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KillHour posted:I'm trying to imagine what game would benefit from a setup like that. You play Eve, don't you? Large res photos of rainbows
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Why are there monitors everywhere except in front of you? 
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Nov 18, 2015 09:33
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The mic is my favorite part of that. I know waaaaay too many people who bought stuff like that for EVE, as if everybody really needs that fidelity from you on Mumble.
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Nov 18, 2015 15:45
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Inspector_666 posted:The mic is my favorite part of that. I know waaaaay too many people who bought stuff like that for EVE, as if everybody really needs that fidelity from you on Mumble. Well, if all you can do is mumble on Mumble, maybe you need as good of sound quality as possible.
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Nov 18, 2015 15:51
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Inspector_666 posted:The mic is my favorite part of that. I know waaaaay too many people who bought stuff like that for EVE, as if everybody really needs that fidelity from you on Mumble. It could be for streaming or recording Twitch/LP's. No clue if that makes it funnier or not.
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Nov 18, 2015 16:14
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Personally I would have killed to have a setup like that when I was doing video/audio work heavily. One can never have enough screen real estate. The thing I have noticed the most the last couple of years is every single stock trader guy has multiple huge monitors lack that and I am too embarrassed to ask why on earth they need that.
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Nov 18, 2015 18:06
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Djarum posted:The thing I have noticed the most the last couple of years is every single stock trader guy has multiple huge monitors lack that and I am too embarrassed to ask why on earth they need that. It's so they can keep track of several monitors worth of
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Nov 18, 2015 18:11
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It's because the programs for trading stocks are all piles of poo poo, and you need 5 copies open to quickly access all the common information/commands.
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Nov 18, 2015 18:29
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KillHour posted:It's because the programs for trading stocks are all piles of poo poo, and you need 5 copies open to quickly access all the common information/commands. But why would you need 5 or 6 30-inch monitors?
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Nov 18, 2015 18:35
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Yeah tbh finance jockeys and security guards are p much the only legitmate reasons to justify multiple rows and columns of monitors without looking like you wished you were in the matrix or some poo poo
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Nov 18, 2015 18:41
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Djarum posted:But why would you need 5 or 6 30-inch monitors? I don't day trade (but I know someone who does), but if it's anything like programming, you want as many windows open as possible. I imagine being able to read news articles and have financial reports open and getting able to see stock prices all at once is important.
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Nov 18, 2015 18:42
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LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:Yeah tbh finance jockeys and security guards are p much the only legitmate reasons to justify multiple rows and columns of monitors without looking like you wished you were in the matrix or some poo poo Enhance.
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Nov 18, 2015 18:42
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KillHour posted:I don't day trade (but I know someone who does), but if it's anything like programming, you want as many windows open as possible. I imagine being able to read news articles and have financial reports open and getting able to see stock prices all at once is important. That makes sense and is kind of what I thought. I just found it odd that all of these guys were going after multiple 30 inchers so I wasn't sure if something mandated that kind of resolution/size. The whole day trader world seems kind of weird and scary.
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Nov 18, 2015 18:53
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For finance you are better off with multiple PCs, all those monitors on one computer is slow as lard. The situation is only just about rectifying itself with the high end DisplayPort adapters.
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Nov 18, 2015 19:23
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Djarum posted:That makes sense and is kind of what I thought. I just found it odd that all of these guys were going after multiple 30 inchers so I wasn't sure if something mandated that kind of resolution/size. Old people with bad eyesight?
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Nov 18, 2015 19:25
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Senior programmers with 30" Cinema Displays running at 1280x720. All these will be lost like a contact lens on a carpet floor. Time to die...
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Nov 19, 2015 04:06
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Trading desks in groups with small margins and cutthroat competition (energy comes to mind) easily have the most monitors on my floor, usually three or four monitors dedicated to Bloomberg and the rest for scripting/prop stuff. The vast majority of us in finance (99.99%) are fine with two monitors and a laptop.
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Nov 19, 2015 06:31
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More monitors give more screen real estate which makes it easier to organize information, just like they always have. 5 monitors held up with a creative use of monitor arms is also way more of a cool desk setup than a multi-hundred-dollar racing wheel screwed onto the edge of a desk with a laptop on it. Stop giving that guy poo poo for showing off for epeen in the 'show off your desk for epeen' thread. 
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Nov 19, 2015 16:52
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Inspector_666 posted:The mic is my favorite part of that. I know waaaaay too many people who bought stuff like that for EVE, as if everybody really needs that fidelity from you on Mumble.
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Nov 19, 2015 17:12
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surc posted:More monitors give more screen real estate which makes it easier to organize information, just like they always have. 5 monitors held up with a creative use of monitor arms is also way more of a cool desk setup than a multi-hundred-dollar racing wheel screwed onto the edge of a desk with a laptop on it. Stop giving that guy poo poo for showing off for epeen in the 'show off your desk for epeen' thread. Pretty much that's all it is, I like having the satellites for work and referencing multiple documents at once. The mic was largely a "gently caress it, let's see if it's better than my G930" purchase, and so it was, so yeah  Need to build a new desk surface, this was my first one, and I made a few mistakes finishing the top and getting enough clearcoat on it.
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I just got a new desk mount last week. I work at home 4 days a week so this is my primary work setup. Before  After 
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Nov 19, 2015 19:24
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Argh really need to build myself an ikea desk for more space.
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Etrips posted:Argh really need to build myself an ikea desk for more space. You can also make one out of pipe fittings and HDF, if you need an odd shape or want something hand made. Probably about the same cost when you look at it, but I had fun with it Bob Sanders posted:I just got a new desk mount last week. I work at home 4 days a week so this is my primary work setup. Have you noticed any posture differences or discomfort from moving one monitor higher? Or am I just grossly misjudging the height of your top monitor? Zest fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Nov 19, 2015 |
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Nov 19, 2015 20:02
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Zest posted:Have you noticed any posture differences or discomfort from moving one monitor higher? Or am I just grossly misjudging the height of your top monitor? The top monitor is a TV only, I did plug it in as a monitor for a bit and it was terrible at rendering text. I often have something playing on the TV, but I'm listening more than watching. I just lean back in my chair and look up if something interesting happens.
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Nov 19, 2015 20:34
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Zest posted:You can also make one out of pipe fittings and HDF, if you need an odd shape or want something hand made. Probably about the same cost when you look at it, but I had fun with it I'd think the posture dangers would come from having all those monitors one inch from the desk surface so the viewer is hunched over staring straight down at them. When you're sitting up straight, your eyes should be level with somewhere between the top edge of your monitor and the center of the top third of the display. That top monitor looks like it's right around almost high enough.
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GreatGreen posted:I'd think the posture dangers would come from having all those monitors one inch from the desk surface so the viewer is hunched over staring straight down at them. When you're sitting up straight, your eyes should be level with somewhere between the top edge of your monitor and the center of the top third of the display. That top monitor looks like it's right around almost high enough. Ah, okay. It looked a bit higher, but that's probably just the perspective.
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GreatGreen posted:I'd think the posture dangers would come from having all those monitors one inch from the desk surface so the viewer is hunched over staring straight down at them. When you're sitting up straight, your eyes should be level with somewhere between the top edge of your monitor and the center of the top third of the display. That top monitor looks like it's right around almost high enough. That changes slightly If you have bifocals
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Short story: I moved and now have a full room to use as a desk/work area/library of sorts, and I'm trying to figure out what to do with it before I start putting holes in walls and buying 2 by 4s. I've been scourging the thread (and googling/pinterest) and saving ideas, but would it be ok to run some ideas and layout questions by the thread? May be a bit off-topic, but I couldn't find anything in DYI forum and this is the closest I found to a dedicated desk/workarea thread, so I thought it should be fine but I'd rather check first. Cheers.
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Thread isn't super busy, it'll give us things to talk about unless the mods say no.
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Edmond Dantes posted:Short story: I moved and now have a full room to use as a desk/work area/library of sorts, and I'm trying to figure out what to do with it before I start putting holes in walls and buying 2 by 4s. http://www.simplifiedbuilding.com go there and look at the project gallery
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Google Butt posted:http://www.simplifiedbuilding.com go there and look at the project gallery plumbing pipe furniture is loving horrendous
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at the date posted:plumbing pipe furniture is loving horrendous Not always. http://imgur.com/a/YFHEb
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I still wouldn't consider that great looking, but being able to put speaker stands at the exact right height is nice.
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Djarum posted:Not always. This is basically the only context in which I think it can look decent:  http://www.the-brick-house.com/2009/09/shelving-unit/  http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/jeremys-recent-grad-resourcefu-130747 trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Nov 24, 2015 |
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I had actually considered the plumbing pipe setup, but I'm not in the states and the materials for that are really loving hard to get here as plumbing isn't done with those materials anymore, it's all polypropylene. The few places I found the accessories (joints, bases) were really bloody expensive, so I'm probably going to be using rails: This is the floor plan: basically a 3m by 3m square with 2 "usable" walls; the north wall is painted green since it's the only one that doesn't get direct sunlight and it's the one I'm using with a small desk right now, and as it's now, with a small desk and a secondary table I had lying around (it's an old Singer sewing machine table):   My first thought was doing something like this against the north wall:  Like so, which would leave me quite a nice bit of free desk to use as a work area/workbench to the right of the computer, and lots of nice shelving for books/artbooks/dvds and stuff.  And hang my two guitars over the piano (it's a digital piano, I maaaaaaaay be selling it at some point in the near future since I'm not really using it) with some hooks I have and leave that wall for music stuff.
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Djarum posted:Not always. Great. Now I'm going to spend tomorrow pricing out a desk instead of being productive. I mean, I wasn't going to be productive anyway, but still.
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Djarum posted:Not always. I regret to inform you but that is embarrassing nerd poo poo
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Edmond Dantes posted:Like so, which would leave me quite a nice bit of free desk to use as a work area/workbench to the right of the computer, and lots of nice shelving for books/artbooks/dvds and stuff. If you need more space for your keyboard, I use one of these under-desk trays at work and find it really solid. Wide range of heights, very sturdy, tilts when I need it to, slides in & out nicely. You may prefer your monitor off to the side, or it's an artifact of the floorplan system, but thought I'd mention it just the same.
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effika posted:If you need more space for your keyboard, I use one of these under-desk trays at work and find it really solid. Wide range of heights, very sturdy, tilts when I need it to, slides in & out nicely. You may prefer your monitor off to the side, or it's an artifact of the floorplan system, but thought I'd mention it just the same. Ah, no, that's just the floorplan site's model for monitor + keyboard. I have quite a bit of room for it, actually, and since I'll probably be running rails up the wall I was thinking about making a small shelf to put the monitor on it and put office supplies below it and declutter the desk a bit, something like this:  /fake edit: Thanks for the suggestion though! 
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