Caveman UI [WAS: Re: Explaining T-Shirts]

[eculbert]

Yep, always has been and always will be as far as I
can tell. Just chasing those ones and zeros around
inside!!!

So. When someone tells you you are number one, be
proud!! Or tells you you are a zero, be proud. Takes
both to work!!! hihi.



Ed.


--- George Toft <george at georgetoft.com> wrote:

> "The main purpose of a GUI is to support multiple
> xterms."
> 
> Some people just don't get that statement :)
> 
> George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
> 623-203-1760
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> > On Monday 30 July 2007 09:38:05 am Bill Lindley
> wrote:
> > 
> >>Trying to explain command-line to a GUI-only
> person, is like trying to
> >>explain the advantages of learning a foreign
> language to someon who
> >>insists only on pointing to phrases in a tourist
> guidebook.
> >>
> >>\\/
> > 
> > 
> > Eben Moglen (http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/ for
> those that don't know of 
> > him) recalls when as a programmer at IBM he was
> asked to evaluate the just 
> > released Apple Lisa, one of the first computers
> with a graphic interface.
> > 
> > Eben realized that the GUI was the death of
> language. The caveman interface he 
> > called it since it reduced the user to pointing
> and grunting.
> > 
> > Dennisk
> >
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Hurry up November, already tired of the heat!

AND NOW..........The humidity! 

Ed/ke7feg


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