Just an optometrist has a small shop at Costco, nothing fancy, 4 chair waiting room, small staff of 2-3 people at a time. They also have frames and you can order lenses for frames, the lenses are outsoursed to amother company. Turn around 1 day minium, 3-5 days typical.
1. Optometrist $50-$75 fee depending on contacts or not. 2. Frames, $50-$100 typical, some last years models discounted. I'd say $25 minium 3. Lenses $25-$50 typical. They don't offer tempered glass as i'm sure I said. Photogreys yes, but I find them too fragile.
Reasons why I choose to get my glasses there. Both times i've been really close to 20/20. I got frustrated with other Optometrist shops fitting me with contacts that were just too damn small, or being lazy and filling my prescription the same for both eyes. I got annoyed sitting through marketing videos on the latest and greatest inovation when all I want was some traditional glass lenses. And most importantly a simple fixed pricing structure. The most frustrating thing is shopping for glasses and getting complex answers about how much something costs. It's nice to know that for $150 I can get glasses, or $100 if I pick last year's model.
Idealy... I should hit the web and actually find the design I like and get a few of them. Nothing more annoying then having to adjust to a diffrent style of *fish bowl world*.
There was that TNG episode where they found him crashed on a Dyson sphere in a transporter self-diagnostic loop. They revived him and he created all kinds of havoc before they gave him a shuttlecraft and let him go wandering off on his own.
I'm sure he's putting around the 25 century in the little shuttle craft given to him as an extended loan. I know I've heard lots of dialog from trekers/trekies whatever what have you, theories regarding him outfiting it with classic warp drive allowing him to have wacky adventures all while promoting geriatric awareness. While I enjoyed this particular episode as well as the honor your father undertones, I'm happy they didn't milk James Duhan? for the old people element. He after all is no William Shatner.
Greek astronomers had figured out that the Earth was round several centuries before Cladius
Eratosthenes for example is often credited with measuring the earth with a stick, a pretty accurate measure of it's circumference. For him to do this B.C. he would have already got the idea the earth was a sphere earlier, or atleast want to use what he knew about geometry to prove the theory.
Now there were much in the way of educated Greeks, in fact I believe one of the earlier versions of the christian bibles was in Greek. I believe also, at least according to my catholic upbringing, it was translated into Latin simply because a hell of alot more people were literate in Latin. But whether Greek or Latin... it was seen by comon folk that someone who knew either or was smart, or at least literate. I imagine this is why it sounds better to say intelligent a word with Latin roots then smart which likely has Germanic orgins.
contact lenses instead of these Clark Kent glasses
Hey now, I wear glasses you insensitive clod. I like contact lenses when being physicaly active, but for the most part, it's glasses. I go through alot of bother and effort to get glass glasses, rather then those damn plastic ones that costco will only carry. If I hum just right I can detect frequencies above 60hz. Very handy. I just wish Costco would carry more circular lenses, rather then those damn oval / retangular ones. I can't see my keyboard when I look at the screen.
Even if you like to wear contacts and you have bad non-corrected vision, you're wise to have a pair of glasses somewhere handy.
I think you're missing the whole point of Star Trek in the 21st century. Going around and meeting alien races is boring. Overcoming cultural differences? Boring.
You can't found an empire without breaking a few eggs. It makes me think of The League of Nations. Lovely idea... but still people decided to start running around and shooting one another.
I imagine that we could have the best of both worlds... explore, overcome cultural diffrences, and unite to fight bigger and bloodier wars then ever before.
If anything, he should play Kirk's great (great?) grandfather or however it works out...
Nah.... the theme for this trek is timetravel, like it or not. If we see Mr. Shatner then it would be as Captain / Admerial Kirk.
What they should do is encounter Kirk and in order to prevent him from creating yet another temporal violation shove him in a stasis pod with a note "Do not open till 2280".
I strongly suspect that Boies, Schiller, & Flexner want hardcopy of these documents, where hardcopy is either paper or fax. I wonder whether it would be acceptable for people who wish to support the FSF could make copies for them, where FSF publishes 100 page segments end user submits them via post to the FSF to then be turned over to Boies, Schiller & Flexner.
Users pay for consumbables but agree that the fee for the copy be paid to the FSF?
You may only need 2 directional antenas instead of a satilite uplink.
Depending on whether this is a comercial project or not, one might be able to use the amature shortwave / longwave bands. It has it's limits, but it's not limited to line of site as with microwave.
"Chewbacca is a wookie from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about that; that does not make sense. Why would a wookie, an 8 foot tall wookie, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall ewoks? That does not make sense! But more importantly, you have to ask yourself, 'what does that have to do with this case?' Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case. It does not make sense!" - Johnny Cochran in his Chewbacca defense Southpark
I'm not so much of a star trek geek that i'm willing to take the time to watch the salt sucking vampire episode again to see if it was clear that he was born there, or if he moved from earth.
Alpha Centaurans are decended from a classical Greek culture transplanted to the Alpha Centauri system by the preservers. Since that time, they have developed more in the intellectual disciplines than in the physical. It was the Alpha Centauran Mathematician Zephran Cochran who created the theoretical basis of the Warp Drive initially used by both the A-C's and Terra. That Warp Drive was further refined after technological exchanges with Vulcan began.
The usual trek observation goes something like this. Zephan Cochrin was born on Alpha Centari 2044 and discovers warp drive, disapears 2131 only to be discovered by kirk in 2281.
First Contact started out wrong according to some. That whole business with Zephrin Cochran of Montana vs the TOS Zephrin Cochran of Alpha-Centari was quite irksome to many. I suspect that history changed because of how impractical it now seems for us to colonize worlds light years away only at sublight speeds.
Perhaps that's why they started enterprise with the temperal coldwar, so any time they screwed up they could blame it on time travel.
StarWars on the otherhand takes place a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away. It doesn't suffer from the issue that trek does because star wars doesn't express their time line in terms of meaningful dates.
Will it pull a Star Trek and contradict everything we know already?
Unlike Star Trek, I believe these three scripts existed beforehand. At least that's the rumor I hear, a rumor supported by the fact that "episode IV" was the first one we saw in the theater in the late 1970s.
Also, unlike Star Trek... they only had 3 movies to pay attention to before starting to release pre-quils, now only 5 movies. I believe they will stick with the origional contraditions such as the infamous wookie one.
Captain's log: Stonedate 25,000 years B.C.!
That's right, ol' buddy, ol' pal... humans were traveling in space long before you thought they were! HOW? Back in those days, the expanding universe was a lot smaller than it is nowadays, so the stars were easier to reach!
As it is, it's just a 7th grade wood shop project.
Most of the stuff you can buy at Ikea can easily be duplicated by a 7th grade woodshop student. But people buy it anyway.
I consider my self very much an amateur when it comes to woodworking. In fact I would even go as far as saying that my skill level is that of a 7th grade woodshop student. Never the less pieces i've made made for sale or as gifts are still in service.
Don't knock the fundimentals.
and it's just plywood, taboot
Don't knock plywood. You're allowed to knock partical board, but not ply. People spend major bucks on things constructed with partical board. For prototyping nothing beats cheep pine ply. For a final product, oak ply is quite nice. If I were to do a wooden case, i'd use a very liberal amount of ply and limit my use of hardwood to segments that require it, such as a curved front panel.
I wondered why it didn't seem to very popular. I soon realized that here in America nobody would ride one of these because of the social implications.
While I'm not about to discount the social implications of riding an electric bike... but let's not discount the safety implications of riding a bike in general in the USA. Frankly in most of the areas i've lived, it's not exactly safe. You *could* ride on the sidewalk, but the rules of the road state that bikes belong on the street. Streets are often not geared tward bicycle traffic, let alone pedestrian traffic. Downtown areas you must play the game of dodging the parked cars and prevent from being hit by rear-comming cars crussing at speeds 25mph+. Major arterials are also not exactly safe either. Nicer ones have sholders or provisions for pedestrian traffic, others have no sholder what so ever. Users in cars get most angry when they can't pass you.
Some cities are smart enough to actually retrofit bike lanes, and put in sidewalks. Perhaps they finally noticed that people under the age of 16 need to get from point A to point B without getting hit by cars. From what I've observed, this is rather an exception to the rule. America thinks in terms of cars and not people.
What's greener, a bike powered by human-power, or a bike powered by electricity (which has to come from somewhere....fossil fuels, anyone)? I vote human-powered bikes.
This would depend on where you get your engery from. Humans require engery in the form of food. Food must come from somewhere. Food requires land, soil, nutrients, in many cases livestock. Methane production of a cow for example is pretty signigent. Not to speak of the waste product of humans, which nothing to sneeze at as we are talking about a country with billions of people.
I'm not saying you are wrong, all I'm saying it's not a clear cut equation to balance the effect on the ecosystem between the use of human power and the use of electrical power.
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The RCW only states that you can exceed the posted speed limit, up to the state speed limit, which is 60.
Thank you kindly for your responce, can you provide a link or RCW number? What you're saying has the ring of truth... i'm just too lazy to sort through the RCW and WAC at the moment. My memory is still leaning tward a reference to 10 or 15mph.
I'm probally vague on the 60 issue because for one, the speed limit was 55mph at the time I took my test, and also the simple fact that I don't know of any two lane undivided highways that are marked much more then 45mph.
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THis is not true dude. Its illegal as hell to go over the speed limit... If you have to go over the speed limit to pass someone, they must be going the speed limit, and therefore, you shouldnt have to pass them in the first place.
At 55 mph you will travel over 800 feet in ten seconds. So will an oncoming vehicle. That means you need over 1600 feet or about one-third of a mile to pass safely. It is hard to judge the speed of oncoming vehicles at this distance. They do not seem to be coming as fast as they really are. -- Washington State Driving guide
I'm too lazy to dig up the RCW in my case, but it's generrally accepted that that you can go faster then the posted limit for passing on the left on a two lane highway. It was what I learned in driver's education, it was what was printed in the state issued driving manual, and it was on my damn written test. You generally pass someone as quickly as possible, esp large trucks dumping rocks on your windshield.
Streetdot epoxy is among the strongest glues I know of for good reason. They are practicaly impossible to remove without removing a large segemnt of asphalt. I've tried collecting street dots, and the only way to do it is with a pickaxe... and you try going in the street with a pickaxe and playing a game of collect the dots.
(sensor)...Triggers High power magnetron, under car chasis
Can o' spray paint 99cents. Likely $2.00 if you want it in street dot yellow, white, or orange.
Knowing you can speed safely along that strech of road... priceless!
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I'd much rather have my car know the max speed on a given road for a given set of conditions and not be allowed to go over the max speed
There are times when going over the speedlimit not only legal, but done for saftey reasons. Passing another car on a two lane highway is one case where it's perfectly acceptable to go 10 or 15mph over the posted limit depending on the state's local laws. Even smaller towns near where I live who depend on speeding tickets for income when I told the judge I was passing a truck halling rocks, he understood and threw it out.
I wouldn't object to a system where my car would understand the speed limit and beep at me if i'm going over, nor would I object to a cruse control i'm able to set at that speed, so long as I can override it for passing or other emergencies.
Funny thing is - the metric system was here before your system came around.
We get our system from the English actually.
Also, the metric system I believe started in France post revolution, so 1790s or so (correct me if I'm wrong). The american revolution was 1776, but modern america under the current constitution was 1787. The metric system only became the exclusive standard of France at the start of 1840. While the French were most helpful in the American Revolutionary war as i'm sure Corwallis noticed... we were not exactly on good terms with France after the war. Something to do with fear of a new anglo-saxon alliance, as well as our desire to extend from sea to shining sea. And because the French goverment wasn't exactly stable, it didn't seem wise to adopt their system of measurement. Besides by the early 1800s there already was a standard of measurement common among all the states. Converting to metric would require going to France to double check measurements.
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Just an optometrist has a small shop at Costco, nothing fancy, 4 chair waiting room, small staff of 2-3 people at a time. They also have frames and you can order lenses for frames, the lenses are outsoursed to amother company. Turn around 1 day minium, 3-5 days typical.
1. Optometrist $50-$75 fee depending on contacts or not.
2. Frames, $50-$100 typical, some last years models discounted. I'd say $25 minium
3. Lenses $25-$50 typical. They don't offer tempered glass as i'm sure I said. Photogreys yes, but I find them too fragile.
Reasons why I choose to get my glasses there. Both times i've been really close to 20/20. I got frustrated with other Optometrist shops fitting me with contacts that were just too damn small, or being lazy and filling my prescription the same for both eyes. I got annoyed sitting through marketing videos on the latest and greatest inovation when all I want was some traditional glass lenses. And most importantly a simple fixed pricing structure. The most frustrating thing is shopping for glasses and getting complex answers about how much something costs. It's nice to know that for $150 I can get glasses, or $100 if I pick last year's model.
Idealy... I should hit the web and actually find the design I like and get a few of them. Nothing more annoying then having to adjust to a diffrent style of *fish bowl world*.
I'm zakezuke, and i'm a geek.
There was that TNG episode where they found him crashed on a Dyson sphere in a transporter self-diagnostic loop. They revived him and he created all kinds of havoc before they gave him a shuttlecraft and let him go wandering off on his own.
I'm sure he's putting around the 25 century in the little shuttle craft given to him as an extended loan. I know I've heard lots of dialog from trekers/trekies whatever what have you, theories regarding him outfiting it with classic warp drive allowing him to have wacky adventures all while promoting geriatric awareness. While I enjoyed this particular episode as well as the honor your father undertones, I'm happy they didn't milk James Duhan? for the old people element. He after all is no William Shatner.
Greek astronomers had figured out that the Earth was round several centuries before Cladius
Eratosthenes for example is often credited with measuring the earth with a stick, a pretty accurate measure of it's circumference. For him to do this B.C. he would have already got the idea the earth was a sphere earlier, or atleast want to use what he knew about geometry to prove the theory.
Now there were much in the way of educated Greeks, in fact I believe one of the earlier versions of the christian bibles was in Greek. I believe also, at least according to my catholic upbringing, it was translated into Latin simply because a hell of alot more people were literate in Latin. But whether Greek or Latin... it was seen by comon folk that someone who knew either or was smart, or at least literate. I imagine this is why it sounds better to say intelligent a word with Latin roots then smart which likely has Germanic orgins.
Ok, technicaly I have some 10inch SMD drives tucked away somewhere... but they are not practical for an every day desktop machine.
contact lenses instead of these Clark Kent glasses
Hey now, I wear glasses you insensitive clod. I like contact lenses when being physicaly active, but for the most part, it's glasses. I go through alot of bother and effort to get glass glasses, rather then those damn plastic ones that costco will only carry. If I hum just right I can detect frequencies above 60hz. Very handy. I just wish Costco would carry more circular lenses, rather then those damn oval / retangular ones. I can't see my keyboard when I look at the screen.
Even if you like to wear contacts and you have bad non-corrected vision, you're wise to have a pair of glasses somewhere handy.
If they really want to be geeky, he's got to be the size of those retro floppy disks. Or 8 inches tall but then he couldn't live in a drive bay.
I think you're missing the whole point of Star Trek in the 21st century. Going around and meeting alien races is boring. Overcoming cultural differences? Boring.
You can't found an empire without breaking a few eggs. It makes me think of The League of Nations. Lovely idea... but still people decided to start running around and shooting one another.
I imagine that we could have the best of both worlds... explore, overcome cultural diffrences, and unite to fight bigger and bloodier wars then ever before.
If anything, he should play Kirk's great (great?) grandfather or however it works out...
Nah.... the theme for this trek is timetravel, like it or not. If we see Mr. Shatner then it would be as Captain / Admerial Kirk.
What they should do is encounter Kirk and in order to prevent him from creating yet another temporal violation shove him in a stasis pod with a note "Do not open till 2280".
I strongly suspect that Boies, Schiller, & Flexner want hardcopy of these documents, where hardcopy is either paper or fax. I wonder whether it would be acceptable for people who wish to support the FSF could make copies for them, where FSF publishes 100 page segments end user submits them via post to the FSF to then be turned over to Boies, Schiller & Flexner.
Users pay for consumbables but agree that the fee for the copy be paid to the FSF?
You may only need 2 directional antenas instead of a satilite uplink.
Depending on whether this is a comercial project or not, one might be able to use the amature shortwave / longwave bands. It has it's limits, but it's not limited to line of site as with microwave.
The wookie defence? Goes something like this...
"Chewbacca is a wookie from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about that; that does not make sense. Why would a wookie, an 8 foot tall wookie, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall ewoks? That does not make sense! But more importantly, you have to ask yourself, 'what does that have to do with this case?' Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case. It does not make sense!" - Johnny Cochran in his Chewbacca defense Southpark
I'm not so much of a star trek geek that i'm willing to take the time to watch the salt sucking vampire episode again to see if it was clear that he was born there, or if he moved from earth.
Web reference to back up my statement
The usual trek observation goes something like this. Zephan Cochrin was born on Alpha Centari 2044 and discovers warp drive, disapears 2131 only to be discovered by kirk in 2281.
Dates listed here
Some people are most offended by trek for changing history.
*Cough*DifferenttimelinecausedbytheBorginFirstCont actSothe'inconsistencies'areokay.*Cough*
First Contact started out wrong according to some. That whole business with Zephrin Cochran of Montana vs the TOS Zephrin Cochran of Alpha-Centari was quite irksome to many. I suspect that history changed because of how impractical it now seems for us to colonize worlds light years away only at sublight speeds.
Perhaps that's why they started enterprise with the temperal coldwar, so any time they screwed up they could blame it on time travel.
StarWars on the otherhand takes place a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away. It doesn't suffer from the issue that trek does because star wars doesn't express their time line in terms of meaningful dates.
Will it pull a Star Trek and contradict everything we know already?
Unlike Star Trek, I believe these three scripts existed beforehand. At least that's the rumor I hear, a rumor supported by the fact that "episode IV" was the first one we saw in the theater in the late 1970s.
Also, unlike Star Trek... they only had 3 movies to pay attention to before starting to release pre-quils, now only 5 movies. I believe they will stick with the origional contraditions such as the infamous wookie one.
As it is, it's just a 7th grade wood shop project.
Most of the stuff you can buy at Ikea can easily be duplicated by a 7th grade woodshop student. But people buy it anyway.
I consider my self very much an amateur when it comes to woodworking. In fact I would even go as far as saying that my skill level is that of a 7th grade woodshop student. Never the less pieces i've made made for sale or as gifts are still in service.
Don't knock the fundimentals.
and it's just plywood, taboot
Don't knock plywood. You're allowed to knock partical board, but not ply. People spend major bucks on things constructed with partical board. For prototyping nothing beats cheep pine ply. For a final product, oak ply is quite nice. If I were to do a wooden case, i'd use a very liberal amount of ply and limit my use of hardwood to segments that require it, such as a curved front panel.
Perhpas he misread the first line like I did "And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torrents. . ." Luke 16:23
I wondered why it didn't seem to very popular. I soon realized that here in America nobody would ride one of these because of the social implications.
While I'm not about to discount the social implications of riding an electric bike... but let's not discount the safety implications of riding a bike in general in the USA. Frankly in most of the areas i've lived, it's not exactly safe. You *could* ride on the sidewalk, but the rules of the road state that bikes belong on the street. Streets are often not geared tward bicycle traffic, let alone pedestrian traffic. Downtown areas you must play the game of dodging the parked cars and prevent from being hit by rear-comming cars crussing at speeds 25mph+. Major arterials are also not exactly safe either. Nicer ones have sholders or provisions for pedestrian traffic, others have no sholder what so ever. Users in cars get most angry when they can't pass you.
Some cities are smart enough to actually retrofit bike lanes, and put in sidewalks. Perhaps they finally noticed that people under the age of 16 need to get from point A to point B without getting hit by cars. From what I've observed, this is rather an exception to the rule. America thinks in terms of cars and not people.
What's greener, a bike powered by human-power, or a bike powered by electricity (which has to come from somewhere....fossil fuels, anyone)? I vote human-powered bikes.
This would depend on where you get your engery from. Humans require engery in the form of food. Food must come from somewhere. Food requires land, soil, nutrients, in many cases livestock. Methane production of a cow for example is pretty signigent. Not to speak of the waste product of humans, which nothing to sneeze at as we are talking about a country with billions of people.
I'm not saying you are wrong, all I'm saying it's not a clear cut equation to balance the effect on the ecosystem between the use of human power and the use of electrical power.
The RCW only states that you can exceed the posted speed limit, up to the state speed limit, which is 60.
Thank you kindly for your responce, can you provide a link or RCW number? What you're saying has the ring of truth... i'm just too lazy to sort through the RCW and WAC at the moment. My memory is still leaning tward a reference to 10 or 15mph.
I'm probally vague on the 60 issue because for one, the speed limit was 55mph at the time I took my test, and also the simple fact that I don't know of any two lane undivided highways that are marked much more then 45mph.
I'm too lazy to dig up the RCW in my case, but it's generrally accepted that that you can go faster then the posted limit for passing on the left on a two lane highway. It was what I learned in driver's education, it was what was printed in the state issued driving manual, and it was on my damn written test. You generally pass someone as quickly as possible, esp large trucks dumping rocks on your windshield.
Streetdot epoxy is among the strongest glues I know of for good reason. They are practicaly impossible to remove without removing a large segemnt of asphalt. I've tried collecting street dots, and the only way to do it is with a pickaxe... and you try going in the street with a pickaxe and playing a game of collect the dots.
(sensor)...Triggers High power magnetron, under car chasis
Can o' spray paint 99cents. Likely $2.00 if you want it in street dot yellow, white, or orange.
Knowing you can speed safely along that strech of road... priceless!
I'd much rather have my car know the max speed on a given road for a given set of conditions and not be allowed to go over the max speed
There are times when going over the speedlimit not only legal, but done for saftey reasons. Passing another car on a two lane highway is one case where it's perfectly acceptable to go 10 or 15mph over the posted limit depending on the state's local laws. Even smaller towns near where I live who depend on speeding tickets for income when I told the judge I was passing a truck halling rocks, he understood and threw it out.
I wouldn't object to a system where my car would understand the speed limit and beep at me if i'm going over, nor would I object to a cruse control i'm able to set at that speed, so long as I can override it for passing or other emergencies.
Funny thing is - the metric system was here before your system came around.
We get our system from the English actually.
Also, the metric system I believe started in France post revolution, so 1790s or so (correct me if I'm wrong). The american revolution was 1776, but modern america under the current constitution was 1787. The metric system only became the exclusive standard of France at the start of 1840. While the French were most helpful in the American Revolutionary war as i'm sure Corwallis noticed... we were not exactly on good terms with France after the war. Something to do with fear of a new anglo-saxon alliance, as well as our desire to extend from sea to shining sea. And because the French goverment wasn't exactly stable, it didn't seem wise to adopt their system of measurement. Besides by the early 1800s there already was a standard of measurement common among all the states. Converting to metric would require going to France to double check measurements.