New Addicted User

[hmmm]

Hey guys I recently found this website and read 1984. I'm going to sue you guys for glasses. My eyes are killing me from spending all those hours reading Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. A great read indeed despite its blinding tendencies. Well I'm glad to have found this site and I look forward to reading books and talking to everyone.

[den]

You can get cheap reading glasses at many stores nowadays, you should get out more and stop reading so much! :D

j/k

glad you like the site!

[simon]

Don't frighten the patients den.

[subterranean]

well try to save some more instead of buying the glasses then u could save your eyes

[Admin]

LCDs are supposedly better than CRTs for eye strain.

[Taliesin]

LCD? Is it a drug?

And what is CTR?

[den]

Liquid Crystal Display

versus

Cathode Ray Tube

[Stanislaw]

I originally found this site looking for 1984 stuff aswell.

[seeker]

and what is a cathod ray tube?

actually the first thing that came to mind for me form CRT was catheder...

[den]

It is the vacuum tube thingy in your television... or computer monitor.

A typical example of a liquid crystal display is on a calculator. They're also making very expensive computer monitors and televisions etc. with same technology. I don't know why they cause less eyestrain, but they're really cool and I want one!



and what is a cathod ray tube?

[ajoe]

Hey, I just read about that in my chemistry textbook: Fast-moving electrons excite the gas in the cathode-ray tube, causing a glow between the electrodes.

[Admin]

CRTs flicker, that image you're seening is really an image that is being flashed repeatedly at a rate of 60 hertz or whatever, you can't consciously see it but your eyes do and that is what causes strain. LCDs do not flicker, the image you see is constant.

They have also seriously come down in price. I've used one since '99, my first one was 15 inches and cost $990. My wife uses that one now (it still works fine 5 years later) and my new one is 18 inches, I think it was $350. You can get 15 inch ones now for around $200 -- and they're sharper and more colorful than the $990 one I bought in '99. Every once in awhile Dell will have a 20% off sale or 20% off coupon, thats when I buy.

[fayefaye]

I go more blind by the day... with or without my glasses or computer screen :) :D ;) [squints into space]

[rocksea]

why don't u try an anti-glare if u cant try LCD for the time being?
it helps.

[Jay]

lol, rocksea... like your idea, definitely have to use the anti-glare... esp. on some really annoying people around over here ... :D

[subterranean]

Jay...i wonder who that is...?! :D

[Jay]

Wow, took you ages to get the hint ;):D lol.
Originally was meant to people around here as in... the Czech rep ;), but now that you mentioned that... :p;)

[Riddick]

one could also change the refresh rate on their monitor to cut down on the flickering.