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From: "Matt" <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] architectures
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:04:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <003201c10aa9$55ed4b50$6401a8c0@freeze2k> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010712052246.F4087199E1@mail.cse.psu.edu>



> when i supported business-type users, particularly
> such people on Win32 boxes, having them do anything with
> any button other than the left was usually a failure. many
> times i'd say "right click" and have them ignore the first
> word. i'd repeat "no, _right_ click". the response would
> usually be "i did" and they'd repeat exactly what they'd just
> done. again, incorrectly.

give 'em a big red button and no keyboard or screen

tell 'em press this button when you here a beep



  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-12  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-12  5:22 anothy
2001-07-12  8:04 ` Matt [this message]
2001-07-12 10:12 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-12 13:01 ` Laura Creighton
2001-07-12 20:35   ` [9fans] architectures Jim Choate
2001-07-12 21:41     ` Dan Cross
2001-07-12 22:09       ` Jim Choate
2001-07-13 14:52     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-13 15:15       ` Boyd Roberts
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-13  2:25 [9fans] architectures Rick Hohensee
2001-07-12 12:55 forsyth
2001-07-12 12:43 rob pike
2001-07-12 19:45 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-12 11:15 nemo
2001-07-12 20:28 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-13 14:53   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-13 15:11     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-12 10:30 nemo
2001-07-12 10:18 ` Christopher Nielsen
2001-07-12  8:42 forsyth
2001-07-12 13:56 ` Laura Creighton
2001-07-12 16:13 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-07-12 16:33   ` Matt
2001-07-12 18:12     ` Scott Schwartz
2001-07-12 18:16       ` Martin Harriss
2001-07-12 18:43       ` Dan Cross
2001-07-13 14:52         ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-13 15:13           ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-12  7:15 Sape Mullender
2001-07-12  6:16 okamoto
2001-07-12  7:46 ` pac
2001-07-12  9:59 ` Christopher Nielsen
2001-07-11 23:17 Jonathan Sergent
2001-07-11 17:59 David Gordon Hogan
2001-07-11 17:38 geoff
2001-07-11 18:29 ` Dan Cross
2001-07-11 16:27 jmk
2001-07-11 16:03 jmk
2001-07-11 15:17 nemo
2001-07-11 15:07 bwc
2001-07-11 16:53 ` Mike Haertel
2001-07-11 14:36 anothy
2001-07-11 14:59 ` Theo Honohan
2001-07-11 15:02   ` Matt
2001-07-11 16:52   ` Mike Haertel
2001-07-11 22:58 ` Boyd Roberts

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