Micros~1 redefines English...Film at 11!

Post #285,449 by jb4 5/26/07 11:29:00 PM 5/26/07 11:32:52 PM Reply	Micros~1 redefines English...Film at 11! In no version of English (not even the one Peter speaks) does the word "Personalize" have anything near the same meaning, definition, or semantic as "Properties". Not that BillGe hasn't tried to redefine English before, mind you... Oh, yeah, and besides having to learn Billspeak, the concept of having yet another useless intermediate dialog to wade through (and translate, no doubt) to get to the good ol' display settings dialog sure improves my User Experience, don't it? And what did our buddy translate the Display applet in the Control Panel to in further improving my User Experience there? jb4 "It's hard for me, you know, living in this beautiful White House, to give you a firsthand assessment." — George W. Bush, when asked if he believed Iraq was in a state of civil war (Newsweek, 26 Feb 07) Edited by jb4 May 26, 2007, 11:32:52 PM EDT Micros~1 redefines English...Film at 11! In no version of English (not even the one Peter speaks) does the word "Personalize" have anything near the same meaning, definition, or semantic as "Properties". Not that BillGe hasn't tried to redefine English before, mind you... jb4 "It's hard for me, you know, living in this beautiful White House, to give you a firsthand assessment." — George W. Bush, when asked if he believed Iraq was in a state of civil war (Newsweek, 26 Feb 07) Collapse All History
Post #285,457 by altmann 5/27/07 1:50:17 AM Reply	Re: Micros~1 redefines English...Film at 11! I guess they could have called it "Check monitor resolution" as I'm sure that's the task most performed through that link, not "personalizing" the appearance of one's desktop via wallpaper and color scheme. It's the same number of clicks (3) in XP, Vista, and I believe pre-XP as well (the resoultion tab isn't the default one in that dialog) and one fewer than XP via the control panel. It was called "Display Properties", and now it's "Display Settings". Frankly, I'm dissapointed that they didn't get around to changing the rest of the classic control panel "applets" to the new page navigation style. A number of them could use some reworking/consolidating. -- Chris Altmann
Post #285,460 by pwhysall 5/27/07 2:27:21 AM Reply	In the version of English I speak... ...aka "English English", "Personalize" isn't even a word! So doubleplusungood! Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes! [link\|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?pwhysall\|A better terminal emulator] [image\|http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/pwhysall/Misc/saveus.png\|0\|Darwinia\|\|]
Post #285,786 by jb4 5/30/07 9:24:11 AM Reply	chuckle jb4 "It's hard for me, you know, living in this beautiful White House, to give you a firsthand assessment." — George W. Bush, when asked if he believed Iraq was in a state of civil war (Newsweek, 26 Feb 07)

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