From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.netins.net ([167.142.225.203] helo=cgpf2.cgp.netins.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17qV57-0006VU-00 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 04:48:41 -0400 Received: from [167.142.23.115] (HELO president731) by cgpf2.cgp.netins.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with SMTP id 132325071 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 03:48:40 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20020915034837.007ab570@pop3.netins.net> X-Sender: jsymes@pop3.netins.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 03:48:37 -0500 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Jason Symes Subject: Re: (rant) why microsoft is not easy to use In-Reply-To: <20020915081332.GD1045@borg> References: <20020915010146.GF10373@afb.net> <20020914081634.ZVHC22374.priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net@a7a42593> <20020914081634.ZVHC22374.priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net@a7a42593> <3.0.6.32.20020914122335.007a45e0@pop3.netins.net> <20020915010146.GF10373@afb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-68A63F75; boundary="=======789B4C=======" Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: --=======789B4C======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-68A63F75; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I see someone else is taking issue with my corrected goof. Let me state this again, at times windows is the most frustrating, difficult thing on this planet, what I meant was its simple to sighted people because they don't know any better. Its social inertia, they don't want to use something new because they don't want to take the time to learn something new. At 06:13 PM 9/15/02 +1000, you wrote: > >*SNIP* >This from the guy who says Windows is superior because it's so easy? >yeah. that's it, you go girl! >easy my ass. If you're sighted just point and click. yeah right. >for us, press this plus that plus the other and play twister just to get >to a dialog and swear at it cause they moron that coded it used non >standard controls. >yeah. real easy. > >-- >Shaun Oliver > > >In a world without fences > and walls who needs Windows and Gates? > >EMAIL: shaun_oliver@optusnet.com.au >ICQ: 76958435 > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > Jason Symes kids in the backseat can cause accidents, but accidents in the back seat can cause kids The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. (Arthur C. Clarke) if you stand for nothing you're liable to fall for anything. If it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any at all! Just trying to plug away! --=======789B4C=======--