Yes, you're right of course, as I said before, I made the mistake that someone was actually posting a reply to my message, and stating that it's too expensive to have a dual monitor setup, not just using it to post a higher ranking comment about the price of a dual-link card which is needed by the larger monitor (perhaps it was the
"yeah, but", which fooled me).
Of course someone willing to spend like $4500 on monitors may consider $1500 for a single card to drive the two, relatively 'cheap'.
If in 2006 your windowing system, applications, or operating system don't remember your window placement from the last time you ran the application, I would suggest upgrading
If in 2006 you make wild assumptions/ negitive comments about people's computer setups, in a effort to push your comment to the top of the stack, I'd suggest that you rethink your posting strategy. While some confict does tend to foster discussion, you don't always need to go negitive (In particular, wildly negitive) to start an addition to a discussion.
I do use systems which remember window position, its just that the last postion/size isn't usually very useful on the single monitor system. On a dual monitor setup a consistant window startup position is very useful.
This card does not support dual-link. It has two single-link dvi connectors
Your absolutely right, I had made the quick mistake that that guy was commenting on my post and was presenting the dual monitor setup as too expensive, rather just using my relevant 1st post to make his own comment appear higher on the page.
Personally, I think that one the keys of loving a dual monitor set up is to have two monitors of the exact same size, and notching up your mouse speed.
Really, I'd suggest getting the same model, just for the lack of visual differences. For about a week, as I said in a previous reply, I had my old 6 yo 17' CRT as my secondary, and it didn't even come close to being used. Not only was the color off (I really did need a replacement but was waiting for the 19" LCDs to drop to around $300), but the window sizes didn't transfer well. I quickly realized that the three inch difference was much more of a problem than I had anticipated.
As for the mouse speed, it was amazing to find that mouse traverse was actually annoying, but once I realized that issue, it was 'quickly' solved. With the wide aspect screens, such as yours, that you'd have even more 'real estate' to cross.
Many people do all of their work in a single application, and/or manage to keep the number of windowed apps down to a minimum, I am not one of those.
but not too many cards have dual-link dvi and even fewer have 2 dual-link dvi connections.
Well, here's one for $129, also many cards which have one analog and one digital connections will support dual desktops, (the easy way to tell seems to be if there isn't a cable running from the DVI to the analog on the card). With 19" monitors in the range of $200 each, for just about $550 dollars most anyone can update their old CRT to a 'modern' system.
Also, don't even try to keep your old CRT as the secondary monitor, I tried it for about a week, before I ran back to the store and bought a second LCD (the exact same model).
I'm tired of the dual monitor thing, I want one display device on my desk, just make it a very large device.
OTOH, the first thing that crossed my mind was: "How much for for two of them", because I'm that much of a dual-monitor 'convert'. If I had to choose between one 30" or my two 19" monitors, I'd choose the pair, rather than just one. Right now, I've got a 21" at work, and I find myself resizing windows, just to find the perfect balance of window size, far more than my dual monitor set up at home. Also, it's great to leave some 'desktop hogs' such as chat windows, the Google desktop, the task bar, and other items which would grab the entire vertical or horizontal axis, in the 'secondary window'.
I can say, with a great deal of certainty, that you will die in space. As the Earth is in space, so are you now. Perhaps, you mean that you want to die outside the Earth's atmosphere, well, perhaps we'll see how you'll feel when your 'Acme space capsule' warning lights are flashing, Major Tom.
OTOH, it must be nice to have a job where you can make purchasing decisions based on a gut feeling,
The cynic in me thinks that the 'gut feeling' was the same one which seems to drive both our government and business; the satisfaction of a fine meal in the clubhouse, after a golf outing at an exclusive club.
Just because most people are too damned lazy to file until the last possible second doesn't mean that you can't file as soon as the tax forms are available.
Two things...
It was a joke, obviously commenting on how many (perhaps most?) people wait until the last couple of days.
If you actually owe money, as many people do, waiting until the last day lets you earn interest as long as possible (if you have the money put away) or pay as little interest on the credit card (if you don't have the money).
In fact, any good accountant would tell you that it's better to write them a check and send it April 15th than give them an interest free loan. Of course if you keep writing them big checks at the end of the tax season, then they'll make you pay the extra quarterly, so keep it a small check (I really don't know that amount).
What made google so appealing to people was the interface, there was no advertising.
Well what made it appealing to me was the fact that the page was quick to load, and the great search results, both from the page rank, and the commercial ads.
The fact that the main page had no ads to me was a bonus, besides those ads are a distraction from ones purpose on that page. And that purpose is to be delivered ads targeted to their search results. The banner ads take time to download, and often are loud and brash, Google, made a keep a commitment to refuse them. The use of only text allows one a quick comparison for company's offerings.
The past few months I have been using Yahoo more for a few reasons.
Yes, it looks like Yahoo has learned a couple of good lessons about the search business and, like others, is still competitive, which is, of course, a good thing.
All the solutions I could find were just out and out hacks that relied on either java script or knowing one column was going to be longer than the others etc etc.
I'll use CSS for layout when CSS is fixed.
It is fixed, but most people doen't use it. Most of the problems that I have had with layout on a CSS based page were solved when I started to to add this text to the top of each page:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
Yes, that is 'strict' CSS interpitation instead of the 4.x browser compatable 'Transitional' setting.
But why were you expecting an extremist situation anyway?
Duh, because this is, like, Slashdot. Where any topic can become a forum for bashing the U.S. As a left leaning moderate, I find these kinda attitudes from 'foreigners' as disturbing as the attitudes of the 'red line' voters from my country.
I can't say that I have any real information about the history of your country, but I do know that during the 50's, 60's and 70's the cold war did spill over into many smaller countries. Often, this conflict evolved into 'our side' supporting industrialist and urban center middle class and 'their side' supporting disaffected rural poor. Horrible crimes were committed by both sides, often due to tit-for-tat responses which only served to escalate the violence. What most people fail to recognize is that these many of these 'leftist' insurgencies all started to fail when the money from the Soviet Union started to dry up in the 80's. (In some unfortunate countries, such as Columbia, drug money was used to fund their activities). In general, when the upper and middle classes started to feel 'safe', they (often)peacefully overturned the oppressive regimes they allowed to take power, and instituted real democratic reforms.
I could build a giant faraday cage around a theater that blocks all calls, including emergency ones, but buying one of these little devices is illegal?
Yep, you can do anything you like with your building (as long as it's still in compliance with building codes), but these jammers don't care about property rights, or public space. For example, I don't have a land line, if I happen to live next door to a restaurant, movie theater, or just an mean neighbor, a jammer such as that would prevent me from making calls from within my own home. Would that be right?
Fact is your country's debts were a failed experiment in fostering economic growth. A little corruption on our end, a lot of corruption on your end, turn high minded ideas of 'supply side' economics into decades of economic tragedy. Kinda like giving a college kid (with bad grades) $20,000 worth of credit cards. Is it the card companies fault, technically no, but in the end the (now) former college kid hurts (much) more than the card company.
The US government doesn't loan money, it provides loan guarantees to commercial banks, and because we paid for it we insisted that you use (or rather your dictator at the time) use our banks. It was thought that why give 50 million in a gift when you can multiply that into 500 million by using it as an insurance payment, and,oh yea, the bank's CEO got a big bonus for the loan.
When you see a country, such as yours, which needs help (and I do mean really needs help) and is ruled by a dictator, we have one of two options.
Work with the dictator
Overthrow the dictator
Now I don't know how much you read the news lately, but the first option is certainly cheaper for us. We could have ignored your plight altogether, perhaps that might have been better than loading a crushing debt on your economy.
Those debts your country owes the commercial banks (from all over the world, the U.S. wasn't the only one in the loan guarantee 'business'), negotiations are to recover just some of the billions owed, really just pennies on the dollar, as the companies have often already 'written off' the debt. Comercial banks took a big sting from 3rd world debt (not nearly as bad as ya'll though), and are much more careful about how much and who to these days, those negoication are a right step to becoming an economic success. Heck, even the CIA factbook has good things to say about your country.
And, like, what, Communism does this better? I hate simple, common, glib statements. My glib comment on Communism is that 'it's like working for a corporation where where instead of getting fired, you get fired upon'.
It's NOT the computer companies fault things have grown this way. They- like all companies- are a FOR-PROFIT venture, and will do whatever they think is the thing that will garner them the most profit. Period.
The 'business model' where a company quickly releases patches for a buggy new product only works with compelling new products, and when customers only have limited alternatives and a certain level of functionality exists. Sure some could say that their O/S's have been buggy at release, but a complete game system that isn't stable for games released with it, is a new level of incompetence. One that, I believe, the market (both financial and consumer) will punish.
If this is true, and many are experiencing real problems with their new system, Microsoft could be in for some real problems. While some stores may have sold out, my local Best Buy had a fully display case of 360 units at 3pm yesterday, and I am sure that more product is in the pipelines, as the biggest shopping day is this Friday. Not to mention that people will be hesitant to buy new games at $50 bucks a pop for a system which doesn't work for the games they already have. If these reports make the 'national news' (and I think it will), Microsoft is going to have a real hard time selling more of them.
Does anyone know of any (wifi or not) routers (4+ ports) that don't have to be reset every week or so.
Yea, any router which is connected to a cable modem which gets the proper amount of signal.
Sound to me that you are having the same problem which I used to have. There are three things to keep in mind about connecting a cable modem to the cable line.
number of splitters
a cable modem should have no more than two splits, and if you are using a three way splitter, be sure to have the connection chained though the -3.5dB connection.
the splitters themselves
Be sure to use a high quality connector which supports 1-1000mhz (some only support to 900mhz)
the wire
Each of the connection need to be carefully crimped. If you insist on doing your own connections, be sure to use a specilized cutter (they're about $10), and that the new connector fits securely over the exposed cable. Aslo be sure to trim that fat wire in the center, so that it doesn't extend past the connector.
I had all kinds of trouble with my modem, in particular, modem resets, and what seemed to be 'lost IPs', until I called up Comcast and complained. They sent a guy out who spent about an hour checking and solving my connection issues, and yes everything I just described is what I did wrong.
In the world outside the USA, there -is- rational, intellectual debate and it does make a difference. FYI.
So, then you're calling everyone in the U.S. a 'poopyhead'. You 'sir' (and many others) have proven that overgeneralization, and infamitory speach is world-wide.
Winning a debate does not occur when call someone a "poopyhead" enough times.
Well then you haven't been paying attention to politics have you.
One of the most common fallacies (I believe anyways) is that when superficially presented with two conflicting arguments, many people believe that the 'truth is in the middle'. Trouble is that when one is an insane rant (think 40% of Fox News), a logical conclusion if often rejected, however, it's really hard for any fair minded person to go to the opposite opinion, often it doesn't make any sense. So the best counter to an insane argument is satire (think the Daily Show).
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Of course someone willing to spend like $4500 on monitors may consider $1500 for a single card to drive the two, relatively 'cheap'.
I do use systems which remember window position, its just that the last postion/size isn't usually very useful on the single monitor system. On a dual monitor setup a consistant window startup position is very useful.
Really, I'd suggest getting the same model, just for the lack of visual differences. For about a week, as I said in a previous reply, I had my old 6 yo 17' CRT as my secondary, and it didn't even come close to being used. Not only was the color off (I really did need a replacement but was waiting for the 19" LCDs to drop to around $300), but the window sizes didn't transfer well. I quickly realized that the three inch difference was much more of a problem than I had anticipated.
As for the mouse speed, it was amazing to find that mouse traverse was actually annoying, but once I realized that issue, it was 'quickly' solved. With the wide aspect screens, such as yours, that you'd have even more 'real estate' to cross.
Many people do all of their work in a single application, and/or manage to keep the number of windowed apps down to a minimum, I am not one of those.
Also, don't even try to keep your old CRT as the secondary monitor, I tried it for about a week, before I ran back to the store and bought a second LCD (the exact same model).
I can say, with a great deal of certainty, that you will die in space. As the Earth is in space, so are you now. Perhaps, you mean that you want to die outside the Earth's atmosphere, well, perhaps we'll see how you'll feel when your 'Acme space capsule' warning lights are flashing, Major Tom.
- It was a joke, obviously commenting on how many (perhaps most?) people wait until the last couple of days.
- If you actually owe money, as many people do, waiting until the last day lets you earn interest as long as possible (if you have the money put away) or pay as little interest on the credit card (if you don't have the money).
In fact, any good accountant would tell you that it's better to write them a check and send it April 15th than give them an interest free loan. Of course if you keep writing them big checks at the end of the tax season, then they'll make you pay the extra quarterly, so keep it a small check (I really don't know that amount).The fact that the main page had no ads to me was a bonus, besides those ads are a distraction from ones purpose on that page. And that purpose is to be delivered ads targeted to their search results. The banner ads take time to download, and often are loud and brash, Google, made a keep a commitment to refuse them. The use of only text allows one a quick comparison for company's offerings.
Yes, it looks like Yahoo has learned a couple of good lessons about the search business and, like others, is still competitive, which is, of course, a good thing.I can't say that I have any real information about the history of your country, but I do know that during the 50's, 60's and 70's the cold war did spill over into many smaller countries. Often, this conflict evolved into 'our side' supporting industrialist and urban center middle class and 'their side' supporting disaffected rural poor. Horrible crimes were committed by both sides, often due to tit-for-tat responses which only served to escalate the violence. What most people fail to recognize is that these many of these 'leftist' insurgencies all started to fail when the money from the Soviet Union started to dry up in the 80's. (In some unfortunate countries, such as Columbia, drug money was used to fund their activities). In general, when the upper and middle classes started to feel 'safe', they (often)peacefully overturned the oppressive regimes they allowed to take power, and instituted real democratic reforms.
The US government doesn't loan money, it provides loan guarantees to commercial banks, and because we paid for it we insisted that you use (or rather your dictator at the time) use our banks. It was thought that why give 50 million in a gift when you can multiply that into 500 million by using it as an insurance payment, and ,oh yea, the bank's CEO got a big bonus for the loan.
When you see a country, such as yours, which needs help (and I do mean really needs help) and is ruled by a dictator, we have one of two options.
- Work with the dictator
- Overthrow the dictator
Now I don't know how much you read the news lately, but the first option is certainly cheaper for us. We could have ignored your plight altogether, perhaps that might have been better than loading a crushing debt on your economy.Those debts your country owes the commercial banks (from all over the world, the U.S. wasn't the only one in the loan guarantee 'business'), negotiations are to recover just some of the billions owed, really just pennies on the dollar, as the companies have often already 'written off' the debt. Comercial banks took a big sting from 3rd world debt (not nearly as bad as ya'll though), and are much more careful about how much and who to these days, those negoication are a right step to becoming an economic success. Heck, even the CIA factbook has good things to say about your country.
The 'business model' where a company quickly releases patches for a buggy new product only works with compelling new products, and when customers only have limited alternatives and a certain level of functionality exists. Sure some could say that their O/S's have been buggy at release, but a complete game system that isn't stable for games released with it, is a new level of incompetence. One that, I believe, the market (both financial and consumer) will punish. If this is true, and many are experiencing real problems with their new system, Microsoft could be in for some real problems. While some stores may have sold out, my local Best Buy had a fully display case of 360 units at 3pm yesterday, and I am sure that more product is in the pipelines, as the biggest shopping day is this Friday. Not to mention that people will be hesitant to buy new games at $50 bucks a pop for a system which doesn't work for the games they already have. If these reports make the 'national news' (and I think it will), Microsoft is going to have a real hard time selling more of them.
Sound to me that you are having the same problem which I used to have. There are three things to keep in mind about connecting a cable modem to the cable line.
number of splitters a cable modem should have no more than two splits, and if you are using a three way splitter, be sure to have the connection chained though the -3.5dB connection. the splitters themselves Be sure to use a high quality connector which supports 1-1000mhz (some only support to 900mhz) the wire Each of the connection need to be carefully crimped. If you insist on doing your own connections, be sure to use a specilized cutter (they're about $10), and that the new connector fits securely over the exposed cable. Aslo be sure to trim that fat wire in the center, so that it doesn't extend past the connector. I had all kinds of trouble with my modem, in particular, modem resets, and what seemed to be 'lost IPs', until I called up Comcast and complained. They sent a guy out who spent about an hour checking and solving my connection issues, and yes everything I just described is what I did wrong.One of the most common fallacies (I believe anyways) is that when superficially presented with two conflicting arguments, many people believe that the 'truth is in the middle'. Trouble is that when one is an insane rant (think 40% of Fox News), a logical conclusion if often rejected, however, it's really hard for any fair minded person to go to the opposite opinion, often it doesn't make any sense. So the best counter to an insane argument is satire (think the Daily Show).