Re: SED


"Xocyll"
> "McGrandpa"
nettiquete snip
>>>>
>>>>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. :)

LOL! We think it's humorous. HE isn't laughing at all :)

>
>>> 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.

Not a bad monitor. It appears that ALL of Viewsonics current models are
8bpp and display 16.7 million colors. unless that's a trick of wording.
They do not say their panels will display the full 16.7 million colors.
They do say all of them support 16.7m. but that can be supported via
dithering, like mine.

You can't find a 700:1 / 300 bright 8ms response 19" for under $400US?

>
>>> 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

Ah :-/ Yes. Asridio T. Foagcippedi, I knew him well. Italian I
think. Very sad what happened to him. May he rest in pieces...

McG. ;)


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