Lusethropic Principles
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The Strong Lusethropic Principle states: "The more idiot proof the software, the more it encourages the user to be careless and not think. Therefore, idiot-proof software actually encourages, contributes, and actually CAUSES lusers to be stupid." The Weak Lusethropic Principle states: "As more idiot-proof software becomes avalable, more idiots are able to use computers. Idiot-proof software did not make or cause computer lusers; it simple allowed lusers to use computers where they could not before."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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The Strong Lusethropic Principle states: "The more idiot proof the software, the more it encourages the user to be careless and not think. Therefore, idiot-proof software actually encourages, contributes, and actually CAUSES lusers to be stupid." The Weak Lusethropic Principle states: "As more idiot-proof software becomes avalable, more idiots are able to use computers. Idiot-proof software did not make or cause computer lusers; it simple allowed lusers to use computers where they could not before."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote:
As more idiot-proof software becomes avalable, more idiots are able to use computers.
A water-proof object resists water. So, shouldn't an idiot proof program resist idiots? :laugh:
Sure, but the universe has not invented idiot-proof software yet.
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Sure, but the universe has not invented idiot-proof software yet.
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Dave Kreskowiak -
The Strong Lusethropic Principle states: "The more idiot proof the software, the more it encourages the user to be careless and not think. Therefore, idiot-proof software actually encourages, contributes, and actually CAUSES lusers to be stupid." The Weak Lusethropic Principle states: "As more idiot-proof software becomes avalable, more idiots are able to use computers. Idiot-proof software did not make or cause computer lusers; it simple allowed lusers to use computers where they could not before."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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The Strong Lusethropic Principle states: "The more idiot proof the software, the more it encourages the user to be careless and not think. Therefore, idiot-proof software actually encourages, contributes, and actually CAUSES lusers to be stupid." The Weak Lusethropic Principle states: "As more idiot-proof software becomes avalable, more idiots are able to use computers. Idiot-proof software did not make or cause computer lusers; it simple allowed lusers to use computers where they could not before."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
Fascinating, Dan, and +5. Great quote from Sarah Hoyt ! When I was at Adobe on the Illustrator 3.2, and 5.0 teams, (and informally worked under-the-hood, on revising PhotoShop's original color-separation code handed-down in inscrutable PostScript by God Knoll himself, to try and make it understandable/maintainable by mere mortals), there was a distinct philosophy to not prevent users from doing stupid things by elaborate code. Perhaps reflective of the unique role of such specialized content-creation software, and assumptions one could make about the modal purchaser/user ? But perhaps it is geek-arrogance that persists in using the word "idiot" in terms of software users (remember the old saw from the hey-daze of "C" qua religion that "real programmers don't each quiche" ?). And time, now, for "idiot" to fade away ? And be replaced by "content consumers" who want "seamless access" to what they want ... wherever they are ... asap ? If I have ever seen an "OS" designed for idiots content-consumers: that would be "Metro" :) best, Bill the Fossil
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Sure, but the universe has not invented idiot-proof software yet.
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Dave KreskowiakI would say, what the universe does, is to provide better idiots to mess up with the softwares
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