I had the symptoms associated with carpal tunnel syndrom about an year ago. I had weeks of constant burning, tingling on the bottom of my wrist which was at one point unberable and forcing me to stop working or put my hand in a bowl of cold water just to make it feel a bit better.
First thing, I stopped supporting my wrist on the edge of the desk, that's REALLY bad and many do that (my brother also does it despite me constantly nagging him about it). Instead I dumped my old CRT and got a TFT, which allowed me to push the keyboard and mouse pad much further in the desk, at which point I could support my arm by putting my elbow on the desk and have my arms fully relaxed on the desk.
What really helped however was the Wacom tablet. I got a Graphire3 A5 (perfect size for both many graphical tasks and OS navigation).
The first two weeks it was disappointing: the hovering felt weird, the left click felt weird, and the right click felt outright impossible. I was about to give up, but I kept trying and gradually got used to it to the point it felt more natural than a mouse. Using a tablet is a lot better if you have that condition since you don't press your wrist against the desk, so even if you're not cured, it doesn't hurt as much to just work in that condition.
In the next few months of using the tablet the tingling went away and now I appear to be completely cured, no any pain whatsoever, I also don't experience this problem even if I start mousing from time to time (I keep the mouse even though I rarely use it).
Other benefits of a Wacom tablet are easy taking of handwritten notes, drafting, drawing, sketching or editing photos on your screen. For that of course you have to be used to it first (so if you try a new tablet don't expect to freely write on the screen from the first minute of using it).
I'm a web developer I do both coding and design and a Wacom tablet is a good replacement of a mouse as much as pointer navigation goes, so that's what I recommend if you have this problem.
A new program developed by researchers at Indiana University promises to tell you one way or the other.
You would think that this embarassment will cause the paper reviewers to look closer to what the heck they are accepting, but instead we get a program that does that job better.
Just anything, ANYTHING to keep those reviewers from actually getting their work done is well accepted.
I've not done any tests on aperture grille vs shadowmask CRTs, though.
It doesn't matter either way. ClearType needs each pixel to have its R, G, B pairs layed out horizontally on the screen. With CRT-s (all of them), the screen pixel unit and the ones the gun shoots do not match. This is why a CRT can adapt to different resolution better and LCD can't (except via interpolation which looks crappy).
It'll be interesting to see if CT works well with SED or not.
From what I've read it'll work. SED uses tiny electron guns like a CRT to emit light from the pixel phosphors. So we get the great black levels and color accuracy of a CRT, and the clarity, sharpness of a TFT.
I guess though we also get the unhealthy radiation of a CRT and the lack of resolution flexibility of a TFT.
The only IO resources you need to limit/filter is disk and memory IO to the areas of the system your rootkit inhabits, and of course network IO to hide any packets you are sending from host-based network analyzers.
Thing is, without a driver telling you where the heck the network IO is, and how to "pass thru" it you're lost, so we're back to the drivers/hardware support issue.
All of those feature we take for granted, such as sound/network/video/disk functionality is because we have an OS and drivers abstracting them. Without the drivers you will not only not know what you're passing through, and therefore not being able to use or filter the network, but you may also not be able to reach many of the new interfaces such as USB that use more sophisticated interfaces.
I'd hate to see the ugly grey sludgy mess the web would be with people like you making design decisions.
From the grandparent's initial description links looked like normal text because all text appeared bold. If this looks like a link to you, to many it won't, so I just replied with that information in mind.
I also use orange or yellow or green links, but there's a thin border you don't have to cross and you have to keep things relatively consistent with the world around you by underlining the links and having them in a distinct color from the surroundings, or if they won't be underlined they should be at least blue or green as hint.
People like you lament how usability-minded designers will create "gray and boring web" and instead go happily nesting tables, making mystery meat navigation, use ridiculously tiny text since "it looks so cool" and put flashy intros on everything.
How does it feel being cast in a category like you did with me, parent?
I just didn't figure MS would force everyone to use bold text in IE7 by default (via ClearType).
I also don't understand why IE7 doesn't respect the OS settings, but I believe your bold issue is more up to getting used to it. I use a TFT and without ClearType the text looks like a bunch of random vertical and horizontal stick thrown on the screen randomly.
I can clearly tell bold text from non-bold text but the difference is not so staggering. If you print some bold / non-bold text on paper you'll quickly see it looks similar to what ClearType tries to do on the screen.
Even without IE7, there are a lot of people that turn ClearType on, many laptops and desktop computers come preconfigured with ClearType on (those with a TFT), and Mac OSX also has font-smoothing somewhat similar to ClearType.
So I'd say you have to spend some time making sure your sites look good with ClearType, IE7 or not.
While everyone is writing about the improvements in the new IE beta released last night, Dvorak found a way to get some more traffic by writing the opposite to appeal the Slashdot geeks and MS haters.
People should simply start ignoring this jerk, his "analysis" makes no sense whatsoever and is apparently designed to stir the community.
except now with ClearType on by default, all the text looks bold, so many of our text links simply look like regular text. Nice UI move there, MS.
Maybe if you start making links blue and underlined as they are supposed to be, and not just bold, you won't have that problem. Nice design move there, parent.
Don't worry - they've been carefully fixing up their CSS support just enough to break all those nice hacks everyone's been using to get their websites to work on IE, but not enough that you don't need them...
Haven't you learned? Microsoft doesn't support standards, it writes them. That way, whatever broken stuff their software does, it is "standards compliant".
Your attempts at irony are shooting in the wrong direction, as Microsoft is part of W3C and indeed has a big part in defining the CSS and related standards.
It's all about investment and perceived ROI. A movie's value consists of many distinct elements: popular director, actors, special effects (lots of explosions and aliens and stuff!), franchise popularity, script quality etc.
The problem is, that when you put a famous franchise (comic, game, movie remake like King Kong for ex.) and famous actors, Hollywood studio execs believe that's sufficient enough for a "good movie". They're often wrong.
Movies that can't rely on a franchise need to rely on rest of the equation.
Or in just a few words: franchises make Hollywood lazy.
but an earlier post regarding the Acid 2 test has pretty much answered that.
Actually a lot has been done to improve CSS support in this release, and lack of Acid 2 compliance doesn't mean "it's same as old releases". This is too naive and biased view for me to even comment further on.
But you may notice everyone's favorite Firefox (which I also use) doesn't pass Acid 2 as well, the experimental branches in the code tree that do pass are just that - experimental, and not likely to happen before Firefox 3.0.
"So you can have a password which is easy to crack fidopoodle. But if you go as pfoioddole or better pf010dd0l3 only you can remember it and guessing it will be almost impossible."
Yup, impossible, there's apparently this belief that hackers have no "1" and "3" on their keyboard so that every I should be written as 1, and every E as 3.
When, like 90% of the passwords are made that way, guess what, it's not harder to guess.
I don't know, a couple hundred K? You can get a stripped down Java VM onto a floppy disk
It's beyond me how you ended with Java as an example of your virtual machine.
There's a categorical difference between a virtual machine that can run a set of bytecodes (Flash's virtual machine, Java's virtual machine, the JavaScript virtual machines in browsers/yes it's a VM/, the CLR of dot NET etc.)
-- and --
a virtual machine that emulates an independent PC hardware unit in a sandbox (with all of the video, sounds, I/O, hardware support etc.). Or did I miss that and you can install and run Windows in Java VM natively?
And another thing, when you run in a virtual machine most of the hardware is emulated, therefore any peripherals you attach will either have to be emulated (impossible to emulate everything out there) or ignored.
You would notice if your PC functionality is suddenly stripped of any peripherals and 10x slower won't you?
When the public reaction to "entity X was awarded a patent" is "oh shit...", isn't it about time something is friggin done about it?
We're sitting here discussing how bad it really is, but the politicians in charge of it do nothing... Something's really broken in the process isn't it.
This Real patent is just stupid "Click to stream", I'm actually wondering whether its announcement comes on the back of the changes Microsoft made to force people to click to activate?
Don't worry if Real comes after Microsoft, they can just make IE "double click to stream".
Isn't it funny how quickly times change the perception people have towards things.
In 1996, I was experimenting with JavaScript, creating moving, resizable windows with live applications in them like a calculator, notepad and a place where you put bookmarks.
I was a kid, I didn't know anything, but what I knew is I was just playing around and learning. If I took myself seriously and came up with those things in 1997, I'd be quickly dismissed for being noobish and abusing web technology, right there with people that put MIDI music and lake applets in their pages.
Nowadays, however, faking Desktop interfaces using html and JavaScript is all the rage, and many geeks look to the efforts in the area as the wave of the future in interfaces and application design.
Don't buy food or equipment, don't use services or entertainment, don't invest in a business or an idea. Collect all you make and bribe your local politician. The only sane way you can be sure your money won't support terrorism.
"It is a philosophical assumption based on the fallacy that the only things that exist are those things which are provable by the scientific method. While this is a valid philosophical framework to argue for, it should not be stated as indisputable fact."
If you're so deeply into philosophies you know nothing can be proven, except maybe that you think therefore you exist. Even that can be disputed.
This doesn't mean we should forget the most likely and proven solution so far, or if you have any doubts you think with your brain I urge you to have your brain removed and see where this takes us.
Law doesn't work with morality. It's either a copyright violation or it isn't. You can't sue someone for not being moral enough to your freaking rights.
Maybe Miro was upset by the free advertisement. I mean, imagine hundreds of thousands of people learning who your are and recognize your works, and all that on your birthday, TERRIBLE right?
Just in case: if Google has a shortage of "logo" events, I don't mind advertising my sites on my birthday and I won't even sue anyone:)
Thus if we reduce all of our actions and decisions to physical phenomena, we're probably going to find that none of our actions are a matter of "choice."
I can't believe modern people have a difficulty grasping this.
How the heck our ability to make "choice" is prevented by it being dictated by the state of our own brain. Apparently most people contribute "choice" to our "ghost/soul" and thus the moment they find that (shocking) we're thinking with our brain, they automatically assume that our brain dictates to our soul what choices to make (therefore "we can't make anything on our own, we can't change, we're not responsible" and other nonsense).
Shocking news people - you ARE that brain. And other shocking news, you see with your eyes, you hear with your ears and smell with your nose. You are what your body is, and your body can make its own free choices which are predisposed by the state it's in.
If we couldn't base our choices on our body/brain state, then we'd simply have no information or mechanism to make any choices whatsoever.
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From TFA: "Shift your gaze from the computer screen to the distance. And don't forget to blink!"
Even more important: don't forget to breath! It sounds ridiculous but I caught myself repeatedly forgetting to breath while working on a computer...
I had the symptoms associated with carpal tunnel syndrom about an year ago. I had weeks of constant burning, tingling on the bottom of my wrist which was at one point unberable and forcing me to stop working or put my hand in a bowl of cold water just to make it feel a bit better.
First thing, I stopped supporting my wrist on the edge of the desk, that's REALLY bad and many do that (my brother also does it despite me constantly nagging him about it). Instead I dumped my old CRT and got a TFT, which allowed me to push the keyboard and mouse pad much further in the desk, at which point I could support my arm by putting my elbow on the desk and have my arms fully relaxed on the desk.
What really helped however was the Wacom tablet. I got a Graphire3 A5 (perfect size for both many graphical tasks and OS navigation).
The first two weeks it was disappointing: the hovering felt weird, the left click felt weird, and the right click felt outright impossible. I was about to give up, but I kept trying and gradually got used to it to the point it felt more natural than a mouse. Using a tablet is a lot better if you have that condition since you don't press your wrist against the desk, so even if you're not cured, it doesn't hurt as much to just work in that condition.
In the next few months of using the tablet the tingling went away and now I appear to be completely cured, no any pain whatsoever, I also don't experience this problem even if I start mousing from time to time (I keep the mouse even though I rarely use it).
Other benefits of a Wacom tablet are easy taking of handwritten notes, drafting, drawing, sketching or editing photos on your screen. For that of course you have to be used to it first (so if you try a new tablet don't expect to freely write on the screen from the first minute of using it).
I'm a web developer I do both coding and design and a Wacom tablet is a good replacement of a mouse as much as pointer navigation goes, so that's what I recommend if you have this problem.
Violent games fund terrorism and child pornography, don't they.
A new program developed by researchers at Indiana University promises to tell you one way or the other.
You would think that this embarassment will cause the paper reviewers to look closer to what the heck they are accepting, but instead we get a program that does that job better.
Just anything, ANYTHING to keep those reviewers from actually getting their work done is well accepted.
I've not done any tests on aperture grille vs shadowmask CRTs, though.
It doesn't matter either way. ClearType needs each pixel to have its R, G, B pairs layed out horizontally on the screen. With CRT-s (all of them), the screen pixel unit and the ones the gun shoots do not match. This is why a CRT can adapt to different resolution better and LCD can't (except via interpolation which looks crappy).
It'll be interesting to see if CT works well with SED or not.
From what I've read it'll work. SED uses tiny electron guns like a CRT to emit light from the pixel phosphors. So we get the great black levels and color accuracy of a CRT, and the clarity, sharpness of a TFT.
I guess though we also get the unhealthy radiation of a CRT and the lack of resolution flexibility of a TFT.
Nothing is perfect, right...?
The only IO resources you need to limit/filter is disk and memory IO to the areas of the system your rootkit inhabits, and of course network IO to hide any packets you are sending from host-based network analyzers.
Thing is, without a driver telling you where the heck the network IO is, and how to "pass thru" it you're lost, so we're back to the drivers/hardware support issue.
All of those feature we take for granted, such as sound/network/video/disk functionality is because we have an OS and drivers abstracting them. Without the drivers you will not only not know what you're passing through, and therefore not being able to use or filter the network, but you may also not be able to reach many of the new interfaces such as USB that use more sophisticated interfaces.
I'd hate to see the ugly grey sludgy mess the web would be with people like you making design decisions.
From the grandparent's initial description links looked like normal text because all text appeared bold.
If this looks like a link to you, to many it won't, so I just replied with that information in mind.
I also use orange or yellow or green links, but there's a thin border you don't have to cross and you have to keep things relatively consistent with the world around you by underlining the links and having them in a distinct color from the surroundings, or if they won't be underlined they should be at least blue or green as hint.
People like you lament how usability-minded designers will create "gray and boring web" and instead go happily nesting tables, making mystery meat navigation, use ridiculously tiny text since "it looks so cool" and put flashy intros on everything.
How does it feel being cast in a category like you did with me, parent?
I just didn't figure MS would force everyone to use bold text in IE7 by default (via ClearType).
I also don't understand why IE7 doesn't respect the OS settings, but I believe your bold issue is more up to getting used to it. I use a TFT and without ClearType the text looks like a bunch of random vertical and horizontal stick thrown on the screen randomly.
I can clearly tell bold text from non-bold text but the difference is not so staggering. If you print some bold / non-bold text on paper you'll quickly see it looks similar to what ClearType tries to do on the screen.
Even without IE7, there are a lot of people that turn ClearType on, many laptops and desktop computers come preconfigured with ClearType on (those with a TFT), and Mac OSX also has font-smoothing somewhat similar to ClearType.
So I'd say you have to spend some time making sure your sites look good with ClearType, IE7 or not.
While everyone is writing about the improvements in the new IE beta released last night, Dvorak found a way to get some more traffic by writing the opposite to appeal the Slashdot geeks and MS haters.
People should simply start ignoring this jerk, his "analysis" makes no sense whatsoever and is apparently designed to stir the community.
except now with ClearType on by default, all the text looks bold, so many of our text links simply look like regular text. Nice UI move there, MS.
Maybe if you start making links blue and underlined as they are supposed to be, and not just bold, you won't have that problem. Nice design move there, parent.
Don't worry - they've been carefully fixing up their CSS support just enough to break all those nice hacks everyone's been using to get their websites to work on IE, but not enough that you don't need them...
Gosh I wish I could mod you +5 Inane.
Haven't you learned? Microsoft doesn't support standards, it writes them. That way, whatever broken stuff their software does, it is "standards compliant".
Your attempts at irony are shooting in the wrong direction, as Microsoft is part of W3C and indeed has a big part in defining the CSS and related standards.
It's all about investment and perceived ROI. A movie's value consists of many distinct elements: popular director, actors, special effects (lots of explosions and aliens and stuff!), franchise popularity, script quality etc.
The problem is, that when you put a famous franchise (comic, game, movie remake like King Kong for ex.) and famous actors, Hollywood studio execs believe that's sufficient enough for a "good movie". They're often wrong.
Movies that can't rely on a franchise need to rely on rest of the equation.
Or in just a few words: franchises make Hollywood lazy.
but an earlier post regarding the Acid 2 test has pretty much answered that.
Actually a lot has been done to improve CSS support in this release, and lack of Acid 2 compliance doesn't mean "it's same as old releases". This is too naive and biased view for me to even comment further on.
But you may notice everyone's favorite Firefox (which I also use) doesn't pass Acid 2 as well, the experimental branches in the code tree that do pass are just that - experimental, and not likely to happen before Firefox 3.0.
a collection of free online apps that support and contain most features found in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
That's why reviews shouldn't be made by people who can't find the differences between WordPad and Word to save their life.
"So you can have a password which is easy to crack fidopoodle. But if you go as pfoioddole or better pf010dd0l3 only you can remember it and guessing it will be almost impossible."
Yup, impossible, there's apparently this belief that hackers have no "1" and "3" on their keyboard so that every I should be written as 1, and every E as 3.
When, like 90% of the passwords are made that way, guess what, it's not harder to guess.
I don't know, a couple hundred K? You can get a stripped down Java VM onto a floppy disk
/yes it's a VM/, the CLR of dot NET etc.)
It's beyond me how you ended with Java as an example of your virtual machine.
There's a categorical difference between a virtual machine that can run a set of bytecodes (Flash's virtual machine, Java's virtual machine, the JavaScript virtual machines in browsers
-- and --
a virtual machine that emulates an independent PC hardware unit in a sandbox (with all of the video, sounds, I/O, hardware support etc.). Or did I miss that and you can install and run Windows in Java VM natively?
And another thing, when you run in a virtual machine most of the hardware is emulated, therefore any peripherals you attach will either have to be emulated (impossible to emulate everything out there) or ignored.
You would notice if your PC functionality is suddenly stripped of any peripherals and 10x slower won't you?
The task is suddenly not as trivial.
When the public reaction to "entity X was awarded a patent" is "oh shit...", isn't it about time something is friggin done about it?
We're sitting here discussing how bad it really is, but the politicians in charge of it do nothing... Something's really broken in the process isn't it.
This Real patent is just stupid "Click to stream", I'm actually wondering whether its announcement comes on the back of the changes Microsoft made to force people to click to activate?
Don't worry if Real comes after Microsoft, they can just make IE "double click to stream".
Isn't it funny how quickly times change the perception people have towards things.
In 1996, I was experimenting with JavaScript, creating moving, resizable windows with live applications in them like a calculator, notepad and a place where you put bookmarks.
I was a kid, I didn't know anything, but what I knew is I was just playing around and learning. If I took myself seriously and came up with those things in 1997, I'd be quickly dismissed for being noobish and abusing web technology, right there with people that put MIDI music and lake applets in their pages.
Nowadays, however, faking Desktop interfaces using html and JavaScript is all the rage, and many geeks look to the efforts in the area as the wave of the future in interfaces and application design.
hater of immigrants
I've always wondered how the heck can US citizens hate immigrants. That's ridiculous right? Is Lamar a Native American?
Don't buy food or equipment, don't use services or entertainment, don't invest in a business or an idea. Collect all you make and bribe your local politician. The only sane way you can be sure your money won't support terrorism.
"It is a philosophical assumption based on the fallacy that the only things that exist are those things which are provable by the scientific method. While this is a valid philosophical framework to argue for, it should not be stated as indisputable fact."
If you're so deeply into philosophies you know nothing can be proven, except maybe that you think therefore you exist. Even that can be disputed.
This doesn't mean we should forget the most likely and proven solution so far, or if you have any doubts you think with your brain I urge you to have your brain removed and see where this takes us.
violates the moral rights of the artist
:)
Law doesn't work with morality. It's either a copyright violation or it isn't. You can't sue someone for not being moral enough to your freaking rights.
Maybe Miro was upset by the free advertisement. I mean, imagine hundreds of thousands of people learning who your are and recognize your works, and all that on your birthday, TERRIBLE right?
Just in case: if Google has a shortage of "logo" events, I don't mind advertising my sites on my birthday and I won't even sue anyone
Thus if we reduce all of our actions and decisions to physical phenomena, we're probably going to find that none of our actions are a matter of "choice."
I can't believe modern people have a difficulty grasping this.
How the heck our ability to make "choice" is prevented by it being dictated by the state of our own brain. Apparently most people contribute "choice" to our "ghost/soul" and thus the moment they find that (shocking) we're thinking with our brain, they automatically assume that our brain dictates to our soul what choices to make (therefore "we can't make anything on our own, we can't change, we're not responsible" and other nonsense).
Shocking news people - you ARE that brain. And other shocking news, you see with your eyes, you hear with your ears and smell with your nose. You are what your body is, and your body can make its own free choices which are predisposed by the state it's in.
If we couldn't base our choices on our body/brain state, then we'd simply have no information or mechanism to make any choices whatsoever.