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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: *Linked Within Post* | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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Computer screens are sliding into a kind of middle-aged spread, becoming both bigger and wider. While mostly a good thing, the change is driven more by the needs of manufacturers than the demands of consumers. Big widescreen monitors can make it easier to do several things at once, but they also can put an unnecessary dent in the wallet. The full extent of this shape-shifting transformation hit me in early January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. | ||
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| #1 By 8556 (12.217.111.92) at 1/30/2006 10:23:07 AM |
| This article has merit. I installed a new PC with a 19" widescreen (1440 x 900) monitor a week ago for a local township Clerk. She wonders how she ever got by looking at spreadsheets on 4:3 screens. This is the way to go for under $300 for the monitor. Customers love 'em. |
| #2 By 1401 (65.255.137.20) at 1/30/2006 11:16:47 PM |
| Kinda like most women's butts - getting bigger and wider... |
| #3 By 7754 (65.27.90.2) at 1/30/2006 11:37:02 PM |
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I always wonder why the portrait-style screens never really took off. Some monitors pivot, of course, but most implementations are not very seamless (except on the convertible Tablet PCs). If most people spend most of their time in Word, it seems to me that a taller, rather than wider, monitor would be helpful. Perhaps with things like the Sidebar on their way, this makes less sense, though.
#2... true, true, although this isn't the case in all parts of the world. Take SE Asia, for example... they don't have diet pop or fat-free food or low-carb diets, yet men and women of all ages there are generally thin; it is quite rare to find a fat person. This post was edited by bluvg on Monday, January 30, 2006 at 23:46. |
| #4 By 12071 (203.214.147.215) at 1/31/2006 5:28:15 AM |
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I'd love a nice 21" widescreen - was thinking about getting a tv/monitor for a while but the ones I've seen don't have a high enough resolution to make them fantastic as a monitor. The problem I have is that I'm used to maximising all the windows rather than having several side-by-side so the whole widescreen experience is lost for nearly everything but movies and games.
#2/#3 And most of Europe as well, take a look at the French diet for example, it's definitely one of the richest but you will struggle to find too many fat french women! Which all goes to show that all that diet, 99% fat free crap is just that... crap. |
| #5 By 23278 (12.11.161.5) at 1/31/2006 10:36:50 AM |
| I have dual moniters set up on my home desktop and a wide screen laptop, but at work I have your standard moniter. At home I use my computer for everything under the sun so having the screen to more or less dump items I don't need to have right in front of me like AIM, MSN messenger, WMP, etc it makes working so much easier. I'm not always clicking to change a song then to go back to my work or anything like that. I can set it up so I can always see my buddy lists as apposed to always finding the buddy list first. I think most people who go widescreen won't go back. |
| #6 By 7754 (65.27.90.2) at 1/31/2006 2:22:46 PM |
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What is interesting about dual monitors is that it isn't equivalent to one huge monitor that has as much or more real estate as the two duals. I think people naturally use two differently than they would one very large monitor, but I think it also indicates a weakness in current desktop management. When you have dual monitors, you can associate different apps with one or the other monitor, so when you maximize, it fills up the screen for just that monitor. On one large screen, you don't have that kind of control (not out-of-the-box in Windows, anyhow). The tools for window management (tiling, for example) are fine, but cumbersome when compared to dual monitors. From what I've seen, most people tend to run their apps maximized, even if on a big monitor that leaves them with a lot of unused space. I liken having one monitor to having a desk with enough room for one sheet of paper; dual monitors gives you room for two sheets. That's still not great, but the productivity benefit of being able to have two sheets at a time over just one is huge. I'd go crazy at a desk with room for just one sheet of paper, much as I do when I go back to single monitor setups. :(
#4, I wasn't really taking a stand against fat free, diet, etc., as I think they can be helpful (plus... I may be the oddball, but I like the taste of diet pop much better). In the case of the US, I think it's as much how we eat as anything--the giant portions, the obligation to finish your plate, the relative rarity of family-style eating, our mothers saying we look thin even though we're 10 lbs. heavier.... :) Anyways, I just get tired of hearing all the poor excuses people give for our fatness, as if the US is somehow genetically special. It is enabling behavior. Just look beyond our borders--so many of them aren't fat, so why are we? Incidentally, has anyone tried Dove's Irresistably Raspberry ice cream? It's soooo good.... :) |
| #7 By 12071 (203.185.215.149) at 1/31/2006 9:49:52 PM |
| #6 I just hate the current diet fad that's sweeping all over the place. I hate going shopping trying to find real food, e.g. real yoghurt rather than the 99% fat free, taste free crap that everyone is selling because fat people think they can sit on the couch, eat a tonne of food and not gain weight! |
| #8 By 7754 (65.27.90.2) at 2/1/2006 8:54:01 AM |
| #7, "tonne"--I'm assuming you're from the UK? I can totally understand regarding the yogurt--for whatever reason, you have the best yogurt over there! I can't find anything close in the US. I especially love the ones with the little side tray with the "apple crumble" that you can mix into the yogurt.... There's a little bakery in Edinburgh that has by far the best strawberry tart I've ever been lucky enough to eat, too... time to figure out a way to make a trip back! |
| #9 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 2/1/2006 11:21:59 AM |
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bluvg,
I am 6'5", 300 pounds, just finished a plate of KFC wings, and drive an Explorer that gets 13mpg. You must really hate my ass. :) TL |
| #10 By 7754 (65.27.90.2) at 2/1/2006 12:21:56 PM |
| At 6'5", 300 lbs, you probably won't get too much trouble from me. ;) |
| #11 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 2/2/2006 12:07:13 AM |
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May God bless Tech Larry and Chris Kabuki - real men, advancing the cause of real food for real people.
#8 Nestle brand out the Netherlands...that stuff was so rich you could caulk a boat with it and worth every single gram of pure-heaven sent-saturated fat! #6 I saw a grown man weep today - he described his near three year old son's cleaning out his stock of new Dove bars. If they are anything like any of the others...they have to be amazing. Americans are fat for the same reasons any species piles on pounds...we are successful and are wired to survive. At some level, we are awaiting the next big cold snap and like any successful creature, we've out-sourced the hunting in exchange for what we do offer...protection of the territory, or in our case, making it just a little more stable so that the other less successful hunter killers put up with us laying around the shaded tree. "Dern...he took the kill again...but at least he killed the alpha Hyena female last night - we hated that witch..." |
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