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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:38:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      rone@ennui.org (fate healer)
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: *_enable="YES" behavior is bogus *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\
Message-ID:  <20020130193849.EDB8F22F69@boredom.ennui.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020130172655.GA1216@raggedclown.net>

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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.  

rone
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