Re: SUN's Project Looking Glass

[Laszlo Acs <laszlo@lanscape.net>]

Not so cool in the COST and NON-OPEN Proprietary SUN Licensing (not exactly 
like in that other$ world, but close... restrictive and painful nonetheless).

Granted, this Looking Glass is work in progress - and there is no public 
consumption, even an alpha I know of (yet) but for comparison, check out 
SUN's idea of a "desktop system"  http://tinyurl.com/2vbeu  - $100 per user 
PER YEAR! (and for a limited time only, you get a gracious 50% off!!!)

...  YGWYPF?????  ...

(You Get What You Pay For)    <- NOT!

--
Laz

At 02:08 PM 1/24/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Steve,
>
>On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:01:57 -0600 UTC (1/24/2004, 2:01 PM -0600 UTC my
>time), Steven Pritchard wrote:
>
>S> I'm still trying to figure out if it looks cool or, well, stupid.
>S> (Not stupid in a M$ Bob kind of way, more in the
>S> vast-majority-of-E-themes kind of way.)
>
>I think it looks way cool being able to slide back work like that in the 3-D
>thing, like opening up a door... different than the shade roll-up concept in
>KDE.
>
>S> I can say that it looks like it would *seriously* suck CPU to implement
>S> most of that, or at least require hardware OpenGL and everything layered
>S> on top of that. (The freedesktop people have talked about that sort of
>S> thing.)
>
>yah, I bet it would suck CPU... big time... Overall, two thumbs up by me,
>hee, hee..
>
> >> Low bandwidth plays best.
>
>S> The high bandwidth one worked fine for me.  8-)
>
>actually me too, I forgot to delete that on the copy to the list, from the
>original... <g>
>
>
>--
>Gary
>
>Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity
>
>
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