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@Anonymous: I was going to sticker this with an epic sticker but then I saw your use of 'le' so I downvoted you instead. Let that be a lesson to you.
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1. move the mouse pointer to the middle of one of the short sides, it and the control bar will disappear. seriously, how have you not figured this out.
2. sitting at a weird angle a couple feet away from a sub-thirty-inch, typically sub-full-HD, often not 16:9, low brightness/contrast screen is SO 90s. -
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@Anonymous: Not all of our people are as fortunate to have such nice things in our lives. However, 3 laptops and 4 smartphones for various programming wants and needs keep me from ever knowing that feel!
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@Anonymous: no, it's still crap even then. monitor choices roundabouts =
19" widescreen (16:10) with a horrendous high-gloss coating on it, plus a *portrait* 17" SXGA ---- work
12" (4:3) Super-dim-o-lux in the laptop, coupled to a somewhat washed out (no matter what I do to the settings on the screen or the laptop) 17" landscape SXGA. Running off the secondary channel of an i915 mobile chipset with only 8mb dedicated to it, so the idea of Vsync or hardware accelerated MP4 decoding is completely alien to it.
Also bearing in mind that SXGA is 5:4...
None of these are full HD...
And only two of them can show 720p material native... either scaled with narrow letterboxing, or 1:1 with huge, not-very-black letterboxing.
I'ma go put a DVD in the 10-year-old player hooked up to my 32", 16:9 WXGA TV, thanks. -
BTW both the 17"ers cost me diddly-jack-squat-shit, as they were salvage from a round of PC replacements at work... old system box plus monitor rigs being replaced with compact all-in-ones (so, now, I have an all in one PLUS monitor :-D).
Either I took them, or they went on a recycling truck to be torn apart for their deleeshus precious metals. The company doesn't get, or pay, any money either way. It's where the 486 I've been playing some beloved old classics on, and the P-II I gave to my brother (he only wanted it for its capacious ATX desktop case, all the guts including PSU are worthless) came from as well.
Freecycling is awesome, you just need to keep your eyes and ears open and be bold enough to ask. -
(sadly when there was a BBC Micro (a Master, complete with disk drive, disks and monitor, no less) up for grabs, the recycling guys ignored the sign I taped to it (I had no way of getting it home at that time) and took it anyway. Soulless automatons. I make sure to grab early and grab often if there's anything of use hanging about, even if it means having to hide it until I can arrange transport)





