[raynor]

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Okay. Fine. You build stuff in SEIV. You format stuff in Word. That is about the closest you can get between a game and a word processor. Change that example to be infinitely formatting the same word to make it bold.

That basically means that you CAN NOT make an analogous comparison between the two. Its like comparing a firm matress to an apple. You can't very well say "this matress is like a tasty apple", now can you? No. For an analogy to work (or even be possible), there has to be a great deal of similarity between the two objects being compared.[/QB]

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Is the following analogy adequate? In Space Empires IV, you can endlessly expend resources building a facility that isn't ever going to be built. If MS Word performed identically, it might endlessly format a word that isn't there?

If that example isn't satisfactory, then I guess you are saying that it is impossible to compare usability between two software program unless they are both games and they are both 4x space strategy games and they both allow building stuff and they both allow queue and...

Hey... at least both Word and SEIV are software programs. I dare you to find something so specific in your apple/mattress example.

[ February 23, 2003, 01:51: Message edited by: raynor ]