I've got two monitors at work, where I do web development. I keep whatever I'm working on open in one monitor, and I've got Firefox running with the finished product open on the other. It's pretty handy to see what exactly you've done instead of just a preview in Design Mode in Dreamweaver or whatever. Also, I'm using Firefox's GMail notifier, so I don't have to dedicate an entire monitor to e-mail.
At school, I do things a bit differently. In Flash, Photoshop, Director, etc. I generally try to have one screen dedicated to the visual stuff and another screen for code and/or toolbars. The bigger the screen, the higher the resolution, the better. It's all about cramming as much of what I'm working on into the screens as possible.
At home, I get along with just one 17" CRT. Blah.
Geez, if parents are that pissed off about gambling, it's a good thing Neopets didn't go with players being able to pimp out their pets to make some extra cash...
Personally, I want to get into the gaming industry doing game design. It seems to me that a lot of the jobs being outsourced are IT jobs, be those "programming" or "software engineering." Sure, "anyone can write code", but I think there's an element of creativity involved in desiging games, from character concept art to level layout. That's not to say coding doesn't involve creativity, but it's a different kind of creativity. Coding requires and element of ingenuity as opposed to artistic thinking. And I don't see the artistic jobs being outsourced en masse.... yet...
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I've got two monitors at work, where I do web development. I keep whatever I'm working on open in one monitor, and I've got Firefox running with the finished product open on the other. It's pretty handy to see what exactly you've done instead of just a preview in Design Mode in Dreamweaver or whatever. Also, I'm using Firefox's GMail notifier, so I don't have to dedicate an entire monitor to e-mail.
At school , I do things a bit differently. In Flash, Photoshop, Director, etc. I generally try to have one screen dedicated to the visual stuff and another screen for code and/or toolbars. The bigger the screen, the higher the resolution, the better. It's all about cramming as much of what I'm working on into the screens as possible.
At home, I get along with just one 17" CRT. Blah.
Geez, if parents are that pissed off about gambling, it's a good thing Neopets didn't go with players being able to pimp out their pets to make some extra cash...
Personally, I want to get into the gaming industry doing game design. It seems to me that a lot of the jobs being outsourced are IT jobs, be those "programming" or "software engineering." Sure, "anyone can write code", but I think there's an element of creativity involved in desiging games, from character concept art to level layout. That's not to say coding doesn't involve creativity, but it's a different kind of creativity. Coding requires and element of ingenuity as opposed to artistic thinking. And I don't see the artistic jobs being outsourced en masse. ... yet...