"Nick Sabalausky" <a...@a.a> wrote in message news:hna05f$14b...@digitalmars.com... > "Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message > news:hn9be6$312...@digitalmars.com... >> The kick-off meeting for Thunderbird 3: >> >> "Thunderbird 2 is quite sluggish, has poor asynchronous execution of >> tasks, poor focus control, and annoying modal dialogs on error. What do >> we do for version 3?" >> >> "Let's build on all that! We'll make Thunderbird 3 even more sluggish >> even on the best of machines. Let them wait for second with an old screen >> whenever they click on something." >> >> "Excellent! While we're at it, let's make the selection colors such that >> the user never knows where the focus is. That, combined with the >> slugishness of the UI, will go a great job at confusing people." >> >> "And how about this - let's even insert large delays at random while the >> user is typing an email. There's nothing better than typing out of sync >> with the screen!" >> >> "Awesome! To make the deal sweeter, we'll replace the useful filter >> functionality with a full-blown search. That would require us to index >> all emails in the background thus making things even slower, and will >> confuse the heck out of everyone." >> >> "Go Thunderbird 3!" >> > > That's exactly how I feel about 90% of software these days. > > (In that light, it's probably no surprise why I'm so damn bitchy and > stubborn about things so much of the time ;) ) >
Come to think of it, Mozilla can just do exactly what Epic did in that situation: Optimization, downward-scalability and targeting *normal* hardwa^W^W^W^W^W^W^W...Form an "alliance" with hardware companies to try to cram even more overpowered hardware down the necks of average Joe's all while pretending to be doing their prospective users a favor.