Re: [ilugd] 21" monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Raj Mathur
On Wednesday 14 Apr 2010, Vikas Rawal wrote: > > But the less than 80 character wide limitation isn't a limitation > > set by our body it was a limitation set by the older displays. > > Reading wide displays is surely more difficult that reading shorter > width displays. This, as far as I know, is

Re: [ilugd] 21" monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
> But the less than 80 character wide limitation isn't a limitation > set by our body it was a limitation set by the older displays. > Reading wide displays is surely more difficult that reading shorter width displays. This, as far as I know, is a well accepted fact in publishing industry. Imag

Re: [ilugd] 21" monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
From: Raj Mathur > difference to me, at least. For instance, when coding I make lines < 80 > characters anyway (split longer ones across multiple lines), so taller But the less than 80 character wide limitation isn't a limitation set by our body it was a limitation set by the older displays

Re: [ilugd] 21" monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Nandeep Mali
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: [...] > [off-topic] > Thanks to unreasonable men, we got multicore CPUs, and thanks to reasonable > men, we got optimization manuals. > [/off-topic] That is possibly one of the best dual supportive statement I have heard. :D Kudos! --- n998

Re: [ilugd] 21" monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raj Mathur writes: [...] > Paraphrasing G B Shaw a bit, The reasonable man adapts himself to his > environment, while the unreasonable one insists on adapting his > environment to his needs. Hence all progress depends on the > unreasonable man.

Re: [ilugd] 21" monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 13 Apr 2010, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: > From: Vikas Rawal > > > With wide-screen monitors, I end up wasting a lot of screen space > > even when I am only word processing on something like openoffice. > > In a 4:3 monitor, one could see a lot more of the page. > > I am not sure what

Re: [ilugd] 21" monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
From: Vikas Rawal > With wide-screen monitors, I end up wasting a lot of screen space even > when I am only word processing on something like openoffice. In a 4:3 > monitor, one could see a lot more of the page. I am not sure what is the big deal with widesc

Re: [ilugd] 21" monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
> Imagine editing a word document in 1080X1920.. portrait mode :) Won't it be great? We can see a whole page!! Vikas ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] 21" monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Angad Singh
Imagine editing a word document in 1080X1920.. portrait mode :) -Angad On Apr 13, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Vikas Rawal wrote: >> >> As an aside, monitors designed only to view HD movies suck big-time. >> Don't coders and techies use monitors anymore? > > With wide-screen monitors, I end up wasting a l

Re: [ilugd] 21" monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
> > As an aside, monitors designed only to view HD movies suck big-time. > Don't coders and techies use monitors anymore? With wide-screen monitors, I end up wasting a lot of screen space even when I am only word processing on something like openoffice. In a 4:3 monitor, one could see a lot more

Re: [ilugd] 21" monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 13 Apr 2010, Angad Singh wrote: > Portrait is available in Dell 2408WFP. At Rs 35,000? Phew, the specs look good but a gold-plated monitor is slightly out of my budget at the moment! -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4

Re: [ilugd] 21" monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Angad Singh
Portrait is available in Dell 2408WFP. -Angad On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Nandeep Mali wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Raj Mathur wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 Apr 2010, Vivek Kapoor wrote: > [...] > >> As a last resort I went to Dell site. They gave me a quote of Rs. > >> 21000 for

Re: [ilugd] 21" monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Nandeep Mali
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Raj Mathur wrote: > On Tuesday 13 Apr 2010, Vivek Kapoor wrote: [...] >> As a last resort I went to Dell site. They gave me a quote of Rs. >>  21000 for a 21" 1600x1200 monitor. Not sure if they still sell it. My guess is that it must be the IPS monitors. They are

Re: [ilugd] 21" monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 13 Apr 2010, Vivek Kapoor wrote: > On 04/13/2010 11:47 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: > I had also searched a lot, but only the cheapo monitors are available > in Nehru Place and no 1600x1200 is available. They refer to it as > "square" monitors and say that they've stopped coming long time ba