I want my tallness back, my friend. My tallness back.
Even if I do side-by-side comparison (and I do), I don't want to be ripped off a considerable amount of vertical space. Especially if the difference blocks are tall.
Problem solved my ass. Why should I use a bigger resolution in a tiny screen that will kill my eyes, then waste part of the screen because it's too uselessly wide? (And no, two windows of code side by side is not going to help much most of the time.)
I neverunderstood what's with this widescreen obsession. Just because a few metrosexual stylists decided the newest fad was to have widescreen screens, vendors have thrown actual usability and requirements out of the window. Text is harder to read when lines are too wide; browsers won't automatically columnize text (and it'd be kinda useless to do that); I don't need to have things side by side because I work in full screen; pictures and people accomodate better in 4:3 screens (and I don't know about theirs, but in my town, people is taller than wide); and most of all, the area of vision of our fucking human eyes is more similar to 4:3 than it is to that fucking stylist fad.
Quit whining, phpMySQLAdmin is NOT a MySQL tool. The MySQL client tools are the mysql client and the MySQL Query Browser. Criticize MySQL for that, not for phpMySQLAdmin, and for your own good, use the command-line client. I'm tired of seeing people who can't do crap the second they're left without their favourite clicky tool, and those clicky tools do not support automation.
Also, use SHOW TRIGGER STATUS/SHOW CREATE TRIGGER to view your triggers.
I'm a free software advocate, but even I understand that drivers, while they could very well be open sauce, are not essential as long as they work, are reliable, and are provided for a reasonable number of platforms. I've never had problems with nVidia's drivers, nor I've felt the need to look at the sauce, nor I've felt nVidia would do anything bad to me with their closed sauce drivers. In fact, their business is in the graphics cards market. I already paid them, they got what I wanted from me; now their job is to please me with driver support and quality if they want me to buy my next card from them. And things are going pretty well, I'm inclined to buy from nVidia again.
The ones who have consistently followed terrorism patterns - extortion, blackmail, revolutionary tax, digital restrictions malware, mafia-controlled monopolies, forcing to upgrade, forcing to sell together with other products, etc. are those behind "Windows wants to be on every desktop". The only thing Linux advocacy does is helping people having a choice Microsoft would never give them.
But what else could you expect from stereotyped cartoons from the United Corporation of America?
What new interface? It's the same old crap! The same old crap that requires you to buy two monitors to work beacuse you can't possibly accomodate toolbars and option windows into thin upper/lower and left/right docks; the same old crap that spans over several windows making it require a separate desktop just for GIMP and rendering Alt+tabbing useless, besides spamming your task bar. The same old GIMP crap. And yet, if that were the only reason why I bought Paint Shop Pro and have to dual boot Windows XP... The GIMP is alright as some sort of advanced mspaint.exe, but it's nowhere near the capabilities of state-of-the-art image editing software. Even if we ignore the lack of 16 bits per component or CMYK, you get a piss ugly layer model with layer boundaries you have to keep in mind, sub-par drawing tools, options and brushes, terrible gradient system (Photoshop's blows too), and transparency is unheard of in most of its filters or tools.
In the good times, anti-glare was a feature. Now digital lifestyle metrosexual Apple fanboys and similar specimens have turned crappy monitors into a fad. Lol it's glossy. Nevermind you wanted to read the screen, not the whole room.
You mean Access? You could try Rekall, Kexi and OpenOffice Base, for example. I think they all work with Python, which is a huge advantage over Access.
Yes. Mac users seem to think they are exempt from having to have a clue. Turns out you have, regardless of your architecture of programmable machine. Even if this programmable machine is an overpriced lump of marketing and DRM.
I use my own Lucida Console modification, in which I got rid of the ugly i and l horizontal bars, aligned +* and every other symbol properly (great for programming), and removed the horribly crappy hinting that would prevent Windows' traditional (not ClearType) renderer to display it properly in sizes below 14pt/96 dpi.
No. It's because they actually need you to have a clue, in one way or another. Even for Mac users (you know, important members of the Web 2.0 blogosphere who dress like Beckham and use their iMac as the central hub of their digital lifestyle).
Sub-pixel antialiasing might look sharper, but it'll always feel a bit out of place. I don't think it's easier to read. If you want bolder fonts, make them bolder, it's just that simple. If anything, sub-pixel precision is going to make them thinner. And not that it's an iFeature for iDigital iStylists only; FreeType and even Windows also support that.
Most font designers enjoy looking at bug legs on a screen, but I don't, so my fonts are personal modifications of popular fonts to make them bolder. (And yes, OMG, I have modified them which may be a violation of font designers' licenses! Fuck them!)
Mid-white on black, e.g. #C0C0C0 on #000000 is surely the safest combination. First, you're not staring at a lightbulb for 8 hours a day. I really hate white backgrounds. It's only natural for the background to be black; if we're used to the white one it's because of retards who like to think of computers as paper (this is why I say using a computer, like any complex industrial machinery, should require a licence). Second, it has the most contrast for the lowest possibly light intensity, as you use your three light sensors more or less equally, not just one as in the case of green on black.
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That's the GNAAome ones. The KDE ones start with a K.
I want my tallness back, my friend. My tallness back.
Even if I do side-by-side comparison (and I do), I don't want to be ripped off a considerable amount of vertical space. Especially if the difference blocks are tall.
Problem solved my ass. Why should I use a bigger resolution in a tiny screen that will kill my eyes, then waste part of the screen because it's too uselessly wide? (And no, two windows of code side by side is not going to help much most of the time.)
I neverunderstood what's with this widescreen obsession. Just because a few metrosexual stylists decided the newest fad was to have widescreen screens, vendors have thrown actual usability and requirements out of the window. Text is harder to read when lines are too wide; browsers won't automatically columnize text (and it'd be kinda useless to do that); I don't need to have things side by side because I work in full screen; pictures and people accomodate better in 4:3 screens (and I don't know about theirs, but in my town, people is taller than wide); and most of all, the area of vision of our fucking human eyes is more similar to 4:3 than it is to that fucking stylist fad.
Parent is insightful.
I like how FAPP sounds. *fapp* *fapp* *fapp*
But I'm happy with GNU/Linux. And my P is for Python.
Quit whining, phpMySQLAdmin is NOT a MySQL tool. The MySQL client tools are the mysql client and the MySQL Query Browser. Criticize MySQL for that, not for phpMySQLAdmin, and for your own good, use the command-line client. I'm tired of seeing people who can't do crap the second they're left without their favourite clicky tool, and those clicky tools do not support automation.
Also, use SHOW TRIGGER STATUS/SHOW CREATE TRIGGER to view your triggers.
Yes, you're right. Well, maybe their numerous security bugs, Windows Update and DRM policies may cause some terror.
I'm a free software advocate, but even I understand that drivers, while they could very well be open sauce, are not essential as long as they work, are reliable, and are provided for a reasonable number of platforms. I've never had problems with nVidia's drivers, nor I've felt the need to look at the sauce, nor I've felt nVidia would do anything bad to me with their closed sauce drivers. In fact, their business is in the graphics cards market. I already paid them, they got what I wanted from me; now their job is to please me with driver support and quality if they want me to buy my next card from them. And things are going pretty well, I'm inclined to buy from nVidia again.
The ones who have consistently followed terrorism patterns - extortion, blackmail, revolutionary tax, digital restrictions malware, mafia-controlled monopolies, forcing to upgrade, forcing to sell together with other products, etc. are those behind "Windows wants to be on every desktop". The only thing Linux advocacy does is helping people having a choice Microsoft would never give them.
But what else could you expect from stereotyped cartoons from the United Corporation of America?
In fact, nVidia has shown much more interest in supporting Linux and providing with decent drivers than ATi.
What new interface? It's the same old crap! The same old crap that requires you to buy two monitors to work beacuse you can't possibly accomodate toolbars and option windows into thin upper/lower and left/right docks; the same old crap that spans over several windows making it require a separate desktop just for GIMP and rendering Alt+tabbing useless, besides spamming your task bar. The same old GIMP crap. And yet, if that were the only reason why I bought Paint Shop Pro and have to dual boot Windows XP... The GIMP is alright as some sort of advanced mspaint.exe, but it's nowhere near the capabilities of state-of-the-art image editing software. Even if we ignore the lack of 16 bits per component or CMYK, you get a piss ugly layer model with layer boundaries you have to keep in mind, sub-par drawing tools, options and brushes, terrible gradient system (Photoshop's blows too), and transparency is unheard of in most of its filters or tools.
You haven't used a serious image editing program to its full potential, have you?
In the good times, anti-glare was a feature. Now digital lifestyle metrosexual Apple fanboys and similar specimens have turned crappy monitors into a fad. Lol it's glossy. Nevermind you wanted to read the screen, not the whole room.
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i told u i was hardcore
Again, no! What should MySQL do in order for you to stop thinking that? Turn mysql.com into a porn site for April 1st?
Read this at once:
http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/foss-exception.html
You mean Access? You could try Rekall, Kexi and OpenOffice Base, for example. I think they all work with Python, which is a huge advantage over Access.
When will people realize the licensing issues are *solved* now?
Surely, I can see clueless people 100 years from now still bitching about MySQL's licensing terms.
They are the programs. Yes, even programs for designers. When you don't have a clue, which happens too often, you end up with, well, the world today.
Yes. Mac users seem to think they are exempt from having to have a clue. Turns out you have, regardless of your architecture of programmable machine. Even if this programmable machine is an overpriced lump of marketing and DRM.
I use my own Lucida Console modification, in which I got rid of the ugly i and l horizontal bars, aligned +* and every other symbol properly (great for programming), and removed the horribly crappy hinting that would prevent Windows' traditional (not ClearType) renderer to display it properly in sizes below 14pt/96 dpi.
No. It's because they actually need you to have a clue, in one way or another. Even for Mac users (you know, important members of the Web 2.0 blogosphere who dress like Beckham and use their iMac as the central hub of their digital lifestyle).
Why isn't parent modded Informative? It was a nice read.
Sub-pixel antialiasing might look sharper, but it'll always feel a bit out of place. I don't think it's easier to read. If you want bolder fonts, make them bolder, it's just that simple. If anything, sub-pixel precision is going to make them thinner. And not that it's an iFeature for iDigital iStylists only; FreeType and even Windows also support that.
Most font designers enjoy looking at bug legs on a screen, but I don't, so my fonts are personal modifications of popular fonts to make them bolder. (And yes, OMG, I have modified them which may be a violation of font designers' licenses! Fuck them!)
Mid-white on black, e.g. #C0C0C0 on #000000 is surely the safest combination. First, you're not staring at a lightbulb for 8 hours a day. I really hate white backgrounds. It's only natural for the background to be black; if we're used to the white one it's because of retards who like to think of computers as paper (this is why I say using a computer, like any complex industrial machinery, should require a licence). Second, it has the most contrast for the lowest possibly light intensity, as you use your three light sensors more or less equally, not just one as in the case of green on black.