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From: speaker@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: User-Friendly Re-Defined Access-Efficient
Message-ID: <2426@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Sep-83 20:18:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  5 20:18:51 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Sep-83 04:56:08 EDT
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To: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: User-Friendly Re-Defined Access-Efficient
References: ittvax.985 <989@ittvax.UUCP>, <2378@umcp-cs.UUCP>

What constitutes "user-friendly" is really up to the individual.
Granted, most people probably respond better to a machine that
is 'friendly'.  This is because the machine is generating all of
the social cues that we would expect from someone who is polite
and helpful.  You know, like Manners the Butler.

Personally, I don't care how freindly the machine is.  I get
ticked off when the system tells me, "I can't let you do that
Dave, because you're liable to hurt yourself."  Gad...the
last thing I need is some smart-ass systems programmer in the
sub-basement telling me I have to kow-tow to the system!

That's what bugs me about VMS.  DEC must have imported a bunch
of Pierson's Pupeteers to do all the work on that one 'cause
it SCREAMS paranoia.

						- Speaker
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This must be hell...all I can see are flames... towering flames!