UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) (03/29/88)
I have a file called s:TimeStamp, whch has been deleted and recreated
many many times. Now, when I try to delete it, I visit the Guru.
Any ideas welcome.
lee
ps. This is WB 1.2, patch_1, and ARP1.1 delete
on an A1000.hans@nlgvax.UUCP (Hans Zuidam) (03/29/89)
>>hans@nlgvax.UUCP (I) wrote: >> GURUs are indeed bad practice. Moreover, they are bad marketing. The >> Mac and Atari ST display nice cute not offensive bombs. You hardly >> notice them on the screen. The reaction (also mine) when a Mac >> crashes is "oh the machine crashed", but when my Amiga crashes "OH >> MY AMIGA CRASHED". <MY8gely00Uka04iG8m@andrew.cmu.edu> bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes: >Bullshit; I get just as pissed when a machine shows "cute little >bombs." When a computer gets to this point, slick visual design is >pretty irrelevant. How is the phrase "guru meditation" offensive, anyway? > >-Miles Not the phrase is offensive but the way GURUs are presented. You and I (and then some) know what has happend when the machine GURUs. But from a visual point of view (no pun intended) it is bad design (i.e. marketing). Someone without our knowlegde will think something terrible has happened. Read any book on user interface design and especially those sections on the use of flashing objects on a screen. See for example (this is from memory): "User Interface Design", (?) B. Schneidermann, pub. Addison-Wesley, 1987 (?) When I wrote the above, I was a little bit to terse I think. With "GURUs are bad practice" I meant bad 'technical' practice. I do not like *any make* of computer crashing, be it Amiga, be it something else. Reality has it that computers *do* crash. On the display side, the GURU display of the Amiga suggests that something terrible has happened while on the other machines you (at least I do) get the impression something went wrong. Please note the difference in wording. I tried to indicate this by putting the Mac/Atari reaction in lower-case and the Amiga reaction in upper-case. This is normal net pratice to indicate the difference between speaking and shouting. Hans -- Hans Zuidam E-Mail: hans@pcg.philips.nl Philips Telecommunications and Data Systems, Tel: +31 40 892288 Project Centre Geldrop, Building XR Willem Alexanderlaan 7B, 5664 AN Geldrop The Netherlands