On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, David Fleck wrote: > (still trying to figure out WTF the "plasma desktop" adds to KDE after all > these years)
Marketing hype? Obfuscation that impresses those who don't know enough to question? In the early 1970s the University of Illinois' PLATO computer network workstation monitors used a plasma grid. We grad students were allowed to play the air war game only after 10:00 pm because PLATO was an international educational network and we'd bog down the system playing the game if not restricted. (My young son liked it, too, and sometimes we'd both spend most of the night at a terminal.) However, after a few hours eyeballs started spinning along different axes as the screen, while high resolution -- especially for those days -- was hard on the human visual system. Perhaps KDE is trying to replicate that experience? Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
