ClearType
Microsoft's *answer* to making text oh-so-readable. Their marketing blurb rants about tripling monitor resolution using sub-pixel rendering to make small text readable.

All my eyes see is colour artifacts like a heavily over-compressed JPEG image. The blurriness plays merry havoc with my eyes, sending my brain into optical spasms.

Reaching for the off-switch (ooh, the 'ClearType Tuner') turns only a small proportion of it off; many popups, messages and menus still defiantly appear in blurry-type, seeking to ridicule me for being one of so few that actually don't want this MS-imposed intrusion into my optical happiness.

But no, despite countless people voicing their dissatisfaction, despite numerous posting on MS-engineer's blogs, despite constant filing of bug issues on MS's own Connect website, the twats still come out with lines such as "Try the ClearType Tuner", or "MS Applications respect the system settings for ClearType", or my least favourite "I don't see what the problem is.".

Never more have I wanted the ability to rip the spine out of a person (like on Predator II) than with this.
( brown-wings Made with three kinds of butter, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 9:59, 5 replies)

do you have
Bionic eyes?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 10:06, closed)

After having my eyes raped my MS
bionic eyes would be a welcome relief.
( brown-wings Made with three kinds of butter, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 10:12, closed)

Would they make that
tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch noise when you focussed on something?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 10:29, closed)

Yes, I'd like to think they would
like those whirry sounds Tony Stark makes when he's Iron Man.
( brown-wings Made with three kinds of butter, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 10:30, closed)

I think
it depends on your monitor. At work I have a very nice Dell monitor, 1920x1080. On this monitor text looks better with ClearType turned on.

At home I have a very cheap Acer monitor, 1440x900. ClearType makes text look AWFUL on this monitor, so I have it turned off.
(MrC. Having the most boring username on b3ta since 2004, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 15:13, closed)