Comments on: OS X:Why It “Looks” So Different. http://etherealmind.com/os-x-why-it-looks-so-different/ Network design, architecture, thinking, working. Tech. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Benjamin Ellis http://etherealmind.com/os-x-why-it-looks-so-different/#comment-439 Benjamin Ellis Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:21:19 +0000 http://etherealmind.com/?p=434#comment-439 Have done with it, and set comic sans as your default font ;). Even if you spend most of the day using the terminal, the colour calibration and the font smooth seems to make a difference. It's the little things! Have done with it, and set comic sans as your default font ;) . Even if you spend most of the day using the terminal, the colour calibration and the font smooth seems to make a difference. It’s the little things!

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]]> By: John Davis http://etherealmind.com/os-x-why-it-looks-so-different/#comment-437 John Davis Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:45:43 +0000 http://etherealmind.com/?p=434#comment-437 Perhaps you could equate Windows looking "cool" to the "humor" of an archetypal Monty Python Chartered Accountant telling a joke. Even if someone has decorated their desktop nicely there are still the ghastly lines under some of the letters to show you the keyboard shortcuts. I first became aware of Windows as 3.1, when the difference in appearance between the Mac interface at the time was huge. The graphics were simply horrible. Windows 95 was hardly an improvement either. Looking like a cross between the NeXT and the Apple GUIs in vibrant 8 bit color, it was the exact equivalent, in the culinary world, of a cheap hamburger, in the literary world, of Reader's Digest and in the world of music, of the crap they play in supermarkets and airport departure lounges. There is a reason for this. Everything about Windows reeks of committee, of group think. A group is wonderful for getting a job done, for support, but not for getting original ideas. Groups don't create. Individuals do. There is no great work of art that was created by a team. John Davis Perhaps you could equate Windows looking “cool” to the “humor” of an archetypal Monty Python Chartered Accountant telling a joke. Even if someone has decorated their desktop nicely there are still the ghastly lines under some of the letters to show you the keyboard shortcuts.

I first became aware of Windows as 3.1, when the difference in appearance between the Mac interface at the time was huge. The graphics were simply horrible. Windows 95 was hardly an improvement either. Looking like a cross between the NeXT and the Apple GUIs in vibrant 8 bit color, it was the exact equivalent, in the culinary world, of a cheap hamburger, in the literary world, of Reader’s Digest and in the world of music, of the crap they play in supermarkets and airport departure lounges.

There is a reason for this.

Everything about Windows reeks of committee, of group think. A group is wonderful for getting a job done, for support, but not for getting original ideas. Groups don’t create. Individuals do. There is no great work of art that was created by a team.

John Davis

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