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Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)



Hi,

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:15:59PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 21:38:19 +0200
> Emile van Bergen <emile-deb@evbergen.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > Apple has a great way of doing that. They don't dumb down, they don't
> > belittle you, they assume an intelligent being who can grasp reasonably
> > complex English sentences, but who has less knowledge of computer
> > idiom.
> 
>     *blink, blink*  Funny, I consider Apple on of the worst when it
> comes to dumbing down the interface.  Let's not forget they only
> took about 10 years to get *2* mouse buttons because it was too
> confusing.

To each his own mistakes. The point is that they seem to succeed
relatively often in creating messages and dialogues that are both
informative to the knowledgeable user and intelligible to a non-computer
savvy person.

Cheers,


Emile.

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