From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 30 12:44:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1D437B417 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:44:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16W1ad-00067w-00 for stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:44:19 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.intra, from userid 500) id ACAE943809; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:44:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:44:18 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: *_enable="YES" behavior is bogus *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Message-ID: <20020130204418.GA4079@raggedclown.net> References: <20020130172655.GA1216@raggedclown.net> <20020130193849.EDB8F22F69@boredom.ennui.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020130193849.EDB8F22F69@boredom.ennui.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 11:38:49AM -0800, fate healer wrote: > Cliff Sarginson writes: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:49:11PM -0500, Mark Woodson wrote: > > At 08:19 PM 1/29/2002 -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > >I was going to say non-intuitive, since everyone likes slinging that > > >one around, but remembered what someone who knows more than a few > > >things about interface design had to say about "intuitive" interfaces: > > > When users say that an interface is intuitive, they mean that it > > > operates just like some other software or method with which they > > > are familiar.[*] > > "The only `intuitive' interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned." > - Bruce Ediger > > > People mock that which they do not understand. > And people make smart-arse remarks like yours, thinking that qualifies > as some kind of answer. > > And other people make cranky retorts like yours, thinking that > qualifies as valid criticism. > I hope you feel better soon. Must be hard to live with so much arrogance. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message