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Originally Posted by {MaX}
What kind of a name is "Vista"?
"vista" means "sight" in spanish...
- 07-23-2005 #21Linux Newbie
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"vista" means "sight" in spanish
Originally Posted by {MaX} What kind of a name is "Vista"?
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also, it means several things in portugese according to slashdot.
and in latvian, it means chicken. so finally we can call windows users chicken. Originally Posted by slashdot 
Life is complex, it has a real part and an imaginary part.
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all the name "vista" is doing is making window$ seem like a breath of fresh air.
more like a whiff of a fart if you ask me
anyway, if M$ is going to continually make these slow, crap OS's then 'Linux taking over the world' is iminant!
Q:does iminant mean 'its gonna happen no matter what'? (i think it does) "Time has more than one meaning, and is more than one dimension" - /.unknown
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Originally Posted by Weedman Q:does iminant mean 'its gonna happen no matter what'? (i think it does)https://addons.mozilla.org/extension...=firefox&id=68 Originally Posted by http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=iminant 
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i probably misspelt it
"Time has more than one meaning, and is more than one dimension" - /.unknown
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*slaps a thing for being an ass
we don't take the piss outta people for misspelling words. we let the windows supporters so that because of their pathetic pro-windows arguements. we content ourselves with taking the piss outta them because they use an inferior "OS"Here's why Linux is easier than Windows:
Package Managers! Apt-Get and Portage (among others) allow users to install programs MUCH easier than Windows can.
Hardware Drivers. In SuSE, ALL the hardware is detected and installed automatically! How is this harder than Windows' constant disc changing and rebooting?
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I get the fading barely working, drop shadow works well and transparency is usually what freezes my box. Because the keyboard freezes with it The box is effectively crippled and needs a hard reboot. Another thing to take it down is shading a window when shadows are on. Originally Posted by Giro
Come on xorg! We need this! I am a weak man whi needs desktop eye candy!
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I'm curious to know how much more control MS will be taking away from computer owners/users with MS Vista? It seems like each new Windows release leaves them a little more at the mercy of the big corporations.
Who knows... maybe they'll give it all back this time. :P
Yeah, like that's gonna happen!
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[rant]why dind't they jsut name it "Windows Titans" or "Windows Titanic" -- we all knows what happened to the titans and those who took their name... (pun intended)
/me is fasinated over poeples attraction to prior failures, I mean, choosing a name like Titanic for that ship isn't excaty a good idea - it only asks Murphy to say "it happened to the titans, sure it will/can happen to anyone with that name".[/rant]Regards Scienitca (registered user #335819 - http://counter.li.org )
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I got it working, but it wasn't extremely reliable, and in particular, XVideo didn't work very well at all with it, so I turned it off again. The drop shadows did look really nice, though, and the fading effect when switching between workspaces was kind of neat. Originally Posted by Giro
In either case, what is needed to make those things work on Linux isn't XOrg's transparency, what is needed is the new Xgl server. It has true compositing and everything, kind of like Mac OS X's Quartz Compositor. I've got some videos of Xgl in action:
Wobbly Windows (demonstrates surface transformations)
Some more wobbling
Some transparency
Workspace switching with live previews and stuff
XVideo in GL context (demonstrates that XV surfaces can be transformed just as any other window -- I don't know why the framerate is so incredibly low in this one, though)
These are all Ogg/Theora movies, so make sure that you have the Theora codec installed if you want to watch them. The picture quality is really crappy -- I read at the site that I got them from that the staff wished to thank "The Blairwitch Project" for inspiration on the camera angles...
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