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Correct. I'm -1.5 sph -4.25 cyl in one eye. The other eye is +1.5 sph, but that's another story. -andrew
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My experience is limited to a single attempt I made a few years ago. Perhaps there were other factors at play other than just gravity. I've actually had a hard time with toric lenses in general. Even when I'm spending most of my time standing up, I have a difficult time keeping the alignment right. As a result, I usually just stick to glasses. Interesting. I'd never even heard of bitorics before, and having done a little reasearch now, it looks like they may solve more than just one problem for me. I'm overdue for a new prescription anyway, so I'll have a chat with my optometrist about this when I visit him soon. Thanks!
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Astigmatism rears its ugly head there, too. I have to wear toric contact lenses to correct it and they're weighted to force a specific orientation on the eyeball, and due to varying body position, they won't stay in the correct orientation skydiving, which leaves me even more blind than without them.
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I've seen a lot of talk about prescription goggles, but not a whole lot about acceptable choices for people with really strong astigmatism. I'm -4.25 in one eye and almost every rx goggle choice can't exceed +/- 2. The SportRX G102 can get to -4.00, which is probably close enough to make me happy, but it looks like peripheral vision would be reduced to just about zero. I wouldn't mind a goggle that fixed the astigmatism in direct vision and just didn't bother fixing it in peripheral, because that's pretty much what my (fairly small) glasses do right now, but no such beast seems to exist. I don't want to be stuck with a full face helmet all the time, and over-the-glasses goggles are really getting on my nerves. What's a crazy astigmatic to do?
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No problem at all. Actually, one of my Linux machines is building a DVD movie iso at this very moment, and I stopped by here to kill time while it finishes. There are very good simple dvd authoring toys for Linux, but if you want to do fancy things like build your own menus, you're probably better off in Windows. Personally, I don't bother. For making simple dvds and for backing up professionally-made dvds, there's no reason Linux can't do it. What sound card do you have? Chances are fairly good there's ALSA support for it, whatever it is. See www.alsa-project.org. -andrew no Windows boxes anywhere :)
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These are almost certainly fake. See http://www.snopes.com/photos/skirts.asp for further debunking. -andrew
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Here's my dog, etc. (That's pronounced et-see.) She's half Australian shepherd and half Australian cattle dog. Good thing Australian dogs bark in English, albeit with a weird accent. -andrew
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I used to use plain X11 with a minimal window manager (much of this before any of these newer complete environments were developed). When CDE, Gnome, and KDE first started appearing, they just weren't good enough, nor did we have the cheap CPU and RAM to make them work well, so I stuck with straight X11+wm for a long time. KDE3 was what changed my mind. It's a really well thought out environment that I enjoy using a lot, and I finally have enough CPU and memory to make it all run smoothly. For anyone who judged KDE in the past by 2.0 and who hasn't looked at 3.0, give it a try. You might be surprised as I was. -andrew
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Best way to learn! Only the strong survive! Okay, so I am a bit of an OS elitist... -andrew
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I disagree. The man pages are there, Poking around the man pages is actually an excellent way to learn, albeit one with a pretty steep learning curve. Playing with a book *and* the man pages is probably a great combination. When I first started playing with Linux, it was long enough ago that no one had written any books about it yet. :) I survived. Absolutely. I've got a bunch of flavors of unix running on various pieces of hardware here, and I'm glad to say I cut away from Windows completely several years ago and haven't regretted it one bit. -andrew