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Re: [PLUG] hardware - a deal I couldn't refuse
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Matthew Rosewarne wrote:
On Monday 03 December 2007, jeff wrote:
That's ok, I've never understood people who use Vista or Compiz.
I almost had a brain hemorrhage when people on the Treo list started
going NUTS over `pretty' cases for the thing.
Definitely agreed. Not only does that kind of thing tax the hardware, but it
tends to distract the user, and I usually find the effects to be fairly
garish. I don't know much about Vista, but what I've seen from Compiz seems
to indicate a greater concern for maximising bling instead of utility or
tasteful aesthetics.
Wanna hear about the frightening number of users in my old company who
think that MS's Clippie (in his guise of small animated dog or cat) is
just "so cute", and would NOT let me turn that option off?
Lotsa folks like the bling ... resource use be damned ... same reason
people like pretty wallpaper. Me, I never see the background, but many
folks like to minimize everything and see it. That, and seasonal
screensavers - you know, the sort that rain snow down on your screen ...
bling, bling, bling ....
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