On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 23:01 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > Hi all, > I have uploaded a PDF version of a lecture given to the Refresher Course > for teachers of Applied Psychology in Calcutta University by Dipankar-da > to the ilug-cal site. > > You can download it from http://www.ilug-cal.org/dd_lecture.pdf
Interesting writeup. However it seems that the link between colonialism and the GUI is stretched. The goal of the GUI is to hide lower functionality. For the majority of people that's enough. As for the 'human understandable' CLI, thats a pretty far stretch: cat, cd, ls are not human understandable, without study. Of course, for a person who wants to know more details, the GUI is a barrier - one that can be overcome in the case of Linux et al, but not in Windows. I'm not sure I see the link of how the GUI and its associated logo-centric approach is a burden on the Thrid World. It is in fact true, that most people will simply want to 'run' programs. I don't see whats wrong in doing that with a GUI. I suppose my point is that for the majority of people a GUI is fine for what they use the computer for. The minority who need to know more will get what they need. As an aside I have to agree with the idea of cyber-clerks. IMO, as long as the bulk of Indian IT is based around handling out-sourced contracts, i.e. implementing designs made by others, the industry is more or less a collection of clerks. I'm probably going to be flamed so I'll head to my bunker :) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://jijo.cjb.net> GPG Fingerprint: 0CCA 8EE2 2EEB 25E2 AB04 06F7 1BB9 E634 9B87 56EE ------------------------------------------------------------------- A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. -- P. Erdos -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
