[Gllug] Open Ports

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On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Chris Bell moaned:
> On Mon 28 Jan, tet at accucard.com wrote:
>> 
>> The worst offender for this, though, was a Windows 3.11 app I once saw
>> (I can't even remember it's name now), which had a check box labelled
>> "don't disable foobar". If that was unchecked, then you have a triple
>> negative to try and express what you want to do. True, we're not
>> talking about anything that extreme here, but the same principle
>> applies.
>> 
>    I would suggest that you don't even look at how your computer works,
> there is plenty of multiple negative logic in there because the binary
> signals need to be enabled or disabled (held either at 0 or 1) by

Er, the point is that *humans* are bad at handling repeated negatives,
because the handling of such in human language is inconsistent (even
*within* some languages, e.g. English).

Computers should try to adapt to humans in this respect, I think.

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 abducted by bunnies along their route, you've got a whole new problem.'
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