On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:15:11 +1000, Pixie <Pixie@AnnWheatley.com>
wrote:
<<snip>>
>Too much American television, I'm thinking.
>Mine is "two times"..... it's friggin' TWICE ..../grrrr. I nearly died
>when I heard Oprah say it one day.
>Two times are tables learnt in first grade..../rolls eyes.
>
lol never thought of that one but yes, it would be twice... not two
times!
>>.... I am using Agent 5.00/32.1171 and WinRAR
>>3.62. They are working fine for me (as far as I can tell) but am
>>wondering if it would be to my advantage to switch to the releases you
>>have included with the tools? What might the differences be for me?
>>Thanks =-)
>>
>The difference (for me) is I can't help with direct handholding if the
>program is unfamiliar to me. Not all Agent's are the same and I am
>hesitant to totally confuse Newb's with info that has one instruction
>different to what they are looking at. They get confused.
Confusion is no good, especially when you're already confused! What
you're doing makes sense and would be much easier to explain things to
someone that's lost!
>
>The Agent version in that set is what I use. I can do the
>this-->that-->other pointing because I "see" what they see if they are
>using it too.
>I can't do that for users after version 4 (??). I have observed Herb
>helping those users and the pointing is totally different. Earlier
>users would be lost, the layout is not the same. This is not Herb's
>problem either.
>I will help if I know what they are looking at. Like the Newsbin
>users, I have no idea what they are looking at. They are stressing
>that no one is helping them.... a/ not many know what they are looking
>at and b/ it is a crap program that has been proved to be faulty.
>Lose/lose.
I've used it for a couple years without problems but I am learning
Agent for this group and must admit... for reading, Agent wins hands
down! Following a thread in Newsbin is virtually impossible!! When I
first came here I was totally lost trying to read follow up posts so I
bit the bullet and downloaded Agent to see for myself the
differences... it was sooooo much easier...amazing!!!
>
>Since my form of helping is trying to guide Newb's through each step,
>as women tend to do so it's clear, I often have to stay silent. I
>don't want to risk confusing them more. They don't tend to take well
>to being told to go look it up and having to read it for themselves.
>
>If I can point directly to what they have to do with the least amount
>of instructions, they usually get brave and explore the program on
>their own later, in their own time. Win/win.
>Marsfel is a success story of this type of help. I know that when
>women ask "what am I doing wrong", they are really just asking "tell
>me what to do - in words of two syllables or less!"
HA! I love this!! When someone can tell me in short words what to
do, or show me a picture. I have too many other things to do than
hours of reading if someone else already knows the answer and can
easily point it out! Lazy... I know :-D
>I can't do that if I don't know what they are looking at.
>
>That is my reason. More technical reasons are that Agent lost a bit of
>its integrity with later versions, but that is for the teckheads to
>fight about.
>
>AYE??!!
(Couldn't resist could you!?!? HAHA)
>
>/grin
>Pixie :-))
|
| Follow-ups: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| 30 | 31 | 32 |
|