I came to like soft lightsources around and behind the display, mostly red ones, but also LED-white. I HATE neon.
Since years I am using a dual (CRT) monitor setup, which made me lose concentration after 6-8 hours. When working with graphics, even quicker. Since a bit over a year, I finally have two LCDs of the same brand, and it got A LOT better.
Another thing with CRT's which are not top-notch is: Never use their full resolution because not only the refresh rate goes down (often because of the gfx card), but also the corners tend to blur.
Note, this is just subjective information, but it really helped me in relaxing my eyes, and -as a side effect- my stresslevel.
Talking of backlighting, Philips has TVs with a concept they call 'ambilight', which is a backlight that changes color depending on what's on the screen (couldn't find a useful link/pic)
Just to let you know, there's still a vivid commodore demoscene (evolved from intros), producing enormous creative output. some links:
http://scene.org/ - repository for all demoscene stuff; the bigger parties like breakpoint and assembly have c64/amiga compo categories
http://scene.org/file.php?id=289244 - unbelievable amiga demo from 2004
suggestion: use the term geek for persons having no clue of computers at all. same with nerd. i mean, what world do they think we live in when they sit around in this nature thing all the time?
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestuff.ht ml
well, TFA is about the space shuttle, but i'd guess it applies to other space gadgets, too.
"Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors."
seriously, instead of whining "what could we do?" somebody should convince them of GPL'ing Uru, install a democratic direction decision platform, and make the most successful mmorpg evar!
societies, even digital ones, should be free.
Well, beat me up, but I cannot find too much of a difference between photoshop and photopaint (that corel product). until cs/cs2 came out, it even had advantages, like editable text, smart objects, better layer management. and 100% ps plugin support. ps caught up, tho, and corel's future is uncertain since ages... somebody should buy them;)
[as a side note: of course you will now point me to stuff that ps can do that are unique; but the overall feature set is the same]
same for coreldraw vs illustrator: the toolset is mostly the same, both progs are stable. only that coreldraw is mostly used by idiots (comic sans in 15degree happy-angle), so all the designers with no ego chose illu or fh.
i heard this from my professor the other day, referring to a research study: if a larger company lays off 20%-30% of their employees at the same time, nothing will happen. productivity will stay stable.
BUT: only for the first one or two years, then it will fall rapidly, unstoppable.
Which means that up to 30% of the employees of a company are there for redundancy issues. Yes, I mean YOU!
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Yeah nice, but who wants to communicate with dolphins? All they are interested in is philosophy and mackarel.
4 years ago a 3d version of the intro was shown at mekkasymposium: http://scene.org/dir.php?dir=%2Fparties%2F2002%2Fm ekkasymposium02%2Fwild%2Fshown/
file yellow3d*, multiple formats available.
I came to like soft lightsources around and behind the display, mostly red ones, but also LED-white. I HATE neon. Since years I am using a dual (CRT) monitor setup, which made me lose concentration after 6-8 hours. When working with graphics, even quicker. Since a bit over a year, I finally have two LCDs of the same brand, and it got A LOT better. Another thing with CRT's which are not top-notch is: Never use their full resolution because not only the refresh rate goes down (often because of the gfx card), but also the corners tend to blur. Note, this is just subjective information, but it really helped me in relaxing my eyes, and -as a side effect- my stresslevel. Talking of backlighting, Philips has TVs with a concept they call 'ambilight', which is a backlight that changes color depending on what's on the screen (couldn't find a useful link/pic)
Just to let you know, there's still a vivid commodore demoscene (evolved from intros), producing enormous creative output. some links: http://scene.org/ - repository for all demoscene stuff; the bigger parties like breakpoint and assembly have c64/amiga compo categories http://scene.org/file.php?id=289244 - unbelievable amiga demo from 2004
suggestion: use the term geek for persons having no clue of computers at all. same with nerd. i mean, what world do they think we live in when they sit around in this nature thing all the time?
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestuff.ht ml
well, TFA is about the space shuttle, but i'd guess it applies to other space gadgets, too.
"Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors."
seriously, instead of whining "what could we do?" somebody should convince them of GPL'ing Uru, install a democratic direction decision platform, and make the most successful mmorpg evar! societies, even digital ones, should be free.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/19/12 23223&from=rss
i wonder what results balmer would have. i doubt they're still on the scale.
...seems interested. asspire!
Well, beat me up, but I cannot find too much of a difference between photoshop and photopaint (that corel product). until cs/cs2 came out, it even had advantages, like editable text, smart objects, better layer management. and 100% ps plugin support. ps caught up, tho, and corel's future is uncertain since ages... somebody should buy them ;)
[as a side note: of course you will now point me to stuff that ps can do that are unique; but the overall feature set is the same]
same for coreldraw vs illustrator: the toolset is mostly the same, both progs are stable. only that coreldraw is mostly used by idiots (comic sans in 15degree happy-angle), so all the designers with no ego chose illu or fh.
i heard this from my professor the other day, referring to a research study:
if a larger company lays off 20%-30% of their employees at the same time, nothing will happen. productivity will stay stable.
BUT: only for the first one or two years, then it will fall rapidly, unstoppable.
Which means that up to 30% of the employees of a company are there for redundancy issues. Yes, I mean YOU!
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