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New Longhorn Screenshots And Schedule
Mozillabird writes "WinSupersite has recently updated the Longhorn release schedule and has provided some new screenshots of Aero. The first beta of Longhorn is May 2005, though there is some speculation about how much of Avalon and Aero will be implemented in that beta. The "big beta" is scheduled for this Fall."
Do you realize that 99.99% of all users, myself included, do not give a royal rats flying arse what fonts are used by the system
I hear graphics people always throwing around the names Tohoma and Verdana, so I know they are fonts. I have no idea WHAT they look like versus, say, Times New Roman, or Arial, which, by the way, are the ONLY TWO FONTS anybody cares about.
One has those little pointy things on the letters, the other one doesn't.
As a programmer I also care about which fixed width font I am using. Thankfully any decent IDE also installs three or four different fixed width fonts, and OSs typically come with at least a few, so I have a nice selection there. Wait, the font I am using for this text box is fixed width.
See, I just noticed that. I don't care. If it wasn't for the fact that variable width fonts let me shove more text on a single line of my resume, I would likely use fixed width fonts in my word processor as well.
And no, I do NOT notice the "shape of the 'g's". Unless the 'g's rendering is extremely messed up some how and it ends up overlapping what is on the line below it (heya if anybody has any good times on how to prevent that while writing stuff out by hand I am all ears, I have just resorted to writing g raised up onto the main text line), I really do not care.
Oh, I do wish Internet Explorer would get some proper font resizing in though. Actually I wish web designers would STOP using absolute layouts, so stupid stupid STUPID. Anyone who cannot imagine a flexible design and layout for their text needs to step back away from the presentation and reorientate themselves towards the content.
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Very simple - for the past 1500 years Christian churches (mainly Catholic, but I haven't seen any others change their ways after splitting) have changed their historical representation of Christ's life to align Christian holidays with non-christian holidays. See, for example, Christmas, Easter, etc. On top of that, many so-called Christians will, without forethought or due tolerance, condem believers of most any other faith to hell. Exclusionary acts like that, or usurption of the rituals of others, or adaption of other's rituals to Christianity simply to increase power base (voodoo is a good example of this) is what builds up the animosity you see towards Christians.
That said, it's interesting how the acts of various Christian churches do not mesh well with actual Christian teachings of tolerance, good will, love, and respect of all humans. It's this dissconnect between the main-stream church establishment (I know, there are some Christian churches that aren't so hypocrtical) and actual Christian philosophy that skeptics, atheists, cynics, and slashdotters will constantly point out. Not to the detrement of Christianity, but as a driving force towards individual Christian betterment. When one realizes the Christian establishment is more political than spiritual, one can then ascend beyond the early bounds of a corrupt church and realize a true life of good Christian values and brother/sisterhood.
Or...maybe it's because there's no beer in heaven.