Re:Playing Quake like this causing health problems
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PanQuake
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I think its common knowledge that the refresh rate of your monitor and frame rate of your card have alot to do with "headaches, irritability and nausea" which I would call "motion sickness."
Antecdotal evidence... when quake2 came out I played it on my voodoo rush card which would get around 12 fps... It would take me about 30 mins to get sick with it... I got a riva zx card which could do about 25fps, and it now takes a couple hours for me to get sick:)
If the last 100 - 200 years of technological development hadn't been driven by IP such as patents / copyright... If all the things discovered by companies were free for other people to learn and use -- where COULD we be on the technology timeline ?
Could it be that information monopolies retard technological advancement by sequestering knowledge?
Actually your more right then you know. Extended periods with no sleep whatsoever can cause irreversable brain damage.
I read about this guy who stayed up for almost 2 weeks straight -- for a charity telethon -- and it caused permanant physological damage to his brain [they examined it when he died]... I'll try and dig up some documentation if anyone is interested
My god... I can't believe I'm reading this. You DO work in the tech industry, right? I mean.. two weeks notice is nice and all, but you can do it.
nope no contract... what I mean to say is that quiting a job is a serious proposition -- a life change. I can't get up and quit because I hate it, not because of my job, but because of the people I support and the financial commitments I have. My life is a very carefully stacked game a jenga, pull one brick out and the whole thing crumbles know what I mean?:) I need time to re-arrange the bricks before I pull one out... that means paying of CC's, finishing school, saving enuf money to be out of work for a month, and finding a job that won't cause me to relocate:) THAT will take 6 - 8 months to accomplish.
This is what I mean by I can't just get up and quit, and I'd gather alot of people are in this boat as well:)
I think alot of the reason tech support is evil is if tech support were to admit there was a problem the company would have to do something about it... I bought a Philips 825 dvd player a year ago, and it graudlly stopped playing MOST single layer dvd's, I've got an entire stack of DVD's I'm waiting to watch when I get a new player...
If you call tech support, they act like your machine must be broken (and its out of waranty) and they've never heard of anyting like that before... yet if you goto audioreview.com theres atleast 100 complaints with the same problem..
So long story short, in this case tech support won't even admit theres a problem!
thank you for getting it! I think alot of these people who replied to my statement so angrily are 12 year olds who've never worked a day in their lives.
the "dumbass antics" which you speak of but don't offer any proof could be no worse then some of the dumbass antics business pulls every day:)
And as for the find a new job comment, you might have a situation where you can get up and get a new job, but for most of people this is not an option. The fact is I can't quit my job for atleast another 6 mos [ and I am counting the days believe me ]... any job you can walk away from on a whim is probably one where your serving fries.
Tech needs a union BAD, its very hard to get people to think postiviley about unions in the USA... "the man" has done a great job of convincing alot of people they're evil.
A time when I needed a union : as a sysadmin I was *forced* to work a 17 hour day helping to prepare a proposal (clearly beyond my job description), I got like a 30 min break the whole evening... When I went to payroll to see about overtime, the [helpfull] lady told me that if I marked the hours as overtime, there was a loophole they could use to get out of paying me for the hours all together [some comp time scam]! She said I'd be better off marking it as regular hours so I'd atleast acrue sick leave.
similaraly, the windows in my 90 honda haven't rolled down for years, yeah its a great car, but it would be nice if the windows rolled down wouldn't it?:)
The great thing about this comment is I know no blind people are gonna read it!
I'm an actual artist:) The problem I see with this is -- anyone is free to distribute it -- say I distribute songs on my website... What is to stop sony music from downloading *MY* songs and publishing cds of my music without permission / compensation? This could be the best thing that EVER happened to music distributors... we'll build a base of music they don't have to pay for at ALL.
Similaraly, someone could dowload my tunes, add a few breakbeats to them, and claim they've made a derivitave work and sell that work under a different name.
Thats the exact problem GPL software has (in my oponion)... your not profiting from your work because of your altruism, but Red Hat and Mandrake are.
I think what it comes down to is, if the creator is not profiting from his music, why should others profit from it.
Phish actually used to setup a patch-bay where you could plug in your own DAT at their shows. They quit when some guy couldn't get a good signal, and decided to rewire some of the equiptment (and disrupt the show):)
Um, I don't know what muslims YOUR talking about... but the mulsims I know, women are objects that can be bought and sold. Muslims have absoultley no respect for women... You know if a muslim woman dosen't have a hymen I as her brother can legally kill her for dishonoring the family? Fuck your TROLL muslims:)
Hmm, if that was the point he made it was lost on me, although its a very good one!!
I think thought, that when Dr Dre samples a song, he has to pay royalties on it... so its "legal". (not that its an excuse for being so musically bankrupt:)
[I hate DJ's] IIRC, you have no legal right to make a derivative work from works [you don't own/that aren't licesnced to you ]. Thus your "work" would be infringing...
Yeah, but if you work in an orginization of BAD LIARS like I do, when you talk to them in person their body langauge can tell you wether they're telling the truth.:)
On the otherside, I'd like to say that Yahoo article was DEFINATLEY junk science.
Just immagine how bad we'll feel when the french beat us at something!
Re:Public education has serious problems
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My god this is true... I live in a valley in southern california where football is EVERYTHING. A few years ago 3 football players attacked a kid just off campus "because he was a nerd" and left him UNCONSIOUS in the gutter. Their punishment? A two day suspension! Normally, a student would be expelled for something like that...They should have gone to jail for felony assault...
More then that... I pay for TV, I get a 50$ bill every month from Adelphia to prove it... I pay 50$ for the signal every month, and I can do whatever I want with it:)
As the consumer, I don't care or have to care wether CBS gets a cut of that 50$...
I think the fact is that Networks have existed in the coincidence that people *were willing to watch commercials*... that coincidence is coming to an end -- just like the banner add revenue crisis:)... At best television is a loss-leader revenue model, give away something for free, hope people make it worth your while... remind you of anything else thats failed latley ?...
I believe the add-banner and commercial problems are coming from a complete advertising overload... EVERYWHERE you look theres advertising... after awhile it just blends into the background... and who pays attention to the background?
What I'd like to see is a DirecTV + TIVO device that downloads the shows *I* want to see via sattelite onto its hard drive as well as providing a few realtime channels (news, etc...)... I'd pay 1$ a month to download *new* simpsons episodes without commercials, which is more money then fox has ever gotten from me so far!
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Antecdotal evidence ... when quake2 came out I played it on my voodoo rush card which would get around 12 fps ... It would take me about 30 mins to get sick with it ... I got a riva zx card which could do about 25fps, and it now takes a couple hours for me to get sick :)
is that more or less of a personal attack then mundie bashing free software with arguments he surely dosen't believe -- to benifit (sp?) himself ??
Could it be that information monopolies retard technological advancement by sequestering knowledge?
I read about this guy who stayed up for almost 2 weeks straight -- for a charity telethon -- and it caused permanant physological damage to his brain [they examined it when he died] ... I'll try and dig up some documentation if anyone is interested
but only work 30 :)
nope no contract ... what I mean to say is that quiting a job is a serious proposition -- a life change. I can't get up and quit because I hate it, not because of my job, but because of the people I support and the financial commitments I have. My life is a very carefully stacked game a jenga, pull one brick out and the whole thing crumbles know what I mean? :) I need time to re-arrange the bricks before I pull one out ... that means paying of CC's, finishing school, saving enuf money to be out of work for a month, and finding a job that won't cause me to relocate :) THAT will take 6 - 8 months to accomplish.
This is what I mean by I can't just get up and quit, and I'd gather alot of people are in this boat as well :)
If you call tech support, they act like your machine must be broken (and its out of waranty) and they've never heard of anyting like that before ... yet if you goto audioreview.com theres atleast 100 complaints with the same problem ..
So long story short, in this case tech support won't even admit theres a problem!
thank you for getting it! I think alot of these people who replied to my statement so angrily are 12 year olds who've never worked a day in their lives.
And as for the find a new job comment, you might have a situation where you can get up and get a new job, but for most of people this is not an option. The fact is I can't quit my job for atleast another 6 mos [ and I am counting the days believe me ] ... any job you can walk away from on a whim is probably one where your serving fries.
A time when I needed a union : as a sysadmin I was *forced* to work a 17 hour day helping to prepare a proposal (clearly beyond my job description), I got like a 30 min break the whole evening ... When I went to payroll to see about overtime, the [helpfull] lady told me that if I marked the hours as overtime, there was a loophole they could use to get out of paying me for the hours all together [some comp time scam]! She said I'd be better off marking it as regular hours so I'd atleast acrue sick leave.
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The great thing about this comment is I know no blind people are gonna read it!
I agree! If they have the know how to mess with the source code they have the know how to do their own support! Next question PLEASE!
I'd like to see a license that would allow fans to listen/trade freely but required those who seek profit also seek a license ...
I don't think thats so far out there.
Similaraly, someone could dowload my tunes, add a few breakbeats to them, and claim they've made a derivitave work and sell that work under a different name.
Thats the exact problem GPL software has (in my oponion) ... your not profiting from your work because of your altruism, but Red Hat and Mandrake are.
I think what it comes down to is, if the creator is not profiting from his music, why should others profit from it.
Phish actually used to setup a patch-bay where you could plug in your own DAT at their shows. They quit when some guy couldn't get a good signal, and decided to rewire some of the equiptment (and disrupt the show) :)
what happens if a thief dosen't ring the doorbell?
I agree completley ... if they win this law suit and ruin my videogames, I'll fuckin' kill them all and blame it on class action lawsuits :)
Um, I don't know what muslims YOUR talking about ... but the mulsims I know, women are objects that can be bought and sold. Muslims have absoultley no respect for women ... You know if a muslim woman dosen't have a hymen I as her brother can legally kill her for dishonoring the family? Fuck your TROLL muslims :)
His nickname says it all ... "Trevor Goodchild" ... the evil-mad/scientist/doctor from Aeon Flux? :)
I think thought, that when Dr Dre samples a song, he has to pay royalties on it ... so its "legal". (not that its an excuse for being so musically bankrupt:)
[I hate DJ's] IIRC, you have no legal right to make a derivative work from works [you don't own/that aren't licesnced to you ]. Thus your "work" would be infringing ...
On the otherside, I'd like to say that Yahoo article was DEFINATLEY junk science.
Just immagine how bad we'll feel when the french beat us at something!
My god this is true ... I live in a valley in southern california where football is EVERYTHING. A few years ago 3 football players attacked a kid just off campus "because he was a nerd" and left him UNCONSIOUS in the gutter. Their punishment? A two day suspension! Normally, a student would be expelled for something like that ...They should have gone to jail for felony assault...
As the consumer, I don't care or have to care wether CBS gets a cut of that 50$ ...
I think the fact is that Networks have existed in the coincidence that people *were willing to watch commercials* ... that coincidence is coming to an end -- just like the banner add revenue crisis :) ... At best television is a loss-leader revenue model, give away something for free, hope people make it worth your while ... remind you of anything else thats failed latley ? ...
I believe the add-banner and commercial problems are coming from a complete advertising overload ... EVERYWHERE you look theres advertising ... after awhile it just blends into the background ... and who pays attention to the background?
What I'd like to see is a DirecTV + TIVO device that downloads the shows *I* want to see via sattelite onto its hard drive as well as providing a few realtime channels (news, etc...) ... I'd pay 1$ a month to download *new* simpsons episodes without commercials, which is more money then fox has ever gotten from me so far!