{"id":480,"date":"2003-05-28T12:50:27","date_gmt":"2003-05-28T16:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=480"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"automatic_switching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/28\/automatic_switching\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic Switching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latext.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/27.html#a310\">Pierre Igot<\/a>:\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.latext.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/27.html#a310\">\n\nRight now, I&rsquo;m seeing a <em>pattern<\/em> in Mac OS X and in Apple&rsquo;s applications that I really don&rsquo;t like: something akin to <strong>systematic UI intrusiveness when background processes fail<\/strong>.&hellip;Apple wants us to adopt Mac OS X because it&rsquo;s an advanced, multithreading, multitasking system. Fine. But then please design Mac OS X so that it handles multiple tasks more gracefully! I am definitely a multitasker and I hate having to wait for a process to finish before I can switch to something else. Mac OS X lets me switch. It shouldn&rsquo;t force me to switch back whenever there is an error or failure!\n\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Igot: Right now, I&rsquo;m seeing a pattern in Mac OS X and in Apple&rsquo;s applications that I really don&rsquo;t like: something akin to systematic UI intrusiveness when background processes fail.&hellip;Apple wants us to adopt Mac OS X because it&rsquo;s an advanced, multithreading, multitasking system. Fine. But then please design Mac OS X so that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}