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Wow - is this some kind of European thing? 
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They are talking about the classic 4:3 monitors. But I think you know this.
I preferred them for coding. New is not always better.
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New Coder On The Block wrote: They are talking about the classic 4:3 monitors.
Wow, I've never heard anyone call them square monitors. 
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My old 21" CRT monitor was pretty much square. Almost exactly in fact, IIRC.
Bl**dy heavy too.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Wow - is this some kind of European thing?
No, it's a "don't take drugs, don't drink, don't dance" thing. 
Marc
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Wow - is this some kind of European thing
it's something that you would only see in a very small, select part of England. The land where people still know "up" from "along"...
My logic is impeccable; my arithmetic lets me down.
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jan lucas wrote: The land where people still know "up" from "along"...
Huh, what? Are you saying modern day Brits mix those words up?
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Huh, what? Are you saying modern day Brits mix those words up?
... I think I was misquoting Lewis Carol, but I'm not sure... I may have been in my cups...
My logic is impeccable; my arithmetic lets me down.
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jan lucas wrote: think I was misquoting Lewis Carol,
Well, my ignorance knows no bounds I guess!
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Wow - Is that a American thing? 
Cogito ergo sum
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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.
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Same with me. One screen is for coding, second is for database + larger things to read like howto etc. The best combination.
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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 
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Everything is wide screen these days. Good for watch movies and playing games, bad for work (at least for coding)
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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On a laptop, the biggest practical screen is 17"
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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.
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potrait -> portrait
/ravi
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