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Remember how it used to be, when a pentium 4 with half a gig was a good machine, and you could browse, play music, edit docs, print stuff, all at the same time without it locking up on you?
So its a clean install of XP, updates turned off, and all extraneous crap (services basically) turned off, and its running a treat with SlimJet. Way way way better than the work machine i have, the i7 with windows 7, IE and mcafee. Try to open two tabs and play music and it gunges up!
Just imagine this combo on hew hardware! 
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Do you know if there's an Android version?...I looked in the Play store and couldn't find it...would love to run this on my tablet.
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If only there was a way you could look at all the sites on t'Interweb and see if they contained any information about questions that you'd like answered. You could call it, oh, I don't know, a 'find motor' perhaps?
I'll save you the bother though. No. Windows or Linux. It is after all based on Chrome (which makes me wonder what they've had to gouge out to stop it being a memory hog but that's just cynical, old me!)
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Dont know, but its worth googling since its a great browser. It does everything I use IE for on the corporate box for a tenth the load. I am really impressed with it.
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I actually did google around...it seems there's not an Android version.
The ad blocking works really well.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: It feels as good as IE on an i7 with Windows 7 with 3 gig
So, depending on the site, paging to disk constantly?
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That about sums up IE.
The latest batch of Windows updates seemed to push the laptop over the edge, it became nearly unusable (has mcafee too, which isnt going to help)
SlimJet is running a real treat, got to take my hat off to the devs, its a great tool.
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Long ago (several years back), there came loads of feature updates for this site. When I came back after a break, I saw so many things changed/updated. It felt like, Damn! the last cool place on web is now screwed!.
I'm not sure if that's the time it was moving from Asp to Asp.net. Don't recollect, but I think I even wrote to Chris saying saying The new pile of feature dumps suck totally.  It's completely un-intuitive. And all those 'recommendations'.
I don't know where went that guy who wrote all these. Now I don't even remember how the older site looked like. The current one feels so much at home. I think I had just walked through the same usual User-behavior, resisting change!
But oops! I remember Chris saying it out loud here in Lounge that Asp.net sucked and Asp was better, when this transition was being done! Do I smell some change resistance here 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Had kind of a nice crispiness to it - a bit busy, but pleasantly crispy
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So I keep getting offers from my favorite on-line vendors for extra wide curved screen monitors. The prices are fiercely higher than if they were not curved.
I'm of the opinion that curved monitors are an items whose time has not yet come. It's just a sales hype to get some extra coins from the early adopters.*
Opine and Rant as you see fit.
* The first ones to get Win8, too . . .
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Some year ago I had the Samsung Nexus which was cirved. It was really fine, the curved was a positive aspect.
But I wont pay a hefty fee for that (or most any other) feature anyway. But maybe test it, if I would get it for a trial.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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They could actually be a solution for my problem now - I have a 24" widescreen at work and the corners of the screen are too farking far! It either strains my neck a lot or the borders of the screen are useless for me. If it was curved...
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I use two 30" monitors and a smaller 24" in the middle and it's fine...
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How about just sitting a bit further back?
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I can't move the monitor back for two reasons: not enough space, and my eyesight is poor so if I do I won't be able to see anything. Definetely not good.
Moving back my chair would completely annihilate my back - my workstation is not ergonomic in any aspect, the chair is 10-15 years old and abused and so on... so I try enlarging the characters on screen. Also the old monitor had a nifty feature that allowed to vary the thickness of the lines drawn on screen, this one has not. I have to get used to it, but long sessions leave me almost blind for a while.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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If you're a contractor at home, invest in yourself.
If it's as an employee, you might somehow break it to your boss that you'd be more productive if you were more comfortable. You problem clearly isn't just the monitor. Figure out what would fix things and present to him (or go on a buying spree).
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W∴ Balboos wrote: If it's as an employee, you might somehow break it to your boss that you'd be more productive if you were more comfortable.
So they sack me to get another person. Literally in this Company passed through a lot of people that went away and remained only the Fantozzi, the meek who accept anything.
I'm already looking for other companies of course... Also, when I'll really want to have something I can simply call 3-4 sick times in a row for backache / headache, this would automatically trigger both an investigation and a compensation process for deliberately provoking a cronic health disturb.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Yeah, the price hike isn't justified by the small benefit they'd bring IMO (though I confess I've never tried one).
I do know someone who uses three (non-curved) 55-inch monitors - if they were curved they'd be a full semicircle.
I'll take my usual approach of waiting until the price drops & I've tried them before even thinking of shelling out my hard-earned.
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I have assumed that the only reason one would want a curved monitor was for watching movies/video, or gaming, from much farther away from the screen than the typical distances your eyes are at when you are keyboarding away doing whatever.
Is this assumption incorrect ?
I welcome enlightenment.
cheers, Bill
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I'd imagine that it depends: if the curve makes the whole area of the screen seem equidistant from your eyes, then it should reduce the refocusing you have to do to view the whole monitor. Pretty sure that wouldn't be good for your eyes in the long term though...
And even at my age I have no problem moving the focus from any part of my two 22" monitors to any other, so I think "gimmick" myself.
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I bet there are some studies somewhere of the effects of using a curved screen relatively close-up on eye-movements, and focusing.
And, how much do I really use my "peripheral vision" when I am coding ... perhaps attending intensely to a relatively small area of the screen at any one moment in time is more typical of how I work in VS. But, I had no teevee in my larval stages, and using computers came around age 40; my first tv-tube monitors were convex (yuck) ... so ... whadda I know about the current generation ... for all I know they are evolving multi-tasking eyeballs can move independently like lizards.
... mmmm ... time to Google.
oh: how unsurprising this should appear on a Samsung news site: [^].
well, here's a PDF that sounds like it might have some kind of scientific content: [^].
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
modified 26-May-16 10:14am.
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My usual want for a larger monitor (TV) would be to sit further back so my eyes can be more relaxed. When you sit further back, so far as I can do in a gedanken experiment, would mitigate any advantage perceived advantage it might supply. Perceived to be taken literally and figuratively.
I would hypothesize that if one were attempting to fill their entire field of vision it might have some benefit. I leave that aspect to the theaters.
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Upvote for using gedanken without, evidently, schadenfreude 
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I surprised no one seems to be speaking from experience of actually using a curved extra wide monitor. I have an LG 34" IPS Curved UltraWide monitor that I've been using for a couple of months now and I have to say I am very happy with it.
When sitting at the monitor, you can't see the curve, but it does seem to be slightly easier to see the corners. Of course, it could be in my head too.
The ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio is also very nice. I like the factor that although it's wide, it's not tall, so I don't find myself getting a crook in my neck looking up to the top of the screen.
Just my two cents.
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