Ultrasharp is the brand Dell uses for monitors with 8bit panels. It doesn't use 6 bit panels with temporal dithering to fake 8 bits. So yeah, it's sharper because of that. There aren't any affordable high resolution desktop panels. Just like I don't think there would be a whole lot of sales of 15" or 17" 1920x1200 desktop displays, there probably wouldn't be so many sales of the equivalent pitches for 2560x1600.
I'm not sure why you have to have a smaller display with the same number of pixels. It allows you to sit farther away from the screen. And that makes it easier to share a screen with a coworker.
Bigger monitors make you have to swivel your head up and down;
I just change where eyes are looking. A 30" is perfectly fine for me. I think it's better than two 24" displays because it gives you more height without being so wide.
plus the widescreen layout is fairly useless for any programming/web&graphics design work.
I think your empty hyperbole is useless.
There are no 30" 4:3 displays or anything close to that size, so it's kind of a moot complaint. 16:10 is optimized to let you fill the screen with two full pages side-by-side, with a little room for a menu bar too. If it has to be 4:3 to be useful, you may stick with a 21" display. I think it's less useful than a 30" widescreen for programming & web.
But that story doesn't say what kind of games are being played. I think Ars did a story that said more women played games, but readers love to say that they aren't "serious" games and such. I would expect that three fourths of those game players aren't playing violent games. No one is going to be able to censor Solitaire or Sudoku.
Exactly. There are probably dozens of issues that are more important right now than games politiking. A president can't sign into law legislation that doesn't exist, and I don't think games are on the US legislatures's mind as a whole, usually it's just a small number of crackpot legislators that want to regulate violent games and that's it.
Ok then. I hope the backlight has a wider range as well. I'm OK with my LCDs at minimal brightness, some screens are even too bright for me at their dimmest setting, even with all the room lights on at max. It's as if the panels were intended to be used outdoors in daylight. If your town's lighthouse searchlight fails, then you can probably replace it with a 3008WFP.
I doubt the mail service is going away for a good while. It's a transitional time, not an abrupt leap time. It takes a while for media formats to go away.
I think Netflix officers said last year that they knew that physical media wasn't going to be around forever, and that they were working on IP-based rentals. A simple box that does that would fit their goals. The only problem is that I don't want to get yet another box. Vudu, AppleTV, a Netflix box, TiVo+Unbox and so on are not all going to have the same selection, and it seems like an unnecessary expense at the moment if I already have a working media player that's as good. If my disc player died, then maybe I'd consider buying an IP-based box.
More companies are deathly confounded by "let's get along" managers who believe teamwork and tolerance are more important than actual good work.
But hiring self-important people that often go on profanity-laced tirades isn't going to go anywhere either. Being right (or thinking you're right) isn't license to be a jerk. Somehow this kind of person has a tendency to be brazenly offensive to the very people they need to persuade. Cursing out collaborators isn't a way to make them side with you.
Zed would have railed against the open secrets that allowed the tiger escape at the San Francisco zoo, and then he'd have been fired or reprimanded for not being politically and socially correct in his approach.
Probably not even that, it sounds more like the kind of person to run around in public yelling profanities because the lawn is the wrong shade of green and that lawn maintenance disagrees with him.
Five years on corporate copyrights still puts a strong constraint on the profitability though, because that constrains the distribution lifetime, and I think a limit of five years significantly reduces the value of a distribution contract.
I would consider file format compatibility to be different from software API compatibility. I don't want to lose 10 year old files simply because the software vendor deliberately and needlessly removes that compatibility after the fact. This hole bit is part of the "digital hole" that people talk about, data in outdated file formats just becomes unreadable.
Actually, in a way it is. It's mind-boggling that someone would think that one should have to go to the KB to "fix" a "problem" that probably doesn't exist.
Hard drive power consumption is over rated. At MAX, notebook hard drives consume about 2 watts. On an average 60W/hr battery, it could run at max for 30 hours. The performance and power consumption benefits are too meager to justify the cost of SSD. A system designer would get a lot better bang for the buck investigating other power saving measures.
ECC might not be that important for you. ECC memory only helps resist bit flipping while the data is in memory. It won't make your backups much more reliable as it's mostly the reliability of the medium, when backing up, the amount of time data is in memory during the transfer is very short. If you keep gigabytes of data in RAM for days at a time, or if the data is valuable, then ECC would be one step, in conjunction with mirrored or RAID-5 storage and off-line backups.
If it's that kind of data, then it's really worth paying more for a solid workstation class board. And it almost assures you of ECC compatibility. ECC isn't necessary for home use and gaming, but if you have a need for 8GB+ of memory, then you probably should protect that data, and it's not terribly expensive either, in my opinion, last year's FB-DIMM pricing notwithstanding, but even that's very affordable now too.
I use OpenOffice but the file formatting issues don't bother me, I'm lucky enough to not have to import complex files.
The speed and occasional stability problems do bother me though. I'm also lucky enough that I don't have to use it very often, it's a few times a week and not a few times a day.
From the tone in the question, I would guess that you've never taken a proper science class.
The basic point with scientific measurement is that you can take measurements, but you need to have realistic expectations as to the accuracy of those measurements and retain the error bounds throughout the calculations. For example, 1cm read from an ordinary ruler shouldn't be taken as 1.00000000000000 cm. It should be taken as something like 1cm plus or minus 0.05 cm. That's a possible error bound of plus or minus 5%.
I've not seen a DVD actually lock out the "menu" button for those previews, "menu" skips the player to the DVD's menu. Are you just sitting through them because you don't know to try something?
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Ultrasharp is the brand Dell uses for monitors with 8bit panels. It doesn't use 6 bit panels with temporal dithering to fake 8 bits. So yeah, it's sharper because of that. There aren't any affordable high resolution desktop panels. Just like I don't think there would be a whole lot of sales of 15" or 17" 1920x1200 desktop displays, there probably wouldn't be so many sales of the equivalent pitches for 2560x1600.
I'm not sure why you have to have a smaller display with the same number of pixels. It allows you to sit farther away from the screen. And that makes it easier to share a screen with a coworker.
Bigger monitors make you have to swivel your head up and down;
I just change where eyes are looking. A 30" is perfectly fine for me. I think it's better than two 24" displays because it gives you more height without being so wide.
plus the widescreen layout is fairly useless for any programming/web&graphics design work.
I think your empty hyperbole is useless.
There are no 30" 4:3 displays or anything close to that size, so it's kind of a moot complaint. 16:10 is optimized to let you fill the screen with two full pages side-by-side, with a little room for a menu bar too. If it has to be 4:3 to be useful, you may stick with a 21" display. I think it's less useful than a 30" widescreen for programming & web.
But that story doesn't say what kind of games are being played. I think Ars did a story that said more women played games, but readers love to say that they aren't "serious" games and such. I would expect that three fourths of those game players aren't playing violent games. No one is going to be able to censor Solitaire or Sudoku.
Exactly. There are probably dozens of issues that are more important right now than games politiking. A president can't sign into law legislation that doesn't exist, and I don't think games are on the US legislatures's mind as a whole, usually it's just a small number of crackpot legislators that want to regulate violent games and that's it.
Ok then. I hope the backlight has a wider range as well. I'm OK with my LCDs at minimal brightness, some screens are even too bright for me at their dimmest setting, even with all the room lights on at max. It's as if the panels were intended to be used outdoors in daylight. If your town's lighthouse searchlight fails, then you can probably replace it with a 3008WFP.
I doubt the mail service is going away for a good while. It's a transitional time, not an abrupt leap time. It takes a while for media formats to go away.
I think Netflix officers said last year that they knew that physical media wasn't going to be around forever, and that they were working on IP-based rentals. A simple box that does that would fit their goals. The only problem is that I don't want to get yet another box. Vudu, AppleTV, a Netflix box, TiVo+Unbox and so on are not all going to have the same selection, and it seems like an unnecessary expense at the moment if I already have a working media player that's as good. If my disc player died, then maybe I'd consider buying an IP-based box.
It won't be pushing 7+GB because it most likely won't be coded in MPEG-2 like DVDs are.
Netflix already allows direct watching from a computer, at no extra cost above the membership fee.
I pick the line with the female screener and just stare at her tits the whole time.
This is the TSA. Those tits aren't very good. Even the TSA men have better tits.
More companies are deathly confounded by "let's get along" managers who believe teamwork and tolerance are more important than actual good work.
But hiring self-important people that often go on profanity-laced tirades isn't going to go anywhere either. Being right (or thinking you're right) isn't license to be a jerk. Somehow this kind of person has a tendency to be brazenly offensive to the very people they need to persuade. Cursing out collaborators isn't a way to make them side with you.
Zed would have railed against the open secrets that allowed the tiger escape at the San Francisco zoo, and then he'd have been fired or reprimanded for not being politically and socially correct in his approach.
Probably not even that, it sounds more like the kind of person to run around in public yelling profanities because the lawn is the wrong shade of green and that lawn maintenance disagrees with him.
Five years on corporate copyrights still puts a strong constraint on the profitability though, because that constrains the distribution lifetime, and I think a limit of five years significantly reduces the value of a distribution contract.
I would consider file format compatibility to be different from software API compatibility. I don't want to lose 10 year old files simply because the software vendor deliberately and needlessly removes that compatibility after the fact. This hole bit is part of the "digital hole" that people talk about, data in outdated file formats just becomes unreadable.
Actually, in a way it is. It's mind-boggling that someone would think that one should have to go to the KB to "fix" a "problem" that probably doesn't exist.
I agree.
There aren't many disciplines where the lessons learned can't be applied to other disciplines.
Infact, I'd rather call it a good management approach than an engineering approach. *ducks for cover*
I thought engineering was partly about breaking a problem down into smaller problems.
Hard drive power consumption is over rated. At MAX, notebook hard drives consume about 2 watts. On an average 60W/hr battery, it could run at max for 30 hours. The performance and power consumption benefits are too meager to justify the cost of SSD. A system designer would get a lot better bang for the buck investigating other power saving measures.
Just because you and the GP are thinking it doesn't mean everyone is thinking it.
ECC might not be that important for you. ECC memory only helps resist bit flipping while the data is in memory. It won't make your backups much more reliable as it's mostly the reliability of the medium, when backing up, the amount of time data is in memory during the transfer is very short. If you keep gigabytes of data in RAM for days at a time, or if the data is valuable, then ECC would be one step, in conjunction with mirrored or RAID-5 storage and off-line backups.
If it's that kind of data, then it's really worth paying more for a solid workstation class board. And it almost assures you of ECC compatibility. ECC isn't necessary for home use and gaming, but if you have a need for 8GB+ of memory, then you probably should protect that data, and it's not terribly expensive either, in my opinion, last year's FB-DIMM pricing notwithstanding, but even that's very affordable now too.
I use OpenOffice but the file formatting issues don't bother me, I'm lucky enough to not have to import complex files.
The speed and occasional stability problems do bother me though. I'm also lucky enough that I don't have to use it very often, it's a few times a week and not a few times a day.
Really? It looks like an airbrushed drawing to me.
From the tone in the question, I would guess that you've never taken a proper science class.
The basic point with scientific measurement is that you can take measurements, but you need to have realistic expectations as to the accuracy of those measurements and retain the error bounds throughout the calculations. For example, 1cm read from an ordinary ruler shouldn't be taken as 1.00000000000000 cm. It should be taken as something like 1cm plus or minus 0.05 cm. That's a possible error bound of plus or minus 5%.
Something to keep in mind, HD-DVD has no region coding at all. It's also been cracked too.
I've not seen a DVD actually lock out the "menu" button for those previews, "menu" skips the player to the DVD's menu. Are you just sitting through them because you don't know to try something?