[X Newbies] OSX not dial-up friendly

[Florin Alexander Neumann]

On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 17:18 Canada/Eastern, Eugene Lee wrote:

> Should the user really
> need to understand the difference between an app and the underlying OS?
> And if the procedure to accomplish a task becomes complex, is it the
> role of the user to adapt to the computer?  Or is it the role of the
> computer hardware/software maker to adapt to the user?  :-)

Should the user really need to understand the difference between the 
brake pedal and accelerator pedal when driving a car? I don't think so; 
ideally, I should be able to drive a car just by thinking about 
driving. Doesn't work this way, though, does it?

Yes, I agree with you, the whole paradigm of computers, in which the 
human has to adapt to the machine, rather than the other way around, is 
-- or should be -- discarded. The problem is that it's much easier to 
get the human to adapt to the machine, than to make a truly adaptable 
machine. And, in this regard, the computer industry is still somewhere 
in the early Neolithic.

f