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- | Remember the scene in Star Trek IV where Scotty tries to operate a Mac workstation? | + | **Remember the scene in Star Trek IV where Scotty tries to operate a Mac workstation? |
I may be mis-remembering the dialogue, but it goes something like this: | I may be mis-remembering the dialogue, but it goes something like this: | ||
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McCoy: "Just use the keyboard." | McCoy: "Just use the keyboard." | ||
- | Two things: One, I apologize for the Star Trek spring-board. Two, evidently the Mac is not as intuitive as we all thought, even to a starship engineer from the twenty-third century. | + | Two things: One, I apologize for the Star Trek spring-board. Two, evidently the Mac is not as intuitive as we all thought, even to a starship engineer from the twenty-third century.** |
- | Heralded as a great leap forward, the Graphical User Interface (GUI) that came out of Xerox PARC, Palo Alto in the seventies | + | Vous souvenez-vous de la scène dans Star Trek IV où Scotty essaie d' |
- | Yes, the GUI was a huge improvement on what came before. In the seventies, the Data Processing Department relied on punch-cards and paper tape. In the eighties, we got as far as green-screen terminals and mind-numbing keying of program code. Try type-setting a magazine on one. No, don't. I did. I believe that is why I am now gray-haired. The advent of the cheap(-ish) PC brought computing to the (relatively well-off) masses. The GUI accelerated the take-up, not as the catalyst, once the machines became powerful enough to run a GUI with some application programs atop it. | + | Il se peut que mes souvenirs soient mauvais, mais le dialogue était à peu près : |
- | Xerox may have invented the GUI as a corporate tool, but it was Macintosh and PC that “liberated” it from the then-walled garden of the Unix X-windowing system. Here at last were machines for the rest of us, that we could all use. Kinda. | + | McCoy : « Il faut utiliser la souris. » |
+ | Scotty (prend la souris et parle dedans) : « Allo, ordinateur. » | ||
+ | McCoy : « Bon, bon, utilise donc le clavier. » | ||
- | I may be showing both my age and my ignorance of factual computing history, but it's never stopped me in the past. I can say with some certainty that there is nothing intuitive about the current or previous generations of GUIs. None of them. We all have to be shown how to use them. The operation of mouses and menus is not an innate behavior to the human primate, any more than language - another subject I argue about with my friends in teaching. A certain well-known US TV presenter recently learned how to Tweet. First he had to be taught how to operate the Twitter website with a mouse, which he first tried to touch to the screen. It's true. Bright people don't necessarily get it. I believe the number of mouse buttons affects the learning curve in inverse measure. I buried a former friend under my patio for having owned a Logitech super-mouse with seven buttons and a scroll-wheel. Not really, but I thought of it on every visit to his office. | + | Deux choses : d' |
- | The problem worsens over time, whereas one expects it to get better. The sheer multiplicity | + | **Heralded as a great leap forward, the Graphical User Interface (GUI) that came out of Xerox PARC, Palo Alto in the seventies - yes, almost forty years ago - pioneered the use of WIMPs - Windows, |
- | Icons. These are religious works of art. The universal language of icons in computing is not universal. Nor is it a language. There are no standards and little permanence, since icons are either about creative artistic interpretation or marketing and branding. Here endeth the lesson. | + | Yes, the GUI was a huge improvement on what came before. In the seventies, the Data Processing Department relied on punch-cards and paper tape. In the eighties, we got as far as green-screen terminals and mind-numbing keying of program code. Try type-setting a magazine on one. No, don't. I did. I believe that is why I am now gray-haired. The advent of the cheap(-ish) PC brought computing to the (relatively well-off) masses. The GUI accelerated the take-up, not as the catalyst, once the machines became powerful enough to run a GUI with some application programs atop it.** |
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+ | Proclamée comme grand bond en avant, l' | ||
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+ | **Xerox may have invented the GUI as a corporate tool, but it was Macintosh and PC that “liberated” it from the then-walled garden of the Unix X-windowing system. Here at last were machines for the rest of us, that we could all use. Kinda.** | ||
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+ | Bien que Xerox soit l' | ||
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+ | **I may be showing both my age and my ignorance of factual computing history, but it's never stopped me in the past. I can say with some certainty that there is nothing intuitive about the current or previous generations of GUIs. None of them. We all have to be shown how to use them. The operation of mouses and menus is not an innate behavior to the human primate, any more than language - another subject I argue about with my friends in teaching. A certain well-known US TV presenter recently learned how to Tweet. First he had to be taught how to operate the Twitter website with a mouse, which he first tried to touch to the screen. It's true. Bright people don't necessarily get it. I believe the number of mouse buttons affects the learning curve in inverse measure. I buried a former friend under my patio for having owned a Logitech super-mouse with seven buttons and a scroll-wheel. Not really, but I thought of it on every visit to his office. ** | ||
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+ | Là, je suis sans doute en train de révéler et mon âge et mon manque de connaissances des faits de l' | ||
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+ | **The problem worsens over time, whereas one expects it to get better. The sheer multiplicity of devices, copyrighted, | ||
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+ | Icons. These are religious works of art. The universal language of icons in computing is not universal. Nor is it a language. There are no standards and little permanence, since icons are either about creative artistic interpretation or marketing and branding. Here endeth the lesson.** | ||
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+ | Le problème s' | ||
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+ | Les icônes. Ce sont des œuvres d'art religieux. Le langage universel des icônes en informatique n'est pas universel. Et ce n'est pas un langage non plus. Il n'y a pas de normes et peu de permanence, puisque les icônes se basent soit sur l' | ||
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+ | **Minority Report | ||
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+ | Yes, I do mean Tom Cruise with a data glove, waving his arms about in front of a holographic projection of data. Anyone who's tried a data-glove and VR headset knows just what a fool they look (hey, got the t-shirt from VR-expo London in 1995). I'll take it if it means no more mouses. Or labyrinths of menus. In recent months, we see the first signs with the Kinect and the Wii-Motion controllers. Yes, you still look like a fool. ** | ||
Minority Report | Minority Report | ||
- | Yes, I do mean Tom Cruise | + | Oui, je veux bien dire Tom Cruise |
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A term so vague, it never lost common currency, it never held common currency. I refer back to my previous point about icons. 'User friendly' | A term so vague, it never lost common currency, it never held common currency. I refer back to my previous point about icons. 'User friendly' | ||
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• and task-oriented - really, don't just say it, do it. | • and task-oriented - really, don't just say it, do it. | ||
- | What does it look like? I have no idea. It's not OS-X, Ice-Yeti, or KDE 4.7. It goes beyond i-OS, Android, and Windows Phone 7. Just because our kids are really fast with them, doesn' | + | What does it look like? I have no idea. It's not OS-X, Ice-Yeti, or KDE 4.7. It goes beyond i-OS, Android, and Windows Phone 7. Just because our kids are really fast with them, doesn' |
- | ====== PUB pour Natty ====== | + | Vous avez dit « convivial » ? |
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+ | Une expression tellement vague qu' | ||
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+ | * flexible, qui s' | ||
+ | * cohérente dans l' | ||
+ | * sur plusieurs niveaux selon la complexité des opérations : simple pour l' | ||
+ | * et orientée vers les tâches - vraiment, ne vous contentez pas de le dire, faites-le. | ||
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+ | À quoi ressemblera-t-elle ? Je n'en ai aucune idée. Ce ne sera ni OS X, ni Ice-Yeti, ni K.D.E. 4.7. Cela dépassera iOS, Android et Windows Phone 7. Que nos gosses soient très rapides avec ne veut pas dire qu' | ||
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+ | **====== PUB pour Natty ====== | ||
1 - Print this page using a modern, colour, printer. This is a critical step. | 1 - Print this page using a modern, colour, printer. This is a critical step. | ||
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5 - Direct all complaints to mrmonday@fullcirclemagazine.org as he probably knows nothing about this. | 5 - Direct all complaints to mrmonday@fullcirclemagazine.org as he probably knows nothing about this. | ||
- | WARNING: YOU MUST HAVE A SUPERVISING ADULT PRESENT WHEN YOU ARE USING SCISSORS! ESPECIALLY SHARP SCISSORS. | + | WARNING: YOU MUST HAVE A SUPERVISING ADULT PRESENT WHEN YOU ARE USING SCISSORS! ESPECIALLY SHARP SCISSORS.** |
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+ | ====== PUB pour Natty ====== | ||
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+ | 1 - Imprimez cette page avec une imprimante couleur récente. C'est une étape critique. | ||
+ | 2 - En faisant attention et avec des ciseaux bien aiguisés, découpez le CD ci-dessus. Si vous n'avez pas imprimé cette page, vous trouverez des marques de ciseaux qui seront presque impossibles à effacer de l' | ||
+ | 3 - Comme un imbécile, mettez votre nouveau « CD » papier dans votre lecteur CD/DVD. | ||
+ | 4 - Grattez-vous la tête, perplexe devant votre CD qui ne démarre pas. | ||
+ | 5 - Envoyez | ||
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+ | ATTENTION : UN ADULTE RESPONSABLE DOIT ÊTRE PRÉSENT LORSQUE VOUS VOUS SERVIREZ DES CISEAUX ! SURTOUT SI CE SONT DES CISEAUX BIEN AIGUISÉS. |
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