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Comment Yes, a second monitor is required. (Score 1) 1002

We frequently have to refer to documentation or examples when developing and having both the code and the reference side by side really helps. There's something very nice about having two fully separate contexts of information to look at. For some reason, it's a lot less distracting to me than having it on one screen where I have to worry about other windows covering it up, etc. If the developers want another monitor, spend the couple hundred bucks and get them one. These are skilled workers/artists that should be given whatever reasonable accommodations (and the occasional unreasonable ones) they need in order to perform their job functions in a comfortable way. Any place that would call me a pampered developer for asking for a second monitor really doesn't sound like a very good place to work as a developer. Is $100-$400 really that much money given the type of work?
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Will Amazon Put Advertisements In eBooks? 226

destinyland writes "A book editor at Houghton Mifflin argues ebook advertising is 'coming soon to a book near you.' (Paywalled unless you go through Google.) Amazon has filed a patent for advertisements on the Kindle, and the book editor joins with a business professor in the Wall Street Journal to make the case for advertisements in ebooks. Book sales haven't increased over the last decade, and profits are being squeezed even lower by ebooks. According to another industry analyst, Amazon is being pressured to make ebook sales more profitable for publishers, partly because Apple offers them more lucrative terms in Apple's iBookstore. One technology blog notes that Amazon's preference seems to be keeping book prices low, and wonders whether consumers would accept advertising if it meant that new ebooks were then free. Meanwhile, Ralph Lauren has confused the issue even more by publishing a 'shoppable' children's storybook online, prompting a fierce reaction from one blog: 'I hope it's the last. Books are one of the last refuges in our world from the constant cry by advertisers to spend money and fill our lives with unnecessary things.'"

Sculpture to Reflect Campus Wireless Traffic 84

prostoalex writes "Ball State University, the top unwired school in the nation according to Intel survey, is set to unveil a sculpture that will reflect the wireless traffic on the campus network. From the article: 'Beginning Tuesday night at 8 p.m., as people log onto the Internet via Ball State's network, their online activity will appear as sound, color, patterns and images projected onto giant screens set up around the base of Shafer Tower, located in the middle of campus on McKinley Avenue.'"

MS Gives 60-Day Deadline to Web Devs 375

capt turnpike writes "Since losing the patent case filed by Eolas, Microsoft has to change radically the way IE works with a lot of content, especially video and other ActiveX controls. eWEEK is reporting that Microsoft has gotten a one-time, 60-day extension in which developers and companies can try to re-engineer their Web pages and ads to work with the new regime. If devs don't make that deadline, users could face pages asking them to activate much of the content, plus ads."

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