Re: Life, universe, and ION3

On 2007-10-09, Roy Lanek <lanek-tnsfOxNVUhtWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
> Incidentally, and to get an idea of the *gravity* the situation:
> compare with ... Egypt and Greece, say, of the past. 
>
> Were they not--ironically--more *artistically advanced* [read:
> provided with a more vivid imagination] still than ... hem,
> *we* anno 2007? (Hello *Teddy* [Adorno], who once called our
> *modern history* [cultural] *progressing* rather a regression
> into pre-agrarian times.)

Umm... even cave-men must have had more vidid art and architecture
than that of the more general chronic form of arrogance known as 
modernism. As for more post-modern stuff, it takes taste, which 
few have. Banalities are easy.

> Guess what?! icons are a bit limited--or then are completely
> arbitrary--as a medium and language to be used in defining and
> describing tasks to be accomplished through a *fantasy*- [sigh]
> less automaton and computer. They are wrong metaphors--actually a
> kind of aphasia, or incapability to speak and explain--as much as
> *cute* and *charming* [sigh] they may appear.

Icons are very limited in their expressive power, and therefore
they only work when there are just a few of them, that can be
easily distinguished. But the typical WIMPshit application has
tens of tiny ones lined up in a toolbar.

-- 
Tuomo