On 2/9/2009 1:28 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Uhuh. And now open Word, type a few sentences, apply some minimal
> formatting to it, and behold as an animated paperclip pops up and says
> "Hey! That looks like you're trying to type a letter! Are you so
> retarded that you can't figure out how to do that properly all by
> yourself, or should I just **** off and let you get on with what you
> were trying to do in the first place?"

Have you any idea how many people in the workforce cannot write a well 
formatted letter?  Features like that make Word an attractive product 
for many hundreds of thousands, if not literally millions, of people who 
would otherwise not bother with it.

> Open up Access and ask to create a new database. A helpful wizard offers
> to generate a CD indexing database for you automatically. Because, you
> know, you might be too stupid to work out how to create a few tables all
> by yourself, after all.

Actually, the first few times I used Access, I had it autocreate some 
DBs for me so I could see how the structure worked.  But then, I've 
never used SQL (except a few commands in a PHP script), and I've never 
studied database design, so maybe I'm one of those users who is "too 
stupid to work out how" by myself.

> Similarly, there is apparently no way for a knowledgable system
> administrator like myself to install and configure a copy of Windows.

At least through XP, there was a method of burning your own custom 
install of Windows to an image that could be used from a CD for an 
unattended install.  I believe there was a way to do remote installs as 
well, but I'm not sure about that one.

-- 
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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