|
Wow - Is that a American thing? 
Cogito ergo sum
|
|
|
|
|
One is a wide-screen landscape for most work, and the other is a wide-screen set to portrait. It is very handy, being able to switch between the two as needed.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Same with me. One screen is for coding, second is for database + larger things to read like howto etc. The best combination.
|
|
|
|
|
Some how a square monitor looks pleasant to me  
Then comes landscape and the last thing I prefer is portrait as I do not want to roll my eyes up and down 
But hey it's just ME 
|
|
|
|
|
Everything is wide screen these days. Good for watch movies and playing games, bad for work (at least for coding)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collin Jasnoch wrote: you can just re-orient your screen (longer vs wider) if you wanted to...
... ah, how?
Why I say widescreen is useless for coding is if you have a laptop you have in fact an extreemly short screen. Not enough lines of code fit in on page that you can read the entire function and that makes coding much more difficult
|
|
|
|
|
There are monitors that physically swivel from landscape to portrait. Common use of these types of monitors is in industries that are document-centric like the print, legal, and securities industries. This is so an entire page of a doc can be seen/read at a time. No scrolling necessary.
|
|
|
|
|
|
I don't recommend progamming on a laptop either - because the screen is too small 
but, obviously you can't lug your desktop around when you're traveling
If the screen were rectanglar rather than wide screen it'd be a lot better for programming.
|
|
|
|
|
|
ed welch wrote: Not enough lines of code fit in on page
simple! just get a bigger screen, then even if it's a wide screen, you can have a lot of lines on it
My logic is impeccable; my arithmetic lets me down.
|
|
|
|
|
On a laptop, the biggest practical screen is 17"
|
|
|
|
|
I think I'm going to patent a very small laptop screen with extremely high definition, that comes with a free magnifying glass... 
My logic is impeccable; my arithmetic lets me down.
|
|
|
|
|
potrait -> portrait
/ravi
|
|
|
|
|
I just can't get used to multi-monitor configuration so I stick to my Dell U2711. Having the 2560px width is priceless!
Cheers
|
|
|
|
|
Mario Majcica wrote: Having the 2560px width is priceless!
Yowza! 
/ravi
|
|
|
|
|
It took me about a week to get used to my second monitor. Even less time to get used to my third monitor. Now I have a hard time at home with only 1 monitor.
Hogan
|
|
|
|
|
Well I started with 2 monitors and after 3 months I was not able to get used to. So I got just one, but a big one and I'm a happy boy!
Cheers
|
|
|
|
|
On one PC and landscape on the other.
They used to be attached to the same machine but when I built my new one there was not enough in the budget for a new monitor so I split them.
I used to use the square one for my email client and reference docs and the other for whatever I am working on. That pattern has continued but now split across two PCs as well as screens.
Henry Minute
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
|
|
|
|
|
I have the left in landscape and this is the 'main' monitor where I do most of my work.
The right is in portrait, and I mainly use that for Outlook, and for 'reference' documents.
I started this a few months ago, by balancing an old monitor on it's side when I upgraded to Outlook 2010 and realised you could no longer hide email headers (the option is still there, but the functionality has been disabled) so there was precious little room left for the list and the body.
Since doing it I found it very useful for lots of other stuff, such as xml files which I often have to work with at the moment, or lists of stuff that I am working through, as well as pdf / docs I am working against.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
modified 30-Jan-12 6:55am.
|
|
|
|
|
When working on a work of art, it makes no difference! 
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
If the final destination is death, then we should enjoy every second of the journey.
|
|
|
|
|
Rating always..... WELCOME
The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
|
|
|
|
|
With a large enough monitor you can have two pages visible at the same time.
And I don't like linebreaks in code just because there isn't enough space.
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
