Re: Stupid Users

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From: jens... Jens Tingleff
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 07:14

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sau...@bbn.com (Steve Austin) writes:

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The awful truth is that us over-intelligent ;-) users are often too snotty 
for our own good. I used to kid that the only reason that there was 
a BIG RED lamp signaling power on was that the non-expert user could actually
see that the darned thing was turned on. This became somewhat less 
funny after I once spent 10 minutes pondering over *why* a piece of equipment
didn't seem to respond too much; the power was of. SIGH.

Jens
Jens Tingleff MSc EE, Institute of Computer Science, Copenhagen University
Snail mail: DIKU Universitetsparken 1 DK2100 KBH O
"It never runs around here; it just comes crashing down"
	apologies to  Dire Straits

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