On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 07:03:38 -0400, Jay T. Blocksom
<usenet01+SPAMBLOCK@appropriate-tech.net> wrote:

>IOW, you want a "toaster" -- an "appliance" so brain-dead simple that any
>moron can use it without significant risk.


No, not at all. There are other alternatives for intelligent people
with the right imagination.

>Unfortunately for you, computers
>are NOT toasters, and I highly doubt they ever will be. We are, in fact,
>going in the opposite direction.


So they are not, and so we are going... And it is unfortunate for all
of us. Isn't this an outstanding opportunity for someone who has
enough knowhow and inventiveness to find another solution rather than
accept such a bleak conclusion?

T.
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Tony Roder, speaking his mind....