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Reply to 1 GB free e-mail, and 100 MB's free net space.... spymac.com in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I know Apple, but I'm unfamiliar with "Mac". Is that something Scottish? This reminds of the google mail thing. I don't think anyone will reach that 1 gig limit anytime soon. I have six or seven years of email archived and it doesn't even come close to that.

Reply to Was the whole Matrix thing a fad? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The only thing that annoys me is when people talk about "Matrix effects" when they see other movies, while none of them had innovative effects.

Reply to Linux 101 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

If on one hand you don''t know much about it and on the other think it might be "limiting" (a & b = illogical), why not give ManDrake a shot first to get some experience. Don''t think it matters much what you run. They all have installers these days.

Reply to How much does it cost to buy food? A JoeUser perspective in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

/me doesn''t spend anything, for he still (yes, still) has to move out

Reply to installing windows 98...after XP has been installed in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Install 98 first on C:, then install XP on D:. XP will recognise 98 and set up the necessary dual boot options. Provided you paid attention and gave the right answers during setup ofcourse.

Reply to what is the deal with MAC people??? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Mayonaise. No contest.

Reply to What does the Scroll Lock key do? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Oh yeah, works fine for me. The only time I ever see the player is when messing with the playlist. The rest of the time, it's just hotkeys.

Reply to Innovative UI idea? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

.NET framework? Now I remember why I didn't bother to try this.

Reply to What does the Scroll Lock key do? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Oh great, so those seemingly completely useless keys are in fact... completely useless. NumLock, on the other hand, is not so useless. It lets the numeric pad (the right side of the keyboard) switch between numeric input or the ins/del/etcetera functions. Okay, so the entire numeric pad is redundant, but those keys do have different scancodes than their equivalents elsewhere on the keyboard, meaning that you can safely use 'em as hotkeys. I've got NUM+ and NUM- mapped to volum

Reply to What about the new layout? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

What the? Where did all those other comments come from?

Reply to Innovative UI idea? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It's a bit meagre on its own for an article. Maybe I'll group this with some of the other 3D interfaces and write about that (somewhere in the far and distant future).

Reply to What about the new layout? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

IMHO = in my humble opinion

Reply to Innovative UI idea? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Yeah, but is it a gimmick or something you would use on a daily basis?

Reply to An Invitation to The Truth in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

...or not.

Reply to New Start, Litestep, and Start Menu in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

He probably means NextStart and he seems to want the "start menu" looks like it normally does.

Reply to Net cowards in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You can ditch the "Net" aspect of that. It's mere power play. Something which you'll find in real life as well (clerics, angry neighbours). Were I to play psychiatrist, I'd say they are unhappy witht heir lives and act it out on others. On the Net that, ofcourse, is easy, since you're practically untouchable there.

Reply to The SERVERS have ARRIVED! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Froggy, didn't you momma ever warned you about uploading hi-res images? So, introduce us. Who's who? And who does what?

Reply to 3D in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Sooo, to continue and loop this back to where we took off. If we can somehow let the screen display things at different angels, depending on which angle we are looking at it, it's visually as 3D as the real thing. We'd only need a device to determine what angle we are staring at the screen and software that will determine and draw the gui at the correct angle. /me think he's been intelligent enough for today

Reply to Future trends in skins in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Speaking of rotation, something I miss in most graphic apps is the ability to rotate the canvas without translating the pixels (and thus blurring, anti-aliasing and messing up the image). Normally when I draw, I draw wiht my right hand and rotate the paper back and forth with my left hand all the time. The only app I know that seems to incorporate that is Painter. /me slides off topic

Reply to Future trends in skins in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Right, that one ^^^ should be in between your posts (otherwise it'd be out of context).

Reply to Future trends in skins in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Umm, yeah that's exactly my point. When I talk about scaling, it's on the topic of "the future of skinning", if a GUI used that does allow scaling.

Reply to 3D in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

We need holographics gui's. If you think about it, your eyes don't see 3D either. The image is projected as a flat image on tyour retina and only after the brain does its image processing magic, do you perceive it as 3D. Even worse, I'd say that 3D can only exist in a 4D world, for you need time to be able to see a 3D object form different angles. You can't do that from an instant. /me is in a philosophic mood

Reply to Future trends in skins in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Ahum, I appear to have completely re-iterated the first post. At first, vectors would seem to be the ultimate solution. For scaling upwards that is. Scaling downwards is a different beast altogether. With vectors, you'd run the risk of critical details being blurred out when you get too small, so in that case bitmaps would be better.

Reply to Future trends in skins in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Yeah, but, I wasn't talking about hardware resolutions, but software resolution. Windows will be drawn at 72 dpi no matter what res your hardware has. Perhaps "dpi" isn't the right term for this. What I mean is that an icon will be drawn as (say) 48 pixels, regardless and independent of what your hardware res is. This is because the GUI is bitmap based. So if you want to get that in sync with your hardware res, you'd either need multiple versions of each icon, scale things up

Reply to Racist/Sexist/Whatever... :-@ in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

If he did, he would have to quit his day job, kiss his wife goodbye and forget about sleeping.