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Do American users also confuse the day and the month in dates like 01/02/2013 @SteveBennett: Three-letter abbreviated English names are the probably the most readable form for English speakers; perhaps less so for those in other cultures. I like YYYY-MM-DD because it's sortable, culture-agnostic, and essentially unambiguous. |
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Do American users also confuse the day and the month in dates like 01/02/2013 @PashaS: The C language standard specifies that DATE will expand to a macro with the compilation date using the first three characters of the English-language names of the months, so at least among programmers those three-letter sequences should be recognizable. Incidentally, in some languages the month names are not unique in their first three characters (e.g. in French, the sixth and seventh months both start "Jui") but in English they are. Month abbreviations are also distinct from weekday ones, unlike in French (the third month shares three letters with a weekday). |
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Jan 30 |
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What is the term for numeric textboxes with arrows? One approach I occasionally saw in DOS programs was to make it so that holding the mouse button on the box while moving the mouse would change the value without moving the mouse cursor. It didn't matter if the mouse pointer was near the edge of the screen, since the mouse pointer wasn't going to move anyway. I wish Windows would provide a means for a control to indicate that if the mouse is clicked within a region, it should [depending upon the control] either be locked in place or confined to that region as long as the button is held (sending delta-XY values to the application). |
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Jan 21 |
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Computer login with password only, without username @AJHenderson: My answer was written not to suggest that single-entry log-in is a good a good idea, but rather accept the original question's premise that it was desired; I thus offered what I believe to be the best way of implementing the feature. In some environments the seemingly-slight advantage may make the feature worthwhile; in other environments, not. As for lost-password recovery, the situation is no worse than situations where people may forget their username; given the small number of users involved, the "administrator" will have little problem figuring out who someone is. |
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Jan 20 |
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Computer login with password only, without username @kapep: Upon further consideration, it might in some cases to have the portion of the entered string that identifies the user be of variable length. For example, one could specify that there are 20 users starting with a-t, 120 users starting with ua-zt, 720 starting with uua-zzt, etc. Or maybe 26 a-z, 260 0a-9z, 2600 00a-99z, etc. |
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Jan 20 |
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Computer login with password only, without username @kapep: Digits, perhaps, pushing the number of users up to 36, but beyond that, telling someone they must start their password with an uppercase W, or with a left bracket, etc. would make the system a bit less transparent. Even digits don't seem like that great an idea, since it would encourage users to pick digits for all the remaining characters as well (reducing the password space enormously). |
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Jan 17 |
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Computer login with password only, without username @JonW: "You can pick any password you like, so long as it starts with 'k'". |
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Jan 17 |
answered | Computer login with password only, without username |
