Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:00:23 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Which is easier to understand?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Mike B. wrote:
> mark wrote:
>> Elspeth Kovar wrote:
>>> mark wrote:
>>>> Mike B. wrote:
>>>>> mark wrote:
>>>>>> Michael Walsh wrote:
>>>>>>> Google Wave or .... http://easiertounderstandthanwave.com/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hit your reload/refesh button to see other comparisons.
>>>>>> Google wave vs. a visio diagram? This is, like, what, an email tool vs. a
>>>>>> map?
>>>>> More understanding needed...Google Wave isn't an e-mail tool. ;-)
>>>> You misunderstand. I was saying this is a comparison, as far as I can tell,
>>>> between a goldfish and a couch.
>>> Yes.  And which one of them is easier to understand, a goldfish or a couch?  (The
>>> answer is one word, either "goldfish" or "couch".)
>> No. Dunno why folks are having trouble understanding my criticism.... They're
>> two completely different tools, for completely different purposes. I've used
>> Visio for flowcharts, for systems diagrams, for database composition. I've had
>> no interest in looking into google Wave, but from the screen shots, the latter
>> seems to be for communications - newsreader, IM, pics, etc., and does *not*
>> seem as though it would be of any use for what I and others use a tool like
>> Visio for.
>
> You seem to think that someone has said there's anything in common
> between the choices as far as use goes.  There isn't, and nobody has
> suggested there is.  The question is which is harder to understand.
> That's it.

Oh, in that case, I'll vote for Visio - I've seen diagrams in it for databases
with 100 or so tables that looked as though an ant nest had been disturbed, and
the ants had crawled through ink and then over paper....

  mark
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