Good software incorporates human factors. Has anyone else seen the paragraphs of text where each word is shown only with the correct first and last letters - all the rest are jumbled? http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/can-you-read
We (well maybe natives to a language) can amazingly, read this apparent gibberish and make very good sense of it, at lease with English... (I wonder if all manners of writing support this? Chinese logographs for example. Or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_writing_systems ) It is effortless once you get going. Our minds lever what is essentially a lack of attention to detail into a method for comprehending messed up information. That ability also messes us up for proper comprehension of detailed information. I have examples of spec sheets and manuals that are so concise as to be unreadable. I have some instructions from a German company that are sort of beautiful in their sparseness, but it is incredibly hard to sort out if you are not already fully understanding the system. The information is too dense and not enough context is given. You almost have to diagram the sentences to make sense of it. Dialog boxes that pop up for quick review definitely need to be otherwise. There text needs some white space. Imagery is helpful (ideograms). Anything to shake us from a jaded autonomic response. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Andrey Repin <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, Octavio Alvarez! > > >>>>> IIRC, Beatrice said that she uses separate directories for OS and > apps > >>>>> because of the use of an SSD; an explicit directory selection > occurred. > >>>> > >>>> Well, that was a wrong way to do it then. > >>>> You MUST install applications on the same partition as your OS to > avoid > >>>> unnecessary writes. This is how WinSxS works. > >> > >>> I'd guess the SSD was for the OS. And what if the SSD is not big enough > >>> to hold all the C:\Program Files? > >> > >> As I said, installing applications somewhere else is a quick way to > overflow > >> your primary partition due to the way WinSxS works. (Basically, when you > >> install your application on different partition, it has to COPY > libraries, > >> instead of making hardlinks to them, as it usually would.) > >> It SHOULD have enough space for your applications. Smallest SSD I saw > was, > >> like, 60gb? In my experience, half that space is sufficient for a quite > heavy > >> workspace (3DS, Photoshop, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD and quite a ton of plugins > and > >> additional tools supplementing the workflow). > > > Disclaimer: I know nothing about WinSxS. Found about it because of your > > comments. I hope no to sound too pedantic. > > > I found this [1] from Microsoft which actually suggests offloading > > program files from the system volume. > > This only helps in case of applications, that store more data, than actual > executable code (i.e.: games), or applications, that are not designed to > work > in multi-user environment (poorly written programs from previous century, > mainly, again, games). > > > I'm just trying to make a use case for choosing a directory other than > > C:\Program Files and why having the RmDir /R so exposed is more harmful > than > > helpful. > > This goes without question. Uninstaller should not remove any files the > installer did not created. And should not confuse the user with stupid > questions, creating false perception of safety. > Under normal circumstances, that would be the only things needed to be > removed, as application should not write into it's installation directory > throughout the normal operation cycle. Application updates fall under > installation category, rather than "normal operation". > > > [1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2795190 - How to address disk space > > issues that are caused by a large Windows component store (WinSxS) > > directory . > > As you may have noticed, WinSxS normally contains HARD LINKS, as the > article > specifically mentioned, and it's real size usually much smaller, than it's > perceived size as shown in different file managers. (In our tests, real > space > used was anywhere from 1% to 10% of perceived space. That is, 10-15mb out > of > 1.5Gb "used space" reported by Explorer.) > But in the event of inability to create a hard link (f.e., the link target > being on a different device), the WinSxS will contain a real copy of the > object, which will take real space. > See the note above about moving applications to a different partition. > > > -- > WBR, > Andrey Repin ([email protected]) 04.02.2014, <11:26> > > Sorry for my terrible english... > > _______________________________________________ > dia-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. 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