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Most of the extra res seems to go to the width - everything becomes [even more] short & fat...
Arnie would look like he really is Devoto's twin brother. (Worse still, Ellen could roll right in as their kid sister.)
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
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I don't have one, but some friends got them (probably because they're "hot"), and I don't see the appeal. They look weird, you can get used to that, but then you move to an other chair and you have to get used to it all over again. That happens with flat screens too, but not as much, I think, maybe it's some sort of bias on my part to justify not getting a curved screen.
flat is justice
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Samsung makes a great TV. I have 2 (one 240hz and one 120hz) - but they are flat.
I'm looking forward to hearing which one you end up getting and your opinion once you've given it a good run.
One thing about these TVs - it is HIGHLY recommended that you plug into a UPS w/ line conditioning in order to avoid any dirty power or spikes as they can be sensitive to power spikes et al.
Good luck.
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3D movies make me sick. Literally - my eyesight is not balanced, so unless someone makes 3D glasses with different lenses, I get a horrible headache after watching them
No idea about curved screens, I guess they're good for wide monitors where you sit in the same location all the time. My gut feeling is that 3D TVs won't really catch on (or it may have been what I ate for lunch  )
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Concur on your thoughts about curved TVs - doesn't seem to make much sense. I suppose if you had a specific room where most of the viewing location was directly in front of the TV, it might be okay. My living room is divided by a fireplace, so the seating is on either side of the TV. Curved just would not work at all.
Oddly, they seem to be really pushing them.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I bought a new TV a couple of months ago and I looked into curved TVs before I chose. The opinion of the various consumer sites I looked at was fairly unanimous that they have no viewing advantages at all and cost a lot more money. That was also the impression I got when I was looking at them in shops and showrooms. So I went for a flat screen and haven't regretted it.
Couldn't see much difference between the major brands but I got a good deal on a Panasonic in a local shop.
Peter
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The pickup in the camera is not curved, therefore making the viewing screen curved can only introduce distortion into the image.
I have never seen a believable justification for curved screens.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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I have a Samsung 78JS9500 and I absolutely love it. This was the TV I wanted from a specs perspective and it only comes curved, so that's what I got. We have it set up so that the sofa is directly in front of it, and the oversized chair (where I normally plop down) is at approximately a 45-degree angle to it. There is no distortion or picture degradation whatsoever at that angle. Once you start watching it, after a few days you don't even realize there's a curve. This TV is simply amazing.
One thing to keep in mind about the JS-series (2015 models) vs the KS-series (2016 models)... the KS9500 is NOT the equivalent of the JS9500. The JS9500 is a fully backlit TV where the KS9500 is only edge backlit. You have to step up to the KS9800 to get a full backlight in the 2016 model. That's why I stuck with the JS9500 versus the KS series. Plus when I bought mine, the JS9500 was $6300 and the KS9800 was almost $10K.
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Thanks,
I also note from the specs that the J/K appear to be the model year? and the S/U is SUHD and UHD.
I will have to have a more detailed look at the specs, but the Samsung SUHDs I have seen in the shops look absolutely stunning picture colour/depth/sharpness.
I haven't seen the price over here yet in Qatar for the xxKS9800, but the 78KS9500 is 40,000QR (~11KUSD), the 85JU7000 is the same price and the 78JU7500 is 23,000 (~6KUSD)
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IMHO, the curved screen is a way to limit the physical viewing angle on a screen so that they can use a screen that was produced with reduced viewing angles. Kind of a "It's not a bug, it's a feature" kind of thing.
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I own a 2015 65" Samsung SUHD Flat screen and am very happy with my purchase. I also looked at the curved screen and it didn't look right to me. Curved might be interesting once screens are much larger (over 100"-120"), something like IMAX. But even then mostly likely I would go with Flat still.
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One thing I've noticed about the curved screen is that at least some part of it will have glare. I can generally arrange a flat screen such that light sources in the room will not have glare in my normal seating locations. The curved screen will always have some part of it that is at the correct angle for the lights or windows to glare off it. You can see this in the store displays too.
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Hey guys. I've really been enjoying mobile and IoT development, but seeming as the only developer jobs in my area focus on Sharepoint, I figured I'd pick up Sharepoint development.
Does anyone have experience with developing for Sharepoint? Also, I'm not a big enterprise company and was wondering if there was a way I could get a free or cheap Sharepoint instance for development.
Also, is Sharepoint development a deadend field? Like will I not be able to get a job doing it in a few years
i cri evry tiem
modified 21-Oct-16 20:44pm.
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: My Verdict On The Future of SharePoint[^]
"Some of you may be getting fatigued and frustrated by all the changes, but I for one am actually excited about this one. The new approach is 100% JavaScript"
Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhhh!!!!!
<runs, screaming, for the hills>
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The new approach is 100% JavaScript"
Thank the great Ghu I don't work in the web stack, I'm the guy in mobility chair chasing you!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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That's happy making.
On the one occasion where I was dumb enough to volunteer to do JS support for our SharePoint, the system mysteriously gutted my script after a week of operation.
We'll see. Until it doesn't suck to work with as a dev I'll sit it out.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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It's a pretty damned sweet JavaScript API/SDK.
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Wrong forum.
You're looking for this one[^] .
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The Office 365 dev program includes 5 installs of office, and a sharepoint instance.
Seems like you get the first year free currently (I'm paying something like a 100€/year for the privilege, which is about the price of an office license). Office Dev Center - Office 365 Developer Program[^]
Development is limited to the new "javascript only" model, and standard sharepoint functionality.
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I work in the Microsoft Project Server space. Project Server is based upon SharePoint so alot of what I do is on SharePoint.
It can suck ALOT. But it isn't any worse than alot of other platforms.
I read the post about being javascript. Kinda, sort of. jQuery really which is js. But slightly better.
Can you setup a place to work. Sure Azure has some free online sharePoint things you can do. You can even install and setup your own farm. But that came with my MSDN so not sure how much that was. Company paid for it.
There aren't alot of people willing to put up with the pain. But then again it does pay the bills. Biggest future issue I see with Sharepoint is the whole move to completely cloud based systems. So you have no access to the servers at all. There have been quite a few times in our instance where SP just wouldn't suffice when you need to do something special so we had to write a .net Web app to run the application. IE more records than SP can handle(5000 doesn't take long to get over that) etc...
Pays the bills and should be around for another 10-15 years I think. But who knows.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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You need an Office 365 Developer account. SharePoint has paid my bills for almost a decade.
Idaho Edokpayi
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I was doing SharePoint development in my last job (SP 2010 and SP 2013). The development environment consists of Visual Studio (2010 or 2013 or 2015), SQL Express (2012+) and SharePoint Foundation (2010 or 2013) (it's free).
Setting all this up correctly is no easy task. But you can find help for that online - e.g. Building the Ultimate SharePoint 2010 Development Environment[^]. SP 2013 setup is very similar.
I have no experience with SharePoint 2016 and I don't know how to setup development for that as MicroSoft is no longer offering the free Foundation for that version.
SharePoint will be with for a long time I think.
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