Of course nobody can focus that close, so there are lenses btw. the display and the eye which moves the focus some feet away. It's still a fixed focus, though, which causes trouble when the focus does not match the stereo distance. The stress of the brain resolving this may cause eg. headaches.
Every time a discussion of the relative merits of urban vs. suburban living comes up on slashdot, there's someone like this, who declares a neat partition: that it's either an idyllic fantasy with sunny bbqs and kids playing in the yard and riding lawnmowers, OR tiny apartments with paper-thin walls in epic highrises in crime infested streets with not a patch of green to be found that isn't crawling with people you haven't ever seen before.
Private yard in the burbs, public needle-littered park in the city. Basketball in the driveway, urban courts with undesirables in the city.
*Such* bullshit. What planet are you from?
One explanation is that these folks have only ever been to downtown manhattan, (and never, you know, any of the other boroughs) or inexplicably toured the most burnt out dc ghetto and have used this experience to form opinions on every other big city.
Rooftop fucking gardens. *Such* bullshit. I thought americans were only supposed to be ignorant about OTHER countries.
I grew up in downtown Toronto, Canada. We had a big house with a big front and back yard in a residential neighborhood. Tree, sandbox, fort, garden. Driveway along the entire side of the house. Minutes on foot to subway, minutes to park with playground (and basketball courts, and hockey rink, and soccer field). There was a mall (with a big parking lot, if you absolutely need to drive) My dad was at a university and walked most days. We never did not have a car. I rode either the subway or streetcar to the school across town my parents wanted me to go to (there were "normal" schools within walking distance if I had gone there) and frequently rode a bike to high school. I don't have any reason to believe the schools were worse than those in the burbs.
My parents put a lot of effort into finding our house, and it paid off, but it is possible. It was a nice house, but there were smaller ones in the neighborhood.
My time spent in american cities bears this out too. I see the same mixed neighborhoods, the same parks and shopping. I live in oakland, ca now and there is no doubt there are some rotten neighborhoods here, but just living here does not automatically imply moving to those neighborhoods! There are a lot of middle-rise apartments here, but you don't have to live in those, either!
There is a good economic reason people still live in suburbs: you can get more for less. Our family was firmly in the middle class, but I don't know how far that would get you currently in a good neighborhood in a big city. If that's the reason, if you can't or don't want to afford it, fine. Then say that. I can't afford to own (currently), either. But enough with these nonsense dichotomys, this made up bullshit. I don't care if you lie to yourself about the motivations behind your lifestyle decisions, but please don't spread your misconceptions.
I hope you take this approach in all your interactions: don't listen, just judge on preconceptions. If you had listened, you'd see that nowhere did the GP demand that you give up your private car. You may also see that the purpose of the post was apparently not to convince you to give up said car, but only to consider that workably car-free lifestyle - neither urban nor suburb - may offer certain advantages. But they are lost on you, not because you've read and defeated the argument, but because anything that undermines your well-invested lifestyle so offends you that you shut your ears.
You're like some soviet academic whose entire life and career is invested in a communist system, and whose more open-minded colleague is trying to get through that a free market may sometimes be better, comrade, but who simply covers his ears and sings the national anthem. Cold, dead hands!!
and that's just the thing - it's a benchmark. The only thing this gets you is running the benchmark really fast - and who does that? What real user buys a card strictly to run benchmarks? Wouldn't you rather have your real applications run faster, app-specific optimizations or not?
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unthropic principle.
Of course nobody can focus that close, so there are lenses btw. the display and the eye which moves the focus some feet away. It's still a fixed focus, though, which causes trouble when the focus does not match the stereo distance. The stress of the brain resolving this may cause eg. headaches.
of a suitable size and material, and slice it in half, leaving 2 mobius strip rings. Present one to beloved.
IANAM; but I believe you will have to work in higher dimensions.
Uh, Feinstein is a woman.
Every time a discussion of the relative merits of urban vs. suburban living comes up on slashdot, there's someone like this, who declares a neat partition: that it's either an idyllic fantasy with sunny bbqs and kids playing in the yard and riding lawnmowers, OR tiny apartments with paper-thin walls in epic highrises in crime infested streets with not a patch of green to be found that isn't crawling with people you haven't ever seen before.
Private yard in the burbs, public needle-littered park in the city. Basketball in the driveway, urban courts with undesirables in the city.
*Such* bullshit. What planet are you from?
One explanation is that these folks have only ever been to downtown manhattan, (and never, you know, any of the other boroughs) or inexplicably toured the most burnt out dc ghetto and have used this experience to form opinions on every other big city.
Rooftop fucking gardens. *Such* bullshit. I thought americans were only supposed to be ignorant about OTHER countries.
I grew up in downtown Toronto, Canada. We had a big house with a big front and back yard in a residential neighborhood. Tree, sandbox, fort, garden. Driveway along the entire side of the house. Minutes on foot to subway, minutes to park with playground (and basketball courts, and hockey rink, and soccer field). There was a mall (with a big parking lot, if you absolutely need to drive) My dad was at a university and walked most days. We never did not have a car. I rode either the subway or streetcar to the school across town my parents wanted me to go to (there were "normal" schools within walking distance if I had gone there) and frequently rode a bike to high school. I don't have any reason to believe the schools were worse than those in the burbs.
My parents put a lot of effort into finding our house, and it paid off, but it is possible. It was a nice house, but there were smaller ones in the neighborhood.
My time spent in american cities bears this out too. I see the same mixed neighborhoods, the same parks and shopping. I live in oakland, ca now and there is no doubt there are some rotten neighborhoods here, but just living here does not automatically imply moving to those neighborhoods! There are a lot of middle-rise apartments here, but you don't have to live in those, either!
There is a good economic reason people still live in suburbs: you can get more for less. Our family was firmly in the middle class, but I don't know how far that would get you currently in a good neighborhood in a big city. If that's the reason, if you can't or don't want to afford it, fine. Then say that. I can't afford to own (currently), either. But enough with these nonsense dichotomys, this made up bullshit. I don't care if you lie to yourself about the motivations behind your lifestyle decisions, but please don't spread your misconceptions.
I hope you take this approach in all your interactions: don't listen, just judge on preconceptions. If you had listened, you'd see that nowhere did the GP demand that you give up your private car. You may also see that the purpose of the post was apparently not to convince you to give up said car, but only to consider that workably car-free lifestyle - neither urban nor suburb - may offer certain advantages. But they are lost on you, not because you've read and defeated the argument, but because anything that undermines your well-invested lifestyle so offends you that you shut your ears.
You're like some soviet academic whose entire life and career is invested in a communist system, and whose more open-minded colleague is trying to get through that a free market may sometimes be better, comrade, but who simply covers his ears and sings the national anthem. Cold, dead hands!!
so that the author knows that the reader knows what the author is talking about.
that's true, but why do you care?
and that's just the thing - it's a benchmark. The only thing this gets you is running the benchmark really fast - and who does that? What real user buys a card strictly to run benchmarks? Wouldn't you rather have your real applications run faster, app-specific optimizations or not?