On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 08:58:05AM -0500, Jerry wrote: >> On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:10:51 +0000 >> Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> articulated: >> >> > On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 07:38:01 -0500 >> > Jerry <freebsd.u...@seibercom.net> wrote: >> > >> > > Despite all of the rubbish the FOSS community >> > > has spewed for over 10 years, OpenOffice is nothing more than a poor >> > > clone of Office 97. The newly released "libreoffice" might be usable >> > > someday; however, it is now only in its infancy. There is no way it >> > > can be compared to a full blown MS Office 10 suite. >> > >> > For some, Office is unusable due to the new Ribbon interface and >> > libreoffice is the usable office suite due to its familiar menus. >> >> New, as in four years old? That is one of the worst straw man arguments >> I have heard in a while. In any case, In 2008 OpenOffice.org started >> the project Renaissance to improve the user interface of OpenOffice. So >> far the prototypes of the project are frequently seen as similar to the >> ribbon interface. > > I do not think you understand the term "straw man" as used in reference > to a logical fallacy. A straw man fallacy involves using a distraction > in place of a valid argument, supplanting someone else's argument with > this distraction, attributing it to that other person for the sake of > attacking it rather than the argument that other person actually made. > How, exactly, does the comment about the ribbon fit that definition at > all? > > >> >> Obviously, the use and customization of any software is a personal >> experience. However, if the use of the "ribbon" is beyond your >> abilities, and I am assuming that you are aware that the "ribbon" can >> be hidden, modified and that there are many "add-ons" available that >> can be used to manage it, then so be it. I would rather work with an >> application with a minor annoyance, and I do not find the "ribbon" to be >> one, then to use a less robust application. Again, it is up to the end >> user to ascertain their requirements and find the tool that is best >> fitted to that job. > > "Beyond your abilities" is a better example of a straw man fallacy, since > I don't think anyone here said "Use of the ribbon is beyond my > abilities," or anything even remotely equivalent to that. > > >> >> In any case, I am quite confident that your condemnation of the >> "ribbon" is totally based on your reading of Slashdot and other similar >> documents and not from any personal experience. > > Interfaces that change without a consistent use model being presented to > the user -- as is the case with all but the most basic, unsophisticated > users who are presented with the ribbon -- have long been recognized as a > failure of usability design, and for good reason. This is why the words > "consisten navigation" are so important in Web design circles. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Can you guys please take Microsoft bashing elsewhere? This thread is about FreeBSD and SSDs - a topic I'd like to hear more about from people with first-hand experience in running such setup. - Max _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"