I wondered myself. A single article one this length would have been more than enough, but for God's sake, three? Bleh.
What bothers me most is the let down. I, like many others, compulsively and obsessively reload Slashdot. For that brief, fleeting moment, when I notice that a new article has been posted, I find myself elevated to a state of euphoria one would be hard pressed to compare. But as I realize it's another stupid Professional music on Linux article, my heart sinks. I crash hard. It's probably physiologically comparable to a heroin addict quitting cold turkey. So please Emmett, think twice before you post another music on Linux feature. Think of the horror you put me through. And think of the people around me. Thank you.
YOU MUST BE LIVING IN A HOLE OR SOMETHING BUDDY, Red Hat is a great company with an extremely high market valuation, which means investors think it will grow by leaps and bounds.
You must be living in a dream world, buddy. All opinions on the greatness of RedHat aside, all the "Extremely high market valuation" means is that investors realize Linux is an industry buzzword right now. They realize that daytraders and the likes will push the stock up. But you can rest assured after a few more quarters of lackluster performance, RedHat will come crashing down, along with most other tech stocks. It's inevitable. At some point, there's no reason for investors to have/their/ money in a sinking ship. signature smigmature
The Academy members are not previous Oscar winners (Not to imply there are none among them). There are around 5,600 members in the academy. There have been 72 shows. Half of those people are dead. Assuming 50 awards given per show, the numbers dont add up. Especially considering technical awards are all decided by a Board of Governors. signature smigmature
My God,/please/ do not make me remember that movie. It was absolutely terrible. The name says it all - dark. Would it have been that much trouble to have at least a scene or two with some LIGHT? The entire movie is dark and dreary. The plot was mediocre. The acting was awful. It was just plain horrible. HORRIBLE I tell you. If I could pick one single movie as the absolute most horrid film in existence, the one film that makes me want to scream at the thought of it, one movie so utterly repulsive I become outwardly aggitated, it would be Dark City.
Mistake or otherwise, 300 innocent people were killed at the hands of the United States military. Also, the Iranian information and security ministry did not capture Anderson - The Hezbolah did. Iran should definitely be held accountable for allowing organizations such as the Hezobolah to operate within its borders, but they should be held accountable through proper channels. Its absurd to have judges such as Mr Jackson awarding irrationally large sums of money to people - This is a foreign nation, and this is exactly what the Hague is for:)
That 60 minutes was either outdated, or just wrong:) The Iranian-United States Claim Tribunal at the hague has sole jurisdiction over the vast majority of the assets the US froze. The US controls only a fraction of those assets, mostly in real estate. The Clinton Administration has no means to block the collection of damages awarded, with the exception of the very small amount in real estate the US controls.
The very idea that a US Judge, without a treaty, could EVER have jurisdiction to grant a person damages from a sovereign nation is absurd! It simply stems from a reactionary US Congress trying to score political points after the Oklahome City Bombing. Nothing more, nothing less, and it demonstrates how stupid our Representatives, Senators, and Judges are.:) signature smigmature
What's so arrogant about this decision, handed down by our favorite idiot of a judge, is that, aside from the fact that this is quite obviously out of US Jurisdiction, and should be handled by the US - Iran Claims Tribunal @ The Hague, is that when the United States Navy shot down an Iranian passenger plane carrying 300 Yes, count them, 290 to be exact, 290 civilian passengers, the Claims Tribunal awarded Iran less than 150 million dollars. And these people are DEAD. that's but 500,000$ to the families of the 300 dead civilians on that flight! But Judge Jackson, who has already proven himself to be a stupid, stupid man, sees fit to award a single man more than 600 times the amount of money that each of the families with dead husbands and wives got. And the man in the US is still alive! It is judges like Mr. Jackson that make me want to spit on the US justice system. The arrogance and utter stupidity that men such as Jackson display is atrocious and it amazes me to no end that the major media outlets don't pick up on things such as this and RAIL on people like Judge Jackson. Thankfully though, this will help to show the public how DUMB Judge Jackson truly is when they hear about his findings of 'fact' etc.
The cool thing about vertical takeoff and landing is that it doesnt really require air traffic control for landing, takeoffs, etc.
You can land most of these things in your back yard - you dont need 10,000 feet to slow down:)
There'd definitely be some problems when there're a thousand people flying around at 350mph, but you can't exactly slam on your brakes in the air, so as long as there's some sort of set directional control, it wouldnt be that difficult to manage;)
After a quick search, I found the other flavor I had forgotten: It's called SoloTrek and looks like it'd be fun to fly:)
Personally, I want me one of the SkyCar's. Forget muscle cars, I can't think of a better chick magnet than these. One leisurely stroll across the rockies and they're yours forever;)
What's neat about all of these VTOL's is that most of them run on either Diesel and/or Unleaded Gas, so you can refuel them anywhere. Although thinking about it again, that may not be so great:) Personal Aircraft would be a good motivation to move away from petroleum:)
There are many different flavors of personal vertical takeoff and landing devices. A neat one that is more of a hovering-design called Hummingbird can be found here.
A company called Moller makes this EXREMELY cool looking model: Sky Car
There's another one I can't rememberr now - I submitted it to slashdot a week ago or so, but sadly, it was declined:)
I agree. Was this posted just because the judge involved was Thomas Penfield Jackson? I can read this at CNN, Yahoo, ABCNews along with every other major media outlet. Moderate this up.
You might want to try INSTALLING it before you try it at a command prompt:P Like I said, NT Resource Kit. Its not included in a general install. signature smigmature
What good is ANYTHING by that logic? Minimizing would serve the same purpose depsite a person's blindness - to change the active focus. Let's say a blind person is writing a paper on dog poop...he or she needs pertinent information on dog poop for the pape, so like any normal person, they multitask. "Run Internet Explorer" "Goto w w w dot dogpoop dot com" They...listen...to the info on dogpoop, then "minimize Internet Explorer" so as to return the active focus back to their paper on dogpoop. It's that simple.
That being said, I was simply making a point with the minimizing. I could have just as easily said "They don't have to say 'Goto coordinate 001,001...left click.' They could simply say 'Save.'":P
You're taking an example and using it as a boundary. Remove all is obviously not the extent of one's ability to delete items w/ Voice recognition.
By 'plain English,' I simply meant that commands such as 'remove' are indeed English words that are intuitive for people to learn. I hold no illusions of being able to interact with my computer in a conversation.
Contrary to your steadfast beliefes, which many others seem to strongly hold, Microsoft is not so terrible. If you have only used Windows9x then your lacking the experience to pass judgement on the Windows family. WindowsNT is in fact a very solid OS, with many many more features than most flavors of *nix. Command-line grep just happens to be one of them. If you happen to have an NT CD lying around, its in the resource pack - You'll find it in every single professional edition of Win2k, and I'm pretty sure its on the WinNT4 CD, though I can't recall for sure, and I dont want to make an ass of myself. But aside from that, I dont see why its any more difficult (for those of us with our powers of sight intact) to click a mouse button a total of three (3) times to access teh very functionality of grep.
As I've said time and time again, Linux is a great OS that deserves the praise of many, but what it DOES NOT need is to be placed on someones malinformed pedestal and touted as a Windows killer when it is indeed a far ways off. I hope that it someday does dethrown Microsoft - or at least encourage them to work a little harder - but we don't need MS-pundits to read posts like these and think about how silly we sound for believing the Linux hype. Sorry if that sounded harsh, it's 5am and I only got a couple hours sleep:) Sorry:)
I will use the preview button one day soon, and incomprehensible garbage such as my reply above will never again be posted;) To clarify - What I meant to say, was that Windows is much more than a group of 32x32 pixel icons that those with perfect eyesight find hard to see. For every icon, there is a keyboard command, and since Win2k was released, Windows has included simple-english commands for those with visual impairments. Hope this is a bit clearer:)
the fallacie in your argument is that Windows is *not* a graphical-only user interface. My point was is that you can already, today, in Windows simply say "remove all" or The technology is already there using plain simple English, without the need to learn cryptic commands. Linux will never be able to compete with Microsoft in this area until it too can offer *plain English* voice-activated commands.
I disagree. Microsoft has made it exponentially easier for a blind person to use Windows. You dont have to say "Left click coordinate ( 832 , 005 )" You can simply say "Minimize." You can have it read all text on the screen, as well as the many magnification/high contrast features microsoft has built-in to Win2k, for those with some sight.
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I'm not one to reply to flamebait usually, as it inevitably results in more flames and usually an onslaught of email pointing out my shortcomings, but for me, bold text is much akin to Marty's irrational response to being called a "chicken" in Back to the Future. So without further ado.. Bzzt! Wrong! Wells Fargo does indeed use Windows on well over 60,000 computers, and is currently in the process of migrating every single terminal in every single bank to Windows 2000. All 40,000 of them.
To be fair, I have a feeling you may have been referring to their web server, which very well (And most likely does) run under Unix. I was however replying to a person who worried about banks running windows, and I took that to mean the individual terminals within.
The difference here is still safety. I'll take your analogy a step further. If I have a car, a Ford, and it stops running after 10 years, and I have another car, a Mercedes, and it's still running strong for another 10 years, I could safely say there was a 'flaw' in the Ford. But no court in the world would direct Ford to pay for repairs. Its the same situation. Car companies will only pay for repairs if its a safety issue - Likewise, Microsoft issues MANY "Critical Updates" to their products.
Win2k runs Wells Fargo, does it not?:) I'm sure most banks run Windows - and there haven't been any problems yet. In fact, when I walk into my credit union, they're not even running WinNT - they just use a suckie Visual Basic proggie under Win95 or 98. When I look in the newspaper help wanted ads, I see LOTS of job openings at Kaiser Permanente for IT Pros with experience w/ NT. Let's face it - Everywhere you turn, Windows is running it. (I dont want to hear about air traffic control:P)
Let's cut Microsoft some slack - the software is not that bad.
That's definitely a good point - Because you don't even have the option of *not* using Explorer w/ Windows*, let alone a different window manager - But my point was we shouldn't look at Linux as the holy grail of OSes, claiming it's a wonderful desktop OS for John Q. Luser - it's not.
I can envision the day when it is, but as it stands now, its definitely a ways off.
Lets look at the stability of X, and the GUI's - They are worse than Windows.
Linux is undeniably stable and robust w/ a console - but once you introduce X and Gnome, etc, its a big bloated beast.
I am not denying Linux is a great OS, it is - and if X gets fux0red, I can almost always Cntrl+Alt+Backspace back to console, but what we don't need is to sound like blind sheep following hype. signature smigmature
Software bugs in computers don't kill you. Silicon breat implants, and improperly designed cars do.
Since the beginning of the free market economy, and well before I'm sure, people have always sold crappy products. You can't sue someone for selling a crappy product. You can use discretion when they try to sell you another. As for your statement about cryptic icons, and whatnot - I can see where you were coming from with that, but it's sort of rediculous. I have taught many people how to use Word, and when I'm teaching them how to use cut & paste, how to print etc, I always show them both means of accomplishing the task - The keyboard shortcut, or the icon/menus. And 9 times out of 10 they will use the menu/icon for the rest of their lives - years after I've taught them at least. Even for simple tasks like cutting and pasting text. And this brings me to my other point - Microsoft's software offers you BOTH options. You can use the keyboard shortcut, or the icon, or the menu. Your choice. Noone is making people use the icons. They happen to personally find it easier that way. Simply having icons in your software does not make it inferior, and truth be known, two computer programs of equal par, one with icons, one without - the program with icons will ALWAYS be superior. signature smigmature
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I wondered myself. A single article one this length would have been more than enough, but for God's sake, three? Bleh.
What bothers me most is the let down. I, like many others, compulsively and obsessively reload Slashdot. For that brief, fleeting moment, when I notice that a new article has been posted, I find myself elevated to a state of euphoria one would be hard pressed to compare. But as I realize it's another stupid Professional music on Linux article, my heart sinks. I crash hard. It's probably physiologically comparable to a heroin addict quitting cold turkey. So please Emmett, think twice before you post another music on Linux feature. Think of the horror you put me through. And think of the people around me.
Thank you.
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YOU MUST BE LIVING IN A HOLE OR SOMETHING BUDDY, Red Hat is a great company with an extremely high market valuation, which means investors think it will grow by leaps and bounds.
/their/ money in a sinking ship.
You must be living in a dream world, buddy. All opinions on the greatness of RedHat aside, all the "Extremely high market valuation" means is that investors realize Linux is an industry buzzword right now. They realize that daytraders and the likes will push the stock up. But you can rest assured after a few more quarters of lackluster performance, RedHat will come crashing down, along with most other tech stocks. It's inevitable. At some point, there's no reason for investors to have
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The Academy members are not previous Oscar winners (Not to imply there are none among them). There are around 5,600 members in the academy. There have been 72 shows. Half of those people are dead. Assuming 50 awards given per show, the numbers dont add up. Especially considering technical awards are all decided by a Board of Governors.
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My God, /please/ do not make me remember that movie. It was absolutely terrible. The name says it all - dark. Would it have been that much trouble to have at least a scene or two with some LIGHT? The entire movie is dark and dreary. The plot was mediocre. The acting was awful. It was just plain horrible. HORRIBLE I tell you. If I could pick one single movie as the absolute most horrid film in existence, the one film that makes me want to scream at the thought of it, one movie so utterly repulsive I become outwardly aggitated, it would be Dark City.
//awful//.
This movie was
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Just snaggle a Nokia. They rux0r.
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Mistake or otherwise, 300 innocent people were killed at the hands of the United States military.
Also, the Iranian information and security ministry did not capture Anderson - The Hezbolah did. Iran should definitely be held accountable for allowing organizations such as the Hezobolah to operate within its borders, but they should be held accountable through proper channels. Its absurd to have judges such as Mr Jackson awarding irrationally large sums of money to people - This is a foreign nation, and this is exactly what the Hague is for:)
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That 60 minutes was either outdated, or just wrong:)
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The Iranian-United States Claim Tribunal at the hague has sole jurisdiction over the vast majority of the assets the US froze. The US controls only a fraction of those assets, mostly in real estate. The Clinton Administration has no means to block the collection of damages awarded, with the exception of the very small amount in real estate the US controls.
The very idea that a US Judge, without a treaty, could EVER have jurisdiction to grant a person damages from a sovereign nation is absurd! It simply stems from a reactionary US Congress trying to score political points after the Oklahome City Bombing. Nothing more, nothing less, and it demonstrates how stupid our Representatives, Senators, and Judges are.
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What's so arrogant about this decision, handed down by our favorite idiot of a judge, is that, aside from the fact that this is quite obviously out of US Jurisdiction, and should be handled by the US - Iran Claims Tribunal @ The Hague, is that when the United States Navy shot down an Iranian passenger plane carrying 300 Yes, count them, 290 to be exact, 290 civilian passengers, the Claims Tribunal awarded Iran less than 150 million dollars. And these people are DEAD. that's but 500,000$ to the families of the 300 dead civilians on that flight! But Judge Jackson, who has already proven himself to be a stupid, stupid man, sees fit to award a single man more than 600 times the amount of money that each of the families with dead husbands and wives got. And the man in the US is still alive! It is judges like Mr. Jackson that make me want to spit on the US justice system. The arrogance and utter stupidity that men such as Jackson display is atrocious and it amazes me to no end that the major media outlets don't pick up on things such as this and RAIL on people like Judge Jackson. Thankfully though, this will help to show the public how DUMB Judge Jackson truly is when they hear about his findings of 'fact' etc.
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The cool thing about vertical takeoff and landing is that it doesnt really require air traffic control for landing, takeoffs, etc.
You can land most of these things in your back yard - you dont need 10,000 feet to slow down:)
There'd definitely be some problems when there're a thousand people flying around at 350mph, but you can't exactly slam on your brakes in the air, so as long as there's some sort of set directional control, it wouldnt be that difficult to manage;)
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After a quick search, I found the other flavor I had forgotten: It's called SoloTrek and looks like it'd be fun to fly:)
Personally, I want me one of the SkyCar's. Forget muscle cars, I can't think of a better chick magnet than these. One leisurely stroll across the rockies and they're yours forever;)
What's neat about all of these VTOL's is that most of them run on either Diesel and/or Unleaded Gas, so you can refuel them anywhere. Although thinking about it again, that may not be so great:) Personal Aircraft would be a good motivation to move away from petroleum:)
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There are many different flavors of personal vertical takeoff and landing devices. A neat one that is more of a hovering-design called Hummingbird can be found here.
A company called Moller makes this EXREMELY cool looking model: Sky Car
There's another one I can't rememberr now - I submitted it to slashdot a week ago or so, but sadly, it was declined:)
Cheers,
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I agree. Was this posted just because the judge involved was Thomas Penfield Jackson? I can read this at CNN, Yahoo, ABCNews along with every other major media outlet. Moderate this up.
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You might want to try INSTALLING it before you try it at a command prompt:P Like I said, NT Resource Kit. Its not included in a general install.
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What good is ANYTHING by that logic? Minimizing would serve the same purpose depsite a person's blindness - to change the active focus. Let's say a blind person is writing a paper on dog poop...he or she needs pertinent information on dog poop for the pape, so like any normal person, they multitask. "Run Internet Explorer" "Goto w w w dot dogpoop dot com" They...listen...to the info on dogpoop, then "minimize Internet Explorer" so as to return the active focus back to their paper on dogpoop. It's that simple.
:P
That being said, I was simply making a point with the minimizing. I could have just as easily said "They don't have to say 'Goto coordinate 001,001...left click.' They could simply say 'Save.'"
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You're taking an example and using it as a boundary. Remove all is obviously not the extent of one's ability to delete items w/ Voice recognition.
By 'plain English,' I simply meant that commands such as 'remove' are indeed English words that are intuitive for people to learn. I hold no illusions of being able to interact with my computer in a conversation.
Contrary to your steadfast beliefes, which many others seem to strongly hold, Microsoft is not so terrible. If you have only used Windows9x then your lacking the experience to pass judgement on the Windows family. WindowsNT is in fact a very solid OS, with many many more features than most flavors of *nix. Command-line grep just happens to be one of them. If you happen to have an NT CD lying around, its in the resource pack - You'll find it in every single professional edition of Win2k, and I'm pretty sure its on the WinNT4 CD, though I can't recall for sure, and I dont want to make an ass of myself. But aside from that, I dont see why its any more difficult (for those of us with our powers of sight intact) to click a mouse button a total of three (3) times to access teh very functionality of grep.
As I've said time and time again, Linux is a great OS that deserves the praise of many, but what it DOES NOT need is to be placed on someones malinformed pedestal and touted as a Windows killer when it is indeed a far ways off. I hope that it someday does dethrown Microsoft - or at least encourage them to work a little harder - but we don't need MS-pundits to read posts like these and think about how silly we sound for believing the Linux hype. Sorry if that sounded harsh, it's 5am and I only got a couple hours sleep:) Sorry:)
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I will use the preview button one day soon, and incomprehensible garbage such as my reply above will never again be posted;) To clarify - What I meant to say, was that Windows is much more than a group of 32x32 pixel icons that those with perfect eyesight find hard to see. For every icon, there is a keyboard command, and since Win2k was released, Windows has included simple-english commands for those with visual impairments. Hope this is a bit clearer:)
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the fallacie in your argument is that Windows is *not* a graphical-only user interface. My point was is that you can already, today, in Windows simply say "remove all" or The technology is already there using plain simple English, without the need to learn cryptic commands. Linux will never be able to compete with Microsoft in this area until it too can offer *plain English* voice-activated commands.
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I disagree. Microsoft has made it exponentially easier for a blind person to use Windows. You dont have to say "Left click coordinate ( 832 , 005 )" You can simply say "Minimize." You can have it read all text on the screen, as well as the many magnification/high contrast features microsoft has built-in to Win2k, for those with some sight.
Linux is no less of a hardship to use for blind people than is Windows, and in many ways, it's still leaps behind.
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Yes, someday I will remember to use the preview button.
Here is the link that I forgot in my post: Microsoft patting themselves on their respective backs.
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I'm not one to reply to flamebait usually, as it inevitably results in more flames and usually an onslaught of email pointing out my shortcomings, but for me, bold text is much akin to Marty's irrational response to being called a "chicken" in Back to the Future. So without further ado.. Bzzt! Wrong! Wells Fargo does indeed use Windows on well over 60,000 computers, and is currently in the process of migrating every single terminal in every single bank to Windows 2000. All 40,000 of them.
To be fair, I have a feeling you may have been referring to their web server, which very well (And most likely does) run under Unix. I was however replying to a person who worried about banks running windows, and I took that to mean the individual terminals within.
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The difference here is still safety. I'll take your analogy a step further. If I have a car, a Ford, and it stops running after 10 years, and I have another car, a Mercedes, and it's still running strong for another 10 years, I could safely say there was a 'flaw' in the Ford. But no court in the world would direct Ford to pay for repairs. Its the same situation. Car companies will only pay for repairs if its a safety issue - Likewise, Microsoft issues MANY "Critical Updates" to their products.
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Win2k runs Wells Fargo, does it not?:) I'm sure most banks run Windows - and there haven't been any problems yet. In fact, when I walk into my credit union, they're not even running WinNT - they just use a suckie Visual Basic proggie under Win95 or 98. When I look in the newspaper help wanted ads, I see LOTS of job openings at Kaiser Permanente for IT Pros with experience w/ NT. Let's face it - Everywhere you turn, Windows is running it. (I dont want to hear about air traffic control:P)
Let's cut Microsoft some slack - the software is not that bad.
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That's definitely a good point - Because you don't even have the option of *not* using Explorer w/ Windows*, let alone a different window manager - But my point was we shouldn't look at Linux as the holy grail of OSes, claiming it's a wonderful desktop OS for John Q. Luser - it's not.
I can envision the day when it is, but as it stands now, its definitely a ways off.
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Lets look at the stability of X, and the GUI's - They are worse than Windows.
Linux is undeniably stable and robust w/ a console - but once you introduce X and Gnome, etc, its a big bloated beast.
I am not denying Linux is a great OS, it is - and if X gets fux0red, I can almost always Cntrl+Alt+Backspace back to console, but what we don't need is to sound like blind sheep following hype.
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Software bugs in computers don't kill you.
Silicon breat implants, and improperly designed cars do.
Since the beginning of the free market economy, and well before I'm sure, people have always sold crappy products. You can't sue someone for selling a crappy product. You can use discretion when they try to sell you another.
As for your statement about cryptic icons, and whatnot - I can see where you were coming from with that, but it's sort of rediculous. I have taught many people how to use Word, and when I'm teaching them how to use cut & paste, how to print etc, I always show them both means of accomplishing the task - The keyboard shortcut, or the icon/menus. And 9 times out of 10 they will use the menu/icon for the rest of their lives - years after I've taught them at least. Even for simple tasks like cutting and pasting text.
And this brings me to my other point - Microsoft's software offers you BOTH options. You can use the keyboard shortcut, or the icon, or the menu. Your choice. Noone is making people use the icons. They happen to personally find it easier that way. Simply having icons in your software does not make it inferior, and truth be known, two computer programs of equal par, one with icons, one without - the program with icons will ALWAYS be superior.
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