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- From: sold@kit.uni-kl.de (Christoph Sold)
- Subject: Re: Map (was: Australian Mac systems)
- Message-ID: <sold.72.714426570@kit.uni-kl.de>
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- Organization: Universitaet Kaiserslautern
- References: <sold.54.713825579@kit.uni-kl.de> <hammett.714010980@sbsu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <1992Aug18.105506.8740@odin.diku.dk> <1992Aug18.123145.24941@reed.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:49:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.123145.24941@reed.edu> orpheus@reed.edu (P. Hawthorne) writes:
- >Subject: Re: Map (was: Australian Mac systems)
- >From: orpheus@reed.edu (P. Hawthorne)
- >Date: 18 Aug 92 12:31:45 GMT
- >
- > hammett@sbsu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Tim Hammett) writes:
- >: Most users don't bother to set their location in the Map control panel.
- >
- > klaus@diku.dk (Klaus Ole Kristiansen) writes:
- >: I certainly haven't. Is there any advantage in doing so?
- >
- > This is the chicken and the egg problem. Nobody uses the map control panel
- >because nobody uses the map control panel. Lame.
- >
- > Maybe apps should check to see whether the location has been set. If not,
- >the app could ask them to set it somehow, either by providing a way to do
- >it within the app, by asking the user to do it with the control panel, or
- >if the control panel is not present, by offering to install it for them and
- >then let them do it.
- >
- > Theus (orpheus@reed.edu)
-
- Of course I have set my location: If I want to know the time in the states (
- very useful if I want to call someone there), I go to map and look up its
- location. Map tells me the time there...
- -Christoph
-
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