From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 13:10:11 -0700 From: Roman Shaposhnik Subject: Re: [9fans] what a surprise In-reply-to: <13426df10705041217w553c2f17j71d951c025a21d74@mail.gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <1178482211.12482.33.camel@linux.site> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <13426df10705041217w553c2f17j71d951c025a21d74@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5d89ace6-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 12:17 -0700, ron minnich wrote: > "It looks like more issues with Vista drains notebook batteries. > Using the Aero interface really eats into your notebooks battery life. > " > > amazing. You build up a cpu-hungry interface and it is ... cpu hungry. > Ah, what a shock. > > I keep touting the rio 'stone age GUI' to people, showing them my > laptop with linux and rio, but they do want their pretty pictures. Speaking of pretty pictures I have the following question for you all: it seems quite evident that as human beings we need a bare minimum of possessions in our apartments/houses to have a normal life. Yet, we tend to be quite fond of all sorts of objects of art. They are completely useless as far as any task at hand is concerned but they are omnipresent. Why? Thanks, Roman.