Re: AppleScript dictionary
Re: AppleScript dictionary
- Subject: Re: AppleScript dictionary
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:54:40 -0700
At 09:40a +1000 09/13/2003, Shane Stanley didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
On 13/9/03 2:04 AM +1000, Paul Berkowitz, email@hidden, wrote:
> The idea of trying to prevent and thwart curiosity is still one
that shocks me
>
Enough already. You've given your version of events, which from my
recollection is pretty colored. But if you're suggesting that
someone was trying to "prevent and thwart curiosity", you're being a lot
more than unfair.
These days most of us run OS X. Under the hood is Unix and lots of arcane
stuff that's effectively hidden from most of us, unless we go looking for
it. Instead, we get to see what someone thinks we want and need to see,
through a simpler interface. That doesn't sound particularly sinister to me.
It's what programmers do all the time.
I think he meant it in the way of "We want you to view things the way
we think you should want to view them, not in the way you want to."
Kind of like my own pet peeve about Web sites that say "Make your
window ---this--- wide." Ugh.
-boo
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