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I'm not saying that's what I would want, but have you ever watched a non-techie use the computer? Just looked over their shoulder and watched them? It's horri
by pchristensen 19y ago
I'm not saying that's what I would want, but have you ever watched a non-techie use the computer? Just looked over their shoulder and watched them? It's horrifying! I can only watch my wife for about 2 minutes before I start belting out things like "You don't need to double click links on the web!" or "If you double click on an app, you have to give it a couple seconds to load or else you're making the problem worse!"
What a smart OS would do was watch you for a while and notice what you do, and then make a decision based on the statistics: let's say 85% of the time, your keys are in the vide poche and you find them immediately, and the other 15% of the time they're somewhere else and it takes you 5 minutes to find them. Then it would warp them to the right place (the place your actions showed them was right) with a note and an option to "always do this". I shudder to think of MSFT's implementation of this (Clippy), but if a smart company along the lines of Humanized did it, and used statistics instead of some clever algorithm (didn't we just read about Google doing that?), it could be a godsend for average users.