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Are users getting Dumber?

5 Nov 2001 to 11 Nov 2001 As software developers we must ensure our applications are easy to use for the general user. Sometimes though we just don't get it right. Is it us, or is it them?

Text entry answers for sorted by frequency of occurrance.

(1) All your base are belong to us.
(1) Both users and programmers getting lazier
(1) c++ source code
(1) c-isam
(1) com reference stdmethod passing
(1) Computers are now more accesible to a larger base of pc-illeterate people. So therefore we need to make better interfaces.
(1) Csocket
(1) embed activex controls inside java gui
(1) I think user learns better with better interface
(1) If God wanted all people to be Computer literate(?), we would all have been born with computer degrees ;)
(1) mci
(1) mcse
(1) msiinstallproduct
(1) New technologies like skins and multiple ways to perform the same task are making users confused with the number of different situations they find themselves in.
(1) no money for educating users means a harder time for developpers
(1) People are stupid
(1) people that have trouble with computers are being forced to use computers
(1) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rich Cook
(1) The diffenrences of users levels are bigger
(1) The OS takes care of this not the programmer.
(1) There are more users and the average computer literacy is about the same.
(1) User are absolute idiots.
(1) Users are dumbassess
(1) Users are getting better and so are programmers
(1) Users are just expecting our applications to be smarter
(1) Users are not getting Dumber, but users always Dumb
(1) vb
(1) visual c
(1) What is a computer?
(1) With the advance ment in technology more demands from users is but natural...