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The Humane Environment
rael9real writes "Jeff Raskin, developer of the MacOS and author of The Humane Interface [ed.: which was reviewed last year], has been hard at work with several others coding The Humane Environment. They have a developers edition out for Christmas. It runs on Mac OS 9/X. Reading the manual, it is basically a text editor/Python IDE, but it does seem to incorporate some neat ideas in the field. I can't wait to get home and try it out!"
What's THE?
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THE Humane Environment!
But what's THE?
- rouftop
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After having browsed through the manual, I can say that I've seen Ideas like this before that I use every day: It's called VIM.
His name is spelled "Jef Raskin", one "f" - and yes that is ironically an unintuitive, constantly botched way to spell the name...
I hate Grammar Nazi's
a steering wheel and gas pedal installed on my motorcycle.
Having to learn a new interface was just wasted time.
Next I'm going to have them installed on my VCR so I can set the clock without having to learn another interface. If we'd just standardize on a one interface for everything than life would be a lot easier, everyone would know how to work everything and we wouldn't have to waste time learning new shit all the time.
As a matter of fact I'm still kinda pissed at all that time I spent learning how to read ( and as you can tell I've simply refused to learn how to spell). We should be able to do it by direct neural interface.
With a steering wheel and gas pedal.
KFG
GETTING STARTED WITH A NEW DOCUMENT IN THIS EARLY VERSION
When you double click on the Humane Editor icon to launch it...
Already returning to your roots, I see.
an interface that requires relearning can, at least in a sense, be said to be flawed. Time that has to be spent up front learning a new interface is widely perceived as wasted time
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I once read, and I agree, that "the only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything after that is learned". So everything other than sucking on nipples is a waste of time. I like the way you think
I henceforth demand that TECO rename itself The Inhumane Enivornment
Join me or die, can you do any less?
Hello this is some text.
This is another paragraph!
I didn't mean to type that!
LEAP FORWARD
Those who do not understand EMACS are doomed to re-invent it, poorly.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
Oh thats right, I had forgotten that little tid bit about twisting the right ear to go faster, and that the clutch is worked with the left ear.
Thank god all the Japanese horse manufacturers have standardized their interfaces; sure, Harelys are still a bit different, but why would anyone interested in actual performance want an air-cooled V-twin horse anyway?