From: Walt Gilbert
On 8/17/2012 9:54 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:41 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
... and NO, not a Mac either. I ain't in no mood to spend $3,000 for a
$500 machine!
Not trying to convince ya, but that's an old trope. Time to update
your assumptions.
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-bmw
To me, this never gets old:
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2009/12/16/how-fanboys-see-operating-systems/
Is there an inverse to fanboy? I don't really like Windoze, it just
irritates me marginally less than other options, and I can usually
manage to batter it into something that if I squint real hard and look
off kind of too one side might almost be mistaken for "submission".
Given:
L W M as seen by...
1 2 3 MFb
4 5 6 WFb
7 8 9 LFb
I see OS choices as 4,2,9
GUI development reached its pinnacle with OS/2 v.3.0 Every change since
then has been a step further down a slippery slope into hell.
I don't really care how the computer gets the job done underneath where
I can't see it, but leave the damn buttons alone so I know where to find
them. I liked WindozeXP mainly because it's the closest Micro$oft has
come so far towards achieving a GUI I'm comfortable with, i.e. I know
where the damn buttons are.
I don't like having to continually play "button, button, who's got the
button" every time I want to get something done.
Usability of GUI design can be graphed as y=x^2+1 where a PERFECT
INTERFACE is defined as [0,0]
Substitute the following values of 'x' for certain interfaces:
"-10" for Windoze 3.1, OS/2 v.2.1
"- 2" for Windoze 95, 98, 98SE, 2K, NT4.0
"0" for WindozeXP, OS/2 v.3.0
"22/7" for Windoze Vista
"square root of -1" for MacOS
"101010" for Linux
I haven't made up my mind about Windoze7 yet, but I shouldn't have to
reboot the damn thing 15 times just to get a week's worth of security
patches installed.
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