CompuServe Messages

Products of engineering don't need Samuel Johnson type "critics," they need Ralph Nader type "consumer reporters." I want to know "Does the worksheet add numbers up correctly? Do the Galagans show any signs of adapting to the player's strategy? Does pushing forward on the joystick nose the Transformer down?" There's no role for Angst or Epatez le Bourgeiosie in software/hardware reviews. It's strictly does the gadgetry wink and grin according to documentation. An engineer reads Hamlet and says "If he was so doggone depressed, why didn't he just go for a long walk in the woods? Denmark's beautiful in the summer. Yer Dad's dead, can't bring him back, just Get Over It, Hamlet, stop brooding about it, or go get drunk, but geez lighten up before you drive your uncle nuts." The engineer is Missing The Point. A poet installs a hard disk and says "Given that human beings, after four billion years of continual trial and error on the immense gamefield of evolutionary biology, Still Sicken, It is hardly surprising that this drive, Younger by Far than the species that made it, Spends more time in the Hospital Than in Read/Write mode; And it is leisurely, so very, very leisurely … The poet is Missing The Point, as well.