[KLUG Members] GEEK JEOPARDY: 15 DAYS!

[Andrew Thompson]

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 13:19, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > They are doing the
> > transparency thing and animated and bouncing icon stuff like in OS X.
> 
> This is progress?  First thing every power user will do is turn that
> crap off.
> 
> >  When it ships we will have to listen to all the idiots that will be
> > proclaiming how smart and wonderful Microslop is for inventing such
> > cool new stuff for us not knowing it has been around for years!
> 
> But they'll have allot of functionality in Indigo, Avalon, WinFS, & XAML
> that the Mac doesn't have any equivalent to.  Unless of course the Mac
> starts to appropriate a bunch more Open Source components (which they
> are free to do).  Again, nothing wrong with 'stealing'.

I like the bit that says, "Longhorn will require 3D video hardware..."
This is an IMPROVEMENT? Bad enough Red Hat's configuration tools demand
both a running X Server and Gnome. SuSE does it right by automatically
dropping back to ncurses for text-only terminals (okay, maybe it doesn't
work well on print-only consoles). An 'improvement' that demands the
latest, greatest, and most superfluous hardware ain't THAT much of an
improvement, I say.

-- 
Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net>
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