Todd Walton wrote:
On 1/28/07, Randall Shimizu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How many programmers does it take MS to design a off switch in
Vista.......??
(http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html
)
Linked from the Moishe blog:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html
I liked the JOS post for its clarity.
-todd
Well, he's entertaining anyway. But to me he represents the average
lazy, and technically ignorant user who thinks his way should be the
only way. Especially if it means any mental work on his part. The rest
of us should just pound sand.
I don't see a problem with the design he describes. In fact, it's pretty
much the same UI I've been using on Linux since I got my laptop. He may
just as well be describing KDE or Gnome.
He claims to know what each option does while at the same time wondering
why it exists in the first place. Hello? At least if he going to
belittle a design, feature, or functional implementation, he should
properly explain what it does and why and then give some non-specious
examples of when that feature or option might be useful.
For example, he doesn't seem to understand the different sleep modes.
Otherwise why would he make technically illiterate statements like
"So, if Windows used RAM that was effectively nonvolatile, by swapping
memory out to flash drives during idle time, effectively you would be
able to remove power whenever you're in "away" mode without losing
anything"?
This gives the impression that he thinks Microsoft actually makes the
hardware Windows runs on! Besides, what does he think Suspend to drive does?
As for his ridiculous explanation of the power off "problem" and his
ingenious solution, it sounded like his real question was asking "Why
must the power switch have both On _and_ Off states? We only really need
'On'". Apparently, that's the one state his brain is missing.
Anyone who's ever used a laptop competently knows what all those options
do and why they are, at times, individually useful. I think this guy
expects his readership are a bunch of morons who will never attain that
level of enlightenment. Maybe they are, I've never read his column
before this. He sure seems to have struggled to figure that whole
multiple user, security/privacy, On/Off thing out himself.
The one solution this idiot didn't even bother with was learn what each
option does, select the appropriate one, and ignore the rest. And let
the rest of us make our own choices (Hear that Gnome developers?).
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~DJA.
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