It was summer. No air conditioning. No natural light. Strong smell from the nearby margarine factory. I was sitting on a non-ergonomic chair, working on a 286 with 2MB of RAM, WordPerfect 5.2, amber monitor, sat on top of a wheeled trolley that I couldn't get my legs under. And what was I doing with this world-class equipment? I was sorting 5,000 entries in New Zealand Who's Who into alphabetical order. Had to create a whole bunch of small files and copy and paste endlessly.... And they were paying me $12.50 an hour, presumably because of my master's degree.
Lots of you guys have had worse jobs but that was my low point.
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I broadly agree, at least about the tendency to imitate Windows rather than create completely new (and better) things. The latest KDE has most of the features of XP, including the annoying ones (like minimising a window when you click on its taskbar icon and the window is already displayed). It even has its name written up the side of the start bar like Windows.
I think this is a result of the approach "We are against Windows", which means Windows sets the agenda. It would be really nice (may be unrealistic in the real world, though) to just say, "I don't care what Windows does or doesn't do, let's create something completely new and innovative that is the best in its own terms."
I am for Linux. Let's innovate!
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It was summer. No air conditioning. No natural light. Strong smell from the nearby margarine factory. I was sitting on a non-ergonomic chair, working on a 286 with 2MB of RAM, WordPerfect 5.2, amber monitor, sat on top of a wheeled trolley that I couldn't get my legs under. And what was I doing with this world-class equipment? I was sorting 5,000 entries in New Zealand Who's Who into alphabetical order. Had to create a whole bunch of small files and copy and paste endlessly.... And they were paying me $12.50 an hour, presumably because of my master's degree. Lots of you guys have had worse jobs but that was my low point. ___________
I broadly agree, at least about the tendency to imitate Windows rather than create completely new (and better) things. The latest KDE has most of the features of XP, including the annoying ones (like minimising a window when you click on its taskbar icon and the window is already displayed). It even has its name written up the side of the start bar like Windows. I think this is a result of the approach "We are against Windows", which means Windows sets the agenda. It would be really nice (may be unrealistic in the real world, though) to just say, "I don't care what Windows does or doesn't do, let's create something completely new and innovative that is the best in its own terms." I am for Linux. Let's innovate!