An office with "library rules"

Re:An office with "library rules" by fusiongyro on Monday December 10, 2012 @04:52PM (#4901713)

Some of that is intentional. I've heard lore about people eating faster and getting out sooner if the restaurant is louder.

Also heard lore about casinos using extremely bright and dizzying carpet designs to get you to avert your eyes from the floor, and onto the gambling equipment.

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Re:An office with "library rules" by up_and_up on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @12:25AM (#4903164)

"the carpets are deliberately designed to obscure and camouflage gambling chips that have fallen onto the floor. The casinos sweep up a huge number of these every night. So the carpets are just another source of revenue."

http://gizmodo.com/5628834/the-ugly-carpets-of-vegas-are-hid...

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Re:An office with "library rules" by roel_v on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @04:30AM (#4903783)

Would there be money in machine vision to recognize fixed-layout outliers on regular patterns (i.e., fallen chips on the carpet) and scouring casino floors for a night?

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Re:An office with "library rules" by alexkus on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @07:41AM (#4904289)

Not if you read the second update to that page.

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Re:An office with "library rules" by jlgreco on Monday December 10, 2012 @05:15PM (#4901816)

I can definitely believe there is some truth to the casino carpet one. Las Vegas carpets are the only thing that has ever made me suspect I might have photosensitive epilepsy. I don't, but those carpets more than anything else in that city give me crippling headaches.

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Re:An office with "library rules" by trhtrsh on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @12:30AM (#4903178)

But everything else in the casino is bright and dizzying, too....

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