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WindowBlinds: Tried it, it wastes resources and makes the machine crawl. Personally I don't bother about skins, the computer is a *tool* and I don't care much about skins as long as they let me do whatever I want to do (which does not include staring pointlessly on the window borders). But by all means go for it...
In 1994 Erwin Unruh presented to the C++ Standards Committee a template program that generated prime numbers. The program didn’t compile, but in its error messages it displayed the prime numbers. This created a new way of thinking about templates.