On 2005-11-19, David Maynard wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:

David Maynard writes:


Well, pencil and paper 'does the job' too but a text processor does it
better, and a WYSIWYG word processor does it even better, depending on how
one defines 'better'.


Yes, but those major leaps in functionality are mostly history now.

Until the next one.

These days, the improvements usually involve multicolored transparent
menus, or larger and fancier 3-D icons, or other bells and whistles
that consume hardware and software resources but contribute nothing to
the basic purpose of the computer, for the average user.

I remember people who said a desktop itself didn't contribute anything to
the "basic purpose of the computer" either but it's a heck of a
productivity improvement.

I find it lets me run 4 or 5 command-lines simultaneously.

this morning I resized 1000 jpeg images to approx 1200 and 120000 pixels,
while woring in the web site that will use them. there may be GUI tools capable
of doing that in less than a week, but I haven't seen them.

Bye.
Jasen