Once it gets above a certain size (too big to fit in a suit pocket or purse) you'll have to carry it in something, so you might as well go the whole hog and get a proper laptop. Not to say that such things as the Toshiba Libretto aren't cute, though.
150 grain is not a count, like a bushel, it is a unit of weight, like a gram
If by count you mean a dimensionless number (like a dozen), a bushel isn't one - it's a unit of volume equivalent to an apparently random number of litres.
Better, probably, would be to take an iterative approach: Take the word doc and bash together a prototype (RealBasic, Ruby on Rails, whatever); drop the prototype in front of the users and make notes as they say "nooo! not like that, it needs to do X, Y and Z";
That's the perfect approach, if your sole goal is to find what their favourite colour is.
I try to get them to tell me how they would do it with a pencil and paper. They won't anwser the question as asked, of course. They'll say "I need some trancaction where I can put..." or "there needs to be some file where..."[1] - at this point you interrupt and ask them, again, how they would do it with pencil and paper. Eventually, you'll get to the answer. Then you, the developer/analyst, should be able to work out how to do it.
This forces them to concentrate on the what, not the how. You'd hope people would have the ability to intellectually grok the difference, without such a trick. You'd be disappointed.
[1] To them, file/screen/transaction/table/program are all synonyms. Never, ever, trust their terminology.
Plus you can work backwards from the languages derived from it, which are still spoken by (ballpark guess) half the people in Europe. Not an exact science, but anyone who says philologists, historical linguists and etymologists are just guessing proves nothing but his own ignorance.
I thought professionals from the USA and USSR competed in the Olypics wau before that. But then I found out they students and members of the armed forces, respectively. Silly me.
Officer: Did the assialant have any distinguishing features? Victim: Hmm, with the disguise and all I couldn't really see... but there was a kind of, I dunno, pissy smell around her...
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It might help if the questioner told us where. IANAL, but I'm told that laws do vary from place to place.
Once it gets above a certain size (too big to fit in a suit pocket or purse) you'll have to carry it in something, so you might as well go the whole hog and get a proper laptop. Not to say that such things as the Toshiba Libretto aren't cute, though.
I try to get them to tell me how they would do it with a pencil and paper. They won't anwser the question as asked, of course. They'll say "I need some trancaction where I can put..." or "there needs to be some file where..."[1] - at this point you interrupt and ask them, again, how they would do it with pencil and paper. Eventually, you'll get to the answer. Then you, the developer/analyst, should be able to work out how to do it.
This forces them to concentrate on the what, not the how. You'd hope people would have the ability to intellectually grok the difference, without such a trick. You'd be disappointed.
[1] To them, file/screen/transaction/table/program are all synonyms. Never, ever, trust their terminology.
64 GB? That should be enough for anybody!
Grandparent said avoiding. You said evading. Those words are not synonyms.
Same team, different shirts.
[puts finger on bottom lip] Well, deux!
Plus you can work backwards from the languages derived from it, which are still spoken by (ballpark guess) half the people in Europe. Not an exact science, but anyone who says philologists, historical linguists and etymologists are just guessing proves nothing but his own ignorance.
I thought professionals from the USA and USSR competed in the Olypics wau before that. But then I found out they students and members of the armed forces, respectively. Silly me.
My Mexican friend, who makes tarpaulins for commercial vehicles and moonlights as a wine merchant is very relieved.
Officer: Did the assialant have any distinguishing features? ... but there was a kind of, I dunno, pissy smell around her...
Victim: Hmm, with the disguise and all I couldn't really see
(I totally missed the story when it came out)
Oh yeah, let's all blame Cananda, eh?
catwh0re (540371) "In Australia we have a law against advertising which involves displaying driving activity which is technically illegal."
response by FromellaSlob (813394) "that braindead law would outlaw every movie with a car chase."
Why don't you learn a new word - try "context" - insteady of trying to be a smartass?
When it can resist being nuked from orbit, I'll be impressed.