I think it's best to get a chair that encourages motion of any kind.
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I had a cheap Office Max chair that wasn't terribly comfortable and I found myself twisting around all the time and trying weird positions to try to get comfortable. Eventually I started getting back pains. I replaced it with a Herman Miller Embody (their most expensive model - $1,200) which is much more comfortable and the back pains went away. I wish I could get one of these chairs at work over the basic swivel chair they give me.
I realized there were 2 problems with the cheap chair that the expensive one fixed. First, the one I have now lets me adjust the lumbar support so it feels natural against my back. Second, this one allows me to recline easily. The cheap one required force to make it lean back, making the reclining feature effectively useless. The one I have allows me to adjust the resistance on the reclining mechanism so I can sit at whatever angle feels comfortable. Now that it feels more natural I don't move around nearly as much and my back feels better.
I tried an Aeron but the supports in the front were uncomfortable against my legs. I went to my local Room & Board to try them out. My recommendation is to look into which chairs you're interested and find stores that carry them so you can figure out which one works for you. Herman Miller, Steelcase, and Humanscale are a few of the high end office chair manufacturers. I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting. I don't know who makes standing chairs because I wasn't interested.
When I signed up to U-Verse I gave them my credit card info and asked for automatic billing. About 3 months later I get a letter in the mail complaining that I hadn't paid for the last 3 months of service. Somehow this is normal for them. It actually takes them a few months to figure out how to bill me automatically and I just missed that note when I signed up. Since then I'm really not surprised when I hear about AT&T's systems not keeping up.
I think the problem is more structural - the economy is global, but government is only national, for the most part. Companies can easily stay a step ahead of governments by playing them off each other, resulting in the race to the bottom you see today. Notice that you do see more effective international regulation where powerful special interests are concerned - intellectual property for example. But the same thing for environmental and worker protection, no so much.
And the easiest and most reliable way to equalize it that I can see is import taxes.
Linux Mint 12 “Lisa” will be released in November this year with continued support for Gnome 2 but also with the introduction of Gnome 3. The radical changes introduced by the Gnome project split the community. At the time of releasing Linux Mint 11 we decided it was too early to adopt Gnome 3. This time around, the decision isn’t as simple. Gnome 3.2 is more mature and we can see the potential of this new desktop and use it to implement something that can look and behave better than anything based on Gnome 2. Of course, we’re starting from scratch and this process will take time and span across multiple releases. Until then, it’s important we continue to support the traditional Gnome 2 desktop. We’re likely to release two separate editions, one for Gnome 2.32 and one for Gnome 3.2. We’re also working in cooperation with the MATE project (which is a fork of Gnome 2) at the moment to see if we can make both desktops compatible in an effort to let you run both Gnome 2 (or MATE) and Gnome 3 on the same system, either in Linux Mint 12, or for the future.
So they have a long term plan to move to Gnome 3 with a sane interface that they are building from scratch and in the short term they will offer Gnome 2 versions and try to find a way to make Gnome 2 and 3 play nicely. Yeah, I think I'll stick with Mint. Ubuntu repository access but without all the stupid.
I am also wondering how much a hearing aid would cost if you just built it yourself. I mean, the electronics shouldn't be that hard (at the very basic, a miniature microphone, op-amp, battery and a miniature speaker would give you an 80s-style hearing aid) even if you want a microprocessor, you can always mimic a bluetooth headset and make it a tad bigger - BT headsets are what, $20 these days so you should be able to build it even in small numbers for under $500. Maybe it wouldn't be FDA approved but neither are those TV/Church crap hearing aids they sell to old people and can be found in the $5 bin at your average department store.
This was my reaction. Some people get ear molds done for headphones and I think it costs a couple hundred bucks just for that. But other than the mold it seems like the electronics would be pretty standard.
For people that following gaming regularly, many found out about this last night (some of the testers did a Reddit AMA). The 20 people that went there weren't under NDA and started talking about it last night. Valve confirmed this today and put out a press release too.
From what I've been reading, there are a few key points that worry me:
* "CS: GO is being developed by Valve in cooperation with Seattle-based Hidden Path Entertainment." - Valve is not the primary developer for the game, so it may not be up to standard Valve quality.
* Little seems to be changing, which could be good or bad. While they say its different, much is the exact same. Sounds like what Starcraft 2 did.
"Didn't grossly offend anyone" is code for "didn't change very much".
Oh you mean like Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer with their operating system, then setting the default page to msn.com and setting the default search engine to bing?
Not to mention my grandpa bought a computer from Best Buy and they sent Geek Squad out to set it up for him. They showed him how to use MSN and bing and gave him a new Windows Live e-mail address and showed him how to use that. I wonder how much Microsoft is paying for that?
These are the kinds of users Google is trying to get by putting those "Download Chrome" and "Make this your homepage" buttons. People that don't know where to find the settings for these things that are only using Microsoft products because that's the way it came from the store. Surely Google's tactics are acceptable given their competitor already has a massive advantage by being the default. I haven't seen any software from other companies that included Chrome but if I did that's the only part I might disagree with.
I'm more concerned about the 2 lane aspect of it. Where I live turning on your blinker causes the guy in the lane next to you to speed up so you can't get in front of him. Though I'm sure part of that is our speed limits are lower than they should be so they're afraid of someone getting in front of them and actually driving the speed limit.
The big difference between this and a normal poll is that it is one "official" poll that everyone can be directed to. I would love to see that sort of thing in the U.S. so it isn't as necessary to question the source and methodology of the poll results. If it were done right we could even tie the representative's voting record to the poll results and make it easy for people to identify whether a candidate is really representing their citizens, though that has a lot of potential for abuse.
I know Silverlight is a running joke on/., and everyone here hates it...
And now this, the latest in a long steady stream of screw-overs. They have seriously broken their promise to the developer community.
So you're saying/. was right?
Most of your post just looks like you're making excuses for a bad decision. And as someone who has had to make stuff work with Internet Explorer 6 as well as write bat files and VB tools I am going to have to strongly disagree with that "great track record with developers" comment.
Because then we'll go from having overbearing and often ineffective security into having absolutely zero security. There should be a middle ground in there somewhere.
Or maybe we'll just have the airlines hire their own security like they did before rather than spending $8 billion in taxpayer money on it?
In reality, Microsoft Office often doesn't work correctly either, creating documents that will crash Office on a different computer. Especially between Mac and Windows versions. Sure, OpenOffice isn't very good, but its main problem (slight incompatibility with MS Office) is something it shares with its main competition: MS Office itself.
I would like to point out that I have gotten Outlook 2007 to crash multiple times in a row simply by trying to use the search feature... I could even repeat the query a few times after restarting and repeat the crash. I used to think Office was Microsoft's one solid product but I've run into enough quirks that now I'm not so sure.
Well e-mail security is poor but that isn't the point. A URL is not a password and should not be treated as one. It's fairly easy to guess random text strings until you get a hit on these URLs. You will eventually find *something*. With an account and password combination you have to try to crack each account individually and there can be mechanisms to lock the user out after a certain number of incorrect guesses.
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I think it's best to get a chair that encourages motion of any kind.
BS
I had a cheap Office Max chair that wasn't terribly comfortable and I found myself twisting around all the time and trying weird positions to try to get comfortable. Eventually I started getting back pains. I replaced it with a Herman Miller Embody (their most expensive model - $1,200) which is much more comfortable and the back pains went away. I wish I could get one of these chairs at work over the basic swivel chair they give me.
I realized there were 2 problems with the cheap chair that the expensive one fixed. First, the one I have now lets me adjust the lumbar support so it feels natural against my back. Second, this one allows me to recline easily. The cheap one required force to make it lean back, making the reclining feature effectively useless. The one I have allows me to adjust the resistance on the reclining mechanism so I can sit at whatever angle feels comfortable. Now that it feels more natural I don't move around nearly as much and my back feels better.
I tried an Aeron but the supports in the front were uncomfortable against my legs. I went to my local Room & Board to try them out. My recommendation is to look into which chairs you're interested and find stores that carry them so you can figure out which one works for you. Herman Miller, Steelcase, and Humanscale are a few of the high end office chair manufacturers. I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting. I don't know who makes standing chairs because I wasn't interested.
When I signed up to U-Verse I gave them my credit card info and asked for automatic billing. About 3 months later I get a letter in the mail complaining that I hadn't paid for the last 3 months of service. Somehow this is normal for them. It actually takes them a few months to figure out how to bill me automatically and I just missed that note when I signed up. Since then I'm really not surprised when I hear about AT&T's systems not keeping up.
I think the problem is more structural - the economy is global, but government is only national, for the most part. Companies can easily stay a step ahead of governments by playing them off each other, resulting in the race to the bottom you see today. Notice that you do see more effective international regulation where powerful special interests are concerned - intellectual property for example. But the same thing for environmental and worker protection, no so much.
And the easiest and most reliable way to equalize it that I can see is import taxes.
I think Mint is going to change to Gnome 3. Not Unity, but not much better.
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1845 -- scroll to the news section about halfway down the page.
Linux Mint 12 “Lisa” will be released in November this year with continued support for Gnome 2 but also with the introduction of Gnome 3. The radical changes introduced by the Gnome project split the community. At the time of releasing Linux Mint 11 we decided it was too early to adopt Gnome 3. This time around, the decision isn’t as simple. Gnome 3.2 is more mature and we can see the potential of this new desktop and use it to implement something that can look and behave better than anything based on Gnome 2. Of course, we’re starting from scratch and this process will take time and span across multiple releases. Until then, it’s important we continue to support the traditional Gnome 2 desktop. We’re likely to release two separate editions, one for Gnome 2.32 and one for Gnome 3.2. We’re also working in cooperation with the MATE project (which is a fork of Gnome 2) at the moment to see if we can make both desktops compatible in an effort to let you run both Gnome 2 (or MATE) and Gnome 3 on the same system, either in Linux Mint 12, or for the future.
So they have a long term plan to move to Gnome 3 with a sane interface that they are building from scratch and in the short term they will offer Gnome 2 versions and try to find a way to make Gnome 2 and 3 play nicely. Yeah, I think I'll stick with Mint. Ubuntu repository access but without all the stupid.
Was Einstein removed from interacting with children his age?
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Einstein
I am also wondering how much a hearing aid would cost if you just built it yourself. I mean, the electronics shouldn't be that hard (at the very basic, a miniature microphone, op-amp, battery and a miniature speaker would give you an 80s-style hearing aid) even if you want a microprocessor, you can always mimic a bluetooth headset and make it a tad bigger - BT headsets are what, $20 these days so you should be able to build it even in small numbers for under $500. Maybe it wouldn't be FDA approved but neither are those TV/Church crap hearing aids they sell to old people and can be found in the $5 bin at your average department store.
This was my reaction. Some people get ear molds done for headphones and I think it costs a couple hundred bucks just for that. But other than the mold it seems like the electronics would be pretty standard.
I like the "easy access" menu in the middle of the ribbon. Does this contain the old menu structure under it?
I think it's just the dress that makes him look thin.
For people that following gaming regularly, many found out about this last night (some of the testers did a Reddit AMA). The 20 people that went there weren't under NDA and started talking about it last night. Valve confirmed this today and put out a press release too.
From what I've been reading, there are a few key points that worry me:
"Didn't grossly offend anyone" is code for "didn't change very much".
Why come you got no tattoo?
I'm sure Stallman will fix that with a new GPL that disallows you from installing proprietary software on the same machine as Hurd.
Exactly. We're spending nearly half of NASA's budget ineffectively attempting to protect something that probably isn't even a major objective anymore.
Oh you mean like Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer with their operating system, then setting the default page to msn.com and setting the default search engine to bing?
Not to mention my grandpa bought a computer from Best Buy and they sent Geek Squad out to set it up for him. They showed him how to use MSN and bing and gave him a new Windows Live e-mail address and showed him how to use that. I wonder how much Microsoft is paying for that?
These are the kinds of users Google is trying to get by putting those "Download Chrome" and "Make this your homepage" buttons. People that don't know where to find the settings for these things that are only using Microsoft products because that's the way it came from the store. Surely Google's tactics are acceptable given their competitor already has a massive advantage by being the default. I haven't seen any software from other companies that included Chrome but if I did that's the only part I might disagree with.
I'm more concerned about the 2 lane aspect of it. Where I live turning on your blinker causes the guy in the lane next to you to speed up so you can't get in front of him. Though I'm sure part of that is our speed limits are lower than they should be so they're afraid of someone getting in front of them and actually driving the speed limit.
Wow she favors gay marriage? What a geek!
The big difference between this and a normal poll is that it is one "official" poll that everyone can be directed to. I would love to see that sort of thing in the U.S. so it isn't as necessary to question the source and methodology of the poll results. If it were done right we could even tie the representative's voting record to the poll results and make it easy for people to identify whether a candidate is really representing their citizens, though that has a lot of potential for abuse.
I know Silverlight is a running joke on /., and everyone here hates it...
And now this, the latest in a long steady stream of screw-overs. They have seriously broken their promise to the developer community.
So you're saying /. was right?
Most of your post just looks like you're making excuses for a bad decision. And as someone who has had to make stuff work with Internet Explorer 6 as well as write bat files and VB tools I am going to have to strongly disagree with that "great track record with developers" comment.
He still doesn't get it. For whatever reason, he continues to equate incredible special effects with incredible results.
And why shouldn't he? It worked for James Cameron!
Patent and copyright are two very different beasts....
So different, in fact, that there is only one clause in the Constitution granting Congress the power to create both of them.
Because then we'll go from having overbearing and often ineffective security into having absolutely zero security. There should be a middle ground in there somewhere.
Or maybe we'll just have the airlines hire their own security like they did before rather than spending $8 billion in taxpayer money on it?
Oh yeah demanding your social security number to buy a game is going to work really well...
They would also have to do away with their system for giving games to others or it would be easily abused.
It's intended use: to marry Krieger.
In reality, Microsoft Office often doesn't work correctly either, creating documents that will crash Office on a different computer. Especially between Mac and Windows versions. Sure, OpenOffice isn't very good, but its main problem (slight incompatibility with MS Office) is something it shares with its main competition: MS Office itself.
I would like to point out that I have gotten Outlook 2007 to crash multiple times in a row simply by trying to use the search feature... I could even repeat the query a few times after restarting and repeat the crash. I used to think Office was Microsoft's one solid product but I've run into enough quirks that now I'm not so sure.
Well e-mail security is poor but that isn't the point. A URL is not a password and should not be treated as one. It's fairly easy to guess random text strings until you get a hit on these URLs. You will eventually find *something*. With an account and password combination you have to try to crack each account individually and there can be mechanisms to lock the user out after a certain number of incorrect guesses.