This is very confusing. My 17-inch regular monitor sits beside the 20-inch widescreen monitor with both in the correct resolution and with absolutely no sign of any stretching or compressing of images on either screen.
Perhaps it is down to the video card you use. Mine allows both to operate as they should, with independent control of the resolution on each monitor.
That is why I recommend this arrangement. Two widescreen monitors would eat a lot of desk space. This way I have the advantage of what is effectively a three-pane arrangement, with the widescreen monitor showing two documents side by side and the 17-inch monitor adding another document.
Nothing is distorted on either screen. And given that the resolutions are within a gnat's crotchet of each other, both are about 27-mm high they line up very nicely.
Must be a rogue monitor I have. It is a Samsung 171s.
The specifications read:
Optimum resolution 1280 x 1024@60Hz
Maximum resolution 1280 x 1024@76Hz
Looks very odd at 1280x960.
A good strategy is to have a widescreen monitor beside a standard format monitor.
I have a 20-inch widescreen (1680x1050) beside a 17-inch standard 1280x1024). They are about the same height. This helps when you switch xsometh8ing from one to the other. The two screens line up nicely pixel to pixel.
The widescreen can hold two portrait format word processor windows, the other monitor can then have something like your email or browser visible. Then you can quickly move between these without having to change the visible windows.
I hope someone else has already pointed out that this is hardly a "slash". It is small change out of a massive amount of money.
The real story is that now that the defender of the budget, Lord Sainsbury, has gone the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) feels that it can raid the science budget to pay for its own incompetent financial management.
It is sad that the UK press has handled this story so badly. They even failed to say where the money has gone. I loved the bit where they take money from the Research Council that supports research in electronics to pay for thew DTI's failure to get its act together on Europe's electronic waste initiatives.
More here: http://michaelkenward.blogspot.com/2007/03/i-am-su rprised-that-none-of-reports.html
The original item poked fun at Madonna for claiming that she is working on nuclear waste:
"I mean, one of the biggest problems that exists right now in the world is nuclear waste... that's something I've been involved with for a while with a group of scientists - finding a way to neutralise radiation." Unfortunately, the "expert" they picked to rebuff her got it wrong. Nick Evans, an environmental radiochemist at Loughborough University tells us that:
"Radioactivity cannot be 'neutralised', it can only be moved from one place to another until it decays away at its own rate. It comes in many different types: some last for billions of years, others decay away in a few minutes. There are no magical solutions." By coincidence, we recently read an item reporting that
"German physicists... have come up with a way of speeding up the decay of nuclear waste. The technique involves embedding the waste in metal and cooling it to ultra-low temperatures." He even puts number on the possible cut in half life:
"We are currently investigating radium-226, a hazardous component of spent nuclear fuel with a half-life of 1,600 years. I calculate that using this technique could reduce the half-life to 100 years." Not quite neutralisation, but not quite "at its own rate" either.
More here:
http://michaelkenward.blogspot.com/2007/01/madonna -was-right.html
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This is very confusing. My 17-inch regular monitor sits beside the 20-inch widescreen monitor with both in the correct resolution and with absolutely no sign of any stretching or compressing of images on either screen. Perhaps it is down to the video card you use. Mine allows both to operate as they should, with independent control of the resolution on each monitor. That is why I recommend this arrangement. Two widescreen monitors would eat a lot of desk space. This way I have the advantage of what is effectively a three-pane arrangement, with the widescreen monitor showing two documents side by side and the 17-inch monitor adding another document. Nothing is distorted on either screen. And given that the resolutions are within a gnat's crotchet of each other, both are about 27-mm high they line up very nicely.
Must be a rogue monitor I have. It is a Samsung 171s. The specifications read: Optimum resolution 1280 x 1024@60Hz Maximum resolution 1280 x 1024@76Hz Looks very odd at 1280x960.
A good strategy is to have a widescreen monitor beside a standard format monitor. I have a 20-inch widescreen (1680x1050) beside a 17-inch standard 1280x1024). They are about the same height. This helps when you switch xsometh8ing from one to the other. The two screens line up nicely pixel to pixel. The widescreen can hold two portrait format word processor windows, the other monitor can then have something like your email or browser visible. Then you can quickly move between these without having to change the visible windows.
I hope someone else has already pointed out that this is hardly a "slash". It is small change out of a massive amount of money. The real story is that now that the defender of the budget, Lord Sainsbury, has gone the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) feels that it can raid the science budget to pay for its own incompetent financial management. It is sad that the UK press has handled this story so badly. They even failed to say where the money has gone. I loved the bit where they take money from the Research Council that supports research in electronics to pay for thew DTI's failure to get its act together on Europe's electronic waste initiatives. More here: http://michaelkenward.blogspot.com/2007/03/i-am-su rprised-that-none-of-reports.html
It is also GMail in the UK