"The somewhere is a mystery purely because the fact that there is a
somewhere is a mystery". I love that line. May I re-use it in future?
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/28/2010 1:59 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Why indeed? But I have to explain to her how to look for a file that
> she has saved somewhere. The somewhere is a mystery purely because
> the fact that there is a somewhere is a mystery -- if that's not too
> obscure a sentence :-)
>
> Chris
>
> On 28 Oct 2010, at 10:37, Moose wrote:
>
>>
>> Nor did I. Nevertheless, he put others down for not knowing the
>> secret code. Fine with me in most circumstances. But when those who
>> tout Apple's "intuitive interface" do that, they need to be called
>> on it.
>>
>>> My mother seems always to close windows rather than quit;
>>
>> Exactly, because that's the intuitive thing to do, given the visual
>> clues of the interface.
>>
>>> but then she's the one who asks, when told to press Return, "is
>>> that the crooked arrow?". I spent about an hour with her on
>>> iChat yesterday, sharing her screen trying to work out what she
>>> had done wrong with iTunes to get loads of exclamation marks; she
>>> has no concept of the filing system on her Mac
>>
>> Why should she have to, if the OS is truly intuitive and user
>> friendly? Carol has no concept of what a file system is or how it
>> works. If I start to talk about that sort of things, she sticks her
>> fingers in her ears and makes loud, repetitive noises. Somehow
>> manages fine using her computer for writing, email, web browsing,
>> etc. Once in a long while, I have to find something for her, but
>> really almost never.
>
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