From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 107d55,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid107d55,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: Richie Bielak Subject: Re: Make what user wants? Date: 1997/09/26 Message-ID: <342BA9EA.429DA7DB@calfp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 275720068 References: <5vnat7$ncf$1@news2.digex.net> <341F97D4.543C@dgb.nl> <342841CF.2494@doc.csusb.edu> Organization: Multi-cellular Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.java.tech,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-09-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- -> Richie Bielak -> mailto: richieb@calfp.com -> www: http://www.netlabs.net/hp/richieb