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Bookmaker & Cat Slave
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I'll bet it did drive you nuts. Drove me nuts trying to figure out how the hell the think could ePUBcheck, but not open. I'll try to check everything tomorrow, and make sure that I have all the latest/greatest, and I'll install Doits' Double Double Toil & Trouble plugin. ![]() Thanks, Diap. Hitch |
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null operator (he/him)
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DevExpress Winforms is a .NET based framework that integrates with Visual Studio and other IDEs. Someone could have built an EPUB↔DOCX converter as a Word Addin using DevExpress, but almost certainly as part of an enterprise bespoke application. BR |
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Then you expanded on your extensive email macros for answering everything under the sun... because you get the same questions a million times a day. And then you informed me of the people not even clicking on the instructions... let alone going into an FAQ to find answers themselves. You just shot down all my brilliant ideas with your customer support reality.... because the reality is, these people's eyes just glaze over and all your well-written hard work gets tossed in the garbage. Side Note: It reminds me of people who write instruction manuals. Am I the only one here who actually opens them up first thing and reads them? I need to learn how to actually use the device before plugging it in! The latest story I can remember was when I purchased a dehumidifier. Instruction manual says in big bold letters: "Place at least 15 inches away from the wall". Guess where someone wanted to place it right after plugging it in... right against the wall, jammed in the corner. Most people just plug and play contraptions, and never even touch the instruction manual (probably throw it away with the box). |
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You also get devices these days where the instructions manual isn't a paper one but can be found "on the device". So if you want to know just how long to charge your new wotsit before using it you have to switch it on and use it only to discover that you should have charged it for 14 hours first. BobC |
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I don't understand why people have decided that instructions are worthless. I don't know whether to blame Steve Jobs for this or not, as I (obviously) can't know if people were like this in, say, the first half of the 20th century. But they DAMN sure are that way now. (n.b.: Yes, I would agree that by definition, I tend to get clients that don't RTFI, because otherwise, they'd be trying to make their own books, or would know how to use Word. By and large, they don't. So, yes: my view is skewed by my own experience.) And, yes, I was "bad," because I didn't search the Bug reports before whining about Dueling Mimetypes--so I'm guilty of the same thing that I'm bitching about. Hitch |
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What I hate is that packaging you have to cut open with a borrowed pair of double handed tin snips - in order to get at your new... mouse. BR |
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The only exception to that was sex. Nobody knew how to do it, so there was the so-called Marriage Manual written by a guy with a Dutch name. Van der Pelt? Something like that. |
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Driven by curiosity I looked it up: "To have and to hold: A guide to successful marriage - Nancy L van Pelt" (what a toxically kitschy cover *shrug*)
Freuds rule of Internet discussions: Let a topic derail long enough and it will end up at sex. ![]() So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel ![]() ![]() |
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Actually, it turns out to have been Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique, by Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde.
I once worked this into a novel, where I actually did use the name van der Pelt. I would love to think that someone read it and went out and wrote the book under that name, but I don't think that could have happened, because the novel was neither finished nor published. |
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Better and better: Wiki tells me that "The first printing had an insert: "The sale of this book is strictly limited to members of the medical profession, Psychoanalysts, Scholars, and to such adults as may have a definite position in the field of Physiological, Psychological, or Social Research.""
And it was placed on the Index in 1931, the year I was born. (Just made it under the wire, I guess.) |
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