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Top Ten Persistent Design Flaws
jlouderb writes "Bruce Tognazzini former human interface evangalist at Apple, and currently a principal at web design firm Neilsen Norman Group has begun cataloging the top ten design computing flaws that we just live with with, but shouldn't have to. Only seven are found at his article, and (not surprisingly) three are Mac related. My favorite: the mysteriously dimmed menu options. Why are those darned things grey anyway?"
Agreed. Number one, the "Power Failure Crash" is just stupid. This one gripe makes me believe that the author doesn't understand computers and how they work at all, for two reasons:
1) He complains that after a power failure, all work is lost. Resolutions: Save often, idiot. By RAM's very nature, it cannot keep information without power. The car analogy is just idiodic. If your information is that important, either save it often or buy a UPS, dumass.
2) Hard drives, by the very nature of the way information is written, can be damaged by losing power abrubtly, especially in the middle of a write operation. Avoid this by buying a UPS, or use a laptop that will automatically switch to backup if AC is lost.
The "continous save" idea is just idiotic. First off, applications already do this, just not after every TWO CHARACTERS typed. If an application DID do it that often, you can rest assured it would be very unpopular. After all, who wants an application that's sure to be nicknamed the "hard drive killer?"
The hardware fix is just as absurd: have you ever seen a memory dump of 1 GIG of memory take only 30 seconds? I sure haven't. Not even for 256MB. BUY A UPS you idiot. They are as cheap as $100, way cheaper than any integrated solution would be. And who wants a computer that weighs 100 pounds?
Needless to say, I stopped reading this stupid "article" after that first gripe.
Well I don't need that network drive at the moment, let's just drag it off the desk.
Also in OS X when you start dragging a mounted image the trash can turns into an eject button.
Guess what happens when you load a blank cd, and mount an ISO image. the trash can turns into the burn cd icon.
Unlike say windows where you have to search to find the burn or eject buttons.
If you don't like it fine, but just because you aren't smart enough to use a Mac doesn't mean the rest of us aren't. i learned in 20 minutes, and had to ask ONE dumb question.
Of course I learn to use OS'S other than windows long ago.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
I said GUI, not menu. Because there is a fucking menu on top of the Macs screen that has a command to ejectz a floppy, but that is obviously too fucking hard for you guys to understand.
Lars T.
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