On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Traditionally a binary digit is usually thought of as
+1 or 0,
on or off,
that sort of thing.
So i hadn't really thought of what the opposite of a +1 is but
voting is not binary anyway and -1 makes more sense.
Regards from
Tom :)
yeah, I've seen '+2', I've never seen '+10'.
people used to say 'me too' but that got pooh-poohed. bad form.
F.
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On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Brian Barker wrote:
At 08:23 22/11/2012 -0500, Virgil Aonly wrote:
The fact that the original questioner on this thread had to ask how to disable
so many autocorrect features, I think, proves my point.
No - it just shows that he now knows about automatic correction *and* how to
control it.
A user simply trying to type a document should never have to ask why the
program is making unintended changes to his work.
Saying you don't want *unintended* changes is tautologous: you don't want what
you don't want. No-one can argue with that. But that may require the program
to read your mind.
It all depends on what you mean by "changes". If I type a complete sentence on
one line of my document, the program *changes* what I typed by flowing the text onto
multiple lines. I've typed a page or two and then decide to increase the font size of
all my text; the program now *changes* what I had by reflowing the text to fit. I type a
new value into a spreadsheet cell, the program *changes* all the cells with formulae
depending on it - without my going near them!
If you don't want a program to make any automatic changes, you probably want a
typewriter.
;^)
the emoticon is appropriate as the argument is obviously a strawman.
everyone expects text to 're-flow', no one expects that in the sequence
(a) ...
(b) ...
(c) ...
the last value will become the copyright symbol.
I've learned to turn this bit of buggery off after long travails but why 'long
travails'? 'cause you forget about it until the next time you do a sequence and
there the darned thing is again!
I also '+1' or whatever (how high is one allowed to go?) that "(i)" should not generate
"(I)". you certainly cannot argue this is as natural as paragraph reflowing.
but your point about tautologies is well-taken ((+2)?) since the sense of it is
"diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks," that is, some may want some
autocorrections that are abominations to others.
I would vote for limiting autocorrections to frequent misspellings and leave
'fancy formatting' out of it. anyone who mistypes a word will notice the
autocorrection utility so there is no danger the resource will go unnoticed.
is there such a thing as "-1"?
F.
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