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Stevbe — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:21:54 GMT

< My dad included, who uses his left hand + index finger on right hand to type, even though he has been a programmer for last 17 years>

MS IDEs have had intellisense for 10 years, I used it back then but no so much now. I agree with the *multiple* words with the same beginning mess me up as I have to keep looking at the list to see if / which word I want to pick. This gets even more problematic when you start memorizing your abrreviation list and then suddenly you add a new library (or expand your vocabulary) and all of a sudden the first 3 letters don't resolve to the same word it did yesterday.

Steve

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Max Palmer — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:31:34 GMT

Update: I too can clear the problem by reselecting the text size. Thanks for the tip.

Happy holidays to all ...

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Max Palmer — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:27:51 GMT

Regarding corruption of comments. My system specs are as follows:

OS is W2K SP4
Browser IE6 SP1 (6.0.2899.1106C0)
Q867801,Q823353,Q833989,Q903235

If you need more info then let me know.

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NateB1 — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:53:21 GMT

I have also noticed that the comments become corrupted.

I am using IE6 SP2 on Windows XP Professional.

The way I get around this issue is to keep refreshing the page. For about a half-second, nothing is corrupted, but then it suddenly becomes corrupted. I then press the Refresh button, and so on and so forth until either the page remains "uncorrupted" or I am done reading the comments. It is rather annoying.

re: On Hiatus

Chris C. — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:51:03 GMT

John:
You're welcome, nice to know it was read (I wonder sometimes :-) I had hoped to mess with it next week while I'm off, but the gf seems to have plans for me - maybe I'll still have time. My MSDN subscription has run out I really should do something :-) Best wishes in your studies.

''blogs'': I have this prob with some areas of this blog. IE 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.050301-1526

Max: I can clear it up in my browser with View | Text Size | Medium
(and yes, picking what it is already set at works)

Merry Christmas everyone!*

-Chris C.

* - Feel free to wish me back a seasons greetins as Chanukah, Quanza, etc. (Christmas is my sentiment, whatever yours is, yours is :-)

PS
I have a friend who types with his two index fingers and is faster than I am.

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blogs — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:03:27 GMT

Max: Using what operating system, service pack level, and web browser version?

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Max Palmer — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:28:46 GMT

A bit off topic, but does anyone else find that if an article has a lot of comments then they become corrupted?

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John Doe — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 02:25:16 GMT

a) Robert just in your last 2 paragraph comment, you used 50 words which are >= 5 characters. Yes just 50 in your last 2 paragraphs!! Count them yourself.

b) Maybe you don't hang around people with very limited technical skills or people who use computers 18hrs a day. I do, I go to a tech school and I have worked at a public library teaching old people how to use computer. There are gazillions of people who don't know how to type. My dad included, who uses his left hand + index finger on right hand to type, even though he has been a programmer for last 17 years. This feature would be god send for millions of people.

c) I guess Clippy did really scare you Robert. I hope you still don't have nightmarers.

d) I wish someone would replicate such feature in e-mail app. I think I should request that on Thunderbird forum. Your statement contradicts your first quote itself.

I think Microsoft should do some studies in finding out if this feature could increase the time typing the documents. It will be worth the effort and besides if it did increasse the typing speed, they will get good PR. I think study will show that this feature does speed up typing.

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Robert Moir — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 01:21:10 GMT

"I am a college student and my papers usually include lot of words greator than 5 letters. Autotype feature saves me ridicuouls amount of time retyping words. "

OK, it works for you. But consider that when you break it down you're proposing four sets of people:

a) those who frequently use words > 5 characters.
b) but who cannot type very well for some reason.
c) and yet who are not scared by random things popping up on the screen while they're trying to concentrate on their typing.
d) spend a fair amount of time working in a word processor rather than an Email app or an IM chat window.

I of course am not a UI guru, but I suspect (and have done some observation to confirm this) that the junction between those four sets is quite small.