> [snip] > > To sum up, I'm unlikely to change my working style just because hardware > demands it. > > /me pets his old 17" 4:3. > >
spoken like a true living FOSSil: unreasonable to the multi-core as usual. you can of course, trust apple to have come up with solutions for such unreasonable people, decades ago. Circa 1990, an apple offshoot company called Radius, launched a highly popular monitor, called the Radius PivotDisplay. A traditional 17" monitor connected via a video-card to your mac. slap it on its side, and it would swing from landscape to portrait mode, live, for a few seconds, the screen would blank out as the video-wizardry got to work. bingo! your screen would be re-drawn, for a portrait mode. perfect for people who suddenly needed wider or taller pixel-estate bang in the middle of an ongoing project with no time even for a restart. so if you could get a pivotdisplay equivalent today, you could slap it into portrait-mode, complete with a much coarser resolution to have those 80-col [dos-like?] lines in a large size, and then slap it again for a generous landscape mode at ultra-high resolution for all your popcorn needs, without the pc. ;-) if jim-carey with an alpha-mask designed hardware, he'd probably have the pivot-display made of chewing-gum so you could later stretch the portrait mode to accommodate all lines of your code without having to use that thoroughly inconvenient scroll-bar ever again. suggested new tag-line: it is the mind that moves the pivot-display to swing and the mask to stretch it. regards niyam > Regards, > > -- Raju > -- > Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ > GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F > PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves > > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > -- niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
