Incidentally, speaking of throwing away processing power on graphics I heard
somewhere that graphics cards are becoming so powerful so quickly that they
are leaving processors in the dust. Aparrently they now progress according
to Moores-law _cubed_! So even if it's debatabley a problem now I guess it
won't be for long.
And another thing, what about all that screen-space thrown away with clutter
in some of these programs we have mentioned (pictures of fans, stickers
etc). I think that even the standard Mac and Windows interfaces leave a lot
to be desired. What's all that bevelling about then? Why the big fat
title-bars? I'll tell you why - branding - the same thing that afflicts so
many websites so very badly. I want _my_ stuff on the screen - not
_theirs_!!! That's the biggest flaw of screen-based interfaces - not enough
real-estate. No need to go throwing it away.
Erm. Is it me or is this getting more and more off-topic? Sorry! :-)
Ross.
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