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in General Discussion edited January 2014
This is what Print Center's icon bar looks like during printing:





Is this a joke from the print_dev center over at cupertino?? A hidden message. As far as i know, the message used to be "Stop queue".

And watch the significant use of the capital consonant in "Jobs". There can be no mistake, the guy/girl who put those words there was thinking of the überboss.



Any thoughts?

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    My guess is that people are just probably more familiar with the term "print jobs" than "print queue" and that is the reason Apple changed it (if it was changed at all - I don't remember old Print Center).



    As for the capital J, look no further than the Finder. "New Folder" and "Get Info" have first letters capitalized. Mail has "Reply All", "Get Mail", "Add To Address Book" -- the list goes on. There's probably something in the HIG about capital letters, but I'm too lazy to look.



    A funny find, though.



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  • Reply 2 of 4
    trailmaster308trailmaster308 Posts: 699member
    [quote]Originally posted by The Beheaded Junkie:

    <strong>This is what Print Center's icon bar looks like during printing:





    Is this a joke from the print_dev center over at cupertino?? A hidden message. As far as i know, the message used to be "Stop queue".

    And watch the significant use of the capital consonant in "Jobs". There can be no mistake, the guy/girl who put those words there was thinking of the überboss.



    Any thoughts?</strong><hr></blockquote>





    In Unix print queues each item held is called a job....



    lpstat -p[device]



    you can see job numbers...least that is how it is in AIX.(best enterprise version of Unix to be made)
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  • Reply 3 of 4
    trailmaster308trailmaster308 Posts: 699member
    [quote]Originally posted by trailmaster308:

    <strong>





    In Unix print queues each item held is called a job....



    lpstat -p[device]



    you can see job numbers...least that is how it is in AIX.(best enterprise version of Unix to be made) </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Yeah just checked the man pages. lpstat shows job numbers. To stop the queue would mean to actually bring the queue down [enq], probably put it there because most people who use unix refer to jobs as the item to be printed and queues as the device. Just my .02
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  • Reply 4 of 4
    smithjoelsmithjoel Posts: 240member
    If you're American and not too cultured, jobs markes more sence than queue. I'd assume it's an attempt to be more user friendly than Jobs unfriendly.



    Still funny though. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
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