[0826] The Divine Comedy, Page 24
└ posted on Monday, 3 October 2016, by Novil
- The Devil: No worries, Larisa. We can still save Sandra. But now you have to take a more active role. Can you do that?
- Larisa: Sure!
- The Devil: Good!
- The Devil: Steve, how’s it going?
- Steve Jobs: Data transfer complete!
- The Devil: Good!
- The Devil: With your new hPhone, you can check out updated versions of the map anywhere, anytime!
- Steve Jobs: 4.6 mm thin, retina display, 1 THz CPU, 4 TB RAM, scratch-proof aluminum case.
- Larisa: That’s great. But it doesn’t seem to have a screen…?
- Steve Jobs: Like I said, it has a retina display.
- The Devil: No worries, Larisa. It’ll only hurt a lot.
- Larisa: Uh-oh.
Well, he IS the devil.
@ Phyrexian_Rogue:
I always feared the day when augmentation will become reality…
Mykel Darren wrote:
I’ve had cataract surgery. Wasn’t particularly painful, once they got done with the pain killers. Ironically, administering the pain killers was remarkably painful.
Kept me conscious through the whole procedure, but on remarkable tranquilizers. The kind where somebody approaches your eye with a scalpel and says, “You may feel some pressure.” and you don’t care…
I scream you scream we all scream for Eye Scream
@ Glen:
You’re confusing frequency as a general kinematic term with (phase) frequency of waves. Also, optical is still just electromagnetic.
A processor’s clock rate has nothing to do with the electricity/light/hamster running inside it, it’s just the number of basic operations per second the processor can perform. The behaviour of an EM wave in metal is different than in vacuum/dielectric, too (in layman’s terms: metal reflects, glass lets light through). And I think most stuff in a computer runs on DC with low voltages, anyway.
That’s not to say the H-phone can’t run on optical technology…
@ The Other Mike:
There is an App for that!
@ Brett Bellmore:
Ehh, I always wondered how did they fixate your eyeball against involuntary movement… even though I’m also pretty sure I don’t want to know it just as much if not more at the same time=(
So…
Where does one get a retina display, and does it work with PC?
@ Arklyte:
Think “hooks”.
I just remember the line from Event Horizon when Sam Neill says “Where we’re going we won’t need eyes to see!”
Brett Bellmore wrote:
The opposite for me (it was LASIC to fix my near-sightedness, if anyone’s curious).
I was rather calm during the procedure, without needing tranquilizers, because I understood what was being done (thank you, Biology major). Once the anesthetic drops wore off, for a couple days… I don’t even wanna think about it, I still occasionally get pain memory.
@ Ephesus:
I want to have LASIC but am absolutely terrified. 🙁 I have that fear that I would be the 1 in 10,000 that would end up completely blind.
I can handle pain but not the fear; someday I’ll get the guts to do it.
@ TvTropesgotmehooked:
I’d have gotten Lasic, but my corneas were too thin for the degree of correction I needed. (I was *extremely* near sighted.) Then I got cataracts as a side effect of chemo, and after the surgery, could see clearly without glasses for the first time in my life. (Though not, alas, as clearly as I formerly could see *with* glasses. The chemo didn’t stop at cataracts.)
I tell people that if I’d realized I could get rid of the glasses, I’d have gotten cataracts much sooner. 😉
But, really, aside from superficial surgery like Lasic, you don’t want your eyes operated on unless it’s absolutely necessary, the risk of blindness is too high if there’s a mistake. That’s why they do cataract surgery one eye at a time, a couple weeks apart: So that if they screw up you just become a pirate every Halloween, instead of being blind for the rest of your life.
@ Brett Bellmore:
It feels weird to say this on a webcomic comment section, but thank you for the kind words. 🙂 That did ease my mind a little bit. I loled at the pirate joke so thanks again for that. 😆
Today’s comic is running late by more than 12 hours, oh no.
@ Foxite:
Bah, I wouldn’t worry about it.
Free stuff for most of us and Oliver and Powree are busy with full time jobs. I worried last time that something might have happened but it could be a stupid WordPress glitch or similar.
Now she doesn’t have to wait until she’s old enough to get a Norplant to become a cyborg!
@ TvTropesgotmehooked:
The “oh no” was meant more sarcastically than anything else, but yeah. Don’t worry about it.
So this is what happens when Steve gets an unlimited budget and a work environment that does not have to adhere to any ethical or moral guidelines.
Sgt_flyer wrote:
And it would display how much gasoline, thermite etc. it would take to ignite it