On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:51:41 +0100, Finn Eidvin wrote:
>> The internet integration feature of Windows 98, really nothing more
>> than a series of otherwise unrelated "features" that Microsoft is
>> using to make Windows seem more like a web page, can be one of the
>> most irritating aspects of Windows 98. Certainly, not everyone will
>> agree. If you personally don't want to take out the internet
>> integration, don't use this program.
Another reason I dont see a bright future for micky$loth. There are
fads in this business as in any other which will turn a quick profit,
but... netmail like this is becoming so ubiquitous that flimsy glitz
gets exposed for what it is even faster, and the window of profit
opportunity keeps on shrinking.
Back in the mid-80's IBM came out with amber instead of green mono
monitors. The original green seemed to match that of oscilloscopes,
so perhaps that was deliberate, to offer the cache of a science lab.
But with some fanfare, they announced that studies had shown that
the amber, actually a shade of yellow, was right in the middle of
the visual spectrum, and on a black background, produced text which
was read faster with less eyestrain.
I've never seen any results to contradict this. I did see the next
glitz, 'paperwhite' monitors on their side so that they could display
a rendition of a white paper typed A-4 letter with as the phrase now
went: "WYSIWYG". To me, it looked like black grease pencil on the
glass window of a blast furnace.
The same sort of glitz is going on webpages as they try to get your
attention, but loose focus on the content you went there to get. And
WINx menus have fallen into the same trap. You can fool some of the
people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but not all
of us all the time, and some of us been there, done that, aint buying.
Some of us know the screen to be the tool it is; some of us use dos
on that account. I dont havta look at a tool bar to know what program
is putting the words on this screen; if they are white on black, it is
a small macro editor, if green, this email tool, if amber, a long file
editor with custom macros and search tools. but no matter what color
it is, I can read the writing, and dont needta waste space with icons
and other banner bovine fecal matter cluttering up the task at hand.
uncopywritten- do what you will with it.
-- Arachne V1.68, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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