In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:31:04 +0000
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> __/ [George Ellison] on Sunday 11 December 2005 13:25 \__
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>> Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>>> begin oe_protect.scr
>>> Roy Culley <rgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> begin risky.vbs
>>>> <439c1bd1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>> Rich Gibbs <richg74@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>> Roy Culley said the following, on 12/11/05 05:36:
>>>>>>
> <http://news.com.com/Prize+in+Indian+talent+search+A+year+on+Bill+Gatess+team/2100-1001_3-5990123.html?tag=nefd.top>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BANGALORE, India --- Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft,
>>>>>> announced a contest Friday to identify promising software students
>>>>>> in India, offering as top prize an internship with his technical
>>>>>> team for a year.
>>>>>
>>>>> Second prize is two years.
>>>>
>>>> Even worse, what the hell is any budding SW engineer going to learn
>>>> from Gates? Certainly nothing about good SW design or innovation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Now listen and learn. You think 'copy idea', you say 'innnovation'...
>>>
>>
>> Does Steve Ballmer teach the follow-on chair-throwing class?
>
> No, you're totally confusing that with monkey sign language.
Not to mention a certain coach who used to do basketball at UNLV... :-)
But back to design...if it's understandable to the user, it's good
design; that applies to both CLIs and GUIs. Unfortunately, many
users have been sold the notion that GUIs are "easy to use"; this
may be true (and GUIs do have the advantage of being self-documenting
to some extent; if it's in the pulldown menu and not greyed out it's
able to do it, in theory anyway), but it's not a given; good design
requires thinking and a *lot* of practice. :-)
>
> Roy
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