From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <32d987d50705061328n77e38724wd88239f03324a63a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 22:28:22 +0200 From: "Federico Benavento" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] what a surprise In-Reply-To: <1178482211.12482.33.camel@linux.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10705041217w553c2f17j71d951c025a21d74@mail.gmail.com> <1178482211.12482.33.camel@linux.site> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5da032e0-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 because people with no pragmatic criteria give them to us in our birthdays. On 5/6/07, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > 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. > > -- Federico G. Benavento