[libreoffice-users] Re: Using and Formatting Logical Functions in Calc

On 6/30/12 5:33 AM, Andreas Säger wrote:
> Am 30.06.2012 02:37, Ken Springer wrote:
> > And I've not been able to come up with a competent explanation of what
> > I'm trying to accomplish.   :)
>
>
> That's what *you* have got to explain to the application. Any competent
> resource on spreadsheets tells you how to tell anything to the
> application. That's were people fail because abstract thinking as
> totally fallen off the cultural horizon. You can not expect that the
> spreadsheet does anything for you. It's you who can learn how to make it
> do something useful.
> Otherwise get some handheld device and buy some app which does exactly
> what you wanna do right now. It has been told to me that this is the
> future of computing.

Uhm, I actually meant, I was having a hard time telling readers of this 
thread what I was trying to do, not the spreadsheet.   :-)

But you are right, abstract thinking *and* critical thinking skills are 
no longer being taught anymore.

As the old saying goes, computers don't do what you want them to do, 
they do what you tell them to do.   :-)


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Ken

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