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 Thursday, May 27, 2004
started 5/27/2004; 6:19:07 PM - last post 6/1/2004; 7:25:21 PM
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Doc Searls - Thursday, May 27, 2004 
5/27/2004; 10:19:07 PM (reads: 3899, responses: 3)
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Redraw your own conclusions 
The Godot Manifesto?
| | After reading Giles Turnbull's post-Cluetrain piece, The Long Conversation, in the Guardian, I'm thinking that the Net has become better than ever at shipping clues, but that Dorothy Parker is still right: You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think. (That's a nasty way of putting it, but a great excuse to quote Parker.) [Note: I just learned she said "horticulture." This is one of those times I wish the strike tag worked here, but alas... woops! no... look: horticulture.. thank you Susan] Among The Clueful Giles (actually, the CT authors) lists a couple of airlines, the Dean campaign (and, with qualifications, Kerry's and Bush's), Google, MeetUp and weblogs. On the whole things are better than they were in '99, but I gotta say, not that much. |
| | Maybe I'm just having a pessimistic day. |
| | [Later...] Also a correction (which I thought went in here already, but apparently didn't) to Giles' otherwise fine piece: Cluetrain didn't start when Chris Locke and I started talking. It started when Chris brought two conversations together: the one he was having with David Weinberger and the one he was having with me. If there was a departure point for the train, that was it. |
Screen flat
| | At home I use two screens: the one on the laptop, and a larger adjacent monitor. For the last 1.5 years the other screen has been a ViewSonic UltraBrite A90f*. Last night it went dark, started making loud clicking sounds, and played havoc with the laptop too. This morning it was no better. So I called the customer support line listed in the manual, and got a sexy voice warning me that I need to be "over eighteen" to proceed. |
| | There's no point. It's dead. I'm not sure I want to spend the $600+ required for a really good LCD monitor, so I might go one more round with a VDT. I also like the absence of a single native resolution with VDTs, so there's no blurring at all resolutions other than the native one. |
| | I kinda wish I'd picked one up at the computer fair, where every VDT, including 21" Sonys, was around $100. Replacing the ViewSonic with an identical one is $250 at CompUSA, but I don't think I'll trust another one of these things. |
| | [Later...] Just got pointed to this. Whoa. |
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Peter Millard - Re: Thursday, May 27, 2004
5/28/2004; 2:43:33 AM (reads: 662, responses: 0)
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After being able to use LCDs both at work and at home... you should save your pennies and make the jump. Using anti-aliased fonts on a flat panel have improved my eye-strain like 1000%. FWIW, I use an old NEC Multisync LCD 1810 at work (18", 1280x1024). My wife got me a Planar PL191M (http://www.planar.com/products/flatpanel_monitors/pl_flatpanel/PL191M.html) for a present (she rocks) and it's a fantastic display. Also, if you go the LCD route, definitely use DVI... the difference is dramatic. If you still want to go the old VDT route, I used to use cheap Optiquest displays (I have an old 21" in my closet).
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Susan Kitchens - striking out horticulture
5/28/2004; 10:45:44 AM (reads: 915, responses: 0)
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Doc,
It is possible to do linethroughs on your Manila site.
Use a span tag with the style of text-decoration: line-through to make it work.
Click 'Edit' for this message to see how I did it. I'll also try to make it appear right in HTML rendered fashion:
<span style="text-decoration: line-through">It IS possible to do linethrus on your Manila site</span>.
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Dan Lyke - LCDs versus CRTs
6/1/2004; 11:25:21 PM (reads: 668, responses: 0)
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In your cost comparison of monitors, have you considered that not only will the LCD be easier on your eyes, if you use the monitor for 8 hours a day 5 days a week at residential California electric rates (assuming 65 watts for an LCD versus 145 for an average CRT), you'll be saving at least $20/year, or $100 over a 5 year life of a display (seems to be about what they last in my house).
So that $600+ becomes $500+ pretty quickly. And if my estimates are conservative (they could be), there might be other ancillary cost savings.
If you need color fidelity then there's still no substitute for a good CRT, but then you're not going to be making the comparison based on purchase cost.
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