begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Tue, May 24, 2005 at 06:30:12PM -0700: [snip] > > Umm, wow. You're the first person I've ever heard of who thinks that > > non-apple guis look like fp. Big ugly buttons and shiny thing to click > > are the invention of Apple, not anyone else. > > Correction: Apple first popularized the GUI in the computer market, but by > no means were they the first to invent it. Windows XP's default GUI is by > far more toy-like than anything I've seen, and includes a BIG. GREEN. > START. BUTTON. That start button then pops out the most insidiously ugly, > obtusely-layed-out menu that I've ever had the displeasure to use.
It was the start button that nailed my reaction to MSWindows shut. I simply *loathe* the start-button concept. This is why I don't use either Gnome or KDE, because they copied the absolutely worst UI "innovation" I have ever had the displeasure of having to use. > To say Windows 1.0 is more usable than _anything_ is an eggregious > exaggeration. Nobody found it useable. It was laughed off the market. > So, comparing today's Mac OS X's GUI to Windows 1.0 simply tells me you > simply don't care about well-reasoned comparisons. YOU. JUST. HATE. APPLE. MSWindows 1.0 and 2.0 were atrocious. It wasn't until 3.0 that MSWindows was good enough for MS to stab IBM in the back and to ditch OS/2. (I never had a machine powerful enough to run OS/2 decently. Otherwise I might have detoured into OS/2 land before coming to run only UNIX machines.) > > A music player is a music player is a music player. They won't get any > > converts away from windows media player or winamp. > > I believe he meant music _creation_ and _editing_, and video _editing_, not > playback. Nearly any computer purchased new in the last 5 years can do > playback. Correct! > Gregory "I'm sinking deeper into the mud and there's nobody here to help me" Hey, I carried the last one almost all by myself. I'll cheer you on since you're doing so much better than I was. -Stewart "Hip! Hip! Huzzah! Hip! Hip! Huzzah! Hip! Hip! Huzzah!" Stremler
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