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I don't have carpal tunnel, but I do have Tendonitis in both my wrists (and my toes wtf). My joints pop more than an early 90's raver. Anyways, all what I can say is chill out on it like every 20 mins, works for me. GLHF.

TheUberKnight

Yeah I think I have that because the same happens to me. I have to crack my knuckles, etc.

Sorry, but I'm not gonna read all the posts... Instead, I'll just post my thoughts.

1) I'm really sorry to hear that, man. That really sucks. I had a moderate case of carpal a few years back due to seriously geeking out on Warcraft II for 40 some hours straight. (it had JUST come out. :) ) I rested for a day and did daily rotation exercises and the pain went away within 3 days.

2) You NEED to situate your keyboard and mouse better!

A)If your chair doesn't have armrests, please get one that does! It helps! IMMENSELY! ( and make sure it is raised to a comfortable position)

B) When using your mouse and keyboard, make sure your wrist (just beyond your wrist joint (further towards your elbow)) is resting comfortably on the table. If you feel even a hint of a cramp, re-evaluate and re-adjust your hand postion! (consider getting ergonomic pads, they may help)

C) Wrist exercises! Take a break every now and then and then clutch your hands in a fist. Pull them inwards so it makes a cobra-like shape, and then rotate them in a circular fashion. This will help A LOT!

D) You may want to use wrist gueards. I know a lot of people who do this. There is no shame, especially whilst in recovery.

E) Forearm exercises. Get a wrist/forearm/grip exercise device. I use an old fashioned forearm grip tool and it does wonders for me. Granted, I have Popeye forearms, but it has helped me prevent carpal where many of my colleagues have succumbed to it.

BTW, I am a graphic designer (with hopes to break into the game industry), so I work at my computer for vast spans of time. (during really bad times, I am at my computer for days on end (sometimes sleeping on my keyboard (with my keyboard pillow))) Personally, the best thing you can do is get an ergonimic cussion for your mouse hand (this is where I, personally, encounter the most wrist strain) and use a forearm/wrist exerciser to increase your strength. And I cannoty emphasize the wrist/forearm/grip exerciser enough! (same with ergonimc pads if your chair does not have arm rests)

(quick story: I had a classmate that had to wear a wrist guard due to repeated carpal pains. I bought her a forearm grip exerciser and within a month she stopped wearing the guard and hasn't had a problem since. Beware, though! No matter how strong your wrists are, improper positioning CAN and WILL cause severe problems! Make sure your enviroment is ergonimically fit for your use!!!! )

-edit- BTW!!!!!

I should also mention that I have broken my left wrist 2 times and my right wrist 4 times, and I have only had carpal once. (which was, ironicaly, before I broke either wrist) I attribute this to the fact that amongst my daily regiment of calisthenetic exercises I aslo do regular grip exercises which help strenthen my wrist. Keep in mind that click, click, twitching for hours on end is an intense workout, especially if you do not regularly exercise the conjunctive body parts that facilitate these activities!

FYI, not sure where you got the 2.4GHz from (it does matter), but sometime the GHz rating for AMD doesn't translate too well to (what most manufacturer's use) the Intel GHz equivalent.

In other words; sometimes the GHz of an AMD chip is vastly understated to what its Intel equivelant should be. (ie: a 2.4 GHz AMD = 3.2 GHz Intel)

Without getting into the nitty-gritty of chip design, keep in mind that most game requirements use Intel requirements. Usually AMD proccessors quote the "equivalent" GHz rating, to make things easier for us gamers (but not always). Unfortunately, I cannot tell you whether your "rated" GHz is "Intel equivalent" or not, as I, personally, use only Intel (for reasons other than gaming).

Other than that, listen to ProudLarry. :) (BTW, AMD is considered better for gaming. I could get into why that is, but it might be confusing and, most likely, pointless. ;) )

Life = Eat, Mate, Sleep, Rinse and repeat... everything can be simplified :roll:Kev_Boy

lol Too true. I mean, Half Life 2's combat is formulaic, FEAR's, The Suffering's, FarCry's, Prey's... heck, even STALKER becomes formulaic after a whilst. The thing that Doom3 needed to do more of was baddies dropping from the ceiling works, crawling up from under catwalks and stuff. Like in Aliens Vs. Predator playing as the Marine. Man, that was some scary stuff!

Firstly, A-S_FM sumed it up pretty well. Secondly, people had all sorts of crazy expectations. Then there was also the "it's so dark and I can't always have my flashlight out!" moan and groan. (though, I thought FEAR did a good job with this by making the falshlight have limited use tme) C'mon! It's suppossed to be dark! It's called atmosphere! Then there's the problem with people wanting something other than a corridor shooter.

Regarding oxygen for when you go outside; it's Mars. IMO, it helped add a nice realistic touch. When you're outside you also slow down too, due to Mars' higher gravity.

Also, to those saying the level design was uninspired, I say, "wha!?!?!" True, Doom3 is a corridor shooter, but compare Doom3's levels with that of FEAR. I love all of the machinery and personally thought the level design was incredibly well done, very rich, and incredibly intricate and detailed. Half the time you don't even interact with the machinery and it's juts there spinning, loading, gizmos doing whatever in the backgriound and it adds a lot of depth.

I will agree that, perhaps, there could have been more and that iD could have shaken things up a bit more too keep the gameplay from becoming repetitive... But I truly feel that Doom3 was a victim of its own hype. So many people expected so much from it. And when they playedthe game, it didn't live up to their wildly high expectations. The same happens with movies all the time. People go in expecting something miraculous and awe-inspiring, and when it turns out to simply be "good" or "well done and entertaining" they get pissed. I thought Star Wars part 3 was fairly decent, but because it had to live up against some impossible nostalgic memory of how incredibly great the first 3 movies were, there was no way it could ever compete.

IMO, Doom3 did a lot of things right. There are a few things they could have done better, but iD seems to be a company more oriented towards making engines than games nowadays. The last game iD put out before Doom3 was QuakeIII. (No, iD didn't develop Return to Castle Wofenstein, Quake IV, nor will they be developing Quake Wars, or the Wolfenstein sequel) And the next game they put out will be a new IP and a new engine. Hopefully, with a new IP, iD's next game will get a fair assessment devoid of sky-high expectations.

Let me ask one question: 1)In any and all Mac-ads, have you ever seen Apple really advertise any of the strong points of their machines? 2)Or do they just try to make the PC come off as crap?

I've never seen or heard them say anything positive about their own machines. All they do is whine about 'how aweful and complicated and boring' PC's are. They don't really have any strong points themselves.

3)Thusly, I conclude that Macs are crap and PCs are great.

Oh, and I am occasionally forced to use Macs for schoolwork. 4)Takes me twice as long to do something on a Mac then to do thesame thing on a PC. For example, starting any random app. Slow, crappy machines.

Dakrath87

2)Yep. And anyone with a brain and knows anything about computers sees right throught it. However, the commercials do win over the ignorant fools and hardens the Apple faithful. (Look! We're cool! Our comuters just work! Except when they don't...) The best example is the commercial where the Mac says he's gonna go make a website and make a movie, yadda yadda. The Pc says he has to download drivers, read manuals etc. This is so BS.

First, if you need to read a manual for a PC then you're gonna have to read a manual for Mac too. Macs do not give you telekenetic enlightenment and knowledge, no matter how much Steve Jobs says it might. Secondly, you can't make an f-ing movie with a Mac unless you paid for a instal package that came with iMovie. Why? Because iMovie is no longer bundled with OS X. But Windows Movie Maker is freely bundled with XP. Everything the Mac says and the PC say should actually be reversed. A PC is the more "fun geared" machine with gaming and appas galore. The Mac is the nerdy workhorse.

3)Um. Okay. That's an f-ing ignorant way to come to a conclusion. Both are good OSes. They just have very different strengths.

4)And this never happens with a PC? Most likely either A) the machine is old and they are using a newer OS that is choking the machine or B) there are too many apps concurrently running that are hogging up resources. It's just like on a PC. If too many progs are running at once, you need to close some of them down or else your comp will slow down. The Mac OS is actually less of a resource hog than XP, and even more so that Vista. (Vista is a morbidly obese system hog)

Anayways, I'm drunk and tired. And it's 4:30 AM. Goodnight. And don't let reality hit you in the ass. 

It's bs macs are better for multimedia.

I use a mac when Im studying design at school, we have the new core 2 duo ones. Photoshop is better on a PC, more intuitive controls/shortcuts.

There are no advantages of using macs, if macs were so superior then they wouldnt need to have bootcamp would they.

ElectricNZ

Seriously... WTF are they teaching you? Don't make me send out Klaus Heesch to straighten you out. ;)

Macs are for people who dont know how to use computer and want to make pretty pictures. they suck. they are in no way better than a PC, just more Idiot friendly. Real computer users use PCs. Apples are for hippies and french people.BenTheJamin

I don't like Apple. I don't like Steve Jobs. I don't even own an iPod. As amatter of fact, I detest Steve Jobs and think Apple is a joke of a company with overpriced, shoddy, generic hardware that they pawn off on unsuspecting nimrods that think because it has an Apple logo that it automatically means quality. It's like Volkswagon. Yeah, at one point in time VWs were great and would last forever. Those days are gone, and have been for some time now. VW nowadays sells shoddy cars that are horrendously prone to all sorts of various failures.

However, as a graphic designer, I can tell you that there are indeed benefits to a Mac. I enjoy my OSX86 Hackintosh, and I enjoy the benefits of the Mac OS. It's kind of funny, but there are many tools that most PC users would scoff at that are actually very powerful and wonderfully made.iCal (Mac's calendar program) is a good example. "Pfft! A calendar!? Whoopty doo! lol", most would say. I used to be one. But I can tell you that the iCal is great. Bossman makes the schedule, uploads it, and BAM! everyonw has their schedule for the week. You can e-mail it to yourself or print it if you want. You can even see what other projects people are working on and what other people's schedules are like.

Anywho... I'm not a Mac fanboy by any means,  but I feel that I should address the horrible misconceptions that you guys are fostering and brewing. If you don't know what you're talking about, then pehaps you shouldn't be rabbling on like you do.