Sorry guys... Had no idea I was starting a war... : (
A few clarifications are in order:
1) I don't 'hate' Steve Jobs... much like this country... it ain't
perfect but it's the best game in town. I've spent 20 years defending
the Mac and intend to keep doing so... even when it means defending it
from Jobs and/or Apple.
2) GUI stands for Graphical User Interface... what you see and interact
with on the screen...
A mouse is one of many possible external input devices. A GUI does not
NEED a mouse.
Personally I prefer a trackball and a pressure sensitive pen... mice
causing aggravating repetitive strain problems. I can and have done
Photoshop retouching on BART with a trackpad but don't recommend it!
Keyboarding certain types of input is definitely faster than a mouse,
but far more hazardous to the health of human wrists and arms. For me,
the speed difference isn't worth the potential loss of the use of my
hands.
3) The Finder has two very useful ways of viewing information... icons
and text... used together or separately, that can be toggled to fit
your current needs. My complaint was that the early plans for the OSX
interface included removal of or limiting the use of iconic views. I
have no complaint about the usefulness of command line functioning... I
DO have a strong objection to being limited to it.
And my partner who is severely dyslexic, is the only adult I know (the
others have been under 10yrs old) who can consistently lock up my
Mac.... he's a wiz at AutoCAD on the PC.
Sandra Ragan
www.plumdigital.com
On Jan 13, 2006, at 7:00 AM, Terry McCune wrote:
GUIs are rarely more efficient or faster than a CLI. But man is
mostly a visual critter, so a GUI is an easier tool with which to
guide those who won't RTFM.
- Dan.
I can second that statement that man is mostly a visual critter. We
tend to forget that the GUI was designed after people at Xerox PARC
studied the way young children learn. Having taught high school for
30+ years, I can tell you that the vast majority of my students (and
my colleagues) would never look twice at a computer, much less use
one, if it were still a command line device.
--
Terry McCune
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