That is exactly my problem. With glasses, I am 20/200 in one eye due to a birth defect. It was easy to fix even in the early '70's, but my family didn't have the money for such a surgery. Now, I could have the surgery, but due to over 35 years of atrophy, my optic nerve in that eye is all but dead. That being said, if it were possible to even give me enough sight in that eye to be able to tell more than light from dark, I'd try the surgery.
Just for reference, I can make out large shapes (such as human bodies) at about 3'. I can read 2" tall text a letter at a time from a distance of about 1". Anything more than that is impossible for me at this time. At least my other eye is 20/20 corrected. Without glasses, my "good" eye is 20/200 with the bad eye off the chart low.
I'm burning karma here, but I've got to say that I am surprised that the editors would even allow someone with such bad karma to even post comments, much less submit an article that shows on the main page. I know this doesn't sit well in the stomachs of those with good or excellent karma who have submitted articles only to have them rejected.
I too live in Alabama, and this shows you how FUBAR our politicians can be. Without trying to be too political, the previous governor nearly sold the state's soul in an effort to get computers into every classroom...from K-12. That philosophy has apparently made it to the local level. My sons are both in the Magnet Program, which is for highly gifted children. All the classrooms have multiple, less than 5 year old computers, yet the building looks like $#^7, with roofs that leak and A/C that works in the winter and heaters that work in the spring/summer, but not that well when they are supposed to. Chairs and desks are falling apart, and books that are missing pages in the library. BTW: They also have two relatively top notch computer labs.
I agree that computer use can enhance the educational experience, but my God! Why can't we get decent facilities for these kids, with decent books and furniture instead? I DON'T CARE IF MY CHILD HAS INTERNET IN HIS KINDERGARTEN OR THIRD GRADE CLASS. I wan't him to be able to learn in a relatively safe, comfortable environment. Yes, take the kids to the lab once or twice a week, but don't use technology as a crutch to get around the fact that the building and all its furniture is falling apart around the kids. Spend the money wisely.
That being said, I am all for a scholarship, but not for a child making just a C average. If the family has the money, they shouldn't need a scholarship. Tier the scholarships for those who need the money and are busting their tails in school. If a child is on welfare or lives in the projects and is making high grades in difficult classes, get them into college. If mommy and daddy live in a million dollar house in Mountain Brook, and they barely make C's, too bad. Mommy and daddy can sell one of their Beemers to get them in trade school.
I'm still trying to figure out how it got installed on my network. My SUS server was down since last week due to some work I had to do. Getting SUS up and running wasn't the top of my priority list. Needless to say, I was shocked as could be when people started talking about this getting installed, when there was no way I could have approved it since the SUS server was down. This tells me that something we updated in the past is dialing home and bypassing SUS altogether.
Look at it this way...as long as it would take you to write the whole 500GB to floppy, you could purchase in batches and spread the cost over something like your entire lifetime.
I don't understand why there isn't a "fallback" like we used to have on Ethernet NICs. For many years, it seemed like if you couldn't get a NIC to work, you could always use the old NE2000 drivers. You might not have all the functionality of the proprietary drivers, but it would at least get you on the network. Why can't we do the same with other hardware? Heck, we don't even have that fallback anymore with PCI NICs, so you're screwed if your setting up a machine with a NIC not recognized by the OS out of the box and you don't have drivers for it.
At the risk of Karma burning...at least your state has a vehicle inspection. On a daily basis, I see cars that are totally unsafe for not only the operator, but for the other drivers on the road. Cars with duct tape and bungee cords holding body parts on. Engines in little cars belching out more black smoke than a diesel locomotive. Heck, where I work we had someone driving 80 miles round trip daily with the passenger side door missing from their pickup. That lasted for at least a month. I was nearly rear ended a couple of years ago by someone who was knowingly driving a car with no brakes.
However, as long as certain legislators are in office in my state, we will never have inspections. They claim that to have vehicle inspections is the "white man's" way of holding control over certain ethnic groups. To those folks, I say that it is a way of keeping cars that should be in the junk yard off the road.
I knew combat was hard, but thank you for giving a little more insight.
On a personal level, thank you for the job you do. Words can not express the gratitude I (or my family) have for our Armed Forces.
Disclaimer: I have not read the article yet...just looking at the posts.
I have only seen one IMAX/3D movie, and it was a horrific experience for me. I absolutely refuse to see another one until they can connect directly to my brain. I am quoting myself from another discussion on this type of topic.
"To clarify my situation, I am legally blind in one eye WITH corrective lenses (20/200). The only time I've ever experienced a 3D Imax movie, I was able to see the flickering which I assume is acutally(sic) multiple projectors at different refresh rates or something similar to generate the 3D effect. Since my optic nerves didn't know how to handle that kind of image, I got a migraine that lasted for several days."
Assuming that I wouldn't see the second image at all, I would probably be okay, but only seeing 1/2 of what everyone else is seeing. However, my optic nerve in my "bad eye" picks up just enough information that it can really screw with my brain...thus the migraines. So, if I can see just the least little bit of the second image in my "bad eye," I'm in agony for days. And before anyone asks, I did try closing the one eye, and it didn't help, since my other eye could still see a little of the flickering. I assume that in a person with normal sight, the two eyes and brian would filter out the extra flickering and info, giving the 3D illusion. Just doesn't work for me. At least my children will be able to experience 3D.
Just FYI: my problem is caused by a correctible birth defect that either wasn't discovered when I was born, or else my parents couldn't afford the operation. Now that I could pay for the operation myself, it would be a waste of money, since the optic nerve in the eye has atrophied for over 30 years.
I'm running into it right now with brand new HP dc7700 systems here at work. MS knowledgebase was no help, but the first hit I got using Google Groups pointed me back to the MS site and the patch. May look at getting the newer driver someone else posted.
I agree that this shouldn't be considered an isolated issue. I've seen a lot of machines make use of Realtek's audio lately. Fortunately for me, I only have 3 of these systems on the network right now. I could see how it could cause a lot of grief in a large shop with a number of these systems. MS should go ahead and roll the hotfix into the patch so that we don't have to go running around trying to find the hotfix or newer drivers.
I'm in my last undergrad class (online class), and we have been informed by the instructor that any paper turned in citing Wikipedia as a source will have its grade affected. Here is the actual quote from the instructor "Do not use Wikipedia as a reference for any assignment. This resource, while interesting, is not credible and not for use as an academic reference. If you do use this as a reference, points will be deducted from the grade."
So, like another posting indicated, I use it for a quick and dirty read on a topic and as a starting point for my research from other sources.
My junior year of HS, someone scheduled for the AP English test had to drop out of it at the last minute. Even though I wasn't in the AP class, I was allowed to take the test in their place. Don't know what the scoring is now, but the college I was to attend required a 3 out of 5 or better for credit for all freshman English course work. I made a 2, and was very happy to make that. I remember telling someone after the test that I had just paid $75 to prove how dumb I was in English. I was then even more shocked when I found out that some from the class scored the same, if not lower, than I.
So, yes, you can take the test without the class, but unless you are extremely gifted, I wouldn't recommend it.
Not only that, but if for some reason the device acidentally trips, you're out a whole lot of cash replacing the blade, brake shoe and no telling what else. For someone who can afford a $2000 cabinet saw, this may not be that large of an expense, but for the average person doing this as a hobby, we tend to pinch every penny. Heck, I've been doing this as a hobby going on 10 years, and I can't justify to SWMBO why I need a dado stack for my saw. If I had to buy a new saw with this technology, I'd have to give it up, given the cost of the saw and repairs.
Plus, a little common sense would almost reduce the need for this completely. Use a push stick when ripping narrow stock. Use feather boards where appropriate. Use a miter sled when cross cutting. If possible, leave the blade guard on (not easy...my previous saw was safer without the guard due to a crappy splitter on the guard). If you have to, paint a red line in front of the blade on the saw table showing where the blade is. Paint a perpendicular one showing where the throat plate starts. Don't stand in front of the blade if you don't have to. And, if you don't think it is safe to do the operation, then DON'T DO IT.
And yes, before I am asked, I've not followed all the rules myself. I did get a very bad scare about 3 years ago. I was cross cutting something, and felt a really strange vibration on the tip of a finger. I looked, and somehow I had gotten the tip of a finger past the teeth on the blade, and my fingertip was resting on the side of the blade while spinning. Fortunately for me, I was not injured, and since then I have tried my best to make sure that I never have that situation again.
I have found a great resource for all sorts of shop info, including safety. BT3Central.com has several forums. The forum was created for owners of the Ryobi BT3x00 saws, but anyone is welcome. I have gotten lots of advice and inspiration from there. We all pretty much agree that the idea behind the sawstop is a good idea, but not that practical given its cost. Like I mentioned earlier, most of us would have to give up our hobby if we had to buy one.
As a government employee for the state, I can say that the demand for tech jobs isn't as good as some would like to believe. My understanding is that the civilian jobs on base are starting to dry up. Some state agencies IT jobs are more challenging than others, but there is a lot of red tape involved in getting a job, and there are a lot of people that have been in the system for years, thus making career growth a challenge.
Pay ain't too great as a state employee. Everytime the administration changes, hirings and promotions are frozen, as well as any sort of pay raises...sometimes for more than two years. If it were not for wife's family, I'd seriously consider moving. Birmingham, Huntsville, Atlanta would be better choices.
As to the parent post...what nightlife? Well, we do now have a minor league ball team, which nobody thought was a good idea, and it cost around 25 million to get them here. Attendance at the games has been better that I would've thought. However, not much else, especially considering we have several colleges/universities in town. I guess everyone goes home on the weekends. Also, most folks that I have talked with believe that things were better with the previous mayor. I don't really know myself, but I don't know of anyone happy with the current mayor.
Believe it or not, I've used spray deodorant instead of WD-40, because we were out of WD-40. I did it years ago, and I think is was some variety of Secret. Worked great, just took a few minutes to soak in.
I'm north of you in Montgomery. We're making preparations as well (off site backups, generators, gas, batteries, etc.). The latest info I have seen indicates that it will go west of us (bad news) and will still be a hurricane this far north. Hope you and your family will be safe. Heading to Texas may not be a bad idea for you.
When I took private pilot lessons in the late '80s & early '90s, the instructor reminded me constantly to visually check the fuel tanks if at all possible. Obviously this meant using a ladder to check the wing tanks on an overhead wing plane such as a 150 or a 172. When I asked him about it, he told me that the fuel gauge is the most inaccurate gauge in the plane. Great, the most important gauge (except for maybe the altimeter) can't be trusted! Unlike a car, when the plan runs out of gas, there's no pulling over and catching a ride to the Chevron!
I use XP running Premiere elements for the little bit of editing I need to do. As the parent alluded, Pinnacle Studio is horrible. I was running it with all the latest patches and it never was stable. When I uninstalled it to install Premiere, it trashed by tv tuner/capture card drivers. Spent weeks trying to fix it. My point is: Never install Pinnacle Studio!
If the vehicle is owned by me, I believe they should have to have a warrant to place one on/in my car. However, if the vehicle is leased (think Rent a Car) or owned by my employer, then the owner of the vehicle should make the decision about the GPS. If the GPS is installed by the owner such as Rent a Car, the police should be required to get a court order to get the tracking info. If no GPS is installed, the owner of the vehicle should be served the warrant. I.E.: Warrant is served to Rent a Car if the driver is a suspect. I guess then Rent a Car has the decision of notifying the driver about the GPS.
The doctor that did mine had to help me get to the door so my father-in-law could help me to the car. My father-in-law told me he had NEVER seen anybody so white. Then again, if you have read my previous post, you know that the numbing agent wasn't quite working on one side. I didn't know that until too late. Between that and the swelling episodes (over a year afterwards), it wasn't a whole lot of fun for me. Better than a buddy of mine. He nearly died from his. He swelled up to the size of grapefruit (plural)! He was in the hospital for and week, and he told me that he had to be opened up and have the area drained.
Damn, dude, given the pain I experienced (and still do) because of my vas, I'd never have another done if mine had failed. I think I'd become a celibate husband instead. Just FYI: I didn't know this until too late, but either the numbing agent wore off too quickly or there wasn't enough on one side. That's also the same side I've had swell up to the size of a baseball on a couple of occasions since the procedure.
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That is exactly my problem. With glasses, I am 20/200 in one eye due to a birth defect. It was easy to fix even in the early '70's, but my family didn't have the money for such a surgery. Now, I could have the surgery, but due to over 35 years of atrophy, my optic nerve in that eye is all but dead. That being said, if it were possible to even give me enough sight in that eye to be able to tell more than light from dark, I'd try the surgery. Just for reference, I can make out large shapes (such as human bodies) at about 3'. I can read 2" tall text a letter at a time from a distance of about 1". Anything more than that is impossible for me at this time. At least my other eye is 20/20 corrected. Without glasses, my "good" eye is 20/200 with the bad eye off the chart low.
I'm burning karma here, but I've got to say that I am surprised that the editors would even allow someone with such bad karma to even post comments, much less submit an article that shows on the main page. I know this doesn't sit well in the stomachs of those with good or excellent karma who have submitted articles only to have them rejected.
I agree that computer use can enhance the educational experience, but my God! Why can't we get decent facilities for these kids, with decent books and furniture instead? I DON'T CARE IF MY CHILD HAS INTERNET IN HIS KINDERGARTEN OR THIRD GRADE CLASS. I wan't him to be able to learn in a relatively safe, comfortable environment. Yes, take the kids to the lab once or twice a week, but don't use technology as a crutch to get around the fact that the building and all its furniture is falling apart around the kids. Spend the money wisely.
That being said, I am all for a scholarship, but not for a child making just a C average. If the family has the money, they shouldn't need a scholarship. Tier the scholarships for those who need the money and are busting their tails in school. If a child is on welfare or lives in the projects and is making high grades in difficult classes, get them into college. If mommy and daddy live in a million dollar house in Mountain Brook, and they barely make C's, too bad. Mommy and daddy can sell one of their Beemers to get them in trade school.
I'm still trying to figure out how it got installed on my network. My SUS server was down since last week due to some work I had to do. Getting SUS up and running wasn't the top of my priority list. Needless to say, I was shocked as could be when people started talking about this getting installed, when there was no way I could have approved it since the SUS server was down. This tells me that something we updated in the past is dialing home and bypassing SUS altogether.
Look at it this way...as long as it would take you to write the whole 500GB to floppy, you could purchase in batches and spread the cost over something like your entire lifetime.
I don't understand why there isn't a "fallback" like we used to have on Ethernet NICs. For many years, it seemed like if you couldn't get a NIC to work, you could always use the old NE2000 drivers. You might not have all the functionality of the proprietary drivers, but it would at least get you on the network. Why can't we do the same with other hardware? Heck, we don't even have that fallback anymore with PCI NICs, so you're screwed if your setting up a machine with a NIC not recognized by the OS out of the box and you don't have drivers for it.
At the risk of Karma burning...at least your state has a vehicle inspection. On a daily basis, I see cars that are totally unsafe for not only the operator, but for the other drivers on the road. Cars with duct tape and bungee cords holding body parts on. Engines in little cars belching out more black smoke than a diesel locomotive. Heck, where I work we had someone driving 80 miles round trip daily with the passenger side door missing from their pickup. That lasted for at least a month. I was nearly rear ended a couple of years ago by someone who was knowingly driving a car with no brakes. However, as long as certain legislators are in office in my state, we will never have inspections. They claim that to have vehicle inspections is the "white man's" way of holding control over certain ethnic groups. To those folks, I say that it is a way of keeping cars that should be in the junk yard off the road.
I knew combat was hard, but thank you for giving a little more insight. On a personal level, thank you for the job you do. Words can not express the gratitude I (or my family) have for our Armed Forces.
Don't know for sure if the parent is completely correct, but this article sure makes an interesting read: http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/editorial/print_ite m.asp?NewsID=188
Disclaimer: I have not read the article yet...just looking at the posts. I have only seen one IMAX/3D movie, and it was a horrific experience for me. I absolutely refuse to see another one until they can connect directly to my brain. I am quoting myself from another discussion on this type of topic. "To clarify my situation, I am legally blind in one eye WITH corrective lenses (20/200). The only time I've ever experienced a 3D Imax movie, I was able to see the flickering which I assume is acutally(sic) multiple projectors at different refresh rates or something similar to generate the 3D effect. Since my optic nerves didn't know how to handle that kind of image, I got a migraine that lasted for several days." Assuming that I wouldn't see the second image at all, I would probably be okay, but only seeing 1/2 of what everyone else is seeing. However, my optic nerve in my "bad eye" picks up just enough information that it can really screw with my brain...thus the migraines. So, if I can see just the least little bit of the second image in my "bad eye," I'm in agony for days. And before anyone asks, I did try closing the one eye, and it didn't help, since my other eye could still see a little of the flickering. I assume that in a person with normal sight, the two eyes and brian would filter out the extra flickering and info, giving the 3D illusion. Just doesn't work for me. At least my children will be able to experience 3D. Just FYI: my problem is caused by a correctible birth defect that either wasn't discovered when I was born, or else my parents couldn't afford the operation. Now that I could pay for the operation myself, it would be a waste of money, since the optic nerve in the eye has atrophied for over 30 years.
I'm running into it right now with brand new HP dc7700 systems here at work. MS knowledgebase was no help, but the first hit I got using Google Groups pointed me back to the MS site and the patch. May look at getting the newer driver someone else posted. I agree that this shouldn't be considered an isolated issue. I've seen a lot of machines make use of Realtek's audio lately. Fortunately for me, I only have 3 of these systems on the network right now. I could see how it could cause a lot of grief in a large shop with a number of these systems. MS should go ahead and roll the hotfix into the patch so that we don't have to go running around trying to find the hotfix or newer drivers.
I'm in my last undergrad class (online class), and we have been informed by the instructor that any paper turned in citing Wikipedia as a source will have its grade affected. Here is the actual quote from the instructor "Do not use Wikipedia as a reference for any assignment. This resource, while interesting, is not credible and not for use as an academic reference. If you do use this as a reference, points will be deducted from the grade." So, like another posting indicated, I use it for a quick and dirty read on a topic and as a starting point for my research from other sources.
This is the article that supports what the parent says. It's old, but still a good read. http://www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestuff.ht ml
So, yes, you can take the test without the class, but unless you are extremely gifted, I wouldn't recommend it.
Not only that, but if for some reason the device acidentally trips, you're out a whole lot of cash replacing the blade, brake shoe and no telling what else. For someone who can afford a $2000 cabinet saw, this may not be that large of an expense, but for the average person doing this as a hobby, we tend to pinch every penny. Heck, I've been doing this as a hobby going on 10 years, and I can't justify to SWMBO why I need a dado stack for my saw. If I had to buy a new saw with this technology, I'd have to give it up, given the cost of the saw and repairs. Plus, a little common sense would almost reduce the need for this completely. Use a push stick when ripping narrow stock. Use feather boards where appropriate. Use a miter sled when cross cutting. If possible, leave the blade guard on (not easy...my previous saw was safer without the guard due to a crappy splitter on the guard). If you have to, paint a red line in front of the blade on the saw table showing where the blade is. Paint a perpendicular one showing where the throat plate starts. Don't stand in front of the blade if you don't have to. And, if you don't think it is safe to do the operation, then DON'T DO IT. And yes, before I am asked, I've not followed all the rules myself. I did get a very bad scare about 3 years ago. I was cross cutting something, and felt a really strange vibration on the tip of a finger. I looked, and somehow I had gotten the tip of a finger past the teeth on the blade, and my fingertip was resting on the side of the blade while spinning. Fortunately for me, I was not injured, and since then I have tried my best to make sure that I never have that situation again. I have found a great resource for all sorts of shop info, including safety. BT3Central.com has several forums. The forum was created for owners of the Ryobi BT3x00 saws, but anyone is welcome. I have gotten lots of advice and inspiration from there. We all pretty much agree that the idea behind the sawstop is a good idea, but not that practical given its cost. Like I mentioned earlier, most of us would have to give up our hobby if we had to buy one.
As a government employee for the state, I can say that the demand for tech jobs isn't as good as some would like to believe. My understanding is that the civilian jobs on base are starting to dry up. Some state agencies IT jobs are more challenging than others, but there is a lot of red tape involved in getting a job, and there are a lot of people that have been in the system for years, thus making career growth a challenge. Pay ain't too great as a state employee. Everytime the administration changes, hirings and promotions are frozen, as well as any sort of pay raises...sometimes for more than two years. If it were not for wife's family, I'd seriously consider moving. Birmingham, Huntsville, Atlanta would be better choices. As to the parent post...what nightlife? Well, we do now have a minor league ball team, which nobody thought was a good idea, and it cost around 25 million to get them here. Attendance at the games has been better that I would've thought. However, not much else, especially considering we have several colleges/universities in town. I guess everyone goes home on the weekends. Also, most folks that I have talked with believe that things were better with the previous mayor. I don't really know myself, but I don't know of anyone happy with the current mayor.
In my experience, it doesn't matter the number of cores or cpu's, Pinnacle Studio is going to crash repeatedly.
For the money, Adobe Premeire Elements is the way to go, and probably would have been a better test.
Believe it or not, I've used spray deodorant instead of WD-40, because we were out of WD-40. I did it years ago, and I think is was some variety of Secret. Worked great, just took a few minutes to soak in.
I'm north of you in Montgomery. We're making preparations as well (off site backups, generators, gas, batteries, etc.). The latest info I have seen indicates that it will go west of us (bad news) and will still be a hurricane this far north. Hope you and your family will be safe. Heading to Texas may not be a bad idea for you.
Another one: Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.
When I took private pilot lessons in the late '80s & early '90s, the instructor reminded me constantly to visually check the fuel tanks if at all possible. Obviously this meant using a ladder to check the wing tanks on an overhead wing plane such as a 150 or a 172. When I asked him about it, he told me that the fuel gauge is the most inaccurate gauge in the plane. Great, the most important gauge (except for maybe the altimeter) can't be trusted! Unlike a car, when the plan runs out of gas, there's no pulling over and catching a ride to the Chevron!
I use XP running Premiere elements for the little bit of editing I need to do. As the parent alluded, Pinnacle Studio is horrible. I was running it with all the latest patches and it never was stable. When I uninstalled it to install Premiere, it trashed by tv tuner/capture card drivers. Spent weeks trying to fix it. My point is: Never install Pinnacle Studio!
If the vehicle is owned by me, I believe they should have to have a warrant to place one on/in my car. However, if the vehicle is leased (think Rent a Car) or owned by my employer, then the owner of the vehicle should make the decision about the GPS. If the GPS is installed by the owner such as Rent a Car, the police should be required to get a court order to get the tracking info. If no GPS is installed, the owner of the vehicle should be served the warrant. I.E.: Warrant is served to Rent a Car if the driver is a suspect. I guess then Rent a Car has the decision of notifying the driver about the GPS.
The doctor that did mine had to help me get to the door so my father-in-law could help me to the car. My father-in-law told me he had NEVER seen anybody so white. Then again, if you have read my previous post, you know that the numbing agent wasn't quite working on one side. I didn't know that until too late. Between that and the swelling episodes (over a year afterwards), it wasn't a whole lot of fun for me. Better than a buddy of mine. He nearly died from his. He swelled up to the size of grapefruit (plural)! He was in the hospital for and week, and he told me that he had to be opened up and have the area drained.
Damn, dude, given the pain I experienced (and still do) because of my vas, I'd never have another done if mine had failed. I think I'd become a celibate husband instead. Just FYI: I didn't know this until too late, but either the numbing agent wore off too quickly or there wasn't enough on one side. That's also the same side I've had swell up to the size of a baseball on a couple of occasions since the procedure.