23 Aug
2010
23 Aug
'10
2:49 p.m.
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Then there's the old joke:
How do you accelerate a Macintosh?
Toss it out the window and it'll go 9.8m/s^2.
Ah, the defenestration method:
Most computers can be sped up by
either tossing it out of a window,
or tossing windows out of it.
Microsoft is not the only company whose design policies are predicated
on an assumption of Moore's law. But it is one of the most obvious.
If your goal is to create simple memos, with dancing kangaroos
and yodeling jellyfish on them, then Windoze is the best choice.
That IS the goal of some, such as college administrators, and
they do not mind spending half an hour decorating the memo that
"the meeting has been cancelled", nor sending it as a multi-megabyte
attached WEIRD document.
Therefore, Microsoft made the design decisions to optimize for THAT.
Has MICROS~1 provided a "wizard" specifically and explicitly for
decorating "the meeting has been cancelled" memos with the dancing
kangaroos and yodelling jellyfish?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com