On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Dimi Paun <dimi(a)lattica.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 02:40 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> You are being self contradictory. If you don't have any hard numbers,
> you cannot actually claim a majority at all and yes, finding hard
> numbers is difficult if not impossible and doesn't really translate
> into usability anyway. I wouldn't blame you for this.
But this is exactly what drives people up the wall:
- Please change X
- Why would we, how can we know if other like it like that?
- Look, there's plenty of indication on the web that that's the case
- Pfff, even 95% numbers are not good, we want HARD numbers!
- ... but ... that's nearly impossible to get :(
- Sure, we know it's impossible, that's why we asked for them. Duh!
exactly right
No matter on each side of the debate you are, you must admit this is
insanely frustrating! This is not constructive in any way. Why don't
you have the guts to come out and say:
"Fsck off, this is the way we like it. End of discussion."
I wish they would say that. but then again that would have proven me
being right with all my "rants" about dictatorship which they probably
try to avoid.
Why mimic this lame community involvement?!? Don't you realize people
know when they are taken for fools?
like we are now for about 200 posts.
And you know what? We *have* hard numbers! We know quite well the
percentage of people using Windows and MacOSX. It is close to 95%. Every
time I pointed that out it was completely ignored.
I'm not going to give an argument against it ^_^ i agree with you on
all your points
I have presented a fairly tight argument why the default was not chosen
wisely. Did I receive *one* decent counter argument? Stuff along the
lines of "Come back with several solid usability studies" is just
ludicrous.
that seems to be the way this "Meritocracy" likes to work.
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Dimi Paun <dimi(a)lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.
I am kinda stunned by the divided community in this subject..
specially since probably about 90 - 95% is in favor of the change and
roughly 5% isn't and yet they fail to admit that they made a "small"
mistake 4 years ago. interesting and sad to see. This whole discussion
gave me a good insight in all of that.
I however don't intent to put more heat in this discussion so will be
a little more friendly in my responses now (and shorter ones).
Mark