On 10/24/06, karl shah-jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's funny watching folks haul out a notebook, wait for it to boot, load *word* and then type notes when those beside them have taken out a pencil and jotted the note down before boot completed. horses for courses - computers are fine tools for some tasks, apalling for others, yet people keep finding ways to use their computer to do perfectly simple things for no reason other than they have the thing
And the biggest category of thing where computers are tremendously effective is "organizing". I suspect that lots of people find they lose paper notes, but can find notes made on their computer, and are putting up with the slow startup for now. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
