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From: Chris Humphries <chris@unixfu.net>
Subject: Re: [OT] Systems Software Research is Irrelevant
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:51:35 -0400
Date: 2004-10-06T07:51:35-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4163DC47.1090505@unixfu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <LUF8d.105186$dP1.388488@newsc.telia.net>

Bj�rn Persson wrote:
> Rob Pike wrote:
> 
>> The Web has dominated how systems present and use information: 
> 
>  > the model is forced interaction; the user must go get it. Let's
>  > go back to having the data come to the user instead.
> 
> Huh? Did he suggest to replace the Web with spam?! Or TV??
> 

I think the point is that it hasn't even been thought of.
Of course it not being offensive to the user would be a
primary concern. I do not know of any geek that would
advocate spam.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-06 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-05 19:16 [OT] Systems Software Research is Irrelevant Chris Humphries
2004-10-05 19:36 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-10-06 16:30   ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-06 17:33     ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-06 19:41       ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-10-07 16:23         ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-05 23:13 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-06 11:51   ` Chris Humphries [this message]
2004-10-06 13:41 ` Marc A. Criley
2004-10-06 18:06   ` Jeffrey Carter
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