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John VanSickle wrote:
> For the average iTunes user (think: grossly ignorant teenager),
> feedback would be useless.
It's far better than my wife asking me, "Why won't iTunes play this
MP3?" and my saying, "I have no frackin' idea, it doesn't even give an
error message!"
...Chambers
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"andrel" <a_l### [at] hotmail com> wrote in message
news:487### [at] hotmailcom...
> I also like the MS solution of giving the error but no retry option (at
> least unto XP). Works great when copying lots of files and after 10
> minutes one of the last ones encounters a disk full.
Ah yes, one of the truly great GUI designs. I also like the omission of "yes
to all" button, to save precious screen estate no doubt. Speaking of which,
the ellipsis were a great invention too, as are small, fixed size dialog
boxes - after all, I paid good money for my 24" screen and cluttering the
beautiful desktop background image with those ugly filenames would be a
virtual crime. On the matter of dialogs, I find it a masterful touch of
uncertainity, when one window disappears but the next takes its sweet time
to appear, that seems to be the trend with recent applications, especially
installers. Installers provide another amusing touch when they spawn
multiple windows during the process. I particularly like the non-modal ones
that cleverly hide each other due to strategic placement. It's always so
exiciting to slide over the top one and experiment with different orderings
of component installations. The hardware manufacturers are also keeping up
with the latest advances in software development. My new laptop has close to
two dozen LEDs. I don't think I'll need a Christmas tree this year. Nor do I
need a mirror, for I can shave perfectly fine staring at the screen, which,
in addition to being absolutely beautiful, was even almost readable 800 feet
down in an abandoned mineshaft, after I placed about two dozen little strips
of black tape over the keyboard and the case. One amazes at the advances in
the science of ergonomics.
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"somebody" <x### [at] ycom> wrote in message news:48716848$1@news.povray.org...
> "andrel" <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
> news:487### [at] hotmailcom...
>
> > I also like the MS solution of giving the error but no retry option (at
> > least unto XP). Works great when copying lots of files and after 10
> > minutes one of the last ones encounters a disk full.
>
> Ah yes, one of the truly great GUI designs. I also like the omission of
"yes
> to all" button, to save precious screen estate no doubt.
Isn't it the "No to all" button that's missing (on file copies when prompted
for overwrite). There is a work around, but yeah, it's an irritating
ommission. At least that got fixed in Vista.
> My new laptop has close to
> two dozen LEDs. I don't think I'll need a Christmas tree this year.
LOL. Mine too.
I was quite astonished last night when I realised that my new 20" widescreen
LCD does a better job of lighting up the study than the 2 spotlights in the
ceiling. And that's on 60% brightness
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>> My new laptop has close to
>> two dozen LEDs. I don't think I'll need a Christmas tree this year.
>
> LOL. Mine too.
I'm jelous. All the laptops I have access to have only a power light and
a HD light. (No activity light for the CD drive at all! Oh, and good
luck figuring out whether the NIC is receiving a carrier signal...)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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somebody wrote:
> Ah yes, one of the truly great GUI designs. I also like the omission of "yes
> to all" button, to save precious screen estate no doubt.
I truly love the way "yes to all" does not in fact mean "yes to ALL".
"Are you sure you want to delete this file?" Yes to all.
"Are you sure you want to delete this one though? It's read-only." Yes
to all.
"But are you sure you want to delete THIS one? It's a System file." Yes
to ALL!
"Even this one? It's an executable file. Some of your programs might not
work properly if you do this." Yes to ALL, FFS!!
"What about this one? It's a hidden file." JUST DELETE THEM ALL, DAMNIT!!!
Sheesh...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible wrote:
>
> I'm jelous. All the laptops I have access to have only a power light and
> a HD light. (No activity light for the CD drive at all! Oh, and good
> luck figuring out whether the NIC is receiving a carrier signal...)
>
When my laptop's mobo gets out of warranty, I'll rip off one and change
color of another of the bluetooth leds. Those blue leds are bright and
irritating.
--
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
http://www.zbxt.net
aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid
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"Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote
> "somebody" <x### [at] ycom> wrote in message news:48716848$1@news.povray.org...
> > Ah yes, one of the truly great GUI designs. I also like the omission of
> "yes
> > to all" button, to save precious screen estate no doubt.
> Isn't it the "No to all" button that's missing
Yes, "No...".
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"SharkD" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
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> I've had repeated problems over the years with Quicktime to the
> point where I dread installing it.
I take it that you don't find startup spammer applications charming.
MS gets a lot of (deserved) flak, but Apple and others are usually no
better, often worse.
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"somebody" <x### [at] ycom> wrote in message news:48725b8c$1@news.povray.org...
> "SharkD" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
> news:web.4870470320c25d9a1a157cba0@news.povray.org...
>
> > I've had repeated problems over the years with Quicktime to the
> > point where I dread installing it.
>
> I take it that you don't find startup spammer applications charming.
RealPlayer, anyone?
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> RealPlayer, anyone?
You know, people sometimes *ask* me to install that.
I'm serious.
And then they look all puzzled when I tell them it's a bad idea...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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