Eye Care

[Sip]

occasional breaks works for me. Probably once every couple of hours. My eyes don't get too tired anymore ... I can easily spend 10 hours at a computer with no problem (not everyday though).

 

The most important thing is to set your refresh rate high if you have a normal CRT monitor. At least 100Hz for the vertical refresh rate.

 

If you have an LCD monitor, you don't have to worry. They are already easy on the eyes.

 

In any case, you should always take breaks and change positions when using a computer. I use the mouse with both hands. For some time I use it with the left, some time I use it with the right. At home and at school I have 2 mice hooked up to my PC ... it helps to be ambidexterous in this case

[Guest Fadi]

Beside the refreshing rate of 100Hz and more, you can as well reduce a little bit the brightness of the screen, it helps for me, and as well, to not be too close to the monitor.

 

Ah and one of the most important thing, do not forget to climps(is that the word in English, you know when you close and open you eye etc...) your eyes, thats very important also.

 

Ah, like Sip said, pauses are very important. When you take one, movie your eyes as much as you can, its for your eye mussles.

[Boghos]

Also, do not forget to mimps, very importante too.

[MosJan]

Harout stop going to ****o web sites - it will help you 100%

 

and it's time to get a atlist a 13" monetor / no one uses the old 9"

[Harut]

what do you suggest, what kind of care should we take for our eyes against computer screen?

[Guest Fadi]

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Originally posted by Boghos:

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Originally posted by Domino:

...do not forget to climps...

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Also, do not forget to mimps, very importante too.

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OK, OK, no need to make fun of my ignorance, altavista translator tell me its "to flicker"

[Harut]

thanks people

 

re: refresh rate

i always leave it at Optimal. is it ok? or should i specify a custom rate?

 

btw, the highest rate i can get with my card is 85Hz.

not too good i guess.

[Harut]

Mos jan, @ndhakarak@, hents yes et tesaki siter em mtnum, achqers paytsaranum en.

[EZ]

It's good to position your screen so that you can look out of a window or into a larger space from time to time to do eyes gymnastics through focusing on objects at different distances.

[MosJan]

Harout yes shat el lav gitem te inch es anum inchov es zbarvum / hishum es lav yerg kar - mer Visotskin er yergum - Jiraf Balshoy yimu Vidney / amen inch tesnum em / amen inch indz haytni e / yev amen inch grri em arnum /

[Guest Fadi]

Harout, I do not think the 85 Hz is your card limit, but rather your monitor limit.

 

Lets see what you can do. What monitor you have, and what videocard... you can tweek the registery to have unstandards refreshing rates... monitors that take 85 Hz, many can take 90 Hz, I have tried this on many monitors, it may be only 5 Hz, but still it worth the try.

[vava]

Actually Domino, I think you mean 'Blink'. Do not forget to blink your eyes. (cligner les yeux - in French, i think)

[Guest Fadi]

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Originally posted by Sip:

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Originally posted by Domino:

... you can tweek the registery to have unstandards refreshing rates... monitors that take 85 Hz, many can take 90 Hz, I have tried this on many monitors, it may be only 5 Hz, but still it worth the try.

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This, coming from someone who's monitor just died <img border="0" alt="[lol]" title="" src="smilies/lol.gif" />

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Watch your mouth Sip. My monitor did not died because of a tweek with the registary, my monitor could handle 100 Hz.

 

I have a monitor of 85 Hz that can run on 90 Hz, I bough for one of my friend a used 17 Inch monitor(of course he pied for, I'm not that nice. ), and it works on 90 Hz, I have another friend that has a 85 Hz as max, and I was able to make it run as well on 90 Hz, the viewsonics sound to handle it easily.

[Guest Fadi]

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Originally posted by vava:

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Originally posted by Domino:

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Originally posted by Boghos:

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Originally posted by Domino:

...do not forget to climps...

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Also, do not forget to mimps, very importante too.

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OK, OK, no need to make fun of my ignorance, altavista translator tell me its "to flicker"

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Actually Domino, I think you mean 'Blink'. Do not forget to blink your eyes. (cligner les yeux - in French, i think)

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Thanks Vava. In fact, it did not really meant cligner but clignoter, the first one is more about the reflex, while the second could be used as a "wanted"(because using monitor, the reflex could stop, so it should be forced) that was my problem translating it.

[nairi]

Domino, I hope this experience taught you a lesson, namely to always double-check in a monolingual dictionary. "Blink" is to clignoter. You can blink voluntarily as well; in English anyway. "Cligner" is to close the eyes in part, as in when trying to look into a bright light. "Cligner de l'oeuil" is to wink, which for some people is also a reflex.

[Guest Fadi]

You are right Nairi,

 

I meant to say clignoter... I was too Lazy to go check in a dictionary, I used altavista translator, that gave for clignoter---> To flicker, and for cligner---> to blink , so I was a little mixed, so I used to flicker, because I taugh it was the best term... so I interpretated as altavista translated it.

[Sip]

Of Domino, are you a merry cord.

 

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Disclaimer: I obtained that sentence by starting with "Domino, you are a funny guy" then translated it to German then to French and then back to Enlish using Google language tools

[nairi]

I guess you could use "flicker" in this context: to make very slight, quick movements (e.g. her eyelids flickered, then opened). But I still think you mean blink, although climps was a nice invention as well. Anyway, will keep your advice in mind. Thanks.

 

Sip, isn't that nuts? It was after such blunders that I quit relying on bilingual dictionaries. Not that monolinguals are flawless or complete btw, but at least they're a bit more reliable than bilingual ones.

[Sip]

It sure is. By the way, you used the word "context"! That is the KEY difference between languages that computers can understand and treath well, and languages that can cause computers a LOT of trouble ... as opposed to humans.

 

Computers can't deal with "contexts" too well. So if a language is context-free, then computers can deal with it. Most programming languages that I know of, fall in the "context free" category. There are some people that spend their entire lives working on the theory of languages, and languages that an "automaton" (like a computer) can deal with ... The theory behind it is fairly fascinating and probably the backbone of theoretical computer science.

 

Example of a "context", whan someone says:

 

"it's cold"

 

We can usually figure out what that person is talking about ... most likely about the weather. But the weather is the context in that case and in general, for a computer that is VERY hard to figure out It may require a lot of analysis of the accumulated knowledge (and past experiences maybe) and also some inference based on that knowledge. For now, humans are far better at those things than computers

 

[ December 15, 2002, 03:06 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

[nairi]

I was actually referring to paper dictionaries. I can only guess that the content of all those computer dictionaries were made by the same people that make paper dictionaries. I only use bilingual dictionaries to give me a start, or to remind me of a word that I forgot. But if I ever come across a word that I'm not too familiar with, or a translation that looks too suspicious, I ALWAYS double-check in a monolingual dictionary. 98.9% of the time, the translated word(s) in a bilingual dictionary are out of context, or simply wrong. I'm therefore not surprised that free services on the internet make even bigger mistake: to begin with, translating full sentences!

[Sip]

This, coming from someone who's monitor just died