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thats not entirely true either. i happen to work in the canadaian pharmaceutical industry and i would say that the no 1 reason that Canadian drugs are cheaper is that US patents run longer than Canadian ones. So a medication like fosamax can have a generic in canada a few years before the US industry can start producing one.
I dont work in the legal department, but i believe Canadian drug patents are good for ~5 years and US patents are ~8 years. after that time, companies like novopharm and other generic producing companies, can start churning out generics. even the big brand name companies (ie pfizer) have generic producing lines. this is primarily for overseas markets. in fact, alot of drug companies will manufacture the same drugs, with different names and pill shape/size, based on whatever region they are marketing in. a good example of this is reactine/zyrtec. those two medicines are the EXACT same. in canada however, you dont need a perscription for it an its called reactine. the length-of-patent experation numbers might be off but alot of the lower cost can be put squarely on the messed up US patent system.
Countries like New Zeland and the UK also have similar patent laws.
I have also heard, that the comapnies in fact do price medication higher in the states because they feel that thats what the market will bare. I dont think that the grandparent was that far off from the truth.
my geforce 4200 was REALLY laggy. then i *gasp* turned down the graphics, turned off the in game AA and AF and its very very playable @ ~40 FPS most times.
"Ridicule us based on a sterotype that may not apply. This holds true in the media - look at how geeks are portrayed. It's always someone with big glasses, greasy hair, and clothes that don't quite fit right."
you seem pretty damn egotisitical to care about how your "class" is portrayed in the media. why not laugh it off? say haha media, thats what YOU think -- and proceed to have another snifter of hennesy. also saying your smarter than everyone you know is kind of lame. news flash superman, everyone thinks they are smarter than everyone else. its called perspective.
personally, i dont care if geeks are supposed to get laid or not supposed to get laid. it really has no baring on my life. the one thing i think those sorts of stereotypes are good for are a nice warm feeling for those of us who dont get laid alot -or ever- as the case may be. why would you take the comedy of the lack of personal relationships and turn it into a horrible situation. just because you seem to be above middle class and probably shoot your own pr0n? this post was just an excuse to brag. so good job.
"The problem is that it's just not cool to be smart."
also the first step to being cool, is thinking cool which i dont think that you've mastered.
zyrtec is reactine in canada. its specifically meant for non drowsieness. what you want is novo-pheniram. 5mg pills and it completlely gets rid of all alergies. all of them. it doesnt keep you up, infact sometimes puts you to sleep (tho not me). for 10$ CAN you get about 100 pills.
it also doesnt dry you out like reactine/zyrtec does. generics rock!
"Planetside tried to make a FPS with that many players, and while their cone of fire killed it (among other things)"
well planetside has recently made a comeback for me. I dont know what you mean by cone of fire killed it as most of the weapons have "a cone of fire" and yet i still manage to use them.
also they have recently added some new Mechwarrior type battle robots and really its the only MMOFPS (well i dont know any others). planetside rocks. you can fight on huge continents, fly ships, teamplay and moreover you are encouraged to. they even made it so 512 mb of ram is actually playable! continent load times also have been DRAMATICALLY improved.
the only thing i dont like is the repetition of base design. i mean do all the tech plants have to look the same? the diverse environments make up for it tho.
"but what about the black-loving non-U2 fan? Will the price be higher?"
1. buy black ipod with u2's new cd preloaded 2. delete u2's new cd 3. punch yourself in face for racing to post so quickly and therefore avoiding the step of THINKING
"I will never understand. If a grocery store so as much hires someone *unlikeable* to work the cash registers, they lose customers. likewise with vehicle manufacturers. If a bad car is designed, it is branded a lemon, and is treated as such by all consumer reporting websites/newsletters"
if grocery store X hires someone surley ill shop down the street at grocery store Y.
if ford makes a car that explodes when it goes over 88mph - ill buy a volvo.
if microsoft bends me over and fucks me continually, well, i could use half the programs i use daily and switch to linux, turn gay and buy a mac, or just say M$ sucks and continue with my life.
They have a monopoly. maybe thats what you dont understand.
how about, i like the way that virii looks the same way i like the way alot looks. or even nite, instead of night - its not dumbing down language, its just spelling things differently. same with colour and color.
if you get the gist of what they are trying to say, then who cares. you are trying to stifle individuality and creativity.
the grandparent post was just looking for free karma - the same with EVERY SINGLE spelling or grammar related counterpost. maybe its not your idea of social development, but even negative social development is social development.
John Kerry has proposed tax increases that threaten to sap the economy's vitality and reduce long-term growth. Specifically, Kerry proposes to "restore the top two [income] tax rates to their levels under President Clinton." He would also, among other things, "restore the capital gains and dividend rates for families making over $200,000 on income earned above $200,000 to their levels under President Clinton." Kerry's stated desire to balance the budget and to boost federal spending substantially would almost certainly require far higher and broader tax increases than he has proposed.
how can rasing taxes make the economy worse off? seems like the oposite is closer to reality. Raise taxes = government has more money = debt decreases instead of increasing at 1.71 billion USD per day.
also, hes taxing the very rich - who can afford it the most. Do you live in bizaro world where this is somehow going to lead to the fall of the economy? Taxes are a part of life. I don't think they shoyuld ever be lowered, except maybe for people that make less than 30k or so a year. they are the ones that cannot afford a tax increase and will be hurt the most.
you want the rich to get richer and the poor to get well um poor'er? where is the sense in that?
"Seriously, if a kid can earn the money (at a job, not from allowance) for a game or movie, I figure they're mature enough to handle it."
change game or movie to alcohol and cigarettes and you have a very different statement. if canada wants to do this, there will always be ways for the kids to get the games anyways (same with alcohol and cigarettes) so it doesnt really matter that much. also, as i heard this on the radio this morning, what they said then was that it was a VOLUNTARY thing. even the article says that only 90% of the retailers are participating.
most likely there will be small video game shops that will make alot of money off of this.
" Civil disobedience? You spit on everyone that has risked life and limb for actual social problems"
like what, repealing prohibition on alcohol? people fight for stupid things all the time. what i think is stupid, you might have a very vested interest in.
companies make laws. laws are social constructs. bad laws are then social problems. so the parent of your comment was right. it is a form a civil disobedience as much as dumping tea into boston harbor is.
you do know that there will always be someone making music right? same as paintings, literature, programs.... and through the use of the internet, there will always be promotional and distribution tools, so what exactly is ending here?
" it's their fault if they break the law and deprive artists -- and the companies which support them -- of fair compensation."
change support to exploit and maybe your a little bit closer to reality my fine feathered friend.
the simple argument i have is this. the riaa gets my money if i buy music from anywhere. i do not under any circumstances want to give the riaa anything. therefor i cant buy music on any form untill the riaa dies. i do however try and attend concerts when my favourite artists come to town.
the other argument i have with your position is who says that music shouldnt be free? what about ideas? do you think that limiting peoples access to information helps or hurts society in the long run?
what if the caveman had pattened the wheel. want to use a wheel? pay Ug inc (founded 10000BCE) 699$. no matter that things that everyone uses should be public domain. no lets make people pay for everything. thats a wonderful thing to teach our kids inst it. im sorry timmy but your not an individual with "improvments", your a consumer with "wants" that need to be served.
Mr and Ms anderson, you have been called here today becuase your son billy was caught sharing his food with another student today. as you know this costs the agriculture industry BILLIONS in lost revenue every year. if people contiune to share meals, who will buy all the food that the industry produces? do you really want to force the farmers, your neighbours, to sell their farms? instead teach billy to discard his excess food. this will keep amerika strong and also fight against terrorists!
so we should stifle the technological development of society becuase an evil government might one day use that tech for "evil"?
the whole topic reminds me of this book i read by virge? (i googled but i cant remember the name, read it a few years ago). anyways so this guy who manages a galactic empire buys these sensors from an alien government and gets the deployed everywhere. only he doesnt let people know that they are as powerfull as they are. i believe that they are used as stabalizers?? localizers?
basically what im saying is that it depends on the governement. but if we dont develop things just because an evil government is currently in power, (*cough* bush *cough*), or the tech could possibly be used for "evil", we wouldnt have many of the advancements that we have now.
limiting science is not the way to go. we should focus on correcting peoples morals and the morals of society instead.
most telephone providers (at least in canada) dont care AT ALL about bandwidth caps. they just use it as an excuse for busting other things not covered in their EULA or contract...
its the little guys that care the most about it, and cable companies, id assume because the badwidth is shared between users of a segment as apposed to dsl.
i was actually told by a guy who worked at dsl.ca that they only had that cap in there as a catch all to kill peoples accounts that they didnt like. i regularaly download ~50gb/month and upload about the same amount without a peep from sympatico or telus.
i've heard rogers on the other hand, sends alot of thretening letters.
'Thus, a virtual 'newswiki' where the content is distributed bittorrent using some sort of 'trusted peer' or moderator mechanisms as a filtering/evaluation mechanism. So what is stopping anyone from doing this now? Awareness of the concept, perhaps? Lack of broadband connections? Lack of business models for content producers?"'
"if it ends up costing you something priceless (which still ends up as being less precious than human life, no matter how fine the art"
really? you really think your more important to the world than say, the mona lisa or something like that?
thats a killer ego you have i guess. its very easy to say something like "all human life is precious" but why? because it could be you, your family, your loved ones? thats kind of shortsighted in the face of the possible damage or loss to an irreplaceable original masterpiece.
im not saying that we should force security guards into dying for "art" but, perhaps, hiring people who would willingly take a bullet for some priceless art, would be a good idea.
well unless your doing audio work in a soundproof room i dont see the point of having a quiet pc. theres always going to be traffic out your window or even the wind rustling the trees.
i have never seen the point in having a quiet PC. the more noise it makes, the more powerful!!! i thought that this was well known in every industry -- thats why the fastest honda civics have the loudest mufflers or why a motorcycle engine rev can wake the dead. Sound = power. Look at the stock market, people always say that millionaires are made every day and look how loud it is there!! (this example assumes that money = power in case you had trouble following the brilliance)
cant you just tune out the fan noise? i can barely hear the hum of my work PC's becuase of the a/c / co-worker chatter / telephones rining, yet i am still able to think clearly. people say my apartment sounds like an airport runway but all i hear is white noise. MUCH better than office chatter or telephones ringing. also you could try turning up the music louder than the fans. that works too.
no it has the 2gb limit as well. i dont know where there is a setting to enable some other amount of space.
this is due to the 2gb bug that effects most 32bit things (ie its all 1's). i just coincidentally enough, ran across this problem with a user this morning. i am thinking of switching him to thunderbird but there is no calendar and lord knows no one can work without a calendar!
i have a 1.9gb.pst file thats horribly corrupted (well its actually "fixed" acording to microsoft as Outlook locks the file so that it wont actually corrupt, i can not however delete any messages out of it or anything)
theres a tool that lobotomizes like 50megs RANDOMLY out of the store file which would presumeably allow you to get in there and delete messages. i havent tried it yet.
"Banning "dangerous things" is always a bad idea. I have a hammer. It can be used as a weapon. Should it be banned? The distinction between "tool" and "weapon" has nothing to do with the item."
i see you too apreciate the skill it takes to drive a nail into a wall with a barage of machinegun fire.
you know why that is? becuase in the 60's they had LSD. im not trolling or joking. I saw a documentary i think it was PBS, something like 'illegal drugs and how they got that way' (can search nova for a torrent). when they were talking about the 60s the narator seemed to say that LSD was the reason that the 60's had that 60's crazy psychadellia. Something he said like, (paraphrasing) "a disproportianate group of youth all taking the most powerful psychoactive known to man, and your surprised everything got a little skewed?"
now, all those blotter ingesting space cowboys are on paxil and zoloft. both of which are known to either make one really mello out, or make them super hyper with the feeling that accomplishing small goals are very very pleasureable. you dont need alot to get these people excited, so thats what society produces.
no one wants to admit that the drugs a large portion of society is taking and considers "safe" might be subtly fucking up soceity in strange and unpredictible ways.
no actually they're not. i have had a dual head video card with VGA cables for years. one crt and one LCD. i just enabled the mirroring thing so that both monitors display the same image and i will tell you 100% confidence that this DOES NOT happen on my monitor. conclusion, its a software or specific hardware problem on your monitor. also, where i work we have easily 100+ LCD screens. i have never noticed any perceivable lag on any of the machines, albiet i dont do alot of FPS gaming at work.
"I've seen the same lag on every LCD I've ever seen or used, although the problem is not as great as this one." then how come SO MANY PEOPLE including myself, that use LCD's and CRT's daily, have never noticed it? ever.
my suggestion is to RMA the damn monitor and try another of the same model.
i just tried that with my postal code and it made it VERY local. its amazing how people think that a new search engine should forgive bad searching habits. you STILL have to be precise people!
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thats not entirely true either. i happen to work in the canadaian pharmaceutical industry and i would say that the no 1 reason that Canadian drugs are cheaper is that US patents run longer than Canadian ones. So a medication like fosamax can have a generic in canada a few years before the US industry can start producing one.
I dont work in the legal department, but i believe Canadian drug patents are good for ~5 years and US patents are ~8 years. after that time, companies like novopharm and other generic producing companies, can start churning out generics. even the big brand name companies (ie pfizer) have generic producing lines. this is primarily for overseas markets. in fact, alot of drug companies will manufacture the same drugs, with different names and pill shape/size, based on whatever region they are marketing in. a good example of this is reactine/zyrtec. those two medicines are the EXACT same. in canada however, you dont need a perscription for it an its called reactine. the length-of-patent experation numbers might be off but alot of the lower cost can be put squarely on the messed up US patent system.
Countries like New Zeland and the UK also have similar patent laws.
I have also heard, that the comapnies in fact do price medication higher in the states because they feel that thats what the market will bare. I dont think that the grandparent was that far off from the truth.
my geforce 4200 was REALLY laggy. then i *gasp* turned down the graphics, turned off the in game AA and AF and its very very playable @ ~40 FPS most times.
the default graphics settings come too high IMHO.
"Ridicule us based on a sterotype that may not apply. This holds true in the media - look at how geeks are portrayed. It's always someone with big glasses, greasy hair, and clothes that don't quite fit right."
you seem pretty damn egotisitical to care about how your "class" is portrayed in the media. why not laugh it off? say haha media, thats what YOU think -- and proceed to have another snifter of hennesy.
also saying your smarter than everyone you know is kind of lame. news flash superman, everyone thinks they are smarter than everyone else. its called perspective.
personally, i dont care if geeks are supposed to get laid or not supposed to get laid. it really has no baring on my life. the one thing i think those sorts of stereotypes are good for are a nice warm feeling for those of us who dont get laid alot -or ever- as the case may be. why would you take the comedy of the lack of personal relationships and turn it into a horrible situation. just because you seem to be above middle class and probably shoot your own pr0n? this post was just an excuse to brag. so good job.
"The problem is that it's just not cool to be smart."
also the first step to being cool, is thinking cool which i dont think that you've mastered.
yeah i totally agree. the difference is ICQ is a messenging system and AIM is a IRC style chat program.
i can tell very quickly if someone has grown up with ICQ or just started with AIM. i blame the chat style interface of aim.
the best thing about instant messenging is that you dont have to respond right away. and aol tries to rob us of that. go figure.
zyrtec is reactine in canada. its specifically meant for non drowsieness. what you want is novo-pheniram. 5mg pills and it completlely gets rid of all alergies. all of them. it doesnt keep you up, infact sometimes puts you to sleep (tho not me). for 10$ CAN you get about 100 pills.
it also doesnt dry you out like reactine/zyrtec does. generics rock!
also, if you'll notice something interesting: the cbc website has absolutely NO ADS on it.
compare that to CNN's stories which have at least 2 ads per page and a popup!
this is why all countries should have at least one publicly funded news agency.
"Planetside tried to make a FPS with that many players, and while their cone of fire killed it (among other things)"
well planetside has recently made a comeback for me. I dont know what you mean by cone of fire killed it as most of the weapons have "a cone of fire" and yet i still manage to use them.
also they have recently added some new Mechwarrior type battle robots and really its the only MMOFPS (well i dont know any others).
planetside rocks. you can fight on huge continents, fly ships, teamplay and moreover you are encouraged to. they even made it so 512 mb of ram is actually playable! continent load times also have been DRAMATICALLY improved.
the only thing i dont like is the repetition of base design. i mean do all the tech plants have to look the same? the diverse environments make up for it tho.
"but what about the black-loving non-U2 fan? Will the price be higher?"
1. buy black ipod with u2's new cd preloaded
2. delete u2's new cd
3. punch yourself in face for racing to post so quickly and therefore avoiding the step of THINKING
"I will never understand. If a grocery store so as much hires someone *unlikeable* to work the cash registers, they lose customers. likewise with vehicle manufacturers. If a bad car is designed, it is branded a lemon, and is treated as such by all consumer reporting websites/newsletters"
if grocery store X hires someone surley ill shop down the street at grocery store Y.
if ford makes a car that explodes when it goes over 88mph - ill buy a volvo.
if microsoft bends me over and fucks me continually, well, i could use half the programs i use daily and switch to linux, turn gay and buy a mac, or just say M$ sucks and continue with my life.
They have a monopoly. maybe thats what you dont understand.
how about, i like the way that virii looks the same way i like the way alot looks. or even nite, instead of night - its not dumbing down language, its just spelling things differently. same with colour and color.
if you get the gist of what they are trying to say, then who cares. you are trying to stifle individuality and creativity.
the grandparent post was just looking for free karma - the same with EVERY SINGLE spelling or grammar related counterpost. maybe its not your idea of social development, but even negative social development is social development.
ha hows that for nitpicking.
John Kerry has proposed tax increases that threaten to sap the economy's vitality and reduce long-term growth. Specifically, Kerry proposes to
"restore the top two [income] tax rates to their levels under President Clinton." He would also, among other things, "restore the capital gains and
dividend rates for families making over $200,000 on income earned above $200,000 to their levels under President Clinton." Kerry's stated desire to
balance the budget and to boost federal spending substantially would almost certainly require far higher and broader tax increases than he has proposed.
how can rasing taxes make the economy worse off? seems like the oposite is closer to reality. Raise taxes = government has more money = debt decreases instead of increasing at 1.71 billion USD per day.
also, hes taxing the very rich - who can afford it the most. Do you live in bizaro world where this is somehow going to lead to the fall of the economy? Taxes are a part of life. I don't think they shoyuld ever be lowered, except maybe for people that make less than 30k or so a year. they are the ones that cannot afford a tax increase and will be hurt the most.
you want the rich to get richer and the poor to get well um poor'er? where is the sense in that?
"Seriously, if a kid can earn the money (at a job, not from allowance) for a game or movie, I figure they're mature enough to handle it."
change game or movie to alcohol and cigarettes and you have a very different statement. if canada wants to do this, there will always be ways for the kids to get the games anyways (same with alcohol and cigarettes) so it doesnt really matter that much. also, as i heard this on the radio this morning, what they said then was that it was a VOLUNTARY thing. even the article says that only 90% of the retailers are participating.
most likely there will be small video game shops that will make alot of money off of this.
net change to society = 0
" Civil disobedience? You spit on everyone that has risked life and limb for actual social problems"
like what, repealing prohibition on alcohol? people fight for stupid things all the time. what i think is stupid, you might have a very vested interest in.
companies make laws. laws are social constructs. bad laws are then social problems. so the parent of your comment was right. it is a form a civil disobedience as much as dumping tea into boston harbor is.
you do know that there will always be someone making music right? same as paintings, literature, programs.... and through the use of the internet, there will always be promotional and distribution tools, so what exactly is ending here?
Actually, its not edit -> preferences its
Tools -> Options -> Web features -> Advanced Button -> uncheck "Disable or replace context menus"
most of the time "edit" is used to copy, paste find and undo. never seen a preference selection in an edit menu before.
" it's their fault if they break the law and deprive artists -- and the companies which support them -- of fair compensation."
change support to exploit and maybe your a little bit closer to reality my fine feathered friend.
the simple argument i have is this. the riaa gets my money if i buy music from anywhere. i do not under any circumstances want to give the riaa anything. therefor i cant buy music on any form untill the riaa dies. i do however try and attend concerts when my favourite artists come to town.
the other argument i have with your position is who says that music shouldnt be free? what about ideas? do you think that limiting peoples access to information helps or hurts society in the long run?
what if the caveman had pattened the wheel. want to use a wheel? pay Ug inc (founded 10000BCE) 699$. no matter that things that everyone uses should be public domain. no lets make people pay for everything. thats a wonderful thing to teach our kids inst it. im sorry timmy but your not an individual with "improvments", your a consumer with "wants" that need to be served.
Mr and Ms anderson, you have been called here today becuase your son billy was caught sharing his food with another student today. as you know this costs the agriculture industry BILLIONS in lost revenue every year. if people contiune to share meals, who will buy all the food that the industry produces? do you really want to force the farmers, your neighbours, to sell their farms? instead teach billy to discard his excess food. this will keep amerika strong and also fight against terrorists!
so we should stifle the technological development of society becuase an evil government might one day use that tech for "evil"?
the whole topic reminds me of this book i read by virge? (i googled but i cant remember the name, read it a few years ago). anyways so this guy who manages a galactic empire buys these sensors from an alien government and gets the deployed everywhere. only he doesnt let people know that they are as powerfull as they are. i believe that they are used as stabalizers?? localizers?
basically what im saying is that it depends on the governement. but if we dont develop things just because an evil government is currently in power, (*cough* bush *cough*), or the tech could possibly be used for "evil", we wouldnt have many of the advancements that we have now.
limiting science is not the way to go. we should focus on correcting peoples morals and the morals of society instead.
most telephone providers (at least in canada) dont care AT ALL about bandwidth caps. they just use it as an excuse for busting other things not covered in their EULA or contract...
/month and upload about the same amount without a peep from sympatico or telus.
its the little guys that care the most about it, and cable companies, id assume because the badwidth is shared between users of a segment as apposed to dsl.
i was actually told by a guy who worked at dsl.ca that they only had that cap in there as a catch all to kill peoples accounts that they didnt like. i regularaly download ~50gb
i've heard rogers on the other hand, sends alot of thretening letters.
'Thus, a virtual 'newswiki' where the content is distributed bittorrent using some sort of 'trusted peer' or moderator mechanisms as a filtering/evaluation mechanism. So what is stopping anyone from doing this now? Awareness of the concept, perhaps? Lack of broadband connections? Lack of business models for content producers?"'
isn't this EXACTLY what suprnova is doing?
sure its mostly an illigal "network" but it still substitutes for TV and pushes a hell of a lot of content across it.
"if it ends up costing you something priceless (which still ends up as being less precious than human life, no matter how fine the art"
really? you really think your more important to the world than say, the mona lisa or something like that?
thats a killer ego you have i guess. its very easy to say something like "all human life is precious" but why? because it could be you, your family, your loved ones? thats kind of shortsighted in the face of the possible damage or loss to an irreplaceable original masterpiece.
im not saying that we should force security guards into dying for "art" but, perhaps, hiring people who would willingly take a bullet for some priceless art, would be a good idea.
well unless your doing audio work in a soundproof room i dont see the point of having a quiet pc. theres always going to be traffic out your window or even the wind rustling the trees.
i have never seen the point in having a quiet PC. the more noise it makes, the more powerful!!! i thought that this was well known in every industry -- thats why the fastest honda civics have the loudest mufflers or why a motorcycle engine rev can wake the dead. Sound = power. Look at the stock market, people always say that millionaires are made every day and look how loud it is there!!
(this example assumes that money = power in case you had trouble following the brilliance)
cant you just tune out the fan noise? i can barely hear the hum of my work PC's becuase of the a/c / co-worker chatter / telephones rining, yet i am still able to think clearly. people say my apartment sounds like an airport runway but all i hear is white noise. MUCH better than office chatter or telephones ringing. also you could try turning up the music louder than the fans. that works too.
no it has the 2gb limit as well. i dont know where there is a setting to enable some other amount of space.
.pst file thats horribly corrupted (well its actually "fixed" acording to microsoft as Outlook locks the file so that it wont actually corrupt, i can not however delete any messages out of it or anything)
this is due to the 2gb bug that effects most 32bit things (ie its all 1's). i just coincidentally enough, ran across this problem with a user this morning. i am thinking of switching him to thunderbird but there is no calendar and lord knows no one can work without a calendar!
i have a 1.9gb
theres a tool that lobotomizes like 50megs RANDOMLY out of the store file which would presumeably allow you to get in there and delete messages. i havent tried it yet.
(horribly offtopic i know)
"Banning "dangerous things" is always a bad idea. I have a hammer. It can be used as a weapon. Should it be banned? The distinction between "tool" and "weapon" has nothing to do with the item."
i see you too apreciate the skill it takes to drive a nail into a wall with a barage of machinegun fire.
"Nowadays, elections are almost boring."
you know why that is? becuase in the 60's they had LSD. im not trolling or joking. I saw a documentary i think it was PBS, something like 'illegal drugs and how they got that way' (can search nova for a torrent). when they were talking about the 60s the narator seemed to say that LSD was the reason that the 60's had that 60's crazy psychadellia. Something he said like, (paraphrasing) "a disproportianate group of youth all taking the most powerful psychoactive known to man, and your surprised everything got a little skewed?"
now, all those blotter ingesting space cowboys are on paxil and zoloft. both of which are known to either make one really mello out, or make them super hyper with the feeling that accomplishing small goals are very very pleasureable. you dont need alot to get these people excited, so thats what society produces.
no one wants to admit that the drugs a large portion of society is taking and considers "safe" might be subtly fucking up soceity in strange and unpredictible ways.
"Most LCDs are laggier than CRTs"
no actually they're not. i have had a dual head video card with VGA cables for years. one crt and one LCD. i just enabled the mirroring thing so that both monitors display the same image and i will tell you 100% confidence that this DOES NOT happen on my monitor.
conclusion, its a software or specific hardware problem on your monitor. also, where i work we have easily 100+ LCD screens. i have never noticed any perceivable lag on any of the machines, albiet i dont do alot of FPS gaming at work.
"I've seen the same lag on every LCD I've ever seen or used, although the problem is not as great as this one."
then how come SO MANY PEOPLE including myself, that use LCD's and CRT's daily, have never noticed it? ever.
my suggestion is to RMA the damn monitor and try another of the same model.
i just tried that with my postal code and it made it VERY local. its amazing how people think that a new search engine should forgive bad searching habits. you STILL have to be precise people!