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If this is true, my friend just lost his job! But on the bright side, maybe now he can get a life instead of slaving away for months at a time in the hopes of making a $500 sale.
Rice University banned Napster a few weeks back citing that it was sucking up as much as 15% of network traffic. Am I distraught? No. I look at the bright side...that's 15% more bandwidth for Quake3!:-)
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As a chemistry major at Rice University and a student affiliate of the American Chemical Society, I can tell you that we aren't up to anything sneaky. I swear on the little periodic table that I carry in my wallet!
As far as the different divisions go (American, European, etc.), the society strives to promote active fellowship between members by having regional and national meetings to share ideas and promote chemistry. Among the student affiliate chapters, one of the main goals is generating support and interest in chemical education from the elementary level to the college level.
Those of you in the San Francisco area might want to visit the ACS National Convention being held there the week of March 26th. You're likely to find more information on this new nano division there.
For more official information as to what the ACS is all about, visit this site.
One of the things that made the Tick so silly and so much fun was the seemingly endless possibilities that cartoon media provided. I mean, come on...a guy with a chair for a face!? Can the live action version survive if it can't make the impossible possible as was the case in the cartoon? And how will we react to the new voices of the Tick and the other characters? Many of us have grown accustomed to the voices from the cartoon. This reminds me of the transition Dilbert made from static comic strip to cartoon. All of a sudden fans were introduced to the voice of Dilbert, and to some it just wasn't right. I for one would be satisified with new Tick cartoon episodes. And a DVD boxset couldn't hurt either!
I have the same problem with stuff cutting off at 99%. Most of the time this can be fixed by resuming the download. It may take a good 15 "resume downloads", but chances are it will eventually connect and you'll get that last 1%. However is this really worth it? I mean you are dealing with 1% of several megabytes. How much sound can be in approximately 1 or 2 kilobytes? You're getting all upset over a negligible quantity. And if you don't want people to download songs from you, move your mp3s into a different directory than what you have specified. Or go into your library and right click to bring up the menu where you can select to exclude certain songs.
I had LASIK surgery done on both eyes this past July, and I am very pleased with the results. It ended up costing an arm and a leg to fix my eyes ($2000 per eye), but I consider it money well spent. Also, unless you are very creative and can really justify the surgery, your insurance company will probably not cover it.
The whole surgery took less than an hour. They use anesthetic eyedrops, so you are awake the entire time. The only part of the surgery that I wasn't ecstatic about was when they put the suction cups on my eye to keep it still. It didn't hurt, rather it was unpleasant in the same way that the blood pressure cuff is unpleasant at the hospital: it doesn't hurt, but you'd rather not have it on all day! Anyway, when they apply the suction, your vision blacks our momentarily. This freaked me out the first time and I tried to fight it. While your vision is blacked out, you hear a tiny buzzing noise as they use a tiny saw to cut the necessary flap in your eye. I guess it's a good thing that you can't see because I know I'd be freaking out if I saw this tiny blade sweeping across my eye! Upon cutting the flap, your vision is restored in that eye, and you can see them lift the flap up. Things get really fuzzy at that point. You are instructed to look at a blinking light, and you hear the beeping as the laser is activated. Your vision becomes increasingly clear as the seconds go by. Also, you can smell the tissue burning if the laser is applied long enough. The real shocker is when they put the flap back down over your eye...perfect vision!
After the surgery you will have a tiny red dot on each eye where they made the incision to cut the flap, and these take about 3 weeks to completely go away. Be prepared for the "What happened to your eye" questions.
Anyway, I was able to see immediately after the surgery, and walked out of there unassisted. The next day I was seeing 20/25, and was driving within three days (could've been sooner but I opted to play it safe). By the time August rolled around, I was seeing 20/20 in both eyes.
The only bad thing about LASIK is night vision. You'll see halos around lights for a good couple of months. My doctor said the reason I still see them is because I have larger pupils than most people, and he could prescribe eye drops if it bothered me that much, but it doesn't.
I would definitely recommend the surgery. I was near-sighted with a lot of astigmatism and used to wear some pretty thick bottlecaps, but now I'm free of contacts and glasses. Of course, at the rate I'm playing Quake3, I'll be back to four-eyes in no time!
I scanned the before/after topo maps of my eyes. They can be viewed by clicking here. The two circles at the top represent the before images. You'll notice the hour-glass shaped region of astigmatism. The bottom two circles show the results of the surgery. As you can see, they went in and reshaped my cornea, lowering it by about 10%, causing my "football-shaped" eye to flatten out some.
Another option you might consider is corneal rings. These are implanted in the eye and work for near-sightedness because they flatten the cornea. The good thing about this surgery is it's reversible. If you change your mind and want to go back to glasses/contacts, you can just have them removed, unlike the LASIK approach. Plus I think it's cheaper.
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If this is true, my friend just lost his job! But on the bright side, maybe now he can get a life instead of slaving away for months at a time in the hopes of making a $500 sale.
Rice University banned Napster a few weeks back citing that it was sucking up as much as 15% of network traffic. Am I distraught? No. I look at the bright side...that's 15% more bandwidth for Quake3! :-)
How about DomainMonger.com? They charge $17 for one year, and the rates decrease if you register for multiple years at a time. They offer free DNS parking and do not charge fees for ownership transfers. Plus they don't retain any right to take your domain from you in the future. Pretty good deal if you ask me.
As a chemistry major at Rice University and a student affiliate of the American Chemical Society, I can tell you that we aren't up to anything sneaky. I swear on the little periodic table that I carry in my wallet!
As far as the different divisions go (American, European, etc.), the society strives to promote active fellowship between members by having regional and national meetings to share ideas and promote chemistry. Among the student affiliate chapters, one of the main goals is generating support and interest in chemical education from the elementary level to the college level.
Those of you in the San Francisco area might want to visit the ACS National Convention being held there the week of March 26th. You're likely to find more information on this new nano division there.
For more official information as to what the ACS is all about, visit this site.
One of the things that made the Tick so silly and so much fun was the seemingly endless possibilities that cartoon media provided. I mean, come on...a guy with a chair for a face!? Can the live action version survive if it can't make the impossible possible as was the case in the cartoon? And how will we react to the new voices of the Tick and the other characters? Many of us have grown accustomed to the voices from the cartoon. This reminds me of the transition Dilbert made from static comic strip to cartoon. All of a sudden fans were introduced to the voice of Dilbert, and to some it just wasn't right. I for one would be satisified with new Tick cartoon episodes. And a DVD boxset couldn't hurt either!
I have the same problem with stuff cutting off at 99%. Most of the time this can be fixed by resuming the download. It may take a good 15 "resume downloads", but chances are it will eventually connect and you'll get that last 1%. However is this really worth it? I mean you are dealing with 1% of several megabytes. How much sound can be in approximately 1 or 2 kilobytes? You're getting all upset over a negligible quantity. And if you don't want people to download songs from you, move your mp3s into a different directory than what you have specified. Or go into your library and right click to bring up the menu where you can select to exclude certain songs.
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day features a nice animation of a Leonid exploding over Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1998.
Napster doesn't keep logs of its users. That point was stated in the article that everyone and their mom has been linking to.
The whole surgery took less than an hour. They use anesthetic eyedrops, so you are awake the entire time. The only part of the surgery that I wasn't ecstatic about was when they put the suction cups on my eye to keep it still. It didn't hurt, rather it was unpleasant in the same way that the blood pressure cuff is unpleasant at the hospital: it doesn't hurt, but you'd rather not have it on all day! Anyway, when they apply the suction, your vision blacks our momentarily. This freaked me out the first time and I tried to fight it. While your vision is blacked out, you hear a tiny buzzing noise as they use a tiny saw to cut the necessary flap in your eye. I guess it's a good thing that you can't see because I know I'd be freaking out if I saw this tiny blade sweeping across my eye! Upon cutting the flap, your vision is restored in that eye, and you can see them lift the flap up. Things get really fuzzy at that point. You are instructed to look at a blinking light, and you hear the beeping as the laser is activated. Your vision becomes increasingly clear as the seconds go by. Also, you can smell the tissue burning if the laser is applied long enough. The real shocker is when they put the flap back down over your eye...perfect vision!
After the surgery you will have a tiny red dot on each eye where they made the incision to cut the flap, and these take about 3 weeks to completely go away. Be prepared for the "What happened to your eye" questions.
Anyway, I was able to see immediately after the surgery, and walked out of there unassisted. The next day I was seeing 20/25, and was driving within three days (could've been sooner but I opted to play it safe). By the time August rolled around, I was seeing 20/20 in both eyes.
The only bad thing about LASIK is night vision. You'll see halos around lights for a good couple of months. My doctor said the reason I still see them is because I have larger pupils than most people, and he could prescribe eye drops if it bothered me that much, but it doesn't.
I would definitely recommend the surgery. I was near-sighted with a lot of astigmatism and used to wear some pretty thick bottlecaps, but now I'm free of contacts and glasses. Of course, at the rate I'm playing Quake3, I'll be back to four-eyes in no time!
I scanned the before/after topo maps of my eyes. They can be viewed by clicking here. The two circles at the top represent the before images. You'll notice the hour-glass shaped region of astigmatism. The bottom two circles show the results of the surgery. As you can see, they went in and reshaped my cornea, lowering it by about 10%, causing my "football-shaped" eye to flatten out some.
Another option you might consider is corneal rings. These are implanted in the eye and work for near-sightedness because they flatten the cornea. The good thing about this surgery is it's reversible. If you change your mind and want to go back to glasses/contacts, you can just have them removed, unlike the LASIK approach. Plus I think it's cheaper.
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