[OT] "The Condescending UI" (was: Do we need Win95/98/Me support?)

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, January 27, 2012 18:08:43 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Ewww. Bad move on their part. I got one of the wireless ones one time and
> returned it the next day. It was terrible. Physically it was the same, but
> it was painfully less smooth and less responsive (and inconsistently so)
> than every other mouse I've ever used.

You want bad. They replaced one of the best video game controllers ever 
created ( http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-WingMan-Cordless-
Rumblepad-2-4/dp/B00005USQA/ref=sr_1_10?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1327706659&sr=1-10 
) with these:

http://www.logitech.com/en-us/gaming/controllers

It's a sheer travesty.

> Heh. At the last job I had before going self-employed, I can't tell you how
> many weird/deer-in-the-headlights reactions I got every time someone would
> be about to do someting on my computer. Then they'd try to use it and
> complain they didn't understand how I could use it.

What was funny for me was when I used to use a normal keyboard with dvorak 
turned on in the OS, someone would come and type something on my computer to 
show me something, and not only would it come out as gibberish, but we would 
_both_ be confused as to why. I was so used to using dvorak that I forgot that 
I was doing anything different, and it took a minute or two for us to figure out 
what was wrong.

Now, I use a Kinesis Advantage keyboard, so the keyboard alone scares people 
off, and I have a normal keyboard to the side which is still using qwerty. But 
it was funny for a while when I used a normal keyboard.

- Jonathan M Davis