On 8/30/06, fooler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rogelio Serrano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [plug] Microsoft Office for Linux?> with a typewriter i get a piece of paper and type away. with a > computer its not that easy. and not that intuitive. its even easier > to get a piece of paper and write this down instead of going to a > computer and going through the menu then wait .... and the best answer > i get for that is just get a pen and paper... puhhhleeez!!! hi rogelio, technology was there to make our lives easier :-> the problem with your problem above is that the technology you use is still in infancy stage... wait until artificial intelligence and speech recognition became matured... microsoft is going on that path (see who are the people behind on that technology http://research.microsoft.com/research/people/default.aspx) ... if we reach there who needs a pen and a paper anyway? :-> life is good with the help and aid of a technology :->
it was done with a 5 mhz computer 21 years ago. canon was stupid then and sold it as a typewriter replacement. the technology is all there and it has improved since. there was a time when the mac team had to choose among two different design paradigms. steve jobs was so taken by the xerox design that he chose what became the mac now. the other design went to canon and canon bungled it. thats the design i am researching now and a lot of people are saying that its a viable alternative to the mac wimp ui. it is just as powerful and it requires only a fraction of effort and resources to develop. steve jobs made a mistake. but thats only my opinion and about many tens of retired apple engineers. i use a computer everyday and the wimp interface is getting in my way. i use ion now and its a lot better. now my windows xp using friends are reinstalling their systems because suddenly their systems are slowing own to a crawl every couple hours. even in a dual core system. high tech right? whatever criticism applies to the mac also applies to the whole wimp ui world and ms office and its clones. -- things i hate about my linux pc: 1. it takes more than a second to boot up 2. keeps asking about filenames and directories 3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday 4. does not remember all the changes i have ever made 5.cannot figure out necessary settings by itself _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
