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777w wrote:

werdna123 wrote:

funelephant wrote:

I KNOW I MIGHT DIE.

Firstly, it's longer than it sounds.
Secondly, 1 second is better than 5 seconds.
Thirdly, I guess 5 was a bit low, but think of it more like 10-15.
Fourthly, it all adds up to a lot longer.

well i dont care as long as it ends up happening
and my laptop is fast enough

^^^^ this
I would be fine waiting 1-2 minutes for something like a web page to load.

Also, it depends on what constitutes as good graphics. I don't particularly think the shiny, sleek, anti-aliased, and partially transparent graphics of Mac OS X and Windows 7 are 'good'; I prefer the simple graphical look of Windows XP as well as the way things are laid out. That's a huge reason why I like Lubuntu; it looks very similar.

16Skittles wrote:

werdna123 wrote:

funelephant wrote:

I KNOW I MIGHT DIE.

Firstly, it's longer than it sounds.
Secondly, 1 second is better than 5 seconds.
Thirdly, I guess 5 was a bit low, but think of it more like 10-15.
Fourthly, it all adds up to a lot longer.

Well, let's see. If it takes five seconds to load a page, then each page that you load is five seconds extra. If I am viewing fifty web pages, that is 50*5 extra seconds, or 250 seconds. Divided by 60, that is four extra minutes per fifty web pages. To go the other way, let's see how many pages it is for one extra hour. 60*60 is 3600 seconds. Divided by five, that is 720 web pages adding up to an extra hour. Not really that many.
Also, minutes per page is intolerable for anyone. Please explain to me how to use the web that slowly.

Do other things while you're waiting! When I had dial-up, Flash animations on the Lego site would take two hours to load 

(let's get back on topic)

jji7skyline wrote:

hdarken wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

Well, no other tablet has a "high definition screen" either so there 

For the record, the iPad 3 has 2048-by-1536-pixel resolution at 264 pixels per inch (ppi).

There's a lot of of tablets with high definition screens.

They all have a lower pixel density than the iPad 3, and they all cost almost as much, or more than the iPad.

As for people who are trying to put themselves on airs by saying how slow their computers and browsers are, the more you wait for something to happen, the more time you spend not doing anything, and the more time you consequently waste.

If you want to get more things done, get a faster computer or optimise your current one. A clean OS install would fix up most slow computers.

And veggie's comment on XP being a superior GUI, sure XP was a great advancement in the PC world, but it still was, and is a painful combination of bright blues and greens. Also, it bothers me that I can see jpeg compression-like artifacts on the green start button.

im using xp now and i dont see any problem with the start button
plus instead of the normal blue all the stuff is silver so i guess it depends on how you set it up
i personally think the blue setup for xp looks marvelous

jji7skyline wrote:

And veggie's comment on XP being a superior GUI, sure XP was a great advancement in the PC world, but it still was, and is a painful combination of bright blues and greens. Also, it bothers me that I can see jpeg compression-like artifacts on the green start button.

At least it's better than Mac OS X's combination of silvers and silvers :'(

And you can change the colour combination too, you know :L
I never actually like stare at the Start button but after further inspection, those look a whole lot more like GIF indexing artifacts than JPEG compression artifacts

I dunno if it's just me, but I love the colours.


Oh and to what you said about the speed and stuff I actually do stuff while waiting for things to load so it's okay

scimonster wrote:

Right now i'm using Windows, but since last week Ubuntu is my main OS. 

Cool! I use Lubuntu a lot of the time too. Unfortunately, some things like my printer and tablet don't work with it because they don't make the drivers for Linux 

veggieman001 wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

And veggie's comment on XP being a superior GUI, sure XP was a great advancement in the PC world, but it still was, and is a painful combination of bright blues and greens. Also, it bothers me that I can see jpeg compression-like artifacts on the green start button.

At least it's better than Mac OS X's combination of silvers and silvers :'(

And you can change the colour combination too, you know :L
I never actually like stare at the Start button but after further inspection, those look a whole lot more like GIF indexing artifacts than JPEG compression artifacts

I dunno if it's just me, but I love the colours.


Oh and to what you said about the speed and stuff I actually do stuff while waiting for things to load so it's okay

You don't realise how atheistically pleasing the Mac OSX GUI is. You only understand once you own a Mac for yourself. An actual Mac. Plus, the OSX theme is generally considered to be the best OS theme in the world.

Yes, I know. Olive green as well as silver. The zune theme is not bad though.

I remember I read something that conveyed productivity in a good way.

It said something like "The more productive you are, the more you get done, the sooner you finish, and the more time you have left for Angry Birds."

I don't play computer games much, but it's a good example.

veggieman001 wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

You don't realise how atheistically pleasing the Mac OSX GUI is. You only understand once you own a Mac for yourself. An actual Mac. Plus, the OSX theme is generally considered to be the best OS theme in the world.

Ooooookay?
I've had a lot of experience using Macs, although not owning one myself. It's an insult to me to call me unfamiliar with its GUI. And I really just don't like it. It's not a matter of familiarisation, other people's opinions, or anything else. It's just my personal opinion that Lubuntu and XP look better than OS X and Windows 7.

And I respect your opinion. XP just seems unintuitive though.

Metro is awful though.

jji7skyline wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

You don't realise how atheistically pleasing the Mac OSX GUI is. You only understand once you own a Mac for yourself. An actual Mac. Plus, the OSX theme is generally considered to be the best OS theme in the world.

Ooooookay?
I've had a lot of experience using Macs, although not owning one myself. It's an insult to me to call me unfamiliar with its GUI. And I really just don't like it. It's not a matter of familiarisation, other people's opinions, or anything else. It's just my personal opinion that Lubuntu and XP look better than OS X and Windows 7.

And I respect your opinion. XP just seems unintuitive though.

How so?

16Skittles wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

Ooooookay?
I've had a lot of experience using Macs, although not owning one myself. It's an insult to me to call me unfamiliar with its GUI. And I really just don't like it. It's not a matter of familiarisation, other people's opinions, or anything else. It's just my personal opinion that Lubuntu and XP look better than OS X and Windows 7.

And I respect your opinion. XP just seems unintuitive though.

Metro is awful though.

Metro is beautiful...

Also, you are just confirming the hipster stereotypes about loving anything that can be described as "intuitive." (I type on my iPad)

Is metro windows 8, because if it is I actually agree with jji.

soupoftomato wrote:

16Skittles wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

And I respect your opinion. XP just seems unintuitive though.

Metro is awful though.

Metro is beautiful...

Also, you are just confirming the hipster stereotypes about loving anything that can be described as "intuitive." (I type on my iPad)

Is metro windows 8, because if it is I actually agree with jji.

Yeah, it is 8 

soupoftomato wrote:

16Skittles wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

Is metro windows 8, because if it is I actually agree with jji.

Yeah, it is 8 

It's dumb.

I don't want to flick my fingers all over the place to access anything.
I want the file system, shortcuts, an actual OS, the start menu, etc.

You can still access the desktop interface if you don't want metro. ( read: if you are not using a tablet)