Aw, come on now. I was under the impression that Nick's identity has been widely known and documented over the years as Nick Ciarelli. After all, even in 2003, eweek had stories co-authored by Nick Ciarelli and Matthew Rothenburg.
Running some calculations on performance for an upcoming project got me to thinking. For computational performance: What is the optimal solution for a series of calculations? Two dual G5 cluster node Xserves, or eight Mini Macs? Turns out it is eight Mini Macs (for my immediate needs at least.) We will get the Xserves for other reasons, but for a quick little inexpensive cluster for testing, a (literal) bookshelf full of Mini Macs may be just the ticket.
The story is covered as Lack of Sleep = Over Weight, when it could and probably is Over Weight = Lack of sleep.
I say again: "At any rate, there were some serious problems with this study in terms of proper controls, including analysis of sleep disordered breathing (causing sleeplessness) that may in of itself be due to pre existing obesity.
My comments were directed more at the study and its weaknesses not on the causes of sleep disorders. If you will notice, I said "At any rate, there were some serious problems with this study in terms of proper controls, including analysis of sleep disordered breathing (causing sleeplessness) that may in of itself be due to pre existing obesity.
I ran a sleep lab for almost four years before going into basic science research and have seen my share of common sleep apnea and difficult to diagnose sleep disorders from parasomnias to nocturnal epilepsies. I do not take these conditions lightly nor do I believe they are "simple" problems. Thus my commentary on the "simple" study finding a causative link between total sleep time and obesity.
Ummm, yeah. I talked about this in my journal some time ago back in November. And yes, I used to run a sleep lab, so I feel validated in commenting on this from a medical perspective. At any rate, there were some serious problems with this study in terms of proper controls, including analysis of sleep disordered breathing (causing sleeplessness) that may in of itself be due to pre existing obesity. However, the simplest explanation could be the obvious one which the original poster commented on in the title and that John Harrison also got in a comment in my journal: Sleeping less means more time available for eating! Simple correlative studies are rarely terribly valuable, but on topics as important or as commonly dealt with including obesity, cancer and heart disease always get a fair bit of press.
Granted, studies with large numbers of people in them tend to be expensive and are the only way to detect small variances in the population, but I often think the money would be better spent on smaller, more thorough, better designed studies with more controls and experimental conditions.
The other item that makes these particularly interesting that everyone is missing is that they could be great little servers. I have been using a G3 based iMac for a page that routinely serves up 45k hits/day and a served up a recent Slashdotting with 450k hits/day without a hiccup. That was a 400Mhz G3, so I wonder what two or three of these Mac Mini's with a KVM switch could do for very little money.
Actually, you should take a look at the Xserve and the G5 architecture specifically. There are completely separate busses for I/O, memory, CPU and internal storage. We were playing around with one to see what it could take by completely saturating the I/O bus with a data transfer. The CPU was essentially idling along. So we then gave it a series of calculations that would use up 100% of the CPU and the data transfer stream did not even hiccup. This is the sort of tech one used to pay 50-200k for in the SGI's, and it is absolutely amazing to be able to purchase it for under $3k now.
Wow, you were not kidding. A weeks worth of traffic in one evening is pretty impressive. Even more impressive was that the little 400Mhz iMac could take it.....and dish it out. It is still taking fairly significant traffic (at least quadruple normal traffic), but appears to be serving away. One of the best $650 I ever spent.
Time is money. Lots of it and as any person who has done any hiring (especially in small to mid size businesses) will tell you, personnel costs are among the largest financial obligations you will have bar none. Therefore, I actually find it more cost effective to 1) perform an analysis to best determine needs based on anticipated traffic (Slashdottings aside) [GRIN], and 2) purchase a complete system from a vendor based upon the outcomes of the analysis. Spending time rolling your own hardware can be cost effective in some circumstances, but do not overlook the time you are spending on this project. A simple cost analysis should suffice.
Also, if needs are low, common desktop hardware (even outdated hardware) can meet needs sufficiently without the need for a Server OS. (I have an old G3 iMac running a desktop OS X serving up one of the oldest online textbooks available on the Internet, Webvision which routinely serves up about 45,000 hits/day of graphics intensive webpages). For larger needs or e-commerce for medium to large businesses, you obviously need something more substantial. After looking at solutions from Dell, Sun and SGI, and a local whitebox builder, believe it or not, Apple makes some pretty nice servers servers at very cost competitive points. We will likely be picking up a couple in the near future for some very heavy data intensive work we are embarking on. The nice thing about these solutions is that we can develop the code cross platform from some Linux workstations and fairly simply deploy on the Xserves.
Whoa dude....ease off your anger there, mind your p's and q's and don't be so self-righteous. Did I say anything to her about this? No. I kept my tongue and my thoughts to myself for years before posting them here.
Do something with her life? Like what? Write code? Supervise people who write code?....
Writing code is obviously your bias. Others have theirs.
You've got no idea what that woman does with her life, for her kids, her community, her extended family, her church/temple/happy-magick-circle. You're actually defining someone by the means through which they pay their motgage?
Actually, she talked about herself quite a bit. Told me all about how she wanted to play throughout her life and how this job was an opportunity to hang out with stars and make them like you by giving them things that companies gave to her. She felt her lifestyle was a free ride and how that was sooooo cool.
My only assay here was what she said about her job and I made no value judgements beyond her job. Reread my post. My comment was about her job and specifically, the concept of peddling needs to a bunch of self indulgent folks who like to feel important, to my mind was not at all attractive.
Helloooooo!! 1954 is calling! When you get back from your tour of duty with a Red Cross Tsunami relief team, it would like it's biases back, please.
Again with the self-righteousness! Damn dude, what do you know of the money we have given to USAID? Or the Intenational Red Cross. It is not appropriate for me to post numbers here, nor am I interested in demonstrating my generosity to you, but if you need proof, all of this information is in the public domain. Start with Googleing BWJones and go from there.
Pretty cool to see Sundance embrace this new form of independent filmmaking
It is actually pretty cool. I had stopped going to the Sundance film festival a few years ago because they had lost that focus on the small filmmaker and it had become one big Hollywood fest. It started getting quite difficult to get tickets (for the local folks) because the big Hollywood companies were buying them all up in big groups. Things have apparently gotten a bit better, recently with some blocks of tickets reserved for the local folks, but we'll see. For the locals it used to be a place to go to see filmmaking at its finest, but eventually turned into a venue for people to see "stars" and for people to be "seen" in addition to a huge marketing fest which makes it kinda repulsive. I was sitting in the Morning Ray Cafe one day next to a woman whose job it was to give out schwag to celebrities (like iPods and Gucci handbags) and drive them around meeting their every needs and all I could think of was "That has got to be the worst job in the world! Do something with your life.......Contribute to society somehow!.......Make a difference......." Of course that's what I was thinking. What I actually said was something like "Oh, that's interesting.....".
How do you define relevant? At the time Einstein defined relativity, was it relevant? No, it took twenty years before people started seeing the implications. When Gregor Medel came up with his theory of inheritance, was it relevant? Only for peas at the time, but look what has happened in genetics now. This is the danger of establishing intellectual endeavors as having to define themselves in the context of immediate relevance.
Enter Real Audio software upgrade for iPods: Stiffled by apple illegal practices.
If Real had reverse engineered Apple's software and wrote their own code to run on the iPod (or any facsimile), that would be one thing. The problem was that Real cracked Apple's Fairplay code and violated the license. This is what got them in hot water and how Apple (like any other company) would have protected themselves from somebody else wanting a free ride on their back.
This is an almost IDENTICAL practice to what microsoft did to DOS and started it all way back when.
Read your history. IBM licensed DOS from Microsoft....Compaq reverse engineered the chipset and BIOS thus setting in motion the Wintel PC industry......Microsoft licensed DOS to any and all people who asked. Where Microsoft did wrong with DOS was to insert code into Windows that made it incompatible with other flavors of DOS from folks like Novell.
Locked out Real after Real cracked Apple's Fairplay code violating the license. Sure, any company would have done the same.
Remember in both Europe and America right clicking on "download now!" is considered too great a barrier to entry into the market place. Burning a CD, let alone re-ripping it, is significantly more involved.
Let's see, using iTunes it takes all of three clicks to burn a CD. If you want to do it in one click, then you pay for the convenience by purchasing an iPod. Remember: Nobody is forcing you to do anything. You want to listen to music, and you want convenience.
It's not illegal until they start bundling features people want and expect as a convience
No. It is not illegal until a company leverages their monopoly to prevent others from fairly competing. If your monopoly is fairly maintained because you have the best product and consumers simply prefer to purchase your product, then all is fair and no laws have been broken.
Oh, and of course the other obvious alternative this guy could choose is to burn the songs he purchases to CD and then get any bloody portable CD player he wants to play his songs (even those purchase through the iTMS).
Bogus. One has to wonder if this is an effort by some company to force Apple to open up the iPod without having to pay Apple to license it like HP has. Somebody somewhere is always trying to get something for free.
The reality is that Apple has placed copy protection on the songs sold through the iTMS as the mandate of the record industry just as Napster and Microsoft has with their music formats. If you will remember, iTunes came out before the iTMS and any songs sold through the iTMS. Therefore, if you obtain your music somewhere else other than the iTMS, if you chose to use iTunes (nothing that says you have to use iTunes either) you can use any portable hard drive music source that runs OS X or Windows. There is nothing saying that you cannot do this on any device you can find that will runs those alternatives. Apple is not forcing anybody to purchase songs from the iTMS. Quite the contrary, they have made iTunes flexible enough that it can play.mp3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG-4 and AAC along with an Apple lossless format.
More specifically, Six Apart purchased LiveJournal because of each companies respective strengths and weaknesses and because LiveJournals user base would complement Six Aparts business model by getting access to a younger user base. All that and the owner of LiveJournal was looking to sell. Read Mena's (President of Six Apart) blog for specifics and a handy FAQ.
This presupposes you think that University is an intellectual exercise.
It was certainly my experience that it was and is an intellectual exercise.
In many cases, it is the thing furthest from. It's quite often just a rite of passage.
Is this personal experience or are you just talking loud?
Some "PhDs" will even admit to this.
Every PhD I know (myself included) will fully describe their program as intellectually punishing. After all the PhD is supposed to be granted upon completion of work that is novel and beneficial to society and somehow better informs society because of it. These efforts are rarely easy and require much hard work. But here is the key.....you have to do it because you love learning and enjoy making a difference.
The problem with school these days is that's it all about getting the papers to get a job. Period.
School is what you make of it. If that is your perspective, you will not take much away from the experience. School is not there to hold your hand and tell you what to think or believe. It is there to provide you with information you might not otherwise be exposed to. Schools should challenge you and provide opportunities to excel.
With respect to cheating: If somebody cheats in school, they are going to cheat in other aspects of their lives. That is a reflection on their character makeup and not on the failings of a school.
School is NOT about learning, it's about fitting in a given society.
I will have to call BS on this one. I and others absolutely did not fit into the mold in college. The crowd we ran with was decidedly counter culture and the kids with the funny hair (us) certainly did not fit into the rest of the class in terms of looks, political perspective or social acceptance. However, we all took something away from the experience and kept our punk ethos of DIY into our careers in science, medicine, engineering and business and music and we all are much happier because of it.
You can learn FINE on your own. Books exist, libraries exist.
Negative. This is not the same as guided education.
nteresting to note is how he justifies such trivialties as GPA scores and well-roundedness, the very things comments here tend to think are overrated.
The anti-intellectualism here on Slashdot is extraordinary. I must admit to being rather surprised whenever I see comments like "PhD's dont know nothin" (sic), or a recent post saying I hate college with poor grammar and spelling. Responses to it basically stated that a college degree was worthless.
They do not necessarily have to. The other thing that you have to consider is that there are two principal items that can "go wrong" in your eyes that lead to vision problems. 1) The lens. This becomes less elastic as we age and because of this, we have problems focusing. Depending upon the shape of the lens, people have problems focusing near or far or both. These problems can be fixed by reshaping the lens. The other major problem is 2) retinal problems such as retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy etc.... Currently there are no cures for these diseases, however, one can eat right with a balanced diet and consume lots of vegetables and fruits to help keep your eyes healthy. Also wear good quality sunglasses with UV protection as that seems to limit the damage due to free radicals. We are working on cures, but they are some years out.
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I am not going to hound you on your spelling or grammar, but I would like to suggest that you consider post-secondary education of some sort, or at least learn a trade. One of the reasons many companies require basic levels of competency (i.e. a bachelors degree or higher) is that college teaches you communication skills, problem solving skills and exposes you to alternative viewpoints and ways of thinking. These are all critical skills to have if a company wants to succeed.
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Aw, come on now. I was under the impression that Nick's identity has been widely known and documented over the years as Nick Ciarelli. After all, even in 2003, eweek had stories co-authored by Nick Ciarelli and Matthew Rothenburg.
He he.....yeah. Sorry about that. :-)
I just came up with another reason though......
Running some calculations on performance for an upcoming project got me to thinking. For computational performance: What is the optimal solution for a series of calculations? Two dual G5 cluster node Xserves, or eight Mini Macs? Turns out it is eight Mini Macs (for my immediate needs at least.) We will get the Xserves for other reasons, but for a quick little inexpensive cluster for testing, a (literal) bookshelf full of Mini Macs may be just the ticket.
The story is covered as Lack of Sleep = Over Weight, when it could and probably is Over Weight = Lack of sleep.
I say again: "At any rate, there were some serious problems with this study in terms of proper controls, including analysis of sleep disordered breathing (causing sleeplessness) that may in of itself be due to pre existing obesity.
My comments were directed more at the study and its weaknesses not on the causes of sleep disorders. If you will notice, I said "At any rate, there were some serious problems with this study in terms of proper controls, including analysis of sleep disordered breathing (causing sleeplessness) that may in of itself be due to pre existing obesity.
I ran a sleep lab for almost four years before going into basic science research and have seen my share of common sleep apnea and difficult to diagnose sleep disorders from parasomnias to nocturnal epilepsies. I do not take these conditions lightly nor do I believe they are "simple" problems. Thus my commentary on the "simple" study finding a causative link between total sleep time and obesity.
Ummm, yeah. I talked about this in my journal some time ago back in November. And yes, I used to run a sleep lab, so I feel validated in commenting on this from a medical perspective. At any rate, there were some serious problems with this study in terms of proper controls, including analysis of sleep disordered breathing (causing sleeplessness) that may in of itself be due to pre existing obesity. However, the simplest explanation could be the obvious one which the original poster commented on in the title and that John Harrison also got in a comment in my journal: Sleeping less means more time available for eating! Simple correlative studies are rarely terribly valuable, but on topics as important or as commonly dealt with including obesity, cancer and heart disease always get a fair bit of press.
Granted, studies with large numbers of people in them tend to be expensive and are the only way to detect small variances in the population, but I often think the money would be better spent on smaller, more thorough, better designed studies with more controls and experimental conditions.
The other item that makes these particularly interesting that everyone is missing is that they could be great little servers. I have been using a G3 based iMac for a page that routinely serves up 45k hits/day and a served up a recent Slashdotting with 450k hits/day without a hiccup. That was a 400Mhz G3, so I wonder what two or three of these Mac Mini's with a KVM switch could do for very little money.
I've got my order in.
Actually, you should take a look at the Xserve and the G5 architecture specifically. There are completely separate busses for I/O, memory, CPU and internal storage. We were playing around with one to see what it could take by completely saturating the I/O bus with a data transfer. The CPU was essentially idling along. So we then gave it a series of calculations that would use up 100% of the CPU and the data transfer stream did not even hiccup. This is the sort of tech one used to pay 50-200k for in the SGI's, and it is absolutely amazing to be able to purchase it for under $3k now.
Wow, you were not kidding. A weeks worth of traffic in one evening is pretty impressive. Even more impressive was that the little 400Mhz iMac could take it.....and dish it out. It is still taking fairly significant traffic (at least quadruple normal traffic), but appears to be serving away. One of the best $650 I ever spent.
Time is money. Lots of it and as any person who has done any hiring (especially in small to mid size businesses) will tell you, personnel costs are among the largest financial obligations you will have bar none. Therefore, I actually find it more cost effective to 1) perform an analysis to best determine needs based on anticipated traffic (Slashdottings aside) [GRIN], and 2) purchase a complete system from a vendor based upon the outcomes of the analysis. Spending time rolling your own hardware can be cost effective in some circumstances, but do not overlook the time you are spending on this project. A simple cost analysis should suffice.
Also, if needs are low, common desktop hardware (even outdated hardware) can meet needs sufficiently without the need for a Server OS. (I have an old G3 iMac running a desktop OS X serving up one of the oldest online textbooks available on the Internet, Webvision which routinely serves up about 45,000 hits/day of graphics intensive webpages). For larger needs or e-commerce for medium to large businesses, you obviously need something more substantial. After looking at solutions from Dell, Sun and SGI, and a local whitebox builder, believe it or not, Apple makes some pretty nice servers servers at very cost competitive points. We will likely be picking up a couple in the near future for some very heavy data intensive work we are embarking on. The nice thing about these solutions is that we can develop the code cross platform from some Linux workstations and fairly simply deploy on the Xserves.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged, Asshole.
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Whoa dude....ease off your anger there, mind your p's and q's and don't be so self-righteous. Did I say anything to her about this? No. I kept my tongue and my thoughts to myself for years before posting them here.
Do something with her life? Like what? Write code? Supervise people who write code?
Writing code is obviously your bias. Others have theirs.
You've got no idea what that woman does with her life, for her kids, her community, her extended family, her church/temple/happy-magick-circle. You're actually defining someone by the means through which they pay their motgage?
Actually, she talked about herself quite a bit. Told me all about how she wanted to play throughout her life and how this job was an opportunity to hang out with stars and make them like you by giving them things that companies gave to her. She felt her lifestyle was a free ride and how that was sooooo cool.
My only assay here was what she said about her job and I made no value judgements beyond her job. Reread my post. My comment was about her job and specifically, the concept of peddling needs to a bunch of self indulgent folks who like to feel important, to my mind was not at all attractive.
Helloooooo!! 1954 is calling! When you get back from your tour of duty with a Red Cross Tsunami relief team, it would like it's biases back, please.
Again with the self-righteousness! Damn dude, what do you know of the money we have given to USAID? Or the Intenational Red Cross. It is not appropriate for me to post numbers here, nor am I interested in demonstrating my generosity to you, but if you need proof, all of this information is in the public domain. Start with Googleing BWJones and go from there.
Pretty cool to see Sundance embrace this new form of independent filmmaking
It is actually pretty cool. I had stopped going to the Sundance film festival a few years ago because they had lost that focus on the small filmmaker and it had become one big Hollywood fest. It started getting quite difficult to get tickets (for the local folks) because the big Hollywood companies were buying them all up in big groups. Things have apparently gotten a bit better, recently with some blocks of tickets reserved for the local folks, but we'll see. For the locals it used to be a place to go to see filmmaking at its finest, but eventually turned into a venue for people to see "stars" and for people to be "seen" in addition to a huge marketing fest which makes it kinda repulsive. I was sitting in the Morning Ray Cafe one day next to a woman whose job it was to give out schwag to celebrities (like iPods and Gucci handbags) and drive them around meeting their every needs and all I could think of was "That has got to be the worst job in the world! Do something with your life.......Contribute to society somehow!.......Make a difference......." Of course that's what I was thinking. What I actually said was something like "Oh, that's interesting.....".
How do you define relevant? At the time Einstein defined relativity, was it relevant? No, it took twenty years before people started seeing the implications. When Gregor Medel came up with his theory of inheritance, was it relevant? Only for peas at the time, but look what has happened in genetics now. This is the danger of establishing intellectual endeavors as having to define themselves in the context of immediate relevance.
Enter Real Audio software upgrade for iPods: Stiffled by apple illegal practices.
If Real had reverse engineered Apple's software and wrote their own code to run on the iPod (or any facsimile), that would be one thing. The problem was that Real cracked Apple's Fairplay code and violated the license. This is what got them in hot water and how Apple (like any other company) would have protected themselves from somebody else wanting a free ride on their back.
This is an almost IDENTICAL practice to what microsoft did to DOS and started it all way back when.
Read your history. IBM licensed DOS from Microsoft....Compaq reverse engineered the chipset and BIOS thus setting in motion the Wintel PC industry......Microsoft licensed DOS to any and all people who asked. Where Microsoft did wrong with DOS was to insert code into Windows that made it incompatible with other flavors of DOS from folks like Novell.
Oh..so like the change that locked out Real?
Locked out Real after Real cracked Apple's Fairplay code violating the license. Sure, any company would have done the same.
Remember in both Europe and America right clicking on "download now!" is considered too great a barrier to entry into the market place. Burning a CD, let alone re-ripping it, is significantly more involved.
Let's see, using iTunes it takes all of three clicks to burn a CD. If you want to do it in one click, then you pay for the convenience by purchasing an iPod. Remember: Nobody is forcing you to do anything. You want to listen to music, and you want convenience.
It's not illegal until they start bundling features people want and expect as a convience
No. It is not illegal until a company leverages their monopoly to prevent others from fairly competing. If your monopoly is fairly maintained because you have the best product and consumers simply prefer to purchase your product, then all is fair and no laws have been broken.
Oh, and of course the other obvious alternative this guy could choose is to burn the songs he purchases to CD and then get any bloody portable CD player he wants to play his songs (even those purchase through the iTMS).
Bogus. One has to wonder if this is an effort by some company to force Apple to open up the iPod without having to pay Apple to license it like HP has. Somebody somewhere is always trying to get something for free.
.mp3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG-4 and AAC along with an Apple lossless format.
The reality is that Apple has placed copy protection on the songs sold through the iTMS as the mandate of the record industry just as Napster and Microsoft has with their music formats. If you will remember, iTunes came out before the iTMS and any songs sold through the iTMS. Therefore, if you obtain your music somewhere else other than the iTMS, if you chose to use iTunes (nothing that says you have to use iTunes either) you can use any portable hard drive music source that runs OS X or Windows. There is nothing saying that you cannot do this on any device you can find that will runs those alternatives. Apple is not forcing anybody to purchase songs from the iTMS. Quite the contrary, they have made iTunes flexible enough that it can play
And how do you reshape the lens? Is that surgery or "exercise"?
Unfortunately, surgery. Lasik or similar facsimile.
More specifically, Six Apart purchased LiveJournal because of each companies respective strengths and weaknesses and because LiveJournals user base would complement Six Aparts business model by getting access to a younger user base. All that and the owner of LiveJournal was looking to sell. Read Mena's (President of Six Apart) blog for specifics and a handy FAQ.
This presupposes you think that University is an intellectual exercise.
It was certainly my experience that it was and is an intellectual exercise.
In many cases, it is the thing furthest from. It's quite often just a rite of passage.
Is this personal experience or are you just talking loud?
Some "PhDs" will even admit to this.
Every PhD I know (myself included) will fully describe their program as intellectually punishing. After all the PhD is supposed to be granted upon completion of work that is novel and beneficial to society and somehow better informs society because of it. These efforts are rarely easy and require much hard work. But here is the key.....you have to do it because you love learning and enjoy making a difference.
The problem with school these days is that's it all about getting the papers to get a job. Period.
School is what you make of it. If that is your perspective, you will not take much away from the experience. School is not there to hold your hand and tell you what to think or believe. It is there to provide you with information you might not otherwise be exposed to. Schools should challenge you and provide opportunities to excel.
With respect to cheating: If somebody cheats in school, they are going to cheat in other aspects of their lives. That is a reflection on their character makeup and not on the failings of a school.
School is NOT about learning, it's about fitting in a given society.
I will have to call BS on this one. I and others absolutely did not fit into the mold in college. The crowd we ran with was decidedly counter culture and the kids with the funny hair (us) certainly did not fit into the rest of the class in terms of looks, political perspective or social acceptance. However, we all took something away from the experience and kept our punk ethos of DIY into our careers in science, medicine, engineering and business and music and we all are much happier because of it.
You can learn FINE on your own. Books exist, libraries exist.
Negative. This is not the same as guided education.
nteresting to note is how he justifies such trivialties as GPA scores and well-roundedness, the very things comments here tend to think are overrated.
The anti-intellectualism here on Slashdot is extraordinary. I must admit to being rather surprised whenever I see comments like "PhD's dont know nothin" (sic), or a recent post saying I hate college with poor grammar and spelling. Responses to it basically stated that a college degree was worthless.
Amazing.
So why do our eyes get worse?
They do not necessarily have to. The other thing that you have to consider is that there are two principal items that can "go wrong" in your eyes that lead to vision problems. 1) The lens. This becomes less elastic as we age and because of this, we have problems focusing. Depending upon the shape of the lens, people have problems focusing near or far or both. These problems can be fixed by reshaping the lens. The other major problem is 2) retinal problems such as retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy etc.... Currently there are no cures for these diseases, however, one can eat right with a balanced diet and consume lots of vegetables and fruits to help keep your eyes healthy. Also wear good quality sunglasses with UV protection as that seems to limit the damage due to free radicals. We are working on cures, but they are some years out.
I am not going to hound you on your spelling or grammar, but I would like to suggest that you consider post-secondary education of some sort, or at least learn a trade. One of the reasons many companies require basic levels of competency (i.e. a bachelors degree or higher) is that college teaches you communication skills, problem solving skills and exposes you to alternative viewpoints and ways of thinking. These are all critical skills to have if a company wants to succeed.