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Computers are designed for open-ended productivity, where the assumption by the computer operating system designers is that they don't really know what users wa
by fit2rule 12y ago
Computers are designed for open-ended productivity, where the assumption by the computer operating system designers is that they don't really know what users want to do, but will give them the option anyway.
Computers don't do anything without computer Programmers. It is the user which makes things 'productive', where 'productive' is entirely up to the users' free will to decide to use the computer to do something.
A full-screen app at the checkout window is quite productive. This is still a computer. Its just that the Programmer has done the job of making the user attracted to the device, for the purposes of doing some job. Its the same with massive open-ended cornucopia-style operating systems that give you all the power in the world, and a bundled card game.
Either way, no matter what, its the user which makes productivity occur.
- igammarays 12y agoI agree that computers are designed for open-ended productivity, but multitasking is simply dead-ended productivity. Because of the way our brains work, it serves no purpose at all, and stifles any kind of serious work. Unless your purpose is to mindlessly surf through a cesspool of information.
- fit2rule 12y agoI don't think I agree that multitasking itself is a dead-end productivity sink. Its necessary, sometimes, to put tasks in the background and let them complete .. where this goes wrong is when its used as a reason to ignore other tasks. That, again, is up to the user.
- fit2rule 12y agoI don't think I agree that multitasking itself is a dead-end productivity sink. Its necessary, sometimes, to put tasks in the background and let them complete .. where this goes wrong is when its used as a reason to ignore other tasks. That, again, is up to the user.
- fit2rule 12y agoI don't think I agree that multitasking itself is a dead-end productivity sink. Its necessary, sometimes, to put tasks in the background and let them complete .. where this goes wrong is when its used as a reason to ignore other tasks. That, again, is up to the user.