Is "Wintel thinking" reducing your productivity?
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"Unfortunately the real bottom line on the windows work process is that it kills both productivity and flexibility by denying people the ability to change work processes as they learn. An expert clicking and pointing his way through a Word document may use more functions, and perhaps even the occasional keyboard shortcut, than a neophyte; but the overall work processes are pretty much the same - and the 100th document is handled in exactly the same way as the first." How “Wintel thinking” reduces productivity[^]
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"Unfortunately the real bottom line on the windows work process is that it kills both productivity and flexibility by denying people the ability to change work processes as they learn. An expert clicking and pointing his way through a Word document may use more functions, and perhaps even the occasional keyboard shortcut, than a neophyte; but the overall work processes are pretty much the same - and the 100th document is handled in exactly the same way as the first." How “Wintel thinking” reduces productivity[^]
Typical whine from a 'nix true believer... He even looks like a nerd thaat would still be using vi as his editor (vi- short for vicious).
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"Unfortunately the real bottom line on the windows work process is that it kills both productivity and flexibility by denying people the ability to change work processes as they learn. An expert clicking and pointing his way through a Word document may use more functions, and perhaps even the occasional keyboard shortcut, than a neophyte; but the overall work processes are pretty much the same - and the 100th document is handled in exactly the same way as the first." How “Wintel thinking” reduces productivity[^]
What a dork - this has *nothing* to do with "windows", or GUI's in general. He's complaining (or should be complaing) about dumb software, which Windows (and Unix, and Apple, et al) all have plenty of. I mean seriously, CDE? Talk about a UI wasteland. And the unix commandline? Yeah, your average user will grok that. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Ohh, and since he's so happy about working under the visual catastrophe that is X, let's not even get started on how lame cut/copy/paste support is under X/CDE[^]. How about accidentally selecting/copying text by one mouse click and then accidentally pasting with a different (or the same, it depends on the day, random config files and whether Slolaris has core dumped recently) mouse button into a window, especially if you accidentally mouse selected/copied dozens or even hundreds of lines of text from one window and then clicked on a command line window only to have all this text "pasted" into the command line, which is then happily interpreted as series of shell commands. Which then promptly treats you to the computer equivalent of command line Turrets syndrome!
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"Unfortunately the real bottom line on the windows work process is that it kills both productivity and flexibility by denying people the ability to change work processes as they learn. An expert clicking and pointing his way through a Word document may use more functions, and perhaps even the occasional keyboard shortcut, than a neophyte; but the overall work processes are pretty much the same - and the 100th document is handled in exactly the same way as the first." How “Wintel thinking” reduces productivity[^]
"and the 100th document is handled in exactly the same way as the first." Surely that's the whole damn point of it all? What's the point have having to learn a new process for each and every document you want to create? Clown. (not you Wizard of Doze, but that plank Paul Murphy)