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In article <nevin-0602962303420001@150.135.1.79>,
Nevin ":-]" Liber <nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU> wrote:
>In article <kevinbDMCn4n.BJL@netcom.com>, kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin
>Brown) wrote:
>
>> One more thing: the user and the idiot who wrote the program are, more
>> often than not, *not* the same thing.
>
>Well, very little commercial software can get away with this kind of
>crap.  I've run a lot of software over the years, and this just hasn't
>been a problem.

Yeah, but what do you *do* with your Mac?  Do you do heavy number
crunching?  I'll bet not (though it wouldn't take me completely by
surprise if you did).

>> Do you *really* think the user
>> (if not *all* users of the system!!)  *should* be at the complete
>> mercy of *one* idiot user-level programmer?
>
>I'm not.  I'll just throw that crappy app away, if, at some point in the
>future, I actually encounter something like this.  I know that you are too
>stubborn to believe me, but this problem just doesn't come up in the real
>software that 99.99% of the Macintosh users use each and every day.  

Oh, I *can* believe that...but is this the case because most people
wouldn't put up with that kind of software, or is it the case because
"most people don't use multitasking"?

>If
>you have a real example (hopefully something more interesting the floppy
>formatting with the Finder, since I can use Disk Charmer to get around
>that limitation), please mention it.  Just quit making up this stupid
>contrived stuff.

I'm not making this up.  The program is/was called StatView, and my
fiancee used it on her Mac at the school's lab to do her statistical
data analysis for her thesis (she had no choice...it was the only
statistics software on the computer).  She also tells me that her
Excel macros caused the same problem when they were asked to crunch
large amounts of data.  In both cases, she couldn't switch to other
programs while they crunched their data.

I know...Excel is a Microsoft product, and is therefore expected to
behave like this.  But it's probably also a good example of software
that many are forced to use (for "compatibility" reasons).


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