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jiva

You're going to have to forgive me. This machine is literally a prosthesis to me. It should be to you too. I want to say I am among the first of the Digital Police.

One fine day, I'll be virtually knocking, and I'll be saying:

"It is a violation of LAW not to be on line, Mr. Joseph Jones Sr.
Of 1522 Van Dyke!
You have the duty to talk all you want to.
All the time.
You are free free ...

and I'd be the digital enforcer...

You flew away like a kite ...
...
And maybe
Someday you will see ...
It gets so lonely
Being Free

Steve Miller Band

This dialog is important. Like last night's A&E ... "Guess What? The Future Just Happened."

is actually already a matter for the past.

To be forgotten ...

Not long from tomorrow, this talk of backups, hard drives and crashes will be uniquely flavorful as nostalgia and as unnecessary as hiccups about the old Blacksmith's shop ... And the "they?" They'll be talking talk as incomprehensible to us as this Digital Diary would be to the 1880s.

But here is a statement of record. The crazy stuff we're doing today ... at these steam radiators chugging away on our desks; old ... yet still ahead and ahead...

The Problem with Rapid Duplicate Mouse Clicks or:
Learn the Difference Between an Application and a File
Know Where You are

Someone asked if it is likely that by waiting ... eventually accumulated mouse clicks or repeated instruction would execute ... one by one ... in reverse order.

Will this person please stand up?

To know to ask is part of The Way.

Then the back button on an Explorer might walk us back back back one step at a time, this friend speculated.

Onward! (In Reverse) To that point where we think we'll be sure.

Uh Uh. Wrong Answer

Wrong falutin ' answer. One click's instructions will soon conflict with another's and at best, the problem is ignored.

But ... click click click on the close document close application close button for ... example ...

soon easily leads to conflict.

You must know where you are in relation to your Dell or Aptiva (Brand Names, I think) Steam Radiator sitting before you now.

What's the machine trying to do?

Only what you tell it.

Is it broken?

It's not broken, but it is easy to give conflicting instructions.

Curiosity isn't good with impetuosity ... even though this used to lead to good creativity, the tools here ... the interface is different.

Create? Yes! Where will you Go Today? Yes! More than ever. But the tools ... these eloquent relatively (to the future) biplane kind of tools are different.

I hated taking up a pen, then a typewriter then an IBM Selectric, now this.

The VA made me do it. And I thank them.

Click Click Click! One thing you need to know:

The Difference Between an Application and a File

If the application is the car on the highway,

Then the files would be maybe ... the passengers in that car.

Our sample driver gets in his car (opens an application ... like a word processing application: Microsoft Word, or Corel Word Perfect ...each well known product is an Example of an application ... or ... program, "they" teach us to say sometimes.

Application equals = Program

Your on line interaction with someone or something is a program ... or series of instructions .. At work.

Within this program ... car ... application ... you load what?

A File

Your file. Might be your grocery list file within the application Word Perfect, for example. The files do have a physical location ... usually on your Hard Drive for example ... but not necessarily there ... a file may be carried on a floppy for instance, where you may have copied it to:

Floppy Drive A, for example. Or a zip drive, or a tape drive ... Or ... on a network ... someone else's Hard Drive.

Files may even be copied into memory ... in fact, they exist only in memory until such a time when they are saved ... written to disk. Making a "permanent" record on whatever medium (HD, Floppy ... what ever)

but I'd like the point here to be:

That File operates in the environment of its parent APPLICATION. Windows Users, Apple Users, you may close a FILE, within an application,

(now we're talking) ...

you can close an application that has a file open within ... like a grocery list file in the word processor application ... (by open I mean held in RAM ... subject to loss with out that imperishable (hopefully) write to disk (save).

You can close an application with a file open in it.

You can close a file within an application ...
in which case the application stays open too ...
on your screen usually and presenting an appropriate interface for you to interact with.

Like Word Perfect (My favorite).

Can you tell the Word Perfect People from the Word people?

Now that you know what you didn't know?

You have two files open within one application:
One file is your grocery list.
Another file is the Sweet Heart Letter you've been working on to give your wife.

A click which does not get results should not result in more clicks. Sometimes, mouse clicks do nothing noticeable ... or result in actions you might see only if you happened to be looking. It helps a lot to recognize this.

You don't have to touch type ... but the screen is your beloved Radiator's way of giving feedback to you. You need to look at the screen ... or somehow perceive the machines reaction to your input.

Clickety clickety click click click. There. Nothing's happened.

Nothing indeed

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