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From: thufir on 5 Aug 2008 00:11
On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:48:13 -0700, Edward Stanfield wrote:

>> "The fact is that there are people - a lot of people - who struggle
>> with the abstract concept of files and folders presented with
>> computers. People often, for example, "see" their files as being "in"
>> their programs. Apple has built a successful paradigm shift with much
>> of their software: they let the user work with their files and organize
>> it from within the software - thus letting users work how users think -
>> working with music (for example) in their music software". - Snit
>> <C3C69EAD.A5414%CSMA(a)gallopinginsanity.com>
>
> Struggle with files and folders! Now I have heard it all. Has Snit
> never heard of a filing cabinet?



This is what he teaches, how to open a file. More advanced topics
include how to use iTunes -- seriously. There's some absurdly long
thread about trying to relate:

document:folder::song:album

and so forth. borrring.



-Thufir
From: Snit on 5 Aug 2008 00:36
"thufir" <hawat.thufir(a)gmail.com> stated in post
RpQlk.58009$nD.25541(a)pd7urf1no on 8/4/08 9:11 PM:

> On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:48:13 -0700, Edward Stanfield wrote:
>
>>> "The fact is that there are people - a lot of people - who struggle
>>> with the abstract concept of files and folders presented with
>>> computers. People often, for example, "see" their files as being "in"
>>> their programs. Apple has built a successful paradigm shift with much
>>> of their software: they let the user work with their files and organize
>>> it from within the software - thus letting users work how users think -
>>> working with music (for example) in their music software". - Snit
>>> <C3C69EAD.A5414%CSMA(a)gallopinginsanity.com>
>>
>> Struggle with files and folders! Now I have heard it all. Has Snit
>> never heard of a filing cabinet?
>
>
>
> This is what he teaches, how to open a file. More advanced topics
> include how to use iTunes -- seriously.

By all means do show where I said I teach how to use iTunes... at all, no
less as an "advanced topic".

Oh.

That is one of your "paraphrases" which you just made up on the spot.

> There's some absurdly long
> thread about trying to relate:
>
> document:folder::song:album
>
> and so forth. borrring.

Explaining simple concepts to you repeatedly did get boring. I agree. Had
you understood them we could have moved forward more quickly.


--
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
--Albert Einstein

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