"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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On 1/6/2007 9:18 PM, NOYB wrote:
"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:44:56 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On 5 Jan 2007 16:46:33 -0800, "JimH" wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On 5 Jan 2007 06:54:00 -0800, "Varis" wrote:

Or alternatively I could go for compact generic travel binoculars at
first (7x25 or 8x20
7x25 is all you need for a small boat - range finding binocs are
useless.

Stabilised binocs are fine, but they vary in technique from wet bag
to
gyro stabilised. The gyro binocs are the best.

But for a small boat, go with the 7x25s.
I have a pair of 7x35 Nikon's I purchased for less than $50 on sale
from a boat store. They have never failed me for my recreational
needs.

Why folks seem to think they have to spend big bucks for these things
is beyond me.
There have been times where I could have used a set of gyro stabilized
binoculars - hasn't been often though.

If I had my druthers, I'd opt for a good set of light amplifying
binoculars for night viewing.
And, if you can easily afford the best, why settle for something well
down
the line. The Canon 10 x42 stabilized is a fine pair of binoculars!
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I have Canon's image-stabilized 10x30's and they're awesome.





Speaking of awesome, I was at my friend the dentist's office the other
day, and he showed me a milling machine that makes crowns right in his
office, and some other neat new stuff.

CEREC. It's cool technology, but there are some limitations with it.

It's not capable of making a crown as esthetic as a lab-fabricated
one...unless you do your own in-office porcelain staining. Then you end up
doing lab work instead of income-producing tasks like seeing additional
patients.

It also costs $100k...or $2000/mo. for 60 months. You'd have to do 17
single unit crowns/mo. just to break even (assuming your lab bill for
lab-fabricated crowns runs about $125/unit). Those 17 crowns don't include
bridges because the CEREC cannot do bridges yet. And it doesn't include
veneers or anterior (front teeth) crowns (unless you're staining them
in-office as mentioned before).

It's gee-whiz technology at this point, useful mostly for the "wow" factor.
They try to tell the dentists that it will make us more profitable, but the
ROI just isn't there IMO.