{"id":405,"date":"2026-01-03T20:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/piers-anthony-xanth-23-xone-of-contention-anthony-piers\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:37:42","slug":"piers-anthony-xanth-23-xone-of-contention-anthony-piers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/piers-anthony-xanth-23-xone-of-contention-anthony-piers\/","title":{"rendered":"Piers, Anthony – Xanth 23 – Xone of contention – Anthony, Piers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Edsel struggled with the program, but it just wouldn’t jell. The problem
\nreally was in the software, which was unusually unintelligible. How could he
\nmake it seem easy and user friendly, when its programmers had evidently labored
\ndecades to make it difficult and hostile! This was of course how he earned his
\nliving designing software to make other software seem nice. But in this case he
\nneeded to tweak a default in the computer operating system, and access to the
\nkey level was barred. That was the fundamental bone of contention.<\/p>\n

“Damn you, Macrohard,” he swore softly. “Just once, couldn’t
\nyou give a person a break? I’m not trying to steal Doors from you, just to put a
\nspecial function on the keypad ‘Enter’ key so Grundy Golem can work independent
\nof the mouse. There are folk who don’t like being chained to the mouse, you know
\nthis isn’t Dizzy World. Would it hurt you so bad to let someone have it his own
\nway for a change! But of course he knew the answer yes it would truly pain the
\ncompany to let a user ever have it his own way. Macrohard never wanted anyone to
\nforget for half an instant exactly who was the master, and who was the least
\nimportant person in the universe. It couldn’t stop third party programmers like
\nEdsel from trying to alleviate things but it could and did make sure that they
\nwere unable to make any significant improvements. So the bone became a whole
\nzone of contention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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