The problem is that of 18 inches or of intense straining. Let me explain.
For the 18 inch problem, your eyes may be forcing themselves to focus and that is causing the tiredness.
The other reason is that you are doing intense work, such as programming or other tasks that cause you to do a hard stare (if you can do that hard), so that when you change screens, the information is still in your mind. That stare to concentrate also causes some eyestrain.
Then of course, you may have both problems.
Get an eye exam to correct focus related problems.
Slack off a bit for the other problem.
It is not anti-trust, but greed. USA is really known as a benevolent but super greedy country.
Benevolent to the directors who built a legal safety layer between themselves and the mom and pop shareholders.
Ross Perrault had it right. No employee is worth more then 20 times the average of all employees.
Back to market share. We are all ripped off.
DDR2 memory is wholesale $1.92 / gig. Why are we paying around $100 / 2 gigs ?
If ODF format is cast in stone, then I concurr. MS will do step 3).
However, technology is changing too rapidly, and ODF by 2010 may be a much improved standard, again negating Microsoft's wishes.
Who will help? I foresee IBM, APPLE' Novell, and others (linux) and European and Asian countries.
"Where Laws?" I am responding to previous comment.
If the Bush administration doesn't like you, even if you are an American born, it can send you to Guantanomo to be incarcerated without trial or ability to get help. Just like the Chinese, you are either "for me or against me".
American English is going down the tubes.
Should the headline read There is no anti-trust probe into Microsoft.
(into Microsoft operations).
In the rest of the non-USA world, the word on is reserved for on or off topic, or sitting on a chair, being on time, standing on a podium, but writing about....
So, I want to write about the word on.
What Nokia is worried about is that the logic that they employ will be open to improvement, to patent by a third party, and that they will have to PAY, PAY, and PAY.
The open source community will eventually architect open hardware integration, and I would say that by 2013, (5yrs), we will see open hardware too.
Leslie
We had licensed support for AIX and an ERP application. When a failure occurred, there was pointing at AIX, at Informix and at the ERP product.
In the end, we had to solve the problem on our own.
License providers have pruned their support staff to where they handle too many products and the staff knowledge is not deep enough into the inner workings of what they are supporting.
FOSS support has been as fast. We were lucky to have non on-line software problems solved within 12 hours.
So, I'll take FOSS for medium criticality work. And when FOSS gets to be legacy, I will regotiate our license agreements or switch.
How long have you cowards stood back and let it happen?
The President, if he does not like your smile, your criticism, etc. can put you there on suspicion of being a danger to society as a terrorist. You could be there for the rest of your life.
You have been under an eight year dictatorship, with the consequences that the USA is now one of the least respected countries in the world.
A lot of repairing of interntional good will be a task that the next president will take on as absolutely necessary.
I can tell you that more and more, investors are looking outside the USA for safe investments as they just do not trust any US institution.
Compared to Austrailia, we drive on the wrong side of the road. Vancouver is a great place for the summer, but lots of rain for the winter.
You will be satisfied with the differences in lifestyle. Compensation should match your expectations.
The problem is not laziness, but midlife career changes. We reach forty, at our technical prime and we are found too expensive to be hired for new challenges.
If we remain at our jobs and continue with courses, evening university, etc, we are eventually deemed too old.
So, IT is for the young up to the age of 45, and then downhill there after.
PS. I am 60+ and earning quite well, but I had to prove it by starting at a lower salary and working myself up. I can earn much more as a travelling consultant, but then -- no married life and no social life.
Are these drones, that can spy on Government sites? Or even carry dangerous bombs? With the internet, and data tunneling, one could actually steer a drone while being in the far east.
Perhaps data centers should look to solar and wind power as sources of renewable moderate cost (amortize the investment and maintenance).
Or you could establish in Quebec Canada, where electricity is low low low cost and the James Bay is the watershed feeding dam generated electricity.
The majority of Quebec homes are electrically heated, even when temperatures drop to -30C (around 25below F. Thats how much low cost electricity is available.
It would be nice to use geothermal storage of the excessive heat from summer running for recycling in winters.
Ross Perrault may be what you said he was, but then how did he get rich? And think about this, how many people can you manage directly. ( I would say that when you reach 7 to 8 diverse talents, that's it). And while RP may be wierd, he is right. No individual employee deserves a salary that is more then 20 times the average.
If the average is 100k, then 2 million per year is more then a good income. It is what he is worth. No 50 million deals. In the old boys directors clubs, the directors are not really responsible to the shareholders. They vote each other raises that are disproportional to their contributions. The problem is that directors, once voted in, control the media, and thus they are hard to dislodge. And a screw up by one of these fat cats deserves an unceremonous relieve of duties (Provided the screw up was in his control). And I am positive that any university graduate can do the directors job after experiencing one full financial year cycle.
Ross Perreault, an ancient presidential candidate claimed that no executive was worth more then 20 times the average salary of the employees under him.
Any other compensation belongs to the shareholders. To earn more, the leader has to be a shareholder with good amounts of shares.
As a Canadian watching the USA and their news media, I am amazed at the bias and propaganda that the media is showing towards one candidate. We think that there is a popular wife and husband team that are doing their best to dig up dirt, instead of doing their best to show what her platform would be for the people. And they are calling in all those favors for shilling the news with crap.
Obama has ambition, and that is great. He and his wife have brains, and determination, and morality. Something we see lacking in the USA. The USA needs to regain respect by the world. Respect that disappeared around 8 years ago.
Mr. Cain appears to be a great honorable candidate, however, he has to realize and the American people have to realize that 8 years of poor stupid government with poor stupid policies cannot be overturned by his winning. He would inherit the top of the pile, but the same crap would be underneath. You fantastic generous American people deserve more.
We outsiders see the American political system as corrupt. Politicians succumbing to lobbiests, to big business contributions and to self interests that overrides and buries what is needed by the people.
One most important part needed to be done by the USA is the fixing up of the horrible horrible public image. Maybe that fixing up would also stop the devaluation of the US dollar.
Why are Americans so obsessed with their governments politics and lies. Cuba is communist, ok. It is another form of government. But really, if that government did not provide free medicine and education, and some form of free commerce, no army in the world would keep it in power. The real problem with Cuba is Americans intolerance to free education and healthcare.
If there was no embargos against that regime, Cubans would never leave or want to leave.
So, they have a tobacco vice, but not a severe hard drug problem as do their neighbours.
America, remove the embargo and watch a country flourish.
One thing that Canadians have learned from not being first, is how greedy and corrupt the American system is for copyrights and patents. We watched as corporations went purchasing patents in order to sue corporations. Fair use be damned.
We believe in fair use. That means, that we should be able to treat a book or an article as if it had been borrowed from the library. What can you do legally do with books borrowed from the library?
a) you can destroy them.
b) you can read them
c) you can research the contents, make photocopies for your own use (fair use)
d) you cannot sell the photocopies, and if you are to publish references to the book, you must get the publisher/author's permissions.
e) you can return them and pay the late penalty fee.
But then we treat music / cds or dvds/movies like books. We can listen/watch, we can copy but we can not give it away, and to use it commmercially, we must make a deal with the author/publisher.
All the rest, is not copyright violation, but fair use.
In a way, I agree. That was true before the era of UNIX and Linux. When the mainframe was OS390, and IBM was king, they charged like kings too.
Competition is here from global companies such as CGI and the like. IBM is there, and Microshaft has to join them. The milk cows, (XP and Office) are going to run dry.
Thats all.
Leslie Satenstein
The problem I see is not that MS is incompetent, but that XP is maintained by many departments or subgroups, and thus, when a patch is released by one group, it has to go to QA, to be verified against existing code. They too cannot test everything, so....
Microsoft realizes that XP and Vista are losing propositions, and that the operating systems should be left to third party developers. Still, the cash cow to come is Vista, but MS is looking to applications for revenue and that is certainly confirmed by the offer for Yahoo. MS is a sinking ship. It is not IBM that reinvented itself.
I guess they are acceptable as long as they do not include age.
We have a Canadian law that prevents job employment discrimination based on age. It is circumvented by asking for existing drivers license, which provides age in the clear. Same information is on our Government Hospital card.
All digits but the units digit of the year should be masked.
Following your statements then we can draw some conclusions.
If I do not like to deal with Microsoft, I am in trouble, as I am locked in and the cost of extracating my company would be very high, and painful.
If I do not like to deal with IBM, I have the option of chosing a competitor to IBM. The result will not be more painful then electing to deal with IBM. I am free to purchase services from anyone.
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The problem is that of 18 inches or of intense straining. Let me explain. For the 18 inch problem, your eyes may be forcing themselves to focus and that is causing the tiredness. The other reason is that you are doing intense work, such as programming or other tasks that cause you to do a hard stare (if you can do that hard), so that when you change screens, the information is still in your mind. That stare to concentrate also causes some eyestrain. Then of course, you may have both problems. Get an eye exam to correct focus related problems. Slack off a bit for the other problem.
It is not anti-trust, but greed. USA is really known as a benevolent but super greedy country. Benevolent to the directors who built a legal safety layer between themselves and the mom and pop shareholders. Ross Perrault had it right. No employee is worth more then 20 times the average of all employees. Back to market share. We are all ripped off. DDR2 memory is wholesale $1.92 / gig. Why are we paying around $100 / 2 gigs ?
If ODF format is cast in stone, then I concurr. MS will do step 3). However, technology is changing too rapidly, and ODF by 2010 may be a much improved standard, again negating Microsoft's wishes. Who will help? I foresee IBM, APPLE' Novell, and others (linux) and European and Asian countries.
"Where Laws?" I am responding to previous comment. If the Bush administration doesn't like you, even if you are an American born, it can send you to Guantanomo to be incarcerated without trial or ability to get help. Just like the Chinese, you are either "for me or against me".
American English is going down the tubes. Should the headline read There is no anti-trust probe into Microsoft. (into Microsoft operations). In the rest of the non-USA world, the word on is reserved for on or off topic, or sitting on a chair, being on time, standing on a podium, but writing about ....
So, I want to write about the word on.
What Nokia is worried about is that the logic that they employ will be open to improvement, to patent by a third party, and that they will have to PAY, PAY, and PAY. The open source community will eventually architect open hardware integration, and I would say that by 2013, (5yrs), we will see open hardware too. Leslie
We had licensed support for AIX and an ERP application. When a failure occurred, there was pointing at AIX, at Informix and at the ERP product. In the end, we had to solve the problem on our own. License providers have pruned their support staff to where they handle too many products and the staff knowledge is not deep enough into the inner workings of what they are supporting. FOSS support has been as fast. We were lucky to have non on-line software problems solved within 12 hours. So, I'll take FOSS for medium criticality work. And when FOSS gets to be legacy, I will regotiate our license agreements or switch.
At the current metal prices, selling them to a metal dealer would provide more $$$ then compared to what they could be put to use.
The President, if he does not like your smile, your criticism, etc. can put you there on suspicion of being a danger to society as a terrorist. You could be there for the rest of your life.
You have been under an eight year dictatorship, with the consequences that the USA is now one of the least respected countries in the world.
A lot of repairing of interntional good will be a task that the next president will take on as absolutely necessary.
I can tell you that more and more, investors are looking outside the USA for safe investments as they just do not trust any US institution.
Compared to Austrailia, we drive on the wrong side of the road. Vancouver is a great place for the summer, but lots of rain for the winter. You will be satisfied with the differences in lifestyle. Compensation should match your expectations.
So is seamen. And the DNA is unique.
The problem is not laziness, but midlife career changes. We reach forty, at our technical prime and we are found too expensive to be hired for new challenges. If we remain at our jobs and continue with courses, evening university, etc, we are eventually deemed too old. So, IT is for the young up to the age of 45, and then downhill there after. PS. I am 60+ and earning quite well, but I had to prove it by starting at a lower salary and working myself up. I can earn much more as a travelling consultant, but then -- no married life and no social life.
Are these drones, that can spy on Government sites? Or even carry dangerous bombs? With the internet, and data tunneling, one could actually steer a drone while being in the far east.
Perhaps data centers should look to solar and wind power as sources of renewable moderate cost (amortize the investment and maintenance). Or you could establish in Quebec Canada, where electricity is low low low cost and the James Bay is the watershed feeding dam generated electricity. The majority of Quebec homes are electrically heated, even when temperatures drop to -30C (around 25below F. Thats how much low cost electricity is available. It would be nice to use geothermal storage of the excessive heat from summer running for recycling in winters.
Ross Perrault may be what you said he was, but then how did he get rich? And think about this, how many people can you manage directly. ( I would say that when you reach 7 to 8 diverse talents, that's it). And while RP may be wierd, he is right. No individual employee deserves a salary that is more then 20 times the average.
If the average is 100k, then 2 million per year is more then a good income. It is what he is worth. No 50 million deals.
In the old boys directors clubs, the directors are not really responsible to the shareholders. They vote each other raises that are disproportional to their contributions. The problem is that directors, once voted in, control the media, and thus they are hard to dislodge. And a screw up by one of these fat cats deserves an unceremonous relieve of duties (Provided the screw up was in his control). And I am positive that any university graduate can do the directors job after experiencing one full financial year cycle.
Its no big deal.
Leslie
Been there, done it.
Ross Perreault, an ancient presidential candidate claimed that no executive was worth more then 20 times the average salary of the employees under him.
Any other compensation belongs to the shareholders. To earn more, the leader has to be a shareholder with good amounts of shares.
Leslie
How did this topic turn to religion. It started out as a cable news critique that indicates the lack of scientific news.
Obama has ambition, and that is great. He and his wife have brains, and determination, and morality. Something we see lacking in the USA. The USA needs to regain respect by the world. Respect that disappeared around 8 years ago.
Mr. Cain appears to be a great honorable candidate, however, he has to realize and the American people have to realize that 8 years of poor stupid government with poor stupid policies cannot be overturned by his winning. He would inherit the top of the pile, but the same crap would be underneath. You fantastic generous American people deserve more.
We outsiders see the American political system as corrupt. Politicians succumbing to lobbiests, to big business contributions and to self interests that overrides and buries what is needed by the people.
One most important part needed to be done by the USA is the fixing up of the horrible horrible public image. Maybe that fixing up would also stop the devaluation of the US dollar.
If there was no embargos against that regime, Cubans would never leave or want to leave.
So, they have a tobacco vice, but not a severe hard drug problem as do their neighbours.
America, remove the embargo and watch a country flourish.
Yours
Another point of view.
One thing that Canadians have learned from not being first, is how greedy and corrupt the American system is for copyrights and patents. We watched as corporations went purchasing patents in order to sue corporations. Fair use be damned. We believe in fair use. That means, that we should be able to treat a book or an article as if it had been borrowed from the library. What can you do legally do with books borrowed from the library? a) you can destroy them. b) you can read them c) you can research the contents, make photocopies for your own use (fair use) d) you cannot sell the photocopies, and if you are to publish references to the book, you must get the publisher/author's permissions. e) you can return them and pay the late penalty fee. But then we treat music / cds or dvds/movies like books. We can listen/watch, we can copy but we can not give it away, and to use it commmercially, we must make a deal with the author/publisher. All the rest, is not copyright violation, but fair use.
In a way, I agree. That was true before the era of UNIX and Linux. When the mainframe was OS390, and IBM was king, they charged like kings too. Competition is here from global companies such as CGI and the like. IBM is there, and Microshaft has to join them. The milk cows, (XP and Office) are going to run dry. Thats all. Leslie Satenstein
Microsoft realizes that XP and Vista are losing propositions, and that the operating systems should be left to third party developers. Still, the cash cow to come is Vista, but MS is looking to applications for revenue and that is certainly confirmed by the offer for Yahoo. MS is a sinking ship. It is not IBM that reinvented itself.
Works well for linux gurus and for MS stuff too.
I guess they are acceptable as long as they do not include age. We have a Canadian law that prevents job employment discrimination based on age. It is circumvented by asking for existing drivers license, which provides age in the clear. Same information is on our Government Hospital card. All digits but the units digit of the year should be masked.
If I do not like to deal with Microsoft, I am in trouble, as I am locked in and the cost of extracating my company would be very high, and painful.
If I do not like to deal with IBM, I have the option of chosing a competitor to IBM. The result will not be more painful then electing to deal with IBM. I am free to purchase services from anyone.
The latter case is called FREEDOM