9 Jun
2006
9 Jun
'06
11:42 a.m.
A great read Greg and so true too. Thanks for posting that.
I particularly liked the bit about the overheard conversation in Palo Alto
"there used to be a shrimp-and-pasta plate here under ten bucks. Let me
see...cat menu | grep shrimp | test -lt $10..." though not syntactically
correct (and less-than-scintillating conversation), a diner from an NT shop
probably couldn't have expressed himself as casually.
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.
Cheers,
Berny
9 Jun
9 Jun
12:42 p.m.
New subject: UNIX as literature
On Jun 9, 2006, at 6:42 AM, bgoodheart wrote:
[snip]
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.
a 'c | n > k' moment...
--
Milo Velimirović
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA
43 48 48 N 91 13 53 W
--
There's a reason Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson have been awarded
the U.S. National Medal of Technology (1998) and are fellows of the
Computer History Museum Online. Dave Cutler hasn't and isn't.
"You are not expected to understand this."
11 Jun
11 Jun
4:18 p.m.
New subject: UNIX as literature
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/
12 Jun
12 Jun
1:22 a.m.
New subject: UNIX as literature
Quoting Tim Newsham <newsham(a)lava.net>:
AKA, "If a face could sink/launch a thousand ships, then why can't I paint
you?\
The words will never show, the you I've come to know ..." ;)
Graphical displays of data excel in showing relationships and patterns.
Discovering patterns in text can be much, much harder. Hence the blink
comparator in astronomy. And Fred Hoyle's feeble attempt to describe such a
form of data transfer in "The Black Cloud".
But a lot depends on one's familiarity with the idioms of the graphical data -
anyone can see a desolate outback, but it took an Albert Namatjira to make us
see it as beautiful.
Wesley Parish
"Sharpened hands are happy hands.
"Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands"
- A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge
"I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!"
I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the
other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
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/
_______________________________________________
TUHS mailing list
TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org
https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuh s
6675
days inactive
6678
days old
3 comments
4 participants
participants (4)
-
bgoodheart -
Milo Velimirovic -
Tim Newsham -
Wesley Parish