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Switch Interviews Douglas Engelbart

Posted by timothy on from the well-worth-reading dept.

noema writes "If you don't know Douglas Engelbart you don't know the history of computers. Switch has published a transcript of an intense session with him about his visions on enhancing the human intellect. He was a major player in the development of the mouse, cut-and-paste, multi-window GUI, teleconferencing and hyperdocuments. He is a well known WYSIWYG and ease-of-use critic. The Mother of all Demos is his thing too." Here's a link to the transcript itself, which is presented as a PDF.

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  1. frosty pist? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ahhhhhhhhh, that's better.

  2. HAH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Engelbart FP bizatch!!!

  3. Got a gaping ass? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because i got a debian disk to shove up it. Debian sucks.

    apt-get install suse-linux.

  4. help me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't sleep or get a date.

    I feel sick all the time. I hate work.

    I only make it out of my apartment to go to work. All I can do is lay on the couch.

    I was home all weekend, and no one called me. Not even a salesman.

    I can't take much more of this.

    1. Re:help me by buyo-kun · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I can't help someone who doesn't leave there nickname.

      Maybe you have all those problems are rooted in lack of a name I can't sleep or get a date.

      The sandman can't find your house, and people trying to set you up don't know your name so potentional dates are lost

      I feel sick all the time. I hate work

      Your immune system must not realize its on the job seeing as you didn't send the right paperwork with your name. And I bet your work sucks since all the good assignments go to those with names.

      and no one called me. Not even a salesman.

      Salemen need your name to call you.

      Get a life, stop annoying legimate forums you faker.

    2. Re:help me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      At least you're not addicted to alcohol like me.

      Further reading.

    3. Re:help me by Pathwalker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I was home all weekend, and no one called me. Not even a salesman.

      I know how you can get lots of phone calls.
      Just put your phone number in every message you post.

    4. Re:help me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Get a life

      I am so fucking sick of seeing the line "Get a life." These people always seem to think that if someone's life doesn't meet their standards then they obviously do not have a life. Fuck them. In my opinion anyone who puts forth this line is an utter idiot with no real conception of what they condemn others of not having. Maybe we like wallowing in our angst. Maybe we actually deal with life better by living this way. Does this ever occur to them? I hate life so much sometimes but I also love it to death at others. I am so fucking full of angst sometimes but at others I am at the top of it all. That is the reason I have never seriously considered killing myself. It's sorta like golf. I keep playing life for those occasional awesome shots which keep me going.

    5. Re:help me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I know what you mean. Just one difference; I actually unplug my phone quite often just so it wont ring when I need it the least. I want to be in touch with people, sure, but only when *I* want to. Other than that, I know exactly what you mean about what you wrote.

    6. Re:help me by buyo-kun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I am so fucking sick of seeing the line "Get a life." These people always seem to think that if someone's life doesn't meet their standards then they obviously do not have a life. Fuck them. In my opinion anyone who puts forth this line is an utter idiot with no real conception of what they condemn others of not having

      I'm not very fond of the line "Get a Life" but only because it is so over used, nearly to the point of losing all meaning. I don't known anything about this person's life except what they said (assuming that this person is actually telling the truth, which I sincerly doubt they are) but I do know that if this person is telling the truth his life doesn't meet his own standards either. If the person wants to get help he should, if he wants a life, he should get it, if he wants to die, he should kill himself. Most importantly, if he wants to whine he should find a place to do it, a depression support chat room for instance. A /. is not the place to do so. I don't care if he wants to wallow in his angst, but if he complains about it then he should be prepared to solve it, or accept help from others to solve it. Of course right now you're thinking I'm an idiot who knows nothing about life or self-pity, but, you are wrong. I've had my share of troubles, more then my share, and they are my own damn problems, and I'm not going to rant about them unless I'm hoping to get help with them and if I do rant about them I'm going to do it in a good place and time, not a /. forum.

  5. Sex with handicapped women by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Hi.

    I'm looking for porn involving handicapped women.

    Thanks in advance.

  6. IQ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    boss give me more money
    collective iq too low in this company bye

    thanks

  7. Re:In case it gets slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thank god they censored out the private parts. Otherwise that image had been disgusting.

  8. Damnit by ciryon · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I first thought this was an interview with some of the switchers in the Apple ads. Kinda... bummer.

    Ciryon