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      from the introduction to TINWHISTLE BASIC                 Screen 4    
    
     sound  right, move  it  up  or  down the scale until it does and if that
     that doesn't do the trick, forget it and try something else.
          And  what  has  all  that got to do with computers?  To some of you,
     I'm afraid, nothing. To others, perhaps it will furnish a  oblique  kind
     of  insight  into  the hazards of being too dazzled by the things that a
     a  computer can do and too indifferent as to how it does them.  When you
     pop a disk into the slot and blindly follow the cursor around the screen,
     you  are  doing  much  the  same  thing  that  I did when I put a Chopin
     nocturne  on  the  music  stand and diligently followed every note.  Now
     there  is  nothing  wrong with that.   WINDOWS is fine just as Chopin is
     fine.  But  be  aware  that you not operating the computer; the computer
     is operating you.
          
     FROM PAGE 3....The  buzzword, of  course, is  "user-friendly".  But user-
     friendly  is  also  user-exploitative.  Far  more than you might want to
     admit, your intelligence and your imagination are being manipulated by a
     will other than your own.  And for good  reason. The  more user-friendly
     the  system, the more sophisticated its software, the more sophisticated
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