BankWest (was: Re: [plug] Standards)

[Rennie]

Nobody has ever gone broke under-estimating the intelligence of humans.

Not my quote...can't remember whose.

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:21 pm, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 March 2004 21:03, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 20:02, James Devenish wrote:
> > > In message <200403231955.02464 at death.2.spammers>
> > >
> > > on Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 07:55:02PM +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> > > > requested that I email program source code in DOC format
> > >
> > > I adore (loath) that nomenclature -- "DOC" isn't even the name of a
> > > format! Nor are "TIF" and "JPG"!
> >
> > Here, I'm lucky if I get the 'format' on the end. "Craig, I've got a DOC
> > from <customer>... they say it is their ad with their logos in it, but
> > when I open it up it looks weird," or often "Craig, I've got this DOC
> > logo - can you save it so Production can open it?".
> >
> > *arrrggghhhh*.
>
> Take a deep breath. Smile. Walk away. Else it'll end in bloodshed.
>
> > The number of people who, when asked for an image file, drag an image
> > into MS Word and email the resulting MS Word document never ceases to
> > astound me.
>
> Because that's the sequence of things that they've learnt in the
> past. Monkey see; monkey do.
>
> People in general are unable to see the distinction between the
> data and the programs used to handle it. Never mind explaining
> formats and protocols.
>
> That's why they keep using OE to read email. That's why they keep
> using Word.
>
> Even people with "IT training" frequently behave the same way.
> Monkey see; monkey do.
>
> Encouraging people to be stupid and to strive towards mediocrity is
> what got M$ where it is nowadays. It's far harder to extract
> megabucks from a few smart people, than a few bucks from several
> million fools.
>
> > > > Which I'll probably do exactly as requested; turn it into a JPEG,
> > > > then paste it into a document with OpenOffice, then save as Wierd
> > > > format. :-)
> >
> > I suspect the result will be "your Linux-format DOC file crashed my
> > computer..."
>
> That's just too easy to do. No challenge at all; given that M$-hit
> loads the file as a memory image and then dives naively into the
> content.