>> Right now I don't need to look anything up. My point is that every
>> time I've
>> needed to find something out, I haven't been able to.
>
> I don't mean to offend, but you've demonstrated many times here that you
> aren't really very good at looking things up. Maybe it's not the
> product's fault? (Maybe it is, sure, but without a specific example, I'm
> actually going to err on the side of my own experience.)

Obviously I don't happen to have a specific item to hand for the 
purposes of this argument. But there's been plenty of times when I've 
wondered "where the hell is the button for X?" or "what does this option 
mean?"

As I say, I especially like how in Windows 2000 (I think) they added a 
new UI element: a little "?" button next to the close button. The idea 
being that you click this button, and then click anything in the window, 
and it brings up a description for the thing you just clicked. 
Apparently the description for every such thing is "no help found". 
Gotta love that, eh?

>> That's like saying "housing isn't overpriced at all; have you seen the
>> price
>> of buying Buckingham Palace?!"
>
> "Overpriced" and "insanely expensive" are different things. You just
> seem to never have gotten used to the fact that commercial software
> costs money. $200 for a commercial program isn't expensive. $20,000 is
> expensive.

Meh. I remember when you couldn't *get* software without paying money 
for it! :-P

$20 for a word processor isn't expensive. $200 is.

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