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How big a monitor do YOU need?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:35 am
by flyingcamel
iTunes can list 45 songs on my 7.5 inch tall laptop display. To view my entire iTunes library as a single page at that same resolution, my display would need to be 124 yards tall!
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 6:32 pm
by trev
What's a yard?
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:50 am
by straycat
trev wrote:What's a yard?
A patch of ground at the back of your house?
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 1:07 am
by trev
straycat wrote:A patch of ground at the back of your house?
We call that the outback
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:05 am
by flyingcamel
I realize yard is not a universal measuere of length, but I picked it in honor of footbal (American football) starting up. A football field is an easy visualization for me.
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:53 pm
by trev
I googled the information superhighway and have determined that an American football field is 120.0 yards long which is 109.7 metres.
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:48 am
by penguin
Or in other units:
1/4 Empire State Buildings
1.3 Boeing 747s
1.8 Olympic Swimming Pools or
3 Blue Whales
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:14 am
by Mr Awesomer
trev wrote:I googled the information superhighway and have determined that an American football field is 120.0 yards long which is 109.7 metres.
When people talk about things in terms of "the length of a football field" they general mean the 100 yards (91.44 m) between the end zones. By comparision a real football pitch is similar in size, 110 yards or 100 meters or so, but of course there is no standard size, just a range.
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:49 am
by flyingcamel
As everyone knows 1 yard = 216 songs.
Of course if I were to get my semi-annual call to DJ, I'd only have about 12 yards available that I know well enough and have BPM'ed
Not that I don't know my collection - I mean the rest is mostly jazz not suitable for dancing.