On 2009-01-14, Douglas St.Clair <[email protected]> wrote: > Grant, Grant, Grant, > > Calm down.
OK, I took a few deep breaths. > There's been some miscommunication. You wrote, "Don't you > think that assuming the user doesn't know what they're typing > is a little insulting?" sure if you as the user was what I was > referring to. I would think it a little insulting no matter who the user is. > But I was referring to the DEFAULT choice. Somewhere along the > line the choice was made to default to dates. I agree it seems > a little obscure, but what the heck that's what they chose and > in that context my comment, "As assumptions go it isn't the > worst possible choice. <grin>" seems to be to be pretty > innocuous. > > Feel better now? To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Why does OpenOffice keep converting things to "dates" in tables? In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> In gmane.comp.openoffice.general, you wrote: > Grant, Grant, Grant, > > Calm down. There's been some miscommunication. You wrote, "Don't you > think that assuming the user doesn't know what they're typing is a > little insulting?" sure if you as the user was what I was referring > to. But I was referring to the DEFAULT choice. Somewhere along the > line the choice was made to default to dates. I agree it seems a > little obscure, but what the heck that's what they chose and in that > context my comment, "As assumptions go it isn't the worst possible > choice. <grin>" seems to be to be pretty innocuous. > > Feel better now? Sorry for sounding irate. I've been forced to use MS Windows quite a bit for the past week or so, and I've grown pretty frustrated with software than insists on guessing what I want to do rather than just doing what I tell it to do. Personally, I don't ever expect a program to auto-magically guess what I mean when I type something. When using a word processor, I expect what I type to show up on the screen -- I'm just very surprised that's that's not a reasonable assumption. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! ... I want a COLOR at T.V. and a VIBRATING BED!!! visi.com -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Am I SHOPLIFTING? at visi.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
