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 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail > settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail > settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > Hurry up November, already tired of the heat! AND NOW..........The humidity! Ed/ke7feg ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss