CRTs vs LCDs

[Jamski]

Hehehe... I was going to mention him, but I knew some smartass would point put that he ~didn't~ get a majority

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Majorities don't prove the point, but they are indicative that you are the strange one, not me. On this issue anyway.

[child of Thor]

well maybe the 'odd one out' might be nicer than calling him strange

My stats earlier were for a 17" screen. Most people i know that use a 19" screen and above find 1024x768 a waste of screen space! Still they do productive stuff on their machines while i just play older games.

I used to make graphics for game sprites and backgrounds(nothing commercial).
You could use graph paper to do the basic layout of pixels which you then converted into code(unlike on a pc it was relatively easy to write to a screen location on those 8bit computers). The max resolution i would use was around 320x190(monochrome). I find it hard getting my head around trying to do the same thing in 1024x768 and above!

it looks like CRTs have won this election - now are they democrats or republican?

[DrSpike]

Substance compared to hollow promises? CRTs must be democrats.

/me runs and hides.

[child of Thor]

well i suppose it does have it in the name : DemoCRaTs?

not sure how TFT fits into republican though?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Jamski
You are all going to go blind staring at those tiny fonts. Use whatever res you like, but at 1280*1024 on a 19" screen, the default font size will make you go blind.

You think it's small?!

Anything bigger is unbearably fuzzy.

[Jamski]

Odd people, all of you. There's nothing cool or poweruseresque about having all the icons labelled in tiny tiny squinty fonts.

-Jam

[Kuciwalker]

Yes, which is why I use 1280*1024, not 1600*1200

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by DrSpike
On this issue anyway.

Good thing you specified.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Jamski
Odd people, all of you. There's nothing cool or poweruseresque about having all the icons labelled in tiny tiny squinty fonts.

-Jam

We don't. Maybe you need glasses.

[Jamski]

/me squints at the screen trying to read Doc's comments*

God I HATE using IE on my dad's computer. "Ctrl & +" doesn't work to enlarge the fonts. I use that in Mozilla all the while. Heh, and this junk machine of his is running 800*600 too

-Jam

[Kuciwalker]

Yeah, you need glasses.

[child of Thor]

Big ones! i can see the pixels in 800x600.

[Jamski]

Yeah, ~I~ can see the pixels in 800*600

-Jam

[child of Thor]

yeah really.......hold on let me switch from my current 1024x768..........

yep look there's one, right there - a pixel in 800x600

in fact i can now see about 12 pixels in the slanty bit of the number 7.