You're right, but you're looking at it wrong. For the mild myope - let's say -1 or so - their "far point" of focus is not at infinity but at some closer distance. All young people have a near point that is really, really close to the eye. With age, the far point remains the same but the near point grows farther away due to loss of accomodation. Myopes can continue to focus on relatively near objects much longer than their contemporaries. The effect is that someone whose myopia is mild enough not to require correction in order to drive, etc., will notice that they can still read small print longer than the other people their age. This creates the impression that the two have cancelled, especially in people like the OP who's probably in his mid-40s and has aged along with the growth in hi-res, large displays. He now has a range of vision that covers the entire screen easily, while his contemporaries are all using reading glasses to see up close.
If you're severely myopic, like me (-11 in contacts, -13 in glasses), then you already have to do total vision correction as-is. I have just noticed the beginnings of presbyopia at 34, as my near point has moved to about 6 inches from my eyes. 15 years ago that was maybe 2 inches. And if I take out my contacts, it's still 2 inches or so. So he's right in that you'll need glasses as you age if you get LASIK. He's just lucky enough to be able to get by without correction now: many of us can't.
Editing and writing are two very different skills. My wife is an honors English graduate of a public Ivy university who couldn't edit her way out of a paper bag - I take a red market to her work with abandon. But when she gets going she can turn out prose that would make you cry, and I can't.
What if you need ten jobs filled out of 100 applicants? Who do you interview? Filling one job from ten applicants is easy, but the process doesn't scale. For better or worse, we use degrees as a signal.
I never used it when it was Samna - I had Lotus Suite 3.1 - but Ami Pro was fantastic word processor. Lotus mangled it into Word Pro 4, which sucked. Of course, I'm slightly biased in that I was in college, majoring in chemistry, and it had - bar none - the best equation editor I've ever seen.
Well, there's not much point: Apple's potential market is not much larger than their current market, so the only way to take market share is to wrest it from them. But they've been doing it longer than you have, so they're better at it.
Fair enough. Care to come to my hometown and educate the locals? I know they don't exert any care because of a ticket my wife got - there's a speed trap that is occasionally set up outside my neighborhood. I was cited in it (although I really, really don't think I was speeding at all - as in, not even one mph over the limit - I think he got a car going the other direction; but I had been working all night, and it was downhill, so maybe), and a couple of months later, my wife comes home for lunch. She knows they've been working, and she sees the guys out there, running radar from a hidden location. Eats lunch. Leaves after lunch, KNOWING THE RADAR IS THERE. And gets a ticket for 15 over. While she's pulled over, one of many, the officers are joking with their buddy on a motorcycle, "Hey, Dave, you only got up to 55 there" - this, in a 35 mph zone. So it's not exactly a professional organization, more of one of those "just another gang with guns" type of police forces.
Your "it costs too much in gas and mileage" is a pretty reasonable answer; never thought of it that way. After all, "most people are going to stop their jackassery with a squad right behind them" is sort of the whole point of having marked cars in traffic, as I see it. Part of Broken Windows was vigorous enforcement of small offenses, but part of it was simply a large, visible police presence. That's expensive but reasonable. A $200 fine now and again doesn't do much to deter; it just functions like an "unlucky tax". (I've paid this tax three times in 20 years of driving; twice it was fair enough, while once it was the above-mentioned highly suspicious citation.)
Except for speeding, those are all behaviors that are observed in the flow of traffic by someone who is in that flow. Sometimes, when you're speeding - especially if it's a small amount, say 5-10 mph over the limit - you're doing something safer than staying back (like putting that erratic driver behind you, rather than in front). An officer in traffic will pull over the erratic driver; one in the median will pull over the speeder. Which one is the bigger danger?
Look, if officers are in traffic, pacing cars, and decide to pull people over for speeding - well, I still think it's wrong: if you want to assert that someone's behavior was reckless driving, then pull them over and cite them for reckless driving. But at least it's an observation that the driver is not merely responding briefly to something else in traffic but is instead truly ignoring the law.
If you're issuing tickets based on radar, you're not seeing a "behavior", you're seeing a number. Now, if you pull into traffic, and watch it, not only will you have your desired traffic-calming effect (as opposed to causing a bunch of people to hit the brakes), but you will actually see behaviors to punish. Isn't that how police identify bad guys in cities? By seeing someone suspicious, and then following them to try to confirm or deny that impression?
Yes, and then they wonder why nobody respects them...
Could be worse; I've listened to sheriff's deputies tell ridiculous stories, like "we tried to see if we could beat the helicopter there" (that involved exceeding 100 mph on a road better suited to 60) or "we pulled guns on a guy who had stolen his car back from the repo man". (Why? You knew where he lived. Arrest him when he gets to work in the morning.)
Ay, there's the rub. I know how to eat anything I want and have body fat below 10% - run around in the sun for three hours a day, four days a week, with 10 lbs of pads on, running into people and trying to move them. Then do it for an hour and a half on Friday. Not gonna happen.
It wasn't in Massachusetts. But yeah, the laws are really weird, especially when they don't formally repeal things that would be ruled unconstitutional.
Well, really it's a matter of consent - participating in porn will permanently change your life. We have, for good or ill, decided that an 18-year-old is mostly an adult and mostly able to make adult decisions, and that a 17-year-old is not. We just haven't updated the rest of the laws to match consent for sex, for which we have bowed to reality and acknowledged that sleeping with 17-year-olds is sleazy but not really criminal when you're in your 30s. I don't think that photos of 15-16-17 should be generally legal, as such; just that there should be some distinction made between a commercial porn enterprise and sending photos to your boyfriend/girlfriend.
People were furious because it seemed transparently obvious that the man was guilty. His race had nothing to do with it to most white people. (Most black people were focused on Furman's use of The N Word. While I don't share black America's paranoia about The Man, I've only been pulled over once for driving while white, so...)
I investigated age-of-consent issues in high school, when I was 18 and my girlfriend was 16. I found a plethora of laws that might apply, some of which are bizarre. While 16 is the enforced age of consent, there is still a law on the books that allows that statutory rape occurs when an 18-year-old (or older) has sex with a previously chaste person under 18 outside of marriage - the crime can only be committed on a victim once.
People may do as they choose, but I think that there's no problem with extending copyright out to 50 years or so - if you require the holder to register every 10 years in order to retain copyright. That solves the problem of abandonment.
I'm middle aged, white, and living in the deep south - and I would have hated Jeff Davis' government. But I don't like the one I have, either, because mine doesn't work. I had an insight about this a year or two ago, one that I haven't seen addressed anywhere else - my friends who are liberals grew up, largely, in places where government works, while the conservatives grew up in places where it doesn't. I suppose if I lived somewhere with safe, effective public schools, low crime, and so forth, I might not mind taxes. As it is, though, I have to pay for all of that once in taxes and again in private form. So I try to vote for smaller government, as hard as that is, because I think that smaller government wastes less money. I think that the line about "any government that can give you anything you want can also take it away" is a very good reason to keep government from getting power in the first place.
Large businesses have lots of money, and they will inevitably be able to turn regulation to their advantage - that's regulatory capture. (Viz. Mattel and the recent law about testing all toys - the big makers can run their own testing labs, while people on Etsy can't.) That's not to say we should give up, but that not all regulation is good - and we should be cautious when people come along saying that this tool, this method, will ensure that bad things will never again happen. I think the administration is utterly wrong about how to fix things, but seeing as they aren't counting on me to get reelected, my opinion's not worth much. So I'll ask you: what do you think is the "obvious" way through? Are you so confident that you can create a loophole-free regulatory scheme? Is that even what you meant?
Anytime, AC. I'm here for you. Please do feel free to debate anytime you have any evidence to argue with. I suppose the Nation is a tool of the man? BTW, the Angry Young Man act is well reinforced by the profanity. Bravo!
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They're great for presbyopia. If you correct your myopia with contacts, you'll still need them.
Indeed, it's LOWER than the Droid's resolution.
You're right, but you're looking at it wrong. For the mild myope - let's say -1 or so - their "far point" of focus is not at infinity but at some closer distance. All young people have a near point that is really, really close to the eye. With age, the far point remains the same but the near point grows farther away due to loss of accomodation. Myopes can continue to focus on relatively near objects much longer than their contemporaries. The effect is that someone whose myopia is mild enough not to require correction in order to drive, etc., will notice that they can still read small print longer than the other people their age. This creates the impression that the two have cancelled, especially in people like the OP who's probably in his mid-40s and has aged along with the growth in hi-res, large displays. He now has a range of vision that covers the entire screen easily, while his contemporaries are all using reading glasses to see up close.
If you're severely myopic, like me (-11 in contacts, -13 in glasses), then you already have to do total vision correction as-is. I have just noticed the beginnings of presbyopia at 34, as my near point has moved to about 6 inches from my eyes. 15 years ago that was maybe 2 inches. And if I take out my contacts, it's still 2 inches or so. So he's right in that you'll need glasses as you age if you get LASIK. He's just lucky enough to be able to get by without correction now: many of us can't.
Editing and writing are two very different skills. My wife is an honors English graduate of a public Ivy university who couldn't edit her way out of a paper bag - I take a red market to her work with abandon. But when she gets going she can turn out prose that would make you cry, and I can't.
What if you need ten jobs filled out of 100 applicants? Who do you interview? Filling one job from ten applicants is easy, but the process doesn't scale. For better or worse, we use degrees as a signal.
My favorite Word Process was Samna AmiPro
I never used it when it was Samna - I had Lotus Suite 3.1 - but Ami Pro was fantastic word processor. Lotus mangled it into Word Pro 4, which sucked. Of course, I'm slightly biased in that I was in college, majoring in chemistry, and it had - bar none - the best equation editor I've ever seen.
Well, there's not much point: Apple's potential market is not much larger than their current market, so the only way to take market share is to wrest it from them. But they've been doing it longer than you have, so they're better at it.
Fair enough. Care to come to my hometown and educate the locals? I know they don't exert any care because of a ticket my wife got - there's a speed trap that is occasionally set up outside my neighborhood. I was cited in it (although I really, really don't think I was speeding at all - as in, not even one mph over the limit - I think he got a car going the other direction; but I had been working all night, and it was downhill, so maybe), and a couple of months later, my wife comes home for lunch. She knows they've been working, and she sees the guys out there, running radar from a hidden location. Eats lunch. Leaves after lunch, KNOWING THE RADAR IS THERE. And gets a ticket for 15 over. While she's pulled over, one of many, the officers are joking with their buddy on a motorcycle, "Hey, Dave, you only got up to 55 there" - this, in a 35 mph zone. So it's not exactly a professional organization, more of one of those "just another gang with guns" type of police forces.
Your "it costs too much in gas and mileage" is a pretty reasonable answer; never thought of it that way. After all, "most people are going to stop their jackassery with a squad right behind them" is sort of the whole point of having marked cars in traffic, as I see it. Part of Broken Windows was vigorous enforcement of small offenses, but part of it was simply a large, visible police presence. That's expensive but reasonable. A $200 fine now and again doesn't do much to deter; it just functions like an "unlucky tax". (I've paid this tax three times in 20 years of driving; twice it was fair enough, while once it was the above-mentioned highly suspicious citation.)
Except for speeding, those are all behaviors that are observed in the flow of traffic by someone who is in that flow. Sometimes, when you're speeding - especially if it's a small amount, say 5-10 mph over the limit - you're doing something safer than staying back (like putting that erratic driver behind you, rather than in front). An officer in traffic will pull over the erratic driver; one in the median will pull over the speeder. Which one is the bigger danger?
Look, if officers are in traffic, pacing cars, and decide to pull people over for speeding - well, I still think it's wrong: if you want to assert that someone's behavior was reckless driving, then pull them over and cite them for reckless driving. But at least it's an observation that the driver is not merely responding briefly to something else in traffic but is instead truly ignoring the law.
If you're issuing tickets based on radar, you're not seeing a "behavior", you're seeing a number. Now, if you pull into traffic, and watch it, not only will you have your desired traffic-calming effect (as opposed to causing a bunch of people to hit the brakes), but you will actually see behaviors to punish. Isn't that how police identify bad guys in cities? By seeing someone suspicious, and then following them to try to confirm or deny that impression?
Yes, and then they wonder why nobody respects them...
Could be worse; I've listened to sheriff's deputies tell ridiculous stories, like "we tried to see if we could beat the helicopter there" (that involved exceeding 100 mph on a road better suited to 60) or "we pulled guns on a guy who had stolen his car back from the repo man". (Why? You knew where he lived. Arrest him when he gets to work in the morning.)
Now, if only I could keep it up....
Ay, there's the rub. I know how to eat anything I want and have body fat below 10% - run around in the sun for three hours a day, four days a week, with 10 lbs of pads on, running into people and trying to move them. Then do it for an hour and a half on Friday. Not gonna happen.
Yeah, the web is a wonderful thing. Too bad it was early 1993... I suppose I could have found someone with AOL and asked around.
It wasn't in Massachusetts. But yeah, the laws are really weird, especially when they don't formally repeal things that would be ruled unconstitutional.
Well, really it's a matter of consent - participating in porn will permanently change your life. We have, for good or ill, decided that an 18-year-old is mostly an adult and mostly able to make adult decisions, and that a 17-year-old is not. We just haven't updated the rest of the laws to match consent for sex, for which we have bowed to reality and acknowledged that sleeping with 17-year-olds is sleazy but not really criminal when you're in your 30s. I don't think that photos of 15-16-17 should be generally legal, as such; just that there should be some distinction made between a commercial porn enterprise and sending photos to your boyfriend/girlfriend.
People were furious because it seemed transparently obvious that the man was guilty. His race had nothing to do with it to most white people. (Most black people were focused on Furman's use of The N Word. While I don't share black America's paranoia about The Man, I've only been pulled over once for driving while white, so...)
I investigated age-of-consent issues in high school, when I was 18 and my girlfriend was 16. I found a plethora of laws that might apply, some of which are bizarre. While 16 is the enforced age of consent, there is still a law on the books that allows that statutory rape occurs when an 18-year-old (or older) has sex with a previously chaste person under 18 outside of marriage - the crime can only be committed on a victim once.
People may do as they choose, but I think that there's no problem with extending copyright out to 50 years or so - if you require the holder to register every 10 years in order to retain copyright. That solves the problem of abandonment.
Please mod this up through the roof. Movies != books. Different artistic skills are required. See LOTR.
I'd have to guess that they are required to attend in order to continue to receive unemployment benefits or some such.
I'm middle aged, white, and living in the deep south - and I would have hated Jeff Davis' government. But I don't like the one I have, either, because mine doesn't work. I had an insight about this a year or two ago, one that I haven't seen addressed anywhere else - my friends who are liberals grew up, largely, in places where government works, while the conservatives grew up in places where it doesn't. I suppose if I lived somewhere with safe, effective public schools, low crime, and so forth, I might not mind taxes. As it is, though, I have to pay for all of that once in taxes and again in private form. So I try to vote for smaller government, as hard as that is, because I think that smaller government wastes less money. I think that the line about "any government that can give you anything you want can also take it away" is a very good reason to keep government from getting power in the first place.
Large businesses have lots of money, and they will inevitably be able to turn regulation to their advantage - that's regulatory capture. (Viz. Mattel and the recent law about testing all toys - the big makers can run their own testing labs, while people on Etsy can't.) That's not to say we should give up, but that not all regulation is good - and we should be cautious when people come along saying that this tool, this method, will ensure that bad things will never again happen. I think the administration is utterly wrong about how to fix things, but seeing as they aren't counting on me to get reelected, my opinion's not worth much. So I'll ask you: what do you think is the "obvious" way through? Are you so confident that you can create a loophole-free regulatory scheme? Is that even what you meant?
Wow.
Anytime, AC. I'm here for you. Please do feel free to debate anytime you have any evidence to argue with. I suppose the Nation is a tool of the man? BTW, the Angry Young Man act is well reinforced by the profanity. Bravo!
You already have I-81. You want ANOTHER routing? It's not THAT busy. Anyway, upgrading 301 would be the easiest way to do it, if you had to.
They did withstand airplane impact. What they did not withstand was hours of several-thousand-degree fire.