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Not that Warhammer ever 'borrowed' an idea wholesale from anyone else. In fact their game worlds are generally little more than thin rehashes of history and other peoples ideas. Why steal from Games Workshop when you can get 'inspiration' from the same sources they did?
Orcs(TM) => Tolkein's Orks (in space) Space Marines => Starship Troopers (the 1959 book, not the film) Tyranids => The film 'Aliens' Eldar => Elves in space Necrons => Skeletons in space Tau => Samurai in space etc, etc.
For my sins, I've been around GW for a good 15 years and, whilst the do make pretty figures and average rules, originality is not one of their strong points.
Not that Warhammer ever 'borrowed' an idea wholesale from anyone else. In fact their game worlds are generally little more than thin rehashes of history and other peoples ideas. Why steal from Games Workshop when you can get 'inspiration' from the same sources they did?
Orcs(TM) => Tolkein's Orks (in space)
Space Marines => Starship Troopers (the 1959 book, not the film)
Tyranids => The film 'Aliens'
Eldar => Elves in space
Necrons => Skeletons in space
Tau => Samurai in space
etc, etc.
For my sins, I've been around GW for a good 15 years and, whilst the do make pretty figures and average rules, originality is not one of their strong points.
Yep, that does work but it's a long winded way of doing something I am used to doing with two mouse clicks in X. A menu item of 'Send to Desktop [n]' is what I call rather obvious, this I call an obscure workround, but that's semantics for you.
I'm using it at the moment and, whilst it does give you virtual desktops, it has its problems:
I have yet to find a way to send windows to another desktop - they stay where you open them. This can lead to dialogue boxes on a different desktop to it's parent program.
Some programs don't get on well with it, Excel 2003 loses the tool bars and one of our in-house apps hangs if you change desktop.
If a program freezes it will lock things up when you try and change desktop - ctrl-alt-del is the only way I've found to get round this and killing the stuck process can kill explorer and bring everything back to destop 1.
It can be slow to change desktops and will often re-arrange the order of windows and their buttons on the task bar when you return to a desktop.
It's better than no vrtual desktops but not by much. However, it does have the virtue of not showing up on our internal software audit scans as a verboten software install.
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(That'll teach me to post in a hurry! Now with added line breaks...)
Not that Warhammer ever 'borrowed' an idea wholesale from anyone else. In fact their game worlds are generally little more than thin rehashes of history and other peoples ideas. Why steal from Games Workshop when you can get 'inspiration' from the same sources they did?
Orcs(TM) => Tolkein's Orks (in space)
Space Marines => Starship Troopers (the 1959 book, not the film)
Tyranids => The film 'Aliens'
Eldar => Elves in space
Necrons => Skeletons in space
Tau => Samurai in space
etc, etc.
For my sins, I've been around GW for a good 15 years and, whilst the do make pretty figures and average rules, originality is not one of their strong points.
Not that Warhammer ever 'borrowed' an idea wholesale from anyone else. In fact their game worlds are generally little more than thin rehashes of history and other peoples ideas. Why steal from Games Workshop when you can get 'inspiration' from the same sources they did? Orcs(TM) => Tolkein's Orks (in space) Space Marines => Starship Troopers (the 1959 book, not the film) Tyranids => The film 'Aliens' Eldar => Elves in space Necrons => Skeletons in space Tau => Samurai in space etc, etc. For my sins, I've been around GW for a good 15 years and, whilst the do make pretty figures and average rules, originality is not one of their strong points.
Yep, that does work but it's a long winded way of doing something I am used to doing with two mouse clicks in X. A menu item of 'Send to Desktop [n]' is what I call rather obvious, this I call an obscure workround, but that's semantics for you.
- I have yet to find a way to send windows to another desktop - they stay where you open them. This can lead to dialogue boxes on a different desktop to it's parent program.
- Some programs don't get on well with it, Excel 2003 loses the tool bars and one of our in-house apps hangs if you change desktop.
- If a program freezes it will lock things up when you try and change desktop - ctrl-alt-del is the only way I've found to get round this and killing the stuck process can kill explorer and bring everything back to destop 1.
- It can be slow to change desktops and will often re-arrange the order of windows and their buttons on the task bar when you return to a desktop.
It's better than no vrtual desktops but not by much. However, it does have the virtue of not showing up on our internal software audit scans as a verboten software install.