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Donated $50. Happy Saturnalia!
My post was more about competing with other people, not just tracking your own progress...
Chore Wars? http://www.chorewars.com/
Worked for a while in my family - the kids were arguing over who got to clean the toilet for the XP bonus :-)
It happens on Youtube and in Windows Media Player. Quicktime, oddly enough, isn't playing any videos at all; I never actually used it for anything before. (This may be a codec issue. I'll fiddle and see if I can get it to work.)
Update: Apparently, Quicktime for Windows is incompatible with Divx/Xvid codecs, which is why I can't play my .avi files in the Quicktime Player. There is a codec called "3ivx" that is supposed to work, but the creators charge for it.
For YouTube, try right clicking, choose 'Settings...' and uncheck 'Enable hardware acceleration'. Any change?
The problem has persisted through several video card driver updates. :(
Does it do this regardless of the software playing the video e.g. YouTube and VLC or WMP or XMBC or whatever you use to play your videos?
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Yet more "stupid" questions
Another stupid and mostly trivial computer question: When I go into or out of "fullscreen mode" when watching a video, the screen goes completely black for five seconds. (I timed it.) This is annoying. Any advice?
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Open thread, August 26 - September 1, 2013
My wife has constant pain. She describes most if it as "joint pain" and some in her right arm as "nerve pain". The joint pain has been around for about a decade and the right arm pain for about 3 years, ever since what certainly looked like a repetitive stress injury at work (lots of mousing with a desk that was too high).
Doctors have checked her out and haven't found a cause for either. Our possible next steps are:
- Get 2nd (actually 3rd-4th) opinions from local doctors. This feels futile but may still be helpful.
- Hire a doctor whose job it is to actually track down a cause and treatment, not just check for the common, easily detectable possibilities and then effectively give up. I'm not sure how to go about this but it feels like it should be possible for some price.
- Find plausible non-harmful self-treatment options and try them. Possible examples have recently been posted here on NancyLebovitz's Two angle's on RSI.
Suggestions, recommendations, places to look?
Have they checked for rheumatoid arthritis (and not just with a blood test, it doesn't always show)? It took many doctors vists for them to get the correct diagnosis for my wife (despite a history of it in her family).
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MIRI's 2013 Summer Matching Challenge
Donated $50 (on top of my automated monthly donation).
Is anyone actually interested in the weather? I thought it was the stereotypical thing that people turn to when they can't think of anything interesting to talk about.
It is the sterotypical thing to talk about, but the point is not the actual weather. It is signal that they would rather be talking to you than be silent. It's an invitation to start a conversation, since people don't routinely come up to you and say 'I would like to being a conversation with you - please suggest a topic'. They say 'Raining again!' instead.
Sometimes I think destroying the world sounds like a pretty good idea.
Please don't destroy the world. I'm still using it.
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