"Really! Why risk (ALL surgery has risks) messing up your eyes when glasses or even contacts, if you're concerned about appearance, can clear things up just fine?"
Well personaly I wear glasses and I wish I had the surgery. There are many reasons why glasses are aggrivating. 1. They get in the way. You can't look into a teliscope, camera or microscope whithout dificulty. 2. They have an exposed surface. They collect dust and have to be clean regularly or you lose resolution. Also they're vulnerable to scratches. And don't try to tell me about anti-scratch coating. My current right-lens needs to be replaced because the anti-scratch stuff is flakeing off. It makes a line much more anoying then a scratch. 3. It's dificult to wear other glasses. Safty Glasses are a big one. Sometime just polycarb lenses are enough, but more often then not you want the side pieces only safty glasses have. They're supposed to fit over but it's never comfortable. And my H3d glasses are very unconfortable over my other glasses. I won't even mention sunglasses and HMD's because I don't own either. 4. They break, fall off, get steped on, lost. I'm blind enough that if I drop my glasses on the floor I need someone else to hand them to me or I'll spend ten min on the floor feeling around. 5. My glasses distort things near the edge. I don't know if they all do.
As for contacts, they just scare me. I spend most of my life trying to stop things from landing on the surface of my eye. (I apply the similer logic to needles.)
"Besides, I think girls look sexier with glasses than without.:) "
There's nothing that says the sensor has to be on the face of the machine. Since most vending machines I use are indoors a temp sensor on the box would be pointless.
Also I think humidity would be more important then temprature anyway. Or mabey that "Heat Index" thingy that the weather guys kept going on about this summer.
Well, my extraterestrial geography isn't as great as it might be. But I'm pretty sure that 29 and a quarter squares to the south-east of the extreme northwest corner of the Martian chart is still part of Mars.
Also, It doesn't seem to mention how much land you've got. Seems a deed would need this information.
More important then treaties, there's no inforcment. If tomorrow I land on your section of the Moon and begin mining for moon-dust what are you going to do about it.
There's not a court on Earth that would touch me. Even if they did, what are they going to do? Stop buying my Moon Dust? Ha! Moon dust is a valuable commodity. That's why I'm mining it. Any country that bans the import of Moon Dust is hurting itself more then it's hurting me.
No, but they shot it in the normal section of Quebec.(They didn't know about the low gravity area until years afterward.) The footage we see is played back in slow-motion. That's why they don't let us see into the face-masks. We'd be able to tell the footage had been slowed down.
If I ever goto Quebec and find that it isn't all grey and full of craters then I'll be real disapointed.
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Perhaps it would be a good idea if, before people are allowed to moderate, they must pass a quiz on the definition of the moderation keywords.
A lot of them need help with "Redundant" in particular.
Easy. display x/y/z as a point on an isometric cube. With a 'shadow' on the x/y grid(at the bottom of the cube). T will be displayed as color. Red for negitive t, blue for positive t. and white or grey for 0 t.
This would lead to a very graphics intensive message board, but displaying a 4-d coord in numbers wouldn't be very intuitive.
I think moderation should be two dimensional. Instead of the one-d moderation we have now, the score of the poster would have two seperate values. Humor(for example) could be on the other axis so a post that was very funny but not informitive or trolling could get a moderation of (Score : 0 + 5i Funny) at the same time puns and other more iritating forms of humor could be negitive i. (Score : 0 - 5i Pun)
Then each user, in addition to setting a 'threshold' you'd set a 'perspective' that would be various ways to combine the two values to form a single value to compare to your threshold.
Also karma would have to be reprisented as a complex number as well.
Or perhaps since some people get so iritated about spelling errors the second axis should be gramer related. (score : 1 - 3i Spelling errors) or (score : 1 + 5i Sounds British)
Oh great. Now we can all be excluded from our dream-job on the grounds of a crime we havn't commited yet.
If this did happen to be I'd be torn between trying to kill the person who wrote the program or proving him wrong.
Or what if insurance companies got a hold of this? "We're sorry Mr. Smith. But we'r afraid we can't give you an accident polocy. Our computer tells us you're the type of person who will stand on the top step of a ladder even though the warning labels say not to. I'm afraid we just can't take on that kind of risk." Yea, Thanks Hal!
I've seen a chain-saw with a label mentioning hands. But not genitals. This is Internet forward-lore. I seriously doubt if it could be tracked down to an actual chain-saw.
But, if they can cram more cool stuff in there but keep the basic requirments(Size Weight Power) the same then great!
I'd love for my Palm device to play dvd's if they could do it without increasing the size of the Palm. (Well mabey the tray would have to fold out or something.)
The point is, as long as the size,weight,power stay the same then great! This is why the Visor will be so cool. With the add-on modules people will be able to have whatever features they want, and not be dragged down by features other people want. It'd be even cooler if the color ones let you swap out the screen if you wanted.
Yea, but do they card you when they give out the ID's? not likely. I know the article says "It's the principal of the thing" but I'll bet if he just tryed to buy a badge like anyone else they wouldn't check up on it.
Well mabey they would now. But if he hadn't said anything I'll bet he would have gotten in just fine.
Perhaps you're not familar with the Weekly World News? This is the same newspaper that claims that the Titanic was shot by an alien submarine! (The iceberg was a goverment cover.)
Perhaps this is a stupid question. But I'm going to ask it anyway. Wouldn't it have been wiser to inquire about possible side-effects before puting your CD in the microwave?
"I know nothing about the trauma the Taiwanese are going through right now?" No one here actually believes that the most important side effect of the quake was a spike in RAM prices. But What would you like us to do? I for one would rather not read post after post of people crying about the loss of life/property in Taiwan. Especially because most of the people writing would just be faking it.
"My age means nothing," Of course it doesn't. If I said I was 9 you don't think you'd be condescending? I'm 19 now. And I remember myself as a lot younger and less mature back when I was 15. And I'll probably look back at age 19 the same way.
"Lemme tell a few jokes at your relative's funeral, I'm sure that will make everyone happy!" I've always thought funerals should be more light-hearted events.
"People who turn these things into humour distort what they fundamentally are.." Enjoyment and understanding are mutually exclusive? If I buy a consumer product, and it says "Made in China" if I think about it, I realize that it was almost certainly made by extremely low-wage workers in conditions that I would never want to work in. Does this mean I can't enjoy the product?
"...laugh at the expense of other's and their misery." If I slipped on a banana peel, I have no doubt that you'd laugh at me. You'd probably even do it to my face.
"Forgive me for not laughing when folks are Dying out there alright?" Dozens of people died while I was typing this out. (Perhaps more, I'm not sure of the numbers.) Forgive me for not crying for all of them. In fact, I'm going to laugh at them for not sticking around long enough to hear what I had to say : HAHAHAHAHA. Now I'm going to laugh at you for being shocked by my laughter : HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
And I'd better not catch you reading about the 'darwin awards'!
A donation to the Very Big Corp of America wouldn't be a tax break. Better off sending to the workers. The sooner they can stop clawing through the wreckage of their house the sooner they can make more chips.
If they don't give in to our No-earthquake demands soon, we'll have to send in troops to enforce it.
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I've got the same system, (But with half the RAM.(But not for long)) And Q3test runs fine. My frame-rate at 640x400 is better then My Q2 frame-rate at 800x600.
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Does this seem likely? Wouldn't the numbers be diferent for each eye? So would he still have a good eye left?
This reads like a credit card ad. There are some things that money can't buy...
"Really! Why risk (ALL surgery has risks) messing up your eyes when glasses or even contacts, if you're concerned about appearance, can clear things up just fine?"
:) "
Well personaly I wear glasses and I wish I had the surgery. There are many reasons why glasses are aggrivating.
1. They get in the way. You can't look into a teliscope, camera or microscope whithout dificulty.
2. They have an exposed surface. They collect dust and have to be clean regularly or you lose resolution. Also they're vulnerable to scratches. And don't try to tell me about anti-scratch coating. My current right-lens needs to be replaced because the anti-scratch stuff is flakeing off. It makes a line much more anoying then a scratch.
3. It's dificult to wear other glasses. Safty Glasses are a big one. Sometime just polycarb lenses are enough, but more often then not you want the side pieces only safty glasses have. They're supposed to fit over but it's never comfortable. And my H3d glasses are very unconfortable over my other glasses. I won't even mention sunglasses and HMD's because I don't own either.
4. They break, fall off, get steped on, lost. I'm blind enough that if I drop my glasses on the floor I need someone else to hand them to me or I'll spend ten min on the floor feeling around.
5. My glasses distort things near the edge. I don't know if they all do.
As for contacts, they just scare me. I spend most of my life trying to stop things from landing on the surface of my eye. (I apply the similer logic to needles.)
"Besides, I think girls look sexier with glasses than without.
Ok, I'll give you that one.
But if the AC failed you'd realy want a cold drink wouldn't you?
There's nothing that says the sensor has to be on the face of the machine. Since most vending machines I use are indoors a temp sensor on the box would be pointless.
Also I think humidity would be more important then temprature anyway. Or mabey that "Heat Index" thingy that the weather guys kept going on about this summer.
Well, my extraterestrial geography isn't as great as it might be. But I'm pretty sure that 29 and a quarter squares to the south-east of the extreme northwest corner of the Martian chart is still part of Mars.
Also, It doesn't seem to mention how much land you've got. Seems a deed would need this information.
More important then treaties, there's no inforcment. If tomorrow I land on your section of the Moon and begin mining for moon-dust what are you going to do about it.
There's not a court on Earth that would touch me. Even if they did, what are they going to do? Stop buying my Moon Dust? Ha! Moon dust is a valuable commodity. That's why I'm mining it. Any country that bans the import of Moon Dust is hurting itself more then it's hurting me.
No, but they shot it in the normal section of Quebec.(They didn't know about the low gravity area until years afterward.) The footage we see is played back in slow-motion. That's why they don't let us see into the face-masks. We'd be able to tell the footage had been slowed down.
If I ever goto Quebec and find that it isn't all grey and full of craters then I'll be real disapointed.
Perhaps it would be a good idea if, before people are allowed to moderate, they must pass a quiz on the definition of the moderation keywords.
A lot of them need help with "Redundant" in particular.
Easy. display x/y/z as a point on an isometric cube. With a 'shadow' on the x/y grid(at the bottom of the cube). T will be displayed as color. Red for negitive t, blue for positive t. and white or grey for 0 t.
This would lead to a very graphics intensive message board, but displaying a 4-d coord in numbers wouldn't be very intuitive.
I think moderation should be two dimensional. Instead of the one-d moderation we have now, the score of the poster would have two seperate values. Humor(for example) could be on the other axis so a post that was very funny but not informitive or trolling could get a moderation of (Score : 0 + 5i Funny) at the same time puns and other more iritating forms of humor could be negitive i. (Score : 0 - 5i Pun)
Then each user, in addition to setting a 'threshold' you'd set a 'perspective' that would be various ways to combine the two values to form a single value to compare to your threshold.
Also karma would have to be reprisented as a complex number as well.
Or perhaps since some people get so iritated about spelling errors the second axis should be gramer related. (score : 1 - 3i Spelling errors) or (score : 1 + 5i Sounds British)
Prehaps I've thought too much about this.
I find that I can see my monitor more clearly when it's not completly surrounded in metal.
Oh great. Now we can all be excluded from our dream-job on the grounds of a crime we havn't commited yet.
If this did happen to be I'd be torn between trying to kill the person who wrote the program or proving him wrong.
Or what if insurance companies got a hold of this? "We're sorry Mr. Smith. But we'r afraid we can't give you an accident polocy. Our computer tells us you're the type of person who will stand on the top step of a ladder even though the warning labels say not to. I'm afraid we just can't take on that kind of risk." Yea, Thanks Hal!
I've seen a chain-saw with a label mentioning hands. But not genitals. This is Internet forward-lore. I seriously doubt if it could be tracked down to an actual chain-saw.
But, if they can cram more cool stuff in there but keep the basic requirments(Size Weight Power) the same then great!
I'd love for my Palm device to play dvd's if they could do it without increasing the size of the Palm. (Well mabey the tray would have to fold out or something.)
The point is, as long as the size,weight,power stay the same then great! This is why the Visor will be so cool. With the add-on modules people will be able to have whatever features they want, and not be dragged down by features other people want. It'd be even cooler if the color ones let you swap out the screen if you wanted.
Yea, but do they card you when they give out the ID's? not likely. I know the article says "It's the principal of the thing" but I'll bet if he just tryed to buy a badge like anyone else they wouldn't check up on it.
Well mabey they would now. But if he hadn't said anything I'll bet he would have gotten in just fine.
Perhaps you're not familar with the Weekly World News? This is the same newspaper that claims that the Titanic was shot by an alien submarine! (The iceberg was a goverment cover.)
Perhaps this is a stupid question. But I'm going to ask it anyway. Wouldn't it have been wiser to inquire about possible side-effects before puting your CD in the microwave?
Does it use the IR port to detect Tachyons?
"I know nothing about the trauma the Taiwanese are going through right now?"
No one here actually believes that the most important side effect of the quake was a spike in RAM prices. But What would you like us to do? I for one would rather not read post after post of people crying about the loss of life/property in Taiwan. Especially because most of the people writing would just be faking it.
"My age means nothing,"
Of course it doesn't. If I said I was 9 you don't think you'd be condescending? I'm 19 now. And I remember myself as a lot younger and less mature back when I was 15. And I'll probably look back at age 19 the same way.
"Lemme tell a few jokes at your relative's funeral, I'm sure that will make everyone happy!"
I've always thought funerals should be more light-hearted events.
"People who turn these things into humour distort what they fundamentally are.."
Enjoyment and understanding are mutually exclusive? If I buy a consumer product, and it says "Made in China" if I think about it, I realize that it was almost certainly made by extremely low-wage workers in conditions that I would never want to work in. Does this mean I can't enjoy the product?
"...laugh at the expense of other's and their misery."
If I slipped on a banana peel, I have no doubt that you'd laugh at me. You'd probably even do it to my face.
"Forgive me for not laughing when folks are Dying out there alright?"
Dozens of people died while I was typing this out. (Perhaps more, I'm not sure of the numbers.) Forgive me for not crying for all of them.
In fact, I'm going to laugh at them for not sticking around long enough to hear what I had to say : HAHAHAHAHA.
Now I'm going to laugh at you for being shocked by my laughter : HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
And I'd better not catch you reading about the 'darwin awards'!
A donation to the Very Big Corp of America wouldn't be a tax break. Better off sending to the workers. The sooner they can stop clawing through the wreckage of their house the sooner they can make more chips.
Yes I know this was tasteless, But I don't care.
If they don't give in to our No-earthquake demands soon, we'll have to send in troops to enforce it.
I've got the same system, (But with half the RAM.(But not for long)) And Q3test runs fine. My frame-rate at 640x400 is better then My Q2 frame-rate at 800x600.
Commander Keen Sucked?!? Are you insane?
Yes he should. The Game was vs The World. Not vs Microsoft. Why should MS's incompitance ruin the game for The World?