Dan Winship wrote:
And for the gazillion and oneth time on the other side: IT DOESN'T MATTER. It doesn't matter how many warnings the user gets. It doesn't matter how dire they are. You can pop up a dialog that says "If you proceed, your children will be kidnapped, tortured, and murdered", and *THEY'LL STILL CLICK "OK"* because they want to see the funny joke
Most of them won't even READ the dialog.My wife does that and it annoys the heck out of me. A dialog will pop up and she "clicks it away" while I am still reading it. I ask her what it says, and she says, "I dunno." And this is after me preaching and lecturing on that specific subject hundreds of times. Yes, she is a windows user.
It is amazing how *stupid* some otherwise intelligent people can be when sitting at a computer.
But then again, should we cater to the brain-damaged and bring our OS down to the stupidity level that windows operates at? Should we even care if a computer retard hoses their system because they didn't read the directions?
-b -- "One trend that bothers me is the glorification ofstupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet." - Carl Sagan