Re: [PMH] Re: [Nautilus-list] Idea for Nautilus and GMC.

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

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 of
stupidity, 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