The crime of the Mac OS X Software Updates restart dialog
by Josh Staiger
Dear Apple,
Why do you insist on making the baby Jesus cry?
Why, oh why, do you not offer a "Restart Later" button in the dialog that appears after Software Update finishes its installations?
We are offered a choice of "Shut Down" or "Restart", both of which adversely impact all other operations that we happen to be performing with our computer at the time. Not only that, but Software Update runs at periodic intervals by itself in the background, increasing the chance that one *will* be doing something else in other applications at the time that Software Update issues it's edict that it is time to Shut Down or Restart.
Perhaps you would be interested in reading this book that I found. It's by a fellow named Inc. Apple Computer. Sounds like you would get along famously. Although, I'm told that he originally wrote this book in 1993, so perhaps you should attempt to locate him and ask him if there have been any advancements in UI design over the past ten odd years.
Love the PowerBook G4.
Tell Steve I said hi,
Josh
Update 11/18/04:
My desktop background is this photo, taken by Philip Geenspun in Malibu.