Telling professor about low res on LCD

[yhelothar]

Say if you went to his office hours, and you see him using 1024x768 on a 20" LCD that looks all blurry, would you let him know that he could get a much clearer picture by changing the res?

 

[Mo0o]

he might do it because his eyes are bad and he likes the appearance of bigger fonts.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
he might do it because his eyes are bad and he likes the appearance of bigger fonts.

I would assume this.

 

[zerocool84]

MYOB

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
he might do it because his eyes are bad and he likes the appearance of bigger fonts.

If only MS would fix the damned DPI settings to where they no longer break apps... it's been (over?) 15 years now.

Why the eff didn't Vista support vector fonts and objects? If they were going to go all hardware-accelerated, they should have done it RIGHT.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: CZroe

Originally posted by: Mo0o
he might do it because his eyes are bad and he likes the appearance of bigger fonts.

If only MS would fix the damned DPI settings to where they no longer break apps... it's been (over?) 15 years now.

Why the eff didn't Vista support vector fonts and objects? If they were going to go all hardware-accelerated, they should have done it RIGHT.

I always hear people say that, but I never had an issue with high dpi when using high resolutions. It always looked a helluva lot better to me than using low dpi and low res.

Btw, do macs have any issues with it? My professor was using a mac.

 

[DaTT]

Tell him that his screen looks like ass.

 

[SearchMaster]

Mutter "moron" under your breath as you laugh your way out of his office.

 

[Instagib]

Yeah just be nice about it

 

[daniel1113]

As a computer geek, I have learned that it is best not to give out tech advice or offer to help others with computer problems. The less I get involved, the better.

 

[Juddog]

Some people just don't have as sharp vision as others, and others just don't like fooling with fonts in every program to adapt them to a readable size for the monitor. I've seen this plenty of times where I work; I'll setup a nice monitor (18 to 20") and get everything all nice looking, setup clear type, then their immediate complaint is everything is too small. Then I go adjust the font size on various things and they complain the borders are too small, etc.. Finally I just end up switching the resolution to 1024 x 768 to make them happy, even though it looks like crap.

 

[thepd7]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
he might do it because his eyes are bad and he likes the appearance of bigger fonts.

so he can change the DPI and fonts to huge, still doesn't mean he has to put up with non-native res.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: thepd7

Originally posted by: Mo0o
he might do it because his eyes are bad and he likes the appearance of bigger fonts.

so he can change the DPI and fonts to huge, still doesn't mean he has to put up with non-native res.

seems like a huge pain in the ass to explain all that to him if he's ok with his setup now and isnt asking for help

 

[ithec]

blow jobs get you A's
telling him his resolution is off won't

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Juddog
Some people just don't have as sharp vision as others, and others just don't like fooling with fonts in every program to adapt them to a readable size for the monitor. I've seen this plenty of times where I work; I'll setup a nice monitor (18 to 20") and get everything all nice looking, setup clear type, then their immediate complaint is everything is too small. Then I go adjust the font size on various things and they complain the borders are too small, etc.. Finally I just end up switching the resolution to 1024 x 768 to make them happy, even though it looks like crap.

Yeah, my wife inherited my Inspiron 9300 with a beautiful 17" 1900x1200 screen... after a bunch of tweaking and stuff, she ended up just running it at 1440x900. Looks awful.