What does it matter if it is net, gross, or whatever? It is increase performance.
Lines of code per day. Decreased defects
And what difference does it make that comments are disabled? So then you could use someone's anonymous comments to disprove the results?
The existing comments were still viewable, but I could no longer make a comment or ask questions about his study. Like, did he take into account that a years worth of experience should produce similar results, increased productivity and decreased defects. Wouldn't you like to know the basis for the numbers or do you just take everything you read on the 'net as fact?
Up until now you were just asking for a study with actual numbers to substantiate increased productivity. Something is provided that actually shows that your theory of dual monitors a.k.a more monitor space does nothing for productivity could be hooey and you veer off on another tangent to keep debating.
Well there were actual numbers in that post, but where was the data, how were those numbers collected, determined? What methods were employed to allow for normal learning improvements, what specifically contributed to the decreased defect rate? What was the original benchmark based on? You know, a real study.
And its no tangent, that's always been my position. I started out just asking for the data, because I have spent some time digging through the internet looking for real data to justify two monitors and have come up empty. I've found a lot (tons, it's "obvious") of anecdotal information, like what been provided here so far, but nothing that would pass a bean-counter. If I have no real data supporting an increase in production why spend the money?
Oh, wait..... I see a backpedal....
Oh? How so?
O.k. then. Now that we have acquired some basis that a second monitor can increase productivity
Sorry, not as yet. Unless you wish to believe everything posted on the internet without substantiation. Personally I choose to wait for real data.
now we will move into whether it justifies the cost. Everyone keeping up with Randy now? *Tour guide* " We're moving, we're moving"
I’m not. If you’re having trouble keeping up I can type slower.
Granted a quick google but a 30" goes for roughly $1900.
Who said anything about a 30”?
I have an Nvidia card at home that retails for roughly $160 that runs two monitors just fine while making and moving a rendered 3d model. I'll go high on a 19" lcd and say $350.
$1900 < $510 + (again figuring high) 1 hour labor.
Umm… math not your strong suit, eh? Two nineteen inch monitors would be seven hundred plus the card and you’re around eight-sixty. Our supplier can get us into dual nineteen’s for just under seven hundred, including card and labor. We can get a twenty inch wide format for around three fifty or a twenty-four inch for around six seventy-five.
Dang my slow typing!! Keith stole my thunder. I guess that's payback for plagarism.
You guys seem to think the first monitor is free. Did you get yours free? If so where, cause we’ve had to pay for all of ours.