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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Wednesday, January 28, 2004Jerry, welcome to my world (Part two)Jerry Pournelle continues to get mail that's reminiscent of my own mail. His responses are classic, and correct. "Let's see. The message here is (1) Macs are really really intuitive and easy to use, and (2) I should buy a book ... and go read it, so that I will understand that when the Mac vaporizes my file it really hasn't done that. Also, that pretending to have destroyed your file is not serious compared to having to to to the START menu to shut the machine down, that being far less intuitive than going to the Apple symbol on the Menu bar. And it's all my fault, for not having learned about about how it all works. But Macs are very intuitive and easy to use, unless you're a damned fool idiot like me? ... Once you know how to do [some task], it will seem simple, so much so that when someone asks you about it, you may forget just how hard you had to work to find out how it was done, and be tempted to say 'it's obvious' and dismiss the questioner as lazy or stupid or both." It's astonishing how many Mac advocates take that stance: After all, if you know how to do it, it must be intuitive! [ Posted at 3:10 PM | Permalink ]
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