I wonder what running two screens like that must do to your battery life? Nothing good I suspect.

I agree....
Wait here while I control+C this comment and control+V somewhere else. Then I'll control+S and Alt+F4 this window.

>> ^Deano:

>> ^Sagemind:
Double 27" screens here and 7 programs running at once - I too am tight
Just a minute whilst I move one window to the other screen.

I love the way anything remotely "advanced" e.g me showing someone a keyboard shortcut like control+A, is now compared to Minority Report. I guess that film was good for something.

>> ^Sagemind:

Double 27" screens here and 7 programs running at once - I too am tight
Just a minute whilst I move one window to the other screen.


I love the way anything remotely "advanced" e.g me showing someone a keyboard shortcut like control+A, is now compared to Minority Report. I guess that film was good for something.

>> ^spoco2:

I just watched this on my right monitor while having a couple of programming IDEs open on the left one.
Is my shit tight too?
Or have I just been drinking too much coffee?

Damn straight!

Too much screen real estate is like too much money, it can potentially be a problem but the vast majority of people don't have near enough to worry about it.

Your video, The Onion: Man using two screens is not fucking around, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

That is a university classroom!??!!! Two screens on every desk?

Man, is the world a different place than I knew

Just so you can see what you've already watched. Not sure you mean with unsifted vids ...
>> ^Deano:

2. Isn't the no-vote option simply not to vote? On the unsifted page you can use the unsifted video listing order to filter out videos.
3. Agreed, though as I rock two screens it's not really a problem. Solution: upgrade!

2. Isn't the no-vote option simply not to vote? On the unsifted page you can use the unsifted video listing order to filter out videos.

3. Agreed, though as I rock two screens it's not really a problem. Solution: upgrade!

Absolutely, 100%, NO DOUBTS, helpful.

It is fucking funny, on top of the fact that it:

exposes the mentalities, intolerence and reality in the world surrounding the situation.

some themes exposed by the film that might go over some people's heads:


the uninformed, manipulation prone talk show mentality of citizens
celebrity worship set against third world realities
the ridiculous policies regarding homosexuals in the US military
sexual deviation among straight people
the "ultimate fighting" culture, the unnecessary, 'unnatural' killing of animals.
the irony of the common prejudice against homosexuals by larger groups that hate each other


it is god damn genius and cohen is a hero. he really could have gotten killed.

the scene where he makes the karate master show him how to defend against a tri-dildo attack is still making me laugh.


(ps boot legs are out. just saying. i dont think we'll get this movie in the single, two screen theater in my town.. so i watched a cam)

No thanks.

that's bollocks. file under "awweeeesum!!!!! (for 5 minutes)".

there's only 2 methods that have caught on enough so that you don't have to take the kit to the club with you: CDJs and turntables.

Then there's the final scratch / serrato guys who come along and annoy everybody by plugging in loads of cables to their laptop, which then crashes or runs out of battery (seen that happen to grooverider).

This system in comparison is expensive, heavy, fragile, large, and never gonna catch on. Added to that, a touchscreen is neither tactile enough nor fast enough. Perhaps the guy demonstrating this is just a shit DJ, but I expect he is being restricted by the performance of the system. Already there is a sense of "detachment" when playing CD instead of vinyl, and this system here just takes that detachment to a whole new level. In music, a delay of more than about 5ms can be noticeable and ruin your flow.

There is no benefit for the DJ here, just cool tech. (the large waveform display is not much more useful than the small display on serrato anyway, and anybody serious about scratching the record would use real vinyl or one of those technics CDJs with the real motor in it), and the audience can't even see your "kewl" screens, and they don't give a shit anyway...
most people don't even realise that DJs actually change the speed of records to blend them together. They don't realise, because they never tried to find out, because they don't give a shit.

So this looks to me like one of those "kewl" things that might eventually become the future, but only after several technological limitations are lifted. E.g if i could roll these two screens up and stick them in a small backpack, then we might start talking. but of course, if these things were light, they would move around the table when you touch them. Hmmmm.

But remember... most venues don't have space on their table for this shit, so you end up being restricted by a very basic and primitive limit. If you design your show around this technology you won't be able to play in a large percentage of venues. The main reason CDJs became standard was because they are small, cheap, and CDs are very very very universal. And CDs aren't heavy.

Sell this technosplurge to Bjork or something. Get Microsoft to buy you out because you are "youth" or whatever. Wait 20 years and you won't even need a screen, it will all be about waving your hands in the air or just "thinking" about the mix while wearing a braintooth headset. anyway by then live music will have killed the DJ. mark my words.

But lets face it, the music I just heard in this video was bullshit, not even in rhythm. Sort that out first, yeah? Music > tech.