Tom, The UI which you claims suck in osx actually comes from Darwin (iirc) and not BSD per se. I don't know any compelling technical reason why a OS9 not UI could be implemented on top of BSD (even on top of *nix, X-Windows based technology).
Listening to you OSX critiques, I could never quite figure out if Apple was having trouble trying to merge to two different UI's, or if the BSD (Darwin/Gnome?) UI sucked all by itself, or if Apple has just lost focus on the UI. (Of course I am not too qualified to comment on the classic Apple UI, since I just figured out that my apple mouse actually does have "two" buttons) -Paul Meyer Checkout One Laptop Per Child project laptop.org --- On Tue, 7/1/08, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [CGUYS] OMG! Gates Agrees With Tom > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 1:04 PM > >During his farewell event at Microsoft this morning, > Gates referred to this, > >and poked a little fun at us: "One of the > newspapers had some e-mail that I > >sent about how maybe Windows could have been better at > something, and they > >said, 'This is a shocking e-mail. Shocking!' > And I said, 'What do you think > >I do all day? Sending an e-mail like that, that is my > job. That's what it's > >all about. We're here to make things better. > > Okay. He doesn't completely agree with me. He knows > Windows sucks, but > mistakenly thinks he can apply band aids to make it better. > I guess he > either did not read or did not understand Demming. Demming > teaches that > quality is not something you lard on afterwards, you have > to build it in > from the start. > > A great example is Apple's OS X. OS X sucks because it > is based on BSD > Unix, which sucks. After eight years of trying to paper > over the problems > OS X still sucks. OS 9, while now outdated, was much better > because they > got the critical user interface things right the first > time. This weekend > I got my wife to upgrade from 9 to X and having to explain > the OS X UI > absurdities was maddening. > > iPod was so great because Apple got the UI right from the > beginning. > > iPhone I don't know. If it is based on OS X it may very > well suck too. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, > archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at > http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
