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* On 2004.07.19, in <20040719163425.GA19046@xxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx>, * "Leon Brocard" <acme@xxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > So I try Eclipse [which is an IDE apparently], and lo and behold it > "import files" somewhere else and wants to be the only program in > charge of holding a copy of them somewhere. Why oh why? I mean, I know This is what the World Wide Waste has taught us: it's okay to build a one-stop shop for everything you think the user wants to do. It's okay to assume that your program is all the user will ever want or need, because for at least one user, it is. I blame users. The software is just being economical. Ideologically, the WWW couldn't have happened at a better time than at the critical mass of the superconglomeration of industry and retail. The only surprise is that Microsoft doesn't have a controlling share of Wal-Mart. Software designers, stop building IKEA. -- -D. dgc@xxxxxxxx.xxx NSIT::ENSS It's the protocol, stupid.
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