[ale] OT: Office lighting

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 11:39:33AM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:

> Stuffed Crust wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 11:01:34AM -0400, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> >
> >>Flourescent is what I'm slowly putting throughout the house - makes it
> >>easier to air condition. 8-) Putting the lighting & fan on a separate


> >The problem I have with flourscent lighting is flicker.  They flicker at
> >60Hz, which is slow enough for me to be able to seee.. and gives me
> >quite a headache if I'm around 'em for more than a couple of hours.

> Ah, another reason to not go with flourescent.  Thanks, I'd forgotten 
> the flicker issue.  Damn, what now.  I guess I'm back to non-flo 
> lighting as there are times when I spend >10 hours in here...

	There may be reasons, but that's not one of them.  If you
have to worry about the 120 Hz (not 60 Hz) flicker of those lights,
you better never go to a movie which flickers at 24 Hz.

> > - Pizza



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> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?

	Mike
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