Re: Hosting and a More Official Status for http://perl-begin.berlios.de/

On 17 Apr 2007, at 09:47, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Well, I've started concentrating facts and links against Apple here:
>
> http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/apple/

   "Joel on Software's story about Pete and Gena - illustrates the  
fact that Apple
    lacks a lot of Windows' (and Linux-based desktops) usability  
improvements."

Absolute nonsense. He demonstrates that his hypothetical Windows user  
('Pete') finds it hard to use a Mac because it's not what he's  
familiar with. He then goes on to point out that the whole question  
of usability is dominated by people's expectations based on their  
prior experience.

   "All those flame wars you read on the OS bigot websites about user
    interface issues focus on the wrong thing. Windows is better because
    it gives you more ways to resize the window. So what? That’s missing
    the point. The point is, does the UI respond to the user in the  
way in
    which the user expected it to respond? If it didn’t, the user is
    going to feel like they can't control the interface, and they're  
going
    to be unsuccessful. That's all there is to it. Something is  
usable if
    it behaves exactly as expected. Tattoo this on your forehead.
    Backwards, so you can read it in the mirror.

Also:
   Jokes

   Mac O'Sucks - my pun on Mac OS X.

This 'joke' fails to satisfy the main criterion for humour.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net