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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?"
Turn your monitor sideways. If only all problems were this easy to solve!
Dual monitors. One mounted sideways.
The only real downside here is making background images that span both and line up.
I too had the same complaints when looking for monitors a couple months ago... and no, I didn't end up with a lot of vertical... 1920x1080 (and a 1080x1920).... Horizontally, said monitor is wide enough to view three entire pages in Word, side by side, without wasting space.
I totally agree. The amount of vertical space needs to be tighter.
No, I'm not quoting. I'm simply speaking my mind. I'm not claiming to be the first to think so, however.
In my case, violence is generally on my side. Been training in martial arts for forty years now; the very few times violence has been offered to me, I responded in kind and the attacker did not prevail. The bit about my lady's favors was not a hypothetical. She didn't fight back - but I did. The details shall remain fuzzy as I don't subscribe to the "only offer as much force as is offered you" social idiocy; suffice it to say that it would be impossible for that event to repeat itself in the same fashion with the same characters.
The people who claim violence is never appropriate are never very sophisticated individuals. I don't hold it against them. They're entitled to their opinions, even though they are quite obviously wrong.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.