DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Sat Jan 15 19:33:08 PST 2011


On Saturday 15 January 2011 19:11:26 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
> news:igt2pl$2u6e$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 
> > On 1/15/11 2:23 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> >> I still use CRTs (one big reason being that I hate the idea of only
> >> being able to use one resolution)
> > 
> > I'd read some post of Nick and think "hmm, now that's a guy who follows
> > only his own beat" but this has to take the cake. From here on, I
> > wouldn't be surprised if you found good reasons to use whale fat powered
> > candles instead of lightbulbs.
> 
> Heh :)  Well, I can spend no money and stick with my current 21" CRT that
> already suits my needs (that I only paid $25 for in the first place), or I
> can spend a hundred or so dollars to lose the ability to have a decent
> looking picture at more than one resolution and then say "Gee golly whiz!
> That sure is a really flat panel!!". Whoop-dee-doo. And popularity and
> trendyness are just non-issues.

Why would you _want_ more than one resolution? What's the use case? I'd expect 
that you'd want the highest resolution that you could get and be done with it.

- Jonathan M Davis


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