People who run their computer's display at insane resolution/color depths

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1600x1200 256 colors
640x480 16 colors

etc

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Monday, 28 June 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean at really stupid possibly randomly chosen resolution? I.e. They choose 1600x1200, 256colour at 60 frames/second when their graphics card can do 1600x1200, 24bit colour, 80 frames/second no problem? If so: Dud.

Also, Classic or Dud? People who complain about your resolution being "too small" when they mean "my eyes are too bad, and I won't wear glasses - even though I can't use a monitor set up to 1280x960 - so put it back to 800x600."

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 28 June 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Or the people who use 1600x1200 type resolution on monitors that make the screen a slightly ghostly flickering mess

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Monday, 28 June 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

people who use the non-native resolution on an LCD really really piss me off. Ho9w can anyone anage that without getting a migrane after 10 minutes.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 28 June 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

people with 30392493421 things in the system tray at low resolution = omgwtfffff

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Monday, 28 June 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

My parents to thread. 800x600 desktop with a huuuge background picture, and the whole desktop covered with icons.

Whenever I have to use their computer, the first thing I do it reset the resolution to 1280x960. "What have you done? Everything's too small! I can't see anything! Why have you got to mess with it?"

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

people who use the non-native resolution on an LCD really really piss me off. Ho9w can anyone anage that without getting a migrane after 10 minutes.

Running the monitor at a lower resolution adds a nice fuzzy blur to the picture, much like what you'd achieve with a smear of vaseline on the lens during a Penthouse photo shoot. Maybe it makes them feel sexxxy.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't stand desktops littered with shit. my dad saves word files to his desktop and all those ugly tempfile show up there :(((

― Player Piano Gamelan (ex machina), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

very sad

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.terato.com/v8/images-up/babylove/crying.gif

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

thank god the active desktop has gone the way of this:

http://poisson.dm.unipi.it/~guerrini/dodopark/dodo-is-still-alive!.jpg
(http://poisson.dm.unipi.it/~guerrini/dodopark/dodo-is-still-alive!.jpg)

― Player Piano Gamelan (ex machina), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

My parents to thread. 800x600 desktop with a huuuge background picture, and the whole desktop covered with icons.

Whenever I have to use their computer, the first thing I do it reset the resolution to 1280x960. "What have you done? Everything's too small! I can't see anything! Why have you got to mess with it?"

hahahah more like ALL parents to thread

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i had to delete IE from the desktop to keep them from using it!

― Player Piano Gamelan (ex machina), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I think these people should have comic sans automatically as a default font face.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://bancomicsans.com/

― Player Piano Gamelan (ex machina), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

COMIC SANS IS THE IRAQ WAR OF FONTOLOGY

― Player Piano Gamelan (ex machina), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

hi gygax!

― Player Piano Gamelan (ex machina), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.robinjohnson.f9.co.uk/comicsans.html

― Player Piano Gamelan (ex machina), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.littlewonder.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ourcause/
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/css/gallery/spec2.htm

DEAR GOD

http://www.littlewonder.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ourcause/madnessjune3.gif
http://www.littlewonder.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ourcause/madnessjune3.gif

― Player Piano Gamelan (ex machina), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

in other news, studies have shown that 90% of all outlook/outlook express users are your parents(and thus how worms/virii get transmitted)

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

(I use outlook! for corp calendering -- we have 3 antiviruses in between us and the world. unix mail antivirus, windows mail proxy antivirus, local windows AV)

― Player Piano Gamelan (ex machina), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahah more like ALL parents to thread

It's threads like these that remind me how genius my parents are. This, and listening to other people my age talk to their parents on the phone and try to guide them through stuff like using a website to buy plane tickets.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

unfortunately we use outlook/exchange extensively for groupware tasks. We have anti-virus but we also have 2.03m of Solvenian gangster IT manager to shout at anyone being so dumb as to click on a virus.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

the worst = secretaries who use 640x480 w/ LARGE FONTS. makes the goddamn close icon in the upper right hand corner about a square inch big.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Never mind Comic Sans, I'm using Marlett exclusively in future.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

-- Chewshabadoo (il...), June 28th, 2004 1:21 PM.

And here I thought upping the resolution a few years ago, and needing to wear glasses for the first time ever less than a year later were related.

― Richard K (Richard K), Monday, 28 June 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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