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Why is that sad? No one automatically knows they should sit a certain way, or take breaks every x minutes.
--Mike--
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I think that lots of people care.
I also think that there are people that take their health for granted.
Do you care about your health, what do you do to maintain it?
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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I have a PC at home and at work. In addition to taking regular breaks,
At home, I use a right handed mouse (I'm mainly right handed for most activities).
At work, I use a left handed mouse (with the buttons switched too).
Benefits:
1) Creates variation and therefore reduces the risk of RSI
2) Annoys the hell out of anyone who want's to use my computer
By the way, does anyone use wrist rests for keyboard or mouse?
I think thay could be more harmful since they compress the area of the wrist that they are 'designed' to protect.
Paresh Solanki
There are only 10 types of people in this world:
those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
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I have nice squishy wrist wrests on my mouse pads. For the keyboard I don't need one - you shouldn't be resting your wrists on anything if you have your hands in the proper position.
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Have you tried the intellimouse optical mouse by Microsoft, I was just wondering if you knew if they make it for left handed use.
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Not yet. I actually prefer the shape of the standard mouse
I'm not really left handed, I just configure my mouse at work that way
Paresh Solanki
There are only 10 types of people in this world:
those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
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Paresh Solanki wrote:
I'm not really left handed, I just configure my mouse at work that way
I can relate that.
I had a boss once that had a graphic arts degree and he told me that he was taught to use his left hand for drawing with the mouse since the right-side of the brain controls both artistry and your left hand. I don't know how much merit that actually holds, but he was right handed as well.
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Paresh Solanki wrote:
2) Annoys the hell out of anyone who want's to use my computer
If you're left handed, it comes for free
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Adept person me thinks = yoda speak
Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer
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I have stopped slamming my forehead down on my keyboard when things don't work correctly the first time out. I now wait until I have tried it twice
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PJ Arends wrote:
I have stopped slamming my forehead down on my keyboard when things don't work correctly the first time out. I now wait until I have tried it twice
I suppose that might work
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Matt Newman wrote:
I suppose that might work
Oh, it does. I bang my head only half as much now, thus cutting down the chance of a serious injury by 50%
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I suppose it reduces the weird typos too
- Matt Newman / Windows XP Activist
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Hmmm. I'll have to try that. I keep getting rug burn from banging my head on the cubicle walls...
"Think of it as evolution in action." - 'Oath of Fealty' by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
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if you only bang your head on the keyboard half as often, then you are twice as likley to get injured. since you are madder when you hit your head from something not working twice, then you hit your head twice as hard. The best option is to get a one-hand keyboard, configure it for programming, and get one of the squeze things for your other hand. It really works!
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I really feel sorry for all the persons who suffer from RSI. I don't think it's a real disease, it's something between your ears..
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But then again, I could be wrong.
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I don't believe it is hype for one moment, as I have experienced it, and my father suffers from as it as a result of his work, but I do believe it is not universal.
In my youth (sic) I stayed up for almost 36 hours playing a damned computer game, and at the end it hurt tremedously to operate my right hand. It died away with time (the pain, not my hand obviously!), and I haven't had the urge to repeat the experience yet.
My father suffers from RSI in his legs, hands and neck. It is as bad as (I'm not even going to attempt to spell this) arthritis in many respects.
I expect you have suffered from RSI in the past, though you may not have realised it. For instance, have you ever done a repetative strenuous activity after a long time of abstinance (i.e. riding a bike, carrying lots of heavy objects, walking a large distance)? If so, you will no doubt feel your muscles aching unusally more than "normal" when you've stopped - that is essentially RSI. The difference is that regulary doing the activty will not improve it.
However, it is I suppose between you ears, as that is surely where the pain is interpretted. Brain transplants with mentally damaged people should therefore be ale to cure RSI.
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I still believe it's a hype at this moment. For centuries people have been doing the same work, everyday, over and over again, and nobody complained. However, since somebody invented he had a little pain in the arm (either from jacking off or from moving the mouse a little), the entire world seem to suffer from it? I really don't think so..
Note: above is my opinion. I don't mean to offence anybody but I do feel the need to tell this, since I've had some colleagues who complained every freakin' day about RSI, without even knowing how to spell it
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www.marbus.net
But then again, I could be wrong.
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AlexMarbus wrote:
For centuries people have been doing the same work, everyday, over and over again, and nobody complained.
For centuries, mankind has done work which does not involve sitting in the same position, peering at a screen and making the same, single, small, repetitive movement over and over, sometimes at 120 x the average length of a word times a minute. It's actually in your back, although the pain is in your arms, and it relates to sitting in the same position, and the effect this has on your spine.
AlexMarbus wrote:
but I do feel the need to tell this, since I've had some colleagues who complained every freakin' day about RSI, without even knowing how to spell it
Let me reiterate - you really are quite ignorant. you have as much right to say something doesn't exist because you've not experienced it as I have to say that period pain is a crock.
Christian
I am completely intolerant of stupidity. Stupidity is, of course, anything that doesn't conform to my way of thinking. - Jamie Hale - 29/05/2002
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You are an ignorant clown. Screw you and the horse you rode in on.
Christian
I am completely intolerant of stupidity. Stupidity is, of course, anything that doesn't conform to my way of thinking. - Jamie Hale - 29/05/2002
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Christian Graus wrote:
You are an ignorant clown. Screw you and the horse you rode in on.
Sonorked as well: 100.13197 jorgen
FreeBSD is sexy.
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Wow.. don't get mad at me? I was telling my opinion. Didn't you see the sentence started with " I don't think .."?
I may have gone a little too far. What I was trying to say was, that in my opinion, only 10% of the people who say they suffer RSI really do. The rest of them are just a bunch of 'clowns who should screw themself and the horst they rode in on" (?)
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www.marbus.net
But then again, I could be wrong.
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AlexMarbus wrote:
Wow.. don't get mad at me? I was telling my opinion. Didn't you see the sentence started with " I don't think .."?
My neck and shoulders hurt ALL the time, and my arms hurt *most* of the time, and you want me to settle down when you say it's a farce ?
AlexMarbus wrote:
What I was trying to say was, that in my opinion, only 10% of the people who say they suffer RSI really do. The rest of them are just a bunch of 'clowns who should screw themself and the horst they rode in on" (?)
I still disagree. How can you possibly say that ? How can you tell ?
Christian
I am completely intolerant of stupidity. Stupidity is, of course, anything that doesn't conform to my way of thinking. - Jamie Hale - 29/05/2002
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I think, Christian, it is time you dropped some of your free-time projects.
I don't know any other profession where people do for hobby the same thing they do at work. It is just too much.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
I think, Christian, it is time you dropped some of your free-time projects.
Done that, weeks ago. Many screensaver features did not make it because I pretty much stopped, and I've not taken anything else on, except a Dr Dobbs article, which I can dictate to the PC with Dragon Naturally Speaking.
Christian
I am completely intolerant of stupidity. Stupidity is, of course, anything that doesn't conform to my way of thinking. - Jamie Hale - 29/05/2002
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