Christoph Reuss wrote:
Pete Vincent wrote:
It seems to me that most real productivity stuff could be done
adequately well on the computers of the mid eighties. By that time,
the machines could already do most computing tasks so fast that
most time was spent idling while the mere human crawled along
typing in responses.
I thought PC computing power had to increase to compensate for the
ever-slower, ever-more resource-wasting M$ bloatware... which, btw,
was also responsible for the fact that "most time was spent idling
while the mere human crawled along typing in responses" -- because
the M$ OS had no multitasking...
One real "bad joke" is that frequently the software gets into
some kind of "loop" so that even a gigahertz computer cannot
keep up with the user's typing even just on the command line.
Another, of course, is that the broadband companies complain
that we need to find applications that will use up the
bandwidth.
Somebody wrote:
Computer productivity? "The more time you spend learning the latest
'productivity' applications, the less work you actually get done."
(Jesse Berst, ZDNet)
And, in terms of "progress", I testify that today, much
computer programming differs from trench warfare on the
Western Front mainly in terms of cooties there and no cooties here.
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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