I hate it when we do that.
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On my tablet, I'm importing a lot of contacts - it's a long story - and it seems to have locked up on one of them. So...tap the "importing Sue..." notification in the messages bar and it gives me the option to cancel the import:
Cancel Import of Sue blah blah.vcf?
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| Cancel | | OK |
-------- ---------Now, does the "Cancel" button cancel the operation, or does the "OK" button cancel it? Needless to say, "Cancel" cancels the cancel, and "OK" does a cancel. What's so difficult about "No" and "Yes" buttons? Huh?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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On my tablet, I'm importing a lot of contacts - it's a long story - and it seems to have locked up on one of them. So...tap the "importing Sue..." notification in the messages bar and it gives me the option to cancel the import:
Cancel Import of Sue blah blah.vcf?
___________________________________
________ _________
| Cancel | | OK |
-------- ---------Now, does the "Cancel" button cancel the operation, or does the "OK" button cancel it? Needless to say, "Cancel" cancels the cancel, and "OK" does a cancel. What's so difficult about "No" and "Yes" buttons? Huh?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Why not use: [Import] [Cancel] ???
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On my tablet, I'm importing a lot of contacts - it's a long story - and it seems to have locked up on one of them. So...tap the "importing Sue..." notification in the messages bar and it gives me the option to cancel the import:
Cancel Import of Sue blah blah.vcf?
___________________________________
________ _________
| Cancel | | OK |
-------- ---------Now, does the "Cancel" button cancel the operation, or does the "OK" button cancel it? Needless to say, "Cancel" cancels the cancel, and "OK" does a cancel. What's so difficult about "No" and "Yes" buttons? Huh?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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On my tablet, I'm importing a lot of contacts - it's a long story - and it seems to have locked up on one of them. So...tap the "importing Sue..." notification in the messages bar and it gives me the option to cancel the import:
Cancel Import of Sue blah blah.vcf?
___________________________________
________ _________
| Cancel | | OK |
-------- ---------Now, does the "Cancel" button cancel the operation, or does the "OK" button cancel it? Needless to say, "Cancel" cancels the cancel, and "OK" does a cancel. What's so difficult about "No" and "Yes" buttons? Huh?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Easy to use software is for wussies! What's next, automating slow, boring, repetitive tasks for these whiners?
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Similar to what I heard during my first visit to the US about fifteen years ago - "It ain't not work". Will it work? Will it not? Not sure (to me). "It ain't not happen". Will it happen? Or not? Have never visited the UK, so am not sure of this usage there. But, the English taught in India (in my childhood days, more than 35 years ago) didn't have such usages.
When you hopefully finally visit us here in the UK, you will find that we do indeed speak the English you learnt 35 years ago. I visited the US many times during my time with IBM and I very quickly came to the conclusion that they speak American in the US. It bears as much resemblance to English as Brazilian Portuguese does to Portuguese. They both have the same derivative language but time has taken its toll on the way it is spoken today.
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When you hopefully finally visit us here in the UK, you will find that we do indeed speak the English you learnt 35 years ago. I visited the US many times during my time with IBM and I very quickly came to the conclusion that they speak American in the US. It bears as much resemblance to English as Brazilian Portuguese does to Portuguese. They both have the same derivative language but time has taken its toll on the way it is spoken today.
:thumbsup: Great. I thought so too.
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On my tablet, I'm importing a lot of contacts - it's a long story - and it seems to have locked up on one of them. So...tap the "importing Sue..." notification in the messages bar and it gives me the option to cancel the import:
Cancel Import of Sue blah blah.vcf?
___________________________________
________ _________
| Cancel | | OK |
-------- ---------Now, does the "Cancel" button cancel the operation, or does the "OK" button cancel it? Needless to say, "Cancel" cancels the cancel, and "OK" does a cancel. What's so difficult about "No" and "Yes" buttons? Huh?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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On my tablet, I'm importing a lot of contacts - it's a long story - and it seems to have locked up on one of them. So...tap the "importing Sue..." notification in the messages bar and it gives me the option to cancel the import:
Cancel Import of Sue blah blah.vcf?
___________________________________
________ _________
| Cancel | | OK |
-------- ---------Now, does the "Cancel" button cancel the operation, or does the "OK" button cancel it? Needless to say, "Cancel" cancels the cancel, and "OK" does a cancel. What's so difficult about "No" and "Yes" buttons? Huh?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Reminds my of my favorite error message (PDP 11s): Maybe you no run on right system? To this day, I do not not how to respond to that prompt, other than ^C
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On my tablet, I'm importing a lot of contacts - it's a long story - and it seems to have locked up on one of them. So...tap the "importing Sue..." notification in the messages bar and it gives me the option to cancel the import:
Cancel Import of Sue blah blah.vcf?
___________________________________
________ _________
| Cancel | | OK |
-------- ---------Now, does the "Cancel" button cancel the operation, or does the "OK" button cancel it? Needless to say, "Cancel" cancels the cancel, and "OK" does a cancel. What's so difficult about "No" and "Yes" buttons? Huh?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
"We" are not doing it. There are people wired differently and for them that dialog box makes perfect sense as they see only one way of interpreting it. An example of such people, I looked up yesterday "the opposite of inside out" on Google. English is not my first language and I got small kids that drive me insane by leaving behind, on the floor, almost every piece of clothing when they take'em off. You guessed right, they are inside out. How to properly tell them to fix that. Turn them ....? How? Lots of answers were: Outside in, Right-side out? Outside in?!!! Yes, "outside in". You see, there are people that negate "Inside out" as "Outside In" when in fact they express the same situation. Link1 Link2 Link3 "Outside in" is even voted the best answer in one of them. So, there are people like that and some of them are software developers. Oh in the end I will use "Inside in" or the longer "take'em off and put them back properly", do you have an alternative? I'm all ears.
giuchici
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"We" are not doing it. There are people wired differently and for them that dialog box makes perfect sense as they see only one way of interpreting it. An example of such people, I looked up yesterday "the opposite of inside out" on Google. English is not my first language and I got small kids that drive me insane by leaving behind, on the floor, almost every piece of clothing when they take'em off. You guessed right, they are inside out. How to properly tell them to fix that. Turn them ....? How? Lots of answers were: Outside in, Right-side out? Outside in?!!! Yes, "outside in". You see, there are people that negate "Inside out" as "Outside In" when in fact they express the same situation. Link1 Link2 Link3 "Outside in" is even voted the best answer in one of them. So, there are people like that and some of them are software developers. Oh in the end I will use "Inside in" or the longer "take'em off and put them back properly", do you have an alternative? I'm all ears.
giuchici
Hah! Good luck with that! It took me over twenty years to persuade my wife to use a laundry basket. Before that all her clothes went in, on, or "somewhere near" the bath while she brushed her teeth... :sigh: How did I fix it? Pulled out the bath and changed it to a wet room shower instead. Perhaps you should remove the floor? :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hah! Good luck with that! It took me over twenty years to persuade my wife to use a laundry basket. Before that all her clothes went in, on, or "somewhere near" the bath while she brushed her teeth... :sigh: How did I fix it? Pulled out the bath and changed it to a wet room shower instead. Perhaps you should remove the floor? :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have a coworker who is brilliant (seriously), but he has this annoying habit of using negative logic: if (!TestNotPassed) // it worked! I have to be very careful when reading his code.
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Actually, you have to be very not not careful.
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Should wives have an "OK OK OK!" button?
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Similar to what I heard during my first visit to the US about fifteen years ago - "It ain't not work". Will it work? Will it not? Not sure (to me). "It ain't not happen". Will it happen? Or not? Have never visited the UK, so am not sure of this usage there. But, the English taught in India (in my childhood days, more than 35 years ago) didn't have such usages.
"I ain't going nowhere". Are you going anywhere or not going anywhere? and "Midnight ain't no time for laughing, when you say goodbye". Is midnight a good time for laughing or it ain't?? I caught these lines in 2 of the songs of one direction.
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"I ain't going nowhere". Are you going anywhere or not going anywhere? and "Midnight ain't no time for laughing, when you say goodbye". Is midnight a good time for laughing or it ain't?? I caught these lines in 2 of the songs of one direction.
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