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(I helped save b3ta! Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:22, archived)
# whut?
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:23, archived)
# paint applications putting coloured lines down the edges of fonts
so they look smoother on LCDs, or worse if your eyesight is great.
But looking shit if you scale them up, or print them out.
(I helped save b3ta! Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:26, archived)
# whut!?
whut whut!

sorry, I gots me stuck a whut

whut
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:39, archived)
# Well I don't know. I even had to freakin' Wikipedia Cleartype.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:25, archived)
# sbupixelerendirnring
(I helped save b3ta! Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:26, archived)
# Weh.
It doesn't really bother me. If I'm just doing a tag or something I write it myself. It's kind of cool up scaling CLEARTYPE'D text anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:28, archived)
# yes
I gave you 'spect for your pixelled tag the other day
(I helped save b3ta! Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:28, archived)
# Erp. I don't remember that. :)
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:29, archived)
# Hum, clever.
I tried drawing patterns of alternating 1-pixel wide lines, though, in cyan/red and blue/yellow (and magenta/green, just in case my subpixels aren't in the order RGB) and it didn't work, I wonder why not? Possibly because I have a CRT, but I can't see why that would matter. Maybe there are gaps between the pixels that screw it up. The results didn't even look grey, though. Maybe my monitor needs calibrating, too.

It should have produced alternating black and white lines. So much for the powers of reason, I hereby renounce them.

Edit: oh, duh. CRT screens presumably have their subpixels clumped together rather than in vertical bands, so the trick wouldn't work. Unless they are "aperture grille".
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:35, archived)
# Because its made by Mr bill gates
(I helped save b3ta! epiphany coming live from sweden, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:26, archived)
# Yeah, I know.
Fuck you Bill Gates and your work in making computers cheap and available to all!

Wanker!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:32, archived)
# I'm right there with you
I'm fed up of Steve Jobs and his making-technology-accessible-to-ordinary-people bullshit too. Technology should remain archane and slightly frightening to ordinary people or else half of B3TA are out of a job.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:35, archived)
# My guess is that half of b3ta are allready out of a job
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:49, archived)
# If we're being honest
for most of us B3TA is here in place of a job.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:59, archived)
# they fixed it now, but I found this quite amusing
www.astick.net/blog/?p=31
(I helped save b3ta! the wub - guide onion for the blind, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:33, archived)