Here's what I've learned, and has been mentioned a few times before in this post already with different perspectives.
I had the exact same experience as yours with my first set of bifocals. What solved my issues with it is getting what's called a computer grind on the lens. This type of grind widens the peripheral view while sacrificing a bit for reading paper based documents. Since I don't do anywhere as much book reading as I do computer, this was the perfect tradeoff.
The computer grind in the industry is well understood and not the exact technical term they use, but it helps them understand the type of lens grind your looking for.
Google is paying IDC a LOT of money to juggle the numbers to show one tiny slice of the market where Google succeeded. Google is not beating Apple with tablets anymore than Apple is beating Google with online services. If they were, you would see Google chrome books and tablets everywhere and the rare spotting of an iPad. Also, every fanboy (Google or Apple) deserves to post whatever they want.
Simply put, the narrator of this post didn't do his research, Google is not beating Apple on the notebook or tablet front. Google does own anything search, online apps, maps, etc.. And thats saying a lot.
Until recently, I used to think that I needed the unlimited plan because I never wanted to hit the limit on data. After reviewing our bill, 2 of the 3 phones we had still had unlimited plans along with purchased minutes costing us about $320 a month for all 3 phones. After using the online tool to see how much data we use monthly, combined we all used less than 10gb so, I switched us over to the shared family plan for $145 instead of $320, and then got us all on the AT&T Next plan for annual phone upgrades and I'm still saving $70 a month!
Milage varies depending on if you jailbreak/tether your current phone a lot. VZ has the same kind of plans which could save you some money if you have multiple phones. If not, then it might not save you much money and not be worth loosing that unlimited plan
This is the situation I was in with the discount provider I was using before switching. I'm paying double what I did but, zero downtime this year and Softlayer.net has earned high marks with me for their support.
I host with Softlayer.net (dedicated boxes) and I had the same mysterious issues, server going offline and coming back on. I have a different approach. I trust the techs of the company I'm hosting with so I don't mind giving up root access to chase this problem down. What I do after that is change the root pass again and I'm done.
What I'm finding is when the OS and logs come back clean, the problem is mostly likely tied to a DC router issue (a bug or misconfiguration). That's exactly what the excellent techs at SL found. They even filed an RFO (reason for outage) report several days later explaining the problem in detail.
So, just like everyone here says, get with a good hosting company and put some trust in the support staff. I used to think that all these companies were about the same level of service if your on a dedicated but, I soon found out you really do get what you pay for.
So what if they are opening up the format. MSFT still doesn't provide information on the VM tech behind this announcement. If they are describing their Virtual PC product, then it will have limited appeal since it only runs on Windows as a host and older PowerPC Macs. Makes a person wonder. Something new to compete with Parallels and VMware?
Throwing more money at the educational system touting high tech and corporate management morals is taking the educational system in the wrong direction. To start, as someone else stated, money is not the cure. What most public schools need are smaller class rooms, teachers who really want to teach, less litigation when someone disagrees with public school policies, better curriculum and more freedom for teaching styles (this is just a start).
My daughter goes to a local private school and the cost per student is lower than the public high school down the road with a much higher percentile of students moving on to college (98% as of last year vs. the 60% from the public high school).
Providing teachers with a flexible teaching environment is just as important of not more so than having the same for students.
All we need is for corporate america to pollute one of the last areas of our society from this type of influence. Bill and Melinda Gates (and his foundation) are doing wonderful things and I applaud that. Bringing corporate culture into the classroom is big mistake. If this becomes a trend, then corporate influence is winning one battle at a time.
They have already polluted politics and this would just be one more stone overturned along the way.
And why did this article fall into the PC vs MAC thing for you??? I don't see as that and I AM a Mac user after 22+ years of PC's. They are both valid platforms.
The reason Apple hardware works better is because they write the OS for their specific platform. Doing OSX for PCees would drive costs on OSX through the roof trying to support all the junk HW out there.
That's what I did and have looked back after using Windows since Windows 1.0! Microsoft could do something about it but they would have to do like Apple did, leave backward compatibility behind and rearchitect the whole OS; start with a clean slate. To cover your base with backward compatibility, bundle VPC! They already bundle everything else.
I said this once in a post a while back when this started going down hill. I was a procurement manager for a large telecom and personally handled the RIM agreement. There was only one way the agreement was going to happen, RIM's way or the highway. This is no joke. The lawyers for the telecom company I worked for then called them "Canadian Cowboys". RIM was flying high (and still is) and they think they are invincible.
If this article is correct in that RIM could have settled this for a few million with NTP, then this holds true to my dealings with them. No negotiations, just sign the contract or we leave. When your the top dog in this space you can do this but you will leave a trail of ill will in the process and this is a small world. I sure hope RIM gets humbled by this.
Mambo is the name of an opensource CMS http://www.mamboserver.com./ You would think these guys get out on the net and do a little research before naming a product.
I did this same research and with projectors, you do get what you paid for. Rear projection will be brighter and more suiteable for home situations due to lighting. Just my 2c...
No problem, as I reach for the Geritol... LOL Those were the funnest days of my carrer. It's funny to hear everyone bitch about Windwoes in the past few years becuase I've been bitchin about it since 85.
I love my new dual 1ghz dual! I have my UNIX and a great gui to boost with great software bundled with the OS. If you took the price of what it would take to outfit a PC with equivilent software, an equivilent PC would cost between 300-500 more than I paid for this Mac.
I think this is another value proposition Mac should exploit. Not the BSOD thing.
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LOL, you ever hear of Windows 286 and 1.0? Yeah, I was networking that crap back in the Netware 1.x days.
I made the switch and haven't been happier. The cool thing about OS X is that it the low end softwar (i.e. iMovie, iDVD, iTunes, etc...) is almos high end softwar on a PC! Why, because the Apple guys coded all this stuff as multithreaded from the go. You rarely find Winwoes software that's multithreaded unless it's an expensive app or very specialized.
Talk about sneak attack! This crap's gota stop. Companies that use these types of tactics are the lowest form of corporate entity. Waiting until the market is saturated with a technology then announcing you have a patent ought to be illegal or some other remedy needs to be sought to curb this abuse.
Again, companies are showing the world what ethics are really about. NADA...
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I had the exact same experience as yours with my first set of bifocals. What solved my issues with it is getting what's called a computer grind on the lens. This type of grind widens the peripheral view while sacrificing a bit for reading paper based documents. Since I don't do anywhere as much book reading as I do computer, this was the perfect tradeoff.
The computer grind in the industry is well understood and not the exact technical term they use, but it helps them understand the type of lens grind your looking for.
Hope this helps a bit...
Google is paying IDC a LOT of money to juggle the numbers to show one tiny slice of the market where Google succeeded. Google is not beating Apple with tablets anymore than Apple is beating Google with online services. If they were, you would see Google chrome books and tablets everywhere and the rare spotting of an iPad. Also, every fanboy (Google or Apple) deserves to post whatever they want. Simply put, the narrator of this post didn't do his research, Google is not beating Apple on the notebook or tablet front. Google does own anything search, online apps, maps, etc.. And thats saying a lot.
Until recently, I used to think that I needed the unlimited plan because I never wanted to hit the limit on data. After reviewing our bill, 2 of the 3 phones we had still had unlimited plans along with purchased minutes costing us about $320 a month for all 3 phones. After using the online tool to see how much data we use monthly, combined we all used less than 10gb so, I switched us over to the shared family plan for $145 instead of $320, and then got us all on the AT&T Next plan for annual phone upgrades and I'm still saving $70 a month! Milage varies depending on if you jailbreak/tether your current phone a lot. VZ has the same kind of plans which could save you some money if you have multiple phones. If not, then it might not save you much money and not be worth loosing that unlimited plan
This is the situation I was in with the discount provider I was using before switching. I'm paying double what I did but, zero downtime this year and Softlayer.net has earned high marks with me for their support.
I host with Softlayer.net (dedicated boxes) and I had the same mysterious issues, server going offline and coming back on. I have a different approach. I trust the techs of the company I'm hosting with so I don't mind giving up root access to chase this problem down. What I do after that is change the root pass again and I'm done. What I'm finding is when the OS and logs come back clean, the problem is mostly likely tied to a DC router issue (a bug or misconfiguration). That's exactly what the excellent techs at SL found. They even filed an RFO (reason for outage) report several days later explaining the problem in detail. So, just like everyone here says, get with a good hosting company and put some trust in the support staff. I used to think that all these companies were about the same level of service if your on a dedicated but, I soon found out you really do get what you pay for.
Another +1 here. Use it to support mom and mother-n-law from time to time.
So what if they are opening up the format. MSFT still doesn't provide information on the VM tech behind this announcement. If they are describing their Virtual PC product, then it will have limited appeal since it only runs on Windows as a host and older PowerPC Macs. Makes a person wonder. Something new to compete with Parallels and VMware?
My daughter goes to a local private school and the cost per student is lower than the public high school down the road with a much higher percentile of students moving on to college (98% as of last year vs. the 60% from the public high school).
Providing teachers with a flexible teaching environment is just as important of not more so than having the same for students.
All we need is for corporate america to pollute one of the last areas of our society from this type of influence. Bill and Melinda Gates (and his foundation) are doing wonderful things and I applaud that. Bringing corporate culture into the classroom is big mistake. If this becomes a trend, then corporate influence is winning one battle at a time.
They have already polluted politics and this would just be one more stone overturned along the way.
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Tablet PC's. It is a very cool demo and I'm sure that MSFT will be calling on these guys.
Your so full of crap troll... If it weren't for us SWITCHERS, Apple would have dried up LONG ago. Go sit on it and spin..
And why did this article fall into the PC vs MAC thing for you??? I don't see as that and I AM a Mac user after 22+ years of PC's. They are both valid platforms.
Backwards compatibility on PPC OSX is done by running OS9 under PPC, not compatibility at the API level like Windows. :-)
The reason Apple hardware works better is because they write the OS for their specific platform. Doing OSX for PCees would drive costs on OSX through the roof trying to support all the junk HW out there.
That's what I did and have looked back after using Windows since Windows 1.0! Microsoft could do something about it but they would have to do like Apple did, leave backward compatibility behind and rearchitect the whole OS; start with a clean slate. To cover your base with backward compatibility, bundle VPC! They already bundle everything else.
I said this once in a post a while back when this started going down hill. I was a procurement manager for a large telecom and personally handled the RIM agreement. There was only one way the agreement was going to happen, RIM's way or the highway. This is no joke. The lawyers for the telecom company I worked for then called them "Canadian Cowboys". RIM was flying high (and still is) and they think they are invincible. If this article is correct in that RIM could have settled this for a few million with NTP, then this holds true to my dealings with them. No negotiations, just sign the contract or we leave. When your the top dog in this space you can do this but you will leave a trail of ill will in the process and this is a small world. I sure hope RIM gets humbled by this.
Yeah. I'm enemy of OS and a troll, troll! Your funny.. I've been developing OS software for years.. Get a life.
I subscribe to Packet8 and they rolled it out today. Wonder what's keeping Vonage and others from getting this rolled out?
Mambo is the name of an opensource CMS http://www.mamboserver.com./ You would think these guys get out on the net and do a little research before naming a product.
I did this same research and with projectors, you do get what you paid for. Rear projection will be brighter and more suiteable for home situations due to lighting. Just my 2c...
Then buy a new mouse. My Trackman Marble works great and has two buttons.
No problem, as I reach for the Geritol... LOL Those were the funnest days of my carrer. It's funny to hear everyone bitch about Windwoes in the past few years becuase I've been bitchin about it since 85. I love my new dual 1ghz dual! I have my UNIX and a great gui to boost with great software bundled with the OS. If you took the price of what it would take to outfit a PC with equivilent software, an equivilent PC would cost between 300-500 more than I paid for this Mac. I think this is another value proposition Mac should exploit. Not the BSOD thing.
LOL, you ever hear of Windows 286 and 1.0? Yeah, I was networking that crap back in the Netware 1.x days.
I made the switch and haven't been happier. The cool thing about OS X is that it the low end softwar (i.e. iMovie, iDVD, iTunes, etc...) is almos high end softwar on a PC! Why, because the Apple guys coded all this stuff as multithreaded from the go. You rarely find Winwoes software that's multithreaded unless it's an expensive app or very specialized.
Talk about sneak attack! This crap's gota stop. Companies that use these types of tactics are the lowest form of corporate entity. Waiting until the market is saturated with a technology then announcing you have a patent ought to be illegal or some other remedy needs to be sought to curb this abuse. Again, companies are showing the world what ethics are really about. NADA...
I'm sure the slash monkeys will let that one thru LOL.....