Before Tivo's "new initiatives", I watch the news at night (over the air, digital, free). After Tivo's "new initiatives", I watch the news at night (over the air, digital, free).
Although the first machine I used was an HP 2000 TSB system in the early 70's the first one I owned was a SWTPC 6800. It was sold in kit form and I bought it while I was in college. It has a Motorola 6800 processor running just under 1 Mhz clock speed. 4K! of memory and a serial interface to plug in a teletype or VT100 or some such terminal. Later I added diskette drives (85k) and memory (48k or so). I still have the machine and it still works just fine when I fire it up every few years just for entertainment. Funny thing is I use a PC for a terminal that is probably 5-5000 times faster than the old beast.
I had LASIK performed in early 98 and couldn't be happier with the results. I went from the -6/-7 range to 20/20 or better in both eyes. I drove to the checkup the next morning and went back to work that afternoon and played volleyball that night (with safety glasses on...). I had some haloing/starbursting on bright lights for a few months afterword but it has since faded and I have absolutely no night vision problems. I have several friends as well as my brother who have had the procedure since me, all with satisfactory results. One girl I know went from -10 or worse in both eyes to 20/15. As usual YMMV...
LASIK and any of the other corrective procedures that I know of can't correct for presbyopia - the hardening of the inner lens of the eye with age. (The thing that makes your arms grow shorter, making it harder and harder to hold whatever you are reading far enough away.) Since I am in the age range (40s) where that usually starts to affect people I will probably need reading glasses at some point but that is a minor concern compared to needing glasses to read the clock next to my head in bed...
COBOL will be around for a long, long, time. It has one redeeming feature that few other languages have and that is that it handles money well. Businesses don't like to entrust their finances to languages that round off, truncate, and set arbitrary precision limits based on the word size of a particular computer. Decimal arithmetic is the only way to handle money.
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Before Tivo's "new initiatives", I watch the news at night (over the air, digital, free).
After Tivo's "new initiatives", I watch the news at night (over the air, digital, free).
Sounds like no change to me...
Although the first machine I used was an HP 2000 TSB system in the early 70's the first one I owned was a SWTPC 6800. It was sold in kit form and I bought it while I was in college. It has a Motorola 6800 processor running just under 1 Mhz clock speed. 4K! of memory and a serial interface to plug in a teletype or VT100 or some such terminal. Later I added diskette drives (85k) and memory (48k or so). I still have the machine and it still works just fine when I fire it up every few years just for entertainment. Funny thing is I use a PC for a terminal that is probably 5-5000 times faster than the old beast.
or maybe some emails...
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Phone: (317) 816-9336
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I had LASIK performed in early 98 and couldn't be happier with the results. I went from the -6/-7 range to 20/20 or better in both eyes. I drove to the checkup the next morning and went back to work that afternoon and played volleyball that night (with safety glasses on...). I had some haloing/starbursting on bright lights for a few months afterword but it has since faded and I have absolutely no night vision problems. I have several friends as well as my brother who have had the procedure since me, all with satisfactory results. One girl I know went from -10 or worse in both eyes to 20/15. As usual YMMV...
LASIK and any of the other corrective procedures that I know of can't correct for presbyopia - the hardening of the inner lens of the eye with age. (The thing that makes your arms grow shorter, making it harder and harder to hold whatever you are reading far enough away.) Since I am in the age range (40s) where that usually starts to affect people I will probably need reading glasses at some point but that is a minor concern compared to needing glasses to read the clock next to my head in bed...
COBOL will be around for a long, long, time. It has one redeeming feature that few other languages have and that is that it handles money well. Businesses don't like to entrust their finances to languages that round off, truncate, and set arbitrary precision limits based on the word size of a particular computer. Decimal arithmetic is the only way to handle money.