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From: AXDRW%ALASKA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Don R. Withey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Guru vs Bomb round 1 (was Aple //GS...)
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Date: 22 Mar 89 13:51:47 GMT
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> From: Miles Bader <bader+@andrew.cmu.edu>
>
> hans@nlgvax.UUCP (Hans Zuidam) writes:
>
>> GURUs are indeed bad practice. Moreover, they are bad marketing. The
>> Mac and Atari ST display nice cute not offensive bombs. You hardly
>> notice them on the screen. The reaction (also mine) when a Mac
>> crashes is "oh the machine crashed", but when my Amiga crashes "OH
>> MY AMIGA CRASHED".
>
> Bullshit; I get just as pissed when a machine shows "cute little
> bombs."  When a computer gets to this point, slick visual design is
> pretty irrelevant.  How is the phrase "guru meditation" offensive, anyway?
>
> -Miles
You have to admit 'guru meditation' is a little obtuse, though I like it.
The user is not really sure what it means, so therefor it is more scary than
a simple message saying "System Error, guru mediation #, etc..."
        Don