Reply to post: Re: Every time we make it idiot proof they design a better idiot.

Tech can endure the most inhospitable environments: Space, underwater, down t'pit... even hairdressers

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Re: Every time we make it idiot proof they design a better idiot.

Not my father, but my younger brother. Back in the day when mice were new, and had real balls, I remember most of us in IT being almost evangelistic about the amazingly intuitive way you could work with them.

Until I introduced my brother, a professional sound engineer, to Software Audio Workshop (remember that?).

The sight of him helplessly sliding the mouse around, sometimes with both hands, as his brain tried to connect what was happening on the monitor (in the vertical) to what he was doing with his hands (in the horizontal) made me realise there's intuitive and there's intuitive.

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