12-04-2005 18:57

Marc P.

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There were 4 of us poking around the Danbury mall in CT. We somehow wandered into the Apple store. Sadly, the first thing that came to all 4 of our minds when we saw that screen was "Dang, I wonder how big ChiefDelphi would look on that monitor..."

Fortunately, all the computers in the Apple Store were online. Elgin couldn't help but snap the picture, while Dez did the same with his cameraphone. (It's a 30" Apple HD Cinema Display... the picture of Travis the UFH is roughly the size of an average person's hand, at some insanely high resolution. Half the newsposts on the portal fit on one long line).

12-04-2005 19:08

MrToast

Re: pic: CD on a Super Sized monitor.

I'll see if I can get to a local Apple Reseller that has a G5 with the dual 30"...

Dave

12-04-2005 19:11

Ali Ahmed

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Thats awesome. I'll try to hook up my laptop to my 42" plasma TV and see how CD looks on that.

12-04-2005 21:40

dlavery

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OK, so I saw that and just couldn't resist. Here is 63 inches of ChiefDelphi.com!!!



(aahh, the fun you can have with an extra monitor and video card lying around the house...)

-dave

12-04-2005 21:47

MrToast

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Holy crap....

12-04-2005 21:49

Levin571

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Man, Dave always has to one up us. We build robots to play games, he build robots to go on other planets, Elgin makes CD 30 inches, you make it 63 inches.

12-04-2005 21:50

Ali Ahmed

Re: pic: CD on a Super Sized monitor.

Darn. I guess my 42" is not enough. Oh well

12-04-2005 21:51

Jeff K.

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Whoaaa...that is shweeeeet

12-04-2005 21:54

MrToast

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12-04-2005 23:04

Daniel Brim

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Ah, behold the power of CSS

(Now if you pronounce that like Ceese then you will understand why that is funny )

Dave, you have too much spare time! (Imagine what would happen if he spent all of that time designing the game!)

-Daniel

12-04-2005 23:11

Tom Bottiglieri

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12-04-2005 23:29

dubious elise

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Aww man Dave, just when I finish cleaning all of the drool off of my pro keyboard....

I love those 30" monitors. They are simply beautiful.

13-04-2005 01:24

Mike AA

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How about getting someone at a competition to put CD onto the competition screens... now THATS big, 120"?

-Mike

13-04-2005 01:48

tkwetzel

Re: pic: CD on a Super Sized monitor.

I came back to this thread after only seeing that 30" monitor to say that I am upset because I just down-sized my monitor and ChiefDelphi (along with everything else) seems so tiny now. My last monitor blew up; I would never voluntarily downsize.

Dave,
Now you can't see the cool things you have on the back corners of the desk. And now only your G5 has monitors and you have at least one computer that is monitor-less. Of course you could always hook up a KVM switch (I don't have enough room for all that in my apartment (well, I could fit it all...but not easily).

EDIT: It isn't 63" Dave! I found you out. You need to maximize the window for it to be 63". I can see Mars on the left side of the desktop, so ChiefDelphi must only be approx. 60". And if you really want to get technical, monitors are measured diagonally and yours are all lined up straight, so the diagonal line won't be as long, seeing that the height of the screen is the height of only one monitor.
I did some quick math to find that two 30" screens would have approximately 200 sq. in. more in surface area than three 21" monitors. And the adjusted size of two 30" monitors side by side would be 59.39", while the adjusted size for three 21" monitors side by side would be 51.95". Sorry Dave, you have only achieved approximately 52" of ChiefDelphi minus a couple of inches of Mars.

But I do commend you on your efforts. (And you still have Elgin beat!)
(I used two 30" monitors, because it would relate closer to the three 21" monitors. If you add them straight, you obviously get 60" and 63" respectively.)