The surgeon at LasikPlus was very candid before the surgery.
My surgeon was as well, but that's because he was legally obligated to =) I agree that my 20/20 vision now is much better than the 20/2000 vision I had before, but I just wanted to point out that there are a lot of bad things that can and will go along with it. The fact that you're gambling with your eyesight, taking the risk of going permanently blind, is something you really want to look into! To me nothing has been scarier than wondering if and when my eyesight will stabilize. Then there's the fact that there aren't really any long term results on what your eyes do 20 or 30 years down the road. I'm just praying that I don't go blind when I'm 40!
Probably see my response further below...but to respond to yours:
Since the inital recuperation from the surgery
I had my Lasik surgery done January 2005. My eyes are still going through the "initial recuperation". For the first 9 months or so my eye sight would fluctuate, one day my right eye would be clear, the next my left. Now it's fairly steady, but they dry out much more frequently than yours do. My night vision is absolutely terrible compared to what it was, though it's getting better. I also noticed significantly more headaches. I get tons of little "floaty" things which mess with vision. On subsequent visits, I was told everything looks normal. Yes, I knew this stuff could happen going in. However, the dreams of not needing glasses, and being able to read something further than 3 inches from my nose took hold.
Lasik is not the holy grail it seems to be. I would not recommend this surgery to anyone, ever. Unless having messed up vision (and possible blindness!) is worth the convenience of not having to slide a pair of glasses on every morning.
I had a similar issue with my contacts drying out, so I switched to less reflective glasses. It helped out a bit with the eye strain...but I found that the most relieving thing for eye strain was to take off the glasses (making everything extremely fuzzy...gogo 2000/20 vision), stand up, and stare down to the end of the cube farm. "Focusing" on something very far away every once in a while (every 2 hours or so) helped out tons.
And then my dumbass went and got Lasik. When you use the same method of relief for 10 years or so, getting used to not being able to make things all fuzzy takes a long, long time to get used to. Ugh.
Yes, because it's tough as hell to get a different credit card to use. Or like the person above me posted, game cards. Do you think anyone in that risky of a business would have their real name tied to their account? Hell, when I used to run ShowEQ back in the day I used it with an account based off game cards...and ShowEQ was near impossible to detect.
If you're purposely breaking the EULA, you watch your ass.
While I'm happy Blizzard is taking this action, you do realize that all the gold farmers are just going to re-purchase the retail copy, right? So instead of paying 15 or whatever for one month, they're going to pay 50. Granted the stores and such get some of that, but it certainly looks good when thousands of copies are purchased in one day.
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You might notice that the only performance they talk about in the article is game performance. They didn't bother running any benchmarks, they didn't mention how movies play, they didn't mention how photoshop runs, etc etc. A few things installed ok. Then they played games for a few hours! Where did you get the "majority of people" part? The voices in your head? Because I see tons and tons of threads going back to how well games run in XP on Mac hardware. (See above for my refrences) What else are people going to run Windows side by side with OS X for? Office productivity? Audio/Video/Photo editing? Web surfing? Email? Oh wait, the one last thing that Windows actually has a real hold on. Games.
the three videos were pretty crappy. Wasn't a FRAPS capture or anything, but a little DV camera at really low res. However, you could see that the gameplay was very very smooth, no slowdown on the spell effects and such. Looks like it was running just fine from what I could tell. They were running on a 2ghz + 2GB ram machine, if you couldn't get to that part.
Using AIM to keep in touch with family very often saves me a lot of time out of the office.
It does? How? I've found a device called a "telephone" that allows me to keep in touch with family. Works pretty well...lets me call my wife to see what's for dinner.
Using AIM to contact some work associates that are not on our network IM system
Email works pretty well. Or that high fangled "telephone" device I mentioned earlier.
Maybe it's just easier to blame the technology.
Sounds good to me! Remember, YOU ARE AT WORK. However, you completely missed my point. The point I was getting at is that using external communications services ARE A MASSIVE SECURITY RISK. Go to Symantec.com and do a search for MSN or AIM. Is the possibility of completely hosing your company's network worth it? Think of all the hours it'd take to have everyone run virus removal procedures. How much time did you save now?
Ok...That's such a security hole I don't even know where to start. Yes, I was referencing using AIM to talk to friends/family/etc. The company I work for has an internal messenger client. Can only be accessed from the internal network, and cannot connect to any external network. I use it quite frequently like you do. However, our IT department doesn't have to sit there worrying about the next MSN worm that rolls out like your IT dept does.
I completely agree in that situation. I did the majority of my Everquest gaming while working help desk. There's just not nearly as much concern about security in those situations. At least doing tech support for a university there wasn't much to worry about. When you work an entire Saturday shift (12 hours) with only one call (wrong number), there's gotta be some "gimme".
But when you've got a job that can and does take up all 8 hours of the day, it should be devoted to that. I'm all about the occasional/. break, obviously since I'm posting right now, but added distractions like checking all 10 email addresses, responding to your cybering friend on aim, while downloading a cracked game doesn't really help get the work done.
Exactly, whatever happened to only giving people what they need to get their job done? Where I work we have several services block...I don't even bother trying most things. It's locked down, which it should be. Nobody needs AIM at work, you don't need access to bittorret, etc etc. Better to lock stuff down than get your network owned by some idiot that can't stop talking to MSN bots.
The "Internet" is the millions of networks interconnected, governed in use by various organizations, such as ICANN.
An "internet" is just two or more seperate networks, connected together. You can use whatever protocol you want, with any addresses you want, with any naming structure you want.
For a very basic example...You've got your home network, all hosts running static IP addresses. Lets say 124.23.124.0/24. You talk to your neighbor, and you decide you want to connect their network with yours to swap some files. They've got their network IP addressed to 192.168.12.0/24. Since these are two seperate networks, some basic routing will take need to take place to talk to each other. So each "admin" adds a basic static route on their router so the networks can talk.
Kleenex and Xerox are trademarked, commercial products. Saying either Kleenex or kleenex and Xerox or xerox refers to the same thing. Kleenex (Kimberly-Clark) and Xerox still retain the right to use those names. If they become publicly usable, which both companies have fought against, they can no longer use that word for their products. You still see Kleenex on that box of tissue on your desk, and you see Xerox on the copy machine down the way from your cube.
"The Internet" is a proper noun. It is specific person, place, or thing, much like the above examples. It has only lost its capitalization due to laziness, much as people don't capitalize i, joe, or seattle. However the difference between the two is that saying the Internet vs. internet has different meanings. One is a collection of networks, publicly accessible following strict regulations in place by various governing bodies. The other is just two or more connected networks, public or private, following whatever standards you want. Internet is not owned by a company. Using the word "internet" is still very legitimate. Just like the difference between "Bob" and "bob". One is a persons name, the other is to kind of move up and down.
I'd rather read an article written by someone who knows how to properly cite an article over an article that doesn't know the difference between "internet" and "Internet". Call me picky, or maybe it's that telecom degree I'm not using, but I can't stand it when people say "the internet".
A summary with a bit more information (and without horrible formatting errors), including a link to the actual document, can be found here. Apparently it's been declassified for a couple months now...but better to get this info out a little late then never I suppose.
What in the hell are you talking about? Are you sure you replied to the right post? I watch movies on it. Just not UMD movies. The PSP utilizes a technology called "memory cards". With these "memory cards" on the PSP, you can load things such as movies, pictures, audio, homebrew apps, etc. When loaded onto your PSP, you can navigate the menus to access said data. It's pretty slick actually!
I purchased my PSP (about 3 or 4 weeks ago) fully knowing the selection of games weren't great. I got it for all the other reasons I already mentioned. So no, I didn't buy it during the big PSP hype. Also, I never once implied that the DS does anything other than play games. But I will say that the DS has much more rabid fanboys. That said, I think I'm going to go play some Mario Cart DS.
Most applications allow you to disable many of the pop-up stuff that you're talking about right in the options menu. Outlook has it for new email. MSN I believe has this feature (I use Trillian, but Windows Messenger has that option). I've never had Firefox pop up trying to steal attention...except for update I believe. Windows security warnings can all be disabled through the control panel. You can disable Clippy. Just look through the options menu. It's there, somewhere. If there isn't an option anywhere to disable it...google that specific app. There's probably a registry key you can mess with.
I guess I don't really see how the UMD format falling out will affect PSP sales at all. People obviously weren't buying them in the first place, which shows that they weren't really part of the selling point. I didn't buy my PSP for UMD movies...I never would even think about paying 125% for a UMD movie over a DVD. The few people I know that own one got it for the games, homebrew applications, as well as a portable media player. It's web-browser feature is also extremely handy in a pinch.
I've logged 36 hours (at least that's the played time on/save), and haven't had a single crash. This includes (probably obviously) 6+ hour sessions. Damn this game is awesome! That said, there are some bugs that need fixing, but nothing like Daggerfall had.
Also, I haven't really noticed the "console" feeling of navigating through menus. I actually would think it'd be very annoying on a console.
What's your point? The article talks about utilizing VR to treat it. Did those glasses display playable video games? TFA didn't claim a breakthrough treatment style, just a more enjoyable, possibly faster way to correct things. Hell, I think everyone would be happier if more treatments involved having to play video games! That's what's newsworthy.
I dont' see any added information than what was already on the slashback. Just total speculation. Not that I'm terribly pro-MS, but come on! They both need ISO approval, and they both go through the same committee. Microsoft is one company. TFA states there are several others. If MS, as one company, tries to block ODF, then what do you think the other companies will do? Granted MS is a large company, but I can't imagine it'd be terribly difficult to find things for the other companies to gripe about in xmlrs. Golden rule here people!
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Probably see my response further below...but to respond to yours:
Since the inital recuperation from the surgery
I had my Lasik surgery done January 2005. My eyes are still going through the "initial recuperation". For the first 9 months or so my eye sight would fluctuate, one day my right eye would be clear, the next my left. Now it's fairly steady, but they dry out much more frequently than yours do. My night vision is absolutely terrible compared to what it was, though it's getting better. I also noticed significantly more headaches. I get tons of little "floaty" things which mess with vision. On subsequent visits, I was told everything looks normal. Yes, I knew this stuff could happen going in. However, the dreams of not needing glasses, and being able to read something further than 3 inches from my nose took hold.
Lasik is not the holy grail it seems to be. I would not recommend this surgery to anyone, ever. Unless having messed up vision (and possible blindness!) is worth the convenience of not having to slide a pair of glasses on every morning.
I had a similar issue with my contacts drying out, so I switched to less reflective glasses. It helped out a bit with the eye strain...but I found that the most relieving thing for eye strain was to take off the glasses (making everything extremely fuzzy...gogo 2000/20 vision), stand up, and stare down to the end of the cube farm. "Focusing" on something very far away every once in a while (every 2 hours or so) helped out tons.
And then my dumbass went and got Lasik. When you use the same method of relief for 10 years or so, getting used to not being able to make things all fuzzy takes a long, long time to get used to. Ugh.
Yes, because it's tough as hell to get a different credit card to use. Or like the person above me posted, game cards. Do you think anyone in that risky of a business would have their real name tied to their account? Hell, when I used to run ShowEQ back in the day I used it with an account based off game cards...and ShowEQ was near impossible to detect.
If you're purposely breaking the EULA, you watch your ass.
You're absolutely right. There is nobody interested in gaming. At. All.
You might notice that the only performance they talk about in the article is game performance. They didn't bother running any benchmarks, they didn't mention how movies play, they didn't mention how photoshop runs, etc etc. A few things installed ok. Then they played games for a few hours! Where did you get the "majority of people" part? The voices in your head? Because I see tons and tons of threads going back to how well games run in XP on Mac hardware. (See above for my refrences) What else are people going to run Windows side by side with OS X for? Office productivity? Audio/Video/Photo editing? Web surfing? Email? Oh wait, the one last thing that Windows actually has a real hold on. Games.
Cock-jockeys like you should not be allowed to converse in public places/forums! It's called humor, hehehe?
the three videos were pretty crappy. Wasn't a FRAPS capture or anything, but a little DV camera at really low res. However, you could see that the gameplay was very very smooth, no slowdown on the spell effects and such. Looks like it was running just fine from what I could tell. They were running on a 2ghz + 2GB ram machine, if you couldn't get to that part.
Using AIM to keep in touch with family very often saves me a lot of time out of the office.
It does? How? I've found a device called a "telephone" that allows me to keep in touch with family. Works pretty well...lets me call my wife to see what's for dinner.
Using AIM to contact some work associates that are not on our network IM system
Email works pretty well. Or that high fangled "telephone" device I mentioned earlier.
Maybe it's just easier to blame the technology.
Sounds good to me! Remember, YOU ARE AT WORK. However, you completely missed my point. The point I was getting at is that using external communications services ARE A MASSIVE SECURITY RISK. Go to Symantec.com and do a search for MSN or AIM. Is the possibility of completely hosing your company's network worth it? Think of all the hours it'd take to have everyone run virus removal procedures. How much time did you save now?
Ok...That's such a security hole I don't even know where to start. Yes, I was referencing using AIM to talk to friends/family/etc. The company I work for has an internal messenger client. Can only be accessed from the internal network, and cannot connect to any external network. I use it quite frequently like you do. However, our IT department doesn't have to sit there worrying about the next MSN worm that rolls out like your IT dept does.
I completely agree in that situation. I did the majority of my Everquest gaming while working help desk. There's just not nearly as much concern about security in those situations. At least doing tech support for a university there wasn't much to worry about. When you work an entire Saturday shift (12 hours) with only one call (wrong number), there's gotta be some "gimme".
/. break, obviously since I'm posting right now, but added distractions like checking all 10 email addresses, responding to your cybering friend on aim, while downloading a cracked game doesn't really help get the work done.
But when you've got a job that can and does take up all 8 hours of the day, it should be devoted to that. I'm all about the occasional
Exactly, whatever happened to only giving people what they need to get their job done? Where I work we have several services block...I don't even bother trying most things. It's locked down, which it should be. Nobody needs AIM at work, you don't need access to bittorret, etc etc. Better to lock stuff down than get your network owned by some idiot that can't stop talking to MSN bots.
The "Internet" is the millions of networks interconnected, governed in use by various organizations, such as ICANN.
An "internet" is just two or more seperate networks, connected together. You can use whatever protocol you want, with any addresses you want, with any naming structure you want.
For a very basic example...You've got your home network, all hosts running static IP addresses. Lets say 124.23.124.0/24. You talk to your neighbor, and you decide you want to connect their network with yours to swap some files. They've got their network IP addressed to 192.168.12.0/24. Since these are two seperate networks, some basic routing will take need to take place to talk to each other. So each "admin" adds a basic static route on their router so the networks can talk.
Congrats, you've made an internetwork (internet).
No. Just, no.
Kleenex and Xerox are trademarked, commercial products. Saying either Kleenex or kleenex and Xerox or xerox refers to the same thing. Kleenex (Kimberly-Clark) and Xerox still retain the right to use those names. If they become publicly usable, which both companies have fought against, they can no longer use that word for their products. You still see Kleenex on that box of tissue on your desk, and you see Xerox on the copy machine down the way from your cube.
"The Internet" is a proper noun. It is specific person, place, or thing, much like the above examples. It has only lost its capitalization due to laziness, much as people don't capitalize i, joe, or seattle. However the difference between the two is that saying the Internet vs. internet has different meanings. One is a collection of networks, publicly accessible following strict regulations in place by various governing bodies. The other is just two or more connected networks, public or private, following whatever standards you want. Internet is not owned by a company. Using the word "internet" is still very legitimate. Just like the difference between "Bob" and "bob". One is a persons name, the other is to kind of move up and down.
Don't try and justify laziness. Thanks.
I'd rather read an article written by someone who knows how to properly cite an article over an article that doesn't know the difference between "internet" and "Internet". Call me picky, or maybe it's that telecom degree I'm not using, but I can't stand it when people say "the internet".
Exactly! They already caught their #1 hacker! They should be good to go for a while now!
A summary with a bit more information (and without horrible formatting errors), including a link to the actual document, can be found here. Apparently it's been declassified for a couple months now...but better to get this info out a little late then never I suppose.
What in the hell are you talking about? Are you sure you replied to the right post? I watch movies on it. Just not UMD movies. The PSP utilizes a technology called "memory cards". With these "memory cards" on the PSP, you can load things such as movies, pictures, audio, homebrew apps, etc. When loaded onto your PSP, you can navigate the menus to access said data. It's pretty slick actually!
I purchased my PSP (about 3 or 4 weeks ago) fully knowing the selection of games weren't great. I got it for all the other reasons I already mentioned. So no, I didn't buy it during the big PSP hype. Also, I never once implied that the DS does anything other than play games. But I will say that the DS has much more rabid fanboys. That said, I think I'm going to go play some Mario Cart DS.
Most applications allow you to disable many of the pop-up stuff that you're talking about right in the options menu. Outlook has it for new email. MSN I believe has this feature (I use Trillian, but Windows Messenger has that option). I've never had Firefox pop up trying to steal attention...except for update I believe. Windows security warnings can all be disabled through the control panel. You can disable Clippy. Just look through the options menu. It's there, somewhere. If there isn't an option anywhere to disable it...google that specific app. There's probably a registry key you can mess with.
I guess I don't really see how the UMD format falling out will affect PSP sales at all. People obviously weren't buying them in the first place, which shows that they weren't really part of the selling point. I didn't buy my PSP for UMD movies...I never would even think about paying 125% for a UMD movie over a DVD. The few people I know that own one got it for the games, homebrew applications, as well as a portable media player. It's web-browser feature is also extremely handy in a pinch.
I've logged 36 hours (at least that's the played time on /save), and haven't had a single crash. This includes (probably obviously) 6+ hour sessions. Damn this game is awesome! That said, there are some bugs that need fixing, but nothing like Daggerfall had.
Also, I haven't really noticed the "console" feeling of navigating through menus. I actually would think it'd be very annoying on a console.
What's your point? The article talks about utilizing VR to treat it. Did those glasses display playable video games? TFA didn't claim a breakthrough treatment style, just a more enjoyable, possibly faster way to correct things. Hell, I think everyone would be happier if more treatments involved having to play video games! That's what's newsworthy.
I dont' see any added information than what was already on the slashback. Just total speculation. Not that I'm terribly pro-MS, but come on! They both need ISO approval, and they both go through the same committee. Microsoft is one company. TFA states there are several others. If MS, as one company, tries to block ODF, then what do you think the other companies will do? Granted MS is a large company, but I can't imagine it'd be terribly difficult to find things for the other companies to gripe about in xmlrs. Golden rule here people!
No, no, I think the GP got it right when they stated it would take years.