Moving open files

Bart Silverstrim bsilver at chrononomicon.com
Wed Jul 9 01:36:07 UTC 2008



Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/7/8 Kim Goldenberg <kgoldenberg at oit.state.nj.us>:
>> People seem to forget that having a computer is just like having a staff of
>> people to do you bidding for you. Thirty years ago you would have a real,
>> live secretary or office manager doing the same things you now have your
>> computer do. Sometimes they would protect you from such things as happened
>> to the file, other times, not.
>>
> 
> No matter how much you insist upon the secretary analogy the fact is
> that the user sees himself as the only entity in the office.

Then the problem is that your user is simply wrong.

You can declare yourself King of Naples. Doesn't make it true. I don't 
think it matters so much what the user *thinks* is going on, it's not 
what the situation is.




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