On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 10:30 -0600, Rajko M. wrote: > On Thursday 20 December 2007 08:57:50 pm Aaron Kulkis wrote: > > Kevin Dupuy wrote: > .... > > > > > > OK, here's the issue: you're not "most people". I'm not most people. All > > > of us subscribed to this mailing list are probably not most people. And > > > most people don't name their files orderly, and put them in logical > > > places. I've seen people who write something about a project about the > > > Civil War and name it "project.doc". I would name it "Civil War > > > Project.odt", and that person put the file in their My Pictures folder > > > because that's where the Save dialog box is open to. They are the people > > > who would benefit most from Beagle, and that's also about 90% of the > > > computing population, so if openSUSE wants to reach that 90%, it a good > > > idea to have Beagle installed by default and turned on. > > > > Catering to idiots only encourages them to continue > > their idiotic behavior. > > Insulting 90% of people doesn't help to make your case. > > You have to understand that not everyone has the same goals in life as you, > and also that different goals doesn't mean they are wrong. Would you buy > vegetables from merchant that is expert in computing, but not so good with > vegetables? I don't think so. On the other hand you can't deny that merchant > needs computer for bookkeeping tasks. > > There is much more users that see computer only as a help in their > activities, > but they are not close to idea to become computer administrators, even in the > smallest amount, to be able to use the box. They consider box good if it is > help, and they are annoyed if they can do their task faster by hand that with > a computer, so they are not asking for high performace either. > > That is what marketeers understood long time ago and that is the reason to > have so many poor performing programs (slow and buggy). They are just better > than doing job by hand. > > Just take time and observe inexperienced users. > There will be many actions that you will laugh, like pressing backspace and > deleting all until they come to misstyped letter and then retyping all again. > > I have seen that, and as guy was decision maker in my case I left him alone. > It was easy to show respect and point better way, but some people take that > as a insult, not help. They look at help as an attempt to make them feel bad, > and than they adjust their actions and outcome is less than optimal for > helper. > > -- > Regards, > Rajko
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