My mom said that the single greatest thing was waking up and being able to read the clock. I have a clock with numbers 4 inches high and can't read it from bed, so I can only imagine this joy.
See my reply to the other responder for a question I have about the night vision thing.
On the night vision thing, some people with abnormally large eye parts (I forget which part matters in this case) are prone to have halo effects when they see lights at night, as their pupil opens to a radius larger than the corrected radius. However, most people don't fit this category, and I'm sure that the surgeons are working on making it a problem of the past.
I have talked extensively to other hunters and shooters about eye surgery, because my big fear is that I won't be able to see and shoot game in the first minutes after the sun rises or in the last moments before it sets. Everyone I've talked to who's had it and shoots says it's not a problem and that night vision is not adversely affected.
My mother had the surgery done, but that was about 8 years ago. She still has great surgery. At least two of my uncles and one of my aunts have had it done, as well, with excellent results, although my aunt had to go back for a touch-up job since her eyes were so bad to begin with.
A former coworker, female and 32 years old, had it done and has had trouble because they mis-corrected her vision. She's not worse off than she was before surgery, but she's not 20/20. More surgery should fix that, and I believe it's covered by her original agreement.
I would love to get my eyes zapped, as it would make my life much easier. Getting up and seeing the clock without glasses, reading a book until I fall asleep and not waking up with a bent-up pair of glasses embedded in my face, waking up in the wilderness and immediately being able to assess my surroundings, hunting without the dry eyes or frozen tears that come with contact lenses, and so on.
I am, however, starting law school in a month and want to wait until I'm done with those three years of intensive eye strain before I do anything drastic, as it's likely the strain will change my vision enough to require additional surgery.
If you are set in your lifestyle and your eyes are not changing significantly each year, I say go for it and never look back (because if it works you won't want to look back, and if it doesn't you won't be able to;-D).
Dictionary definitions are an existential statement - if one of the definition fits, then the word itself does. The degree to which it fits can usually be measured inversely to the index of the definition being used. The first definition here is the one most fitting to societies, whereas #2 and, especially, #3 are directed more towards an individual.
Androids aren't any less robots than a robotic arm, just like my Silverado can accurately be described by any of the following terms: machine, vehicle, automobile, Chevrolet, Silverado, Silverado 1500 4x4, "my truck". Just because a more specific term is available does not mean that less specific terms are incorrect.
I look up to Lisp and hope one day to be adept at it. My comment is more along the lines of "Way to go, guys! You're making use of a very powerful underlying language to make a powerful language accessible to people with an IQ less than 200." This is a Good Thing (TM). Sorry for the confusion.
The misquoted Simpsons line is "40 rods to the hogshead", which is about 0.0019 miles per gallon. Presumably, though, that horrendously low fuel economy is made up for by traveling more than 5 furlongs per fortnight.
I didn't check whether it translates PHP to Scheme or implements a bytecode in Scheme or whatever other possibilities exist, but this definitely seems like an extension of Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming:
Every sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
Scheme is a small Lisp, compared to Common Lisp, so presuming we throw out bugs and speed because there's an open admission to using a Lisp (whereas gcc, for example, makes no such admission) as well as the "C or Fortran" limitation, the Rule applies.
By the way, there's a difference between "cryptic" and "written by an idiot". Thanks for answering the question I was about to post, which was: "The story here is what?"
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+ Admission that the poster had nothing to say
+ Quote verbatim from article
+ Admission that the poster is not funny
= Comment moderated up as Funny
Even (especially?) the best programmers have a hard time meeting the demanding requirements of Windows Quality Assurance. I just can't bring myself to write bugs and security holes like that.;)
I played ATS as a Romulan for a number of years, mostly in the Tal'shiar. I figured you were talking ATS, but I believe SNW (Strange New Worlds), where I played but briefly, had even worse misconceptions.
The problem in a Romulan theme anywhere is that there is so little canonical material that you have to do some extrapolation. Some places extrapolate differently than others, much like Enterprise has extrapolated in the direction it has.
My preferred approach is the miminalist one: if there's not a canon source for something, avoid it as best you can. ATS is very maximalist with its Romulan extrapolations, and its corresponding disagreeability is the main reason I left.
PS: Since you're a MUSHer, feel free to check out Yesterday's Voyage at nveid.com:1701. It's not IC yet, but we're building. I'm writing the space engine for it, and as a geek you'd surely like some of the features I make available in it (like programming your own torpedoes with a dialect of Lisp). It's set in the timeframe of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701C, including the vast political instability of the Federation at the time, as alluded to by the TNG episode "Yesterday's Enterprise".
Stop by and create a character and say 'hi', on a channel or on our 'cnet' message boards. Who knows, you may be the first captain of the Stargazer or some such.:)
Calling it the "Rihannsu Stelam Shiar" indicates to me you play on one of the MUSHes far less in tune with canonical sources than I care for. That's fine - they have many more players and more activity as a result. But they pay as much attention to Diane Duane's vision of Romulans as Enterprise pays to Gene Roddenberry's vision of Vulcans.
Actually, I consider Diane Duane's novels to be more canonical than Nemesis and anything else to come - she actually maintained continuity with the Romulans in the show when its creator was still alive, rather than taking a massive dump on continuity like the current team has been doing.
Nemesis wasn't that bad of a movie, compared to some others. And you can even pass off the Reman thing as a development in the 100 years leading up to that movie. And Enterprise is a great sci-fi show - it just doesn't belong in the Trek timeline. If the same team made the same show and removed all Trek references except for 'warp drive', fans would respond more favorably to it.
Enterprise and Nemesis have zero connection at all in any way to the real history of the Romulan Empire. Romulus and Remus were inhabited by expatriated Vulcans. The only real difference between the planets is that Remus, or ch'Havran in the Rihannsu language, became predominantly agricultural while Romulus (ch'Rihan) become more industrial.
I'm not a Romulan, but I've played one online for almost a decade.;-D
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My mom said that the single greatest thing was waking up and being able to read the clock. I have a clock with numbers 4 inches high and can't read it from bed, so I can only imagine this joy.
See my reply to the other responder for a question I have about the night vision thing.
On the night vision thing, some people with abnormally large eye parts (I forget which part matters in this case) are prone to have halo effects when they see lights at night, as their pupil opens to a radius larger than the corrected radius. However, most people don't fit this category, and I'm sure that the surgeons are working on making it a problem of the past.
;-D).
I have talked extensively to other hunters and shooters about eye surgery, because my big fear is that I won't be able to see and shoot game in the first minutes after the sun rises or in the last moments before it sets. Everyone I've talked to who's had it and shoots says it's not a problem and that night vision is not adversely affected.
My mother had the surgery done, but that was about 8 years ago. She still has great surgery. At least two of my uncles and one of my aunts have had it done, as well, with excellent results, although my aunt had to go back for a touch-up job since her eyes were so bad to begin with.
A former coworker, female and 32 years old, had it done and has had trouble because they mis-corrected her vision. She's not worse off than she was before surgery, but she's not 20/20. More surgery should fix that, and I believe it's covered by her original agreement.
I would love to get my eyes zapped, as it would make my life much easier. Getting up and seeing the clock without glasses, reading a book until I fall asleep and not waking up with a bent-up pair of glasses embedded in my face, waking up in the wilderness and immediately being able to assess my surroundings, hunting without the dry eyes or frozen tears that come with contact lenses, and so on.
I am, however, starting law school in a month and want to wait until I'm done with those three years of intensive eye strain before I do anything drastic, as it's likely the strain will change my vision enough to require additional surgery.
If you are set in your lifestyle and your eyes are not changing significantly each year, I say go for it and never look back (because if it works you won't want to look back, and if it doesn't you won't be able to
August 3rd of what year? :P
Dictionary definitions are an existential statement - if one of the definition fits, then the word itself does. The degree to which it fits can usually be measured inversely to the index of the definition being used. The first definition here is the one most fitting to societies, whereas #2 and, especially, #3 are directed more towards an individual.
SCO called; they want their business model back.
Androids aren't any less robots than a robotic arm, just like my Silverado can accurately be described by any of the following terms: machine, vehicle, automobile, Chevrolet, Silverado, Silverado 1500 4x4, "my truck". Just because a more specific term is available does not mean that less specific terms are incorrect.
I just want to see it for some feel-good rap music. I hope I'm not let down.
Ah kin speel i'!
Two questions I've always had:
1. What happens if you tie two cats back-to-back?
2. What happens if you throw a cat at the wall or ceiling?
I'll swap less for more and cron for du. If I could have a few more than 10, I'd keep du (and cron) and add ps and find.
Sorry - I have my favorite Groening cartoon and you have yours.
Futurama - From the Makers of Futurama
I didn't know about the second one. A little background?
I look up to Lisp and hope one day to be adept at it. My comment is more along the lines of "Way to go, guys! You're making use of a very powerful underlying language to make a powerful language accessible to people with an IQ less than 200." This is a Good Thing (TM). Sorry for the confusion.
The misquoted Simpsons line is "40 rods to the hogshead", which is about 0.0019 miles per gallon. Presumably, though, that horrendously low fuel economy is made up for by traveling more than 5 furlongs per fortnight.
I didn't check whether it translates PHP to Scheme or implements a bytecode in Scheme or whatever other possibilities exist, but this definitely seems like an extension of Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming:
Every sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
Scheme is a small Lisp, compared to Common Lisp, so presuming we throw out bugs and speed because there's an open admission to using a Lisp (whereas gcc, for example, makes no such admission) as well as the "C or Fortran" limitation, the Rule applies.
Actually, someone beat you by 6 minutes.
By the way, there's a difference between "cryptic" and "written by an idiot". Thanks for answering the question I was about to post, which was: "The story here is what?"
Let me get this straight...
Anonymous Coward post
+ Admission that the poster had nothing to say
+ Quote verbatim from article
+ Admission that the poster is not funny
= Comment moderated up as Funny
Yep, that's Slashdot.
While your butt is busy adminstering databases, what do you do to keep busy?
Even (especially?) the best programmers have a hard time meeting the demanding requirements of Windows Quality Assurance. I just can't bring myself to write bugs and security holes like that. ;)
Surely, you meant to ask "Does it run NetBSD?"
Interesting. No, wait...that other thing. Tedious.
I played ATS as a Romulan for a number of years, mostly in the Tal'shiar. I figured you were talking ATS, but I believe SNW (Strange New Worlds), where I played but briefly, had even worse misconceptions.
:)
The problem in a Romulan theme anywhere is that there is so little canonical material that you have to do some extrapolation. Some places extrapolate differently than others, much like Enterprise has extrapolated in the direction it has.
My preferred approach is the miminalist one: if there's not a canon source for something, avoid it as best you can. ATS is very maximalist with its Romulan extrapolations, and its corresponding disagreeability is the main reason I left.
PS: Since you're a MUSHer, feel free to check out Yesterday's Voyage at nveid.com:1701. It's not IC yet, but we're building. I'm writing the space engine for it, and as a geek you'd surely like some of the features I make available in it (like programming your own torpedoes with a dialect of Lisp). It's set in the timeframe of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701C, including the vast political instability of the Federation at the time, as alluded to by the TNG episode "Yesterday's Enterprise".
Stop by and create a character and say 'hi', on a channel or on our 'cnet' message boards. Who knows, you may be the first captain of the Stargazer or some such.
Calling it the "Rihannsu Stelam Shiar" indicates to me you play on one of the MUSHes far less in tune with canonical sources than I care for. That's fine - they have many more players and more activity as a result. But they pay as much attention to Diane Duane's vision of Romulans as Enterprise pays to Gene Roddenberry's vision of Vulcans.
Actually, I consider Diane Duane's novels to be more canonical than Nemesis and anything else to come - she actually maintained continuity with the Romulans in the show when its creator was still alive, rather than taking a massive dump on continuity like the current team has been doing.
Nemesis wasn't that bad of a movie, compared to some others. And you can even pass off the Reman thing as a development in the 100 years leading up to that movie. And Enterprise is a great sci-fi show - it just doesn't belong in the Trek timeline. If the same team made the same show and removed all Trek references except for 'warp drive', fans would respond more favorably to it.
Enterprise and Nemesis have zero connection at all in any way to the real history of the Romulan Empire. Romulus and Remus were inhabited by expatriated Vulcans. The only real difference between the planets is that Remus, or ch'Havran in the Rihannsu language, became predominantly agricultural while Romulus (ch'Rihan) become more industrial.
;-D
I'm not a Romulan, but I've played one online for almost a decade.