Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yeah, and I abhor the elitist systems that are designed with the > philosophy that anyone who hasn't mastered years of arcane > memorization and training in just that one idiosyncratic system is / > ipso facto/ "stupid and unsophisticated". Most of us 6 and a half > billion people have better uses for our time, such as buckling in and > being promptly productive, once we're out of high school or college, > and fully three and a quarter of us are at least as smart as average, > and so /ipso facto/ *not* "stupid and unsophisticated". > You see, though, the problem is that computers are *not* easy to use. People only say that they've been made easy to use in order to *sell* things. The number one commodity in the technology business (with a huge profit-margin attached to it) is "user-friendly." And it's baloney! No one in my office that uses one of these supposedly user-friendly machines thinks that it's actually easy to use. They slam their keyboards and throw their hands up *every* day. The only solution that really works is for people to _learn_ how to use computers, and to accept that it will be a challenge. And as for the arcane commands needed to get to the help page, their on the splash screen. Have you used Emacs recently? Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109 A webpage of interest: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sylvester-response.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
