In article <[log in to unmask]>, Bruce Toback
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
 
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>Nobody in their right mind expects a computer to be easy to use, or to
>provide reliable error messages, or to preserve the user's data above all
>else. Oh, sure, a FEW people still want that kind of stuff. But they're
>mostly the eccentrics who keep Rolls Royce and Lexus in business. By and
>large, a crash here and there or a lost file or an inexplicable
>computational result are just part of everyday living, like dead
>batteries.
 
I looked very hard for a :) in there somewhere but I didn't find one.
 
Maybe I'm being touchy, but if that is how you feel, I think you need a
career change.
 
Yeah, we cop-out to that lame excuse sometimes, but the user ALWAYS knows
that we are doing it.    They tell somebody, who tells somebody......and
quite soon you no longer have respect.
 
I hope you were just kidding, as this NG does influence people.
 
Maybe I just had a bad day.   Or you did.