My opthamologist and most of the other doctors in his office have had PRK done. They're all way psyched about it (they refer the work out to a specific doctor, but I'm sure they get some kind of kickback for the referral).
Lasik is not the only option...my opthamologist recommended PRK instead of Lasik, if I could 1)stand a higher level of pain (he did offer very good drugs), and 2) wait through a slightly longer recovery time (about a week).
I decided to wait, though. The question above does not indicate the gender of the writer. My opthamologist said that having children can change a woman's eyesight enough that the surgery or corrective lenses would be needed again - so I am going to wait until we are done having kids. I'm not that unhappy with my contacts anyway since I switched to 30-day extended wear contacts, which seem to last about two months before I have to change them out.
I'm curious...how long ago did you have your surgery? My opthamologist claims that the starbursts and halos are preventable by proper screening. Apparently, from what he says, some people's corneas are too large to perform the surgery on and some people's eye tissue (can't remember which tissue) is not thick enough. He claims the screening for these factors is relatively new.
Can you imagine the tech support nightmare the customers would have to go through every time they had a problem with their phone/service? Having the service provider dictate the phones which may be used with their service at least means that I can call one number whether the problem is with the phone or with the service (especially if I am not sure which it is).
I know the problems we have had with our DSL (Qwest provides the line in, a local ISP provides the bandwidth) have been handed off between the two providers ad nauseum, I don't want that kind of problem with my cell phone.
In our last apartment we had the dish pointing out the window. Worked fine. Here is how the setup worked:
We had a loft on the north wall of the apartment. The apartment had a south-facing window directly across from the loft.
We mounted the satellite dish to the floor level of the loft (I am not sure how to explain it - it was mounted to the vertical side of the loft floor, so that it was visible from the loft but not taking any floor space).
We pointed the dish out the window, and made the minor adjustments necessary to get optimum signal. There was no screen on the window, and we never got any interference from the window - matter of fact, the only time we ever got interference was when our cats would jump from the loft into the windowsill. I think the lowest our signal ever went was about 85.
Now we live in a house, and I can tell you the bonus to having had it mounted inside the apartment - we never had to scrape snow from the dish during a blizzard, and never had the wind knock it out of alignment! It sure was ugly, but, what the hell, we're geeks, it would be unnatural to NOT have funky hardware as part of the decor. If we ever have to go that route again I might paint it, though...
Patching the holes when we moved out was a five-minute job, btw.
Well...since you'd be rolling back from 9.0 to 0.9.1, I think that might be a bad move...
Seriously, I went to take a look at the release notes linked to on the download page and got taken to the 0.9 page, but you can see the release notes for 0.9.1 here. This should give you enough info to judge whether you want to upgrade.
You don't remember the fundraiserWikipedia had to go through several months ago to buy new hardware? They ended up raising the $20K they needed and then some...
80% of the machines you see are in due to patchable problems....Does that mean that the whole world is mentally ill because 80% of the people a shrink sees are crazy? I would think that for the most part a computer doesn't end up in your shop unless there's a problem that the user can't fix - this does not mean that 80% of Windows users don't take care of their computers.
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Doesn't sound better to me - in fact, it sounds worse. Dogs eventually learn where the electric fence is, so they stopped being shocked on a regular basis - only on the very occasional instances when they get stupid and try to head for the fence (my in-laws have one of these fences, and after the first few days their dogs have stayed well away from the fences).
The cows won't get the reinforcement that the fence is in the same place every day. They won't be provided with a visual cue (i.e. an actual fence that gets moved) to help them know where to hang out.
I can't imagine that the stress of seemingly random shocks can be good for the mental health of the cows, or the quality of their meat and milk (I'm not terribly familiar with cow milking, but I know in human females stress levels have a severe impact on nursing).
You didn't imagine it, but perhaps a clearer understanding of the technique can be achieved by reviewing the previous discussions. Here's a link to the Slashdot article that discussed this last January.
It's considered a heinous crime, and so anyone who complains too loudly could easily be seen as supporting child porn rather than supporting free speech/free internet. From a political standpoint, child porn is a great choice to ban first.
You're assuming that Disney sent Moore money to work on this movie. There are a few obvious assumptions here that haven't been proven. Please read this to have a good understanding of the situation - where Moore admits that Disney told him last year that they would not distribute the film. Miramax obviously went against the wishes of their parent company by continuing to send Moore money. I would think that if there were a distribution contract with Disney, Moore would be flashing it around as proof. Have you seen a copy of it? I haven't.
The statement that Disney is afraid of tax breaks being removed is also out of Moore's mouth, an unreliable and biased source.
If this is supposed to be such a blockbuster hit, wouldn't it bring in more money than a few years of tax cuts? Disney is a publicly held company, I would think the financial statements would be available to verify this. I don't think that Jeb Bush is more powerful than Disney - if Disney got hacked at Jeb Bush, they could start pumping enough publicity and money into the Florida political system to make sure he wasn't the next governor.
The government does not have the obligation to fund ANY art - and if you don't like what they are funding/not funding, vote and send your money to fund the stuff that you like that isn't being funded. The assumption it seems a lot of people make is that the government is obligated to fund things - if more people would start making donations out of their own pockets/time to fund the things they want their money to go to, their would be less need for government funding, and therefore fewer complaints of 'my money's funding something I don't like'.
IIRC, the reason the film is not being released is because Disney refused to release it in an election year (a move I agree with) - not with the distributors. The timing on the attempted release by Moore of this movie is as politically suspect as the timing and direction of the 9-11 commission.
If I also recall correctly, Moore was told as early as the summer of 2003 that the movie was not going to be released by Disney. He waited until the election year to scream 'censorship'.
While I've got your eye here, I want to take a moment to bitch about Michael Moore's use of the word 'censorship'. The guy repeatedly complains that Disney is 'censoring' his work. It seems to me, anyway, that Disney should have final say in what they do and don't release - they're not a government agency, they're a freakin company. Moore has the right to say what he wants to say, but where does he get the idea that he can force companies into distributing his ideas for him? I might as well call the Today show and demand that Katie Couric interview me so that I can go off on her about her liberal bias! Why can't some people (yes, read: liberals) tell the difference between the government telling you that you can't say something and a company telling you they're not going to spend their money to broadcast your ideas?
The study you are quoting (which speaks highly of NPR) was conducted by The Program on International Policy Attitudes, which has many of the same funders as NPR. The director of PIPA is a well-known liberal. (Check the 'About us' link from the front page). This is obviously an attempt to create an appearance that NPR is a better news source.
Yeah, it works great until someone who is essential can't get an emergency call because you've jammed the cell phone of the teenage brat sitting two rows over from him.
A much better technique for dealing with kids (especially ones under the age of 16) is to step directly in front of them, crouch down to their eye level, and tell them that if they don't STFU, that you are going to follow them out to their parents' car after the movie and tell their parents that their kids are not mature enough to attend movies alone. Works every time.
Now that I'm straying off-topic, I might as well mention my two other pet peeves re cell phones and movies: 1. The person who looks at their lit cell phone screen every ten minutes in a movie (sat next to one of those last night - if it was YOU, thanks for repeatedly distracting me with your cell phone and your incessant chatter during the only movie I've gotten to see in months), and 2. The person who stands just inside the theater doors and talks at a normal tone on their cell phone, not realizing that sound really carries from that area and it is more disturbing than if they were whispering in the theater.
The two I bought a few years ago weren't membrane keyboards, they were the real clicky deal. I haven't shopped their stuff lately - the keyboards I bought from them were well worth the $60 each I spent on them, and I am HARD on keyboards.
I will be disappointed in they go to membrane only keyboards.
Filling your computer with packing peanuts will fry your computers as they get into the fans, and as they build up static electricity. Works much better with wadded-up newspaper.
Try a dvortyboard. Even with both sets of key labeling on the keyboard, it really fucked with our IT group whenever they wanted to do stuff on my computer. (The dvorak letters are in the center of the key and about twice the size of the qwerty letters, which are in the upper right hand corner of the key.)
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My opthamologist and most of the other doctors in his office have had PRK done. They're all way psyched about it (they refer the work out to a specific doctor, but I'm sure they get some kind of kickback for the referral).
Lasik is not the only option...my opthamologist recommended PRK instead of Lasik, if I could 1)stand a higher level of pain (he did offer very good drugs), and 2) wait through a slightly longer recovery time (about a week).
I decided to wait, though. The question above does not indicate the gender of the writer. My opthamologist said that having children can change a woman's eyesight enough that the surgery or corrective lenses would be needed again - so I am going to wait until we are done having kids. I'm not that unhappy with my contacts anyway since I switched to 30-day extended wear contacts, which seem to last about two months before I have to change them out.
I'm curious...how long ago did you have your surgery? My opthamologist claims that the starbursts and halos are preventable by proper screening. Apparently, from what he says, some people's corneas are too large to perform the surgery on and some people's eye tissue (can't remember which tissue) is not thick enough. He claims the screening for these factors is relatively new.
This could be emphasized by the speculation in the article that this macaque's bipedalism is CAUSED by brain damage...
If you're going to spam the pope, at least do it right: john_paul_ii@vatican.va
Can you imagine the tech support nightmare the customers would have to go through every time they had a problem with their phone/service? Having the service provider dictate the phones which may be used with their service at least means that I can call one number whether the problem is with the phone or with the service (especially if I am not sure which it is).
I know the problems we have had with our DSL (Qwest provides the line in, a local ISP provides the bandwidth) have been handed off between the two providers ad nauseum, I don't want that kind of problem with my cell phone.
In our last apartment we had the dish pointing out the window. Worked fine. Here is how the setup worked:
We had a loft on the north wall of the apartment. The apartment had a south-facing window directly across from the loft.
We mounted the satellite dish to the floor level of the loft (I am not sure how to explain it - it was mounted to the vertical side of the loft floor, so that it was visible from the loft but not taking any floor space).
We pointed the dish out the window, and made the minor adjustments necessary to get optimum signal. There was no screen on the window, and we never got any interference from the window - matter of fact, the only time we ever got interference was when our cats would jump from the loft into the windowsill. I think the lowest our signal ever went was about 85.
Now we live in a house, and I can tell you the bonus to having had it mounted inside the apartment - we never had to scrape snow from the dish during a blizzard, and never had the wind knock it out of alignment! It sure was ugly, but, what the hell, we're geeks, it would be unnatural to NOT have funky hardware as part of the decor. If we ever have to go that route again I might paint it, though...
Patching the holes when we moved out was a five-minute job, btw.
Erm...If he can't install a browser of his choice at work, why would he be allowed to install a registry scanner of his choice?
Wellll...several people DID point out that the fox 'looks like he's having a little too much fun with the globe'...
Have THAT walking around in your head for a few days, whydontcha?
Well...since you'd be rolling back from 9.0 to 0.9.1, I think that might be a bad move...
Seriously, I went to take a look at the release notes linked to on the download page and got taken to the 0.9 page, but you can see the release notes for 0.9.1 here. This should give you enough info to judge whether you want to upgrade.
You don't remember the fundraiser Wikipedia had to go through several months ago to buy new hardware? They ended up raising the $20K they needed and then some...
80% of the machines you see are in due to patchable problems....Does that mean that the whole world is mentally ill because 80% of the people a shrink sees are crazy? I would think that for the most part a computer doesn't end up in your shop unless there's a problem that the user can't fix - this does not mean that 80% of Windows users don't take care of their computers.
Doesn't sound better to me - in fact, it sounds worse. Dogs eventually learn where the electric fence is, so they stopped being shocked on a regular basis - only on the very occasional instances when they get stupid and try to head for the fence (my in-laws have one of these fences, and after the first few days their dogs have stayed well away from the fences).
The cows won't get the reinforcement that the fence is in the same place every day. They won't be provided with a visual cue (i.e. an actual fence that gets moved) to help them know where to hang out.
I can't imagine that the stress of seemingly random shocks can be good for the mental health of the cows, or the quality of their meat and milk (I'm not terribly familiar with cow milking, but I know in human females stress levels have a severe impact on nursing).
You didn't imagine it, but perhaps a clearer understanding of the technique can be achieved by reviewing the previous discussions. Here's a link to the Slashdot article that discussed this last January.
It's considered a heinous crime, and so anyone who complains too loudly could easily be seen as supporting child porn rather than supporting free speech/free internet. From a political standpoint, child porn is a great choice to ban first.
Yeah, that's the kind of kid you end up with if you don't start spending quality time with him/her early...
You're assuming that Disney sent Moore money to work on this movie. There are a few obvious assumptions here that haven't been proven. Please read this to have a good understanding of the situation - where Moore admits that Disney told him last year that they would not distribute the film. Miramax obviously went against the wishes of their parent company by continuing to send Moore money. I would think that if there were a distribution contract with Disney, Moore would be flashing it around as proof. Have you seen a copy of it? I haven't.
The statement that Disney is afraid of tax breaks being removed is also out of Moore's mouth, an unreliable and biased source.
If this is supposed to be such a blockbuster hit, wouldn't it bring in more money than a few years of tax cuts? Disney is a publicly held company, I would think the financial statements would be available to verify this. I don't think that Jeb Bush is more powerful than Disney - if Disney got hacked at Jeb Bush, they could start pumping enough publicity and money into the Florida political system to make sure he wasn't the next governor.
The government does not have the obligation to fund ANY art - and if you don't like what they are funding/not funding, vote and send your money to fund the stuff that you like that isn't being funded. The assumption it seems a lot of people make is that the government is obligated to fund things - if more people would start making donations out of their own pockets/time to fund the things they want their money to go to, their would be less need for government funding, and therefore fewer complaints of 'my money's funding something I don't like'.
Do you have any evidence that the results are right, or do you just take everything blindly without considering the source?
IIRC, the reason the film is not being released is because Disney refused to release it in an election year (a move I agree with) - not with the distributors. The timing on the attempted release by Moore of this movie is as politically suspect as the timing and direction of the 9-11 commission.
If I also recall correctly, Moore was told as early as the summer of 2003 that the movie was not going to be released by Disney. He waited until the election year to scream 'censorship'.
While I've got your eye here, I want to take a moment to bitch about Michael Moore's use of the word 'censorship'. The guy repeatedly complains that Disney is 'censoring' his work. It seems to me, anyway, that Disney should have final say in what they do and don't release - they're not a government agency, they're a freakin company. Moore has the right to say what he wants to say, but where does he get the idea that he can force companies into distributing his ideas for him? I might as well call the Today show and demand that Katie Couric interview me so that I can go off on her about her liberal bias! Why can't some people (yes, read: liberals) tell the difference between the government telling you that you can't say something and a company telling you they're not going to spend their money to broadcast your ideas?
(Yeah, I have Karma to burn)
Please investigate your sources more carefully.
The study you are quoting (which speaks highly of NPR) was conducted by The Program on International Policy Attitudes, which has many of the same funders as NPR. The director of PIPA is a well-known liberal. (Check the 'About us' link from the front page). This is obviously an attempt to create an appearance that NPR is a better news source.
Yeah, it works great until someone who is essential can't get an emergency call because you've jammed the cell phone of the teenage brat sitting two rows over from him.
A much better technique for dealing with kids (especially ones under the age of 16) is to step directly in front of them, crouch down to their eye level, and tell them that if they don't STFU, that you are going to follow them out to their parents' car after the movie and tell their parents that their kids are not mature enough to attend movies alone. Works every time.
Now that I'm straying off-topic, I might as well mention my two other pet peeves re cell phones and movies: 1. The person who looks at their lit cell phone screen every ten minutes in a movie (sat next to one of those last night - if it was YOU, thanks for repeatedly distracting me with your cell phone and your incessant chatter during the only movie I've gotten to see in months), and 2. The person who stands just inside the theater doors and talks at a normal tone on their cell phone, not realizing that sound really carries from that area and it is more disturbing than if they were whispering in the theater.
WHEW! [/rant]
Unless you go to MS Tech Ed and get a free copy...but no one that reads /. would ever go to Tech Ed...
The two I bought a few years ago weren't membrane keyboards, they were the real clicky deal. I haven't shopped their stuff lately - the keyboards I bought from them were well worth the $60 each I spent on them, and I am HARD on keyboards.
I will be disappointed in they go to membrane only keyboards.
Filling your computer with packing peanuts will fry your computers as they get into the fans, and as they build up static electricity. Works much better with wadded-up newspaper.
Try a dvortyboard. Even with both sets of key labeling on the keyboard, it really fucked with our IT group whenever they wanted to do stuff on my computer. (The dvorak letters are in the center of the key and about twice the size of the qwerty letters, which are in the upper right hand corner of the key.)