> It pains me to read that ux-admin. It pains me > because you don't realize how wrong you are and might > continue to be :)
I might be. "Historia est magistra vitae" or, "history is the teacher of life". And if one doesn't learn from history, one is doomed to repeat it, poorly. So, I guess we'll just have to stick it out and see whether I'm wrong or not. > Expecting Unix thin clients to take over the home PC > market in 10 years is ridiculous. People have laughed much bigger things off. Sending a man on the moon, anyone? > Expecting normal human consumers to learn > "informatics" in order to use normal consumer > software systems is ridiculous. You think? Look at all the contemporary child today. They're an iPod generation, writing an SMS or an Office document is thought nothing of. Kids have a better grasp of how BitTorrent works than adults do. And those are just trivial examples. > Believing that a complex software system can't have a > simple user interface is ridiculous. Like I said, history is the teacher of life. There have been much better, simpler and more elegant interfaces in use than we have available today, yet those technologies failed for one reason or another. Attempts have been made to dumb down something that is inherently extremely complex, and up to date, all attempts have failed to reach that ever elusive goal. My point is, might as well make the best of it, "warm up a chair" and start reading documentation. You don't just start using a landry machine, you have to read the documentation on how to unpack the device and how to use it. So why should an inherently more complex device like a general purpose computer be any different? It goes against every logic. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
