>
> "Here's a dime. Go buy yourself a real computer."
Or if you have $3, you can buy a working Pentium 4 2.8GHz at a garage
sale:
http://www.twitpic.com/6s0c3
> People who think in terms of bytes see case insensitivity as silly.
> People who think in terms of letters, however, see it as only logical. I
> fully imagine a case-insensitive home directory to crop up on the list
> of GNOME requirements eventually. It's an ease of use thing.
I could go on as to my reasons why this annoys me and some of you will
just think I'm ranting, but it comes down to this.
Learn to be precise. Computers are not people. I don't care if you can
make them like people, they still won't be people. So its best to just
learn how computers are, and be happy with it.
I'm not saying don't be user friendly, that's fine and helpful, but
some people push things so far that they expect to eventually wind up
with a 1 key keyboard that says "Do my stuff".
As an example, I used my time modem to login to the internet2 in 2022
and pulled this review from cdweggbuy (yes, that's a URL because
people thought it was ok to remove gTLDs and also got rid of that pesky
http://) for a VeriLogiSoft Computer Interface device.
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Pros: Shiny.
Cons: Has too many buttons and you have to press them.
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How did they write the review? Sometimes people go too far in the
name of ease of use and forget that we have brains.
--
Mark Krenz
Bloomington Linux Users Group
http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/
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