Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!jm7e+ From: jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: "hackers" vs "users" Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 88 22:12:13 GMT References: <8806111436.AA20848@crash.cts.com> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 40 Rich Sims sez.... >Why is there something wrong with freeing the users from the details of >operating the computer...? Not much, unless something goes wrong, or you want to do something that involves a little more than the software-writer had in mind at the time he was writing it, or you get tired of some of the user-friendly messages that you've seen hundreds of times and would rather skip over them but can't. I like to change things so that they work best with the job I am performing. I like my machines to grow with me. I don't want them to start frustrating me because MicrosoftWord has never heard of some particaular kind of file and won't read it or Macwrite won't read anything but a Macwrite file exclusively, or God Forbid when you get that damned Bomb icon telling you a system error has occured and the only thing you can do about it is cry and turn the machine off. Big, fat, user-friendly interfaces don't bother me that much except that I get tired of them running on machines that can just barely handle them, like the Finder on the GS, or Multifinder on a Mac with only 1 Meg. >I think I'll just keep that on the hard disk, thank you! I prefer lots of RAM to lots of storage, only because Storage takes a little longer, doesn't help when a program requires space to work in, and sometimes they crash. And then there's the old question of how to pay for all this classy equipment...... Capt. Albatross jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu ============ disclaimer: These opinions are mine and will remain so until more intelligent or insightful or informed people are kind enough to show me the error of my ways. Remember: A mind is a terrible thing to baste.