"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 19:47:28 +0100, Rod Speed
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"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:01:56 +0100, whisky-dave
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On Wednesday, 9 October 2019 01:07:28 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Most people find it easiier to use a one particualr hand than the
other.

Bull****.

Nom it's a fact.

Becaseu that's the way they were taught!

No.
My mother was taught to use her right hand for writing, she had her
knuckles hit with a wooden rular at school, but she could still only
write with her left hand.

Check this out:
https://visual.ly/community/infograp...visually_embed
Note that 4 out of 5 Mac designers are left handers. That explains why
those "computers" are so weird!

They did get one thing right on Macs though, the dialog box. Let's say
you do something like delete a file. The box says something like "Are
you
sure? Ok or cancel."
The key difference is Windows is the wrong way round, they put the
affirmative action on the left, claiming that since we read form the
left,
we expect affirmative to be there. Bull****. Think of a car - which
pedal makes it go faster? The one on the right. Think of the volume
control on your stereo - turn to the right to increase. Right is always
more.

Plenty of times it isnt.

Most times right is more.

Not with gas taps.

There are other stupid things, like water and gas taps.

Both of which preceded the right is more.

That really annoys me

Then do the decent thing and top yourself or something.

that you turn an electric cooker knob right to make it hotter, and a gas
knob left. I guess that's historical, to do with tightening a screw.

Yep and not at all clear why the later stuff did it the other way.

Ok should be on the right, like on Macs.

What matters is what is selected by default, not which way round they
are.

Bull****. I answer dialog boxes with a mouse,

But what matters is what the cursor hovers over by default, stupid.

what's selected is irrelevant to me.

More fool you when what is selected is what happens
when you click without moving the mouse.

If I used the keyboard to answer them, I'd prefer neither of them to be
selected.

More fool you. It makes a lot more sense
for the safe thing to be the default, stupid.

I'd want to press Y or N to make a decision. Not assume that my default
is the same as the programmer's.

It isnt the programmers when it defaults to the safe choice, stupid.