Up until about 3 years ago I was using TWM. Then I switched over to Blackbox. It's light and fast, with very little eye-candy. A great, fast, and no frills WM in less than 300KB (263KB Solaris/SPARC, 288KB Solaris/i386).
Maybe I'm just not with the times. Besides my Mac, the two machines I have are a P3 600 w/ a Rage 128 Ultra w/ a paltry 16MB VRAM running Slack 9.1 and a P2 400 w/ a Mach64 w/ a whopping 4MB VRAM running NeXTStep 3.3. Neither of which would be suitable for the next generation desktop.
To each his (or her) own, I suppose. I'll stick with the plain and simple.
After checking out the following screenshot: http://freedesktop.org/~keithp/screenshots/sharp_s hadow.png and then reading the contents of the X-Chat window, specifically, "I'm hoping to do things that won't be fast enough with 2D/3D hardware as it exists today.", I have to ask: Who really wants all this shadowing, and translucent windows, and animated desktop graphics? I mean seriously, what's the point? Does it help you get you work done? Does it increase your productivity? I see it being more of a nuisance and distraction.
It certainly shows that Mr. Packard works for HP, what with him writing software that would require users to purchase new hardware just to have the next generation desktop. Hell, the desktop might as well be free, if we have to shell out the dough to purchase a new video card.
"lower end systems like an Intel Celeron 700 and a AMD Duron 700."
Man, have CPUs gotten so fast that 700MHz is now considered "low-end"?! I'm still going along happily on my dual PII 333s(overdrives)! And that's the machine I play my games on!
ADD is a bogus excuse for parents that don't/won't discipline their children. They claim their children have ADD so that they don't have to take any responsibility for being negligent in their children's discipline. Many, perhaps millions, think that if they give their children drugs it will cure ADD. The only thing that children need is love and discipline. You can't cure a non-existent disease. The funny thing is the epitome of this "supposed" ADD can be summed up in episode 404 of South Park. I'm not saying that children must be beaten to behave. I'm saying give your children instructions and make sure they follow them.
Ignore him. He's trying to make everyone think he knows what he's talking about. Rather, someone else has told him what to say and now he's just regurgitating their words.
If anyone has never seen any Anime ever, they should at least see Akira. Akira is unarguably THE BEST Anime movie ever made! Also, Urotsukidoji: Legend of Overfiend, Guy, Dragon Pink, and F3 are very good! Especially Urotsukidoji! See them!
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Am I the only one that finds it amusing that NASA's SSL Certificate expired over 3 years ago?
Up until about 3 years ago I was using TWM. Then I switched over to Blackbox. It's light and fast, with very little eye-candy. A great, fast, and no frills WM in less than 300KB (263KB Solaris/SPARC, 288KB Solaris/i386).
Maybe I'm just not with the times. Besides my Mac, the two machines I have are a P3 600 w/ a Rage 128 Ultra w/ a paltry 16MB VRAM running Slack 9.1 and a P2 400 w/ a Mach64 w/ a whopping 4MB VRAM running NeXTStep 3.3. Neither of which would be suitable for the next generation desktop.
To each his (or her) own, I suppose. I'll stick with the plain and simple.
After checking out the following screenshot: http://freedesktop.org/~keithp/screenshots/sharp_s hadow.png and then reading the contents of the X-Chat window, specifically, "I'm hoping to do things that won't be fast enough with 2D/3D hardware as it exists today.", I have to ask: Who really wants all this shadowing, and translucent windows, and animated desktop graphics? I mean seriously, what's the point? Does it help you get you work done? Does it increase your productivity? I see it being more of a nuisance and distraction.
It certainly shows that Mr. Packard works for HP, what with him writing software that would require users to purchase new hardware just to have the next generation desktop. Hell, the desktop might as well be free, if we have to shell out the dough to purchase a new video card.
So now they are staying in a gymnasium!
So, go ahead and put us down,
One of these days we'll turn it around.
It won't be long, mark my word.
TIME HAS COME FOR REVENGE OF THE NERDS!
"lower end systems like an Intel Celeron 700 and a AMD Duron 700."
Man, have CPUs gotten so fast that 700MHz is now considered "low-end"?! I'm still going along happily on my dual PII 333s(overdrives)! And that's the machine I play my games on!
ADD is a bogus excuse for parents that don't/won't discipline their children. They claim their children have ADD so that they don't have to take any responsibility for being negligent in their children's discipline. Many, perhaps millions, think that if they give their children drugs it will cure ADD. The only thing that children need is love and discipline. You can't cure a non-existent disease. The funny thing is the epitome of this "supposed" ADD can be summed up in episode 404 of South Park. I'm not saying that children must be beaten to behave. I'm saying give your children instructions and make sure they follow them.
Ignore him. He's trying to make everyone think he knows what he's talking about. Rather, someone else has told him what to say and now he's just regurgitating their words.
If anyone has never seen any Anime ever, they should at least see Akira. Akira is unarguably THE BEST Anime movie ever made! Also, Urotsukidoji: Legend of Overfiend, Guy, Dragon Pink, and F3 are very good! Especially Urotsukidoji! See them!