Re: The Million Dollar Solution

[dufresne () WINTERNET COM (Ron DuFresne)]

On Sun, 7 May 2000, Oystein Viggen wrote:

> Jeremy Speer spake thus:

        [SNIP]

> Bottom line is: As long as there are stupid people, the only choice is to
> make it "hard" for them to use that stupidity to ruin the day for
> others. I therefore would go for the "associate vbs and soforth with
> notepad/wordpad" any day. Non-stupid users would find a way around that
> anyway... :)

Which might be an easier solution then the real one, which is user
training.  Yet most solutions tried in at least a single user OS are going
to be gotten around, leaving folks back at step one:  Make our users near
to smart as they were 20-30 years ago whence they could make change
without the add of a machine.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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