On Tuesday, 16 July 2013 at 00:26:51 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Vista doesn't have that horrible MS Dock taskbar
Worth noting you can turn that off: I have 7 on the laptop I'm on
now and after a few settings changes, it is very similar to
vista. To get a good taskbar you need to turn off the group
similar windows function (which I hated when it was introduced in
XP anyway).
Your quick launch still keeps their place but that doesn't bug me
like I thought it would, it is actually kinda nice.
window screenshots *every* freaking time your mouse goes near
Oh yeah, that is annoying. I hate hover things in general. The
worst of them is on websites. My bank website used to have hover
menus right above the login thing...
So I go to the address bar and type in my bank dot com. Then i
move the mouse down toward the login form and click it.... but
oops, on the way down, I hovered over the stupid menu, so now by
click is redirecting me to some new site! AAAARGGGTHHHH!
The taskbar thing is similarly annoying but at least it pops up
above, so you are less likely to accidentally click it in
transit. Though I have many times clicked one window then went up
and clicked another window because it popped up. God I hate hover
crap.
I do actually like a lot of the ribbon stuff though. I don't
see what the big problem is
It's different. I still haven't really figured out the new Paint
UI. I don't think it sucks, but it does take some getting used to.
Interesting. I wonder why exactly that is.
IIRC it was because a lot of browsers clear cache on close, or
the cache expired too soon.
Hmm, yea, that's not too bad, although I have found Linux FF
tends to have a better default UI (that is, matches the system
better) than Windows FF anyway.
Yes, I agree. And even there, I had to do an about:config thing
to kill the unified back/forward nonsense.
On Windows, firefox can look ok by doing the same adjustments,
but one thing that still annoys me is that there's a weird shadow
thing behind the menu. It isn't too bad but just seems pointless.
and so does the unified "stop/reload"
Oh yeah, that's annoying. But the keyboard is a bit better there,
f5+esc are easy to hit and more reliable anyway.
Remember the old Sega GameGear's crappy LCD?
lol I actually liked it because it was backlit! Ate through
batteries like mad but it was usable in varied lighting
conditions.
Screen size makes much more of a difference on PS3 than
resolution. Probably at least 95% of PS3 games I've tried
include text that's so damn *small* that's it's barely
readable on even a 29" set
Yes, I can barely even read it on my friend's larger tv in the
call of duty game (especially when we play split screen, no point
even trying to read the score, 8, 3, and 11 all look the same to
me at those sizes)
Really HD is only a moderate improvement if you compare
it to a *real* SD set instead of "SD on an HD set".
Aye. And even so, meh. I was called a troll a while ago because
somebody on youtube did a cgi remake of some Star Trek 2 scenes,
and I said my old VHS copy looked better.
But it did. The cgi artist did a fine job, sure, but the original
director and model makers did a *better* job and the VHS captured
it just fine. (One thing I think the cgi artist missed was the
deliberate angles and coloring choices the director made in the
original movie, to get across the contrast of hero and villain.
If you've seen the movie, you might remember what I mean - the
Enterprise was often shot with bluer light and taller angles (if
that's the right term), making it look more good and innocent,
whereas the Reliant had low angles and redder lights to look
menacing - a perfect fit for the scene. The cgi artist had
bazillion polygons but didn't capture the same atmosphere.
Then there were things that just looked silly, like cgi smoke.
Bah, the original effects were kinda cheesy too but I bought
them. Maybe thanks to the actors but still, my old tape looked
fine whatever the reason.)
That's strange. I wonder if maybe you're one of those people
that's sensitive to the subtle flicker in backlights.
Maybe, but the lcd computer screen doesn't bug me the same. idk.
