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Now websites are narrow-portrait but screens are widescreen 16:9... so you end up with a ton of wasted space. macOS window snapping is also incredibly dismal without BetterSnapTool.
I think most Dell monitor stands pivot 90°. I had an old LCD that didn't look so hot rotated -- I think it was a TN panel optimized for horizontal viewing maybe -- but I suspect a good IPS screen wouldn't have the same issue?
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FINALLY these companies are getting it.
I have United Health Care and my work itself already offers some benefits such as $450 in cash incentives for completing certain health related challenges and training throughout the year. It's fairly easy to do but has gotten slightly more difficult each year since inception a few years ago. The first year it was available I used that to fund my first Apple Watch. Subsequent years I put it towards other tech gear. This year it's going towards an Apple Watch Series 4 to replace my Series 0 that has gone downhill in battery life.
I wonder if I'll be able to combine this new $1000/yr thing with my work incentive, or if this will replace it. Either way it's great news. I easily hit these goals all the time (unless it's really cold or really hot outside or I'm sick) and I don't even consider myself to be very fit. But I'm getting better and have lost 30lbs by walking more each day, increasing fiber intake and cutting some calories at lunch time. I have 20lbs left to go before my doctor says I'm in a healthy weight zone. But I already feel a big difference this year coming out of winter and able to more quickly get back to my pre-holiday weight with an extra spring in my step. I thought I was doomed to declining health for the rest of my life but Apple Watch helped me turn that around. It's a lifesaver.
I have United Health Care and my work itself already offers some benefits such as $450 in cash incentives for completing certain health related challenges and training throughout the year. It's fairly easy to do but has gotten slightly more difficult each year since inception a few years ago. The first year it was available I used that to fund my first Apple Watch. Subsequent years I put it towards other tech gear. This year it's going towards an Apple Watch Series 4 to replace my Series 0 that has gone downhill in battery life.
I wonder if I'll be able to combine this new $1000/yr thing with my work incentive, or if this will replace it. Either way it's great news. I easily hit these goals all the time (unless it's really cold or really hot outside or I'm sick) and I don't even consider myself to be very fit. But I'm getting better and have lost 30lbs by walking more each day, increasing fiber intake and cutting some calories at lunch time. I have 20lbs left to go before my doctor says I'm in a healthy weight zone. But I already feel a big difference this year coming out of winter and able to more quickly get back to my pre-holiday weight with an extra spring in my step. I thought I was doomed to declining health for the rest of my life but Apple Watch helped me turn that around. It's a lifesaver.
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Ideal for all those people who shoot their iPhone videos in portrait mode!
I had a MPD and one of the two-page displays for a while It was awesome for writing code. I miss greyscale monitors, they actually are nicer than the newfangled color monitors of today.
Does anyone know how to just make one monitor greyscale? Accessibility only allows you to make them all greyscale.
Does anyone know how to just make one monitor greyscale? Accessibility only allows you to make them all greyscale.
How about being radical Apple? Give us a laptop with a screen where the vertical resolution exceeds the Horizontal one.
Not all of us view HD movies. Infact, I have never viewed a movie on my laptop...
But I do spend a lot of time scrolling up and down. Guess why eh?
Not all of us view HD movies. Infact, I have never viewed a movie on my laptop...
But I do spend a lot of time scrolling up and down. Guess why eh?
Agree with the kudos to UHC on the watch program. Hopefully Cigna gets with the program and offers something like this soon!
The “F” goal seems odd though. 500 steps is a bit over once around a track, which is easy enough to do six times (1.5 miles of walking; easy) but each lap needs to be an hour apart? The duration is too long of the required frequency too high to be a sustainable fitness practice IMHO. Still, I’d give it a shot.
Intensity goal seems like a brisk 30-minute walk. And of course if you’re getting that 3k plus the other 3k hitting 10k steps in the day shouldn’t be much of a stretch for an active person, although obviously not natural either. I just hope there is some kind of reminder app that goes along with this so you don’t have to do the steps math all yourself every day.
Overall, it seems like they are setting the goals to keep people from regularly achieving them, which is fine so long as that doesn’t lead to discouragement. Strength trainers who are not 100% focused on cardio every day obviously need not apply.
The “F” goal seems odd though. 500 steps is a bit over once around a track, which is easy enough to do six times (1.5 miles of walking; easy) but each lap needs to be an hour apart? The duration is too long of the required frequency too high to be a sustainable fitness practice IMHO. Still, I’d give it a shot.
Intensity goal seems like a brisk 30-minute walk. And of course if you’re getting that 3k plus the other 3k hitting 10k steps in the day shouldn’t be much of a stretch for an active person, although obviously not natural either. I just hope there is some kind of reminder app that goes along with this so you don’t have to do the steps math all yourself every day.
Overall, it seems like they are setting the goals to keep people from regularly achieving them, which is fine so long as that doesn’t lead to discouragement. Strength trainers who are not 100% focused on cardio every day obviously need not apply.
Ok, who remembers the Radius Pivot display???
Wait, who remembers WYSIWYG ?? Bwaha... who remembers printed publications? So sad. Apple used to be so relevant, leaders of the pack, but now it's same same...
Wait, who remembers WYSIWYG ?? Bwaha... who remembers printed publications? So sad. Apple used to be so relevant, leaders of the pack, but now it's same same...
Looks like my company's UnitedHealthcare plan doesn't have UHC Motion - I don't think it's widely available. There's also a comment on The Verge's article from a guy who works for a Fortune 500 company that also doesn't have it.
Does anyone actually have it or are they just making a huge press release about something nobody can get anyway?
Does anyone actually have it or are they just making a huge press release about something nobody can get anyway?
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Is Apple still a computer company?
No, and they communicated that very clearly when they dropped "computer" from their name. It seems that they only still produce Macs so that people can use Xcode to write software for iOS...
Were you specifically looking to get a monochrome monitor? Because you could connect the C64 to any TV set at the time, and there were multicolour monitors available, too.
Anyone complaining that high-end iPhones/iPads are "too expensive" should recall that monitor:
A mere "portrait oriented" grayscale low-res monitor cost $2,196.82 in today's dollars. A top-end supercomputer cost $84,000,000.
Now a top-end ultra-thin "retina" display is half that AND they throw in a 100x then-supercomputer _plus_ staggeringly fast long-range wireless networking for free.
A mere "portrait oriented" grayscale low-res monitor cost $2,196.82 in today's dollars. A top-end supercomputer cost $84,000,000.
Now a top-end ultra-thin "retina" display is half that AND they throw in a 100x then-supercomputer _plus_ staggeringly fast long-range wireless networking for free.
I'm familiar with that model. Knew a couple of inhouse communications departments that used it. It and "desktop publishing" were nostalgic milestones, neither of which I miss. Especially the latter and all of the amateurish crap that littered the corporate landscape for over a decade.
- Ireland chooses Bank of New York Mellon to manage Apple's escrow fund: The European Commission ruled in August 2016 that Apple received illegal state aid from Ireland, and ordered the country to collect 15 billion euros (currently $18.6 billion) in back taxes from the iPhone maker.
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Commentary: The Bank of New York Mellon will hold the funds while Apple and Ireland both appeal the decision before the European General Court. Apple expects the amount will be reported as restricted cash on its balance sheet.
Since when does Apple have to pay €15 billion, it's €13 billion.
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I am quite amazed there is just one comment posted here regarding the above issue.
Lucky you. I had the Radius gray-scale monitor, the color version was way more expensive at the time. It was great for page layout and editing.
Yes, I know. I was living at the time and understood how my computer worked. I was in high school. TVs in the early 80s were not inexpensive as you recall. OTOH monochrome monitors were very cheap. So, yes, specifically looking for monochrome monitor.
Portrait rocks if you are stuck with a small screen for reading/writing. Which the industry did to us as a prank 10 years ago and no one caught it, calling it "FullHD".
I actually didn't realize that monitors were cheaper than TVs back then. My C64 was connected to an old, discarded set from my parents, and I always imagined that a dedicated and "professional" monitor would be more expensive than a plain old TV.