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A Dual Monitor Experiment
backBeat writes "This is a descriptive article about one man and his dual monitor odyssey. After reading the snippet I had to read the article: "The productivity increase lasted for about two days. At this point I realized that I could to work on one monitor and watch a full screen DVD on the other. This was pretty cool until I realized how counterproductive it could be. Luckily I am quite adept at concentrating on my writing, while typing, while watching a movie." The Dual Monitor Experiment did not disappoint."
Shouldn't he have had some witty comment on Slashdot on one monitor and his work on the other?
This is not one of those witty comments.
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I work as a ISC in the miltary, or as an IT in the civian sector, I started using duel montiors when I noticed we where using laptops with a docking station, with a hook up montior, it wasn't long before thinking about it I found a way for it to be done, after being able to look at HTML and cheack my e-mail, and surf the web it wasn't long before I wanted to try it in home, The only downfall i encourted was for games the video card had a hard time strugling to keep up both displays and often caused lower fps for most games, with that being said it definally does increase your productive rate, but if you play games alot its not really worth the extra money.
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Q: What's worse than linking to your site in a Slashdot article?
A: Linking to your site twice in a Slashdot article.
Were they scared it wouldn't go down fast enough?
I was considering going the route of dual monitors; but I decided that the more simple solution would be to simply forego my next visit to the optometrist.
The only trouble is getting the "continuous desktop" option on your double vision. . .
Luckily I could go read the article and reply to your post at the same time easily since I have a dual monitor setup! Seriously though, I would rather have a multi-desktop window manager than two big monitors taking up my whole desk any day of the week, at least until I can afford a gigantomondo plasma TV that I can hang on the wall instead.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
I find myself quite *IN GOES THE RED PILL* capableo f concentrating on *HA, HE THINKS THAT'S AIR HE'S BREATHING, LOL!! OMG!! THIS IS THE BEST PART* reading, thinking, *MAN, TRINITY IS TEH ROXXORZZZ* typing and watching a movie *THERE IS NO SPOON LOL!* at the same time.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
it's ok.. he's getting punished via the slashdot effect right about now
I tried to set up two second hand 21" monitors but it simply didn't fit on my desk.
;-)
Now you're just gloating ya lucky SOB
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
The Toothbrush plus Toothpaste experiment.
Umbrella in the rain experiment.
The darkness and light switch experiment.
Send a message to Sal Cangeloso and let him know he's as big a kneebiting jerk as Roland Piquepaille!
What kind of crap is this? The article on Top 10 Technology Innovations that will change our lives at Newsweek gets passed up so we can read about some guy who just discovered he can use two monitors at once???
1 monitor.
/var/log/messages and apache access-logs :)
It sucks.
2 monitors.
good. code on one screen, test on the other.
3 monitors.
even better. code on one screen, test on the other, watch a movie on the 3rd.
code on one screen, test on the other, have your mail / icq / feedreader on the 3rd.
4 monitors.
geek! but i really couldn't find a good purpose for the 4rd one, but it looks cool...
Oh, wait. PuTTY to watch the tail -f
Privacy is terrorism.
-phixxr
ungggghhhh
As a lazy programmer I find I'm much more productive when I have other people do my work for me. This allows me to get ahead in my projects without the necessary work that would normally be required. I have plenty of time to read slashdot as a result and my productivity hasn't been compromised at all!
Dual-headed monitors can be great, espically if your heating system isn't up to much, seems the PC's in my room are the only think keeping it semi-warm :)
duel monitors? so, how many damage do those do, and do you need any special feats or skills to wield them? are they limited to a certain character class?
scnr,
[L]
This is a prime example of why we should always RTFC before blindly RTFA!
I don't wanna hear anymore about how I should RTFA before I do anything else.
Maybe somebody should just pull this story.
Just another angry Monday,
- OrbNobz
No, I refuse to vote. It's a sham.
Maybe the guy is schizophrenic! Think about it: two personalities, one writes the article, then the other one finds it open on the desktop... makes sense, in a schizo-kind of way. But in any case, he needs to get off /. and search help from a psychiatrist, whether he is schizophrenic or not, because he's abusing of our time, and I don't like wasting mine. In fact, I can't read the article because it times out.
But guess what? I did that before he did. Except I thought /. had more interesting things to post than that kinda stupid stuff. Are the moderators of the story half-groggy? I thought they had a little more judgement than that... Guess I was wrong.
---- I am certain of only one thing : I know nothing else.
"Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me ... you can't get fooled again."
I just happen to be messing with a plug-in electricity meter...
$1.19 =... 40 seconds
Admit it. You're just boasting. You wanted us to all know that you've got two big honking monitors, and you're getting paid $107 per hour to screw around with an electric meter.
Insensitive clod!
~Idarubicin