"Imagine trying to ready text on a translucent button that is peeking through to something animated and very visually busy. Not great."

That's a problem with transparency, not translucency. With enough frosting, whatever lies beneath is mostly filtered out.

Yeah, you would have to cover 20 or 30%. Oh noes.

What you want for cooling is to increase forest extent. By definition that means planting trees where they are not already.

Ethanol is a dumb general purpose motor fuel because of the low energy density and the hygroscopicity. You could make butanol with the same feedstocks. It would keep longer and not draw as much water into the fuel system. And even better you could make it from agricultural waste or from algae instead of growing crops for it.

" Who thinks promiscuity brings women happiness? It doesn't. It's empty. Too many men permanently damages a woman's ability to pair bond. "

God damn you're a worthless troll.

"Sex outside of marriage clearly leads to the spread of quite a lot of disease"

So does sex inside of marriage, when people are too brainwashed to get tested because they think only dirty people do that, and don't recognize the symptoms of their STDs because they were taught that knowing things about their body is bad. You denialists are responsible for that.

I just wish they weren't so caught up in making sure that women got it that they wouldn't allow men to have it for the most part until recently. Because men never spread it apparently?

The admins will ban his trolls as soon as people stop responding to them. Anything at all that inflates post count is ok with these cryptocucks.

"Put Norton Desktop 3 on Windows 3 and you have the most immediately understandable and usable general UI ever done."

Yes, because it was a successful copy of what was going into Unix at the time. Windows 3's interface and Motif grew from the same root.

[citation needed]

You sure do spend a lot of time thinking about what I think, too bad you aren't any good at thinking or you might learn something.

Who needs an argument when you can cherry pick a range of years to make it seem like you have one! Fuck off, ass clown.

You think you cannot scale up DirectX?

QuickDraw and Color QuickDraw both predate Mac OS support for scalable fonts, which did not occur until TrueType. Previously you had to use Adobe Type Manager software to get scalable fonts, and all pre-TypeType fonts provided by Apple were bitmaps. That's why 1) fonts came in sizes, you had to add all of the sizes you wanted with the Font/FA Mover and 2) when you scaled system fonts up for printing, they looked like shit, as demonstrated by printing them on a dot matrix printer like an AppleWriter. Scalable fonts were embedded in the LaserWriter and other Laser printers, which at the time would sometimes come with bitmap screen fonts for your Apple, which again didn't support scalable fonts AT ALL out of the box.

PICT format was limited to primitives and bitmaps and "QuickDraw" performance was trash unless you had a 8*32 GC (not just 8*32) NuBus card, until the Quadra line. No other prior Macintosh models had graphics acceleration. Leave it to Apple to produce a graphics-only computer with no graphics acceleration hardware.

They were creating UI with a tiny percentage of the features of modern UI which ran on a computer with less power than the baseband processor in your cellphone. They had a lot less work to do.

Hypercard was basically an interface-first database app which let you build interfaces easily to do things with the records. You had a "stack" of "cards" and each card had properties. If you wanted to make your own custom address book (no one wanted to do this, in reference to your second sentence) or track the migratory habits of swallows, you could throw a bunch of fields on a page layout and boom you had a whatever tracking "application." It's been a while, but I remember mostly being able to add fields and images. You could add extensions that would make the software do more interesting things, but most of those cost money. You could script more interesting behavior than just filling in some fields, but that was beyond the abilities of most users without training — and more importantly, interest.

As it shipped, Hypercard was less useful than a decent address book and notepad application would have been to the average user. Apple really missed the boat there. If they had just had a drag and drop "scripting" system based on flowcharts, and given away just a little more functionality, Hypercard might have appealed to more users instead of eventually getting overwritten with homework. But hey, free floppy!

It probably will. Note that it's a ROG Xbox Ally and not a Microsoft Xbox [HandheldBranding]. This is just a Microsoft-guided ASUS product. Their existing device runs full Windows. They will not want to offer less functionality.

What I want to know is how well it will run Linux, or SteamOS. 24GB is actually respectable. That's a reasonable desktop replacement for most people. I don't care if it's Xbox branded. I won't buy it because it's from ASUS and their support has gone to crap. But I'm still curious about whether it's good for anything but Windows. If they are, then someday I will very likely buy one used. And that used interest will help them keep resale value, and therefore help justify their purchase price...

No, QuickDraw is like DirectX, it's totally pixel/bitmap based and nothing at all like PDF or its actual precursor, PostScript. And a universal top-edge menu bar makes sense only for small screens, where it will always be nearby. When you have lots of windows with different functions on a high resolution display, it makes sense for each of them to have its own menu bar. And MacOS needed to make that easier to configure. There were some hacks which did it, but I found them to be flaky.