Brian Reay wrote in :

On 19/09/14 10:00, Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Stuart Longland
writes
On 19/09/14 10:33, Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI wrote:
The car
I learnt to drive in, a 1956 Ford Popular, also had a button marked
"START".

My computer at work has one called "Start" but ironically I use it to
"stop" it.

Here, it's perfectly obvious that "Start" refers to starting the
procedure you need to carry out to stop it. [Doesn't it?]

To be fair, that was always a rather silly jibe at Windows.

The Start referred to starting the Menu, the fact that the process to
turn off the computer was in the Menu hardly needs the whole thing to be
renamed. If they had called it 'Menu', as some OS's do (eg the Cinnamon
Desktop on the Linux I'm using now), someone would have made a
joke about not wanting a meal.




On old Psion Organisers Off is on the menu so the menu must be on. If a
program is to run the menu must be off so the program can't be off, even if
we want it to, unless the coder put off onto user control. There some coders
who did this, wisely deciding not to put off till tomorrow what should be on
today, but this still leaves a question as to what menu should be on in order
to become off. Fortunately the Organiser will go off anyway, if we wait, but
not if the comms link is connected, so ironically the more ways we have to
turn it off, the more on it must be. I could go on, but I shall desist.