4 Jun
2013
4 Jun
'13
4:30 p.m.
On 4 Jun 2013, at 17:16, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 06/04/2013 03:00 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Apple did a lot of the same with Lion/Mountain Lion...right now it seems to
be a trend in the consumer market
Trying to ride on the coattails of the iPad, or telling people how to work?
Both are popular these days. I tolerate neither.
Trying to ride on the coattails of the iPad.
> Imagining myself scrunched in front of a 10"
tablet with my SpaceNavigator
> and a mouse jacked into it make my head want to explode. :)
What about a 36" tablet? There is absolutely no reason why not.
Sure there is. There's no way in hell I'm going to reach out to poke at
a
display sitting at my desk. This is why Windows 8 is a total catastrophe.
They're forcing tablet behavior in an environment that is decidedly
optimized for exactly NOT that kind of interface.
I dumped OS X (in part) because of that crap. And the eleven people
running Windows 8 aren't happy about it either. (so Microsoft is bringing the
"start" button back, so they'll once again be able to shut down their
systems! ;))
That was my complaint about windows 8. I could never remember how the hell to shut it
down.
A friend and I (he's a software developer for a living?a smart one too!) once tried to
figure out how to use twitter in windows *?it took us 30 minutes and we never figured it
out. His mother figured it out in 5. That says something?but I'm not sure what.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA