I believe this also works in airports when your flight has been cancelled. Calling reservations to straighten it out can beat waiting in the customer service line to reroute you.
regarding the glasses... When I had glasses I found that I only had one section of vision in good focus -- the center. If I were to look at a screen full of black text on a white background, the text in the center of the screen would be in clear focus. But if I looked (by moving my eyes) away from the center, the characters would become more out-of-focus and would start splitting from black characters into characters with a blue tinge on one side and a red tinge on the other. The only way to correct this was to keep my eyeballs looking straight ahead and move my head and neck instead.
p.s. I can't have glasses now because with my one "corrected" eye and one uncorrected eye the image sizes would be different. What I could do is have glasses with a real lens and a lens with no correction (and wear a contact underneath)
That put me in the unique position of being able to do direct "camera 1" vs "camera 2" comparisons. Seeing stuff at night is complicated in camera 1. I sometimes close my good eye while driving and then snap it open so I can see.
If I had it to do over again, I would have stuck with contact lenses. Luckily I stopped treatment and still have one good eye.
Contact lens technology hasn't been standing still either -- They have toric soft lenses to correct astigmatism and they're very comfortable - don't know they're there.
This 20/20 vision thing is a vastlyover-simplified measurement. All it means is that you can make out some letters of a certain height at a certain distance.
But can you see those letters immediately or do you have to work to make them out? Do you see them in dim light? Do you see them if they're white on black? Do you see them if they're brighter letters next to dimmer letters? Could you read them if they were road signs at night?
All these people who say they were 20/400 or 20/800 and now they're 20/20 and stuff... I would bet they would have MUCH better correction with contact lenses. I do (camera 2)
Ask the doctor. I'll bet they compare:
UNCORRECTED vs. laser correction.
a fair comparison would be:
best corrected vision (contact lenses) vs. laser correction.
I think you'll find a different story. Ask what car headlights will be like at night. Ask if you'll be able to see a cat or bicycle crossing the road.
By the way, contacts are better than glasses. contacts have optical centers that follow your vision. They correct more than the middle of your field of view.
Just for fun, my mac summarized this for me (services->summarize): Look at the source articles and you get very different results because, of course, most are professionally written or edited -- although there is an interesting oddity in that ratings for files made up by pasting together stories posted by "Michael" are consistently at least one school year higher than comparable accumulations made from postings (other than press releases) by "Cowboyneal." :)
Even though I wasn't taking that course, I was curious and bought the book. Once I opened it, I couldn't put it down.
It is a an excellent look at curiosity and discovery, and a very funny book besides. The subject of the book, Physicist Richard Feynman, became a Nobel Prize winner.
Now you got me curious, and I watched all the videos.
I just didn't see it the way you did. He didn't seem to be speeding, he didn't run any red lights (although I might have seen a pause on red), and as for passing people -- "lane sharing" is legal in california. It's pretty much accepted that motorcyles pass cars on the freeway and pull up to the front of intersections. I expect to someone from another state it would be something to get used to.
Although you would think that a driving simulator should help a kid to drive, I'm skeptical.
I think driving simulators lack a couple of things that are very important to teaching the kid:
- 360 degree vision - true depth for depth perception and focus at a distance - actual control sizes and distances (to pedals) - true control feedback (think steering feedback, brake and especially clutch pedal feedback) - g-forces and motion etc...
Having worked on flight simulators and knowing what goes into a real training simulator, I would expect you would end up with negative training (training for something that will actually be different in real life that you will have to un-learn)
Real flight simulators have merit, but they have actual aircraft controls and instruments, have hydraulic motion bases, collimated visuals, meet exact standards for control and visual feedback (both force and timing), etc...... and they don't come anywhere close to the forces you regularly experience in a car.
My advice: rent or borrow an actual car. Teach him on backstreets or in empty parking lots. Maybe use a car with a parking brake lever between the front two seats... and keep your hand on it!;)
The slashdot descripton mentions that OCaml is the best....But when you follow the link, and look at the bottom of the page regarding the first prize winner, This is the proclamation.
Just to mention that the 10D does have different hardware, so this hack won't give all features, notably the faster frames per second and frames that are buffered.
The EOS-300D will shoot 4 frames at 2.5 frames per second and the EOS-10D will shoot 9 frames at 3 frames per second.
Also, the EOS-300D has a cheap-feeling plastic body while the EOS-10D has a black magnesium body.
I have an apple powerbook g4 (tibook dvi) and can't praise the sleep function highly enough. Sleep on this thing is well sorted out.
You can just close the lid at any time, while playing a movie, while listening to music, etc.. and it just works. A little LED begins to gently pulse on and off and the machine is in a sleep state.
I have left it in this sleep state for really long periods of time, like a day or two. After coming out of sleep, it doesn't seem to have discharged the battery at all (always like 2 or 3 hours available)
Once, I was watching a DVD on an airplane and finally discharged the battery all the way. 5 minutes before the battery ran out, the operating system popped up a message that it would put the system to sleep in a few minutes because the battery was low. I kept on watching the dvd and a few minutes later it did put the machine to sleep.
Later when I got home, my luggage was delayed and I left the machine in sleep all night long until the next day when the luggage was delivered (along with the charger).
I plugged the charger in and opened the lid and everything was there. discharged battery, all night in sleep and still everything was preserved.
I am really really impressed with the powerbook sleep. It just works and is trustworthy.
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I believe this also works in airports when your flight has been cancelled. Calling reservations to straighten it out can beat waiting in the customer service line to reroute you.
If it's portable, i think you should install:
lojack
I belive the Article mentioned:
Non-camera SKU available at launch
see this feature list
I think you should think of another number to send them to.
:)
You've inadvertently implemented a phone version of the netgear DoS of the university of wisconsin clock.
I'm sure you can be more creative with the phone number...
I've never understood why no one just started an all-hybrid cab company.
a sp?art_id=66215&cat_id=165
People are starting hybrid taxi companies:
http://www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.
It's well known that the saying "80 column mind" means that you're narrow minded. Google it. :)
You might want to look at graphviz:
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz
I've used the mac os x port and found it will create graphs from possibly script-generated input files in a simple syntax.
I think you're responding more to the thought that "microsoft says we need desktop search" and you don't want to be on the same side of the issue.
.
Desktop search is good. I wish it were easier than find+egrep, and a whole lot faster. I wish I had google search on my desktop.
Apple has advanced search in it's next OS in the form of Spotlight
Immediately obvious is email search, which google has tried to solve. (You just have to keep your email on their servers)
regarding the glasses... When I had glasses I found that I only had one section of vision in good focus -- the center. If I were to look at a screen full of black text on a white background, the text in the center of the screen would be in clear focus. But if I looked (by moving my eyes) away from the center, the characters would become more out-of-focus and would start splitting from black characters into characters with a blue tinge on one side and a red tinge on the other. The only way to correct this was to keep my eyeballs looking straight ahead and move my head and neck instead.
p.s. I can't have glasses now because with my one "corrected" eye and one uncorrected eye the image sizes would be different. What I could do is have glasses with a real lens and a lens with no correction (and wear a contact underneath)
I would have to second that.
I had correction done in one eye at a time.
That put me in the unique position of being able to do direct "camera 1" vs "camera 2" comparisons. Seeing stuff at night is complicated in camera 1. I sometimes close my good eye while driving and then snap it open so I can see.
If I had it to do over again, I would have stuck with contact lenses. Luckily I stopped treatment and still have one good eye.
Contact lens technology hasn't been standing still either -- They have toric soft lenses to correct astigmatism and they're very comfortable - don't know they're there.
This 20/20 vision thing is a vastlyover-simplified measurement. All it means is that you can make out some letters of a certain height at a certain distance.
But can you see those letters immediately or do you have to work to make them out? Do you see them in dim light? Do you see them if they're white on black? Do you see them if they're brighter letters next to dimmer letters? Could you read them if they were road signs at night?
All these people who say they were 20/400 or 20/800 and now they're 20/20 and stuff... I would bet they would have MUCH better correction with contact lenses. I do (camera 2)
Ask the doctor. I'll bet they compare:
UNCORRECTED vs. laser correction.
a fair comparison would be:
best corrected vision (contact lenses) vs. laser correction.
I think you'll find a different story. Ask what car headlights will be like at night. Ask if you'll be able to see a cat or bicycle crossing the road.
By the way, contacts are better than glasses. contacts have optical centers that follow your vision. They correct more than the middle of your field of view.
Just for fun, my mac summarized this for me (services->summarize):
:)
Look at the source articles and you get very different results because, of course, most are professionally written or edited -- although there is an interesting oddity in that ratings for files made up by pasting together stories posted by "Michael" are consistently at least one school year higher than comparable accumulations made from postings (other than press releases) by "Cowboyneal."
I REALLY question the "through the roof" one. You can't get a signal through the leaves of trees -- how could it go through a roof?
I was in the bookstore getting books for a class a couple (ahem) of years back, and I noticed an optional text for a compsci course:
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!".
Even though I wasn't taking that course, I was curious and bought the book. Once I opened it, I couldn't put it down.
It is a an excellent look at curiosity and discovery, and a very funny book besides. The subject of the book, Physicist Richard Feynman, became a Nobel Prize winner.
Just excellent.
You probably have eyestrain because the muscles in your eye are constantly in a state of tension.
This means you're probably straining to focus on a screen that's not naturally in focus.
I would think you need reading glasses.
Here's a good link with a very good explanation:
http://www.allaboutvision.com/cvs/faqs.htm
Now you got me curious, and I watched all the videos.
I just didn't see it the way you did. He didn't seem to be speeding, he didn't run any red lights (although I might have seen a pause on red), and as for passing people -- "lane sharing" is legal in california. It's pretty much accepted that motorcyles pass cars on the freeway and pull up to the front of intersections. I expect to someone from another state it would be something to get used to.
Although you would think that a driving simulator should help a kid to drive, I'm skeptical.
... and they don't come anywhere close to the forces you regularly experience in a car.
;)
I think driving simulators lack a couple of things that are very important to teaching the kid:
- 360 degree vision
- true depth for depth perception and focus at a distance
- actual control sizes and distances (to pedals)
- true control feedback (think steering feedback, brake and especially clutch pedal feedback)
- g-forces and motion
etc...
Having worked on flight simulators and knowing what goes into a real training simulator, I would expect you would end up with negative training (training for something that will actually be different in real life that you will have to un-learn)
Real flight simulators have merit, but they have actual aircraft controls and instruments, have hydraulic motion bases, collimated visuals, meet exact standards for control and visual feedback (both force and timing), etc...
My advice: rent or borrow an actual car. Teach him on backstreets or in empty parking lots. Maybe use a car with a parking brake lever between the front two seats... and keep your hand on it!
The slashdot descripton mentions that OCaml is the best. ...But when you follow the link, and look at the bottom of the page regarding the first prize winner, This is the proclamation.
It's not OCaml.
Glad they only look for Todo...
That means XXX and FIXME are in the clear!!
Actually yes, I bought one in march.
Maybe I should say instead that the eos-10d feels more solid and the black coloring makes it look more solid, along with the nikon d-70.
Just to mention that the 10D does have different hardware, so this hack won't give all features,
notably the faster frames per second and frames that are buffered.
The EOS-300D will shoot 4 frames at 2.5 frames per second and the EOS-10D will shoot 9 frames at 3 frames per second.
Also, the EOS-300D has a cheap-feeling plastic body while the EOS-10D has a black magnesium body.
Good headphones will give you exactly what you want and more...
Get a good set and you'll be amazed by the sound and your neighbors will be happy.
I recommend a high-end Sennheiser model, like the Sennheiser HD-580
After using them for a while, you won't go back to "computer speakers"
Get speakeasy. They have sane policies and not only don't treat you like a "user", they also have specific setups for sysadmins.
I have an apple powerbook g4 (tibook dvi) and can't praise the sleep function highly enough. Sleep on this thing is well sorted out.
You can just close the lid at any time, while playing a movie, while listening to music, etc.. and it just works. A little LED begins to gently pulse on and off and the machine is in a sleep state.
I have left it in this sleep state for really long periods of time, like a day or two. After coming out of sleep, it doesn't seem to have discharged the battery at all (always like 2 or 3 hours available)
Once, I was watching a DVD on an airplane and finally discharged the battery all the way. 5 minutes before the battery ran out, the operating system popped up a message that it would put the system to sleep in a few minutes because the battery was low. I kept on watching the dvd and a few minutes later it did put the machine to sleep.
Later when I got home, my luggage was delayed and I left the machine in sleep all night long until the next day when the luggage was delivered (along with the charger).
I plugged the charger in and opened the lid and everything was there. discharged battery, all night in sleep and still everything was preserved.
I am really really impressed with the powerbook sleep. It just works and is trustworthy.
People with bad eyes might want to view the screen in a vacuum to increase the speed of light.
That way they would only have to sit... ok, 59 feet away...
No.
Next question.