Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!mailrus!cornell!rochester!udel!mmdf From: jdow%gryphon.cts.com@UDEL.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Mr. Pournelle is brain-dead. News at 11:00. Message-ID: <4465@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 88 23:01:29 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 65 Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer X2.00) with BSMTP id 5635; Sun, 02 Oct 88 01:09:22 EDT Received: from UDEL.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with TCP; Sun, 02 Oct 88 01:09:18 EDT Received: from Louie.UDEL.EDU by Louie.udel.EDU id ac01411; 1 Oct 88 20:16 EDT Received: from USENET by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa01298; 1 Oct 88 20:04 EDT From: "J. Dow" Subject: Re: Mr. Pournelle is brain-dead. News at 11:00. Message-ID: <7437@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 1 Oct 88 22:46:44 GMT Organization: Wizardess Designs, Hermosa Beach, Ca. To: amiga-relay@UDEL.EDU Sender: amiga-relay-request@UDEL.EDU In article <386@uwslh.UUCP> lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts) writes: >In article <70319@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes: >>In article <3060@hubcap.UUCP> disd@hubcap.UUCP (Gary Heffelfinger) writes: >>[Complains about Jerry Pournelles troubles with F/A-18 and draws the following >> conclusion.] >> >>Actually, his comments are quite to the point and show up a really poor >>policy on the part of EA. Here, their biggest competition is Jet from >>SubLOGIC and *that* isn't copy protected. So what's their problem? The >>fact that Jerry has trouble running a text editor without some serious >>handholding is well known. The problem is to assume he is unique. He isn't. >>Really stupid people use computer programs every day. There is no reason >>that it has to be any more difficult for them than it does for the rest of >>us computer "pros". > Now, what makes Mr. Pournelle so damned frustrating is that he is >not *really* a computer professional; instead, he just acts like one. Dr. Pournelle is indeed not a computer professional. He HAS been using personal computers (not just PClones) for many years now. He IS experienced. (He is the one of the Niven/Pournelle pair who is more facile with the computers inspite of Larry injecting most of the abstruse science aspects.) What you guys are missing here is this was a party. Jerry was NOT the person trying to use the wheel. He was watching a half dozen of his friends, ME INCLUDED, use that damn code wheel. In an exciting party setting the delays and frustrations using that wheel were unsupportable. *I* had trouble using the fool thing in the ambient lighting. It has all the attractiveness of three week dead hamsters camped two feet inside your mattress. It just DOES NOT work. (And *I* certainly RESENT the implication that because I cannot make that stupid wheel work in that party setting I am in some way stupid or dumb or otherwise less than competant dammit! I'd better cool off. You guys finally got MY goat because in tarring Jerry with THIS brush you are impunging MY abilities as well. You can just off on THAT one. {\,/} > >>--Chuck McManis >>uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com >>These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you. > > >-- >Christopher Lishka ...!{rutgers|ucbvax|...}!uwvax!uwslh!lishka >Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene lishka%uwslh.uucp@cs.wisc.edu >Immunology Section (608)262-1617 lishka@uwslh.uucp > ---- >"...Just because someone is shy and gets straight A's does not mean they won't >put wads of gum in your arm pits."