They clamp your eyeball in place for 5 minutes while they make the cut and then do the laser. It aches like you would expect from pushing on your eyeball.
I just did some simple math and it didn't add up. There are 168 hours in a week. Subtract 40 hours work and fifty six hours sleep (at a generous eight hours per night) and I wind up with 69 hours.
I'm not sure what dream world you live in. Let me give you a break down of the real world.
8:00 Alarm goes off... 8:10 I get up on second alarm. 8:40 Leave house after having fed dogs, checked email, ate a quick snack and washed my hair maybe showered. 9:10 Pull into parking garage. 9:20 Actually sit down at my desk. 12:30 Go to lunch. 1:40 Back at desk from lunch 6:30 Head out. 6:40 Actually leave parking garage. 7:10 Pull in at the house. 8:10 my "entertainment day" begins after feeding dogs, feeding myself, checking daily mail. 11:30 Shower, clean teeth, final email. Part of entertainment invariably goes to a snack or phone call. 12:30 in bed-- lately after 30 bonus minutes of "Whose Line is it Anyway".
On the weekends... Add in more free time and entertainment time with the girlfriends but take out mowing, yardwork, shopping for food, shopping for stuff, "chores", and "man chores" done for girlfriend's.
If I had to pick the two biggest activities that you ignored I would say... Driving TO and FROM work (and I have a *short* 30 minute commute). Eating (including lunch) (not including "going out to a nice dinner" that I would say was entertainment).
He's using spelling lite, the quick, easy to use version without all the extra letters.*
*but the wierd video game based "loose" which is actually one letter longer the "lose" doesn't fit.
I wonder how long before "loose" in this usage appears in the dictionary since it appears to have some legs. It is clearly an intentional decision on people's parts since it has been corrected so many times.
On the one hand you could say "pay a high price". On the other hand you could say "go with the folks that have done this tens of thousands of times".
I got mine done here in Houston from Dr. Wade back in 1998. It was like $350 per eye.
The procedure at that time. 1) use a machine to map your eye. 2) feed results of the machine into laser controlling machine. 3) the doctor fixes your eye in place with a clamp. 4) the doctor uses a device in a track (no free hand cutting) that cuts 75% of a circle making the flap. 5) a machine guides the laser in a series of pulses (you smell a burning hair smell but feel nothing). 6) repeat for eye #2.
7) The *trickiest part* is to *religiously* put in the medicated eye drops for a couple weeks so you don't get an infection because if you do then that is a problem- potentially a bad one. Infection rate at the time was something like 10 per 100,000 almost all due to the people not putting the drops in. I'm sure others didn't put the drops in and didn't get infected.
Results? When I go to the ocean I can *SEE* water instead of a dark blurry mass. When I go skiing, I don't have to stop at the bottom of every run and wait for my glasses to unfog. When I play sports, I can see the disk and I don't ever get my glasses knocked off (and damaged). A few less ear aches and headaches (I had heavy glasses). No contact eye infections. No wierd veins in my eyes when i go skiing.
Some what dryer eyes-- so I have to use drops when humidity gets down below 30%. But that may be partially because it is always 80% humidity here normally.
It could be a problem later in life. Then again, I almost died in 1993 anyway so I want to grab some fun while I can.
Place it at the back of a 6" tube and unless the blocker is in a very narrow apeture, it is not going to see the camera nor is it going to do anything but shine on the outside of the tube if it did.
And then there are.... multiple cameras- which one is real. telescopes
Admittedly his grammar was a bit broken, but he clearly means that the economy grew.
That figure sounds like the entire economy- people in IT are having their compensation grow by 40% annually right now.
China is not a viable option-- their english is atrocious compared to india (who have good english- just bad accents). I work with two sharp chinese guys- in the US now for at least 5 years and they are still almost incomprehensible at times. I have a friend who also works with a chinese immigrant who has a master's degree and yet people in my friend's office can't understand her and when she can't understand them she *pretends* to understand them instead of asking followup questions. Chinese nationals have problems with "face" that prevent them from asking 'stupid' questions.
Are you aware that *many* movies go to $5.00 in America and *most* go to 7.50?
That's for the brand new physical movie, with art, liner notes, and a storage case.
If you are paying $40, you are being ripped off something fierce. Hell you could buy them off Amazon.com, pay international shipping and *STILL* get it for less than the prices you are mentioning.
$5.00, $5.50, and $7.50 for many fairly recent movies?
Why would I want a DRM encumbered version when I can get a hardcopy that I can easily make a backup copy to use when I travel. The last time I traveled, I had two disks destroyed. Both fortunately being backup copies.
I think Gates is a bit out of touch with fair pricing on movies. Pricing for movies is non-linear and has a wierd logic.
*Roughly* 1) If it is mega popular, it will be cheap the first few weeks only- then go up to about 17.99 to 19.99 and then drop to $14.99 on major holiday. 2) If it is reasonably popular, it will be cheap the first few weeks, then go up to a lower price (maybe 14.99) than the mega-popular movies. After six months it will drop to $10 at least once a month and $7.50 on major holidays. 3) If it is not that popular but a solid niche film- it's going to behave like #2. 4) If it is not that popular and not a niche film- it's going to drop to $9.99 and go on sale for $5.00 (or "two for $10.00"). 5) Then there are some funky movies which have wierd prices for years before they suddenly collapse (Time Bandits was $25 to $34 forever. So I just didn't buy it. Finally it broke on a holiday down to $7.50 and I picked it up).
$9.99 is unreasonably low for a few movies and unreasonably high for most movies and it completely ignores the time value of movies.
The underlying problem with all entertainment is a growing glut and the fact that people only have about 21 hours a week to consume entertainment in. At 21 hours a week, I have about 500 *weeks* of entertainment to choose from right now plus 10 hours a week of new stuff piling in via cable (Mostly "Whose line is it Anyway" right now-- losing sleep so I can cram it in). And I havn't even bought the Superboy seasons on sale at fry's for $22 per *season* ($1 per hour) yet- which would be 3 more weeks of entertainment.
Then you have to subtract out time you spend on concerts, hanging out with friends playing board games, online computer games and if you think about it much at all, you begin to wonder why the price on this crap is so high.
Warner & Earthlink do not require you have cable TV. Warner gives you a $5 break on your bill if you have cable. But I have Dish and Warner internet.
Frequently if you have warner and warner internet and then turn off warner cable, it can be months before the cable actually goes off. I think I had it for about 8 months. Basic only of course- but that's 70 channels and it was a nice backup when we would have a heavy storm and Dish went out for a half hour or so. (Happened twice- about as often as I lost Warner cable for other reasons).
Yes but the fact that they exclude better than Baidu would be the counter argument.
Likewise, it's good to know as the US gets more fascist that Google and Yahoo will march in lock step with them as they suppress our freedoms and make more kinds of information sharing illegal.
Some human eyes can see up to 60fps but not much above there.
We get eye strain or the image seems every so mildly "jerky" up to about there.
I had a friend (who had very fast reflexes in every other way too) that would complain when he was getting under 60fps. It looked glass smooth to me after about 40 to 45 fps.
Well what I do is contact the solar power companies in my state and ask how much it would cost to set up such a system for me about once a year.
I've read up on the technology a lot and I'm excited by Nanosolar and some other companies potential to reduce the price by an order of magnitude (and make it an order of magnitude lighter).
For now- short of "grants" from the government it's about $50k ish to set up a typical residential house, grid tied, so that it can cover an average electric bill and be able to fall back on the power co when the weather is bad too long.
In Texas, you can run your meter to zero but you can't run it backwards unless you are a business so there is no point in oversizing your system too much. If you are in Austin you can get some grants but otherwise no grants here like in California.
And yea- it's hard to know that making that solar cell isn't doing a lot of damage to the environment somewhere else (toxic chemicals, nano-polution for the newer technologies, etc.)
7a) When calcium carbonate levels go down the plankton dies
or
7b) When calcium carbonate levels go down the plankton adapts and 7b1) Becomes much more productive and we enter a new golden age. 7b2) is other wise about the same 7b3) is a much less productive and we enter another series of iterations.
Plankton occupy a slot. That slot is going to be filled by something. It may not be something we or anything can eat but it is not going to remain empty. Life lives in geothermal vents, it's sure going to find a way in an area with lots of energy (sunlight) streaming in to feed it.
Plankton breed fast- like bacteria they are probably going to adapt better than we are.
The reality is that there are many cases where a powerful but misguided scientist supressed the work of many good scientists (even to the point of them being killed) for periods lasting decades.
* All of the evil done in the name of God has been done by such men.
COME ON- that statement is false on the face of it. Plenty of poor sincere believers have killed others in the name of religion.
* BTW, Muslims are forbidden to murder, and to commit suicide. Your middle east suicide bonbers are following Muslim wolves in sheep's clothing.
Oh for GOD'S SAKE STOP IT. The Koran directly tells you to shun and kill non-believers.
SURA 4.56: (As for) those who disbelieve in Our communications, We shall make them enter fire; so oft as their skins are thoroughly burned, We will change them for other skins, that they may taste the chastisement; surely Allah is Mighty, Wise.
3.118: O you who believe! do not take for intimate friends from among others than your own people; they do not fall short of inflicting loss upon you; they love what distresses you; vehement hatred has already appeared from out of their mouths, and what their breasts conceal is greater still; indeed, We have made the communications clear to you, if you will understand.
9.23: O you who believe! do not take your fathers and your brothers for guardians if they love unbelief more than belief; and whoever of you takes them for a guardian, these it is that are the unjust.
4.89 : They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.
9.5: So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
Is there any part of 9.5 which is ambiguous?
22.19: These are two adversaries who dispute about their Lord; then (as to) those who disbelieve, for them are cut out garments of fire, boiling water shall be poured over their heads.
22.20: With it shall be melted what is in their bellies and (their) skins as well.
22.21: And for them are whips of iron.
22.22: Whenever they will desire to go forth from it, from grief, they shall be turned back into it, and taste the chastisement of burning.
---
And as for the "man in the street" this was easy to find... quote: Afghan men pray outside a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 27, 2006. Hundreds of people protested in a northern Afghan city Monday against a decision to free a man who faced a possible death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity, officials said.
I.e. it is very common for islamic followers to want to kill non-islamics, or converts from islam, or even other islamics who do not believe their particular strain of islam.
I.e. Islam is only about 200 to 300 years behind christianity (Who were killing protestants in large numbers).
DESPITE these drawbacks, religious societies have a monstrous clarity of purpose and succeed better than non-religious societies. If "god" wills it, you can kill women and children without guilt. If you don't believe in god, then everything you do is on your own head. If you believe in god, the universe has certain black and white rules. So, like a marching band, a large religious population can move in the same direction fairly easily. A mixed religion or non-religious society moves more like a herd of cats.
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They clamp your eyeball in place for 5 minutes while they make the cut and then do the laser.
It aches like you would expect from pushing on your eyeball.
And i did leave out some things like "clean dishes", "take out trash", etc.
A lot of our lives are given up to small maintenance tasks that have nothing to do with entertainment.
I just did some simple math and it didn't add up. There are 168 hours in a week. Subtract 40 hours work and fifty six hours sleep (at a generous eight hours per night) and I wind up with 69 hours.
I'm not sure what dream world you live in. Let me give you a break down of the real world.
8:00 Alarm goes off...
8:10 I get up on second alarm.
8:40 Leave house after having fed dogs, checked email, ate a quick snack and washed my hair maybe showered.
9:10 Pull into parking garage.
9:20 Actually sit down at my desk.
12:30 Go to lunch.
1:40 Back at desk from lunch
6:30 Head out.
6:40 Actually leave parking garage.
7:10 Pull in at the house.
8:10 my "entertainment day" begins after feeding dogs, feeding myself, checking daily mail.
11:30 Shower, clean teeth, final email. Part of entertainment invariably goes to a snack or phone call.
12:30 in bed-- lately after 30 bonus minutes of "Whose Line is it Anyway".
On the weekends... Add in more free time and entertainment time with the girlfriends but take out mowing, yardwork, shopping for food, shopping for stuff, "chores", and "man chores" done for girlfriend's.
If I had to pick the two biggest activities that you ignored I would say...
Driving TO and FROM work (and I have a *short* 30 minute commute).
Eating (including lunch) (not including "going out to a nice dinner" that I would say was entertainment).
He's using spelling lite, the quick, easy to use version without all the extra letters.*
*but the wierd video game based "loose" which is actually one letter longer the "lose" doesn't fit.
I wonder how long before "loose" in this usage appears in the dictionary since it appears to have some legs. It is clearly an intentional decision on people's parts since it has been corrected so many times.
On the one hand you could say "pay a high price".
On the other hand you could say "go with the folks that have done this tens of thousands of times".
I got mine done here in Houston from Dr. Wade back in 1998.
It was like $350 per eye.
The procedure at that time.
1) use a machine to map your eye.
2) feed results of the machine into laser controlling machine.
3) the doctor fixes your eye in place with a clamp.
4) the doctor uses a device in a track (no free hand cutting) that cuts 75% of a circle making the flap.
5) a machine guides the laser in a series of pulses (you smell a burning hair smell but feel nothing).
6) repeat for eye #2.
7) The *trickiest part* is to *religiously* put in the medicated eye drops for a couple weeks so you don't get an infection because if you do then that is a problem- potentially a bad one. Infection rate at the time was something like 10 per 100,000 almost all due to the people not putting the drops in. I'm sure others didn't put the drops in and didn't get infected.
Results?
When I go to the ocean I can *SEE* water instead of a dark blurry mass.
When I go skiing, I don't have to stop at the bottom of every run and wait for my glasses to unfog.
When I play sports, I can see the disk and I don't ever get my glasses knocked off (and damaged).
A few less ear aches and headaches (I had heavy glasses).
No contact eye infections.
No wierd veins in my eyes when i go skiing.
Some what dryer eyes-- so I have to use drops when humidity gets down below 30%. But that may be partially because it is always 80% humidity here normally.
It could be a problem later in life. Then again, I almost died in 1993 anyway so I want to grab some fun while I can.
And one in four make it with rampant cheating.
So that means that to pass cheating becomes mandatory.
It's like Baseball in the united states lately.
Yea- corrected the Jobs thing already with a follow up post but slash doesn't let us fix things via editing.
DRM that is broken, is not DRM as far as I am concerned.
I tell them the same thing every review.
Just pay me fair market. If you let me get way below market, then I'd have to consider moving on. I won't move on for a few measley grand difference.
They don't say the words but they basically say, "We'll keep you as long as we can make a buck off you and can't replace you cheaper with indians".
So it is all good.
Place it at the back of a 6" tube and unless the blocker is in a very narrow apeture, it is not going to see the camera nor is it going to do anything but shine on the outside of the tube if it did.
And then there are....
multiple cameras- which one is real.
telescopes
this idea is a waste of money and time.
Even if my company treats me like a god, I'm going to leave for a 25% pay increase.
Admittedly his grammar was a bit broken, but he clearly means that the economy grew.
That figure sounds like the entire economy- people in IT are having their compensation grow by 40% annually right now.
China is not a viable option-- their english is atrocious compared to india (who have good english- just bad accents). I work with two sharp chinese guys- in the US now for at least 5 years and they are still almost incomprehensible at times. I have a friend who also works with a chinese immigrant who has a master's degree and yet people in my friend's office can't understand her and when she can't understand them she *pretends* to understand them instead of asking followup questions. Chinese nationals have problems with "face" that prevent them from asking 'stupid' questions.
Are you aware that *many* movies go to $5.00 in America and *most* go to 7.50?
That's for the brand new physical movie, with art, liner notes, and a storage case.
If you are paying $40, you are being ripped off something fierce. Hell you could buy them off Amazon.com, pay international shipping and *STILL* get it for less than the prices you are mentioning.
$5.00, $5.50, and $7.50 for many fairly recent movies?
Why would I want a DRM encumbered version when I can get a hardcopy that I can easily make a backup copy to use when I travel. The last time I traveled, I had two disks destroyed. Both fortunately being backup copies.
I think Gates is a bit out of touch with fair pricing on movies. Pricing for movies is non-linear and has a wierd logic.
*Roughly*
1) If it is mega popular, it will be cheap the first few weeks only- then go up to about 17.99 to 19.99 and then drop to $14.99 on major holiday.
2) If it is reasonably popular, it will be cheap the first few weeks, then go up to a lower price (maybe 14.99) than the mega-popular movies. After six months it will drop to $10 at least once a month and $7.50 on major holidays.
3) If it is not that popular but a solid niche film- it's going to behave like #2.
4) If it is not that popular and not a niche film- it's going to drop to $9.99 and go on sale for $5.00 (or "two for $10.00").
5) Then there are some funky movies which have wierd prices for years before they suddenly collapse (Time Bandits was $25 to $34 forever. So I just didn't buy it. Finally it broke on a holiday down to $7.50 and I picked it up).
$9.99 is unreasonably low for a few movies and unreasonably high for most movies and it completely ignores the time value of movies.
The underlying problem with all entertainment is a growing glut and the fact that people only have about 21 hours a week to consume entertainment in. At 21 hours a week, I have about 500 *weeks* of entertainment to choose from right now plus 10 hours a week of new stuff piling in via cable (Mostly "Whose line is it Anyway" right now-- losing sleep so I can cram it in). And I havn't even bought the Superboy seasons on sale at fry's for $22 per *season* ($1 per hour) yet- which would be 3 more weeks of entertainment.
Then you have to subtract out time you spend on concerts, hanging out with friends playing board games, online computer games and if you think about it much at all, you begin to wonder why the price on this crap is so high.
Warner & Earthlink do not require you have cable TV. Warner gives you a $5 break on your bill if you have cable.
But I have Dish and Warner internet.
Frequently if you have warner and warner internet and then turn off warner cable, it can be months before the cable actually goes off. I think I had it for about 8 months. Basic only of course- but that's 70 channels and it was a nice backup when we would have a heavy storm and Dish went out for a half hour or so. (Happened twice- about as often as I lost Warner cable for other reasons).
Correct.
Islam behavior today =~ Christianity about 1700 but with more and higher quality bombs.
I'm sorry... but holding a funeral in a PVP area was just an incredibly stupid idea.
I have never griefed and it made me want to buy the game, log in and grief them.
You have to ask yourself... WHAT WERE THEY THINKING???
Yes but the fact that they exclude better than Baidu would be the counter argument.
Likewise, it's good to know as the US gets more fascist that Google and Yahoo will march in lock step with them as they suppress our freedoms and make more kinds of information sharing illegal.
And what if you link to a site that links to a site that links to a gambling site?
"or even DISCUSSING????"
Surely even the current supreme court is going to knock this down.
Surely this is free speech to even the most casual observer???
Some human eyes can see up to 60fps but not much above there.
We get eye strain or the image seems every so mildly "jerky" up to about there.
I had a friend (who had very fast reflexes in every other way too) that would complain when he was getting under 60fps. It looked glass smooth to me after about 40 to 45 fps.
Well what I do is contact the solar power companies in my state and ask how much it would cost to set up such a system for me about once a year.
I've read up on the technology a lot and I'm excited by Nanosolar and some other companies potential to reduce the price by an order of magnitude (and make it an order of magnitude lighter).
For now- short of "grants" from the government it's about $50k ish to set up a typical residential house, grid tied, so that it can cover an average electric bill and be able to fall back on the power co when the weather is bad too long.
In Texas, you can run your meter to zero but you can't run it backwards unless you are a business so there is no point in oversizing your system too much. If you are in Austin you can get some grants but otherwise no grants here like in California.
And yea- it's hard to know that making that solar cell isn't doing a lot of damage to the environment somewhere else (toxic chemicals, nano-polution for the newer technologies, etc.)
What dark and steamy place did you pull that comment out from?
Nothing I said had anything to do with race.
It has everything to do with the sneaky actions of both sides to astroturf and create fake news reports.
Well...
7a) When calcium carbonate levels go down the plankton dies
or
7b) When calcium carbonate levels go down the plankton adapts and
7b1) Becomes much more productive and we enter a new golden age.
7b2) is other wise about the same
7b3) is a much less productive and we enter another series of iterations.
Plankton occupy a slot. That slot is going to be filled by something. It may not be something we or anything can eat but it is not going to remain empty. Life lives in geothermal vents, it's sure going to find a way in an area with lots of energy (sunlight) streaming in to feed it.
Plankton breed fast- like bacteria they are probably going to adapt better than we are.
That is the ideal of science.
The reality is that there are many cases where a powerful but misguided scientist supressed the work of many good scientists (even to the point of them being killed) for periods lasting decades.
* All of the evil done in the name of God has been done by such men.
COME ON- that statement is false on the face of it. Plenty of poor sincere believers have killed others in the name of religion.
* BTW, Muslims are forbidden to murder, and to commit suicide. Your middle east suicide bonbers are following Muslim wolves in sheep's clothing.
Oh for GOD'S SAKE STOP IT. The Koran directly tells you to shun and kill non-believers.
SURA 4.56: (As for) those who disbelieve in Our communications, We shall make them enter fire; so oft as their skins are thoroughly burned, We will change them for other skins, that they may taste the chastisement; surely Allah is Mighty, Wise.
3.118: O you who believe! do not take for intimate friends from among others than your own people; they do not fall short of inflicting loss upon you; they love what distresses you; vehement hatred has already appeared from out of their mouths, and what their breasts conceal is greater still; indeed, We have made the communications clear to you, if you will understand.
9.23: O you who believe! do not take your fathers and your brothers for guardians if they love unbelief more than belief; and whoever of you takes them for a guardian, these it is that are the unjust.
4.89 : They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.
9.5: So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
Is there any part of 9.5 which is ambiguous?
22.19: These are two adversaries who dispute about their Lord; then (as to) those who disbelieve, for them are cut out garments of fire, boiling water shall be poured over their heads.
22.20: With it shall be melted what is in their bellies and (their) skins as well.
22.21: And for them are whips of iron.
22.22: Whenever they will desire to go forth from it, from grief, they shall be turned back into it, and taste the chastisement of burning.
---
And as for the "man in the street" this was easy to find...
quote:
Afghan men pray outside a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 27, 2006. Hundreds of people protested in a northern Afghan city Monday against a decision to free a man who faced a possible death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity, officials said.
I.e. it is very common for islamic followers to want to kill non-islamics, or converts from islam, or even other islamics who do not believe their particular strain of islam.
I.e. Islam is only about 200 to 300 years behind christianity (Who were killing protestants in large numbers).
DESPITE these drawbacks, religious societies have a monstrous clarity of purpose and succeed better than non-religious societies. If "god" wills it, you can kill women and children without guilt. If you don't believe in god, then everything you do is on your own head. If you believe in god, the universe has certain black and white rules. So, like a marching band, a large religious population can move in the same direction fairly easily. A mixed religion or non-religious society moves more like a herd of cats.