Quote: Original post by benryves
I spend the most time in front of a monitor out of my immediate family, yet am the only one who doesn't wear glasses. Read into that what you will! [smile]

Same.

i have great eyes and stare my whole day long at work and at home into screens. no loss in quality. i see very crisp details (i could use >fullhd res on a 24" screen), i see very rapid changes (i can see the flickering of >60hz stuff), all fine.

and i'm a wellknown nerd, no glasses needed :) (then again, i'm out clubbing with my notebook with me, and it's a portable convertible tablet, so i'm quite easy to spot :))

I've been wearing glasses since I was 2, and I don't recall playing the computer then.

Since then, there are times when I CAN SEE without glasses. So my eyes are actually improving.

coming for a 3rd world country, i went through life without knowing that i really need a glass. the problem is that i'm far sighted? (i cannot see far thing). i always sit at front in class, in lecturers, read books just fine. it was after going for the doctor for other thing, where eye check is part of it, then I knew that there's something wrong with my eye. after wearing a glass, i can see further than before. by then i was 21 or 22.

i think it's related to being in welding & workshop environment without safety gear more than screen computer related.

I think glasses can greatly improve sexiness of someone (except for horn-rimmed and overly extravagant ones, of course).

About nerdom: From my experience, a lot of non-nerds and non-geeks actually need to carry glasses, but compared to geeks/nerds/intellectuals they are to shy to wear them*


* Is this because geeks+co. can better observe themselves and see how normal glasses are these days, i.e. how they don't really care about whether some stranger carries glasses or not? Whereas the non-geek+co. barely enters the Meta Level of Things?

Quote: Original post by FableFox
the problem is that i'm far sighted? (i cannot see far thing).

cannot see far thing == near sighted == can see near thing
cannot see near thing == far sighted == can see far thing
cannot see any thing == blind
can see everything == focus stacking cyborg eyes

Quote: Original post by Dave

Quote: Original post by benryves
I spend the most time in front of a monitor out of my immediate family, yet am the only one who doesn't wear glasses. Read into that what you will! [smile]

Same.

Same here as well. But then I haven't had my eyes tested for over twenty years so it may be that I'm just used to everything being blurry.

Guess who I bumped into in the opticians yesterday? EVERYBODY Mwhahaha

Quote: Original post by phresnel

Quote: Original post by FableFox
the problem is that i'm far sighted? (i cannot see far thing).

cannot see far thing == near sighted == can see near thing
cannot see near thing == far sighted == can see far thing
cannot see any thing == blind
can see everything == focus stacking cyborg eyes

he.. he.. he.. English is not my first language. Anyway, does anyone here used those glasses with a lot of small dots. does it works?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_glasses
http://www.myopia.org/conspiracy.htm
http://www.myopia.org/pinholes.htm

Whoa. There are conspiracy even for this kind of thing!

My eyes are fine, I do not wear glasses.

I do have to shave may palms regularly, though.

OK, I admit that after age 47 I got reading glasses so I can see the text on my @*^%)#& phone. That has nothing to do with using a computer, that has to do with age. My wife had to get progressives, and she goes nowhere near a computer.

I've had strabismus since my creation, which I have reason to believe slightly impacts reading speed and, more importantly, coding speed [sad]. Aside from that, I feel like I can see without glasses.

Quote: Original post by szecs
I've been wearing glasses since I was 2

I do believe I've got you beaten by a few months.[grin]

Quote: Original post by Ivko
From what I've seen, looking at monitors/TV isn't linked to causing bad vision, against the popular belief.

I'm inclined to agree, considering all the studies showing that games may improve eyesight, and not just hand-eye coordination.

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Quote: Original post by Talroth
Personally, I love wearing glasses. I couldn't tell you the number of times a very serious injury was reduced to a minor one by having my glasses take the brunt of the damage.

On the other hand if they shatter it can actually be quite a bit worse!

Aye, like

">this poor lass. (WARNING: NOT FOR THE DELICATE.)

EDIT: Messed up one of the quote blocks.

[Edited by - shuma-gorath on January 3, 2011 1:24:47 PM]