__/ [ BearItAll ] on Monday 05 February 2007 13:32 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> You would have thought that Ballmer could handle a multi-head display,
>> wouldn't you? This is a little strange:
>>
>>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/01/27/business/20070128_BALLMER_SLIDESHOW_2.html
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Mr. Ballmer may have a decidedly low-key office, but he uses an
>> | Excel spreadsheet to track his calendar.
>> `----
>>
>> No wonder Steve and Bill argue that Vista packs a lot of INNOVA~1. Maybe
>> we should introduce Steve to KOrganizer. Or at least give him a multi-head
>> machine with XGL enabled. Like this one:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUSn-jBA3CE
>
> Maybe he came from the old spreadsheet-like calendars we used to have on
> UNIX, I think they were in some dos too, but then Lotus and Smart took us
> on leaps and bounds into the spreadsheet/organisor world so sort of took
> over that side of things.
I think it's time to love on though. My dad has had my older Palm for 2.5
years and although he keeps saying he'll learn it he's still using paper.
The mental transition is hard. It's the same challenge Linux advocacy is
facing after Bill Gates got people "kind of addicted" (his words, I think).
"Kind of dependent on" (lockins and ant-competitive moves) is another
matter, among many more (e.g. FUD, bribery).
> There is always a side that says why have a calendar with 365 pages split
> into 24 one hour cells on the screen, when actually the only days you want
> are those with appointments in them. So you enter them into your
> spreadsheet entry page/form and your bit of code slips it into the calendar
> list in the right place. It isn't such a bad way to do things, it's really
> the way many of us use our own calendars, with the only page meaning
> anything being the appointments list.
Smart calendars compress viewed horizontally and vertically. They also offers
more viewing modes (presentation). A spreadsheet, without containing basic
semantics, cannot properly achieve this.
> His computer is in the wrong place. Having a potentially brighter
> background to the screen is bad for his eyes.
He wears glasses sometimes, so I imagine he has contact lenses on the rest of
the time.
> Oh, and who is this Phill Anthropy that Bill Gates is spending more of his
> time with?
Phill Anthropy is a diplomat. Politics and industry are not mutually
exclusive. In a perfect world, they would. But definitely not in a
Republican state.
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