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The Death of Folders?

Posted by Zonk on from the croak dept.

saintlupus writes "There's an interesting article on Wired about the interface changes in Tiger being a precursor to the demise of the classic folder-browsing Finder." From the article: "Users type search queries more or less as they did pre-Tiger, but 'the quality, scope and presentation of the results are significantly better, so users get good benefits without having to change their behavior.'"

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  1. Folders?!? by coop0030 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just put everything in the C:\ drive and know that I can find it using Windows XP's sweet search capabilities!

    err...yea...

    1. Re:Folders?!? by lpangelrob2 · · Score: 3, Funny
      You can just name them 'c:\index~1.htm' thru 'c:\ind~9999.htm', of course.

      Call it a toast to the benefits of the initial Windows 95 file naming scheme. :-)

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  2. I don't think so... by Saganaga · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, it was recently announced that due to the widespread use of email, street addresses would soon become obsolete. Out with the antiquated, in with the new!

  3. My File Search by LegendOfLink · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm still waiting for the time when I can "see" the computer code, via a green monitor that displays a shower of code. Then, I will have a plug that connects to my spinal column and allows me to "enter" the computer and manipulate the code using my brainwaves.

    It'd be very efficient, I could then just think of finding a file, and there it would be. Or better yet, I could imagine a beowul...NO CARRIER

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  4. Misread by dsginter · · Score: 4, Funny

    I read this as the death of Folgers. I almost fained since Folgers is The Best Part of Wakin' Up(TM).

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    1. Re:Misread by hunterx11 · · Score: 5, Funny

      We've replaced his traditional hierarchical filesystem with Folgers Crystals. Let's see if he notices.

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