To run it where you need it, not where they think you would.
I've been using Linux/PPC for almost a year now, and a common problem here is that non-free software that could really be useful, exist for x86, or MacOS but not Linux/PPC.
Take nvidia video drivers, or broadcom airport extreme driver for example. Nvidia drivers exist for linux on x86, but not ppc, so I used the unaccelerated 3D drivers. Broadcom's driver exist for MacOS on PPC, but not linux, so I use an external 802.11b usb adapter.
After that, take all games that cannot run because you need a double emulator (x86 and windows), and that's useless because you cannot accelerate the video without nvidia drivers. Now you can see that this is more like a chain than a simple, isolated and rare situation.
I'm not sure if Sun's Java exists for PPC (I think it does), but what about all other platforms (Debian and NetBSD support many more platforms than the ones distributed by Sun)?
Maybe it cannot be used to substitute eyeglasses, but it can be a good canditate to make a new type of intraocular lens (the ones used to replace the natural lens extracted in a cataract surgery).
The natural lens in the eye can do something called accomodation: change the dioptric power of the eye in order to focus images far away and close up (and in between them:).
When you extract that lens (usually the treatment of cataract) it can be substitued with an intraocular lens, but losing the accomodation, making the patient wearing it to use maximum powered bifocal eyeglasses (+3.00 D) to be able to see in a lecture distance (33cm aprox.).
Intraocular lenses only correct the spherical power, not the astigmatic power of the eye (only the high hipermetropia caused by the cataract extraction). Therefore, if you can implant (and, of course) control this kind of lens, you will be able to have an alternative for external eyeglasses to fix lecture distance.
Of course there are other solutions, but each and every one far from ideal (use "traditional" presbiopic intraocular lenses, which barely work, or having one eye with no graduation and the other miopic.
And to use it in a human eye, you need it to have an optic center of 6mm (average).
>And here's where I prove it: If I run a Solaris box and install and link to a bunch of GNU stuff, does that magically transform my OS into GNU/Solaris? NO.
If you are setting a GNU system with the Solaris kernel, then it is called GNU/Solaris; the same principle as if you set a GNU system with a Linux kernel it is called GNU/Linux.
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To run it where you need it, not where they think you would.
I've been using Linux/PPC for almost a year now, and a common problem here is that non-free software that could really be useful, exist for x86, or MacOS but not Linux/PPC.
Take nvidia video drivers, or broadcom airport extreme driver for example. Nvidia drivers exist for linux on x86, but not ppc, so I used the unaccelerated 3D drivers. Broadcom's driver exist for MacOS on PPC, but not linux, so I use an external 802.11b usb adapter.
After that, take all games that cannot run because you need a double emulator (x86 and windows), and that's useless because you cannot accelerate the video without nvidia drivers. Now you can see that this is more like a chain than a simple, isolated and rare situation.
I'm not sure if Sun's Java exists for PPC (I think it does), but what about all other platforms (Debian and NetBSD support many more platforms than the ones distributed by Sun)?
Maybe it cannot be used to substitute eyeglasses, but it can be a good canditate to make a new type of intraocular lens (the ones used to replace the natural lens extracted in a cataract surgery).
:).
The natural lens in the eye can do something called accomodation: change the dioptric power of the eye in order to focus images far away and close up (and in between them
When you extract that lens (usually the treatment of cataract) it can be substitued with an intraocular lens, but losing the accomodation, making the patient wearing it to use maximum powered bifocal eyeglasses (+3.00 D) to be able to see in a lecture distance (33cm aprox.).
Intraocular lenses only correct the spherical power, not the astigmatic power of the eye (only the high hipermetropia caused by the cataract extraction). Therefore, if you can implant (and, of course) control this kind of lens, you will be able to have an alternative for external eyeglasses to fix lecture distance.
Of course there are other solutions, but each and every one far from ideal (use "traditional" presbiopic intraocular lenses, which barely work, or having one eye with no graduation and the other miopic.
And to use it in a human eye, you need it to have an optic center of 6mm (average).
>And here's where I prove it: If I run a Solaris box and install and link to a bunch of GNU stuff, does that magically transform my OS into GNU/Solaris? NO.
If you are setting a GNU system with the Solaris kernel, then it is called GNU/Solaris; the same principle as if you set a GNU system with a Linux kernel it is called GNU/Linux.