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On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:42:28PM -0500, Stuart Rogers wrote:
> Dana Worley reports that "Some of the
> engineers argue that because the client is not actually connecting to
> the datalogger, but connecting to the server that is connecting to the
> datalogger, that it is technically inaccurate to have a Connect button."
>
> What pedantic tripe!
I tend to agree. It's such reasoning that leads to things like:
Move the mouse to postion the cursor on the screen over the image of
the button containing the word "okay", then click the mouse button to
send a signal to the computer to perform the action logically associated
with the button image.
Rather than:
Use the mouse to click the "okay" button.
The latter is less technically accurate, but corresponds more to how
people think and act.
Having said that, there probably are audiences when the former approach
is betters. Were the documentation for the datalogger being written for
people who have to know how the system actually works, rather than for
people who have to use it, then all the stuff about intermediary hardware
would be not only helpful, but essential.
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