argh

[adrienmundi]

Sitting on a conference call to learn a new piece of software, the instructor decided to show us how to create a filter (pretty obvious, you'd think), and selected "gender", at which time the options come up "male" and "female". Much interchanging of gender, sex, male/female and man/woman. Argh! I doubt that anyone on the call would be up for a quick educational session. Theory meets incorrect practice, again.

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[anansi133.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the software vendor selling stuff to Japan, included a 'nifty feature' that kept track of the date by the ethnic tradition of which year of the emporor's reign they were in. And when the empopror died, you could update that field.

The customer was so grossed out by the software anticipating the emporor's death, they insisted on hard-coding his name into the screen, and they'd come back for a new version when the emprorer transitioned out. Given the lifetime of software, it seems like a safe bet.

Just because a feature is possible, doesn't mean it's going to be useful.