Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database or spreadsheet

[Gordon Burgess-Parker <gbplinux@gmail.com>]

On 13/02/2012 15:27, jomali wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker
> <gbplinux@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > On 12/02/2012 23:25, Jay Lozier wrote:
> >
> > > On 02/12/2012 06:09 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 02/12/2012 01:52 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On 08/02/2012 12:57, James Knott wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > On 07/02/2012 13:03, e-letter wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > It is not known from the original poster _why_ the sheets needed to
> > > > > > > > be changed.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Jeeze. DOES IT MATTER? No of course it doesn't MATTER.
> > > > > > When you try to provide computer support, you'll often find someone is
> > > > > > trying to solve the wrong problem. When you know what they're trying
> > > > > > to do, you are then in a position to help them.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So, yes it does matter.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >   Trust me. I'm NOT asking the wrong question, neither am I trying to
> > > > > solve the wrong problem. I am an EXPERIENCED (as in 20 years) user of
> > > > > all types of spreadsheet, which if you'd read my other ;posts you would
> > > > > see.
> > > > We're not remote-sensing mind-readers.
> > > >
> > > > James Knott has a very valid point, one which I myself have suffered
> > > > through over the decades: power user or newbie developer has skills
> > > > inadequate to the task, but doesn't know it, so asks "How do I snagglethrob
> > > > the doohickey?" when the correct question is, "What's the best way to make
> > > > *this* report run faster?" and so let the Expert possibly come up with an
> > > > idea that the power user never would have thought of.
> > > >
> > > >   I think many of us, including myself, have a tendency to try fitting a
> > > square peg in a round hole because we know the square peg tool and not the
> > > round hole tool.
> > >
> > >   But the point I made in other posts is that the square peg tool isn't
> > necessary - that's why I am using the round-peg tool, and it's nobodies
> > business but mine!
> >
> >
> > With that attitude, you'll be lucky to get any help at all.
Not an attitude on my part at all. I have been responding to intolerant 
and ignorant evangelists who INSIST that THEIR way of collecting and 
using data is the ONLY way.
They INSIST that the "problem" I was asking a solution for was the wrong 
problem because I don't conform to THEIR methods.
Now who has the "attitude"?

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