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Canadian Lover:
Ha! I liked the "Go away! This will take ten minunites!" meaning"Go away! We don't wan't you to see us fucking your system!
Canadian Lover:
Boy! now you have to buy a larger screen?
[ September 26, 2003: Message edited by: The all Canadian Lover ]
jasonlane:
What a whole load of wank. I finally found out why too much blue is a bad thing, actually too much of any colour on screen is a bad thing.
An excess of blue on screen will actually after staring at it for a few hours tinge your vision orange. Great move M$.
Do M$ actually think they produce good UI design??? It's truly awful. I'm sorry anyone who thinks otherwise, well that's your prerogative but you're wrong.
hm_murdock:
they didn't "make it ugly again"
those screenshots predate Aero. That's right before they dropped Plex and the GDI desktop compositor for their new engine.
The reason it's so ugly is they've got two generations of tech there. The big toolbar at the top with the title in it, is the thick toolbar you see inthe Aero screenshots, and right below it, is the classic Explorer toolbar.
As for the poor quality of the appearance theme, once the new renderer is active (as it is in all those Aero screenies) you've got a whole new world. It's like the difference in X11 (old hat, 2D, bitmapped) and Quartz (next-gen, OpenGL accelerated, PDF vector based).
it's something that Linux dudes should think about... why keep dicking around with tired old X11 when EVERYBODY ELSE is going to vector-based high-quality desktops?
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Fett101:
quote:Originally posted by Zardoz:
An excess of blue on screen will actually after staring at it for a few hours tinge your vision orange. Great move M$.
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So that's thier new plan. Turn everyones vision orange, and then they'll rule the world. Bill gates really is an evil genius! :eek:
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