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Thinking About Desktop Eyecandy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the almost-entirely-a-glorious-waste dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This article ponders over whether excess eye candy and special effects being incorporated on the desktop is a good trend after all? The author explains why he thinks the users are taken for a ride by the OS companies in compelling them to upgrade their hardware in order to enable these processor intensive and memory hungry special effects."

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  1. Re:Removing it is always the first thing by engagebot · · Score: 3, Funny

    What? Control Panel -> System? No Windows key + Pause/break?

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  2. Re:Don't underestimate the value of feedback by crabpeople · · Score: 5, Funny

    "it is obvious to the user whether they are taking the right actions or not. For example, when a program crashes in OS X there is a spinning beachball.."

    Of course that means a program crashed, its like word association. Beach ball - ball park - giant hotdogs - thirst - cold beer - expensive ballpark beer - beer empty - gag at refill price - hotdogs stuck in throat - call ambulance - hospital room visit - wheeled into ER on crash cart

    see its completely intuative

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