Hmmm, not a good reason to mod somebody up. How did he get karmaslashed, trolling? Flaming? You need more downmods than upmods to get to slashdot purgatory.
Oh, and he has more than five posts although the ones I looked at are ok comments. I have points left; if I hadn't commented in this thread I'd mod his +5 as "overrated" or "redundant" because it's both.
Now, someone please mod me and the parent "offtopic" because we are. This contributes nothing (as does the "me-too" GP). And don't worry about my karma, I'm fine. Hope the parent poster is too.
Um, what does Texas Instruments have to do with Jobs? The IIe was an awesome computer for its time, which was about the time your TI was out. There were a LOT of great games for it, including a pirate Pac Man that was identical to the arcade machine. Used the IIe at the library. Had a buddy with a TI99, I wasn't impressed.
I had a Sinclair at the time (the TI was far better). But I was a little older than 8 (hell, I'm 3 years older than Jobs).
That +1 was "funny" and he got a -1 troll. No karma for a "funny". I can't figure out if he was modded by scientists or engineers or thirteen year old kids. He's AC so maybe he logged out and commented, then logged on and modded himself down?
If they weren't alienated by all of Sony's shenanigans by now they never will be. Some people will put up with anything. Me, I stopped buying Sony way back when they rooted my PC with XCP.
dragonsomnolent said it well. As for three letter agencies, yeah a lot of them shouldn't exist -- the NSA, TSA, ATF, DHS. But others are sorely needed -- FCC, FAA, EPA. Not wanting to support an "acronym agency" isn't idealistic, it's ignoring reality.
As I said, I'm a left-leaning libertarian. And to think that I could sue Monsanto into not polluting is past ignorance -- you obviously never drove past a Monsanto plant before the EPA was in existance. I grew up near one; you literally could not drive past it with the windows down, aven in 110 degree heat, as the air burned your lungs. You literally could not breathe. If the courts could have handled it they would have. You young folks have no idea how much you owe the EPA.
Government has no right to protect you from yourself. It has an obligation to protect you from me, and that includes if I decide to burn toxins near your house. You should no more have to sue for that than you should have to sue for me breaking into your house and stealing.
If you promote "moral" causes (banning gay marriage, banning abortion, banning drugs, banning prostitution, banning gambling) you're no libertarian. Your morality only affects me if it infringes on my own liberty; it is immoral to steal, but that does in fact affect me and should be illegal, just like polluting the air.
Well, there are no US government owned universities that I know of, although you probably have a point with state-run schools. However, why should Harvard have a right that the U of I lacks? My power company is owned and operated by the city, why should Amerin have rights that CWLP does not? And should being a government employee reduce your right to free speech?
They were steroid eyedrops prescribed for an infection that antibiotics weren't affecting. Being nerds, that's probably our only danger from steroids. However, being severely myopic is the leading cause of a retinal detachment. If you see black snow or nonexistant snakes, or especially if you see a gray curtain coming down, you have a medical emergency and need immediate treatment. Oh, and the treatments for a torn or detached retina are NOT FUN!!!
Well, UV is bad for the eye's lens, as it's thought (although afaik not proven) that UV leads to cataracts, but I think they wear the eye protection for the wind (I could be wrong).
Again, I haven't heard of retinal damage from UV. This wiki article about retinal diseases doesn't mention UV. In fact, the two primary retinal diseases to strike slashdotters would be from diabetes (lots of us are overweight) and retinal detachment; the #1 cause of that is severy myopia (I suffered a detached retina a few years ago).
BTW, the linked wiki article has some errors: "There are several modern treatment methods for fixing a retinal detachment: pneumatic retinopexy, scleral buckle, cryotherapy, laser photocoagulation and pars plana vitrectomy." Cryotherapy and laser photocoagulation are used for a torn retina, but not when one is detached; I had both these procedures before the retina actually detached. They are preventive therapies, used to keep a tear from becoming a detachment. Once it detaches you're in for a world of misery (cryotherapy isn't fun either).
That light the retina specialist shines into your completely dialated eye is like looking straight at the sun, you can't see anything out of the eye for a long time.
As to sitting in the sun, I don't burn easily, but the sun's rays usually don't shine right into your retina. Your retina will only get reflected light unless you look right at the sun.
The trouble with "libertarians" is some have a funny definition of "liberty", thinking that taxes and regulations infringe on their freedoms, when your refusal to pay your fair share and your pollution infringe on my own rights.
You don't have the right to dirty my air and rivers. You should have the right to smoke crack with your hired bitch; it's your right to destroy your life any way you deem fit. Smoke your crack, but don't burglarize my house to pay for your habit.
I think you're a little confused, or haven't been paying attention. To a right winger, anyone who thinks pollutants should be regulated is a "tree hugging hippie" and global warming is a left-wing conspiracy, Obama is a Muslim from Kenya, and the poor are all poor because they're barely human,creationism should be taught in schools and think "God helps those who help themselves" is in.the bible (it isn't) and it's your God-given right to never pay taxes ("Render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's").
Libertarians can lean to the left or the right. Me, I'm probably more left leaning; you should be able to do whatever you want so long as you don't victimize me, but then I consider paying someone shit for an honest day's work is victimizing him. I'm all for a European-style health care system; our own is simply retarded.
That said, it's just wrong to supress this guy's speech. You should have the right to say anything you want no matter how offensive, but if you slander me I have the right to sue.
You have the right to bare arms, but you don't have the right to point one at me.
Youe rights end where mine begin (and no, I agree that you don't have the right to not be offended).
UV is just another frequency. What would make it more harmful to the retina? Do you have a citation, or is that simply your own hypothesis?
UV is thought to cause cataracts, but I haven't read anything about it being harmful to the retina. If you have a citation that will educate me I'd be very interested.
Cataracts cut down all frequencies, but especially the blueer colors. I have the same implant, after surgery all colors are brighter (for a while), but especially cool colors.
The brain is the organ that actually sees -- the eye merely focuses and collects light. The illusion of seeing ultraviolet goes away when the brain adapts to its new inputs.
Don't believe everything you read. Your eye actually has two lenses -- the cornea and the crystaline lens behind the iris. The crystaline lens is what does the actual focusing (both lenses focus, but the crystaline lens is a variable focus); that is, if you're young. The lens gets hard with age and no longer focuses, which is why geezers need reading glasses.
The operative phrase is "patients report". I had the same illusion after my surgery. It goes away after the brain adapts.
I have a CrystaLens implant, and it's an illusion. A cataract cuts down on light entering the eye, especially towards the violet. The brain adapts, the illusion of "seeing ultraviolet" will go away.
The CrystaLens itself is awesome if you have a good surgeon. It will actually focus, unlike the older implants and natural geezer lenses. I'm 59 and don't need corrective lenses at all. My vision is now better than 20/20 at all distances! Also, it doesn't just cure cataracts, but nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.
My right eye is still extremely nearsighted, though (only had one implant, the cataract was caused by prescription eyedrops).
Millions of years? Humans haven't been human that long. You're saying that we're carrying "memes" from before we were human? Sorry, that sounds really ignorant.
It's kind of hard to make your own laptop. Getting Linux on a notebook that has no optical drive is hard enough as it is, this will make it worse.
Non-tech friends bring me broken computers, I always install Linux on them dual boot (if Windows isn't so hosed as to be unrepairable and they've lost the disk or magic number) and tell them to NOT get on the internet in Windows.
You can make a kiln for almost nothing. Bury the drives in a barrel of sawdust, with large holes at the bottom of the barrel, and light it from the bottom. You can fire clay with a primitive kiln like that, it should be hot enough to melt the drives.
A blacksmith's forge can get hot enough to literally burn steel.
Doesn't a computer give an "unfair" advantage to a company hired to do ballistics calculations? Doesn't the machine give an advantage over companies that don't have one? Other companies are free to solicit free work, too. I have a friend who is a retired auto mechanic who has fixed my car for free. Is that unfair to the shop down the street that charges me? I fix people's computers for free, is that unfair to the people who charge to fix computers?
Does Apache (FOSS) have an unfair advantage over IIS? Note that over half the internet is served from FREE Apache servers. Does Linux have an unfair advantage over Windows? With your mindset, I should reformat my hard drive and buy a copy of Windows, even though it's inferior in most ways, because it was done for free and therefore unfair to Microsoft.
If you can't get paid for what you do because machines do it for free or people are willing to do it for free, you're in the wrong line of work.
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Hmmm, not a good reason to mod somebody up. How did he get karmaslashed, trolling? Flaming? You need more downmods than upmods to get to slashdot purgatory.
Oh, and he has more than five posts although the ones I looked at are ok comments. I have points left; if I hadn't commented in this thread I'd mod his +5 as "overrated" or "redundant" because it's both.
Now, someone please mod me and the parent "offtopic" because we are. This contributes nothing (as does the "me-too" GP). And don't worry about my karma, I'm fine. Hope the parent poster is too.
You're wrong -- there will be no more contributions, and the contributions he would have made had he lived WILL be missed.
Um, what does Texas Instruments have to do with Jobs? The IIe was an awesome computer for its time, which was about the time your TI was out. There were a LOT of great games for it, including a pirate Pac Man that was identical to the arcade machine. Used the IIe at the library. Had a buddy with a TI99, I wasn't impressed.
I had a Sinclair at the time (the TI was far better). But I was a little older than 8 (hell, I'm 3 years older than Jobs).
Fuck cancer, indeed.
Amen.
Click the word "score" and it gives you a rundown.
That +1 was "funny" and he got a -1 troll. No karma for a "funny". I can't figure out if he was modded by scientists or engineers or thirteen year old kids. He's AC so maybe he logged out and commented, then logged on and modded himself down?
I came to this thread to moderate, but screw it.
If they weren't alienated by all of Sony's shenanigans by now they never will be. Some people will put up with anything. Me, I stopped buying Sony way back when they rooted my PC with XCP.
dragonsomnolent said it well. As for three letter agencies, yeah a lot of them shouldn't exist -- the NSA, TSA, ATF, DHS. But others are sorely needed -- FCC, FAA, EPA. Not wanting to support an "acronym agency" isn't idealistic, it's ignoring reality.
As I said, I'm a left-leaning libertarian. And to think that I could sue Monsanto into not polluting is past ignorance -- you obviously never drove past a Monsanto plant before the EPA was in existance. I grew up near one; you literally could not drive past it with the windows down, aven in 110 degree heat, as the air burned your lungs. You literally could not breathe. If the courts could have handled it they would have. You young folks have no idea how much you owe the EPA.
Government has no right to protect you from yourself. It has an obligation to protect you from me, and that includes if I decide to burn toxins near your house. You should no more have to sue for that than you should have to sue for me breaking into your house and stealing.
If you promote "moral" causes (banning gay marriage, banning abortion, banning drugs, banning prostitution, banning gambling) you're no libertarian. Your morality only affects me if it infringes on my own liberty; it is immoral to steal, but that does in fact affect me and should be illegal, just like polluting the air.
Well, there are no US government owned universities that I know of, although you probably have a point with state-run schools. However, why should Harvard have a right that the U of I lacks? My power company is owned and operated by the city, why should Amerin have rights that CWLP does not? And should being a government employee reduce your right to free speech?
They were steroid eyedrops prescribed for an infection that antibiotics weren't affecting. Being nerds, that's probably our only danger from steroids. However, being severely myopic is the leading cause of a retinal detachment. If you see black snow or nonexistant snakes, or especially if you see a gray curtain coming down, you have a medical emergency and need immediate treatment. Oh, and the treatments for a torn or detached retina are NOT FUN!!!
Mine is that we coexisted with Neatherthals 130,000 years ago. However, you may be more correct.
Well, UV is bad for the eye's lens, as it's thought (although afaik not proven) that UV leads to cataracts, but I think they wear the eye protection for the wind (I could be wrong).
Again, I haven't heard of retinal damage from UV. This wiki article about retinal diseases doesn't mention UV. In fact, the two primary retinal diseases to strike slashdotters would be from diabetes (lots of us are overweight) and retinal detachment; the #1 cause of that is severy myopia (I suffered a detached retina a few years ago).
BTW, the linked wiki article has some errors: "There are several modern treatment methods for fixing a retinal detachment: pneumatic retinopexy, scleral buckle, cryotherapy, laser photocoagulation and pars plana vitrectomy." Cryotherapy and laser photocoagulation are used for a torn retina, but not when one is detached; I had both these procedures before the retina actually detached. They are preventive therapies, used to keep a tear from becoming a detachment. Once it detaches you're in for a world of misery (cryotherapy isn't fun either).
That light the retina specialist shines into your completely dialated eye is like looking straight at the sun, you can't see anything out of the eye for a long time.
As to sitting in the sun, I don't burn easily, but the sun's rays usually don't shine right into your retina. Your retina will only get reflected light unless you look right at the sun.
The trouble with "libertarians" is some have a funny definition of "liberty", thinking that taxes and regulations infringe on their freedoms, when your refusal to pay your fair share and your pollution infringe on my own rights.
You don't have the right to dirty my air and rivers. You should have the right to smoke crack with your hired bitch; it's your right to destroy your life any way you deem fit. Smoke your crack, but don't burglarize my house to pay for your habit.
If a corporation has the right to free speech, why doesn't a university?
I think you're a little confused, or haven't been paying attention. To a right winger, anyone who thinks pollutants should be regulated is a "tree hugging hippie" and global warming is a left-wing conspiracy, Obama is a Muslim from Kenya, and the poor are all poor because they're barely human,creationism should be taught in schools and think "God helps those who help themselves" is in .the bible (it isn't) and it's your God-given right to never pay taxes ("Render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's").
Libertarians can lean to the left or the right. Me, I'm probably more left leaning; you should be able to do whatever you want so long as you don't victimize me, but then I consider paying someone shit for an honest day's work is victimizing him. I'm all for a European-style health care system; our own is simply retarded.
That said, it's just wrong to supress this guy's speech. You should have the right to say anything you want no matter how offensive, but if you slander me I have the right to sue.
You have the right to bare arms, but you don't have the right to point one at me.
Youe rights end where mine begin (and no, I agree that you don't have the right to not be offended).
Damn, where'd those mod points go? Someone should mod that AC up (informative).
*sigh* mod points are like cops -- never there when you need them.
UV is just another frequency. What would make it more harmful to the retina? Do you have a citation, or is that simply your own hypothesis?
UV is thought to cause cataracts, but I haven't read anything about it being harmful to the retina. If you have a citation that will educate me I'd be very interested.
Cataracts cut down all frequencies, but especially the blueer colors. I have the same implant, after surgery all colors are brighter (for a while), but especially cool colors.
The brain is the organ that actually sees -- the eye merely focuses and collects light. The illusion of seeing ultraviolet goes away when the brain adapts to its new inputs.
Don't believe everything you read. Your eye actually has two lenses -- the cornea and the crystaline lens behind the iris. The crystaline lens is what does the actual focusing (both lenses focus, but the crystaline lens is a variable focus); that is, if you're young. The lens gets hard with age and no longer focuses, which is why geezers need reading glasses.
The operative phrase is "patients report". I had the same illusion after my surgery. It goes away after the brain adapts.
I have a CrystaLens implant, and it's an illusion. A cataract cuts down on light entering the eye, especially towards the violet. The brain adapts, the illusion of "seeing ultraviolet" will go away.
The CrystaLens itself is awesome if you have a good surgeon. It will actually focus, unlike the older implants and natural geezer lenses. I'm 59 and don't need corrective lenses at all. My vision is now better than 20/20 at all distances! Also, it doesn't just cure cataracts, but nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.
My right eye is still extremely nearsighted, though (only had one implant, the cataract was caused by prescription eyedrops).
Millions of years? Humans haven't been human that long. You're saying that we're carrying "memes" from before we were human? Sorry, that sounds really ignorant.
It's kind of hard to make your own laptop. Getting Linux on a notebook that has no optical drive is hard enough as it is, this will make it worse.
Non-tech friends bring me broken computers, I always install Linux on them dual boot (if Windows isn't so hosed as to be unrepairable and they've lost the disk or magic number) and tell them to NOT get on the internet in Windows.
You can make a kiln for almost nothing. Bury the drives in a barrel of sawdust, with large holes at the bottom of the barrel, and light it from the bottom. You can fire clay with a primitive kiln like that, it should be hot enough to melt the drives.
A blacksmith's forge can get hot enough to literally burn steel.
Doesn't a computer give an "unfair" advantage to a company hired to do ballistics calculations? Doesn't the machine give an advantage over companies that don't have one? Other companies are free to solicit free work, too. I have a friend who is a retired auto mechanic who has fixed my car for free. Is that unfair to the shop down the street that charges me? I fix people's computers for free, is that unfair to the people who charge to fix computers?
Does Apache (FOSS) have an unfair advantage over IIS? Note that over half the internet is served from FREE Apache servers. Does Linux have an unfair advantage over Windows? With your mindset, I should reformat my hard drive and buy a copy of Windows, even though it's inferior in most ways, because it was done for free and therefore unfair to Microsoft.
If you can't get paid for what you do because machines do it for free or people are willing to do it for free, you're in the wrong line of work.