Slightly off-topic, but after all the discussion about chairs I had to say it. I'm a fairly tall guy (6'3-6'4 depends on the time of day) and I spent 2 weeks going to all the office stores, and furniture stores looking for a good computer chair. With my asthma and allergies I needed a nice tall, leather highback chair. I had just graduated high school and had a fair bit of change to spend, so I was going for comfort. After all was said and done the best chair I found was a $250 leather executive highback chair by samsonite at officemax. Best part is, its got padded leather arms! Worth every penny of the $250 I spent on it.
I read this article a while ago, the basic summary is that around 60-70 fps and your visual organs (eyes brain nerves and whatnot) become saturated with information and additional information does nothing. Its best explained with monitors, at 60 Hz many people can see it refreshing, I know I can. However when you turn it up to 72 or 75 or 80 Hz you can no longer see the monitor flickering. Go read and see, it's pretty cool.
http://www.penstarsys.com/editor/30v60/30v60p3.htm
A very similar thing happened to sone of my friends. I go to a HS with a computer academy. The network has about 120-150 computers on it and so there are several admins to keep them working properly. He was one, and contributed to the academy considerably. He wrote a script that checked every drive on the academy network for various files the school deemed inapproprate like mp3s, and for files that might be, like zips and rars, and logged them to a file. And one weekend he ran l0pht to see how password security was. He started it from a school computer friday afternoon, locked the computer (we use nt4) and let it run. On monday he got the teacher, unlocked the computer and showed him all the cracked passwords. And he was promptly kicked out of all his academy classes. And he was banned from even being in the academy building, no lunch with friends unless they wanted to go sit outside. So anyhow don't trust the school system at all. They do nothing but shaft the smart kids. I'm the valedictorian of my school and I think so far all the reward ive gotten is a few t-shirts that are too small (I'm 6'3) and a few free pizza lunches. The football players wander the halls and get hotels and beer at away games, with SCHOOL MONEY no less. I can't even go into the teachers lounge to use a clean bathroom with toilet paper, or to buy a soda for 50 cents instead of a dollar. Don't trust the school to be in any way honorable, it would surprise me if they didn't punish the kid more for challenging them.
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Slightly off-topic, but after all the discussion about chairs I had to say it. I'm a fairly tall guy (6'3-6'4 depends on the time of day) and I spent 2 weeks going to all the office stores, and furniture stores looking for a good computer chair. With my asthma and allergies I needed a nice tall, leather highback chair. I had just graduated high school and had a fair bit of change to spend, so I was going for comfort. After all was said and done the best chair I found was a $250 leather executive highback chair by samsonite at officemax. Best part is, its got padded leather arms! Worth every penny of the $250 I spent on it.
I read this article a while ago, the basic summary is that around 60-70 fps and your visual organs (eyes brain nerves and whatnot) become saturated with information and additional information does nothing. Its best explained with monitors, at 60 Hz many people can see it refreshing, I know I can. However when you turn it up to 72 or 75 or 80 Hz you can no longer see the monitor flickering. Go read and see, it's pretty cool. http://www.penstarsys.com/editor/30v60/30v60p3.htm
A very similar thing happened to sone of my friends. I go to a HS with a computer academy. The network has about 120-150 computers on it and so there are several admins to keep them working properly. He was one, and contributed to the academy considerably. He wrote a script that checked every drive on the academy network for various files the school deemed inapproprate like mp3s, and for files that might be, like zips and rars, and logged them to a file. And one weekend he ran l0pht to see how password security was. He started it from a school computer friday afternoon, locked the computer (we use nt4) and let it run. On monday he got the teacher, unlocked the computer and showed him all the cracked passwords. And he was promptly kicked out of all his academy classes. And he was banned from even being in the academy building, no lunch with friends unless they wanted to go sit outside. So anyhow don't trust the school system at all. They do nothing but shaft the smart kids. I'm the valedictorian of my school and I think so far all the reward ive gotten is a few t-shirts that are too small (I'm 6'3) and a few free pizza lunches. The football players wander the halls and get hotels and beer at away games, with SCHOOL MONEY no less. I can't even go into the teachers lounge to use a clean bathroom with toilet paper, or to buy a soda for 50 cents instead of a dollar. Don't trust the school to be in any way honorable, it would surprise me if they didn't punish the kid more for challenging them.