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Gnome 2.6 Usability Review
TuringTest writes ""The user-centric UI webzine" UserInstinct has published a usability overview of the latest version of the GNOME desktop. While their conclusions and recommendations are not mind-blowing, it includes two interesting appendices with a survey of new users (and their reactions to the system) and a list of common tasks of modern computer users with a commentary on how Gnome performs in each one. Note that usually You Only Need to Test With 5 Users (this report tests 4), you need to test additional users when an interface has several highly distinct groups of users and thus the conclusions in this review should not be taken as definitive."
How do you feel about spelling Nazis?
The fact that Nielsen's web usage numbers disagre with Alexa whose numbers disagre with other sources, etc. just shows how hard measuring an audience really is.
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Most TV networks don't particularly care how many people watch any given program. The program's just a honeypot to try to attract you into watching the ads. That's the key, that's what they get paid for, who is in the audience watching the ads. The key exception are the networks like HBO and Showtime, because they have no sponsors and they get paid by people who subscribe. Still, even they don't directly care how many people watch each show, they care how many people are willing to subscribe as a result of each show. How many people watched is a nice proxy for those numbers, but they're not the true money stats that the decision makers really want to know.
Since web business models vary, so is the metric that needs to be driven up so that the site makes money. Sometimes it's page views, sometimes it's ad clicks, sometimes it's sales... etc.
I don't think there's ever going to be a universially accepted metric for "most popular" website... nor will that ever be an important title to have money-wise.
Only precede words with the "an" article if the word in question starts with a vowel SOUND. Merely having a vowel as the first letter of the word is not a sufficient qualifier.
The hard "y" sound, as in usability (yoosability) does NOT require the "an" article.
For fuck's sake, just say it aloud, and you'll quickly realize it's stupid as hell. Fucking damned pedants who can't even get it right - that's all this world needs.
I've found the loophole in democracy.
It's stupid people.
Vast masses of stupid people.
I suspect "stupid people" == "people who don't agree with you politically".
Shame on Google.