{"id":550,"date":"2005-11-22T13:37:20","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T05:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=550"},"modified":"2007-10-10T01:04:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T17:04:33","slug":"restart-now-or-restart-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/550","title":{"rendered":"Restart now… or restart later."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Restart now… restart later.<\/p>\n

The existence of these two buttons have been talked about in countless blogs online. <\/p>\n

Mostly rants. <\/p>\n

Some of them even strongly believe that a good OS should not require a restart everytime an update has been done, or a new software has been installed. <\/p>\n

(I disagree though. That’s why new OSes\/applications require higher and faster specs… so you can reboot faster.) <\/p>\n

Personally I don’t have anything against these two command buttons. The problem lies when they appear too often. There’s no problem seeing them once after a certain installation, but having them pop up every five minutes or so is a different story.<\/p>\n

An entirely different story.<\/p>\n

Why not add that checkbox that says ‘Do not notify me again for five Earth years.’?<\/p>\n

I don’t have problems when I’m encoding documents or spreadsheets… no problems even if it interrupts my comic babes surfin<\/a>‘… or when I’m coding.<\/p>\n

I can’t imagine a programmer’s world with no interruptions, no phone rings, no distracting sounds, cubicles near your playing love songs or any form of interruptions.<\/p>\n

That’s a boring world. It will lead to a robotic atmosphere creating bug-less softwares. (Bug-less?! The software industry would probably mature at the age of 2 and end at the age of 5 (Bugs are what keep us alive.)) <\/p>\n

Restart now. Restart later. <\/p>\n

It is when I am fighting swarms of alien invasions, kicking some chimeran-ceramic-coated alien butts about to initialize some wormhole coordinates and jumpgate sequences in an undisclosed sector, that I don’t need those two buttons interrupting my quest to save the world.<\/p>\n

It’s my human arse that gets kicked every time I pause just to click ‘Restart later.’<\/p>\n

And these are intelligent lifeforms we are dealing with here. After a couple of interruptions, they can calculate already the amount of time in between pauses and initiate their attack process in that window.<\/p>\n

So please, for the good of humanity… drop the timer or include that ‘Do not notify me again in five Earth years’ checkbox.<\/p>\n

Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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