"thus, you're staring into a lightbulb the whole time -- and a flickering one at that"
i just want to know why everyone says that having light from a lightbulb flickering at 60hz reflected into your eyes via a sheet of paper is inherently better than having a monitor flickering at your eyes directly...
(if lightbulbs flicker at all, that is... do they? or is the filament glowing steadily?)
anyway, what I do when i'm reading text off the computer screen is
a) I reduce the length of the lines
our vision system has a hard time tracking lines longer than X words. this is what makes you "miss" sometimes when you're moving your eyes to a new line.
b) increase the contrast to maximum, decrease the brightness all the way down (or as far as it will go down) and use a gamma control to even things out a bit (for Linux, the "gamma" and "xgamma" commands - in Windows / MacOS, the Adobe Gamma control panel. if you have access to a hardware color calibrator gadget, use that).
if you do this, i promise you that you will have so much fun reading from your monitor, you'll even be digging up your old.txt ascii-porn files from that bbs way back when...
i read somewhere that transferring images back to the system via the AGP bus is REAL slow, about 8fps max
i want a standard AGP card with a little cable or something that connects to a PCI slot that enables me to download from the card at high speeds. i'd do animation and stuff. i'td be cool.
when i was thirteen or so, my dad's brother gave me a racal-milgo 1200bps modem, ancient even then. it weighs in at around three kilos and you must dial the number with your actual phone and then push a button on the thing to transfer the line over to the modem. then and only then can you do some good old shell ircii'ing.
anyway, i had it on the floor. and inventive as children often are, my feet sort of gravitated naturally to rest on top of the hulking communications device. it wasn't until a little later i realized that it was actually helping to keep my feet warm.
i sort of miss it. being girlfriendless i might just plug it back in and have it at my feet... who needs a fireplace anyway?
supposedly you can acheive as low as 7ms latency using their drivers, using the various usb thingamajigs that work with them
(including Griffin Technologies lovely little iMic - www.griffintechnology.com... a supposedly mac-only USB widget that's so cheap I wonder why they bother charging for it at all...)
i haven't personally tried any of the devices nor the aforementioned drivers but seeing as yamaha (i think) and others licensed them to bundle with their usb audio devices as the included drivers they can't be that bad...
my research points to the Edirol equipment as being the most promising, the red Yamaha box looks OK as well.
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"None of us can put up with the ugliness of text in current Linux GUIs, which looks like the Mac of almost 20 years ago."
I think "last years Linux GUIs" would be more appropriate. Have you looked at the gnome 2 screenshots, for example?
"thus, you're staring into a lightbulb the whole time -- and a flickering one at that"
...
... do they? or is the filament glowing steadily?)
.txt ascii-porn files from that bbs way back when ...
i just want to know why everyone says that having light from a lightbulb flickering at 60hz reflected into your eyes via a sheet of paper is inherently better than having a monitor flickering at your eyes directly
(if lightbulbs flicker at all, that is
anyway, what I do when i'm reading text off the computer screen is
a) I reduce the length of the lines
our vision system has a hard time tracking lines longer than X words. this is what makes you "miss" sometimes when you're moving your eyes to a new line.
b) increase the contrast to maximum, decrease the brightness all the way down (or as far as it will go down) and use a gamma control to even things out a bit (for Linux, the "gamma" and "xgamma" commands - in Windows / MacOS, the Adobe Gamma control panel. if you have access to a hardware color calibrator gadget, use that).
if you do this, i promise you that you will have so much fun reading from your monitor, you'll even be digging up your old
i read somewhere that transferring images back to the system via the AGP bus is REAL slow, about 8fps max
i want a standard AGP card with a little cable or something that connects to a PCI slot that enables me to download from the card at high speeds. i'd do animation and stuff. i'td be cool.
i see you - and raise
... who needs a fireplace anyway?
when i was thirteen or so, my dad's brother gave me a racal-milgo 1200bps modem, ancient even then. it weighs in at around three kilos and you must dial the number with your actual phone and then push a button on the thing to transfer the line over to the modem. then and only then can you do some good old shell ircii'ing.
anyway, i had it on the floor. and inventive as children often are, my feet sort of gravitated naturally to rest on top of the hulking communications device. it wasn't until a little later i realized that it was actually helping to keep my feet warm.
i sort of miss it. being girlfriendless i might just plug it back in and have it at my feet
Based upon a true story.
aw c'mon, cookies are perfectly all right.
just remember to put on your aluminium foil hat.
you've checked out www.usb-audio.com, right?
... a supposedly mac-only USB widget that's so cheap I wonder why they bother charging for it at all ...)
...
supposedly you can acheive as low as 7ms latency using their drivers, using the various usb thingamajigs that work with them
(including Griffin Technologies lovely little iMic - www.griffintechnology.com
i haven't personally tried any of the devices nor the aforementioned drivers but seeing as yamaha (i think) and others licensed them to bundle with their usb audio devices as the included drivers they can't be that bad
my research points to the Edirol equipment as being the most promising, the red Yamaha box looks OK as well.