>> Granted, all of these are just visual sugar and are completely worthless. >> But they have provided Microsoft with much money because more useless >> people >> can use computers. It is because these people do not wish to learn, do >> not >> have the capacity, or just plain would rather pay through their teeth. >> They >> would rather have Microsoft make obfuscate things, to make it "easier" >> for >> them, than to try to understand themselves. >> >> JS > > Why are you making out people and Microsoft in such a negative way? > Also, how is it "harder" for them when things like file extensions are > obfuscated?
They would rather have Microsoft obfuscate things, to make it "easier" for *the people* not Microsoft. Why am I being negative about it? Very simply: The necessary code and provisions it takes to implement UI devices like Hiding file extensions is a waste of space, time, resources, and too many other things to count. Windows Vista is the newest OS out from Microsoft. One look at the size of the installation should be enough to tell anyone that enough is enough. Another problem I have with Windows is the paradigm "There are only 500,000 ways to do it." For example, you can change network adapter configuration by going to Control Panel, by using the SysTray icon, by using the StartMenu shortcut, by navigating to the program itself, by using Device Manager, add especially dangerous - indirectly by using the network setup wizard, etc. All of these routes waste space, and only provide minimal advantage, but manage to provide serious breaches of understanding. I know I am not the only one who has tried to find why a network adapter doesn't work, only to find that an important setting was comprimised when running one of the handy "It does everything!" UIs. I don't know if you are one of those people that loves those all-in-one screwdrivers, but I find that pieces of them get lost, they are bulky, and when it comes right down to it, all I want to do is use the simple, light, and specialised screwdrivers. Why? Because they are faster, stronger, and more stable. Is that good enough? Why am I upset with people? Because they want "ease of use", I must buy bigger hard drives, and more ram. Because Microsoft has determined that media is more important to the mass population than performance, I have to fight to get my Windows installation to stop initiating the time-consuming Autoplay feature, or I have to jump through hoops to cut off the Windows Messenger just because I don't want to use it. Or I have to search through numerous wizards and settings to try to find where I can shut-up Windows Update. Yes, maybe I want it to update, but I don't want it to bother me! I have work to do. No I don't need "troubleshooting help". Give me a damn RFC. No, there is no big massive error, I just need to find where my program is using an invalid pointer. Why can't these changes be something useful? A great example. Such and such module is linked to missing export such and such. Okay. But you are preventing me from using the program! The Windows Loader provides API addresses at load time anyway, so why isn't there an option to redirect the API? It would take a hell of a lot less resource space than implementing some of the visual junk that makes "managing media" "so easy". I apologize for my bringing up these beliefs on this list. They are better placed in a blog somewhere, or more efficiently, in a zip file of ASCII text as small and as neat as possible. JS _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
