Re: SED

"McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>
>"Xocyll" <Xocyll@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:m2bdo19j7fvkf7jr22u9l63hghqcufoa3r@xxxxxxxxxx
>> "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> looked up from reading the
>> entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
>> say:
>>
>>>
>>>"Xocyll" <Xocyll@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>news:sa4co11pnk4uoai75he8q8sovv8m0t9t75@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>> "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
>>>>>news:5un9o1962v1k3t7k2cjn2uffc6d6m0vr3c@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> 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.
>>
>> Odd. All the ones i've seen for the last few years have completely
>> removable cords, and the socket isn't at the very back of the unit.
>
>i'd guess then that these being cheaper cRT's is why the VGA cable is fixed
>to the monitor, not removable.

That would explain it.

>>>>> 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? ;)
>>
>> Amusingly enough I read this message just after watching Charlie and the
>> Chocolate Factory (borrowed from my sister.)
>
>I'd just bought and watched that myself. An older guy at work looke up at
>one of the new hands and just started laughing. "Hey, whats so funny about
>Freddy?" "You seen that Willy Wonka movie? Freddy's IN it, he's an Ooompa
>Loompa!" Know what? Dead ringer for Deep Roy! Sheesh! :)

Oh my. Well now you know what to get him for christmas (if there's an
office christmas thingy.) Then you can spend january asking him to sing
the songs. :)

>> Actually I'm a hefty 6'3".
>Hefty 6'2" here. You a grandpa too?! ;)

Nope, not even a parent, not even married.

>>>> 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 always something. :)
>>
>>>> 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!>
>>
>> I actually do have a fair bit of space left, it's just that what's on
>> the desk is all packed fairly tightly together there's no shelves nearby
>> for anything else where the desk is now.
>>
>> Still enough room for airflow though.
>>
>> Admittedly an LCD or two would free up a fair bit of space for other
>> things and I might even get one as my next monitor.
>> If nothing else it would be better for reading usenet and such on.
>
>Well hang on a bit now, don't get hasty. The Outsider came up with some
>stuff that merited a much deeper look into what's actually going on with TFT
>LCD flat panels. One thing is sure- you don't want to spend much money on
>one. Doesn't matter which or what cause they'll burn out, and likely much
>sooner than a CRT. 20,000 hours estimated. If you do get one now it will
>likely last the couple years till SED gets going :)

I've been considering a ViewSonic VA902B as being the best convergence
of price, speed and contrast, since it's an 8ms 1280x1024 for all of
$359+tax CDN and has pretty good contrast.
Everything else available locally is either slower, has worse contrast
or a substantially higher price.

>> 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
>
>I'll always know it's YOU.... it's the sig... how many years you been using
>it now?

I'm not sure actually, probably at least 3 years.
I'd google it (I did actually) but google's search doesn't look at sigs,
so the first mention I could find was Feb 2003 when someone else used it
having read it in my sig.

The original message it's a quote from was March 9, 2002.

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
.