On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:37:33 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

Larry Jaques on Mon, 16 Sep 2013
22:28:02 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:18:20 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 06:49:06 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:
Dayum, there really _is_ and app for everything now, isn't there?
Doesn't the small screen cause problems for aging eyes like ours?

Smart phones allow you to blow up or size down by simply stroking the
screen in certain ways and to change the font sizes

Oh, yes, so you can see a very big 1/100th of a normal page. :-/
"How long does it take to read a whole page like that?" he asked, as
he wondered how often something like that might come up.

One word at a time. I find on my iPod, if I take my glasses off,
I can bring the screen into focus, and it is just large enough to be
readable. Of course, it is also about three inches from my nose, but
I have finally find another advantage to extreme nearsightedness.
--
pyotr filipivich
"With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."

Im getting rather far sighted. But ...1.5 diopter reading glasses
from the dollar store seem to work fine for close up stuff. It used to
be 1.25. Next year it will probably be 1.75...then 2.0......


"The socialist movement takes great pains to circulate frequently new labels for its ideally constructed state.
Each worn-out label is replaced by another which raises hopes of an ultimate solution of the insoluble basic
problem of Socialism, until it becomes obvious that nothing has been changed but the name.
The most recent slogan is "State Capitalism."[Fascism] It is not commonly realized that this covers nothing more
than what used to be called Planned Economy and State Socialism, and that State Capitalism, Planned Economy,
and State Socialism diverge only in non-essentials from the "classic" ideal of egalitarian Socialism. - Ludwig von Mises (1922)