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From: Ben Shimmin on 13 Feb 2010 08:11
Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk>:
> Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:
>> I then go to 'About...' to see if there's
>> a shortcut to the website. There is, sort of - a link to their Welcome
>> page. But is it clickable? Is it hell. Cut'n'paste'able? Nope.
>
> Heck yes, I must say that when it came to updating my copy of
> OpenOffice.org that it took me hours to work out what to enter as the
> URL to download a copy of OpenOffice.org. A real puzzler. I sat and
> stared at my copy of OpenOffice.org for several hours puzzling about
> what URL could possibly be associated with OpenOffice.org.
>
> <rolls eyes>

Very droll, Steve. However, surely the point of having scheduled
automatic update functionality is that you don't have to follow `tech
news sites' or uk.comp.sys.mac to know that an update is available,
and you don't have to go to a web site, however easy the address may
be to remember given the name of the software, to find out what's
going on.

I can understand that there is no automatic update from 3.1 to 3.2
(or whatever); but it just seems like a lack of foresight that 3.1
should not know that 3.2 is at least available (even if it isn't capable
of doing an upgrade to the new version).

b.

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From: Jim on 13 Feb 2010 09:17
Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:

> > The point, since you seem to keep missing it,
>
> I'm not "missing" anything, Bozo.

You keep demonstrating that you are, Bozo.

> > is not that the URL is hard to type in, it's that you shouldn't *have* to
> > type it in. Software is supposed to Do Stuff For You, not put artificial
> > barriers in your way.
>
> Gasp, you don't say. Oh hang on you did say and you sem to consider
> yourself to be an intellectual giant for repeating something that I've
> know since ummm probably before you even knew what software is.

Gosh, are you now adding "being born in the 1800's" to your list of
supposed qualities?

Don't bother replying, please. You're far too impressed with yourself to
make any sense at the moment.

Jim
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From: Steve Firth on 13 Feb 2010 09:29
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote:

>
> Don't bother replying, please.

What a shame that Usenet doesn't work the way you seem to think it does.
Or is it that in the Magrathea household that you stamp your foot and
mommy pops in a sweet to keep you quiet?
From: Jim on 13 Feb 2010 09:39
Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:

> > Don't bother replying, please.
>
> What a shame that Usenet doesn't work the way you seem to think it does.
> Or is it that in the Magrathea household that you stamp your foot and
> mommy pops in a sweet to keep you quiet?

Bless.

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From: SteveH on 13 Feb 2010 11:02
Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote:

> I can understand that there is no automatic update from 3.1 to 3.2
> (or whatever); but it just seems like a lack of foresight that 3.1
> should not know that 3.2 is at least available (even if it isn't capable
> of doing an upgrade to the new version).

I can almost understand this - I mean, OS 10.5.x doesn't remind you to
upgrade to 10.6.x, does it?

Athough the iApps seem to nag forever unless you upgrade.
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