I'm just curious... how much persuasion did it take for you to realize that you can't see?
polygoon:
"Bottom line; they're your eyes, it's your choice to either make a small effort to help them or just not bother and maybe screw them up further. So you could end up with even less eyesight still, and for what? Choosing apathy?"
I could tell you that drinking colloidal silver will solve all your ills, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea to try it even though it might do nothing, because it might also do more harm. So unless I find a paper that tells me LCD won't do more harm to my eyes than a CRT, it's a possibility. Of course you can say how can you trust that paper you don't know it's right. But it's better than guessing! :-)
Also, I can't afford to get a decent LCD screen. The good ones that are big (and thus you can move farther away from your eyes) and don't go all blurry when you play FPS games cost a thousand or so. I can't afford that at this point in time. So it's not an option for me anyway.
Anyway, I'm not that concerned about it. I can always look into corrective eye surgery if things get really bad, and it's been 30 years and my eyes have only gone 5% bad, so by the time I'm 60 I think they'll be able to clone me new eyes to correct for my then 10% defect. :-)
Grey:
"I don't get your picture comparison. How have you ensured that the top one is 95% as good as the bottom one, in what ways?"
I haven't. You read wrong.
The doctor says my vision is 95% of normal.
That sounds crazy to me.
Image 1 shows you what I see without my glasses.
Image 2 shows you what I see with them.
Assuming image 2 is 20/20, and 20/20 is normal, does image 1 look to you to be 95% of normal? Hell no. So either my eye doctor is crazy, or they're grading on some weird exponential scale. :-)
Pongo:
"I've been wearing glasses since kindergarten. (well,... contacts for the last 10 years) The funny thing is, when I got the contacts, the first thing I wanted to be able to do is wear sunglasses! (I had never been able to wear them before)"
You know they sell perscription sunglasses, and perscription eyeglasses which have a magnetic thing to attach optional sungalss lenses on top of, right? :-)
Picklesworth:
" I'm just curious... how much persuasion did it take for you to realize that you can't see?
I completely forgot that the world had any detail in it until I finally tried on a pair of glasses :)"
I persuaded myself. When out looking at trees for example, I noticed the branches at the top would look odd. I couldn't really focus on them to resolve their shape, and I decided my eyes couldn't possibly be that low res. :-) Also a neighbor had a flag, and when I looked at the stars on it I couldn't really resolve those, and again, I figured something must not be right.
But even though I thought I might need glasses and started talking about it with my dad and sister, I still didn't want to get them, because I knew as soon as I did I might become very aware of how bad my vision was, and it would be really annoying. Just walking around, stuff looked fine. But I kept thinking about it, and I then noticed recently that I couldn't even read the signs at the other end of the aisles in the supermarkets telling me what was in the aisle, and when traveling on the highway I had to get really close to the signs before I could read them. So that kinda convinced me I needed them. But I didn't know how much they cost, and I oculdn't really afford the expenditure I figured, so I put it off, and eventually my sister decideed to buy them for me for my birthday.
polygoon:
"Bottom line; they're your eyes, it's your choice to either make a small effort to help them or just not bother and maybe screw them up further. So you could end up with even less eyesight still, and for what? Choosing apathy?"
I could tell you that drinking colloidal silver will solve all your ills, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea to try it even though it might do nothing, because it might also do more harm. So unless I find a paper that tells me LCD won't do more harm to my eyes than a CRT, it's a possibility. Of course you can say how can you trust that paper you don't know it's right. But it's better than guessing! :-)
Also, I can't afford to get a decent LCD screen. The good ones that are big (and thus you can move farther away from your eyes) and don't go all blurry when you play FPS games cost a thousand or so. I can't afford that at this point in time. So it's not an option for me anyway.
Anyway, I'm not that concerned about it. I can always look into corrective eye surgery if things get really bad, and it's been 30 years and my eyes have only gone 5% bad, so by the time I'm 60 I think they'll be able to clone me new eyes to correct for my then 10% defect. :-)
Grey:
"I don't get your picture comparison. How have you ensured that the top one is 95% as good as the bottom one, in what ways?"
I haven't. You read wrong.
The doctor says my vision is 95% of normal.
That sounds crazy to me.
Image 1 shows you what I see without my glasses.
Image 2 shows you what I see with them.
Assuming image 2 is 20/20, and 20/20 is normal, does image 1 look to you to be 95% of normal? Hell no. So either my eye doctor is crazy, or they're grading on some weird exponential scale. :-)
Pongo:
"I've been wearing glasses since kindergarten. (well,... contacts for the last 10 years) The funny thing is, when I got the contacts, the first thing I wanted to be able to do is wear sunglasses! (I had never been able to wear them before)"
You know they sell perscription sunglasses, and perscription eyeglasses which have a magnetic thing to attach optional sungalss lenses on top of, right? :-)
Picklesworth:
" I'm just curious... how much persuasion did it take for you to realize that you can't see?
I completely forgot that the world had any detail in it until I finally tried on a pair of glasses :)"
I persuaded myself. When out looking at trees for example, I noticed the branches at the top would look odd. I couldn't really focus on them to resolve their shape, and I decided my eyes couldn't possibly be that low res. :-) Also a neighbor had a flag, and when I looked at the stars on it I couldn't really resolve those, and again, I figured something must not be right.
But even though I thought I might need glasses and started talking about it with my dad and sister, I still didn't want to get them, because I knew as soon as I did I might become very aware of how bad my vision was, and it would be really annoying. Just walking around, stuff looked fine. But I kept thinking about it, and I then noticed recently that I couldn't even read the signs at the other end of the aisles in the supermarkets telling me what was in the aisle, and when traveling on the highway I had to get really close to the signs before I could read them. So that kinda convinced me I needed them. But I didn't know how much they cost, and I oculdn't really afford the expenditure I figured, so I put it off, and eventually my sister decideed to buy them for me for my birthday.