Things in parts of NYC are extremely expensive. Doubly so if you're in an upscale club.
It's not that the beer is more expensive, it's that the cost of the labor involved in serving it to you and the real estate you're consuming it in cost more.
I've had semi-transparent terminal windows going on many years now. I keep them 80% opaque in the foreground, and drop it down to 75% opaque for inactive windows. I also apply a nice blur effect to the background (with the active window having a higher blur amount). It's really nice; lets me see what's behind the window, without detracting from the readability of the terminal itself.
Transparency without blur might be problematic though.
Blur is absolutely the key to transparency. I've found it's a balance: you can go for less blur, but you have to make the window more opaque. With more blur you can go more transparent with the same amount of readability/non-distraction.
I use transparency on terminals since I use X. Its not to bad if i dont have it, but on a tiling wm its the only way to see whats your background image ;)
Yeah, its useless. But a bit of candy is not to bad.
I have a large screen. With a semi transparent terminal I get the impression that my brain is better able to re-scan the screen for the content I was looking for. Especially if I have a vim session with several columns.
When I first saw them I thought transparent terminal windows were the coolest thing. Then I tried to use one...
So, as other commenters have pointed out, using blur and/or 80% opacity helps with this. One thing I haven't seen (with this terminal or any other) is to actually outline each character in black (assuming white on black color scheme). That would give some much needed contrast, while still allowing areas with no text to be visible without much or any blurring and perhaps not needing the opacity set so high.
I allow slight transparency through terminal windows, perhaps 10%. This allows me to see motion in background windows, which is useful for keeping track of processes like lengthy compiles.
Because backgrounds (or movies) like the ones shown in the video make the terminal text completely unreadable and reading the text on a terminal is kind of the whole point of it.
Edit: That sounded a little more negative than I meant it. I'm actually a fan of transparent or backgrounds, but I think they need a lot of tint/blur to them or they become distracting and/or make the text unreadable. This was evident in the video where I couldn't read a lot of the grey text once the background picts were enabled.
Though the use case for video still eludes me. :-)
If you actually have the infrastructure and ops to withstand a freak DDOS, you've got a leg to stand on. Taking advantage of a freak shitstorm to steal clients is dishonest because you have just been lucky enough to avoid a shitstorm. In all reality, the people that just went through the DDOS will be better prepared to stand up to one in the future than a system/team that hasn't recovered from one.
If they were cheap, people would still buy them because they are incredibly pretty stones. The social aspect of diamond engagement rings would fall apart but they wouldn't go away.
Come on - even if you're against the industry and everything they stand for, a large, well cut, diamond under the extreme lighting of a jewelry store counter is a beautiful thing.
Chrome Windows 7 ends up rendering them all as boxes. The lack of whitespace prevents line breaking. The problem is that it forces the container out to 1400px wide, rather than responding to browser width.
I really don't like trying to read 1400px long lines of text.
I don't disagree. Obviously a start up that's raised an A round will be a very different situation than a couple of founders who are trying to put together a seed. I guess I'm trying to figure out a way to break into a start up I'm passionate about without a non-technical background. Maybe an internship is the best way to approach it? Though I am in my mid-20s...sounds a bit weird.
B) It's not Vim.
C) The questionnaire asks "which other editors do you use" and uses radio buttons.