Nothing is as frustrating as when you call a company wanting to deal with an issue that isn't on the voice menu.
Even if your issue is, just waiting for the voice to go on can take forever. Some companies have voice menus over a dozen layers deep... "Press one if... Press one if... Press one if..."
I remember a call to Dell, it took 5 minutes to wade through the menus, then finally I was told I needed to be transferred. The transfer didn't work, and I got disconnected, and had to wade through the voicemail system again.
A credit card company didn't even have a person to talk to, and pressing zero (a nice little trick for most VM systems to get a human) didn't do anything. There was no way to talk to a person. Very frustrating.
X11 just stinks. Why would Apple want to move back ten years? That's why NeXTSTEP (the basis of OS X) developed their own GUI, because X11 was and still is a horrible UI, with a mishmash of Band Aids and hacks trying to get it to look and kind of act pretty.
If it's just X11, all the widgets would be ugly and awkard compared to Aqua. If they ported KDE and/or Gnome, then they'd have even more control panels. One control panel for Aqua fonts, one for KDE fonts, one for Gnome fonts, one for GTK themes, etc. It'd be unmanagable and ugly.
I disagree with the PHB statement. There seems to be a small portion of the population that seem to have a natural skill for all things technical. It's just like any other talent, such as a talent for math, writing, drawing, etc. Some people have it, some people don't, despite how much they try.
There are plenty of incredibly intelligent and accomplished people in various fields who can't discern a dialog box from a hole in the ground, and plenty of techies who think diagraming a sentance involves Visio.
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Even if your issue is, just waiting for the voice to go on can take forever. Some companies have voice menus over a dozen layers deep... "Press one if... Press one if... Press one if..."
I remember a call to Dell, it took 5 minutes to wade through the menus, then finally I was told I needed to be transferred. The transfer didn't work, and I got disconnected, and had to wade through the voicemail system again.
A credit card company didn't even have a person to talk to, and pressing zero (a nice little trick for most VM systems to get a human) didn't do anything. There was no way to talk to a person. Very frustrating.
If it's just X11, all the widgets would be ugly and awkard compared to Aqua. If they ported KDE and/or Gnome, then they'd have even more control panels. One control panel for Aqua fonts, one for KDE fonts, one for Gnome fonts, one for GTK themes, etc. It'd be unmanagable and ugly.
I say good riddance to X11.
I disagree with the PHB statement. There seems to be a small portion of the population that seem to have a natural skill for all things technical. It's just like any other talent, such as a talent for math, writing, drawing, etc. Some people have it, some people don't, despite how much they try. There are plenty of incredibly intelligent and accomplished people in various fields who can't discern a dialog box from a hole in the ground, and plenty of techies who think diagraming a sentance involves Visio.