Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: How to make my java applets more user friendly Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:24:44 +0200 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <04c1fe18-b023-4f45-8fa3-3c2f78cba69e@googlegroups.com> <53b4ae7d$0$298$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <00019c29-614d-4cfc-aca8-4606bee766dd@googlegroups.com> <53b97808$0$291$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <1busiy74j2ogh$.1h0kq6udhfo0d$.dlg@40tude.net> <1m4pctdl5y966.127q4nobmd4s9.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Qiq/kk9RqUkwdG+8WfFUVg7Uh15NQNdTRcAVCa24SAdtHHmJ0= Cancel-Lock: sha1:4/15Jds+/8J049j6dFIiJ/7n5eo= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: <1m4pctdl5y966.127q4nobmd4s9.dlg@40tude.net> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29034 On 09.07.2014 20:01, Joerg Meier wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:33:30 +0200, Robert Klemme wrote: > >> On 08.07.2014 12:37, Joerg Meier wrote: >>> In fact, I used to host a game through Java Webstart, and the #1 support >>> question was something amongst the lines of "I heard Java was insecure, >>> can't you give me an exe file to download". People are idiots. >> We are also people. Ergo: we are idiots. And I don't mean that >> ironically: we also have our weak spots. > > Yes, but the thing is, groups tend to be dumber than the individuals that > make it up. It's probably something about unreflectedly mimmicking your > social peers. If I were to guess, I'd say it's some sort of evolutionary > mechanism to make sure only a minimal amount of tribe members fall into the > same hole or drink the same spoiled water. I'm not sure that herd instinct helps prevent those mishaps. Could well be that because of it everybody drinks the same water only to find out later it was spoiled. Btw. other than it may look like on first sight my snappy remark was neither about dumbness nor about groups. It's about people stating other people are idiots. Idiocy is ubiquitous and you employ your flavor of it as surely as I do. :-) Cheers robert