What tree-hugging, whale loving, panda protecting hippies can't afford computers?... wait, you don't mean the World Wildlife Fund?

Or Try the executive split bifocal, the entire lower portion of the lens is the reading area then.

re: close up work. We used to make specs for some Harley St surgeons years ago... I say we we would usually send them to Zeiss in Germany. Anyway, they would have their normal single vision glasses inserted with a magnfying scope. eg; http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/5180286/2/istockphoto_5180286-surgeon-with-magnifying-glasses.jpg Not very practical for day-to-day wear though :-) Or alternatively you need trifocals but they offer limited field of vision.

Common misconception, nowadays there's only one grinding process when you make bifocals. Bifocal lens blanks come to an opticians with the front of the lens already finished to a set/known curvature/power. The lens 'surfacing' equipment simply cuts/polishes the rear of the lens to the required shape to produce the require powered lens as prescribed by the optician, the finished lens is then 'glazed' into the spectacle frame as a normal lens would be. Lens blanks are incredibly cheap already... seriously... markups can be immense (in the mid 90's we were paying £10 for a pair of Nikon NL80 lenses which retailed for >£200)... the difference between the cost of single vision vs bifocals is about 2 to 1 (depending on power and material).

What would happen if you're driving a car, Would the windscreen get in the way?

It will depend upon how much the refractive index can be altered by and how much the focal point of the lens can be moved to correct the prism. Fundamentally a 'prismed' spectacle lens is simply an 'off center' lens that is physically moving the image on the retina left/right/up/down to compensate for the eye's own lens. If you've got a 'huge' amount of prism then I doubt his will be able to resolve it. If they could somehow create a lens using this technology that acts like a Fresnel prism does then they might be on to something.

[disclosure - I used to make spectacles for a living before the internet] You may have different types of progressive lenses. there are numerous manufacturers of them out there and the progressive bifocal area differs across most of them. if you are finding it too narrow then your optician should be able to prescribe a different pair.

Executive bifocals (these basically look like split lenses with the entire lower portion of the lens being the 'reading' area) might well suit those of you with multiple monitor setups as it would cover the lower field of vision. Speak to your Dispensing Optician and explain your needs and they should be able to easily prescribe the right lenses for you.... if they can't then go to another Opticians

Sorry but you're wrong there. As has been pointed out before, 'app' has been used as an abbreviation in the Warez/BBS/FXP scene for many years and then latterly has been adopted by the likes of Google & Apple. If you have never heard of this abbreviation before then I can only assume that you are young and are relatively new to the world of computers or associated tech-scenes.

You're probably right (I haven't checked), but then using slang/abbreviations in formal marketing literature is a bit of a no-no. Apple simply cottoned onto to their users being a bit more accepting of such abbreviations in everyday speak, it does not mean they 'invented' the word.

Putting aside that I don;t really understand your differentiation of 'app' and 'software' Apple didn't make, invent or create anything new in the use of this word, they have simply seized upon the terms use in the wider community in an attempt to build on their tech credentials by using a commonly and frequently used abbreviation. Arguably Google were using the word 'apps' before the 2007 introduction of the iphone or the 2008 introduction of the App Store. Google were referring to to 'Google Apps For Your Domain' in Aug 2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Apps). Here's some more uses of it in the wild:

• appstore.com - owned by Salesforce.com since 2005 (originally registered sometime in 1998) until they sold it to Apple Inc in March 2009
• myapps.com - seems to have been created 1999
• myappstore.com - first created 2005

And that's with just 5mins searching. We can categorically show that Apple neither invented or created this phrase. Arguably they may well have popularised tit, but that's no reason for them to be able to trademark it.

I'm glad this topic cropped up as I was watching that episode and immediately thought.... hang on... wasn't that a meteor? But as no-one else on the show picked up on it I though that it was either plane on camera, or a local issue to me, a floater in my eye or some other less exotic answer. Nice to know my initial thoughts were correct. Personally I'm thoroughly enjoying this series, I think some of the US astronomers over in Hawaii that they cut to frequently (and even the live telephone conversation with the Space Station on Wednesday) are a bit perplexed (and somewhat envious) that this would command prime-time viewing in the UK...

As above, there was no date on the original post, not too sure how I got yesterdays date from this, I think i was probably looking at the latest 'updated date' on the google index of that story.

Ah, many thanks, I was trying to find the publish date (the DM is particularly bad at this at times), not too sure how I got yesterdays date, thanks for the clarification. The post I quoted though is not a fabrication, they still posted it, I simply got my dates wrong because the DM failed to display a publish date on that particular article.

Unbelievably the Daily Mail has published this today as well:

Mercury in flu vaccine is linked to autism.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-153722/Mercury-flu-vaccine-linked-autism.html

You couldn't make it up.... unless you were the Daily Mail.

No, to get an injunction they merely need to show there _may_ be a case. The final outcome of any litigation after this will prove whether there _was_ a case to argue in the first place.

I loved the option in the on-screen menu 'Insert Omniprobe'... muahahahaha

Presumably when he had his first heart-attack.

I was raised to regard people who consistently have to put extra hours in at work as inefficient and ineffectual in their job, poor time managers and unable to complete a days job in the time allocated.
I was raised to understand that it's not how long you take doing a job that matters, it's how efficiently you do it.
I was raised to understand that a happy workforce is a productive and profitable workforce.
I was raised to treat my employees fairly and not like some cheap commodity.
And I was raised to understand that people who spend their life at work tend to be shallow, self-centred workaholics who should spend more time with their families, friends and relations because regardless of how much money you earn you can't buy time back and you can't make up for not being there.

Parents expose you to the good and the bad in themselves, I choose to remember and emulate the good.