My girlfriend had LASIK January 2001. She went with 'Optimax' (London, UK), which was one of the cheaper options.
During and before the surgery, she told me later she felt extremely shakey and not properly cared-for (this despite having some kind of mild sedative). The surgery did not go well. Her vision was not as good as it was before the surgery, and she still had to wear glasses. She also gained severe night vision problems, which made it dangerous for night driving (she stopped driving at night once she realised this). She was obviously very disappointed with this outcome, and Optimax suggested a retreatment (or 'Correction'). Erm, no, guys. You don't get a second try at this kind of thing. And I don't think my girlfriend is alone in her bad experience with Optimax.
She then visited Moorfields Eye Hospital (also London) and had an assessment with a view to joining the 'Wavefront' clinical trial they were carrying out.
Wavefront is a LASIK-like procedure, but instead of uniformly burning the front of the eye (hey, I'm not that technical, this isn't entirely correct), they shine the laser through a custom lens which is 'made to fit' the incorrect contours of your eye, and/or to fix the bad optics.
She had each eye done seperately (only one eye was included on the trial though, so she did have to pay for the other). She had her right done in June, and this went awesomely. I think she now has 20/15 vision (erm, or that 15/20? Eitherway, its meant better than 20/20). She had her left eye done in August, and on Thursday of this week she's going back for her 1 month checkup. This eye also went well. This is more than great, because in the procedure the surgeon had to perform a 'flap lift' whereby the literally lift the flap cut in the original surgery. Gah! I'm squeemish.
So, her vision is good. Night vision is useable, but I think she still has haloes and ghosting occaisionally.
My (layperson) advice would be, don't do it yet, wait for Wavefront to become mainstream. That is, if you can wait. If you can't, find a surgeon who you get along with, makes you feel at ease and keeps you informed. Remember, the surgeon does the surgery, not the flashy waiting area and graduate receptionists.
And, don't, whatever you do, go ahead if you ain't sure.
well you pay for cable TV right? No tangible product.
The distinction being you can record cable and keep (but not distribute) the tapes as long as you like. With this, you can't even keep the streams for your own use.
That's right M$. They have academic licensing programs that, provided your school has subscribed, allow students to by M$ products for next to nothing. Windows XP for $15 is a damn big student discount.
Ehm, you realise the school pays $$$$$ for this, yes?
Not great value if you ask me, not if you consider the big picture.
Use a little logic here, if established companies are going out of business due to the economy (lack of paying customers), how are you going to get work?
With respect, that is missing the point a little. Small companies are a lot more fluid and, properly run, can adapt to changing circumstances quicker than the dinosaurs (cf. bacteria and dinosaurs).
However, I think Ryfar needs to concentrate on what he is going to sell. Building a computer consulting business takes approximately 2 letters and about 1 day of work (here in the UK).
What he really needs to think about is the products he will sell. What will they do? Who for? For how much? How long will they take to develop? How will he survive for this period? Where will he get the capital from? What if it all bombs? What if it is exceptionally successful and your price point cannot sustain the labor you need to employ?
The big idea is the key. You build a business around a big idea, not build a big idea around a business.
The real innovation here is that the terminal you can see runs bash, native for the Linux version and cygwin for the Windows version. Thus, you can check your mail via pine from within Doom III, while fighting off an Imp or three.
Gee, a group of 5 people can land a choper on that platform and basically take over the darn thing by force. And then, what do I do? I would have totally lost everything in there.
One thing I remember from the original Wired article is the UK Navy/Airforce would militarily protect Sealand due to it being so close to our waters. However, if the aggressor was the UK Navy/Airforce...;)
Also, note they have an anti-aircraft gun on the platform (I think).
I would rather the W3C dictate the standards than Microsoft. At least the W3C has no vested economic interest in requiring Microsoft software to use the Web.
(If you hadn't noticed, the Web is meant to be an open medium, not controlled by a large, monopolistic and law-breaking American corporation)
$60BN huh? How did they arrive at this figure? Travel to an alternate dimension where all software works perfectly and compare company's pocketbooks?
Please.
This is much like the rather PR-centric announcements from virus experts that ${VIRUS} caused $${LARGE_AMOUNT}. It's just an estimate, and without an example of an economy with perfect software, it's rather useless.
Yes, people need to strive to create more robust software, but throwing large numbers around tends to blur the issue, in my opinion.
It would be an interesting article if they proposed a system whereby companies are required to reimburse their customers if the software they buy turns out to be a buggy POS.
I could make a living buying second-hand copies of Windows ME and getting refunds from MS:)
I am extremely unpleased with the RIAA persuance of Audiogalaxy.com and the following destruction of the service as we have seen today.
As a punishment for the RIAA and associated labels, I will not be buying any music from any RIAA affiliated labels for the next 6 months.
I hope this kind of positive action will encourage you to act in the interest of your labels' lawful customers who look for live and deleted recordings via such services.
Well, I guess I just had to get that off my chest:)
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The kuro5hin article is by techangel, as is the /. story. The same person submitted the same story to each site.
During and before the surgery, she told me later she felt extremely shakey and not properly cared-for (this despite having some kind of mild sedative). The surgery did not go well. Her vision was not as good as it was before the surgery, and she still had to wear glasses. She also gained severe night vision problems, which made it dangerous for night driving (she stopped driving at night once she realised this). She was obviously very disappointed with this outcome, and Optimax suggested a retreatment (or 'Correction'). Erm, no, guys. You don't get a second try at this kind of thing. And I don't think my girlfriend is alone in her bad experience with Optimax.
She then visited Moorfields Eye Hospital (also London) and had an assessment with a view to joining the 'Wavefront' clinical trial they were carrying out.
Wavefront is a LASIK-like procedure, but instead of uniformly burning the front of the eye (hey, I'm not that technical, this isn't entirely correct), they shine the laser through a custom lens which is 'made to fit' the incorrect contours of your eye, and/or to fix the bad optics.
She had each eye done seperately (only one eye was included on the trial though, so she did have to pay for the other). She had her right done in June, and this went awesomely. I think she now has 20/15 vision (erm, or that 15/20? Eitherway, its meant better than 20/20). She had her left eye done in August, and on Thursday of this week she's going back for her 1 month checkup. This eye also went well. This is more than great, because in the procedure the surgeon had to perform a 'flap lift' whereby the literally lift the flap cut in the original surgery. Gah! I'm squeemish.
So, her vision is good. Night vision is useable, but I think she still has haloes and ghosting occaisionally.
My (layperson) advice would be, don't do it yet, wait for Wavefront to become mainstream. That is, if you can wait. If you can't, find a surgeon who you get along with, makes you feel at ease and keeps you informed. Remember, the surgeon does the surgery, not the flashy waiting area and graduate receptionists.
And, don't, whatever you do, go ahead if you ain't sure.
Woo, come here Microsoft, I want to rent a new OS!
- Even with the portable mail the brain is broken
- With Internet laundry
- Everyone of the OTAKU, please to Japan!
- In China the google became use prohibition?
- Mac OS X for the x86 to tell the truth shrewdly existence!
- Windows hiding API, it is released insufficient
Tell the truth shrewdly existence! Tell the truth!Forever go up and down
Bad uptime does suck
Wait, are we still posting haiku?
However, I think Ryfar needs to concentrate on what he is going to sell. Building a computer consulting business takes approximately 2 letters and about 1 day of work (here in the UK).
What he really needs to think about is the products he will sell. What will they do? Who for? For how much? How long will they take to develop? How will he survive for this period? Where will he get the capital from? What if it all bombs? What if it is exceptionally successful and your price point cannot sustain the labor you need to employ?
The big idea is the key. You build a business around a big idea, not build a big idea around a business.
1) Screw customers
2) Screw now former-customers
3) Censor the internet
4) ???
5) Profit!
Truly revolutionary!
I want one.
No, I want a beo... err
You'll probably need to tweak the voice the TTS program produces to avoid involuntarily wetting yourself laughing when it makes hilarious speak-o's.
Also, you'll need to find a decent news site with few extraneous words and crap.
Whoops. <script.*?>.*?</script>
Eval is a commonly used javascript command (duh).
An interesting one. Mocha is the old name for what became Javascript.
Obvious
Breaks most javascript embedded in HTML email.
As above.
Breaks most vbscript embedded in HTML email.
Another old name for Javascript.
However, this seems the most retarded possible way of cutting out scripts in HTML emails.
Better, would be a regexp something like .*? and targetted removal of a few other tags.
Also, note they have an anti-aircraft gun on the platform (I think).
(If you hadn't noticed, the Web is meant to be an open medium, not controlled by a large, monopolistic and law-breaking American corporation)
Sir, I do believe you are a troll.
Please.
This is much like the rather PR-centric announcements from virus experts that ${VIRUS} caused $${LARGE_AMOUNT}. It's just an estimate, and without an example of an economy with perfect software, it's rather useless.
Yes, people need to strive to create more robust software, but throwing large numbers around tends to blur the issue, in my opinion.
It would be an interesting article if they proposed a system whereby companies are required to reimburse their customers if the software they buy turns out to be a buggy POS.
I could make a living buying second-hand copies of Windows ME and getting refunds from MS :)