Is the $50 for off the shelf long sight and the thousand dollars for a myopic wearer, with high refractive index aspherics, advanced coatings, and a fashionable marque of manufacture?
I have become familiar with such deltas as I qualified, in the UK.
Edit to add :
I dare imagine, without basis in learning, it is possible that the future will be printed fresnel lenses. I decided to reprise my photography hobby thanks to the fresnel telephotos recently sold by Nikon. But I also imagine that, once sufficiently good inexpensive printed optics become available, the possibility for multi element corrective eyewear, will be a new market entirely. Even projected reality , without any augmentation, would attract me right now. Ag least in the design of my minds eye.
Is there any source of information about the variability of eye prescription measurement?
Anecdotally, my my op seems to be compensated by dehydration and I haven't had any inclination to drink alcohol in many years, beyond a novelty (good) beer (ale) and I still notice when tired and poorly hydrated.
I searched for the services that I have learned somehow will measure individual and high accuracy prescriptions, for the custom Zeiss and Nikon lenses I found a few years ago in the catalogue websites and became obsessed with, due to the fact that I have been frustrated by astigmatism for all my life. And because I greatly prefer to wear over size frames, so I have as wide atc of corrected vision as I believe possible. The result is usually atrocious : pavements rear up and bite me, the distortion moves my measure by inches and I trip... But I eventually accommodate for the effect... I feel like this is a overhead I'd rather not task my brain with.
Esssilor seems to hold a virtual monopoly... Nikon and Zeiss and Schneider exist, but in that order in very rapidly declining proportion. Corning, via Serengeti, also are worth noting.
I have accustomed to the impression that you have to really know a great connection to even benefit from a reasonable selection of lenses.
This is a atrocious state of any market in a free economy and democracy.
Something has to be wrong.
I naturally accept the fact that I may be wrong in my assumptions or understanding.
But I don't seek answers for justification. I seek a solution. Frankly I'm prepared to back the first optometrist to propose to me any solution, part or whole, online, tech or steam powered, even retail. (at least serious feasibility, I'm negotiating for a lease easily, specifically in fact for double duty as, a smart central London showroom)
I remember Harrods would furnish one with the Zeiss individual custom lenses. The Nikon optometrist was a North London address. I found just the two possibilities, one of each brand.
We all absorb vastly greater optical information than the majority of the working population, so why is the whole subject not done and dusted long ago?
We also always (we being everyone in the online fora I've encountered over the years) obsess about the budget options, whilst we are probably better off paying more attention to the cost and quality of the frames we wear, which are incredibly unpredictable in my experience of three decades of paying the same amount regardless, year in year out... Only drugs are maintained in such orderly and unchanged nominal prices.
(which keeps me thinking that the market is controlled). At least, I have reglazed far fewer frames than I now think reasonable for the expenditure involved in that component. (a recent,lost, Balmain frames, the brand recently resurrected, I thought, hopefully, would last for a few years longer than others I've tried. Previous beautiful hand finished in Japan acetate frames were to combust in a fireball, with the lightest touch by my soldering iron. Barton Perreira, the make. The nicest I've worn, pity the fireball only extinguished when the oxygen was depleted in my tiny workroom. 30s i think the contact lasted but only the first one most oblique, I should have thought about spray retardant as well as common sense)
Our eyes are the most worked physical tools we possess and yet I am not convinced that the vast majority of us are truly concerned as much as we should be for their corrective care.
Why is there nothing like a optician's mall / supermarket / showroom like you can browse just as you do along department store displays or supermarkets aisles?
Every customer is a potential multiple sales repeat customer.
I think people are as bad as we are with changing banks. It's too much unknown combined with a collision with ignorance in which manner we prefer not to learn too much.
A good optician, selling a £300/$500 spectacle frame, ought to be presenting a smorgasbord of benefits and features. I've not once been actively sold anything by a opticians rep. I have definitely felt a bit like I was imposing, the times I have been insistent about perusing a catalogue. I mean the catalogue intended for the retailer, not the customer. Sometimes it is the same, but when not, you can avail your selection process with so much better information, ime.
This should be all laid out, on lecturns, in front of the displays.
Heck, I have not even seen consideration for good quality illumination or any realistically presented mirrors, like you are used to at home. The experience is a disorientating penance.
I want to challenge the notion, furthermore, that the budget market is in any way divorced from the high end and boutique /deluxe sales. Everyone I know who is willing to spend the sums demanded by the "top" brands, buys multiple pairs of sensible and affordable spectacles, often simultaneously. Nobody who has a selection of designer frames ever rushes out with the nearest to hand. That's what your sensible ones are for. In every room and the bathroom (different coatings for the condensation!)
So much difficulty presents to anyone seeking quality budget spectacles, the chances are that retailing the "low end" will attract the highest spending clientele. Retail locations can decide the potential. Retail experience can secure the loyalty that consistent upselling requires.
Imagine I created my perfect optician store.
Why is it again that I have never been actively sold to even by the optician where I once loyally purchased over priced eyewear?
Again, I have time suspect the market is rigged.
Only rigged markets can't offer any more commission opportunities by which a business can compete.
(this is the fate of the print publishing sector i founded my company to challenge. The result is countless publications without any sales force. I wish I was kidding. Gear for the sell side trader, right? Nah. Rigged by the buy side. By immutable commission levels. The result is a degrading torpor, where once a vibrant industry linked professionals and sectors and provided affordable effective advertising for specialist firms. My third assault on this travesty is imminent..I am on the first break /sabattical I have allowed myself a since '96, looking for hedges to leverage advertising efficiency in goods and products and possibly services. Print is not a restriction on the media planning for the leverage to be applied.)
Who would not peruse a comprehensive store of spectacled, even for the visual sensory enjoyment, if you only had a neat way to weigh your choices and feel your ultimate decision is better informed as the result? (I genuinely want a online shopping tool I can trust to contain my personal data safely. Bing is not quite enough, but I never imagined that I'd champion Microsoft for protecting my rights, even relatively so.)
I trained to be a salesman, to counter my introversion when I was first in work. This led to my founding my company, because I couldn't avoid the inverse correlation between salesmanship and analytical skills. My media sector was suppressed despite resistance from the most incredible sales talents I knew in my formative years. I can't believe that you'd need much to suppress the kind of sales talents in my local optician...
Anti know what you can model, from a range of measurements from a prescription to the shape of your head, to extrapolate the kind of pre sales metrics and assurance that buyers will actually want to make use of? If so, what if I worked out how to provide the rest of the components necessary to trade in earnest?
I'm not actually pitching anything like this now, but I am convinced that someone needs to think not too dissimilarity from my line of questioning.
If you perchance, however, have been intrigued by the force of the problem pressing on the bridge of your nose, i certainly will be delighted to show you how the rest of my thinking goes, because what I have been really doing for the past year, is pursuing a idea of a hacker space for bricks and mortar retail. With real real estate retail experimental opportunity. The press will not be quiet about the death of the high street. I'm convinced that the problems lies with the way retail is done. And ZIRP or NIRP on the market for premises. But I have a replicable hack for the real estate situation and believe that hack can sustain the kind of entrepreneurial hacker space I really want to create. The kind that turns tinkering into technology, teaching, and time tested traditional trading. (or, if my late confounder could chime in, I am trying to make the customers I need to sell my discount advertising to, if I'm selling any.. There's truth in my channeling that there. At least for case studies I can analyse the heck out of. Otherwise impossible in the real world, and highly valuable potential data for econometrics to support the lobbying I see necessary to awake the market I grew up trying to enliven ..)
<It was possible to spend more >than $100k for a Symbolics >Lisp Machine with accelerated >color graphics and HDTV >in/out.
Quantel Harry was the competition.
Link below, is for the 1981 Quantel Paintbox, the existence of which is responsible for the direction of my juvenile mind.
I should love to one day get together with like minded folk and assemble a complete ca. '89 broadcast graphics suite. I'm in advertising (London, independent, founder) and I'm not convinced that I couldn't work out the financial arithmetic favourably. I am persuaded by artist friends of the merit, tempered I expect by the reality of the working interfaces, if they actually used a 80s Quantel - we take instantaneous responsiveness for granted.. Time and place required, but I'm serious enough to have scouted premises and allocated budget.
I digress. Sorry.
I only have read about Pharo in the last couple of weeks, but I am taken by the sophistication of the ambitions and delivery thereof. I say this here, rather thanon a Pharo list, because I am unsure of what skills and specialities are required, but I have a professional itch to scratch, which is estimating the work of supporting a new language to the fullest extent possible, in Visual Studio. If this could be accomplished in under half a man year for a senior developer, I really want to know. (result to be released to community, purpose of exercise purely personal curiosity about what consequent effect is possible)
>Symbolics didn't need to sit >on top of an OS, but was lisp >all the way down
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'twas Genera, no less.
However, your use of the company name is possibly more descriptive, because OpenGenera ran on Alphas running Tru64 UNIX, and sadly only Symbolics LISPms were truly the completely vertically integrated development machines of famous appeal.
But I don't see why it is not possible to be able to drop to the registers in a emulated host, just as we could in Genera.
I am uninformed here, but do any low level tools work as expected, as if on the metal, in emulated host environments?
*if I am ever driven to a warts and all autobiography, Spoiled By Abstraction, would at least be my working title.
The rope core memories would become know as "LOL memory" after the "little old ladies" who knitted together the software at a factory just outside Boston.
These ladies would sit in pairs with a memory unit between them, threading metres and metres of slender copper wires through and around the cores.
"But it is extremely robust - that information probably still exists despite being left on the Moon."
I have joked the only way I can use Microsoft products for work is because I founded my company, and I have no actual ability to force any purchasing despite the fact, and I have long appreciated the way Ballmer is massively involved in the recent success of Microsoft. But it just occurred to me that I have always cited Ballmer's financial commitment and personal investment as being the most overlooked indicator of the value I am certain he's never sought for the short term and this has given me a very amusing idea : surely Ballmer will have been best served by a static stock price in his term of tenure and ability to acquire shares in employee schemes?
They don't want users. They need the layer of apologists to obscure the grand systematic internalisation game. SI is subject to financial services law in the UK, at least...
I said this in reply to QUIC apparently ignoring hardware TLS offload...
Is this for real?
Even Quick Assist?
I am watching the internet be developed by the giants for the giants. In my memory, giants didn't act like giants. "At scale" wasn't a preprocessor. Browser developer tools were written to help you participate in conversation, not play unending catch up in translation, the meaning lost in acoustics of auditoria for the life of me I would think giants could make intelligible.
I think smoking has a unheeded effect on lower income smokers who sustain poorer diets.
I have never been aware of any studies of smokers who sustain the heaviest habits and I grew up with 40 high tar cigarettes a day being I will guess easily ten percent of the society. My uncle and aunts silver wedding photography is occluded by smoke and visibility- it's not smogging of the undeveloped film, I grew up to be a professional photographer, - was just six feet. I experienced cravings for nicotine the first time that very night, escaping for air outdoors...
Ny parents were old when I was born. They lived a combined 180 years. I have far more to say about the effects on my parents of losing their peer group and friends, just as I was growing up. Losing his big brother, his last confidante, destabilised my father, and traumatized my mom and me.
Surely lower fertility can also explain late parenthood..
I have read other studies claiming that epigenetics conveys a ability to cope with stress from parents, if they survived exceptional stress in early life. I long lost my link for the paper, unfortunately. Maybe I just didn't look into the subject because anecdotally, I coped too well with stress and failed to avoid being stressed, until I found new perspectives.
I must add the Bangladesh Civil War, 1971-87 , to the pogrom count, the other way around. Calcutta Brahmin Hindu families intermarried and converted to Islam. The Muslims were supposed to go to Pakistan, as it became. But the ties were deeper than just family; Calcutta was a technical powerhouse in its prime. Skilled workers couldn't find work outside the community, which of course moved to East Pakistan/Bangladesh. The numbers were not few, and the fact that the war is officially dated to the first year of Independence, is the start of the most sorrowful tale. Three million women and children were killed or perished. Veterans of that war, ten years ago, suddenly were allowed to immigrate to the UK and America. The UK dropped the prohibition of entry and settlement, of elderly, infirm, uneducated and dependant relatives. I have friends whose futures were ruined, as the burden, despite having free healthcare and extremely generous benefits, if you have cooperative society, which in a majority ghetto concentration, you can rely on as friendly, my friends watched younger siblings lose education and housing chances, the family resources depleted entirely. Caring for unwell elderly is not compatible with the part time jobs which young mothers and school age children forwent to be on hand to attend often multiple great grandparents and even aunts and uncles. THE EFFECTS ARE CATASTROPHIC the strictly patriarchal Bengali society was obedient to elders who alienated the younger population from general society. The youngest are growing up in houses no longer bilingual, but Bengali only for avoidance of offense to the elders. The elder men collect voting cards. Twenty five, in my friends family. I see families suffering from organised indignities. I see racial discrimination in sensitive positions like social workers, who are largely another race altogether. Unusual in i predominantly, 80% Bengali area. We have frightening frequency of forcible adoption and removed from mothers and the most amazingly brazen aggressive and fraudulent routine abuse of Family Division of the High Court. I experienced this obviously through friends but then with my mother because I fought in Court Pro bono and started winning the kinds of cases that sicken me to know many go unchallenged. I became unwell as a result.
if I suspected my services were being manipulated by fraudulent activities, for potential political influence, I might just pay out enough rope for fraudsters to hang themselves by.
if I really hated holding the poison chalice to be the arbiter of so much public credulity, I think, possibly, I might not react to this kind of publicity about my apparent oversight, to see who I could catch..
I don't know the EU/EuroParl equivalents, but the UK still has a robust Judicial Review system.
I would strongly argue that the UK has a longer history of independent judiciary, both capable of standing up to misguided legislation, as well as willing and enabled to do so, with the sense of purpose, clarity and finality, which [at least apparently, or perceptively] absent features are longstanding argument behind EU cecessionism.
I am expanding the idea that I posited above, to use the USPTO, for one canonical answer for every query concerning the identity of business services on the Internet...
This involves providing both clear identity confirmation and the Favicon, to the browser, from USPTO managed servers, to visually green light to the user, the correct online correspondent.
Schools are a excellent arbiter of the quality and integrity of known correspondents online.
Nota bene, I say known correspondents, I am limiting this idea to whitelist sites and services only.
Color borders surrounding each Favicon, can briefly flash.
I want as a parent, to need only glance at the top left corner of the browser that my son is using. Kids don't want my criticism of what they find a engaging experience. My colleagues don't want my analytical views of their Economist newspaper reading, for that matter...But I think it would be great to see really one look response to a parent's concern. This animation can be enlivened by a cursor across the toolbar or similar gesture. "No worries, dad" is a great positive action to encourage. Because it's not about censorship, it's about learning what authenticity is.
I imagine a nice modern pulsating heartbeat that's restful, for a positive identification of a trusted correspondent, and a fluttering and increasingly flashy, insistent nagging for a warning.
I will add to my wishlist, the ability to sign a local whitelist sites database, complete with ticketing system, to which the kids are able to submit the arguments for, for example, sites and blogs that are not within the penumbral enclave of this identity umbrella.
if you could identify the site as a trademark holders place of business, surely, the Favicon could be stored encrypted as SVG with the browser application distribution?
they will use incorrect grammar, I am suggested by a flashback to being a English to English interpreter between a customer who learned English while a contractor in Dubai, and a friend who is from the same region of Pakistan, forty years before, and whose English is to my ears the most polished Received Pronunciation. I mean polished to convey being personally adopted and crafted to retain both the RP strict enunciation yet deliver a nuanced and individual sideband of the kind of emphasis and interpretative expression that relates the mind of the speaker, which I think RP unfortunately removed when it removed colloquial intonation and regional accents and idiom.
I can only be impressionistic about how I hear my friend speak. But I knew his elegant Received Pronunciation English at first, and attuned to his individual sideband, rather later. Possibly the experience of first being a very young apprentice and later less familiar, might have emphasised my attention and consequent possible bias. However the speaker I am describing is a very successful individual in business and almost politics too. I know that I could not broach the subject easily, but I imagine that a considerable amount of pride and private sense of accomplishment is likely to be enclosed within this gentleman's appreciation for his voice. This gentleman almost invented the "bucket shop" discount airfare travel agency, knew Laker, and I think of him as English establishment by way of his work and private politics. This just now, without any sufficient thought I must say, makes me think that bringing back Received Pronunciation English could be a powerful unifying force. Most arguments against RP I have understood to be by proxy and often explicitly, about the sociopolitical emancipation of ethnicity and regionalism. If now we are able to accept our diversity, might we allow experiment with collective community in communication. If this could be a means to spur confluence of grammar and appreciative improvement of emotional and contextual communication synchronously in a common mode of speech, I hazard that the new kind of RP would not be seen as identity stripping. Possibly a powerful intercommunity and even intergenerational asset regardless of professional or official need. France legislates language detail and requires universal official compliance, with seemingly less aversion, at least my still frequent reading of French major newspapers has not been alerted, even when the last dictat occurred.
Is the $50 for off the shelf long sight and the thousand dollars for a myopic wearer, with high refractive index aspherics, advanced coatings, and a fashionable marque of manufacture?
I have become familiar with such deltas as I qualified, in the UK.
Edit to add :
I dare imagine, without basis in learning, it is possible that the future will be printed fresnel lenses. I decided to reprise my photography hobby thanks to the fresnel telephotos recently sold by Nikon. But I also imagine that, once sufficiently good inexpensive printed optics become available, the possibility for multi element corrective eyewear, will be a new market entirely. Even projected reality , without any augmentation, would attract me right now. Ag least in the design of my minds eye.