I can imagine at least one good use for it: if you need to see your photos as large as possible in Photoshop, and they are portrait orientation.
By the way, don't judge me by the wallpaper. I'm not gay, really. It was like this when I took over the apartment, and the walls are the last thing I need to get done. I have put in new carpet, new windows and door, new curtains, new furniture. But having the apartment painted makes such a mess that I haven't faced it yet.
Alex said:
I think it was the quintessential tweeness of the (insert word meaning printed strip between two colours/textures of wall) that EO thought may spark the latent homophobe in his audience. [Indeed. A cute old couple lived here before.]
Now, what is strange is the spell checker just rejected homophobe, it's only suggestion being homophone. Is this the start of Newspeak, the word doesn't exist, so I can't say what I want to. It's like the Scrabble game on my cell phone. Just turned out I had an NGGRIE in my rack, and no S to make a laughing word. Unfortunately the word which would have scored the highest points is a word which is taboo, and the game had it excluded from its dictionary.
Funny old world, I was on an adult enabled MSN film board, and my profile was rejected because of the use of the word Hitchcock, as in Alfred!
'nother funny one, I submitted an erotic story on-line to a forum for such things. My carefully constructed text was rejected because of the pub name, "The Cock O'Barton". I renamed it to another pub in S. Manchester where the story was set.
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I've seen that done on System 7 about 10 years ago. I think it was a flat panel, but now I think back it may even have been a CRT. The neat bit was when the screen tilted far enough it would switch between landscape and portrait.
I did see someone run his PC screen in portrait too about 4 years ago.
I think it is of great benefit when working on documentation, you get the whole page at once. Of course a double page spread you are back to landscape.
Hmm... my computer running XP and now Vista has been able to do that for years. :o)
That got me thinking. I can on my laptop and its second screen, but I had to use the ATI driver - that is the graphics card, rather than a Windows setting.
Trouble is, my little Samsung monitor does not auto sense rotate, nor does it have a built in pivot stand, I'd have to get a bolt on.
I don't see anything wrong with the wallpaper it looks nice. Tht doesn't mean that I am a gay. Nowadays, you don't need to judge men or women with the colour they like. Really.
I think it was the quintessential tweeness of the (insert word meaning printed strip between two colours/textures of wall) that EO thought may spark the latent homophobe in his audience.
Now, what is strange is the spell checker just rejected homophobe, it's only suggestion being homophone. Is this the start of Newspeak, the word doesn't exist, so I can't say what I want to. It's like the Scrabble game on my cell phone. Just turned out I had an NGGRIE in my rack, and no S to make a laughing word. Unfortunately the word which would have scored the highest points is a word which is taboo, and the game had it excluded from its dictionary.
Funny old world, I was on an adult enabled MSN film board, and my profile was rejected because of the use of the word Hitchcock, as in Alfred!
'nother funny one, I submitted an erotic story on-line to a forum for such things. My carefully constructed text was rejected because of the pub name, "The Cock O'Barton". I renamed it to another pub in S. Manchester where the story was set.
Yes, i did mean the wall. I was talkin' about its colour and sorry I 4got 2 add on that it was also 'bout its deco.
OOOOOHHHH! You meant the wallpaper literally!
And there I was staring at yoyr monitor wondering "what about that wallpaper?"
:-D
You're right, Alex, it's a f[BLEEP!]ing scr[BLEEP!]ed-up d[BLEEP!]ned world we bl[BLEEP!]dy live in. No sh[BLEEP!].
Now all Apple need is a monitor that swivels. We got some in the office for XP but never bothered to rotate them. Too many wires out the back. Note: we had to install software to enable rotation first. Also it messes up ClearType a bit.
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