right now i've got mine setup with a 20" 1600x1200 monitor next to it, on it's side, so that it matches up with the 2560x1600 perfectly. So basically 2560x1600 + 1200x1600. Much nicer than usual for monitors with 2 separate resolutions!

It's pretty sweet, although getting a 2nd 30" is very tempting! I don't think it'd fit on my desk though. We use a variety of 30" monitors at work and the S-IPS panels in the dells are definitely the better of them...

i love me 2560x1600

dell 3008wfp ftw...the LG panel used in these is spectacular

ive also used the samsung 305t which is discontinued now, the PVA panel wasn't quite as nice as the S-IPS LG panel...

There's also the 27" Dell U2711 which uses the 2560x1440 panel of the iMac 27", another good contender these days, but i like the extra resolution of the 30"

I don't know if you're serious or not, but that's completely ridiculous for pot quite honestly. and most studies on pot and driving actually showed that people were more cautious, it does not have the same type of coordination effects of alcohol regardless of what some people may tell you.

quite honestly any restrictions on pot if it were made legal i'd expect to be equal or less than alcohol, since alcohol is a much more dangerous drug anyway.

and you know what, people who abuse stimulants (adderall is pretty much one step away from crystal meth) are some of the worst addicts I've met, don't even talk about them in the same paragraph...pot is completely different. you don't burst out into abusive fits of rage when you smoke pot like I've seen people do while hopped up on meth...

if you want people to hang around a real addict, they won't be pot smokers. Real addicts do a lot more than something as relatively harmless as pot.

I never said I was taking anything nor did I claim to be better at "handling my substances" than anyone else as you seem to imply by your driving analogy. It's anecdotal because this is a single personal account a friend and not a scientifically significant subset of the general population or a representation of much of anything at all except for that specific person's issues.

I mean, maybe the laws are there to protect, but quite honestly i don't know what your friends taking, but the laws protecting people from pot are hardly justified given that it's a hell of a lot less dangerous than the legal alternatives like cigarettes or alcohol. Further perpetuating misinformation about the effects of drugs is not going to help this any. I reckon even the "weak or poorly insighted" are not going to be so much more blinded by pot than those with some super-human substance-intaking abilities that you seem to imply exist...Sure you might see the person who's a "n00b" at it act all silly or what not, but the placebo effect is a powerful thing.

Ever seen those scientific studies where they give people "alcohol-free" beer and don't tell them, and then watch as the people proceed to talk louder and act stupid even though no alcohol was actually involved?

Fact is, people are dumb all by themselves, blaming the drugs is just an excuse...and if that person's use of drugs is making then even more dumb, then it's just an extension of that person's inherit stupidity.

maybe, but the fact they are getting busted means they probably aren't being very responsible in the first place....and anecdotal experiences hardly speak for everyone...but even so I'm not sure you're really disagreeing with me - if their job performance is shit then that should speak for itself should it not?

as for company image, i haven't seen too many cases where people getting busted for drugs listed the company they worked for and what not, not unless the person was a high ranking official in the company that people otherwise knew anyway...this is not really something you could predict, and quite honestly if it wasn't for all the broken drug laws this wouldn't even be an issue anyway...in either case I don't think this justifies drug testing one bit.

More and more it seems drug testing is used as a sort of blanket "cover our asses" type of thing for companies which are too lazy to actually monitor the performance of their employees. It's quite sad honestly.

Shoulda put a "usually" in there. but all the luck to ya :P

well i've got a decent paying job with benefits and they don't drug test, so maybe i am limiting my options, but it hasn't hurt me any. Our employee handbook actually focuses more on addiction and rehab and stuff like that which I actually think is somewhat respectable. I'd much rather work for a company who is realistic than one who decides to violate the employee's privacy right from the start, it doesn't really speak well for the company and it's not the kind of place I'd want to work for...

this is anecdotal at best and really speaks out more about your friend as a person than it does the effects of the drugs on him....

yep that's pretty much the point i'm trying to make - people should be judged by how they perform their jobs, not on what they do outside of their jobs. Some of the commenter's here acting as if someone who smokes pot is an inferior person is just hilarious and goes to show how ignorant the masses can be. Sure too much of anything can be a bad thing, but losing a job cause you smoked some pot at a party 2-4 weeks ago (the amount of time it could potentially show up on a piss test) or something is just retarded and completely unjustified regardless.