"Rojo Habe" wrote in message
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> "FromTheRafters" wrote in message
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>> Complaining about a click or two is trivial when you consider how
>> much effort it took to run a program in the olden days. Switches,
>> patch cables, and shoeboxes of IBM keypunch cards. Now it's
>> sooo easy to do - people complain about UAC prompts.
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> Yes, but back then you needed to know how to use a computer. Nowadays
> people get them for Christmas we're all told how easy it is and how it's
> impossible to break them (yeah, right) and When XP was released it came
> complete with a Fischer Price visual style to encourage everybody that it
> really is easy.
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> We have a whole new generation of computer users who've been brought up to
> treat them like consumer goods. Your TV set doesn't start asking you if
> you're REALLY sure you want to change channels.
No, but it is generally acceptable to be asked if you really want to
delete something after you pressed the delete button. Nobody said
a word about how annoying it was - and deleting is not really as
important a consideration as running foriegn code is.
> Don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily having a go at Vista. UAC doesn't
> actually bother me that much. It just seems a weird that they've
> attracted hordes of non-computer-savvy users and then put the onus on them
> to complain to software vendors when the Windows Logo requirements are
> breached.
This paradigm has been looming on the horizon for years if not decades. The
vendors should have been prepared for this - it is they who annoy the users
by not writing 'least privilege' code in the first place. It was a good idea
long
before Vista made it more of a necessity.
> Oh, and if pushed, I could probably name loads of people who don't know
> where the oil goes in their car.
It goes everywhere, even on your clothes - you can even smell it from a
distance.
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