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  1. Re:Any Oculus Rift developers in the house? on Play Tetris To Fix Your Lazy Eye · · Score: 1

    Or you could be proactive before the surgery and not need it. They don't tell you that either. Doctors like to cut.

  2. Re:Any Oculus Rift developers in the house? on Play Tetris To Fix Your Lazy Eye · · Score: 1
    3d vision is awesome. There are several things you can do while using awareness to correct your eyes.

    Eye exercises. Move your lazy eye around in the socket, bringing awareness to the motion. While being aware of the motion, are you aware of what the eye is seeing? Use this exercise to differentiate between total range of motion of the eye, and effective range of the eye in terms of sight (we need overlapping FOV's for stereo).

    Use beads on a string to help with convergence.

    Use smooth back and forth neck movements to help with keeping convergence while the scene in front of you changes.

    Stare at the sun. Seriously, just do it in the morning or evening when UV is low. Burning your eyes and making you blind is just a lie invented by some doctor, look it up. The purpose being, the fovea bleaches a different colour than your peripheral vision. Sun gazing will show you where both eyes are focusing, a perfectly bleached circle for the good eye and some phase of the moon for your lazy eye. Use that to consciously adjust your lazy eye.

    You could always just wait for someone to invent a pill for you, it's the way of the world after all. Or you can take your health into your own hands.

  3. Re:3D? on Play Tetris To Fix Your Lazy Eye · · Score: 2
    No. You really don't. If you're brain has learned to see in '3d' because you grew up with two functioning eyes, then when you cover one eye your brain can use some of the algorithms it's learned to generate '3d'. With one eye you never develop those and you can't see '3d'. It's even hard to distinguish objects, depending on your field of view. With only one functioning eye the world is a painting with wildly changing boundaries that seem to defy logic and roads that always lead upwards.

    So glad that's over.

  4. Re:So, it's like augmented reality? on Play Tetris To Fix Your Lazy Eye · · Score: 1
    Same here. No prisms or surgery, just meditation and building awareness of what my eyes were doing.

    A method that has existed for over 100 years is to have a string with a few different coloured beads attached strung between an object (door handle) and your hand. Traverse the string with your eyes making each bead come into focus.

    It's rather sad, but a major fact of capitalism, that the whole eye industry has nothing to do with actually 'correcting' your vision. The whole industry could be wiped out with proper education of how to use your eyes.

  5. Re:That title has quite a spin on it. on RCMP Says Terror Plot Against Canadian Trains Thwarted · · Score: 1

    Not anymore, did away with the gun registry in 2012. We do keep tax records though.

  6. Re:Dream on. on Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device? · · Score: 1

    Give a man insight in how to better his life and get modded down by ignorant people. Got to love slashdot.

  7. Re:Relevance differs among viewers on Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device? · · Score: 1
    Just like reality's definition of relevant may differ from a viewer.

    If a person had this under control, had the ability to focus on what is relevant, don't you think they would do so instead of making themselves sick?

    This should be a clear wake up call to anybody that has these problems that they need to work on how they visually acquire information.

  8. Re:Things That Make You Go "Hmmm..." on RCMP Says Terror Plot Against Canadian Trains Thwarted · · Score: 1

    Your bowels are immense.

  9. Re:That title has quite a spin on it. on RCMP Says Terror Plot Against Canadian Trains Thwarted · · Score: 1

    Which really probably just means the RCMP called up the FBI and asked "ever hear of these guys?". We tend not to keep huge databases on everybody like the police state south of us.

  10. Re:I should hope so... on China Leads in "Clean" Energy Investment · · Score: 1

    And what happens when you compare countries by emissions per capita???

  11. Re:More than one on Physicist Proposes New Way To Think About Intelligence · · Score: 1

    You're not very intelligent if you can't see how someone could be intelligent in all these fields.

  12. Re:Dream on. on Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Your life must be a mess if you don't know how to focus on RELEVANT details.

  13. Re:If two people lock down a major city.... on Bruce Schneier On the Marathon Bomber Manhunt · · Score: 1
    You've bought the government's 'terrorist' spiel hook, line, and sinker.

    The USA government has built a strawman and called him a terrorist. Get a clue, a 'terrorist's' motives aren't to cause terror. That's the motive of the government with their strawmen.

  14. Re:Good thing it's dead on The Forgotten Macro Language of HTML: XBL 2.0 · · Score: 1

    lisp

  15. Re:The big question on Interviews: James Randi Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2

    So you're argument is that science has made modern translations more accurate and suddenly changed centuries of dogma? Not thinking properly are you? Stop being an idiot and realize that what I am saying is the science. Modern understanding of language usage at the time of writing the documents shows that they are all talking about the same things. Choosing a first edition is not arbitrary, it is the most logical starting point. Spend more time learning to think than spewing out canned dogmatic insults. The dogma makes them different. Anyone who continuously talks about an anthropomorfic god when disparaging christianity is responding only to dogma and not the what the documents actually say.

  16. Re:The big question on Interviews: James Randi Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1
    You might be able to read, but you need to work on your comprehension. Don't swallow the dogma that everyone pushes, investigate the originals in the original language, work through the translations of each word yourself and you might begin to see the truth.

    Or just stay comfortable in your beliefs founded on other people's words. Truth is free, but it costs you dearly.

  17. Re:The big question on Interviews: James Randi Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1
    Well, go back to the originals and not the modern interpretations heaped onto people. Karma and sin are the same thing. If you knew anything about the study of the torah and qabbalism you would know they talk about the illusion of reality.

    Nice try though.

  18. Re:The big question on Interviews: James Randi Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    except that really, all religious texts say exactly the same thing. The difference is in the dogmatic interpretations.

  19. Re:Why are journals *so* important? on Library Journal Board Resigns On "Crisis of Conscience" After Swartz Death · · Score: 1
    What a sheep. Perhaps you should argue that you should be judged on the quality of your research.

    Fear is what keeps people imprisoned.

  20. Re:reductio ad absurdum on Creationist Bets $10k In Proposed Literal Interpretation of Genesis Debate · · Score: 1

    Except you do see mathematicians trying to disprove shakespeare... as the author of some writings attributed to shakespeare. :)

  21. Re:Already ceded the relevant argument on Creationist Bets $10k In Proposed Literal Interpretation of Genesis Debate · · Score: 1

    God always makes everyday appearances. Some people are just too ignorant to realize what God is.

  22. Genesis and good programming practices on Creationist Bets $10k In Proposed Literal Interpretation of Genesis Debate · · Score: 1

    A good programmer designs his program first, even writes down some documentation. Then he implements, frequently needing to change the order of implementation from that of conception all the while doing some debugging along the way.

  23. Re:Open several pages in tabs to read later on Ask Slashdot: Getting Apps To Use Phones' Full Power? · · Score: 1

    menu->save page

  24. Calling evil evil isn't an insult, it's just the truth. Unfortunately, most people raised in modern 'capitalistic' societies no longer know the difference between good and evil.

  25. It's a given that dell isn't as smart as apple. Apple produes over 120 mw with their solar arrays while dell buys 120 from renewable sources. Apple is saving money by doing so, but they need capital to do so. I said as much so what's your problem? They're still evil. Doesn't mean an evilperson's actions that benefit themselves greatly can't benefit other people. In fact, society has advanced greatly by the actions of evilness.