muckshifter
09-09-2001, 04:49 PM
While everyone appreciates the efforts of engineers and others to fashion more user friendly products, there is a not so fine line which when crossed, clearly indicates that those same engineers have a low opinion of our fundamental capabilities as sentient beings. By contrast, generally speaking, I hold our abilities to conceive and carry out constructive tasks in high regard. That's just my opinion, but evidence of this can be gleaned by carefully observing various examples of the results of productive behavior: The Great Pyramid of Khufu, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, the Declaration of Independence, Michelangelo's David and Pamela Anderson's protuberances to name but a few magnificent examples. Perhaps we should pass the word on to Microsoft so they may reconsider their basic approach to how they think we will interact with their new operating system, Windows XP.
Windows XP is the dumbing down of Windows. They've removed many of our choices in setting up our working environment, and proportionately increased their ability to invade our privacy and possibly even compromised our safety in the process. Not only is Microsoft clearly unimpressed with our computer manipulating and decision making abilities, it is equally clear that they think that we don't know enough to be concerned about our privacy.
No one likes to be treated like an idiot, and almost everyone has at least something that they would probably prefer to keep away from public view residing somewhere in their computer. Even if they don't, perhaps they just value their privacy on principle. This article makes no judgments as to why you might prefer to keep the contents of your hard drive private. It is simply assumed that you would prefer to keep that which you might reasonably expect to be private away from the scrutiny of others, and additionally that people prefer to be given reasonable choices in determining how their working environments are configured.
http://members.home.net/scotterpops/articles/winxp/winxp1.html
Thanks Scott.
Windows XP is the dumbing down of Windows. They've removed many of our choices in setting up our working environment, and proportionately increased their ability to invade our privacy and possibly even compromised our safety in the process. Not only is Microsoft clearly unimpressed with our computer manipulating and decision making abilities, it is equally clear that they think that we don't know enough to be concerned about our privacy.
No one likes to be treated like an idiot, and almost everyone has at least something that they would probably prefer to keep away from public view residing somewhere in their computer. Even if they don't, perhaps they just value their privacy on principle. This article makes no judgments as to why you might prefer to keep the contents of your hard drive private. It is simply assumed that you would prefer to keep that which you might reasonably expect to be private away from the scrutiny of others, and additionally that people prefer to be given reasonable choices in determining how their working environments are configured.
http://members.home.net/scotterpops/articles/winxp/winxp1.html
Thanks Scott.