish them.) But they aren't killing the dreamcast -- I am sure they will still support it until ps3 is coming out. They are betting their entire future on the internet and the strength of their software. This is not a bad thing because their cutting edge games are the strongest part of Sega. The DC isn't going to die, and the next generation war is only just begining.
Why didn't sega include DVD? Maybe it is because in Japan ps2 software sales are down since people are buying the ps2 as a DVD player. Companies make up for the cost of the console by selling games. No games no money! Also Sony can't make AAA titles like Sega can -- if third party companies get pissed off by lack of sales and stop making games for the ps2 sony is totally screwed. Sega can almost support a console all by themselve (almost.) Could it also be because they wanted the price advantage -- CD players are cheaper. Plus I am not sure if the ps2 will really benefit from the larger storage space. Will developers use the extra space on a DVD to make a longer game or to add more FMVs? I guess time will tell. Why doesn't the DC have an mp3 decoder by default? They said they are going to release a VMU that will hold saved data AND play mp3s. Plus it probably won't be long before the web browser they have will be able to play downloaded mp3s (if it doesn't already.) As for why it won't play cd-roms full of mp3s? Well, I wasn't aware that the ps2 could play mp3s either. And if you have the pc and cd burner to make cd-roms full of mp3s than why the hell don't you play the mp3s on your pc?
BTW what do you have against Sega anyway. Do you think the ps2 would be out already if it weren't for the DC? I think not! Do you want sony to be a monopoly like microsoft? If you do than you are an idiot!
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I don't know how many times I have been moderated down for saying something good about the dreamcast and bad about the ps2. It is true/. is pro-linux, pro-transmeta, and very pro-sony. I guess maybe/. is ant-DC because A FEW DC games use windows CE. Or maybe it is the same old bs about past mistakes. All companies make mistakes; do you avoid sony because of betamax? Nintendo because of the virtual boy? Ford because of the Edisol?
Anyway, on paper the ps2 may be more powerful (well duh, it is newer) but the DC has TONS of great games. Not just remakes of older games with better graphics. Were are talking truely creative games here like Shenmue of seman. Sega is more of a software company than a hardware company after all. I may be moderated down for saying this (that is why I turned off the +1 bonus thingy) but right now the DC seems to be the better choice. Graphics that look prettty much the same (ok eventually ps2 will look better but that may take a while) the DC has more high quality games and is half the price (a tenth the price if you have to buy the ps2 on ebay.) I say get the DC now. Even if no more games come out, the games out now are more than worth the $150. Wait till the insanity and price drop, as well as more games to come out before getting the ps2.
Oh, and the Saturn wasn't that bad either. Anyone who actually had one and modded it to play import games would realize that. It was very powerful (twice the raw cpu power as the ps1 with the same speed cd-rom and amount of ram) but very hard to program for (sound like another console we know?) Neither was the sega cd. Any ps1 buff who claims that the storage size of the cd makes the ps1 better than the n64 should realize that the sega cd at least looked good on paper. It is just that add-ons don't work in the console industry (and sega is to small of a company to support the genny, sega cd, 32x, saturn, game gear AND coin ops at the same time) -- but it took the 32x and sega cd to figure out the problems with add-ons. Ok, the 32x was a bad idea -- I'll give you that. But the virtual boy was even worse of an idea.
Well, lost's of people still use their saturns. It can be hard to find a used one actually. If you like 2-d street fighter type fighting games there is no system that is better. I still use mine -- course I don't use my N64 as skeet either.
I say having an older console is like having an ugly girlfriend. It won't make your friends jealous, but if you can get over the looks than you can have almost as much fun:)
I heard that when they restore people's vision after they were blind their entire life, formerly blind people still can't "see" very well. The signals might be going to your brain again but it will take a while for your brain to figure out how to make sense of it all. This is better than nothing but if you really want to cure blindness you have to do it to very young people so they can learn how to use their eyes like everyone else.
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Anyone who has ever worked for the fed would realize how much paper work is involved in everything. I have friends who have seen them put a bar code on a mouse and keyboard and then go back to make sure the mouse hadn't been stolen every year. It would of course be MUCH cheaper to buy a new mouse each year. Luckily they don't barcode mice anymore :) Anyway, when you see how much paperwork is involeved with trivial things it is no wonder you get an insane amount of paperwork when you want to do something important. Remember when NASA lost a probe becuase they didn't convert to metric right? On the bright side, with all that checking and rechecking I bet that probably won't happen the shuttle. Of course it is easy to see that they have gone way past overkill. BTW, is it me or was the way CNN put the story in a tiny window VERY annoying?
Humans spend the first several years of their lives learning how to interact with the world by moving things. Now we want to throw that away and make them interact by moving muscles or thinking of white elephants or whatever. Why? I guess on a space suit it might be nice because it is compact. But for most people I see this as only a niche product. The article seemed to say that it is cool that they are doing this, they didn't really go much into why.
So far the average joe hasn't been to concerned with copy right laws. He may have been a little bit concerned when he first learned of Napster, but mostly he has just ignored this entire thing. I guess he has been to busy having 2.3 kids and living to an average age of about 70. Eventually (I hope) someone will go to far with this and the average Joe will finally do something about it. If he can no longer tape things off of the HBO connection that he stole fair and square will he finally ask what happened to fair use (or as he knows it -- that law thingy that allowed him to use his beta max back in the 70's.) Only time will tell.
That site was great! Certainly worth $100 a month. Did you see the lesbian animation? Wow that was hot :) Only problem was the site was slashdoted so badly it took as long to load the 5k site as it would to load a modern porn site.
Umm, What did intel add to the 8086 that made ibm take it over the z80? I thought big blue went for the 8086 because they didn't want the new pc to compete with their existing line of computers. If I recall Bob Cringley's book Accidental Empires, he said Bill G insisted that IBM go with a 16-bit cpu. So big blue picked the lamest 16-bit cpu they could find. I guess they should have used the m68k like apple did; then we would all have ppc's in our linux boxes.
The computer, the radio and canned food as we know it today came from many inovations made on both sides of the Atlantic. I am not sure why you HATE Amercians so much. Maybe you should seak profesional help? Also, we are all not descended from Europeans. The Native americans are descended from asians who came acrossed the Berring Straight during the last ice age.
I wonder what the Hormel (?) company thinks of their main product now being ascociated with unwanted email. Have their teams of lawyers had anything to say about it yet? Personally I think canned meat that can congeal back together after it has been sliced can't be good. Anyone here actually eat real Spam? Guess Hormel can't do anything about the Monty python sketch since it is satire.
Actually, if you look at the waves traveling in a single mode fiber you will see that most of the wave is traveling outside the fiber in the surrounding cladding. kindof like in a high speed coaxile wire: most of the energy is travels as microwave radiation between the inner and outer cable.
Ok, I think someone already mentioned that if the real part of the index of refraction (n) is less than one than light goes faster than c. The speed of a single frequency is equal to c/n. This however is just the speed of a single frequency. If you send a pulse through you will find that dispersion will slow the pulse down meaning that the pulse will ALWAYS travel less than c (pulses are made of many frequencies -- the frequencies travel at different speeds this slows down the entire pulse.) So yes a single frequency can travel in material (many metals for example have indices less than one but the also have high imaginary parts of the index of refraction which means there is a high amount of absorption.) But you can never send information faster than c so this doesn't break any laws of physics. The article wasn't very technical so it is hard to say but I imagine that there is some non-linear effect that is causing the light to bend in a strange way. I'd have to read the original article to see what is going on.
If you were an alien trying to take over the world wouldn't you want to distribute your own OS to the people of the earth. An expensive OS which allows the aliens to collect lots of money in their quest. An OS with good enough marketing to get their system installed on most computers all over the world. However they would want the OS to crash a lot. This would make us waste our time dealing with registries or what ever when we should be watching out for the up coming take over. It would have to be closed source so we wouldn't be able to tell that the OS was written in some alien computer language. It seems clear that Bill Gates is really an alien and windows already is alien technology!
When the I love you et al virus was going around :)
all the windows users sent us warnings about it
even though we didn't care since we weren't
using windows. Now that there is a virus for linux
let's send warnings to all of our friends who
run windows. It is a bit childish but it will give
us some revenge for having to wade through the
millions of warnings about different viruses
Yeah, that stuff they coated the hindenburg with was just ground aluminum. They did it so the ship would reflect the sun light and wouldn't heat up and expand during the day. Look at your beer can. It is hard to believe that ground and processed right it would make a very nice bomb. Rocket fuel is nasty stuff. The stuff they use in the space shuttle can't be put out once it is ignited ( what are you going to do -- cut off it's oxygen supply? The stuff was made to work in the cold vacuum of space.) The safety people get real concerned when you start playing with rocket fuel.
To just give everyone two computers? Computers aren't that expensive. Most people I know who do classified work on their computer have a jaz drive that they can boot off of. They pull the network cable, and the hard drive (which is usually on a removable mount) stick the jaz drive in and boot off of it. Seems to work reasonably well after all how often do you have to do classified and unclassified stuff at the same time? The only way you can be 100% sure this won't be cracked is to in fact get two computers.
I am not sure if he always wins because he is a better chef or not. I think the judges shouldn't be allowed to know whose food they are eating. Also it seems that while the judges are all Japanese sometimes the Iron chef's opponent isn't. Could it be that this gives the Iron chef an advantage? If nothing else he knows how to cook for the pallete of people from Japan. Anyway he wins so often that sometimes I wonder if it is fixed. The time limit is interesting though. You have to cook good food fast!
This is going to put miners out of work. Hopefully it will also decrease the cost of mined goods and increase the economy such that those people can get better jobs somewhere else. I think the interesting thing that may happen is that entire towns may go under. There are a lot of mining towns in west virginia and else where that may soon be ghost towns!
You probably can't put it on a fighter jet cause it is to big. You need a plane as big as the 747 just to carry it all. The point will be to blow up in coming nuclear missiles. This thing will probably only work at high altitudes since non-linear optics would limit the range of a laser that powerful close to the ground. And no, you can't just put a mirror on the missiles. There is no way to make a perfect mirror. The mirror will still absorb a small amount of the power; this power will at least be enough to screw up your mirror so that the second blast will surely kill the missile. I believe this is some kind of chemical laser. I wonder how long you will have to wait for the next pulse? You will probably need the 747 to be escorted by fighter jets to stop the enemy (whoever that would be) from blowing it up.
You think that when you buy a car from GM Ford or Chrysler you are buying an american car? Where have you been? Ignoring for a second the fact that chrysler is now owned by a German company -- do you think that american cars are only designed in america? Companies routinely trade and sell designs, and the car's parts are assembled all over the world. There is no such thing as an american or japanese or german car. Ok maybe there are 1 or two exception but I bet that at least 98% of the cars made are made of parts assembled in several countries.
Ok, they suck for playing games, but there are other uses for computers than playing games. Fact is the s3V's are cheap as dirt. And I don't mean that high quality top soil either. If you are using your computer for simulations or as some type of server than you don't need a zillion dollar card. S3V are fine for viewing basic plots or running netscape. You can use the money you save on the card to buy more ram or a faster cpu. Never had a problem with XSV 3.x when I was using them but I never tried under 4.0.
Every few months it seems some expert theorizes that sega is dead and that they will have to sell there soul (or work for MS -- same difference) to keep alive. The same thing with apple. How many times was apple supposed to die? Apple is alive (although not doing as well as others) because they can make a living by holding on to a small niche.
:)
Hopefully the video game market has grown enough to allow someone to stay alive by only holding onto a small band of die hard fans.
Anyway, apple isn't doing as well as other companies but they aren't dead -- and will probably live on way into the future. Likewise Sega isn't dead either. Yes they are loosing money but the DC really hasn't been out long enough to really start rolling in the dough and the market for consoles in Japan isn't what it used to be.
Anyway, don't panic and don't count the DC out yet. It is games that sell consoles and I think we will all agree (except maybe for the diehard sony fanboys) that RIGHT NOW Sega has got the games. If you have the great software sometimes you don't need the most powerful hardware.
Also notice how the article never once mentioned coin-ops. How can you even talk about Sega without mentioning that they dominate the arcades? I think the fall of the arcade has as much lead to Sega's recent trouble as anything else. Also is everyone else looking forward to Shen Mu as much as I am
This is the 3rd or 4th time sega has said that they were going to concentrate on software. Each time people say stuff like "Oh my god Sonic on ps2!" or "How could they kill the DC?" Let's not panic here. Yes, there may be sega games on other consoles. In fact there already are a couple of sega games for the gameboy (no sonic games and I believe sega didn't publish them.) But they aren't killing the dreamcast -- I am sure they will still support it until ps3 is coming out. They are betting their entire future on the internet and the strength of their software. This is not a bad thing because their cutting edge games are the strongest part of Sega. The DC isn't going to die, and the next generation war is only just begining.
Why didn't sega include DVD? Maybe it is because in Japan ps2 software sales are down since people are buying the ps2 as a DVD player. Companies make up for the cost of the console by selling games. No games no money! Also Sony can't make AAA titles like Sega can -- if third party companies get pissed off by lack of sales and stop making games for the ps2 sony is totally screwed. Sega can almost support a console all by themselve (almost.) Could it also be because they wanted the price advantage -- CD players are cheaper. Plus I am not sure if the ps2 will really benefit from the larger storage space. Will developers use the extra space on a DVD to make a longer game or to add more FMVs? I guess time will tell. Why doesn't the DC have an mp3 decoder by default? They said they are going to release a VMU that will hold saved data AND play mp3s. Plus it probably won't be long before the web browser they have will be able to play downloaded mp3s (if it doesn't already.) As for why it won't play cd-roms full of mp3s? Well, I wasn't aware that the ps2 could play mp3s either. And if you have the pc and cd burner to make cd-roms full of mp3s than why the hell don't you play the mp3s on your pc?
BTW what do you have against Sega anyway. Do you think the ps2 would be out already if it weren't for the DC? I think not! Do you want sony to be a monopoly like microsoft? If you do than you are an idiot!
I don't know how many times I have been moderated down for saying something good about the dreamcast and bad about the ps2. It is true /. is pro-linux, pro-transmeta, and very pro-sony. I guess maybe /. is ant-DC because A FEW DC games use windows CE. Or maybe it is the same old bs about past mistakes. All companies make mistakes; do you avoid sony because of betamax? Nintendo because of the virtual boy? Ford because of the Edisol?
Anyway, on paper the ps2 may be more powerful (well duh, it is newer) but the DC has TONS of great games. Not just remakes of older games with better graphics. Were are talking truely creative games here like Shenmue of seman. Sega is more of a software company than a hardware company after all. I may be moderated down for saying this (that is why I turned off the +1 bonus thingy) but right now the DC seems to be the better choice. Graphics that look prettty much the same (ok eventually ps2 will look better but that may take a while) the DC has more high quality games and is half the price (a tenth the price if you have to buy the ps2 on ebay.) I say get the DC now. Even if no more games come out, the games out now are more than worth the $150. Wait till the insanity and price drop, as well as more games to come out before getting the ps2.
Oh, and the Saturn wasn't that bad either. Anyone who actually had one and modded it to play import games would realize that. It was very powerful (twice the raw cpu power as the ps1 with the same speed cd-rom and amount of ram) but very hard to program for (sound like another console we know?) Neither was the sega cd. Any ps1 buff who claims that the storage size of the cd makes the ps1 better than the n64 should realize that the sega cd at least looked good on paper. It is just that add-ons don't work in the console industry (and sega is to small of a company to support the genny, sega cd, 32x, saturn, game gear AND coin ops at the same time) -- but it took the 32x and sega cd to figure out the problems with add-ons. Ok, the 32x was a bad idea -- I'll give you that. But the virtual boy was even worse of an idea.
Well, lost's of people still use their saturns. It can be hard to find a used one actually. If you like 2-d street fighter type fighting games there is no system that is better. I still use mine -- course I don't use my N64 as skeet either.
I say having an older console is like having an ugly girlfriend. It won't make your friends jealous, but if you can get over the looks than you can have almost as much fun :)
Wait a few months this thing ain't goin' nowhere.
I heard that when they restore people's vision after they were blind their entire life, formerly blind people still can't "see" very well. The signals might be going to your brain again but it will take a while for your brain to figure out how to make sense of it all. This is better than nothing but if you really want to cure blindness you have to do it to very young people so they can learn how to use their eyes like everyone else.