First COVAD cut me off (I had IDSL service, which they don't support anymore). I thought I had a chance to change to northpoint, but now it looks like that's not an option either...
I'm 22k feet from the CO and I don't think I have other DSL options...
I don't think the headache is from the "software" having to deal with more resolution, it's from the "software" making the "hardware" do new things.
Your eyes are probably having to adjust to different optical parameters between the glasses and the contacts, such as a different "natural" focusing distance. The LASIK doctors can actually change this when you get the surgery - and sometimes they speficically make it "close" for one eye and "far" for the other.
I go through the same thing when I haven't worn my contact lenses for a long time and put them in - my eyes are dealing with a different set of focusing parameters. It feels like I'm trying to focus on a bug at the end of my nose (in a different way)
It could also be that you're starting to move your eyeballs. Glasses tend to have very good vision in the center only - with your eyeball pointing straight ahead. Move your eyeball and look off-center through the lens and your vision gets worse. Try it if you have glasses - look at a character on the screen while you move your head up and down and to the sides. It will be better
when you're looking straight on than if you're looking through the edges of your glasses. Spectral abberation also makes things fuzzy. This is where white light gets red "fringes" on one side and blue on the other and the resulting image gets fuzzy. Lots of people with glasses move their heads, not their eyeballs.
With contact lenses, you move your eyeball more. They say that really excellent athletes are good at moving their eyeballs (as well as the rest of their body!) Of course peripheral vision helps too - that's even faster than moving your eyeball.
I've also noticed that glasses make the Image I see smaller. My 21" monitor looks like a 18" monitor with glasses.
Here's where the "software" adaptability comes into play. When I change my glasses for my contact lenses, my flat screen looks concave. My glasses must curve the image for an imperceptible fisheye look which the contact lenses don't have. But my brain adjusted for it and said "THIS is flat".
I'm sure there are other types of distortion that I don't know about - and some of them can be corrected by using your eye muscles in new ways.
Oh yeah, no matter what kind of contacts you have, they cut off oxygen to the eye. I had gas-permeable hard lenses (because of astigmatism) and I could wear them all day. I now wear the toric type soft lenses and my eyes poop out after 8 hours. Glasses are excellent in that respect.
I have to agree. Google has been my primary search engine for a long time. The searches always come back with much more relevant information than other search engines and the lack of graphical ads REALLY speeds things up. What most people don't realize is that ad views usually entail numerous DNS lookups and HTTP 302 redirects that slow everything down. Deja was getting clumsier and clumsier to use all the time. Viewing a message thread took lots of page views and a lot of times I would run out of patience.
I think Google SAVED the archive, maybe deja was a reason usenet wasn't used as much.
Take a look at the OTHER system they announced at
the same time, the Netra-T1 AC200.
It has all the features as the X1 (swappable
hostid card, dual ethernet, rj45 console, usb,
pc133 memory), but it has hot-swap scsi drives
instead of IDE drives.
I like the IDE drives. You can really easily
have big cheap storage. I'd get one for my
home.
For work, the extra cost of scsi (like 5 or
more times the cost for the same size drive)
wouldn't be as much of a factor.
Check out PACE, they do a billing or contract programmers and have some great information on negotiating rates, getting gigs, etc. I'm not associated with them. I was just investigating a contract job with a company (no middlemen involved) and they came up as a billing option. They charge 5% for billing.
I have had a JVC/Dish Network D-VHS recorder for a few years. I've loved it.
It is basically a VHS tape mechanism with heads to record on the tape in a digital format instead of an analog format. Combined in the unit is a Dish Network satellite receiver.
It records the digital satellite bitstream directly without degradation.
It also records program information: title, actors, synopsis, critique (1-4 stars), time left,
etc.
The deck does not have digital inputs or outputs (save PCM/DD optical sound)
It can only record external analog inputs
It record at somthing like 14 mbits/second. I remember figuring out the tape capacity to be between 30 and 45 gig
The D-VHS tapes are just higher-quality VHS tapes that have special cutouts so they are recognized
Fortunately, these cutouts correspond exactly to S-VHS tapes, and S-VHS quality is close enough. On an ST-160 S-VHS tape (~$6-10), you can record 320 minutes of digital video. This is relatively cheap. Some people have experimented with using normal VHS tapes by melting the holes in the tape case or modifying the sensors in the VCR unit (I think they got reasonable results)
I remember looking at things a few years back and they had a different system called HD-VHS or SD-VHS or something with a higher bit rate for HDTV.
Right now, Tivo and other companies make hard-disk
"vcr's" have onboard hard disk drives used to
copy content off the air or off satellites.
Right now, it's quite easy to find instructions
on the net to upgrade the hard disks for more capacity.
I can see where they could have copy-protected
drives that could only be replaced/removed
by them. This would help "save" the movies from
"escaping" onto the big bad internet.
It would have the side effect of enforcing
prices (you only get the big drive if you pay
$599 for "our special drive", which costs $149
at Fry's).
A fascinating tidbit is that the human eye is also sensitive to ultraviolet light - but this is filtered out by the cornea and never reaches the retina.
During World War 2, they used people with replacement corneas to help coordinate nighttime paradrops. They had special markers that would be visible if you could see ultraviolet, but not to people with normal corneas.
So if you have cataract surgery when you get old, there might be a silver lining...
At first I had trouble getting the linux version
to download from behind a firewall. I poked around and found the sea version and the install miraculously worked fine.
Also the windows version would always crap out
during the install. (missing sdinst.dll) I
tried it a couple of days later and it just
started working. That's windows.
I wonder if Virginia has audited Microsoft and their subsidiaries this year.
The function of an operating system...
on
Is UNIX An OS?
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When I was in college (early 1980's), I was taught that an operating system's function was simple: to share resources. I would think that Unix shares resources quite well.
This makes it easy to assess the utility of other operating systems.
MSDOS has limited functionality - it shares disk at most. I won't even go into the windows realm...
BeOS is probably very good at sharing 1 CPU with it's threads (but I don't know BeOS).
The original Mac OS's didn't multitask well, if at all. Mac OS X may multitask, but it may not share 16 CPUs as well as Solaris.
Linux may share the disk better than Mac OS X with one of the new file systems.
You can ask all kinds of questions like this:
How well does {insert-os-here} share the sound card?
Then, there are libraries, but this is a level up from the basic functionality. Having a rich set of libraries would allow programs to share common code.
This is a little like those strange dreams you get when you buy a new video game and play it from friday night until saturday morning. When you finally get to sleep at 9:00 am, your dreams are somewhat colored by the game...
The higher-end cameras are coming out with some interesting features. Here is a review of the olympus E100RS digital camera. It captures at 15 frames per second, but the cool thing is that it features pre-capture. I guess it continuously takes pictures to a buffer, then dumps them when you press the shutter button. You can take photos backwards in time!
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thanks...
Ok, explain it to me... How is -$600,000 break even?
First COVAD cut me off (I had IDSL service, which they don't support anymore). I thought I had a chance to change to northpoint, but now it looks like that's not an option either...
I'm 22k feet from the CO and I don't think I have other DSL options...
I don't think the headache is from the "software" having to deal with more resolution, it's from the "software" making the "hardware" do new things.
Your eyes are probably having to adjust to different optical parameters between the glasses and the contacts, such as a different "natural" focusing distance. The LASIK doctors can actually change this when you get the surgery - and sometimes they speficically make it "close" for one eye and "far" for the other.
I go through the same thing when I haven't worn my contact lenses for a long time and put them in - my eyes are dealing with a different set of focusing parameters. It feels like I'm trying to focus on a bug at the end of my nose (in a different way)
It could also be that you're starting to move your eyeballs. Glasses tend to have very good vision in the center only - with your eyeball pointing straight ahead. Move your eyeball and look off-center through the lens and your vision gets worse. Try it if you have glasses - look at a character on the screen while you move your head up and down and to the sides. It will be better
when you're looking straight on than if you're looking through the edges of your glasses. Spectral abberation also makes things fuzzy. This is where white light gets red "fringes" on one side and blue on the other and the resulting image gets fuzzy. Lots of people with glasses move their heads, not their eyeballs.
With contact lenses, you move your eyeball more. They say that really excellent athletes are good at moving their eyeballs (as well as the rest of their body!) Of course peripheral vision helps too - that's even faster than moving your eyeball.
I've also noticed that glasses make the Image I see smaller. My 21" monitor looks like a 18" monitor with glasses.
Here's where the "software" adaptability comes into play. When I change my glasses for my contact lenses, my flat screen looks concave. My glasses must curve the image for an imperceptible fisheye look which the contact lenses don't have. But my brain adjusted for it and said "THIS is flat".
I'm sure there are other types of distortion that I don't know about - and some of them can be corrected by using your eye muscles in new ways.
Oh yeah, no matter what kind of contacts you have, they cut off oxygen to the eye. I had gas-permeable hard lenses (because of astigmatism) and I could wear them all day. I now wear the toric type soft lenses and my eyes poop out after 8 hours. Glasses are excellent in that respect.
I was wondering too.
So I looked...
She was pretty cute
Doesn't snaptrack inherently depend on information sent and received from servers through the cellular network (i.e. what satellites are up, etc?)
Did you notice the careful wording of the SR-71 description?
"The fastest known aircraft was the U.S. SR-71 Blackbird..."
Sorry, GPS doesn't work indoors.
It might work for the cell phones, but not
for the TV's. The TV's would require off-air
antennas for the broadcast signal.
I have to agree. Google has been my primary search engine for a long time. The searches always come back with much more relevant information than other search engines and the lack of graphical ads REALLY speeds things up. What most people don't realize is that ad views usually entail numerous DNS lookups and HTTP 302 redirects that slow everything down. Deja was getting clumsier and clumsier to use all the time. Viewing a message thread took lots of page views and a lot of times I would run out of patience.
I think Google SAVED the archive, maybe deja was a reason usenet wasn't used as much.
Take a look at the OTHER system they announced at
the same time, the Netra-T1 AC200.
It has all the features as the X1 (swappable
hostid card, dual ethernet, rj45 console, usb,
pc133 memory), but it has hot-swap scsi drives
instead of IDE drives.
I like the IDE drives. You can really easily
have big cheap storage. I'd get one for my
home.
For work, the extra cost of scsi (like 5 or
more times the cost for the same size drive)
wouldn't be as much of a factor.
Check out PACE, they do a billing or contract programmers and have some great information on negotiating rates, getting gigs, etc. I'm not associated with them. I was just investigating a contract job with a company (no middlemen involved) and they came up as a billing option. They charge 5% for billing.
Hope this helps
Right now, Tivo and other companies make hard-disk
"vcr's" have onboard hard disk drives used to
copy content off the air or off satellites.
Right now, it's quite easy to find instructions
on the net to upgrade the hard disks for more capacity.
I can see where they could have copy-protected
drives that could only be replaced/removed
by them. This would help "save" the movies from
"escaping" onto the big bad internet.
It would have the side effect of enforcing
prices (you only get the big drive if you pay
$599 for "our special drive", which costs $149
at Fry's).
which would suck.
It is:
A fascinating tidbit is that the human eye is also sensitive to ultraviolet light - but this is filtered out by the cornea and never reaches the retina.
During World War 2, they used people with replacement corneas to help coordinate nighttime paradrops. They had special markers that would be visible if you could see ultraviolet, but not to people with normal corneas.
So if you have cataract surgery when you get old, there might be a silver lining...
You would have web access, but not a phone?
:-)
At first I had trouble getting the linux version
to download from behind a firewall. I poked around and found the sea version and the install miraculously worked fine.
Also the windows version would always crap out
during the install. (missing sdinst.dll) I
tried it a couple of days later and it just
started working. That's windows.
doesn't transmeta IPO today?
I wonder if Virginia has audited Microsoft and their subsidiaries this year.
When I was in college (early 1980's), I was taught that an operating system's function was simple: to share resources. I would think that Unix shares resources quite well.
This makes it easy to assess the utility of other operating systems.
MSDOS has limited functionality - it shares disk at most. I won't even go into the windows realm...
BeOS is probably very good at sharing 1 CPU with it's threads (but I don't know BeOS).
The original Mac OS's didn't multitask well, if at all. Mac OS X may multitask, but it may not share 16 CPUs as well as Solaris.
Linux may share the disk better than Mac OS X with one of the new file systems.
You can ask all kinds of questions like this:
How well does {insert-os-here} share the sound card?
Then, there are libraries, but this is a level up from the basic functionality. Having a rich set of libraries would allow programs to share common code.
Any comments?
This is a little like those strange dreams you get when you buy a new video game and play it from friday night until saturday morning. When you finally get to sleep at 9:00 am, your dreams are somewhat colored by the game...
Would this also help when copying large quantities of files to an empty file system?
Doesn't it take longer to write directory information than file data? If you have a power failure (unlikely), you could just start over.
It was prbably me that did thta.
But my typing skils are geting stroger.
Now wait a minute, this has every chance of being the smashing success that the Sony Elcassette was!
The higher-end cameras are coming out with some interesting features. Here is a review of the olympus E100RS digital camera. It captures at 15 frames per second, but the cool thing is that it features pre-capture. I guess it continuously takes pictures to a buffer, then dumps them when you press the shutter button. You can take photos backwards in time!