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From: Rowland McDonnell on 23 Feb 2010 11:06 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: [snip] > If it weren't for all the modern things that simply don't work on MacOS > X, I mean `prior to MacOS X' Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Jim on 23 Feb 2010 11:16 On 2010-02-23, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > But I really don't get iPhoto at all. > > Can anyone explain what the point of it is? It probably makes more sense with a digital camera - connect camera, iPhoto launches and offers to import the pictures, job done. Each import becomes a separate 'reel'. It's the fact that it makes it all very easy that is its strength. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "Get over here. Now. Might be advisable to wear brown trousers and a shirt the colour of blood." Malcolm Tucker, "The Thick of It"
From: Rowland McDonnell on 23 Feb 2010 11:24 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > But I really don't get iPhoto at all. > > > > Can anyone explain what the point of it is? > > It probably makes more sense with a digital camera - connect camera, iPhoto > launches and offers to import the pictures, job done. Each import becomes a > separate 'reel'. It's the fact that it makes it all very easy that is its > strength. A reel, huh? Yeah, I've noticed that about iPhoto. Nothing makes sense about the UI, pretty much, because it's filled with undefined terms that I don't understand and can't find out about, like your use of the word `reel' there. There's no bloody reel, there's just some computerized data structure about which I know nothing, and to which Apple applied that noun. Any idea how I might find out about iPhoto's terminology? Apple expects users to `intuit' this kind of thing from the UI, but I am totally unable to do anything like that. I've /never/ been able to learn software from the UI alone - except in the case of trivial software. That means its so simple in operation that there is no possibility of confusion about its function or what any of the menu commands do, and also that everything it can do can be done via a menu command. learnt to use Lotus 1,2,3 from the manual. Then I had to do the same with MS Excel and with the Appleworks spreadsheet too. All seperately learnt from the manual - although I'll admit that once I'd got the hang of the UI, a lot of learning transferred from one to the other. Basically, I needed the manual for Excel and Appleworks so I could drive the UI. The point is this: I can't work it out from the UI. No software has an inuitive UI as far as I'm concerned - absolutely none of it. It all has to be learnt from the documentation - which does not exist these days, so I am excluded from using almost all modern software. Damnit. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Geoff Berrow on 23 Feb 2010 11:32 On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:35:39 +0000, real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: >What I'm particularly interested in is that I gather TeX and XML work >well together and since XML is (like it or not) `New World Order' stuff, >seems like I could do with learning about that end of things. An XML file is like a database Would you need instruction to work out what this was about? Or in another file <phonebook> <number>12354</number> <name>Jim</name> <number>546362</number> <name>harry</name> </phonebook> Or in another file <class_list> <student> <name>Robert</name> <grade>A+</grade> </student> <student> <name>Lenard</name> <grade>A-</grade> </student> </class_list> -- Geoff Berrow (Put thecat out to email) It's only Usenet, no one dies. My opinions, not the committee's, mine. Simple RFDs www.4theweb.co.uk/rfdmaker
From: Rowland McDonnell on 23 Feb 2010 11:36
Geoff Berrow <blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote: > real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: > > >What I'm particularly interested in is that I gather TeX and XML work > >well together and since XML is (like it or not) `New World Order' stuff, > >seems like I could do with learning about that end of things. > > An XML file is like a database Would you need instruction to work out > what this was about? I'm afraid I don't follow you. > Or in another file `Another' file? What file first? > <phonebook> > <number>12354</number> > <name>Jim</name> > <number>546362</number> > <name>harry</name> > </phonebook> > > Or in another file > > <class_list> > <student> > <name>Robert</name> > <grade>A+</grade> > </student> > <student> > <name>Lenard</name> > <grade>A-</grade> > </student> > </class_list> Erm? Your point, please? Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |