Ever since I was a child, I've had latent Nystagmus (latent because it doesn't happen all the time).
Basically, I lose control of my lateral motor functions in both eyes, and they shake from left to right.
The skinny is that everyone's eyes automatically adjust eye position. When you look at something, your eye will gradually move a bit off of where you are looking, and then your eye will realize "oh crap, I need to adjust a bit to look back where I should be." With Nystagmus, the eyes take a lot farther to realize that they're not looking straight at the intended object, and so they travel away from straight noticeably further. When the eye finally realizes it's off, it snaps back into place, but then starts drifting again. Note- this isn't a lazy eye, because both eyes do it synchronously.
What I've always wanted to know is if it would be possible for me to get PRK or LASIK with this condition. I would forever be worried that my eye would shake a bit while the laser was lasering and I'd end up with scorched eyeballs... Perhaps it's a paranoia, but hey, it's my eyes!
BETHESDA, Md., June 17 -- Almost every Thursday during the academic year, a bus carrying a dozen or so Naval Academy midshipmen leaves Annapolis for the 45-minute drive to Bethesda, where Navy doctors perform laser eye surgery on them, one after another, with assembly-line efficiency.
Nearly a third of every 1,000-member Naval Academy class now undergoes the procedure, part of a booming trend among military personnel with poor vision. Unlike in the civilian world, where eye surgery is still largely done for convenience or vanity, the procedure's popularity in the armed forces is transforming career choices and daily life in subtle but far-reaching ways.
Aging fighter pilots can now remain in the cockpit longer, reducing annual recruiting needs. And recruits whose bad vision once would have disqualified them from the special forces are now eligible, making the competition for these coveted slots even tougher.
But the surgery is also causing the military some unexpected difficulties. By shrinking the pool of people who used to be routinely available for jobs that do not require perfect eyesight, it has made it harder to fill some of those assignments with top-notch personnel, officers say.
When Ensign Michael Shaughnessy had the surgery in his junior year at the Naval Academy, his new 20-20 vision qualified him for flight school. And that is where he decided to go after graduating last month ranked in the top 10 percent of his class, rather than pursuing a career as a submarine officer.
"The cramped environment in submarines is something that turned me off," Ensign Shaughnessy, 22, said.
For generations, Academy graduates with high grades and bad eyes were funneled into the submarine service. But in the five years since the Naval Academy began offering free eye surgery to all midshipmen, it has missed its annual quota for supplying the Navy with submarine officers every year.
Officers involved say the failure to meet the quota is due to many factors, including the perception that submarines no longer play as vital a national security role as they once did. But the availability of eye surgery to any midshipman who wants it is also routinely cited.
"Some of the guys with glasses who would have gone to submarines or become navigators are getting the chance to do something they'd rather do, and the communities that are losing the people are not as happy about it as the aviation community, which is gaining better candidates," said Cmdr. Joseph Pasternak, the ophthalmologist who oversees the program at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda.
In the Naval Academy's class of 2006, 349 of the 993 midshipmen had the surgery, up from 50 five years ago, according to Naval Academy records. Fewer than 30 percent of the academy students whose eyes qualify for the surgery choose not to get it, and the number of holdouts is dropping every year, Commander Pasternak said.
Last week, a little after 10:40 a.m., Colin Carroll, a 21-year-old midshipman from Olney, Md., put anesthetic drops in his eyes and lay down under the laser as Capt. Kerry Hunt, a Navy doctor, and two assistants prepared to begin. "We're locking the laser on now," Captain Hunt told him.
Midshipman Carroll had originally hoped to enter flight school but discovered not only that his eyes were not good enough, but also that he was prone to kidney stones, ruling him out of aviation entirely. He said he was "resigned" to entering the Marine Corps or becoming an officer on a surface ship, neither an assignment requiring perfect vision.
But he decided to get the surgery anyway.
By 10:49, both eyes were done, though extremely bloodshot, and Mr. Carroll walked out wearing sunglasses, declaring he could already see better.
The procedure used by the Navy, photorefractive keratectomy, or PRK, is different from the one used on most civilians. That approach, known as laser-in situ keratomileusis, or Lasik, requires cutting a flap in the surfa
So in other words, the problems MS needs to solve have already been solved, MS is just pig-headed and wants to roll their own solution instead of using one that's been tempered over the last 20 years. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
Why the heck do I keep seeing posts about how innovation is stagnant? Companies don't invent anymore... no one breaks new ground... And yet, you're sitting here telling me that Microsoft is pigheaded and wants to roll in their own solution. Ever think that they maybe wanted to try and be creative? Orrrrr maybe they got tired of rehashing old work and slapping a new UI on it...
At least give credit to Microsoft for doing something that's unknown. I don't care whether it works or not... what I care about is whether or not this stimulates others to invent.
Don't forget that if people left during the movie, they wouldn't be able to watch another movie for 15 minutes.
And of course, if enough people left the movie, it would pop up: "There are not enough people in this theater. This movie will stop playing in 5 minutes." once per minute until the projector shuts off.
Merrill Lynch is an investment company. My brother works for A.G. Edwards, also an investment company. The reason companies like this come out with predictions is to advise their clients what stocks to buy and which to sell.
I have been in the options market for a little over a year now, and when the company believes a stock will go up, they set a target price and a time frame and advise me to buy... It's just the way they work.
I actually still have my Microsoft Force Feedback Sidewinder Pro. It was really fun to play Flight Simulator and have wind resistance against the joystick. That or small bumps when you hit the tarmac when landing, etc.
The reason that they probably left the rumble out (if they did... I read someone say that, didn't read it anywhere) was because a small company said they had the rights to the patent and Sony probably didn't want to pay them
Actually it was because the rumble interfered with the accelerometer. That's what was released by Sony I believe.
Don't forget that the disclaimer includes the important words "online play". In this case, Oblivion wouldn't qualify, as it is an offline, single player game.
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Ever since I was a child, I've had latent Nystagmus (latent because it doesn't happen all the time).
Basically, I lose control of my lateral motor functions in both eyes, and they shake from left to right.
The skinny is that everyone's eyes automatically adjust eye position. When you look at something, your eye will gradually move a bit off of where you are looking, and then your eye will realize "oh crap, I need to adjust a bit to look back where I should be." With Nystagmus, the eyes take a lot farther to realize that they're not looking straight at the intended object, and so they travel away from straight noticeably further. When the eye finally realizes it's off, it snaps back into place, but then starts drifting again. Note- this isn't a lazy eye, because both eyes do it synchronously.
What I've always wanted to know is if it would be possible for me to get PRK or LASIK with this condition. I would forever be worried that my eye would shake a bit while the laser was lasering and I'd end up with scorched eyeballs... Perhaps it's a paranoia, but hey, it's my eyes!
BETHESDA, Md., June 17 -- Almost every Thursday during the academic year, a bus carrying a dozen or so Naval Academy midshipmen leaves Annapolis for the 45-minute drive to Bethesda, where Navy doctors perform laser eye surgery on them, one after another, with assembly-line efficiency.
Nearly a third of every 1,000-member Naval Academy class now undergoes the procedure, part of a booming trend among military personnel with poor vision. Unlike in the civilian world, where eye surgery is still largely done for convenience or vanity, the procedure's popularity in the armed forces is transforming career choices and daily life in subtle but far-reaching ways.
Aging fighter pilots can now remain in the cockpit longer, reducing annual recruiting needs. And recruits whose bad vision once would have disqualified them from the special forces are now eligible, making the competition for these coveted slots even tougher.
But the surgery is also causing the military some unexpected difficulties. By shrinking the pool of people who used to be routinely available for jobs that do not require perfect eyesight, it has made it harder to fill some of those assignments with top-notch personnel, officers say.
When Ensign Michael Shaughnessy had the surgery in his junior year at the Naval Academy, his new 20-20 vision qualified him for flight school. And that is where he decided to go after graduating last month ranked in the top 10 percent of his class, rather than pursuing a career as a submarine officer.
"The cramped environment in submarines is something that turned me off," Ensign Shaughnessy, 22, said.
For generations, Academy graduates with high grades and bad eyes were funneled into the submarine service. But in the five years since the Naval Academy began offering free eye surgery to all midshipmen, it has missed its annual quota for supplying the Navy with submarine officers every year.
Officers involved say the failure to meet the quota is due to many factors, including the perception that submarines no longer play as vital a national security role as they once did. But the availability of eye surgery to any midshipman who wants it is also routinely cited.
"Some of the guys with glasses who would have gone to submarines or become navigators are getting the chance to do something they'd rather do, and the communities that are losing the people are not as happy about it as the aviation community, which is gaining better candidates," said Cmdr. Joseph Pasternak, the ophthalmologist who oversees the program at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda.
In the Naval Academy's class of 2006, 349 of the 993 midshipmen had the surgery, up from 50 five years ago, according to Naval Academy records. Fewer than 30 percent of the academy students whose eyes qualify for the surgery choose not to get it, and the number of holdouts is dropping every year, Commander Pasternak said.
Last week, a little after 10:40 a.m., Colin Carroll, a 21-year-old midshipman from Olney, Md., put anesthetic drops in his eyes and lay down under the laser as Capt. Kerry Hunt, a Navy doctor, and two assistants prepared to begin. "We're locking the laser on now," Captain Hunt told him.
Midshipman Carroll had originally hoped to enter flight school but discovered not only that his eyes were not good enough, but also that he was prone to kidney stones, ruling him out of aviation entirely. He said he was "resigned" to entering the Marine Corps or becoming an officer on a surface ship, neither an assignment requiring perfect vision.
But he decided to get the surgery anyway.
By 10:49, both eyes were done, though extremely bloodshot, and Mr. Carroll walked out wearing sunglasses, declaring he could already see better.
The procedure used by the Navy, photorefractive keratectomy, or PRK, is different from the one used on most civilians. That approach, known as laser-in situ keratomileusis, or Lasik, requires cutting a flap in the surfa
...the rape didn't occur on-line.
I put on my wizard robe and hat.
As much as I detest Myspace and would absolutely love to see them go down....
That's exactly what the 19 year old said in the first place that got him into this whole mess!
He said: "Why not something good, oh, say the first Harry Potter Movie. The Battlestar Galactica Mini-Series (not the tv series). Star Wars? T3?"
We heard: "Nerd nerd nerd nerd nerd nerd nerd nerd. Nerd. Nerd?"
Yes, and the proper nerdular technical term would be WASD.
So in other words, the problems MS needs to solve have already been solved, MS is just pig-headed and wants to roll their own solution instead of using one that's been tempered over the last 20 years. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
Why the heck do I keep seeing posts about how innovation is stagnant? Companies don't invent anymore... no one breaks new ground... And yet, you're sitting here telling me that Microsoft is pigheaded and wants to roll in their own solution. Ever think that they maybe wanted to try and be creative? Orrrrr maybe they got tired of rehashing old work and slapping a new UI on it...
At least give credit to Microsoft for doing something that's unknown. I don't care whether it works or not... what I care about is whether or not this stimulates others to invent.
Yeah, I wish I made a mistake as bad as Nintendo...
No offense, but that comment reeked of, "They stopped using my uber wicked cool PHP website that I spent hours and hours making. Wahhh."
At the very least, it's a biased opinion, not objective...
So don't bother procreating if you use Linux. Fixed that for you! =D
Being "thrown out on my ass" for getting caught making love with the chairman's daughter was totally unconstitutional.
If wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak.
What?! Who eats horses?!?! My horse-training girlfriend has a big beef with you.
See what I did there? =D
Don't forget that if people left during the movie, they wouldn't be able to watch another movie for 15 minutes.
And of course, if enough people left the movie, it would pop up: "There are not enough people in this theater. This movie will stop playing in 5 minutes." once per minute until the projector shuts off.
Merrill Lynch is an investment company. My brother works for A.G. Edwards, also an investment company. The reason companies like this come out with predictions is to advise their clients what stocks to buy and which to sell.
I have been in the options market for a little over a year now, and when the company believes a stock will go up, they set a target price and a time frame and advise me to buy... It's just the way they work.
I actually still have my Microsoft Force Feedback Sidewinder Pro. It was really fun to play Flight Simulator and have wind resistance against the joystick. That or small bumps when you hit the tarmac when landing, etc.
The reason that they probably left the rumble out (if they did... I read someone say that, didn't read it anywhere) was because a small company said they had the rights to the patent and Sony probably didn't want to pay them
Actually it was because the rumble interfered with the accelerometer. That's what was released by Sony I believe.
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I'm sorry, but did anyone else think of the parent comment as rather dirty?
Ragnaros is regularly downed by pickup groups now
What server are you ON?! O.O
And we don't know where you get your numbers from, laserbrain :)
Sorry, all I got out of that post was a reminder that I had a Carrot on a Stick in my bank...
Don't forget that the disclaimer includes the important words "online play". In this case, Oblivion wouldn't qualify, as it is an offline, single player game.
Blizzard is doing nothing special, the fact that they are having the same growing pains issues as every MMORPG simply shows their arrogance.
You know, I don't really remember any other MMORPGs ever reaching 6+ million subscribers. But then again maybe I'm just being arrogant...
Yes, I'm glad you caught the reference :)
... is that Google and Amazon will merge to form the Google Grid. Everyone will be able to submit stories, and no real news will ever be published amidst the flurry of user submitted trash.