From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <43ECCBC9.4020209@village.com> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:22:17 -0500 From: Wes Kussmaul User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] More 'Sam I am' References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: f9aaed08-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > I don't think it is only a function of the smarts. It also has to do > with "judgement" or "a sense of beauty" or "good taste", or whatever > describes the sense one innately has or develops through > experience that says of all the possible ways this is best, and it > is proven right. Fair enough. I use "smarts" as a catchword. Some have all those attributes plus some integrity, some don't. Lots of=20 lousy design is the result of deliberate attempts by perhaps "smart"=20 people to control mindshare and lock in customers regardless of whether=20 it makes their lives more difficult. My point is that that can change. --=20 Wes Kussmaul CIO The Village Group 738 Main Street Waltham, MA 02451 781-647-7178 My uncle likes to say that the world=92s biggest troubles started when th= e=20 serpent said, =93Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people=20 collectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it=92s th= e=20 same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.=94 I don=92t get the= =20 serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a=20 bit obscure. P.K. Iggy _How I Like Fixed The Internet_ (Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009 and the prosperity that followed)