How not to do the multi-row tab control

By now everyone knows that multi-row tab controls are a usability nightmare waiting to happen. Either they shift around tabs or whole rows to keep the physicality of a filing card with a tab at the top intact, destroying muscle memory in the process, or they don't move tabs and destroy the physicality of the metaphor because the tab seems to be "torn off" from its filing card. Both approaches aren't very desirable. But while I'm at it, Apple's MacOS X-approach to the tab control has been traditionally bad, so let's not smirk yet. I'll take Windows' single-row tab controls over the OS X ones any day.

But since it's so much fun to hit an application while it's down, and since this is a new confusing concept introduced, I thought I'd pick up this old topic once more. I'm talking about the single-tab row: