Owain Sutton wrote:
Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Exactly. That is why it was a stupid question. One really
needs to try
them out and come to their own conclusions based on how
they do things.
And here all my teachers told me there were no stupid questions. :-(
In defense of the question, he's really asking for opinions from
"experts" in the field, which I would think many of us would
do before
leaping in to some product. I know I ask my mechanic before I go car
shopping. Imagine how much business I'd give him in the future if he
told me "That's a stupid question -- go test drive them all
and buy the
one you like."
OK: how about if you asked him 'which car is the fastest?'
Do you mean around the Monaco circuit, a two mile oval, or an off-road
rally?
Which I wouldn't ask him unless speed were an issue for me (with 55/65
MPH speed limit, fast isn't an issue). But I would ask his opinion
about how the cars I had thought about handled, what sorts of repairs
they generally need and how much they cost, which models need more
repairs than others, which had the longest life. Things within his area
of expertise and which I couldn't really know from a simple test drive.
Which is what the person who started this was trying to do -- ask the
people who use the programs which were the fastest. He described the
sort of work he wants to do and was simply asking for our opinions.
I have no idea why some people are getting their knickers in a twist
over a simple question -- it's not like he insulted anybody's parentage
or anything, yet he gets insulted and called stupid for asking such a
question.
If you don't like a question, hit the delete key. It does nobody any
good to say "that's a stupid question."
--
David H. Bailey
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