I don't remember the brand, but it was the very latest surgery, with the leading eye surgeon in New Orleans. In fact, I had the wavescan technology to map the eyeball before I had it done - so that was DEFINITELY the latest.
In retrospect, I would never, ever recommend it to anyone. I started off at -5.5 (which is pretty bad). I had no astigmatism, and no other problems. I had been wearing contacts for years without any problems and didn't really mind them that much, but just thought that it'd be nice not to need them.
The surgery went well. I walked out of the office, went to sleep, and woke up 3 hours later. I looked outside and could see perfectly - and I do mean PERFECTLY. I was ecstatic. For the first time in my life, I could see without those lenses. This was as good as my vision would get.
For 3 months after this, I had massive fluctuations in my vision. Some days I'd wake up seeing fine, other days I'd have weird problems including double vision, halos, astigmatism, etc (and that's not even including the night vision problems). After those 3 months, my vision finally settled down to being under corrected at -1 with astigmatism (which changed every time they measured it). At this point, I basically figured that I had no choice but to go ahead and have the touch-up (since it was much harder to correct my vision with lenses now).
After 6 months, I had a touch-up. Following this operation, I had the same weird after effects for months, until my vision finally stabilized - into 20/20 vision. During the day. In good sunlight. When I'm not tired. All of a sudden I have dry eye problems which cause me huge problems at night, or when I'm tired. Problems I never had before. I have weird problems with blue lights. At night, I can focus on most things, but am unable to focus on blue LEDs or lights. Apparently this is a normal side effect of the surgery.
I would recommend that you visit http://www.lasikdisaster.com/ If you want some more information. The major problem that they don't tell you is this: 20/20 vision is NOT the same as perfect vision. You can have double vision, ghosting, night vision problems but still have 20/20 vision. As long as you can read that little line on the eye chart, you have 20/20 and are considered a success story of the surgery. You could have a double image and not be able to drive, or function properly and STILL BE A SUCCESS.
In addition to this, you can end up with eyes that are miscorrected (so you still have blurry vision) that are UNCORRECTABLE. If you have multi-axial astigmatism, or other weird issues you may NEVER be correctable to 20/20 with glasses, contacts or ANYTHING ELSE. Think about that. No matter how bad your eyes are now, at least they're correctable.
In short, I would never, ever, ever have the surgery knowing what I know now. I would also never ever recommend it to anyone. The risks are not worth the rewards. Notice they say that 95% or 98% or whatever reach 20/20 - but they never say how many have these weird complications - and outside studies estimate them as high as 25%. Doesn't sound so good now, does it?
Honestly, why is it so hard to print out a paper receipt. I'm not a tin-foil hat type of guy, but this just REEKS of conspiracy. What possible reason is there NOT to print out a receipt and put it in a box JUST IN CASE?
I mean, wouldn't the easiest system simply be a touchscreen vote that printed out a receipt and also did vote1+=1 ? How is that so hard to mess up?
As a side note - how is it that Merriam-Webster manages to miss such a glaring grammatical error? "Designed to run especially commercial software" - would that be software that is really really sold to make a profit? Perhaps it was supposed to be "especially designed to run commercial software..."
Wait mozilla supports HYPERLINKS? wow. I do need to upgrade my browser.
Seriously, though - I think one of the bigger changes in this release is that IE no longer support username/password in the URL (http://me:you@whatever.com). No more easy pr0n surfing.
Neither of which even remotely need more processor power. Both of those problems are caused by slow i/o (specifically the disk drive). I guarantee if you loaded Windows to a RAM disk and booted it, or did a defrag on a ramdisk, it would be plenty fast. Watch your processor usage someday. I'd be surprised if you spent much time over 30% unless you're playing games. I'm running 8 applications right now, playing mp3s, etc - and my processor is 13% as a high. We do have superfluous processor power.
RE Mozilla: font sizes are not an "irrelevant" detail. I've found webpages on which the fonts are so bad the page is unreadable. While some of this problem surely comes from the fact that many pages are optimized for IE - the average Home user doesn't care about that - if they can't read the page, its broken, and if their friend running IE can read it, then mozilla sux. Thats just how non-techies treat these things.
OpenOffice is slow to start and often slows up inexplicably while in use. Don't even get me started on printing. Good god, setting up a printer can be hell at the best of times in Linux. Certainly for basic WP OpenOffice works, but so does notepad (or vim, emacs, whatever). For advanced features, Word (sorry to say) is usually better.
Unfortunately I come across as a MS zealot when I'm not trying to. I use Linux and WinXP depending on the task at hand. The fact is that Linux is very difficult to change. If I set up a box perfectly for a home user, then they can probably use it, as long as they don't want to change anything. On the other hand, if I hand someone a CD holder with XP, Office and a few other CDs in it, they'll figure out how to install, use and probably print. Good luck handing someone a RH9 CD and telling them to do all that. Of course Linux crashes less - no doubt. That is due to the kernel and better separation between OS and GUI/Programs, everyone agrees with that.
About uninstalling: Imagine a clean install of some Linux distro, say RH9. Then imagine installing a package requiring some 10-20 other packages thru dependencies. If you try to uninstall said package, why don't the dependencies uninstall (as long as nothing else depends on them)? This, at least, works on Windows and would be great on Linux. If I'm wrong about that, please tell me - I'd love to know how to do that properly.
As a matter of fact, he was not using Pine. The problem is that something simple like opening an attachment straight from Mozilla Mail to OpenOffice is almost impossible to do easily. BTW, He had no trouble with OS X. It just worked seamlessly.
This is the kind of ridiculous reasoning one hears all the time from linux crazies.
Have you EVER tried to uninstall something in linux? Or do a simple upgrade? You don't think home users will/can use the XP FW - you think they can use IPChains? Are you just plain nuts?
The average home user cannot use linux. Mozilla is not up to the task, sorry. It doesn't even render most webpages properly (including such common ones as YAHOO FINANCE). Openoffice is slow and bloated, as well as difficult to use.
Linux is not ready for the home user. At least on Windows, when I uninstall a program, it uninstalls its libraries (for the most part).
You can't hate IBM for telling the truth - lets face it, Linux is NOT ready for the desktop. I handed my father a computer with Linux/KDE/openoffice installed and told him to do some simple business related things. He's a smart guy and yet simple things like checking his email, opening attachments, things like that - just didn't work properly. Until these things work seemlessly on Linux like they do under windows, people like him will put up with security holes to have a working system.
Let's face it, the vast majority of people are not techno-philes, and don't need/want to deal with vagaries like the command line. Simple things like product installation and uninstallation are almost impossible to do easily in Linux.
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Does this open MS Office files better? Specifically embedded stuff in documents? Also, go the new slashdot design!
So how exactly does the head seek in 3d?
How can they possibly seek to stop a community funded effort to set up a wireless network on public property? This seems absurd, even for Verizon.
Sender ID rocks, if its implemented properly. Too bad spammers will just start registering domains and using them semi-legitimately.
How do they allow emergency calls through? Aren't most cell jammers simply frequency based white noise generators?
I don't remember the brand, but it was the very latest surgery, with the leading eye surgeon in New Orleans. In fact, I had the wavescan technology to map the eyeball before I had it done - so that was DEFINITELY the latest.
In retrospect, I would never, ever recommend it to anyone. I started off at -5.5 (which is pretty bad). I had no astigmatism, and no other problems. I had been wearing contacts for years without any problems and didn't really mind them that much, but just thought that it'd be nice not to need them.
The surgery went well. I walked out of the office, went to sleep, and woke up 3 hours later. I looked outside and could see perfectly - and I do mean PERFECTLY. I was ecstatic. For the first time in my life, I could see without those lenses. This was as good as my vision would get.
For 3 months after this, I had massive fluctuations in my vision. Some days I'd wake up seeing fine, other days I'd have weird problems including double vision, halos, astigmatism, etc (and that's not even including the night vision problems). After those 3 months, my vision finally settled down to being under corrected at -1 with astigmatism (which changed every time they measured it). At this point, I basically figured that I had no choice but to go ahead and have the touch-up (since it was much harder to correct my vision with lenses now).
After 6 months, I had a touch-up. Following this operation, I had the same weird after effects for months, until my vision finally stabilized - into 20/20 vision. During the day. In good sunlight. When I'm not tired. All of a sudden I have dry eye problems which cause me huge problems at night, or when I'm tired. Problems I never had before. I have weird problems with blue lights. At night, I can focus on most things, but am unable to focus on blue LEDs or lights. Apparently this is a normal side effect of the surgery.
I would recommend that you visit http://www.lasikdisaster.com/ If you want some more information. The major problem that they don't tell you is this: 20/20 vision is NOT the same as perfect vision. You can have double vision, ghosting, night vision problems but still have 20/20 vision. As long as you can read that little line on the eye chart, you have 20/20 and are considered a success story of the surgery. You could have a double image and not be able to drive, or function properly and STILL BE A SUCCESS.
In addition to this, you can end up with eyes that are miscorrected (so you still have blurry vision) that are UNCORRECTABLE. If you have multi-axial astigmatism, or other weird issues you may NEVER be correctable to 20/20 with glasses, contacts or ANYTHING ELSE. Think about that. No matter how bad your eyes are now, at least they're correctable.
In short, I would never, ever, ever have the surgery knowing what I know now. I would also never ever recommend it to anyone. The risks are not worth the rewards. Notice they say that 95% or 98% or whatever reach 20/20 - but they never say how many have these weird complications - and outside studies estimate them as high as 25%. Doesn't sound so good now, does it?
Good riddance I say! Bring on the G5 18 GhZ machines that Apple has up their sleeves. Seriously though, when are we gonna see a G5 powerbook?
Hmmm, multi-billion dollar company with close connections to Bush Administration. Anyone care to give odds on criminal charges?
Honestly, why is it so hard to print out a paper receipt. I'm not a tin-foil hat type of guy, but this just REEKS of conspiracy. What possible reason is there NOT to print out a receipt and put it in a box JUST IN CASE?
I mean, wouldn't the easiest system simply be a touchscreen vote that printed out a receipt and also did vote1+=1 ? How is that so hard to mess up?
So, how much brain cancer am I getting from that local 802.11 hotspot?
As a side note - how is it that Merriam-Webster manages to miss such a glaring grammatical error? "Designed to run especially commercial software" - would that be software that is really really sold to make a profit? Perhaps it was supposed to be "especially designed to run commercial software..."
TCP is actually layer 4. IP would be layer 3. And yes, the comparison is ridiculous.
Seriously, though - I think one of the bigger changes in this release is that IE no longer support username/password in the URL (http://me:you@whatever.com). No more easy pr0n surfing.
I guess this means Taco can get high speed internet access out in the boonies after all. (see earlier story)
Neither of which even remotely need more processor power. Both of those problems are caused by slow i/o (specifically the disk drive). I guarantee if you loaded Windows to a RAM disk and booted it, or did a defrag on a ramdisk, it would be plenty fast. Watch your processor usage someday. I'd be surprised if you spent much time over 30% unless you're playing games. I'm running 8 applications right now, playing mp3s, etc - and my processor is 13% as a high. We do have superfluous processor power.
What, you don't have Cold Fusion on your laptop. Damn Luddites.
RE Mozilla: font sizes are not an "irrelevant" detail. I've found webpages on which the fonts are so bad the page is unreadable. While some of this problem surely comes from the fact that many pages are optimized for IE - the average Home user doesn't care about that - if they can't read the page, its broken, and if their friend running IE can read it, then mozilla sux. Thats just how non-techies treat these things.
OpenOffice is slow to start and often slows up inexplicably while in use. Don't even get me started on printing. Good god, setting up a printer can be hell at the best of times in Linux. Certainly for basic WP OpenOffice works, but so does notepad (or vim, emacs, whatever). For advanced features, Word (sorry to say) is usually better.
Unfortunately I come across as a MS zealot when I'm not trying to. I use Linux and WinXP depending on the task at hand. The fact is that Linux is very difficult to change. If I set up a box perfectly for a home user, then they can probably use it, as long as they don't want to change anything. On the other hand, if I hand someone a CD holder with XP, Office and a few other CDs in it, they'll figure out how to install, use and probably print. Good luck handing someone a RH9 CD and telling them to do all that. Of course Linux crashes less - no doubt. That is due to the kernel and better separation between OS and GUI/Programs, everyone agrees with that.
About uninstalling: Imagine a clean install of some Linux distro, say RH9. Then imagine installing a package requiring some 10-20 other packages thru dependencies. If you try to uninstall said package, why don't the dependencies uninstall (as long as nothing else depends on them)? This, at least, works on Windows and would be great on Linux. If I'm wrong about that, please tell me - I'd love to know how to do that properly.
As a matter of fact, he was not using Pine. The problem is that something simple like opening an attachment straight from Mozilla Mail to OpenOffice is almost impossible to do easily. BTW, He had no trouble with OS X. It just worked seamlessly.
I dare you to give a linux system to your mom and tell her to change the screen resolution.
This is the kind of ridiculous reasoning one hears all the time from linux crazies.
Have you EVER tried to uninstall something in linux? Or do a simple upgrade? You don't think home users will/can use the XP FW - you think they can use IPChains? Are you just plain nuts?
The average home user cannot use linux. Mozilla is not up to the task, sorry. It doesn't even render most webpages properly (including such common ones as YAHOO FINANCE). Openoffice is slow and bloated, as well as difficult to use.
Linux is not ready for the home user. At least on Windows, when I uninstall a program, it uninstalls its libraries (for the most part).
You can't hate IBM for telling the truth - lets face it, Linux is NOT ready for the desktop. I handed my father a computer with Linux/KDE/openoffice installed and told him to do some simple business related things. He's a smart guy and yet simple things like checking his email, opening attachments, things like that - just didn't work properly. Until these things work seemlessly on Linux like they do under windows, people like him will put up with security holes to have a working system.
Let's face it, the vast majority of people are not techno-philes, and don't need/want to deal with vagaries like the command line. Simple things like product installation and uninstallation are almost impossible to do easily in Linux.