On Thu, 2 May 2002, C Falconer wrote: > To quote the poet - "Bugger all"
C|N>K > I work in a school, and the typing is done in MS Word 97. It will stay > as MS Word 97 till the machinery catches fire and dies... because of > the investment in teacher training, textbooks, and user-experiences. Yes, that's probably the most expensive item, no matter how you measure it (in terms of money: courses or in terms of time: user-experience). > Have you ever seen a platform or version or program neutral typing > textbook? If you did it would go like this... "Welcome to > YourTypingProgram... you can probably hit keys in order to make words, > but after that it varies based on what software you have." Unfortunately for many people the future have come too soon, too big, too fast. There are probably many living today who were born in houses which had no more than a phone and a radio (very few a B&W tv) and have now to deal with the nightmarish task of programming a vcr... The computer ... forget it. But this a fact of life and the society and technology have to deal with it. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand
