Re: Apple?

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From: R. Tang
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 16:58

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In article <40oubi$5kr@sundog.tiac.net>,
Jim Williams  <williams@tiac.net> wrote:
>>cast parts, fine, but why is is NECESSARY to know the innards of a car? A
>>computer is the same way. If CMT and PMT are the same from the user's
>>perspective, who cares?
>Your analysis is seriously flawed here.  The computer is not like a car.
>A car replaces physical work, a computer replaces mental work -- and the
>computer is replacing more mental work every year.  The user who doesn't
>care how their computer does what it does will end up being replaced by
>the computer.  

	Oh, PLEASE.

	The computer replaces REPETITIVE NON-CREATIVE mental work. It 
frees a person to do their job.

>Therefore I care very much what is going on inside my
>computer.  I want the computer to be my friend, not my owner, nor my
>replacement.

	Ah, admiting, you don't creative work, hm?
-- 
Roger Tang, gwangung@u.washington.edu, Artistic Director  PC Theatre

	The most unAmerican thing you can say is "He/she makes too much money."

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From: gwangung@u.washington.edu (R. Tang)
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Subject: Re: Apple?
Date: 15 Aug 1995 16:58:22 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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