Taking responsibility for your actions

Powered by mouse clicks

I read somewhere back that nowadays computers seem to be powered by mouse clicks. The author was referring to the increased use of GUIs in today's machines. I agree with him to a certain extent. I say to a certain extent because there are so many tasks which i won't prefer to do via command line interface. I won't prefer having to type a mount command each time I connect a hard disk to my machine. And there are some which I would absolutely hate to do with a GUI. Like mounting an ISO file. Mounting an ISO file in linux is a breeze compared to windows. A "mount -t iso9660 -o loop isofile location" is all it takes. In windows, you will need an external software to do so. And I am stingy about installing apps that I will use rarely. Not to mention of used disk space, RAM, registry entries and crack for the software if its not free. While the arguments for CLI and GUI remains in their place I was actually caught by his words which said 'powered by mouse clicks'. I mean, isn't a great thing if we have a keyboard and mouse which can store the power through the keystrokes and mouse clicks while you use them?. Using wireless keyboard and mouse is pain in the ass. They need power and drain the batteries very fast. With this power storing mechanism, one would not need the batteries. All it would take is to use the devices itself!. Is the mouse indicating a low charge? Play an FPS game. Is the keyboard showing low charge? Open the IM and chat away. Wouldn't that be great? Now excuse me while I go and patent this idea.