Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
- Subject: Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
- From: Ryan Dary <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:06:01 -0700
Please be realistic, what you are suggesting is an uncommon scenario.
Let's look at this for example:
Dad is working on the PC and gets up to go to the bathroom. Since he is
connected to the internet kiddie decides he'll quickly check his email
while Dad is relieving himself. Kiddie can quickly switch over to his
account, check his email and switch back before Dad even flushes the
toilet! Now that is cool and very usable. I think that it would be
very good for myself if I could have some batch processes running in the
background while my kids and wife check their email. Sure, it extends
the period of time required for running the batch process, but it
doesn't tie up the whole computer just because my user account is doing
something. I personally would love this feature and think that it could
become an invaluable asset to the Family Computer.
I could come up with at least a dozen scenarios like this one if
necessary.
- Ryan
On Wednesday, July 4, 2001, at 02:36 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Imagine Dad is working with the PC with XP, he begin burning a CD. It is
going to take a while, so he thinks "hey lets use this wonderfull
feature of XP and let the kiddie play with my PC". So the kiddie logs,
he lurks around HL for example, dl a cool looking game disk image, and
begin to burn the game to the CD. I bet a Bluescreen Of Death may
happen :-). Or even better he begin playing a game, say Quake III, and
in the heart of the battle it eats up all the CPU, so daddy CD get a
buffer underrun.
Jorge Salvador Caffarena
http://homepage.mac.com/eevyl/