In Address Book, why are the choices under Debug/List Font Size greyed out?

I would like to change the List Font Size to take advantage of all the real estate on my monitor (so that I don't have to squint), but how do I go about doing that if the large, medium and small choices are greyed out??

Ah Zut ! But thanks for letting me know that I'm neither alone nor losing my marbles,I think...

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I got the program below. I am wondering why are the threads start and terminate randomly? Everytime, I run the program, it produces different results.
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* To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
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package mythreadone;
* @author Administrator
public class MyThreadOne implements Runnable {
String tName;
Thread t;
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public static void main(String args[]) {
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// Thread.sleep(2000);
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1. Firstly, I set in the main function:
Thread.sleep(10000);
and I run the program it gives:
Thread: 1
Thread: 4
Thread: 2
Thread: 3
Terminating thread: 1
Terminating thread: 3
Terminating thread: 4
Terminating thread: 2
Terminating thread: main thread.
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 10 seconds)
Run it again, it gives:
Thread: 2
Thread: 4
Thread: 3
Thread: 1
Terminating thread: 2
Terminating thread: 1
Terminating thread: 3
Terminating thread: 4
Terminating thread: main thread.
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 10 seconds)
And my question was why it outputs like this? It suppose to be:
Thread: 1
Thread: 2
Thread: 3
Thread: 4
Terminating thread: 1
Terminating thread: 2
Terminating thread: 3
Terminating thread: 4
Terminating thread: main thread.
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 10 seconds)
Why these four threads start and finish randomly each time I run the program? I use Windows, suppose there is a timeslice (i.e. 1 second), these threads have the same priority. Then the threads should start and finish in turn one by one. Am I right?
2. My second question is:
When I change the codes in the 'main' function into:
Thread.sleep(10000); -> Thread.sleep(2000);
it gives me the results like:
Thread: 1
Thread: 4
Thread: 3
Thread: 2
Terminating thread: main thread.
Terminating thread: 1
Terminating thread: 4
Terminating thread: 3
Terminating thread: 2
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 2 seconds)
Run it again:
Thread: 1
Thread: 2
Thread: 3
Thread: 4
Terminating thread: 3
Terminating thread: main thread.
Terminating thread: 4
Terminating thread: 2
Terminating thread: 1
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 2 seconds)
I tried several times. The main thread always terminates before or after the first child thread finished.
My question is why it doesn't output something like:
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Thread: 2
Thread: 3
Thread: 4
Terminating thread: 3
Terminating thread: 4
Terminating thread: 2
Terminating thread: main thread.
Terminating thread: 1
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or
Thread: 1
Thread: 2
Thread: 3
Thread: 4
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Terminating thread: 4
Terminating thread: 2
Terminating thread: 1
Terminating thread: main thread.
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user13476736 wrote:
Yes, my machine has multi-core. Then you mean that if I got a one core machine the result should always be:
Thread: 1
Thread: 2
Thread: 3
Thread: 4
Terminating thread: 1
Terminating thread: 2
Terminating thread: 3
Terminating thread: 4
Terminating thread: main thread.
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 10 seconds)
???No.
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How to explain my second quesiton then? Why the main thread always terminates before some of the child threads end? Thanks a lot.

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