Re: SED


"Xocyll" <Xocyll@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> looked up from reading the
> entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
> say:
>
>>"The Outsider" <no@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:27:30 +0100, Walter Mitty <mitticus@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>
>>>>But in case you're not : I'll go with the best technology when its
>>>>available at a suitable price. But for now .... Oh! I'm doing the same.
>>>
>>> No your not! Many games don't support 1280x1024 res and look like
>>> utter *** on an LCD due to interpolation. DVD's look like crap on
>>> your fast response time LCD's too because they are only 6bit. Blacks
>>> look like *** also.
>>
>>All LCD flatpanel displays are not created equal. Neither are CRT's. I
>>use what works and what I'm most comfortable with AND can afford. I can
>>afford and do own better LCD monitors than what you are speaking of. I've
>>seen LCD monitors that look just that crappy. On my Sammy 930B's, color
>>is 8 bits per color per pixel, red, green, blue. 16.7 million colors.
>>It's 19", has the same amount of screen real estate as a 20" or even some
>>21" CRT's. It doesn't have flicker or crawlies, at all, in either Analog
>>or
>>DVI. They don't generate heat like my CRT's did, they have built in
>>power
>>supplies, cabling is easy and no worries about the cables sticking out the
>>back and rubbing against the wall - with the front of the monitor leaving
>>room only for the keyboard.
>
> Haven't seen a CRT monitor since the 14" days that had the plug sticking
> out at the very back - they all seem to be down low and underslung now.

I have 5 CRT's sitting in the LR doing nothing. Admitted, the newest one
is a Komodo Dragon 15", the mid aged is a NEC Multisync 70, and the 3 oldest
ones are 14's and 1 15". All the plugs stick right out the back. It's
been 2 years since I bought the Dragon. The better CRT's are already in
better hands with family. I was trying to say you can't just bump up
against the wall with the back of em.
>
>> Desk is 3.5 feet deep and 7 feet long. There
>>wasn't room ON the desk for two 19 or 20" monitors AND my CPU, keyboard,
>> >>mouse and 6x8 graphics tablet.
>
> Bigger desk than I have, since mine's only 5 feet wide by 32 inches deep
> and I managed to have a 22" crt a 17" crt a fulltower case and a
> midtower case on my desk.
> As well as a clock, the computer speakers, the stereo speakers hooked up
> to the cd player, a phone and an inkjet printer on top of the 17"
> monitor.

LOL! Ok, so you're the size of an Ooompa Loompa? ;)
>
> Oh yeah, and a small bookshelf of DVDs on top of the 22"CRT (the front
> bit that has no vent holes.)
> There's one thing the LCDs can't compete at. :)

That's a point. Readily conceded!

>
> There's still copious amounts of room for mouse and keyboard, books,
> etc, as well as more space for a plate or such for when I eat at the
> computer (usually while watching a dvd movie.)
>
> Now admittedly there aren't huge vistas of empty space left, but you
> should be able to squeeze in at least as much as me, since you've got 2
> more feet of width and 10 more inches of depth.
> <snip>

Have you seen a Wacom Graphire3 6x8 pen tablet? The working area is 6x8,
the thing has near a couple inches margin around all that! I have about
18" of elbow room from the edge of the keyboard to the near edge of my desk.
That my friend is a comfortable amount of space for me :) And the snacks or
dinner plate ;) All the littles and periphs are on shelves above the desk
except for the epson 4990 Photo flatbed. it's got its own stand by the file
cabinets. All this leaves me room for my laptop, camera and often stuff
I'm building. Lets not go into the kitchen or living room. I DO know where
the breakfast bar and coffee table *are*! ;)
Thanks for pointing out I really do need to get some lot of this computer
stuff outta here :p
McG. <flat panel displays ARE a help!>

>
> Xocyll
> --
> I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
> a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
> Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
> FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr


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