On 1999-10-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Bob> said:
>>..................we can prove to ourselves that computers
>>can aid us in becoming more intellectually active instead of
>intellectually lazy.
>If this is a related to the GUI vs CLI discussion -- and I'm not
>really certain it is -- then I'd argue that visual interfaces are
>FAR closer native to human thinking. I don't think our earliest
>ancestors would've been doing to well with "see elk[enter] throw
>spear at elk[enter]" I don't equate "visual" with "lazy" by any
>means. I've seen just as many lazy DOS users over the years as
>Windows users, and had the pleasure of trying to train many
>hundreds of them.
There are lazy people with or without computers. With all the advances of
scholars, the printing press, the typewriter -- and now computers -- do you
think that returning to pictures, instead of language, is the best direction
for developing the tools of learning? Not the only direction -- but the
*best* direction?
I don't. Anyway, I certainly don't expect the desire for Windows is going
to change because of what I have to say on the matter.
Windows is an operating system, in my opinion, but that doesn't make it good
or bad. The problem I have with Windows goes far beyond the purpose of this
thread, so I'll stop. Sorry to drag this out.
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