On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 09:26:35AM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote:
On Sat, March 29, 2008 1:14 am, SJS wrote:
Appeals to authority, especially absent authority, just don't sit well.
If they're an authority, they can argue with me, and if there's a good
reason they're an authority, they'll probably convince me.
How does my appeal to Unix authority have less weight than DB's appeal to
M$ authority?
My appeal was _not_ to Microsoft authority. I guess what I was doing could
be described as appeal to overwhelming consensus.
But, if you look further into what I quoted from Microsoft, their
guidelines are based on research and usability studies (which they don't
give references to in the documentation).
Remember, I happen to think that much of the Windows GUI is very poorly
done, and quite unpleasant to use, not because it's a GUI, but because it
is clumsy and awkward. But even they agree with everyone else on some
things.
David
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