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   Could be useful

   

   DV Henkel-Wallace, Apr 2nd, 2003 @ 9:15am

   
   

   A computer is designed to do certain things - based on what its users ask it to do. If you're not bothering it, it's not likely to bother you.

   
   
   Come on -- it does tons of stuff for you in the background -- cacheing, writing dirty pages to disk, etc. Why not do more in the foreground? For example: some people get a beep when they have new mail (crazy but true). Perhaps you could only get a beep like that when you got mail you wanted (use a bayesian filter to see what you'd read in the past). Perhaps only a beep like that when your machine is idle (or when it's not idle!). But no beep when you're in OpenOffice...
   
   Scanning my environment seems a bit over the top, but so did the Window/Mouse/Bitmap display GUI interface in 1973.

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   Re: Could be useful

   

   Mike (profile), Apr 2nd, 2003 @ 10:58am

   
   

   True... All good points. I guess I'm more focused on how I tend to use my computer, where I have it set specifically not to "bug" me in any way unless it's absolutely necessary already. But, maybe that's a reaction to it having "over bugged" me in the past.

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   my work PC has an attentive interface...

   

   thecaptain, Apr 3rd, 2003 @ 9:34am

   
   

   Its called Windows. Whenever I'm doing something important it always gets my attention by crashing and thrashing whatever I was working on.
   
   :)
   
   

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