From: Richie Bielak <richieb@calfp.com>
Subject: Re: Make what user wants?
Date: 1997/09/26
Date: 1997-09-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <342BA9EA.429DA7DB@calfp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 342841CF.2494@doc.csusb.edu
Dick Botting JB341 wrote:
>
>
> The user asked that the new system print out on paper
> about twenty pages of figures. We said OK.... Are you
> sure that you want twenty pages offigures. The Client
> said yes...
[...]
> By the way... we got the output down to a single line...
>
I worry how much information is being lost, when 20 pages of
figures are reduced to a single line. By looking at those
pages the users could have possibly spotted thing that
now are invisible - people are great pattern recognizers
and computers are not.
...richie
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-17 0:00 The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake) Ell
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Mark Wilden
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Make what user wants? Bert Bril
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Rick Price
[not found] ` <bengtk-1809971106150001@sl86.modempool.kth.se>
1997-09-23 0:00 ` Dick Botting JB341
1997-09-26 0:00 ` Richie Bielak [this message]
1997-09-26 0:00 ` the_walrus
1997-09-30 0:00 ` "Paul E. Bennett"
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