On 1 Mar 2010 13:07:29 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On 3/1/2010 2:24 PM, Bill Fairchild wrote:
The flip side of this coin is that we who build the technical
guts of products all too easily can become arrogant. If
there weren't dumb end users, we developers would have much
: Monday, March 01, 2010 8:23 AM
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Subject: OT: need for SmartUser?
This is not really about IBM mainframes. But it is, in a sense, about
computing in general. And, perhaps, why mainframes are viewed as archaic. This
is a slashdot article. The person appears to be asking
This is not really about IBM mainframes. But it is, in a sense, about computing
in general. And, perhaps, why mainframes are viewed as archaic. This is a
slashdot article. The person appears to be asking a serious question. But, how
stupid should computer users be allowed to become?
This can't help but make me remember -
You try to make things idiot proof, you just get a better idiot.
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:23 AM, McKown, John
john.mck...@healthmarkets.comwrote:
This is not really about IBM mainframes. But it is, in a sense, about
computing in general. And, perhaps,
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McKown, John
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Subject: OT: need for SmartUser?
This is not really about IBM mainframes. But it is, in a sense, about computing
in general. And, perhaps, why mainframes are viewed as archaic
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This is not really about IBM mainframes
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Kelman, Tom
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On 1 Mar 2010 07:55:11 -0800, thomas.kel...@commercebank.com (Kelman,
Tom) wrote:
The big problem is that no one knows how to read, or write, anymore.
This is always a complaint. And by always, I go back as far as
recorded history exists.
I was at a well known, excellent engineering school
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at 08:23 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said:
This is not really about IBM mainframes. But it is, in a sense, about
computing in general. And, perhaps, why mainframes are viewed as archaic.
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[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
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McKown, John
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Subject: OT: need for SmartUser?
This is not really about IBM mainframes. But it is, in a sense, about
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of McKown, John
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 8:23 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: OT: need for SmartUser?
This is not really about IBM mainframes. But it is, in a sense, about
computing in general. And, perhaps, why mainframes are viewed as
archaic
Too bad there's no vaccie for Stupid Syndrome. :-__
Too bad END USER is not a valid instruction on any platform!
Ignorance is curable.
Stupidity is forever!
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Did the people understand the postings as written? That is the acid test.
Legal papers get edited and checked and re-checked - which doesn't mean
they are unambiguously clear.
Time to fire some grade school teachers and get the rest back to teaching some
basic skills.
Hear! Hear!
When I was in elementary/secondary school, my non-English teachers still graded
my English on all assignments.
When my sons went through, it didn't matter!
I complained to my younger's
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Too bad there's no vaccie for Stupid Syndrome. :-__
Too bad END USER is not a valid instruction on any platform!
Ignorance is curable.
Stupidity is forever!
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Too busy driving to stop for gas
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Too true. Too bad we can't do to our users what a DI can do to their
recruits to get them to shape up. (drop and give me 50, you button
clicking idiot!!)
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Ted MacNEIL
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Too bad there's
The flip side of this coin is that we who build the technical guts of products
all too easily can become arrogant.
Possibly.
If there weren't dumb end users, we developers would have much smaller incomes.
I don't have a problem with most users.
But, there are always a couple that prove the
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[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Fairchild
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 1:25 PM
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The flip side of this coin is that we who build the technical
guts
On 3/1/2010 2:24 PM, Bill Fairchild wrote:
The flip side of this coin is that we who build the technical
guts of products all too easily can become arrogant. If
there weren't dumb end users, we developers would have much
smaller incomes.
Several years ago I worked for an ISV whose most
I think I may know who you are talking about ;-) I assume this was the same
ISV you and I worked together at?
Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net 3/1/2010 4:06 PM
Several years ago I worked for an ISV whose most valuable
employee worked in the Quality Assurance group. She had a knack
for
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:34:59 -0500, Scott Rowe wrote:
I think I may know who you are talking about ;-) I assume this was the same
ISV you and I worked together at?
Gerhard Postpischil 3/1/2010 4:06 PM
Several years ago I worked for an ISV whose most valuable
employee worked in the Quality
From: McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
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Sent: Mon, March 1, 2010 8:23:23 AM
Subject: OT: need for SmartUser?
This is not really about IBM mainframes. But it is, in a sense, about computing
in general. And, perhaps, why mainframes
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