- To: Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxx>, slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] [OT] TANSTAAFL!
- From: Thom May <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Oct 4 20:38:16 2000
- User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
At some point around Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 06:07:51 +1100, Jeff Waugh said:
> Paul Haddon wrote:
>
> > > I wonder if 10 years from now peopel will look back on teh computers in
> > > contempery sci-fi and wonder how we ever could have been so limited in scope.
> > > If they will look on the GUI as an anacronism
> >
> > The 2D GUI, certainly, if we get holographic or head mounted displays.
>
>
> <insert standard Jeff rant on the state of GUIs (2D or not) and how they
> should all curl up into a dark corner and die - and that the command line is
> not the answer to the problem>
/me points towards Berlin <URL:http://www.berlin-consortium.org>
as the way to go...
-Thom, chuckling hard at the Taco v Sig11 log
>