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Dumb questions about software

Posted on: Sep, 25th 2011
dumb software questions
A lot of people think that a computer specialist is someone that knows how use all the software that exists and have been existed on the world, in any operating system of any kind of computer or movile device. Can be an architecture sorftware, photographic retouching, accounting or the management software tailor-made only for his enterprise, don't mind!, as is a computer specialist, has to know use them. So that they think that the computer specialist will answer then they question anything related with them.

Sometimes I think how can be possible that so many people can question barbarities, without realize of the dumb they seem to the eyes of the computer specialist. However, they would think that themselves are dumb if they made equivalent questions to other professional, for instance, asking an automotive engineer: how can I turn on the radio of my car?, or an architect: where are the plugs of my house?. But, ask a computer specialist: how can I change the screen background of my mobile? or how can I print in color with my printer?, this seem to them that is the most normal of the world.

When someone makes me some question of this kind, although they get angry, I answer that is better that they learn to discover it by themselves. In this way, the next time they don't forget it. If your answer is that you don't know it, also they will say: how? don't you know it? Aren't you a computer specialist? Then you have to explain that a computer specialist isn't the person that know how to use all the software of the world, but the one that knows develop software, but they don't listen, and sometime after, they do a similar question. This kind of people usually doesn't have a lot of technological knowledge and, normally, they don't ask because they want learn, but because they want that you solve the problem and forget it. For that is better don't lost the time giving an answer. What do you think?

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Anonymous
Date: Feb, 10th 2012 Time: 17:05:07

Thanks for your article from a programmers perspective.

I am surprised that there are not a lot of comments here... I guess most people must feel... " yeah, he's right."

The trouble is most people do not want to READ the MANUAL to either hardware or software. They just want it to WORK. ;)

I am the same, I am afraid. But I always search either on the internet or in the index of the manual for a clue, before I bother a friend with the question.

I am sure every profession must have this same issue with dumb questions: doctors, nurses, lawyers, accountants, etc.

By the way... where is the ANY key????

Best wishes,

macforme (Mac For Me!!)

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