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From: Richard Maine on 7 Nov 2009 13:11
Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> In article <hd2smh$qmd$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote:
>
> > 1. Imagine a non-technical person with only one arm.
> > NO experience with any kind of touch screen.
> > Long time occasional user of Panther but only for
> > web browsing and e-mail. Would she find using
> > the pen awkward?
>
> What? It's not built for a one-armed person, male or female. Jeezus,
> imagine a bipolar colour-blind epilectic Mozlem eskimo single-mother
> with herpes ...
>
> Reminds of the nonsense in the alt.html group.

Why is it nonsense to ask whether it suits a particular user?

Maybe you read more into the question than is there. It sounds like you
are reading the question as a complaint that the makers of the product
dared to make something that wasn't suitable for people like that. I'd
agree that a compliant like that would be a bit out of line.

I read the question as.... oddly enough.... a question. You know, the
kind of thing one sometimes asks in order to find out an answer. If I
had an acquaintance meeting the description, I'd certainly want to know
whether the device would be suitable before recommending or buying it
for her.

Such people certainly exist - as real people. Perhaps you are reading to
much into the "imagine" part. Sounds to me like he is asking you to
imagine such a person in order to best answer the question because he
assumes you might not necessarily know such a person. I'm guessing that
he does.

It isn't exactly a difficult guess. To get there, start with the
assumption that other people are reasonable human beings and might have
sensible reasons to post something. That assumption, unfortunately, is
not always correct (plenty of counterexamples exist, though my killfile
helps a lot), but it is still usually the best place to start; life is
more plesant that way.

--
Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience;
email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment.
domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: Wes Groleau on 7 Nov 2009 23:11
Richard Maine wrote:
> It isn't exactly a difficult guess. To get there, start with the
> assumption that other people are reasonable human beings and might have
> sensible reasons to post something. That assumption, unfortunately, is
> not always correct (plenty of counterexamples exist, though my killfile
> helps a lot), but it is still usually the best place to start; life is
> more plesant that way.

Thanks, Richard. Another way life is more pleasant is by using the
killfile for people who consistently choose the opposite assumption.

--
Wes Groleau

Guidelines for judging others:
1. Don't attribute to malice that which
can be adequately explained by stupidity.
2. Don't attribute to stupidity that which
can be adequately explained by ignorance.
3. Don't attribute to ignorance that which
can be adequately explained by misunderstanding.
From: Davoud on 8 Nov 2009 02:05
Wes Groleau:
> ...
> Guidelines for judging others....

1. Don't judge others. You don't know what others know, you haven't
lived their lives or experienced their experiences or seen through
their eyes. No one, therefore, has any basis whatsoever for rendering a
fair judgement of any other.

Davoud

--
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_Ekl=F6f?= on 8 Nov 2009 04:51
Davoud <star(a)sky.net> wrote:

> Wes Groleau:
> > ...
> > Guidelines for judging others....
>
> 1. Don't judge others.

Basically, that's what Wes�guidelines say...

--
I recommend Macs to my friends, and Windows machines
to those whom I don't mind billing by the hour
From: Warren Oates on 8 Nov 2009 10:36
In article <1j8t2bn.kkxmpy1fp0680N%nospam(a)see.signature>,
nospam(a)see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote:

> start with the
> assumption that other people are reasonable human beings and might have
> sensible reasons to post something

That's not something I'm capable of.
--
Suddenly he realized that he was alone
with a giant halfwit on a dark deserted street.
-- Chester Himes

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