David Schwartz wrote: <cut> > It's easy to point to things you think are mistakes and claim that if > you had been in charge of the world, those mistakes would not have been > made. If you are trying to balance completely different possible paths the > universe might have taken, you need to make sure to include everything on > both sides, and that's really really hard to do. > > Perhaps the desktop software is good enough that how much better it > would have been wouldn't make much difference. And perhaps the lack of > competition steered the innovators into other fields where their innovations > made huge differences. Perhaps not -- perhaps the desktop software we would > have had in a more competitive market would have made other people's lives > majorly better. Who knows? > > I don't think it's possible or sensible to try to have a reckoning of > this type. There are so many variables and unpredictable possibilities. > > DS > >
I agree that it is hard, nearly impossible, to make the _one_ best decision in a situation. However it is quit possible to not make the very obvious wrong decision. Just that it is very hard to hit a specific tree with a small handgun from a 2 mile distant, that is nearly impossible. However, just avoiding your feet should be doable. BTW, I think you are management material... -- mph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list