Um, No. Making the information available is not the same as forcing users to understand it. The intel debacle was more a public relations problem than a technical problem. If Intel had come clean in the first place, they probally wouldn't have needed the recall.
The real problem is corporations are structured to put profits ahead of all else. If the officers don't perform they're replaced. So you get Lays and Skillings.
Check out the Documentary _The Corporation_. They analyze the 'personality' of a typical corporation, and conclude that it has a psychopathic behavioral disorder.
In an effort to hand-hold the newbies, OS developers (particular illy a very popular group of them from the state of Washington) have, time and time again, actually made things more difficult than they need to be.
I agree completely. This is an interface design issue, and not a problem with the users (for once), or even necessarily a problem with the underlying software.
Wisconsin's Democratic governor thinks it's not fair that tangible items get taxed while downloads, like music, ebooks, software, etc., go completely untaxed
Not only that, but TurboTax comes with a guarantee that "calculations are accurate" if your FOSS f's up, you'd be pretty much SOL. For my part, I think that's worth the $70.
UltraEdit is hands-down my favorite editor. It carries a $40 price tag, but It is well worth it IMO.
I also use Beyond Compare for visual diffs; its a great tool with lots of filtering options.
I know what you mean about the hunting and pecking. When I learned Dvorak, I got to the point where I successfully de-programmed my querty habits without being very proficent in Dvorak. As I was in school at the time I didn't have the patience to deal with this new problem, and quickly tired of the experiment.
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Yeah... I was espically ticked off when Peter Jackson released _Fellowship of the Ring_ and then two months later realeasd the "extended edition".
I think that was 'Majestic'.
Um, No. Making the information available is not the same as forcing users to understand it. The intel debacle was more a public relations problem than a technical problem. If Intel had come clean in the first place, they probally wouldn't have needed the recall.
The real problem is corporations are structured to put profits ahead of all else. If the officers don't perform they're replaced. So you get Lays and Skillings. Check out the Documentary _The Corporation_. They analyze the 'personality' of a typical corporation, and conclude that it has a psychopathic behavioral disorder.
Shit may happen, but companies still have to be held responsible for their negligence.
In an effort to hand-hold the newbies, OS developers (particular illy a very popular group of them from the state of Washington) have, time and time again, actually made things more difficult than they need to be. I agree completely. This is an interface design issue, and not a problem with the users (for once), or even necessarily a problem with the underlying software.
This sounds an awful lot like hibert's program, which Godel showed to be impossible via the incompleteness theorem.
Not only that, but TurboTax comes with a guarantee that "calculations are accurate" if your FOSS f's up, you'd be pretty much SOL. For my part, I think that's worth the $70.
UltraEdit is hands-down my favorite editor. It carries a $40 price tag, but It is well worth it IMO. I also use Beyond Compare for visual diffs; its a great tool with lots of filtering options.
It's still dishonest; if they had nothing to hide the public page would look the same as the search engine page.
I know what you mean about the hunting and pecking. When I learned Dvorak, I got to the point where I successfully de-programmed my querty habits without being very proficent in Dvorak. As I was in school at the time I didn't have the patience to deal with this new problem, and quickly tired of the experiment.