On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Miguel Delapaz wrote:
I agree, allowing customers to shoot them selves in various parts
of their
anatomy is *not* the tool's problem. However, it does become our
problem
when the shot is taken, they call us and their overall user
experience is
less than favorable. I think having the tool unload the gun is
preferable.
Be careful with this road.
Many presumably customer-friendly OSes assume that they are smarter
than I am and know better than I do what I want to do. Most of the
time, they are wrong.
Fortunately, in *some* of them, the GUI is merely a shell over a good
old Unix or Unixalike set of command-line utilities and a Unixish
kernel, and I can *fix* the problem and get actual work done. In
*others*, well, I click a bunch of buttons marked "OK" because
there's only one button and "NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT OK. HOWEVER, I
ACCEPT THE HEINOUS SITUATION IN WHICH YOU HAVE LEFT ME, GRUDGINGLY,
BECAUSE YOU LEAVE ME NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER" probably would make for
a funny-looking button.
Adam
