Re: FreeBSD as printing server - which printer?

From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it.invalid)
Date: 09/08/05 

Date: 8 Sep 2005 14:30:01 GMT

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On 2005-08-16, dutch disCo <dutch@disco.com> wrote:
> No doubt, Unix _is_ user friendly, but _it's not_ intuitive.

I spent half an hour with an acorn once, on a tradeshow. Lookit, it has
windows and a taskbar long before windows 95 had that. Easy as pie,
right? Couldn't get it to do a darn thing. That is, until I found out
you *needed* that middle button. *Then* it was easy, and snappier than
anything from micros~1, with less than half the MHzen under the hood.

I say, hardly anything is intuitive. The fact that an entire industry is
still chasing that goal simply means we're still deluding ourselves.

Yes, we can flatten the learning curve. Heck, we can do it in several
ways, all with a different cost associated. But we can never eliminate
it. So it'd be nice if we stopped pretending we can.

> Not only
> idiots need things you can manipulate intuitive (eg. wc, doors, cars).

None of your examples are truly intuitive. You've learned to use them so
long ago that you don't remember learning, but you had to be trained
alright. No use denying that. 

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