SQLNotes aka InfoQube or IQ forum

Posted by Cassius
Jun 10, 2009 at 10:17 PM

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Fredy wrote:
>The group dynamics here are so funky it’s much more than caricatural only. Almost all
>are programmers, etc., but logic ain’t the strongest quality for most. Ubiquitous
>whining about PIMs and others going bust,

YOU WOULD COMPLAIN TOO IF YOU HAD SPENT 100s TO 1,000s OF HOURS PUTTING INFORMATION INTO A PIM AND THEN HAVING IT DISCONTINUED. MOST CANNOT EASILY HAVE THEIR INFO TRANSFERRED ELSEWHERE WITHOUT SOME LOSS OF STRUCTURE.

but soooo proud to of the happy few
>intelligent enough to use such highbrow software nobody understands but them.

MANY OF THE PEOPLE HERE HAVE BEEN USING PIMS FOR 20 YEARS. NO DOUBT THEY, LIKE ME, TOOK A LONG TIME TO “LEARN THE ROPES.” WE HAD ONE ADVANTAGE: PRINTED MANUALS.

OF COURSE, THE GOOD PIMS 20 YEARS AGO WERE EXPENSIVE. I THINK GrandView cost $200-$300. ONE PROBLEM TODAY IS THAT SOME DEVELOPERS (I’m not talking of ones who frequently post here) ARE INCAPABLE OF WRITING INSTRUCTIONS FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE. I KNOW THIS FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE IN TRYING TO TEACH A DATABASE PROGRAMMER HOW TO WRITE INSTRUCTIONS FOR ORDINARY USERS. HE JUST COULDN’T DO IT. I ONCE OFFERED TO HELP A DEVELOPER IMPROVE HIS HELP FILE. I RECEIVED NO RESPONSE.

I have
>been treated like an idiot here from day 1 ; you and the marketeers here don’t
>understand that treating like idiots normal people is not going to sell any product.
>It’s a wonderful exclusivity here, in chatting ; but developers who develop for you,
>instead of developing for stupid people like me, are stupid developers, think about
>it. But then, whining about defunct software helps your egos, so those developers are
>serving the people they falsely assume they are backed by. Developers take YOUR
>feedback here, which serves them to avoid their market, and THAT’s really funky. This
>forum is an outliners graveyard. I might be naive sometimes, but looking out for even
>more gross credulity than mine, here you’ll find, plenty. Bye.
>