[Am-info] Re: Election2000/Nader/Microsoft

[Gene Gaines]

Dan,

I looked all over my keyboard.  I do have a Ctrl key, actually I
can find two of them (never noticed that before), but I can't 
find the "alphabetic Ctrl-key" you mention.

But I have all sorts of extra keys.  

I have three keys with pretty windows on them, right where the 
space bar should be, keys which used to aggravate me, but 
Microsoft has released a program to disable them.  See, those
people are great.  Hey, I know quality support when I see it!

Then I have keys like Print Screen - Sys Rq and Pause -
Break and Scroll Lock.  I remember using those keys long
time ago, but forgotten now.

There are Insert and Home and Page Up and Delete and End and
Page Down keys.  Wow, have they gotten complicated!  Whatever
version of Word (not God's Word, Bill's Word, you can't say
God's Word any more cuz the piracy police will get you) I am 
using, those keys transmogrify so I don't use them any more.

And Dan, I don't NEED any of those double-triple key combos
any more.  Microsoft Bob or one of those newer things does
everything for me cept type.  Besides, when all your documents
look the same vanilla, you are forced to look more at content
anyway.

All that neat formatting stuff I used to think was important 
back in the Mac days and the DOS days -- adobe type fonts,
kerning -- layout control -- graphics that stayed where you put
them on the page -- type that didn't move around and jump off
the page if you used another printer.

All gone now.  Like Computer Science, obsolete.  Why study
Touring and that Bacchus notation stuff when you can get the
real skinny and learn about Microsoft Extensions?

Gene Gaines
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com



Dan Strychalski wrote:
> 
> Glenn T. Livezey, Ph.D. (glivezey@mail.ahc.umn.edu) wrote --
> 
> > Gotta save that bandwidth for the history of the [TAB] key and whether
> 
> It's the Ctrl key and the alphabetic Ctrl-key combinations. These
> keystrokes are a particularly beneficial resource of all serious
> microcomputer systems. An entire industry studiously avoiding their
> use for ten years, until such use can benefit only one company, is
> relevant in a discussion of that company.
> 
> > MS ever claimed to have invented ASCII.
> 
> They wouldn't make such a claim. Their intention is to do away with
> ASCII.
> 
> Dan Strychalski
> 
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