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Mark_Wallace wrote: markrlondon wrote: They have massively shaped expectations. ... of mobile phones.
No, the key point to remember is that non-technical end users (it doesn't matter if they are corporate employees, SOHO users, or home users) don't differentiate. It doesn't matter whether it's a phone or a desktop or a laptop or a tablet or their tv. It's all the same to them.
The world has moved on.
To say that...
Mark_Wallace wrote: - Most mobile phones are used almost exclusively for social purposes, viewing media/playing games while not at home, and as phones.
- Most computers are used almost exclusively for getting work done, viewing media/playing games while at home, and a comparatively small amount of non-work-related social purposes.
... is no longer largely true. Phones are used commonly for work and laptops/desktops are used commonly for talking to the family, playing games, watching movies, etc.
The point is that it is anachronistic to try and differentiate as you do above. It is a difference that has largely been eliminated and is being further eliminated every day.
You're comparing a family car to a truck, and saying that trucks should be redesigned to be more like family cars.
If by "truck" you mean either pickup trucks or SUVs, then in fact they can and do make excellent do-everything family cars.
I was of course talking about computers (in all their forms) and not vehicles but if you want to compare computers with vehicles then we do in fact see a similar phenomenon: What were once specialist vehicles (e.g. pickup trucks and SUVs) have become mainstream family vehicles in many cases. I.e. Where once there was a difference, that difference is being eliminated by the progress of events.
Mark_Wallace wrote: It just doesn't work that way, no matter how much microsoft wants to believe it does.
And yet we see it every day. I can't understand why you are denying what is self-evident every day, i.e. that there is no longer a fundamental difference in end users' minds between one sort of computer (a mobile phone) and another sort (laptops or desktops). Sure, the form fact is different but it is obvious that they are both capable of a range of tasks, both business and pleasure, and thus people really do expect that.
As I say, the world has moved on. Fixed differentiations are no longer valid.
By all means, a desktop computer should not have a mobile phone UI and a mobile UI is not suitable for a desktop computer, due to the differences in form factor. But bland details of UI are not what we're talking about here.
And no, I don't work for Microsoft. But I do provide technical support for a range of users of varying types. And I can tell you that they see no reason why Windows should not work more like their phone. Like it or not, that is the reality that desktop/laptop OSes (Windows and also Linux) must adapt to.
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markrlondon wrote: the key point to remember is that non-technical end users (it doesn't matter if they are corporate employees, SOHO users, or home users) don't differentiate Where's that "che catso dici?" emoji, when I need it!
We're never going to agree on this, and there's no point in just repeating ourselves.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Oh yeah. He retired. And is irrelevant. Just like you and soon me.
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: And is irrelevant. Just like you and soon me. You speak for yourself!
I've always been irrelevant!
(Anyone who thinks they're not is a dangerous person.)
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modified 14-Apr-20 5:35am.
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True.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Adding two spaces after a period is something that so many people seem to do, despite others obviously going for what they believe to be the correct choice and using just one space. I guess they've already fixed all the bad stuff
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They'll have to pry my from my cold, dead hands!
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Someone who is obviously an idiot said: While the two-space rule actually made sense in the era of typewriters I'll agree that that makes sense to idiots, and to people with absolutely no spatial awareness whatsoever.
Let your faith lie in the truth, not stand in lies[^].
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In this time of craziness it's refreshing there are small pockets of sanity.
Next they need to hunt down and kill the "--" I see in text. Use a single dash, or an em-dash if you have the ability, but tautologic punctuation must die.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Next they need to hunt down and kill the "--" I see in text If they include it in all MS software not only office...
Good luck with HTML comments in VS
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: Good luck with HTML comments in VS For HTML, remove the space in "&n dash;" and you get "–".
But typing "--" always means an en-dash, in all contexts, and makes it easier for you to see what you're writing.
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And I meant if they do an auto-correct of the "--" to "-" then...
<!--
<tag>
whatevert
</tag>
getting changed to
<!- vs this with one ->
<tag>
whatevert
</tag>
might get funny.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I'd buy that program just to complain about it when it doesn't run!
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In copy and manuscripts for publication/printing, you insert two hyphens to indicate an en-dash, and three for an em-dash, and you don't use symbols that may not be present in the machines used by the fifteen people along the line who have to handle your text, so I'm afraid it's a sign that professional standards are being followed, not a mistake.
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To Hell with professional standards! Chaos and misplaced apostrophe's for all!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: misplaced apostrophe's That's "greengrocers apostrophe's"!
Some standards must be upheld!
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cheers
Chris Maunder
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There is a right way and a wrong way to perform code commenting in source code; here's what not to do. // why not?
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Yet another person who couldn't walk the walk, yet feels qualified to tell those of us that *can*, how it should be done....
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Them as can, do; them as can't become bad teachers.
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0: Remember that adding "the dog's" means it's good
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Quote: Don't comment on the obvious
This dogma, more than anything else, is the root of all evil when it comes to "how to comment" posts.
I couldn't even guess the number of times someone has assumed something is "obvious" but is clearly highly ambiguous, or worse, totally and utterly not obvious. I've even done it myself: made a pithy comment since I thought it was obvious and then, 6 months later, had no idea what was going on.
And then there's the "obvious" at the time and for the situation, but then times and situations change. New functionality, new technology, even the changing use of terminology means things become un-obvious very quickly.
Comment always. Comment to clarify. Comment to tell the story of what you feel the code should be doing even if it's obvious because that one comment, that one tidbit, could save a dev a week of pain or worse - a catastrophically bad assumption.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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obvious (IMO) to avoid:
// declare variables
// implement code
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Even that much does no harm, afaics.
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It does no good either and is annoying as hell when there's no comments saying WHY something is being done.
Don't tell me WHAT you are doing, I can read that. Tell my WHY you are doing it.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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