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Re: your total, absolute failure -- and your fellating of fools

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On Friday, June 20, 2014 8:43:43 AM UTC+1, afd wrote:
> ""When we first started to use computers in the office they were 
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> character based (DOS or Unix) and the objective was to save labour by 
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> automating tasks. Efficient databases in particular saved a huge amount 
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> of time searching for infromation on paper, and early character-based 
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> wordprocessors were much easier to use than a mechanical typewriter. Then 
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> came Windows and Microsoft Office. Suddenly, the computer was no longer a 
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> tool for automation, but a tool for printing paper forms that had to be 
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> filled in by hand. The database in Office (Access) was next to useless, 
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> as were almost all early GUI databases, so the automation and labour 
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> saving of DOS days was out. Instead, the focus was on eye-candy and 
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> frippery, such as fancy fonts and justified text. The office staff 
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> delighted in this change of focus since kept them in a job turning out 
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> forms manually, whereas the efficient automation of tasks by character- 
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> based computers had threatened to make their job title superfluous. So, I 
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> think it's more the case that the role of the desktop computer has been 
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> 'adjusted' to comply with the wishes of the box-tickers, for a machine 
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> that soaks-up spare time on pointless prettification, but doesn't 
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> automate things so well that it threatens their job. We see the 
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> continuation of this process with the pointless and time-wasting, willy- 
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> nilly shifts in desktop interface design epitomised by Windows 8." 
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> Article: "Open your company's doors and let the machines in - the economy 
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> depends on it" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/10889934/Open-your-
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> companys-doors-

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your total, absolute failure -- and your fellating of fools afd <lkajdfasdf@or.org> - 2014-06-20 02:43 -0500
  Re: your total, absolute failure -- and your fellating of fools Mike Preece <michael@preece.net> - 2014-06-23 16:39 -0700
  Re: your total, absolute failure -- and your fellating of fools "Gene Buckle" <gene.buckle@bbs.retroarchive.org.remove-2m3-this> - 2014-06-26 08:40 -0700

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