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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Sebastian <sebastian@here.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Windows victims: go ahead and pretend you don't want or need the greatest PC software available Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 04:50:05 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: <v2439r$1c3qk$4@dont-email.me> References: <6638465a$0$8092$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <v1b2u5$2ln8f$1@dont-email.me> <v1d5js$37vta$1@dont-email.me> <v1d890$38ipq$3@dont-email.me> <v1dkd3$3bcdt$2@dont-email.me> <v1emo6$3mufo$4@dont-email.me> <v1fr2o$3urp9$2@dont-email.me> <la1j4eF50usU1@mid.individual.net> <v1isa7$o14n$4@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 06:50:06 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e464951d7025a7dec4ca23c0c0283423"; logging-data="1445716"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Vdsoy9XjtCwEUbl4bT990mCU4WwNZHXw=" User-Agent: tin/2.6.2-20221225 ("Pittyvaich") (Linux/6.1.0-18-amd64 (x86_64)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dvv6hUL5GW4QtG1xlKPThgS+YjA= Bytes: 1995 Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote: > rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties: >> A long time ago I did an inventory control system. I learned that the >> people doing data entry hardly looked at the screen. I think I could have >> put up a dialog saying 'Your pantyhose are on fire!' and the wouldn't >> notice. What they did notice was anything that broke the pattern as they >> tabbed between boxes and entered the data. > > Heh. On the classified-ad typesetting project I worked on, one of the > developers shortened a particular key-sequence by one character. > > Hoo boy! The complaints were vociferous; the change was undone. Imagine all the AutoHotKey scripts that would've had to have been debugged and fixed if the change wasn't undone.