On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:00 PM, Dan Palka wrote:
If that makes me sound unprofessional or not serious enough, then you need
to do one thing...
Lighten up!
He was trying to give you some advice that will enable you to get better help and be taken more seriously. As with most things, if you know the right terms, it can be a signal to folks that you've done your homework and therefore make them more likely to help you.
If you're dealing with folks who are volunteering their time to answer your question. Your "job" is to make it as easy as possible of them to want to help. This document is well worth the time to read, at least the Introduction
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
If you want to take shots at people who are trying to offer helpful, well intentioned advice, then I'd expect fewer people to try and help in the long run.
Personally, I called it the "Mac Key" or "Apple Key" several times because that's what it looked like. I agree that if they wanted to call it the Command Key it would have made a lot more sense to put "Cmd" on it instead of an Apple or Cloverleaf, but nobody asked me and it's unlikely that the nomenclature will change to suit my preferences. So I can choose to call it the Mac Key because that's what I prefer, and be assumed to be a newbie who doesn't really know all that much (whether or not that is really the case)...or I can choose to accept the given advice that it's generally called the Command Key by those who know what they are talking about, and use that term even though I think it's rather silly (the NeXT keyboard did label it "Cmd" which made it much more clear).
These are the options open to me. Personally I appreciate the folks who pointed out the name to me, because when I heard people talk about "Command Key" I could have mistakenly assumed they meant the "Control Key" unless they helped me understand.
TjL
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