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While we can hope that users use their computer in more intelligent ways, like in the past, people can only go so far. Programmers can ignores users if they want, but if they want their applications to be popular it helps if they listen to users. If they don't someone else will.
yeaaargh yes and no. Sure I agree with that, I cant disagree without being incredably stupid, but...
Im not convinced that people are even aware of what software they are using, especially on a system like the posix systems. By the time that you get to run an actual application (where everything everyone has been saying is completly valid about guis and so on) then you are allready running ten other programs let alone whatever interupts are set by the kernel at any point in time....
Hell, even software developers IGNORE 99% of what your computer is doing most of the time - its the very essence of abstraction in the first place.
J
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