In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/19/2005
at 01:09 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The alternative are the systems evolving from the interactive,
>desktop paradigm ... which assume that the responsible person is
>right there and the system can always rely on a human for resolution
>rather than having it figured all out by the system.
Of course, in the real world the responsible person isn't even on the
same continent, and the person behind the keyboard not only doesn't
know the code intimately but doesn't even have access to it.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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