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[W1041]World Wide Web Girl

by Linda Polansky, Lin

If you are like most men and women in different countries around the world, you maintain a pretty restrictive budget. For most people, money simply does not grow on trees. As a consequence, it is important that you budget appropriately and take advantage of opportunities to saving money whenever possible. This holds true in regard to purchases such as contact lenses and contact lens care products.

In recent times, many people have found themselves discouraged with the lack of bargains in the brick and mortar world when it comes to contact lenses and contact lens care products. Indeed, over the past several years, the costs associated with contact lenses and contact lens care products have been on the rise in many areas around the world, in the brick and mortar world.

Fortunately, as with many other lines of goods and services in the 21st century, many people have been able to find relief when it comes to the costs associated with contact lenses and contact lens care products through the Internet and World Wide Web. If you take the time -- and it really does not require that much time, in point of fact -- to search and surf the Net, you will be able to find some wonderful bargains on contact lenses and contact lens supplies.

First of all, on the Internet there are a significant number of reputable and reliable sites on the Internet through which you can make the purchase of contact lenses. Through these sites you can buy all varieties of contact lenses, including extended wear products and specialty lenses such as Toric contact lenses (for a person with an astigmatism).

Keep in mind that in order to make the purchase of contact lenses from off of the Internet, from one of the websites, you will need to make certain that you have an appropriate prescription. Obviously, contact lenses are prescription products.

Second, there are a number of websites on the Net through which a person can purchase all of the contact lens care products that you will require. This includes all of the products that you will need for the regular care and maintenance -- cleaning and sterilizing -- of your contact lenses. In many instances, these website merchants will be able to send to you the products that you need very rapidly, in most instances within a period of 24 to 48 hours.

According to Andrew B. Whinston, from the University of Texas in Austin:

“Based on complementarity theory, we provide a conceptual foundation for designing. Collaboratories which maximize users' value through the judicious choice of complementary design factors. We emphasize the need for developments in the area of "open" collaborative systems, and suggest that analyzing the design problem from a complementarity theory standpoint can lead to useful insights regarding the value users derive from the system.”

Users and the gains of the complementarity approach

The complementarity approach focuses on the specific values that are derived from enhanced interfaces between people (or the users) and the programs that they use.

When applied to the World Wide Web, this directly translates to the websites themselves and the infrastructure used to implement and mediate the experiences of the users.

On the global setting, the minute networks comprising the international information superhighway is the biggest goal. The goal is to create user-friendly experiences that would enhance trade and other related uses of the Internet in general.

One of the related uses of the Internet is for research and development. Whinston further expounds this point:

“We believe that if properly organized conceptually and technically, the Web can serve as a highly effective foundation for a Collaboratory, which will bring together the diverse worlds of researches and professionals in various fields. On the other hand, isolated and idiosyncratic developments of Web servers will lead to information overload, inefficiency, and chaos.”

The chaos factor

Whinston had mentioned the advent of chaos on the World Wide Web. Precisely because of the integral durability of the systems approach that he is pushing forth, other heterogeneous elements are being considered as clutter.

In a broader conceptualization, what Whinston had been driving at is the complete centralization of the Internet, in its many regions. Of course, there can be no one real “mega” region for all types of data.

To pretend that it would be possible to do so would be simply nonsensical. The simple reason is that different institutions, individuals and therefore, different types of data have different organizational needs.

Smart computing and smarter data retrieval

The keystone to the complimentary approach is hinged on the deployment of “smart agents”. Smart agents can be whole systems or simply minor scripts. The aim is to streamline and to render more efficient.

However, there are perceived obstacles to the use of these “smart agents”, according to Whinston:

“We argue that "smart agents," which are sometimes regarded as a panacea for the infoglut and information-filtering problems, will be less effective when information is organized in a haphazard manner.”

Design is also important in remedying current obstacles in the formation of newer and more efficient means to use the World Wide Web. There must be a concerted effort to remove the unnecessary obstacles to complete complimentarity.

In the long run, Whinston argues that:

“A Collaboratory can provide a set of related (complementary) features through a single, open user interface, it greatly enhances the benefit to the user while reducing his or her cost of effort and time spent in using the system.”

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