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Unfortunately too, people learn bad habits and build up expectations that will be with us forever. For example Start/Shutdown is so logically broken, but once people have learnt about the Start button, they expect to see it there. First impressions count a lot, so if you take away the Start button most people will feel a bit lost and will have a negative experience. Thus people won't want to let go of Start even if it is in their longer term interests to learn something better.
Mac users managed to cope with the loss of the "Special" menu and the relocation of shutdown and restart to the "Apple" menu so I'm sure Windows users could cope with changing Start/Shutdown.
Look at any study with "new" computer users and you will see that most of them have a lot of trouble adjusting to a "right click".
Now look at any study of what percentage of computer users these days are "new" users. Hint: 1984 was more than 20 years ago and there have been some MAJOR changes in computer user demographics since then. In the US, the average computer user is NOT still using his first computer, and his first computer more likely than not, had a two button mouse.
Granted, in markets such as India or China, most users are now new users, but Macs are nowhere to be found in those markets, and Macs are still using that canard about new users to justify their design in their major markets where only a small fraction of users are new to using a computer mouse.
I supervise on a large educational helpdesk in Australia and from my experience many if not most teachers and school administrative staff would still count as "new" users, which is not surprising given that our average teacher's age is 52 and they therefore didn't grow up with computers.
If you limit "new" users to kids starting out, then this probably is true but many new users are older people who seem to have trouble remembering where to left click and where to right click. And when right clicking on a file/folder can mean deleting that item, it can be pretty messy. So should we recognise that not all people are quick to pick things up and therefore cater for the lowest common denominator or should we just stop these people using computers? Surely it's easier for powerusers to adapt than it is for newbies.
But by doing it "right" El-Al has a good history of safe flying - and my impression is that in the years to come, what cumbersome rest of civil liberties or rights to live "anonymous" are going to go away.
Qantas has a very good history of safe flying and obviously they don't do it "right", they don't put their passengers through this (at least in Australia they don't).
Does the fact that there haven't been any incidents mean that all the protective measures are working, or just that nobody has tried anything? Both Bali and Madrid were done by locals, not people coming in from overseas.
I work for the department so I know a bit about this. Most sites are submitted by teachers who have caught their students surfing them. Once the filtering computer crashed and within 10 minutes of the crash we had multiple schools calling to get sites banned because the students were surfing them. The students know they are not allowed to surf these kinds of sites and the majority have signed acceptable use policies to this effect but they still do it.
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Mac users managed to cope with the loss of the "Special" menu and the relocation of shutdown and restart to the "Apple" menu so I'm sure Windows users could cope with changing Start/Shutdown.
Look at any study with "new" computer users and you will see that most of them have a lot of trouble adjusting to a "right click".
Now look at any study of what percentage of computer users these days are "new" users. Hint: 1984 was more than 20 years ago and there have been some MAJOR changes in computer user demographics since then. In the US, the average computer user is NOT still using his first computer, and his first computer more likely than not, had a two button mouse.
Granted, in markets such as India or China, most users are now new users, but Macs are nowhere to be found in those markets, and Macs are still using that canard about new users to justify their design in their major markets where only a small fraction of users are new to using a computer mouse.
I supervise on a large educational helpdesk in Australia and from my experience many if not most teachers and school administrative staff would still count as "new" users, which is not surprising given that our average teacher's age is 52 and they therefore didn't grow up with computers.
If you limit "new" users to kids starting out, then this probably is true but many new users are older people who seem to have trouble remembering where to left click and where to right click. And when right clicking on a file/folder can mean deleting that item, it can be pretty messy. So should we recognise that not all people are quick to pick things up and therefore cater for the lowest common denominator or should we just stop these people using computers? Surely it's easier for powerusers to adapt than it is for newbies.
Mac Gaming might be lagging well behind PCs now but where do you think Sims (SimCity) and Tetris came from?
But by doing it "right" El-Al has a good history of safe flying - and my impression is that in the years to come, what cumbersome rest of civil liberties or rights to live "anonymous" are going to go away.
Qantas has a very good history of safe flying and obviously they don't do it "right", they don't put their passengers through this (at least in Australia they don't).
Does the fact that there haven't been any incidents mean that all the protective measures are working, or just that nobody has tried anything? Both Bali and Madrid were done by locals, not people coming in from overseas.
I work for the department so I know a bit about this. Most sites are submitted by teachers who have caught their students surfing them. Once the filtering computer crashed and within 10 minutes of the crash we had multiple schools calling to get sites banned because the students were surfing them. The students know they are not allowed to surf these kinds of sites and the majority have signed acceptable use policies to this effect but they still do it.