Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels?

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Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 6, 2010 @04:50AM from the for-you-uriah dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Switching from 1600x1200 to wide 1680x1050 to HD 1600x900, we are losing more and more vertical space, thus it is becoming less and less simple to read a full A4 page or a web page or a function call. What's the solution for retaining the screen height we need to be productive?"

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Simple really... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-06 04:54 · Score: 5, Funny

As you loosen the screen requirements to a less-stringent format, the vertical pixels flatten since the horizontal pixels cannot support the additional weight.
-AC
A good way to prevent loosing monitors by bilbravo · 2010-10-06 04:54 · Score: 3, Funny

Is to make sure they are fastened down properly!

Geez, get a new editor!

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1. Re:A good way to prevent loosing monitors by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-06 05:03 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Geez, get a new editor!
  From the guy talking about preventing "loosing" monitors.
2. Re:A good way to prevent loosing monitors by Abstrackt · 2010-10-06 05:16 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Geez, get a new editor!
  From the guy talking about preventing "loosing" monitors.
  TFA uses "loosing" instead of "losing". For once, I think the complaint was about someone else's editor.
  
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The URL for the article by Pojut · 2010-10-06 04:56 · Score: 4, Funny

http://www.len.ro/2010/10/why-am-i-loosing-screen-height-on-each-new-laptop/
Maybe because you haven't tightened it enough?

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Re:Rotate by blueZ3 · 2010-10-06 04:58 · Score: 3, Funny

You think that's hard, you should try switching to Dvorak!

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Re:Sideways! by DevConcepts · 2010-10-06 05:00 · Score: 5, Funny

But then my neck hurts at the end of the day from turning my head....
Re:90 turn by sjs132 · 2010-10-06 05:02 · Score: 2, Funny

Would that not put the second monitor looking down against your desk? |/_ ??
Is it more productive for coding because now you cannot surf Youtube or read Slashdot when you should be coding? That would increase my productivity too. :)

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Re:90 turn by Boona · 2010-10-06 05:08 · Score: 3, Funny

Nope, facing the ceiling. But, I have a mirror installed up there so it all works out.
Re:Turn that frown! by aquila.solo · 2010-10-06 05:14 · Score: 2, Funny

:-(

And then?
Re:Loose potrait mode for good, and go with landsc by SharpFang · 2010-10-06 05:19 · Score: 2, Funny

PHP3 prevented you to perform -any- operations in class member variable initialization. Not even string constants concatenation, so you could split lines to avoid run-on statements.
I once had to initialize a string with a very, very long (non-SQL) database request and couldn't even split that. I ended up with a single line over 2000 characters long, which ended with ";//sorry

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The REAL solution? by countSudoku() · 2010-10-06 05:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Try scrolling your document to see the portions above or below the screen using the handy scroll bar to the right or left of your document. It's amazing! You only work with one page at a time anyway, get over not seeing all of it, or just print it out, gammit!
Also, why can't I have a screen view that flips 180 so I can watch movies upside-down? Fix that before we "fix" not being able to scroll, I mean, "view" your +5 Tall Document of Nonsense. Don't make me come down there! Get on my lawn and subscribe to my newsletter!

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Re:Solution by travisco_nabisco · 2010-10-06 06:28 · Score: 5, Funny

I find rotating my monitor 45 degrees gives me the best of both worlds, more vertical pixels in some spots, more horizontal in others. Unfortunately I can't make WinXP play nicely with it.