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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?"
Your screens are getting more dpi and more inches per screen. You're getting relatively fewer vertical pixels because you're simply getting more horizontal pixels. This is an improvement, especially considering most people don't need tall screens. If you're one of the few who do, do what the guy posted and rotate 90 degrees.
It's sad, but it seems everyone has fallen for the 'wider is better' idea.
Don't think of it as 1920x1080. Think of it as two 960x1080 areas.
At home I currently only have one monitor but if am reading a document or digital comic I turn the monitor sideways.
The first thing you need to do to become more productive is to pull your head out of your ass.
A wide 16:9 screen is two screens perfectly aligned side to side. You are indeed part of a unimportant and insignificant minority, but only because you faild at seeing the adventages of larger work space.
I don't have that problem in either Mac OS X or Ubuntu. I don't know what you're talking about. Who puts words in their menu's anyway.
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The loss of vertical pixels is irritating, but it is only one aspect of the fact that so many monitors are formatted for watching movies. Surely computers are used mostly as computers and only sometimes as televisions - why do they all have to have this stupid, inefficient wide format?
Anyway, the other aspect of this problem is the overall loss of resolution. Twenty years ago, as a grad student, I bought a CRT monitor (24", iirc) that let me work comfortably at 2560x2048. This was great for programming, or indeed any sort of technical work!
That monitor was a standard, if somewhat expensive, Viewsonic product. Try finding an equivalent monitor today. If you are willing to shell out for a 30" monitor, you still won't find anything better than 2560x1600.
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you're an idiot.
don't buy peripherals that destroy your interface, or customize your interfaces for your personal installation.
the existence of this story shows that you're all idiots.