PS to my post. it does not matter what OS you are talking about the same applies to apps written for it.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Robert Lewko <[email protected]> wrote: > here's my take on it. humans are a lazy bunch of whiners. what they want > is for all the work to be done for them. somehow they don't get that they > have to give the computer instructions to do what they want. they are too > lazy to read any instructions that pertain to the task at hand. instead > they just want to bitch and complain the interface is too difficult. so > application designers do the best they can, designing a user interface with > the best HMI they have, at this point in time it is a display, keyboard and > mouse, to give the user hints at how to do what they want. where it breaks > down is that the tasks that the user wants to do are highly abstract, so > mapping abstract concepts to the HMI is difficult. the average user would > rather complain than think about how the abstract concept can be translated > to a keyboard and mouse. > > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Gustin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Dan Graham wrote: >> > Winderz Blows...and Sucks >> > >> All OSs suck. I just believe that GNU/Linux sucks the least. >> >> > <snip> >> >> > One thing you can be sure of. If you throw a loaded gun in monkey >> > cage, something bad is going to happen. >> > >> Forget monkeys, a cage full of Homo sapiens is not going to fare any >> better :) >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAkpWV4AACgkQwRXgH3rKGfN6AACfaHpjtKC3py/v273xV++eThW9 >> QLwAnRdbUyOegvb4LLkEWqbjWWwfB2CM >> =2z4W >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > >
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