Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels?

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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Re:Solution

[JWSmythe]

    But the government was never entitled to claim the land to distribute to the people either.

    There was a day, not all that long ago, where you could go to an unclaimed area, and say "this is mine, thanks." It is our right as humans to be able to live and thrive. In the United States, there isn't an inch of unclaimed land in the contiguous 48 states. We had a right to go somewhere and live.

    If you are in the US, where ever you are, you are on someone's property. In turn, if that someone doesn't pay their taxes to the government, the government will put their own claim on the land and anything which may remain on it. So, regardless if you're in a private home, driving on the street, or sitting in a lake in the middle of nowhere, you are on US Government property. You do not have the right to be there, you pay for the privilege of renting that land temporarily. Huh?

    Your property taxes are rent for your home.

    Your vehicle taxes and registration fees are rent for the right to put your vehicle on the government's roads, or even on your own property (yes, vehicles without valid registrations on your property can result in a fine).

    Your taxes say that you may have purchased limited rights to be in various places. Don't be too hopeful on those being anything resembling the rights you think you have.

    Here's a little exercise for you. It's a lot harder than it sounds. I've known several people who have tried it with limited success. With the economic downturn, many found themselves without the ability to pay their rent, mortgages, or taxes. If they were only renting an apartment or home, they were removed rather quickly. If they had a mortgage, this took longer, but the end result was the same. For those who couldn't find residences with friends or family, they turned to the only possession that they may have still had, their vehicle.

    Living in a passenger vehicle is possible. I've only done it for days at a time on road trips. Where can you put that vehicle? Parking lots are private property, and it's likely you will be removed. Empty driveways of abandon homes are private property, and you will be removed. Even stopping on the side of the road or on "public" government land, will find you being removed. Hopefully in that "removed", it doesn't involve arrested and impounding of your vehicle. You may find very quickly that ownership of that is actually just rent also, as more than 90 days in jail can find your vehicle being seized by the state and auctioned off, and you won't receive anything from that.

    Exactly what rights do you think you have? You don't have the right of land ownership, forging for food, or even free travel. You have the right to pay for the privilege of having any rights.

Re:Solution

[lennier]

There was a day, not all that long ago, where you could go to an unclaimed area, and say "this is mine, thanks."

Where 'unclaimed' often meant 'inhabited by people who were perfectly happy being there, thanks, and would rather you went politely back where you came from, but since you had firearms and they didn't, they ended up bleeding in a ghetto and stitching together explosive suicide vests in order to make a philosophical point about the transgressive intersubjectivity of the multutude versus the hegemonic oppression of the proletariat'.