Well, the mouse is likely to be at the button or menu that the action was triggered from. Menus start on the left. Try File->Save As...
"Most people are right-handed..."
Most people read from left to right, too. So there is a slight conflict.
What if you are left handed, tend to use the keyboard more, use a embedded/laptop pad or switched to mouse on the left because you messed up your right hand with years of mousing around with bad interfaces?
Actually, you will be frustated even if you are right handed, because all web interfaces will remain with buttons from left to right.
Did Apple come up with the backwards buttons at the same time that they decided that untrained monkeys could use a single button mouse easier (in combination with the ctrl, shift and apple keys)?
> In Outlook, executable files, scripts, and screensavers are blocked by default.
But excel and word documents may contain executable code. Are they blocked?
I have seen many Windows viruses floating around since 1998. And the Windows admin always warns the windows crowd not to click or open the email that says "really important information". So there is still a problem. Judge from the spam coming from the infected Windows boxes, there is still a problem. Please tell us what Windows "feature" the viruses exploit.
XFree86 used an X/BSD style license, then added some more conditions to it that people did not like. X.org uses a X/BSD style licencse without those new conditions.
djbdns has not been accepted, because it's too non-standard. The main thing is the folders. He creates and uses a folders called/service,/command and/doc, instead of following any UNIX filesystem standard. I guess he is suggesting that we abandon/usr,/bin,/lib, and just throw everything at the root level.
The reason given (other than being like Next buttons MS Wizard screens) for using Cancel-Ok instead of the Ok-Cancel was that we read from left to right in western countries.
By that logic, shouldn't the Cancel button be at the top left, since we read from top to bottom? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.O K
Our "left-to-right" reading is what makes Cancel-Ok so awkward.
Do you agree with the US being in Iraq?
NO.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.YES
Since we read the choices from left to right, wouldn't skimming through a page and accepting be more efficient if the default choice is on the left?
YES.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.NO
sorry about the x's. slashdot tells me "Please use fewer 'junk' characters when I use ' 's or '.'s "
those who say "it sucks because it doesn't have apt-get like debian" have not been paying attention. apt-get is now the preferred way to update packages or the whole dist.
This is probably what a few addicts are thinking. What is Apprentice? Actually I never saw Surviver. Did he make it? The last reality show that I saw was the Real World in San Francisco.
They cannot change the license for software they have already distributed unless the license lets them do so, or the license is not valid for this case.
Unless they are using a modified GPL, they cannot "revoke" a license. The new software released could have a "everyone but SCO" license.
If, however, SCO, by stating that the GPL is invalid, has disagreed to the terms of it, then the softwares authors can simply declare that SCO has no legitimate rights to use their software.
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It's supposed to be much faster.
"Where is you mouse more likely to be?"
Well, the mouse is likely to be at the button or menu that the action was triggered from.
Menus start on the left. Try File->Save As...
"Most people are right-handed..."
Most people read from left to right, too.
So there is a slight conflict.
What if you are left handed, tend to use the keyboard more, use a embedded/laptop pad or switched to mouse on the left because you messed up your right hand with years of mousing around with bad interfaces?
Actually, you will be frustated even if you are right handed, because all web interfaces will remain with buttons from left to right.
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BTW, My post was supposed to read:
What about for check boxes?
[ ] Bush
[ ] Nader
[*] Gore
[Don't Vote] [Florida Vote] [Submit Vote]
Whouldn't it make sense to always start left?
[ ] Bush
[ ] Nader
[*] Gore
[Submit Vote] [Florida Vote] [Submit Vote]
No, not really. They are still backwards.
Do you like the button order?
What about for check boxes?
[ ] Bush
[ ] Nader
[*] Gore
Whouldn't it make sense to always start left?
[ ] Bush
[ ] Nader
[*] Gore
Did Apple come up with the backwards buttons at the same time that they decided that untrained monkeys could use a single button mouse easier (in combination with the ctrl, shift and apple keys)?
"Now imagine a few hundred qubits, if ever constructed..."
You are mostly correct about 1998 ...
> In Outlook, executable files, scripts, and screensavers are blocked by default.
But excel and word documents may contain executable code. Are they blocked?
I have seen many Windows viruses floating around since 1998. And the Windows admin always warns the windows crowd not to click or open the email that says "really important information". So there is still a problem. Judge from the spam coming from the infected Windows boxes, there is still a problem. Please tell us what Windows "feature" the viruses exploit.
(Cancel) (Ok)
(No) (Yes)
(Don't wake him) (Mark as Troll) (I agree)
or in english, that would be:
(Ok) (Cancel)
(Yes) (No)
(I agree) (Mark as Troll) (Don't wake him)
I use KDE.
XFree86 used an X/BSD style license, then added some more conditions to it that people did not like.
X.org uses a X/BSD style licencse without those new conditions.
The mail program ask you where to save it.
In windows, click-to-infect is the norm.
Can I configure Firefox back to the sane Ok/Cancel button order?
No or Yes?
obviously, some of the sites may be out of the UK, so they cannot shut them down.
The move taken would be similar to blocking imports of magazines with illegal content.
djbdns has not been accepted, because it's too non-standard. The main thing is the folders. He creates and uses a folders called /service, /command and /doc, instead of following any UNIX filesystem standard. I guess he is suggesting that we abandon /usr, /bin, /lib, and just throw everything at the root level.
To discourage people from driving single occupant buses to work and back.
CANCEL
The reason given (other than being like Next buttons MS Wizard screens) for using Cancel-Ok instead of the Ok-Cancel was that we read from left to right in western countries.
By that logic, shouldn't the Cancel button be at the top left, since we read from top to bottom?
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Our "left-to-right" reading is what makes Cancel-Ok so awkward.
Do you agree with the US being in Iraq?
NO.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.YES
Since we read the choices from left to right, wouldn't skimming through a page and accepting be more efficient if the default choice is on the left?
YES.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.NO
sorry about the x's. slashdot tells me "Please use fewer 'junk' characters when I use ' 's or '.'s "
I mean, did the alien creators have some specific purpose in mind?
Probably we don't notice the "good" "DNA computers" that give us, only the the ones that we percieve to harm us.
those who say "it sucks because it doesn't have apt-get like debian" have not been paying attention. apt-get is now the preferred way to update packages or the whole dist.
http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO
The Noah legend was oral legend that probably grew from other legends, posssibly the flood tale in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
This is probably what a few addicts are thinking.
What is Apprentice?
Actually I never saw Surviver. Did he make it?
The last reality show that I saw was the Real World in San Francisco.
I keep switching between the two. Thunderbird currently seems to have less dangerous bugs.
The real owners of the linux car can/should sue SCO for slander of title.
They cannot change the license for software they have already distributed unless the license lets them do so, or the license is not valid for this case.
Unless they are using a modified GPL, they cannot "revoke" a license. The new software released could have a "everyone but SCO" license.
If, however, SCO, by stating that the GPL is invalid, has disagreed to the terms of it, then the softwares authors can simply declare that SCO has no legitimate rights to use their software.
http://spf.pobox.com/spf-draft-20040209.txt
Did anyone find the specification for this "caller id" system.
Microsoft is motivated because about 99% of unreturnable spam now comes from infected Windows PC's.
But I don't care what the motivation is. If we implement a system where we have a verified sender, this is good.
I don't like indentation mandated by the language.
Microwindows now has a xlib ABI compatibility.
Historically "X Windows" is not the proper name.
...
But
"X" is too short and ambiguous.
"The X Window System" is too long.
"X Window" implies a single window.
X Windows.
X Windows.
X Windows.
Plus, it verifies and uses "Windows" as a generic term for GUI.