Unifying ~/Desktop

Jason Katz-Brown jason at katzbrown.com
Thu Jun 13 03:29:51 BST 2002


2002 6月 11 火曜日 22:58、Eric Christopherson さんは書きました:

> > Not to mention the waste of space on the floppy disk.
> >
> > "Sorry - not enough room on drive to copy to."
> >
> > "But why? There's only one file, and it's taking up 7 megs!"
> >
> >
> > I think the trash-folder is much more logical. If I throw a piece of
> > paper into a trash can, it isn't copied somewhere behind my back. It's in
> > the trash can, and I can recycle it if I want, or retrieve it later. I
> > see no reason why a computer should not model this as it is in real life.
>
> I'm glad this subject came along. I've been thinking about it for a while
> here. Here are some new things I'd like to address, too.
>
> First, people worried about security and privacy probably aren't throwing
> things in the trash anyway, whether it be a real-world trash can or a
> digital one.
>
> Second, waste of space. How can 7 megs be taken up on a floppy?
>

of course, I meant 700 kilobytes.. or about half the space.

Jason




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