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2013-08-22 14:33 »

Fool's design.

A moronic software compare chart found at http://www.bandicam.com/bandizip/downloads/.

What does "O" and "X" mean? No one knows! Very hard to distinguish what is "marked" or "unmarked". Using red and green colors would have been much more suitable.

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CharlotteTheHarlot

2013-08-23 16:25 »

Ambiguous "X" and "O", a tic-tac-toe chart. LOL!

Even Wikipedia figured this one out, they usually have colored cells in their comparison charts, red and green.

One thing that Wikipedia still messes up is justification in tables of data, and inconsistent number of decimal places, leading zeros and other assorted rookie mistakes.

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