Re: For those in need of some amusement.....

[cjgidman@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

>>>>...Microsoft products are much nicer to deal with than Linux.
>>>No need; you're entitled to your point of view, which is probably based on 
>>>your experience with these things....
>>Since both you and Adam wanted a little clarification, I thought I'd 
>>respond to this.  It is hard to define, but It seems to me that if I 
>>want a quick payoff with little effort on my part, Windows is the way 
>>to go.  I know my way around Windows really well and generally find 
>>that I can be very productive in it.  Other MS products also provide 
>>a quick ramp time and rapidly bring me to a point of being productive.
> 

> I want to take a quick time out here and point out that each of your
> paragraph length statements are not line-wrapped; I'd like to know what
> sort of software originated your mail messages, 'cuz as a basic text 
> processor, it dearly needs a lengthy one-way visit to the can. Fortunately,
> vi provided some easy remedies in a real hurry.

Well, since this is a web based e-mail account my editor is a multi-line scrollable text box.  And, yes, as a text editor it stinks.  However, the problem with text wrapping is on your end.  All of my paragraphs are a single line (an industry standard.) and it is the responsibility of your editor to wrap them properly.  This way, paragraphs can be nicely formatted to the screen width you prefer.  Contrariwise, the e-mails you send force a carriage return at the end of what appears to be 80 columns.  When my shorter width screen wraps your lines, I get a long line, then a short one, a long, then a short, etc.  It's very annoying.  We got away from the forced carriage return technique back in the late 80s.  Please update your software.
As an aside, if we were both using Outlook Express, we could send HTML back and forth.  This is an industry recognized text formatting language that makes documents appear much nicer allowing emphasizing, bolding, even graphics, if needed.

> 
> Sorry, back to our main line of discussion.
> 
> I beg of you, Chris, please refrain from speaking in jargon; I'd dearly 
> like to know what you mean by:
> "It seems to me that if I want a quick payoff with little effort on my 
>  part, Windows is the way to go."
> 
> and
> 
> "Other MS products also provide a quick ramp time"
> 
> I really don't know what these statements mean.
> 

ramp time = learning curve = time to productivity.

The above two statements you mentioned are similar.  I'm not sure what is "jargon" here.  I get productivity in a short time without reading much documentation; without expending much effort "figuring out how it works".  I judge software largely on this criteria.  If upon running the software it is not readily apparent how to use it, then my first opinion is that it's junk.