On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 02:13:43PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Perhaps "store" is a better word than "save", but I can't > see how you can claim that the operation itself isn't useful. > How else would you want to preserve a document for the future?
Why on earth would the computer not do this for you? > They are correct in this. Disk storage is a kind of (magnetic) memory. No they're not, in any meaningful sense. > but it is far from the only kind. It doesn't matter much if users > don't understand about RAM. They need to know that what's Hah, yes it does! The File->Save paradigm forces them to know about RAM. > Good. You're making it harder by not explaining what > you want instead of "save". I'll read the book, You're assuming it makes sense to have something that's "instead of Save". regards john
