Small Problem vs Tip of Iceberg
Small Problem vs Tip of Iceberg
- Subject: Small Problem vs Tip of Iceberg
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:37:58 -0500
Subject: Re: Get list of desktops? On Jul 19, 2013, at 9:27 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
> To date, we lost:
[A list of 18 complaints]
> So, I beg to differ with you that there are benefits in the new versions of the Mac OS and many products. Apple is destroying the computer we loved to use. The last two releases have shown that more time has been spent putting in useless animated effects - that we can't turn off - than making the Mac OS a usable and fast system. And if I could talk about the latest one, if I knew anything about it, I would suspect more of the same, or even much worse.
This reminded me of how I learned the difference between a small problem and the tip of an iceberg.
Once upon a time, long, long ago (in 1965), when I was in the US Army, I was assigned to travel to a NATO artillery unit to participate in a scheduled maintenance test on the pointy end of a large missile. As the test began, they could not find a necessary tool that should have been instantly available. After a half-hour delay, they found the tool and the test was completed.
This seemed to me to be a small problem, but other events during the test made me suspicious that there might be more to this problem. It couldn't hurt, so I reported the problem.
Two weeks later, I learned that high ranking commanders had been relieved from duty.
I have complained here, after every Mountain Lion update, that AppleScript's 'launch' command has not yet been fixed.
I know it's just a small problem, but I can't help but wonder if it's the tip of an iceberg.
After reading Alex's list of complaints, I am beginning to strongly favor the "tip of the iceberg" conclusion.
The difference between a small problem and the tip of an iceberg is … small.
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