Guns don't kill people, people kill people, right?
The hammer/carpenter brush/painter car/driver analog is endlessly
debatable. I belong to a school of thought that believes putting a gun
in the hand of a person makes him a far more viable killer than one
without the gun. I think people have a natural zest for pushing the
button, probably all buttons. At once. Again and again.
I don't have a lot of faith in human beings i guess ;)
This thread is pretty OT anyway, and it'll go nowhere. At the very least
i've shouted at you a bit ;)
- Andreas
ryanm wrote:
Similarly, when GUI's came out, the command line people said the old
way was better.
Are you trying to tell me it isn't? ;-)
I guess my bottom line is that more powerful tools for the designer is
never a bad thing. At the end of the day bad designers will be
punished, and good designers will be rewarded. You cant blame the
hammer, you must blame the carpenter.
Unfortunately, more often than not, bad design is being praised
(because it's "new", even though it's not, and "pretty", even though
it often isn't) and good design is being ignored or denigrated as
"old" and "boring".
I used a mouse on my C64 with a GEOS desktop back in '86 and
thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread. Unfortunately,
the point-and-click paradigm hasn't been improved much in intervening
years. The web isn't what I would call a huge regression, but it
certainly hasn't pushed usability forward much.
ryanm
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