On Thursday 15 November 2012 12:40:49 EBo did opine: > Unfortunately I have to disagree with the sentiments. A splash screen > is not the place to try to teach someone on a tool that should "just > work" as an out of the box example. I propose that all examples that > come up in the splash screen should just work. Think about it for a > moment -- someone downloads the boot disk, and goes to run the simulator > just to try it out. First thing they see is that the simulator does not > work. That makes EMC's product and distribution look buggy, and they > have no idea that it is by design to force you to understand what the > code is doing. Now give the real-life example where I am starting to > teach someone how to machine and write gcode. When they sit down the > first time they do not know enough to understand what is going on, and > is not the time to put them off by it not working. That is what > tutorials are for -- whey the student is expecting that there will be > issues that they have to work through. > > EBo -- > Much as I'd druther not take sides here, I have to concur with EBo. Sim stuff should absolutely Just Work(TM).
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