On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:44 -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Jardine wrote: > <snip> > > My vision for 10 years is that there is no desktop. Seriously, the > > 1970s called, they want their clunky and inefficient human to computer > > interface back. If we are very lucky, 10 years from now people will > > wonder just what we were thinking. The real revolution will begin once > > we figure out how to actually use a computer. > > > > I suspect that gestures and or touch will dominate and mice will be as > > quaint as a rotary telephone. There will likely always be some sort of > > pen for the artists, various musical interfaces that mimic actual > > instruments (these won't be needed but many like me will take a while to > > leave those particular interfaces behind), but for most the traditional > > UI will likely disappear, replaced by speech and gestures. > > > >> I'm not sold on that vision. There is a difference between data > >> manipulation, which don't need to be done via command line. What > >> doesn't work there is data entry in all it's various forms - so how do > >> you enter your info into a zone file without your keyboard? > > > First, data entry is a waste of human time. OCR, and speech to text > would be better for digitizing existing material. I would say "low value" - but if there is no viable alternative you still need a human doing that low value work because nothing else can. As soon as you can replace the human you do - freeing them for higher value work. > > As for zone files, how many people do you know that actual do this? I > would be surprised if even 1% of the people I know actual edit zone > files. Most of the people I know who modify DNS do so through some sort > of a front end (web based) to make it easier so of all the people I > know, I an count on one the number who actually edit a zone file. My point remains - how do you do this without a mouse & keyboard? I think we are stuck with them for the foreseeable future.
> > Regardless of what happens in 10 years, I expect to be holding on to my CLI. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkpBBmsACgkQwRXgH3rKGfNhyQCeONnjBDLVXsjwE6yc0bijD3uM > P5UAoKRj3ZS4YcgnbJteozOzDriLrRvT > =a4F/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
