Bling isn't horrible. When people break established, well-understood standards is horrible. More and more web sites I visit use some fancy drag-n-drop handler so you can drag/swipe like you do on a smart phone. As a result, copy/paste is increasingly broken, scroll bars don't work, clicking to focus often has side effects, among many other problems.
Worst web page UI redesign for no good reason: PayPal. I used to receive a transaction number directly and instantly after completing a payment. Now I get full-screen checkmark congratulating me on spending money, forcing me to navigate AJAX-controlled menus and endure fake swipes to view my "history" to get the transaction number. Once I get to the history entry with my transaction number, most of the information there can't be recorded with a simple copy/paste since it's now a dragable layer, and if I drag the layer to a text file, all I get is a web link to the information, not the information itself.
Economics implies that they will heartily ignore the needs of the millions in favor of the billions, anyway. Extremely detailed information isn't much use when your market share is this large.
Remember, the ultimate end result after a decade of telemetry was... Windows 8.
Windows already has a task scheduler, and sane companies use that instead of adding yet more idiotic, unnecessary services, let alone background tasks.
Given my experience with the horrible, virus-like, watchdog behavior of Google Update, I have no idea what you mean by Google solving updates the nice way.
It would be nice if the term "observation" was clarified in every explanation of the double slit experiment. I'm sick of every explanation including the phrase, "as if it knows it's being watched", trying to make real science feel more like magic, rather than the other way around.
What's sad is that since your Home folder is accessible by everything, almost all security is handled at the application level. Even if it were possible to audit Linux (and all the shell layers built on it), that means squat if you use the same applications that you do on Windows. Or, as you're suggesting, any software that's given away for free.
I shrug at people who throw a tantrum over Windows, and then happily use Chrome on Linux.
I like how the web site insists that the format is a work in progress, and future versions may not actually load images created with the current implementation.
Unlike document formats, media formats rarely evolve over time. For a media format not to be production ready means it's currently worthless. Be prepared to wait a few years to use a format that will never be widely adopted. Nice.
This was my job when I was employed at a medical warehouse a few months ago.
When we moved into a new building in April of last year, a metric system was put into place in the form of a voice picking headset. The headset told us where to go to pick the product, and we responded when the order was completed. Nobody in the company actually told us what the metric was, but we were graded as a daily percentage of how much product we picked an hour. When they told us that 100% is the engineered standard, but any score below 88% was grounds for termination, I knew right away it was time to think about quitting. There's no way I'm working in an environment where a "B" is a failing grade.
I did hang on for several more months of 12-14 hour shifts, I did finally receive a warning that my score was below 88% and I had two weeks to improve before they sacked me. I quit the same day, then went to the GM and explained exactly why.
It's also worth pointing out that the metric system was totally broken and they knew it, and they didn't care. Our headset voice recognition didn't work with certain voice types, the volume alternated between silence and screaming for no reason making it difficult to hear the directions, sometimes the headset would hear things and pick product on its own or otherwise screw up orders, and sometimes the system went down for hours at a time, leaving us unable to get any work done at all. Management had a team of IT people who's sole purpose was to collect the numbers at the end of the day and "adjust" them for the printed reports they posted on the corkboard the next day. The numbers were essentially fake.
The metric basically said almost every employee was failing. Everybody got warnings. I was apparently one of the few who actually took the metric as an insult, and quit to the surprise of my supervisors.
The issue is whether doing this on a dyno is sufficient. It's not impossible, but difficult to haul emissions monitoring hardware on the road and reproduce a variety of standard conditions. Cheating could still be performed by measuring accelerometers, differential readings, driver input and reaction times, etc.
Losing nothing is the key. I'd have no problem updating every year to keep up to date and supported, even for coin, so long as I didn't lose features that have been commonplace for 20 years.
Interestingly, it was Windows 7, not Windows 8, that convinced me to stick with XP for so long. The various, minute details of the Aero desktop, control panels, and context menus drove me nuts (and still do after updating this year). Windows 8 was obviously a mistake, but Windows 10 is more or less Windows 7 in extreme overdrive with mandatory spyware attached. No thanks.
I remember when I used to mock OSX for staying pretty much the same over the last 10 years. OSX isn't my thing, but I am jealous over Apple's ability to completely revolutionize everything... again... without actually changing much.
Forget "this post." The best part is when your last tab is "about:memory" and you do a garbage purge, and the memory consumption doesn't budge... or the last tab is "about:blank" and memory doesn't budge.
Actually, the best part is all those Firefox fans that have been insisting for 10 years that this isn't actually happening, Mozilla has "made a lot of progress" even though it's never actually been a problem, and that somehow it's probably all your fault (plugins) that the browser is crashing on 32-bit systems because it uses so many gigs of memory.
That's what people want. Modern cars have about twice the power (with substantially less emissions), and people are willing to accept 23-27 MPG for the performance they get.
Once a recession hits, people are whining about MPG and there's suddenly a glut of SUVs on the used car lots. When the economy recovers, people run to the dealers to buy the latest gas guzzlers again. Ask a typical American if they'd like to drive one of those 55 MPG town buggies like they have in Europe. The reaction will be, "That's cute, but it's not for me."
Sad as it is, it's all just supply and demand in the end. Such rationale explains the phenominally poor quality of domestic cars in the 70's, as well.
For being so insignificant, the major auto manufacturers are raising quite a stink about the company. Try looking for Tesla dealers, which are apparently illegal.
I don't think anybody can seriously say Apple's software is well-tested. Just on the phone side of things, they've been granted way too many mulligans depite massive, show-stopping bugs in iOS, largely due to rushing it to market to suit the latest hardware release. This has been going on long before the reigns passed to Cook, too.
Also, that's just the stuff that runs on their own hardware.
When iOS 8 was released, people noticed straight away that images couldn't be uploaded to web sites. As in, multipart-encoded image data included in a web form was just stripped away.
My reaction was, "How could such a show-stopping lack of QA be allowed to happen at all, let alone WHY it happened?"
The reaction from many of my peers on DeviantArt and other art-related web sites, upon realizing the couldn't upload their art, was, "Oh, I'm sure it'll be fixed soon. No big deal."
Many sites solve this problem by letting you edit your post within 5-10 minutes of posting it. They analyzed the complaints and arrived at a perfectly reasonable solution to evolve and adapt without ruining.
Sometimes "intentional design decision" is another way of saying "tradition and habit."
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I doubt it matters.
Years of telemetry collection is apparently what resulted in useful things like Pocket integration, Google+, ads that obscure content, and Windows 8.
Why? 99% of the time the system sits there thinking with 100% CPU utilization and it's not even accessing the disk.
Thanks, TrustedInstaller.exe.
Bling isn't horrible. When people break established, well-understood standards is horrible. More and more web sites I visit use some fancy drag-n-drop handler so you can drag/swipe like you do on a smart phone. As a result, copy/paste is increasingly broken, scroll bars don't work, clicking to focus often has side effects, among many other problems.
Worst web page UI redesign for no good reason: PayPal. I used to receive a transaction number directly and instantly after completing a payment. Now I get full-screen checkmark congratulating me on spending money, forcing me to navigate AJAX-controlled menus and endure fake swipes to view my "history" to get the transaction number. Once I get to the history entry with my transaction number, most of the information there can't be recorded with a simple copy/paste since it's now a dragable layer, and if I drag the layer to a text file, all I get is a web link to the information, not the information itself.
I fully agree with AthanasiusKircher above.
Economics implies that they will heartily ignore the needs of the millions in favor of the billions, anyway. Extremely detailed information isn't much use when your market share is this large.
Remember, the ultimate end result after a decade of telemetry was... Windows 8.
Windows already has a task scheduler, and sane companies use that instead of adding yet more idiotic, unnecessary services, let alone background tasks.
Given my experience with the horrible, virus-like, watchdog behavior of Google Update, I have no idea what you mean by Google solving updates the nice way.
It would be nice if the term "observation" was clarified in every explanation of the double slit experiment. I'm sick of every explanation including the phrase, "as if it knows it's being watched", trying to make real science feel more like magic, rather than the other way around.
Animated cartoon characters running around on the desktop. All installed without my permission.
Ah, such memories from browsing the web in the university computer lab in the 1990's.
What's sad is that since your Home folder is accessible by everything, almost all security is handled at the application level. Even if it were possible to audit Linux (and all the shell layers built on it), that means squat if you use the same applications that you do on Windows. Or, as you're suggesting, any software that's given away for free.
I shrug at people who throw a tantrum over Windows, and then happily use Chrome on Linux.
I know people making $200K per year who will haggle like crazy over $800.
Bullshit like this is why we have bullshit like this (an article that appeared just a little while before this one).
I can't remember the last time any software developer, let alone Google, did something on MY behalf.
I like how the web site insists that the format is a work in progress, and future versions may not actually load images created with the current implementation.
Unlike document formats, media formats rarely evolve over time. For a media format not to be production ready means it's currently worthless. Be prepared to wait a few years to use a format that will never be widely adopted. Nice.
This was my job when I was employed at a medical warehouse a few months ago.
When we moved into a new building in April of last year, a metric system was put into place in the form of a voice picking headset. The headset told us where to go to pick the product, and we responded when the order was completed. Nobody in the company actually told us what the metric was, but we were graded as a daily percentage of how much product we picked an hour. When they told us that 100% is the engineered standard, but any score below 88% was grounds for termination, I knew right away it was time to think about quitting. There's no way I'm working in an environment where a "B" is a failing grade.
I did hang on for several more months of 12-14 hour shifts, I did finally receive a warning that my score was below 88% and I had two weeks to improve before they sacked me. I quit the same day, then went to the GM and explained exactly why.
It's also worth pointing out that the metric system was totally broken and they knew it, and they didn't care. Our headset voice recognition didn't work with certain voice types, the volume alternated between silence and screaming for no reason making it difficult to hear the directions, sometimes the headset would hear things and pick product on its own or otherwise screw up orders, and sometimes the system went down for hours at a time, leaving us unable to get any work done at all. Management had a team of IT people who's sole purpose was to collect the numbers at the end of the day and "adjust" them for the printed reports they posted on the corkboard the next day. The numbers were essentially fake.
The metric basically said almost every employee was failing. Everybody got warnings. I was apparently one of the few who actually took the metric as an insult, and quit to the surprise of my supervisors.
The issue is whether doing this on a dyno is sufficient. It's not impossible, but difficult to haul emissions monitoring hardware on the road and reproduce a variety of standard conditions. Cheating could still be performed by measuring accelerometers, differential readings, driver input and reaction times, etc.
Losing nothing is the key. I'd have no problem updating every year to keep up to date and supported, even for coin, so long as I didn't lose features that have been commonplace for 20 years.
Interestingly, it was Windows 7, not Windows 8, that convinced me to stick with XP for so long. The various, minute details of the Aero desktop, control panels, and context menus drove me nuts (and still do after updating this year). Windows 8 was obviously a mistake, but Windows 10 is more or less Windows 7 in extreme overdrive with mandatory spyware attached. No thanks.
I remember when I used to mock OSX for staying pretty much the same over the last 10 years. OSX isn't my thing, but I am jealous over Apple's ability to completely revolutionize everything... again... without actually changing much.
I worry that it's possible a number of engineers already did resign or lose their job over this, and their replacements actually did all the work.
Works in every other industry, so why not? Resident pays for caller ID, advertiser pays to keep number private.
Forget "this post." The best part is when your last tab is "about:memory" and you do a garbage purge, and the memory consumption doesn't budge... or the last tab is "about:blank" and memory doesn't budge.
Actually, the best part is all those Firefox fans that have been insisting for 10 years that this isn't actually happening, Mozilla has "made a lot of progress" even though it's never actually been a problem, and that somehow it's probably all your fault (plugins) that the browser is crashing on 32-bit systems because it uses so many gigs of memory.
That's what people want. Modern cars have about twice the power (with substantially less emissions), and people are willing to accept 23-27 MPG for the performance they get.
Once a recession hits, people are whining about MPG and there's suddenly a glut of SUVs on the used car lots. When the economy recovers, people run to the dealers to buy the latest gas guzzlers again. Ask a typical American if they'd like to drive one of those 55 MPG town buggies like they have in Europe. The reaction will be, "That's cute, but it's not for me."
Sad as it is, it's all just supply and demand in the end. Such rationale explains the phenominally poor quality of domestic cars in the 70's, as well.
For being so insignificant, the major auto manufacturers are raising quite a stink about the company. Try looking for Tesla dealers, which are apparently illegal.
I don't think anybody can seriously say Apple's software is well-tested. Just on the phone side of things, they've been granted way too many mulligans depite massive, show-stopping bugs in iOS, largely due to rushing it to market to suit the latest hardware release. This has been going on long before the reigns passed to Cook, too.
Also, that's just the stuff that runs on their own hardware.
When iOS 8 was released, people noticed straight away that images couldn't be uploaded to web sites. As in, multipart-encoded image data included in a web form was just stripped away.
My reaction was, "How could such a show-stopping lack of QA be allowed to happen at all, let alone WHY it happened?"
The reaction from many of my peers on DeviantArt and other art-related web sites, upon realizing the couldn't upload their art, was, "Oh, I'm sure it'll be fixed soon. No big deal."
That's why you just don't build an empire around a small number of products.
Adobe has to be competitive and spend money developing and promoting new products? Boo hoo..
Many sites solve this problem by letting you edit your post within 5-10 minutes of posting it. They analyzed the complaints and arrived at a perfectly reasonable solution to evolve and adapt without ruining.
Sometimes "intentional design decision" is another way of saying "tradition and habit."
Prove it.