devongrrl opened this issue on Aug 21, 2002 ยท 50 posts
Allen9 posted Wed, 21 August 2002 at 2:43 PM
I always have to chuckle when I hear yet ANOTHER person bitching that people should be able to use "XYZ" software without EVER so much as glancing at a manual or ANY kind of instructions. There is NO software yet created that can do these hundreds of different things and is yet so wonderfully user-friendly that all you have to do is turn on the program and "bingo" you can do "anything". I'm another one who actually reads all the way thru a manual when I buy the software. At the time it doesn't mean much, but later when I have a problem, I usually can say "hey, I saw something about that, in was on a left-hand page about 3/4 of the way down" (or something like that). Even though a lot of it doesn't make sense that well on the first read, the concepts actually ENTER the brain and later when actually doing things, help make what's going on make some sense. All those who think ALL software should be 100% operable with absolutely NO manual OR instructions are wandering in dream-land. You'll get your wish when, and ONLY when, computers are fully telepathic, and can read your mind and decide what you want before even YOU know it. (And at that point, they'll probably decide they don't need US anymore.) Until then, get real!