From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Commodity question
Date: 31 Dec 92 03:12:07 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
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In <10372@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:

>In article <crystal.724659529@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
> >In <rschuler.724653094@pv0221.vincent.iastate.edu> rschuler@iastate.edu (Rodney A Schuler) writes:
> >
> >>RTFM (read the FINE manual)
> >
> >Uh, if I may interject here... ?
> >
> >Many times I've found that the manuals written by *programmers* are difficult
> >for the non-programmers/casual users to decipher.  

>Sorry, wrong in this case. All the Amiga user manuals are *not* written
>by the programmers but by docs specialists.

>-- 
>Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to \\  Only my personal opinions...
>Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
>Wer's nicht kann, soll's bleiben klopfen oder Steine lassen!


If you read my post carefully you would see that I said  "MANY TIMES" not ALL
the time...  and likewise I stated that I was not familiar with the program
in question...nor the computer expertise of the original poster.

But regardless of *who* wrote the manual for the program in question, the 
response to the original poster to "RTFM" was totally uncalled for because 
it made an assumption that the responder could NOT have known about the 
original poster.  And that is what I was *trying* to get across.

And just because something is written by a "specialist" does not AUTOMATICALLY
mean that any fool/idiot can understand it.  That is likewise an assumption,
because not everyone is capable of following directions, no matter how simple.

I don't know what kind of Dr. you are, Sir, but if you have ever tried to
teach, you may have noticed that there are some students that you have to 
clobber with bricks and TOTAL simplicity to get them to understand even the 
most simple concepts, that to you are second nature/common knowledge.

While the foregoing may sound like a slam to the intelligence of the original
poster, it is not.  I am merely *trying* to illustrate the idea that making
assumptions is as valid as believing stereotypes...ie, not at all valid.

But then, some people have to be clobbered with bricks to get them to 
understand even the most simple concepts... ;>

Apologies have already been made, both to me, and, I assume, to the original
poster by the responder in question. (At least he said he was going to apologize
to the original poster).

Crystal
  :>

(BTW, I have trouble understanding the docs that came with the 2.04 ROM. I keep
getting the impression that I need to have some sort of "background" which I
don't have, in order to make sense out of the terminology used.  It doesn't seem
to match the terminology I am used to from MAC/MS-DOS/APPLE ][ and CP/M. Like,
what the H*ll is a "commodity"???  To me it is something on the New York Stock
Exchange having to do with Futures...and I just can't relate the term to 
computers...nor can I understand the difference between a utility, a tool or
a project... *whimper*)

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