11 Jun
2006
11 Jun
'06
10:18 p.m.
This reminded me of a time not so long ago when I was
seated in Starbucks in
Menlo Park enjoying my Caramel Macchiato Venti and overhearing a heated
debate between 6 or 7 guys about the GUI vs. command line issue. It seemed
to start when a couple of guys in one party, seemingly unknown to the other
party, who were talking about kde, rudely butted in to their conversation.
Anyway the debate got so verbal that in the end they were all ushered out of
Starbucks in an effort to keep the peace. How funny it was.
The bandwidth of a mouse and menus is not very high. The bandwidth of a
keyboard is a lot higher. Going the other way, though, the bandwidth of
graphical data is much higher than textual data (perhaps as high
as a thousand words per picture).
Berny
Tim Newsham
http://www.lava.net/~newsham/