Hmmm... Just hedging here. Maybe I should say that I don't own an iPod, but I do own a rio 500 which is an "audible device" and was enabled in this way.
Ok, I had the surgery, and I am in the unique position to do an A/B comparison of a corrected eye and an uncorrected eye. I had one eye done at a time, and after much frustration, decided not to get the second eye done.
I would NOT recommend it.
I was signed up for a the LASIK procedure, but at the last minute, they told me my corneal depth wasn't enough for LASIK. I was offered another newer surgery called LASEK which was supposed to be much better: no cutting of the cornea but the same laser accuracy. They put alcohol on your eye and loosen and fold back the epithelial layer covering the cornea. Then they etch your cornea with the laser and fold it back. It supposedly has a shorter healing time, less trauma from the cutting and doesn't have the "fallen circus tent effect". This happens when the LASIK corneal flap re-covers the cornea and gets little micro-striations from settling down on a flatter surface.
So, I had the left eye done, and continued to wear a soft contact lens in the right eye.
They say I have 20/20 vision in my left eye. My right eye with the contact lens does about 20/15.
My left eye is probably 20/20 in bright bright daylight. However, the darker it gets, the worse my vision becomes.
I believe what has happened is that the brighter the light is, the smaller your pupil closes down. With the pupil closed, only a small portion of your cornea is used to bring light into the eye and irregularities in the surface don't make much difference.
However, when the pupil opens up, you need a much more precise curve in your cornea to properly focus the light on your retina. I think that not only is the curve of my cornea imprecise, when my pupil opens some light comes through the portion of my eye not corrected by the laser. (And I had the "large pupil program")
At night, my left eye shows a confusing view of lights. Headlights from cars have a certain percentage focused at a point, but a large portion comes out in a halo (seems to be more to one side for me). Signs are quite difficult to read until I'm right up on them. If I didn't have my right eye to help, I would not trust myself to drive at night.
Movie theaters are another bother. You go in a theater and as soon as things get dim, the screen washes out for one eye.
My right eye is corrected by a soft Toric contact lens. It does significantly better in almost every case. Although it is nice to get up in the morning with SOME vision from the left eye, I have to put in my contact lens to get really crisp clear vision.
I can't sit at the computer screen in a dark room easily. It helps to have a bright light near the computer screen. This closes down the pupil and I get crisper vision in the left eye.
If I could do it again, I would definitely stick to my contacts.
My doctor seemed bothered that I was upset. He kept on trying to get me to compare the eye with the surgery to the same eye without any vision correction. Yeah, maybe things are better for the 5 minutes I need to put my lenses in in the morning, but really, is that meaningful?
I believe your vision will get worse than corrected vision, especially at night. Oh yeah, I can't wear glasses anymore because they change the size of the image that I see and though the brain can adjust for minor offsets in vision, it can't deal with two differently sized images.
I have a shuttle sv24 and it's really loud. I started peeking and poking inside, and it turns out it's the internal power supply that makes all the noise.
Unless you've been out of work for quite some time, I think it makes more sense to look around a bit for a good job you'll be satisfied with. It's been my experience that "You're only as good as your last job". That means unless you take extra care, people will mostly look at the last job on your resume and think that's what you do.
Of course, the less money tucked away, the harder it is to follow this path.
I would recommend an MSI Net PC or equivalent system. They are small and quiet, have limited power requirements with everything onboard and 2 pci slots if you want to add a second ethernet card for nat/firewall purposes.
This one is $179 without memory/hd/processor, which you could probaby scrounge (or buy for probably $100).
I have had two of these systems (not this exact model) for quite some time and they do really well with Linux.
I was thinking about this and I realized there's one more thing to think about:
Cheating!!
I've played counterstrike online and the whole game was spoiled when we realized that someone had a mod that let him zip around at supersonic speeds and take people out.
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I believe resizing with LVM is quite easy now. The command is e2fsadm and it knows about both ext2/ext3 and lvm.
Although LVM doesn't join two filesystems at the directory level, what it will do is allow you to have separate disk partitions and allocate and deallocate space from them from a pool made of of all your physical disks.
You can still have your/usr and/var (or/music or/video), but you can also add a new disk and give 20% of it to/music and 60% to/video and leave the rest unallocated for later. Or maybe shrink/music by 10gig and give it to/video.
I'm using redhat 7.3 and lvm is included. The only problem was that I didn't know how to load the lvm module at boot time. In the end, I mucked with/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to change this line from:
if [ -e/proc/lvm -a -x/sbin/vgchange -a -f/etc/lvmtab ]; then
I recommend pinnacle studio. The new verion is version 8 and it now understands DVD's with menus (even with motion). I don't know that it supports this drive (yet), but it does a pretty good job of editing your video. It's easy to use (which I can't say of the high-end stuff like adobe premiere), and it has all the codecs built in already to do mpeg1/vcd, mpeg2/scvd and dvd. It can even do windows media and real media, not that I've ever used them.
I think fiber is expensive because of the adapter, not the cabling. I think the cheapest GBIC I've ever seen is $90 and that doesn't include the nic (or switch port). Fiber gig nics are easily $150, where copper gig-e nics are around $40 complete.
I think at one point the record companies owned the rights to the name "prince". He created the symbol in protest. I think Emancipation came out when the contract expired.
I think the perfect geek exercise device would include a keyboard, a mouse and a controlled screen so that the screensaver would kick in if you failed to walk/jog/pedal/climb/etc...
That way you would *have* to exercise to check your email in the morning.
Make sure the battery is charged/new when you go to start up the transfer. That's the only time that transfers didn't work for me. The unix was on, but wasn't recognized. Put in a fully charged battery and you're good to go.
The Linix utilities and 3rd party win32 apps work great with my rio 500. I have been using riogeo which I paid a small amount of money for a long time ago, but there's also riorio which is free.
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Hmmm... Just hedging here. Maybe I should say that I don't own an iPod, but I do own a rio 500 which is an "audible device" and was enabled in this way.
This is WRONG
Apple SUPPORTS digital rights management in it's latest iPod devices.
It supports audible audiobooks, which are DRM-style audio books.
You "enable" an audible device (and you can enable only so many), and they your watermarked/locked content only can play on that device.
See the ipod page for a little info.
Ok, I had the surgery, and I am in the unique position to do an A/B comparison of a corrected eye and an uncorrected eye. I had one eye done at a time, and after much frustration, decided not to get the second eye done.
I would NOT recommend it.
I was signed up for a the LASIK procedure, but at the last minute, they told me my corneal depth wasn't enough for LASIK. I was offered another newer surgery called LASEK which was supposed to be much better: no cutting of the cornea but the same laser accuracy. They put alcohol on your eye and loosen and fold back the epithelial layer covering the cornea. Then they etch your cornea with the laser and fold it back. It supposedly has a shorter healing time, less trauma from the cutting and doesn't have the "fallen circus tent effect". This happens when the LASIK corneal flap re-covers the cornea and gets little micro-striations from settling down on a flatter surface.
So, I had the left eye done, and continued to wear a soft contact lens in the right eye.
They say I have 20/20 vision in my left eye. My right eye with the contact lens does about 20/15.
My left eye is probably 20/20 in bright bright daylight. However, the darker it gets, the worse my vision becomes.
I believe what has happened is that the brighter the light is, the smaller your pupil closes down. With the pupil closed, only a small portion of your cornea is used to bring light into the eye and irregularities in the surface don't make much difference.
However, when the pupil opens up, you need a much more precise curve in your cornea to properly focus the light on your retina. I think that not only is the curve of my cornea imprecise, when my pupil opens some light comes through the portion of my eye not corrected by the laser. (And I had the "large pupil program")
At night, my left eye shows a confusing view of lights. Headlights from cars have a certain percentage focused at a point, but a large portion comes out in a halo (seems to be more to one side for me). Signs are quite difficult to read until I'm right up on them. If I didn't have my right eye to help, I would not trust myself to drive at night.
Movie theaters are another bother. You go in a theater and as soon as things get dim, the screen washes out for one eye.
My right eye is corrected by a soft Toric contact lens. It does significantly better in almost every case. Although it is nice to get up in the morning with SOME vision from the left eye, I have to put in my contact lens to get really crisp clear vision.
I can't sit at the computer screen in a dark room easily. It helps to have a bright light near the computer screen. This closes down the pupil and I get crisper vision in the left eye.
If I could do it again, I would definitely stick to my contacts.
My doctor seemed bothered that I was upset. He kept on trying to get me to compare the eye with the surgery to the same eye without any vision correction. Yeah, maybe things are better for the 5 minutes I need to put my lenses in in the morning, but really, is that meaningful?
I believe your vision will get worse than corrected vision, especially at night. Oh yeah, I can't wear glasses anymore because they change the size of the image that I see and though the brain can adjust for minor offsets in vision, it can't deal with two differently sized images.
I wonder how LOUD this thing is...
I have a shuttle sv24 and it's really loud. I started peeking and poking inside, and it turns out it's the internal power supply that makes all the noise.
I wonder how loud the other shuttle models are...
Unless you've been out of work for quite some time, I think it makes more sense to look around a bit for a good job you'll be satisfied with. It's been my experience that "You're only as good as your last job". That means unless you take extra care, people will mostly look at the last job on your resume and think that's what you do.
Of course, the less money tucked away, the harder it is to follow this path.
I would recommend an MSI Net PC or equivalent system. They are small and quiet, have limited power requirements with everything onboard and 2 pci slots if you want to add a second ethernet card for nat/firewall purposes.
This one is $179 without memory/hd/processor, which you could probaby scrounge (or buy for probably $100).
I have had two of these systems (not this exact model) for quite some time and they do really well with Linux.
Here is a pioneer car stereo with an OLED panel.
I was thinking about this and I realized there's one more thing to think about:
Cheating!!
I've played counterstrike online and the whole game was spoiled when we realized that someone had a mod that let him zip around at supersonic speeds and take people out.
It could be like punkbuster.
Why doesn't anybody think of it this way?
Yeah, but the PVR lets you forward through the slow stuff... ;)
Here is a very detailed article comparing Film vs. Digital
This might be better than some 35mm films, especially at the higher ISO ratings.
Of course, it may be easier to get larger film than a larger sensor...
What about Satellite?
I have a 40gb PVR and it's filled all the time.
Although LVM doesn't join two filesystems at the directory level, what it will do is allow you to have separate disk partitions and allocate and deallocate space from them from a pool made of of all your physical disks.
You can still have your
I'm using redhat 7.3 and lvm is included. The only problem was that I didn't know how to load the lvm module at boot time. In the end, I mucked with
audible is the best source of audio. The monthly fee gives you 2 downloads a month. Some of the books are 36 hours of audio. I need a longer commute.
I think they meant s/email/viruses/
I recommend pinnacle studio. The new verion is version 8 and it now understands DVD's with menus (even with motion). I don't know that it supports this drive (yet), but it does a pretty good job of editing your video. It's easy to use (which I can't say of the high-end stuff like adobe premiere), and it has all the codecs built in already to do mpeg1/vcd, mpeg2/scvd and dvd. It can even do windows media and real media, not that I've ever used them.
wrong camera - Maybe it's the EOS 300V (which is a 35mm film SLR).
The digital model is more like $6k
Here is a very good article comparing
Film vs. Digital
Bottom line: This camera can beat some 35mm films in resolution, but not all of them.
Digital still has a long way to go:
8x10 format film is equivalent to ~1000 Mpixel
I think fiber is expensive because of the adapter, not the cabling. I think the cheapest GBIC I've ever seen is $90 and that doesn't include the nic (or switch port). Fiber gig nics are easily $150, where copper gig-e nics are around $40 complete.
I think at one point the record companies owned the rights to the name "prince". He created the symbol in protest. I think Emancipation came out when the contract expired.
This is nothing new...
Gilligan did this years ago for the Professor.
in the book RAPID DEVELOPMENT (unfortunately a Microsoft Press book), they say:
- asking people to work long hours does not work. It always backfires
- telling people there's a crunch, "can you temporarily work a little harder?" usually does work.
unfortunately, I don't remember the exact words, but it was interesting reading.
The interesting link there was to robo-toms, a completely automated convenience store.
I think the perfect geek exercise device would include a keyboard, a mouse and a controlled screen so that the screensaver would kick in if you failed to walk/jog/pedal/climb/etc...
That way you would *have* to exercise to check your email in the morning.
Make sure the battery is charged/new when you go to start up the transfer. That's the only time that transfers didn't work for me. The unix was on, but wasn't recognized. Put in a fully charged battery and you're good to go.
The Linix utilities and 3rd party win32 apps work great with my rio 500. I have been using riogeo which I paid a small amount of money for a long time ago, but there's also riorio which is free.