If you're experiencing eye discomfort, might I recommend:
1. Setup your work area to have even lighting. Working in a dark room with only computer monitor(s) for light is going to give you eye strain.
Basements are dark places, as many Slashdoters know all too well.
2. Get up and walk around periodically. Let your eyes focus on something else and relax a bit.
It's hard to know where you are going in the dark place. The bathroom and fridge are the only places well known by the basement dwellers.
3. If you need glasses, make sure they're the right prescription for sitting at a computer. Old farts like me should keep a reading glasses with the right prescription for 24" to 30" for looking at your monitors.
Glasses. Check. Comes with the territory.
*This post was for humor only, any resemblance to actual people, both living and dead, is purely coincidental.
All we have to do is figure out a way to reach Warp 10. Our new amphibian eyes will have built in blue light filters. It's already been tested on both a male and female test subject.
*As an added reassurance, our ability to procreate will not be inhibited by the test.
So in other words... from a small picture of the earth viewed from orbit, Google can now show me my house AND the address on the UPS package sitting at my doorstep?
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On a scale of 1 to 10, please rate to the nearest ten-thousandth place, EXACTLY how you felt about your service today:
1. Your Service reps handshake: 7.67565 The reps hand placement was not in perfect alignment with mine, and I detected a slight amount of clamminess on the skin...
2. The quality of the tires you received: 3.14159 The tires were very round, but the font face of the sidewall was less than ideal for viewing at high speeds.
There must be better ways to determine how well employees or departments are doing other than surveys. I see a survey and my mind thinks... "Circle all the 5's and get it over with". Unless, I have a real gripe with the service I received or too much time on my hands.
Maybe hidden cameras in every room or undercover bosses posing as customers... oh wait, that's been done already!
The end of my story was that I did not fill out any survey. Life is too short for me to be filling out surveys every time I am asked. I get them from the doctor's office, the car dealership, random items bought online, and my cat.
An experience at a local biz in town with a customer service rep... Was told that anything less than 5 out of 5 on his customer review is considered a bad review, and he all but begged me to give him 5-stars.
He was so overly friendly it was past creepy. I felt conflicted: he did a good job, but I felt I was rating for his sake, not to give an honest assessment of how well I was served by him.
2017 will be the year of The Cloud. 2018 will be the year of Linux 2019 will be the year of the Doomsday Clock 2020 will be the year of cockroach computing
For me, I am more inclined to be affected by an advertisement if I am already wanting that item in broad terms (ie. I'm hungry and see an ad for a local pizza place). If it's totally out of the blue I'm most likely going to ignore it, unless it catches my attention on some other level; it's funny, creative, etc.
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Funny, and all this time I thought it was due to those bent pins in my VGA cable, keeping my colors out!
If you're experiencing eye discomfort, might I recommend:
1. Setup your work area to have even lighting. Working in a dark room with only computer monitor(s) for light is going to give you eye strain.
Basements are dark places, as many Slashdoters know all too well.
2. Get up and walk around periodically. Let your eyes focus on something else and relax a bit.
It's hard to know where you are going in the dark place. The bathroom and fridge are the only places well known by the basement dwellers.
3. If you need glasses, make sure they're the right prescription for sitting at a computer. Old farts like me should keep a reading glasses with the right prescription for 24" to 30" for looking at your monitors.
Glasses. Check. Comes with the territory.
*This post was for humor only, any resemblance to actual people, both living and dead, is purely coincidental.
I know Windows (and other OS's I'm sure) allow you to adjust your color calibration. Just adjust the "blue" one until the desired effect is achieved.
All we have to do is figure out a way to reach Warp 10. Our new amphibian eyes will have built in blue light filters. It's already been tested on both a male and female test subject.
*As an added reassurance, our ability to procreate will not be inhibited by the test.
How about +1i
"I can see my house from here!" ;)
(Simulation of Kronos, the Klingon capital city. Star Trek Enterprise Season 1 Episode 05 - Unexpected)
Black Hole Inc.?
So in other words... from a small picture of the earth viewed from orbit, Google can now show me my house AND the address on the UPS package sitting at my doorstep?
Amazing!
I'm not sure which is worse: The survey after buying the car, or the service you get when it needs to be repaired...
Thank You for your thoughtful response. Please take 5 minutes and complete a free survey regarding your recent Slashdot posting experience!
1. On a scale of 1 to 9.99, 10 being the best, how would rate the grammatical content of that post you replied too?
2. On a scale of noon to midnight how would you rate the timeliness of the post?
3. On a scale from A to Z, how was the speling?
For completing this *FRee survey, you get a sticker!
Will this work for you? ;)
On a scale of 1 to 10, please rate to the nearest ten-thousandth place, EXACTLY how you felt about your service today:
1. Your Service reps handshake: 7.67565
The reps hand placement was not in perfect alignment with mine, and I detected a slight amount of clamminess on the skin...
2. The quality of the tires you received: 3.14159
The tires were very round, but the font face of the sidewall was less than ideal for viewing at high speeds.
There must be better ways to determine how well employees or departments are doing other than surveys. I see a survey and my mind thinks... "Circle all the 5's and get it over with". Unless, I have a real gripe with the service I received or too much time on my hands.
Maybe hidden cameras in every room or undercover bosses posing as customers... oh wait, that's been done already!
Just rate them double-plus good! Then both you and their big brother will be non-sad happy!
Does that mean 5% less ads on the page?
Hummmm... no deal!
The end of my story was that I did not fill out any survey. Life is too short for me to be filling out surveys every time I am asked. I get them from the doctor's office, the car dealership, random items bought online, and my cat.
An experience at a local biz in town with a customer service rep... Was told that anything less than 5 out of 5 on his customer review is considered a bad review, and he all but begged me to give him 5-stars.
He was so overly friendly it was past creepy. I felt conflicted: he did a good job, but I felt I was rating for his sake, not to give an honest assessment of how well I was served by him.
If it is patriotic Canadian bacon, then yes eh!
Same with (Freedom) French Fries.
Microscape Navigator... why does that sound familiar??
Golden turds sound great in theory till nature calls and the plummer makes off with the source of the clog!
2017 will be the year of The Cloud.
2018 will be the year of Linux
2019 will be the year of the Doomsday Clock
2020 will be the year of cockroach computing
It's not the heat / cold, it's the humidity!
The Internet of Things...
Real men use DOS on solid iron.
Spyware. It needs it's safe spaces. Safe spaces take space.
For me, I am more inclined to be affected by an advertisement if I am already wanting that item in broad terms (ie. I'm hungry and see an ad for a local pizza place). If it's totally out of the blue I'm most likely going to ignore it, unless it catches my attention on some other level; it's funny, creative, etc.