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Hello Don!
On Saturday, June 30, 2001 at 6:22:58 AM you wrote:
> I worked in Chula Vista, CA for six years in a plant whose workforce was of
> mostly Mexican origin, most of them from Tijuana or other parts of Baja. They
> used "poco" as I described previously to describe a small or dimunitive item,
> thing, or person.
Why can't anyone just ask the developers what they thought?
> If you think being called narrowminded is a personal attack, you're way too
> sensitive.
Most of the comments up to now in this thread were of the form "You
can't call it something derogatory because it isn't bad". So Poco
users seem to be sensitive even to a linguistic statement about a
programme's name.
Yes, "narrow minded" in English is a personal attack.
> I read an email from you that makes derogatory comments about a
> program you've never bothered to try, and narrowminded is an appropriate term.
He didn't (and I didn't). Again, some people use a computer and its
software as a means to an end and not an end in itself. I once tried
out a prog that I didn't like, and it took me weeks to get the control
of my computer back completely.
For people who are not to deep into registry settings, INI files and
whatever, it is a good choice not to test anything. Or do you read
every book, see every film, buy every record someone is recommending?
> At least before I comment on a piece of software, I make the slight
> effort required to download the trial and actually run the thing.
Examples from my experience:
1. WordPerfect 9 (German version crashed nearly every five
minutes, was definitely unusable)
2. OE (takes over a lot of things it shouldn't, open to
attacks; bad defaults)
3. Lotus Office for OS/2 (so slow you could plant and harvest
your own coffee)
4. Star Office 4 for OS/2 (jumbled up all system fonts
unreadable)
5. Star Office for Windows (only installable complete; uses
its own desktop *over* Windows desktop)
I could surely go on. All of this programmes were tested by me, all of
them killed my time major. Some of them troubled me and my system for
weeks. And all from the paradigm, "Let's try it , perhaps they aren't
that bad."
No, a viable alternative is - as always in life: Only try out the new
if it will bring more than you already have, bring things in you need
and will not bring more trouble.
As I pointed out in another mail, the points mentioned in favour of
Poco were three, only one was a major goodie (scripting), the others
were superfluous (HTML editing and skins). I don't buy a hammer just
because I can change its colour or let it swing through nice curves to
hit a nail.
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Dierk Haasis
http://www.Write4U.de
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