As a grad student I did lots of data entry. It was part of learning the craft of data analysis. It was regarded as "sweeping the floor of the dojo".
Robin On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:22 PM, John Jardine <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
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