how much money did ChaCha pay Techcrunch to get all this coverage?
Did you notice the part where TC is unable to get an answer for an extended period of time and they begin to call ChaCha "fail"? Did you read the article? No.
ChaCha CEO Has Pretty Damn Sweet 8-Monitor Computer
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#12Personally, I prefer double vertical monitors (better for coding). But, when you've got 8, I think it's safe to say you can pretty much set them up however the hell you want.
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#13MTV Teen Cribs aside, this guy's house is really, really sweet. Ridiculously over-the-top, but sweet. There's a whole site dedicated to the house at http://www.scottajones.com/index.php?q=residence .
How can he afford all this? Scott Jones is better known as the inventor of voicemail. (!) His company built one of the earliest voicemail systems (1986) and he holds a bunch of patents related to it. So he can afford an extravagant house, especially since it's in Indiana.
For example: His master bathroom has a "waterfall shower" that streams 300 gallon per minute. Normal home showers are restricted to 2.5 GPM. But "because this is a high-tech home, not an ounce of water is wasted. It is sanitized by an ultraviolet-light disinfecting system, stored in a holding tank in the basement and then recycled." (http://www.forbes.com/2002/05/17/0517home.html)
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#14aside from being really cool i've always wondered how useful this would be. i'd lose whatever window i was flipping through and unless he's using some kvm switch, minimally he's running at least 2 boxes. again, cool to look at... but otherwise what good is it if you can't utilize all of it.
i can only speak to having 3. https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/163594/IMG_0077.png I like it quite a bit...it helps especially when you have 3, 4,5 IDEs open and don't feel like constantly resizing/maximizing them.
The problem that I notice on two monitors already is that I really need focus-follows-mind. I too often forget which monitor / app has the input focus and start typing away in the other.
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#15Personally, I prefer double vertical monitors (better for coding). But, when you've got 8, I think it's safe to say you can pretty much set them up however the hell you want.
What do you use to get sub-pixel anti-aliasing (aka ClearType) in portrait mode?
The higher-res anti-aliasing is the only thing that got me to switch from CRTs. I've tried portrait mode for similar reasons, but the loss of quality leaves me looking at pixels instead of characters or words.
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#16Eight monitors, but only a single-core CPU?
and only two gig of ram? what does a gig of standard issue dram cost these days? $89 perhaps? :-)
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#17Eight monitors, but only a single-core CPU?
and only two gig of ram? what does a gig of standard issue dram cost these days? $89 perhaps? :-)
It's down to $20 a Gig: http://www.frys-electronics-ads.com/ads/2009/01/16/40166/Kin...
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#18I've seen a lot of comments - particularly on TechCrunch - relating to wealth and how much this would cost.
In terms of cost, this sort of setup would not be expensive at all. I bet my Mac Pro and 30" cost more and that wouldn't be considered outrageous. You can buy 19" monitors for $200 a piece now, and the computer the guy has is really low specced (only a P4 and 2GB of RAM) - if it cost more than $4500 I'd be surprised. There are plenty of us with setups that cost more than that.
I'd say this setup is remarkable more because of the time it'd have taken to set up and how original it is.. how many people have an exercise bike built into their setup! :)
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#19MTV Teen Cribs aside, this guy's house is really, really sweet. Ridiculously over-the-top, but sweet. There's a whole site dedicated to the house at http://www.scottajones.com/index.php?q=residence . How can he afford all this? Scott Jones is better known as the inventor of voicemail. (!) His company built one of the earliest voicemail systems (1986) and he holds a bunch of patents related to it. So he can afford an…
That slide is bad-ass.
And somehow I suspect the house is no longer connected to the 'net by just a single "T1 line, which allows connection to the Internet at lightning speed."