DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
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> On 1/15/11 9:11 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>
>> 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),
>
> My last CRT was a 19" from Nokia, 1600x1200, top of the line. Got it for 
> free under the condition that I pick it up myself from a porch, which is 
> as far as its previous owner could move it. I was seriously warned to come 
> with a friend to take it.
>
> It weighed 86 lbs.
>
> That all worked for me: I was a poor student and happened to have a huge 
> desk at home. I didn't think twice about buying a different monitor when I 
> moved across the country...
>
> I wonder how much your 21" CRT weighs.
>

No clue. It's my desktop system, so I haven't had a reason to pick up the 
monitor in years. And the desk seems to handle it just fine.


>> 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.
>
> I think your eyes are more important than your ability to fiddle with 
> resolution.

Everyone always seems to be very vague on that issue. Given real, reliable, 
non-speculative evidence that CRTs are significantly (and not just 
negligibly) worse on the eyes, I could certainly be persuaded to replace my 
CRT when I can actually afford to. Now I'm certainly not saying that such 
evidence isn't out there, but FWIW, I have yet to come across it.


> Besides, this whole changing the resolution thing is a consequence of 
> using crappy software. What you want is set the resolution to the maximum 
> and do the rest in software. And guess what - at their maximum, CRT 
> monitors suck compared to flat panels.
>

Agreed, but show me an OS that actually *does* handle that reasonably well. 
XP doesn't. Win7 doesn't. Ubuntu 9.04 and Kubuntu 10.10 don't. (And I'm 
definitely not going back to OSX, I've had my fill of that.)


> Heck this is unbelievable... I spend time on the relative merits of flat 
> panels vs. CRTs. I'm outta here.
>

You're really taking this hard, aren't you?