| Monday, December 16, 2002 |
11:53 - It's not stupid. It's advaaaanced!
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This boggles my mind. Doesn't Windows have the concept of primary display and secondary displays, so it can show its dialogs and toolbars and everything centered on the primary one, instead of splitting them moronically across the gutter?
Silly me, for being used to an OS where there's never been this whole retarded EGA/VGA/SVGA litany, with preconceived standardized resolutions. Silly me for being used to an OS where screen resolution is based on actual, physical dots-per-inch, so WYSIWYG actually means WYSIWYG, and that has had 24-bit color support since the days of EGA. Silly me for being used to an OS where you simply specify an arbitrary geometry and color depth appropriate to your monitor, and if you have multiple monitors, drag the shapes around in the virtual desktop space until they're positioned how you want, and drag the menu bar from one to the other to specify where it should appear and which should be the primary display-- and the software just makes it happen.
When I was taking this picture, the SE guy who likes to heckle me because of my Macs said, "Why would you take a picture of a PC, when you could be taking one of a Mac?" I said, "Because taking a picture of a Mac would be boring. This is funny."
UPDATE: John Poole provides evidence that this particular specimen is not, in fact, the best Windows can do. I kinda figured as much. This is 2002, for crying-out-loud.
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