I've been using monthly contacts from Cooper Vision called Frequency 55 for about 6 years now. With these, I've gone days without sleep without issues. I'm unfortunately in Japan now, someplace Cooper doesn't distribute to. Accuvue is doing big advertising campaigns here so I guess I will be trying that next when my perscription runs out.
Anyone in Japan reading this that wears contacts and works with computers a lot? Any suggestions?
For me I could always see the frames or edges of the lens. Maybe I'm just sensitive perihiperal vision. I've tried all kinds of frames and not very many work well. The frames from Oakley are good for me, but they are not compatible with my perscription.
I just moved to Japan and got my first taste of what real new phones can do.
I got myself the SH901is from Sharp. I haven't had time to play with it much to see if it can play.mp3's or not. It does have a decent 3 megapixel camera, a 320x240 video recorder that can record over 40 minutes of video and audio to my 128MB miniSD, and video phone. There's a lot of neat apps like acting as a DVR for a TV, a remote control, auto news grabber. Most of which I can't use since I can't read Japanese yet. The only thing sorely missing the bluetooth capability and my laptop doesn't have an IR port built in. D'oh!
Already done... unfortunately she's 2 years old so there's only so many simple books I can carry on board. About ten books only lasts one hour. It's a ten hour flight, she'll sleep for about 3 hours of it so I need to fill 7 hours. Four hours on the PSP, one hour with books, and hopefully two hours with the lappy will keep her entertained.
A little over six hours of video at low bitrate can be stored on a 1GB duo. This is how I plan to keep the kid entertained on the international flight I am going on soon.
My car, a 2004 rx-8, has a similar setup. It's my understanding if the throttle position sensor fails on a car with a manual tranny, it goes into limp home mode. The computer will try to keep the engine speed at 2k rpms. I would guess the automatics will limp home at 1300 rpms...
I just got a Inspiron 8600 (15.4" screen) and the native resolution on the LCD is 1920x1600. Very nice for coding. Half Life 2 recognizes this by offering a 16:10 formatted view.
I'm a generalist. A bit code / scripting, bit of DBA, bit of general server admin, bit of help desk, bit of FPS champ, etc. This is both my strength and weakness. The company I work for gave me a rather strange title called a "Technologist". I think a more apt title was "Tech Gimp".
The reason I know about Denver, CO is my team was determining where to locate a new data center and who would be willing relocate. I voted for Denver. Financial reasons drove the data center out to Phoenix, AZ. Even with extremely cheap housing in Phoenix, there just was not enough Asian culture to keep my family happy.
I appreciate the offer and have to turn it down. I've pretty much committed to hopping over to Japan. Hopefully the company I work for will let me do extreme telecommuting, with me flying in for a week every two months. Otherwise I'm striking it out on my own or joining my sister in law in her technology consulting business. (I'm willing to consider your offer if you let me telecommute (grins).)
Another good area with decent tech and a bit of Japanese culture is Denver, CO. Cost of living seems reasonable compared to living in the South Bay area of California (fairly large concentration of Japanese).
Here's one way of figuring out where people with Japanese culture are located. Look at where the Japanese television networks are broadcasting.
My story is going to be the opposite. My wife wants to move back to Japan and I've agreed. By the end of the year, we'll be moving to Japan.
The new location out in Valencia, CA hands out those pager devices that go off when your food is ready. So no screaming.
Already at this location, I see people camped out with laptops. And it's surrounded by a residential zone... It would not take too much engineering to rig an antenna...
One could buy and Audrey with a warrenty and some software bundled in. I bought one for the wife to put in the kitchen. She now has basic E-mail and rotating picture display. It works pretty well IMO.
I just tried Trillian 3 under Wine and it does not work well. Sure it launches but all the eye candy is borken to the point where it is unusable. Too bad, I liked Trillian when I was in Windows land.
I actually spun a FWD Mazda3 at a Rev It Up event. Caught me completely by surprise that FWD will spin when the driver was simply trying to go fast through a cone course.
I usually end up waiting for the DVD now because I have kids and I have enough social responsibility not to incovenience everybody with it.
Now when I was able to go to the cinemas, I went to the really expensive Arc Light Cinemas where the prices were expensive enough to keep the rif-raf out and only serious movie go-ers show up.
One cabinet is easier get past the interior designer (wife) then four satellite speakers. I would love to get a nice 7.1 system but I would be constantly fighting with her on optimum seating and speaker placement. This one cabinet design is probably a good compromise...
If antennas could be this discreet, why do DirecTv and Dish use the ugly dish antennas. With an antenna like this, I could probably lay it flat on the roof and the Home Owners Assocation won't complain. From the support aspect it's probably easier since the antenna being bumped will be less likely to affect signal.
Oh well, I already installed the ugly dish antenna at my house and the HOA hasn't noticed yet.
I used to work in the freight forwarding industry. One of the companies biggest clients was Honda (the car company) which for some reason sent over 15 freightcontainers a week filled with all kinds of pulped paper to Japan.
This will work if the phone uses GPS... But some of these phones work by triangulating it's position from cell phone towers. Also some of the new Garmin navigational aids use something called WAAS...
I suspect the phones has to be using something other then the sattelites. Even very good receivers don't work without a good view of the sky.
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Inputs like this? Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard.
I've been using monthly contacts from Cooper Vision called Frequency 55 for about 6 years now. With these, I've gone days without sleep without issues. I'm unfortunately in Japan now, someplace Cooper doesn't distribute to. Accuvue is doing big advertising campaigns here so I guess I will be trying that next when my perscription runs out.
Anyone in Japan reading this that wears contacts and works with computers a lot? Any suggestions?
For me I could always see the frames or edges of the lens. Maybe I'm just sensitive perihiperal vision. I've tried all kinds of frames and not very many work well. The frames from Oakley are good for me, but they are not compatible with my perscription.
[ OK ] will apply the changes and close the dialog box.
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I just moved to Japan and got my first taste of what real new phones can do.
I got myself the SH901is from Sharp. I haven't had time to play with it much to see if it can play .mp3's or not. It does have a decent 3 megapixel camera, a 320x240 video recorder that can record over 40 minutes of video and audio to my 128MB miniSD, and video phone. There's a lot of neat apps like acting as a DVR for a TV, a remote control, auto news grabber. Most of which I can't use since I can't read Japanese yet. The only thing sorely missing the bluetooth capability and my laptop doesn't have an IR port built in. D'oh!
Already done... unfortunately she's 2 years old so there's only so many simple books I can carry on board. About ten books only lasts one hour. It's a ten hour flight, she'll sleep for about 3 hours of it so I need to fill 7 hours. Four hours on the PSP, one hour with books, and hopefully two hours with the lappy will keep her entertained.
A little over six hours of video at low bitrate can be stored on a 1GB duo. This is how I plan to keep the kid entertained on the international flight I am going on soon.
Along with one of those free web based E-mail and with PGP signing to prove the information source is from the same entity.
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My car, a 2004 rx-8, has a similar setup. It's my understanding if the throttle position sensor fails on a car with a manual tranny, it goes into limp home mode. The computer will try to keep the engine speed at 2k rpms. I would guess the automatics will limp home at 1300 rpms...
I just got a Inspiron 8600 (15.4" screen) and the native resolution on the LCD is 1920x1600. Very nice for coding. Half Life 2 recognizes this by offering a 16:10 formatted view.
I'm a generalist. A bit code / scripting, bit of DBA, bit of general server admin, bit of help desk, bit of FPS champ, etc. This is both my strength and weakness. The company I work for gave me a rather strange title called a "Technologist". I think a more apt title was "Tech Gimp".
The reason I know about Denver, CO is my team was determining where to locate a new data center and who would be willing relocate. I voted for Denver. Financial reasons drove the data center out to Phoenix, AZ. Even with extremely cheap housing in Phoenix, there just was not enough Asian culture to keep my family happy.
I appreciate the offer and have to turn it down. I've pretty much committed to hopping over to Japan. Hopefully the company I work for will let me do extreme telecommuting, with me flying in for a week every two months. Otherwise I'm striking it out on my own or joining my sister in law in her technology consulting business. (I'm willing to consider your offer if you let me telecommute (grins).)
Another good area with decent tech and a bit of Japanese culture is Denver, CO. Cost of living seems reasonable compared to living in the South Bay area of California (fairly large concentration of Japanese).
Here's one way of figuring out where people with Japanese culture are located. Look at where the Japanese television networks are broadcasting.
My story is going to be the opposite. My wife wants to move back to Japan and I've agreed. By the end of the year, we'll be moving to Japan.
The new location out in Valencia, CA hands out those pager devices that go off when your food is ready. So no screaming.
Already at this location, I see people camped out with laptops. And it's surrounded by a residential zone... It would not take too much engineering to rig an antenna...
One could buy and Audrey with a warrenty and some software bundled in. I bought one for the wife to put in the kitchen. She now has basic E-mail and rotating picture display. It works pretty well IMO.
In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? And what is Epic?
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I just tried Trillian 3 under Wine and it does not work well. Sure it launches but all the eye candy is borken to the point where it is unusable. Too bad, I liked Trillian when I was in Windows land.
Sadly they seem to have a deal with both NFL and NFLPA. So even the likeness probably can not be used.
I actually spun a FWD Mazda3 at a Rev It Up event. Caught me completely by surprise that FWD will spin when the driver was simply trying to go fast through a cone course.
I usually end up waiting for the DVD now because I have kids and I have enough social responsibility not to incovenience everybody with it. Now when I was able to go to the cinemas, I went to the really expensive Arc Light Cinemas where the prices were expensive enough to keep the rif-raf out and only serious movie go-ers show up.
One cabinet is easier get past the interior designer (wife) then four satellite speakers. I would love to get a nice 7.1 system but I would be constantly fighting with her on optimum seating and speaker placement. This one cabinet design is probably a good compromise...
If antennas could be this discreet, why do DirecTv and Dish use the ugly dish antennas. With an antenna like this, I could probably lay it flat on the roof and the Home Owners Assocation won't complain. From the support aspect it's probably easier since the antenna being bumped will be less likely to affect signal.
Oh well, I already installed the ugly dish antenna at my house and the HOA hasn't noticed yet.
I used to work in the freight forwarding industry. One of the companies biggest clients was Honda (the car company) which for some reason sent over 15 freightcontainers a week filled with all kinds of pulped paper to Japan.
This will work if the phone uses GPS... But some of these phones work by triangulating it's position from cell phone towers. Also some of the new Garmin navigational aids use something called WAAS...
I suspect the phones has to be using something other then the sattelites. Even very good receivers don't work without a good view of the sky.
<commentary>Face it... We're rapidly approaching a transparent society. Everyone will be living in glass houses.</commentary