...and if those provisions were challenged and found wanting, the rest of the policy would still stand. It's not an all-or-nothing situation. So it's a detail not worth getting hung up on in the larger conversation.
Yeah I am forced to get a new work phone more often than I want and have had to grit my teeth lately and go with the soft buttons due to other features. Really would prefer the haptics of a button with a contact behind it so I can feel it click and then know whether the phone is just being slow or it ignored my touches.
As to TFA, I disable the lockscreen pin or whatever other trash and have it only wake up during a side-button press, to keep it from turning on the screen in my pocket, then I combine the camera and gallery icons into a single icon to prevent accidentally opening the camera. Then I tell it I'm working without a google account and never enter any persistant creds for anything, basically using it as a phone, camera and a read-mostly web browser. Use a real PC for email because if you don't at least SMS it is not urgent enough for my immediate attention. Kill and deinstall everything app I can get away with without rooting it. Hit up fdroid for a notepad app and file explorer both of which should come standard, install connectbot for the rare emergency and otherwise try to forget it is there. Oh yeah, and curse at how the camera app UI gets worse and worse every time I get a new one.
My personal phone is still a flip, grandfathered into a $200/year pre-payed plan. Will be keeping that until it dies... it's almost a decade old and still runs many days on a single charge on the original battery.
his complaint about being forced to use a mouse to adjust rotary knob-style controls is entirely valid - and many (if not most) VST audio plug-ins for DAWs provide NO scrollwheel functionality. You HAVE to move the damned knob around its full travel via click-and-drag (which usually means you have to "let go" at the 12:00 position, shift the mouse slightly to the right, "grab" the knob from the other side, and drag it back down to adjust it from 50% to 100%).
Congratulations. You just condensed TFA down to the length it probably should have been in the first place. In fact, there is more of value in your paragraph above than that entire article, as it actually describes a problem instead of just complaining about "damn knobs". Otherwise it is worthless snide drivel making fun of people for creating skinning art. Well, I guess it did serve as a pretty screenshot gallery.
Now, you suggest one solution for fixing this type of UX knob. One that requires two hands, but still at least you suggest one. Others here seem to like the idea of replacing knobs with sliders. Still others are fine with knobs as long as after you click on them it is a linear motion to turn them, with the knob only serving to tell the app what thing to tune. Personally I'd say why make people click on them, just use the scrollwheel on whatever you are mouse over... and click/drag if you need to go fine grained.
But you're right I don't use this kind of kit, so go argue it over with your compatriots and come back when you have some solid suggestions, then maybe someone who knows how to code will help you out.
First, the author provides no solid complaint. Just that "there are knobs, and I don't know what most of them do". The latter is a matter of documentation, not UX, and for the former he offers zero in the way of alternatives. He complains that you have to control the knobs with a mouse... as opposed to what, real knobs? Does he suggest something like using mouseover-then-scrollwheel as opposed to drag-the-knob? No not even that. Instead he complains about retro app skins. At best he can point to a failure to herd cats into a more unified UX approach (even then, some behavioral variety may actually be desirable to help the muscle memory build.)
Now if you are a live performance musician or soundboard operator, you want everything you normally tweak to be in a known location so your muscle memory can get you there. Does TFA want someone to open a search box, type the first few letters of a control, select it from a dropdown, and type in a numerical value in a popup? Or use a giant cascading menu? Or some sort of touch-and-hold-then-drag thing on an inaccurate laggy touchscreen? Good luck staying in the pocket with any of those schemes.
No, you have two alternatives: 1) use a physical layout so your hands know where stuff is, either on the desktop or with peripherals and 2) use live coding... which, is indeed a CLI thing and very popular.
My bet would be that most packs fail in one bad cell, leaving several good cells remaining.
My real question is, where are you getting laptop batteries with cylindrical cells? I thought they were all pouch over the last decade or so due to the thin craze.
"Meta-expert" might be a good way to brand things, but the reality of the matter is there's always a need for glue to hold things together, and that glue often comes in the form of being 1) able to communicate with an expert in a way that affords you at least a "well, not a complete moron" level of respect and 2) be willing to do a few menial things that nobody else wants to stoop to, but contain the fact that you do them so people don't mistake you for a "grunt"... only the people who should be grateful should know... and 3) maintain some level of focus so you don't get spread so completely thin knowledge-wise that you end up being nothing but a headline recycler. In all these aspects the single critical component is that you get people to ask you for things, and you ask people to do things. Try to keep as many debts and debtors in the air as possible.
The missing part in this equation is the quality of the "human transcribers". I worked a few mturk transcription microjobs JOOC a decade or so back. Occasionally the job was to validate another person's transcription. It was rather awful. I don't blame them, though, because the pay is rather awful, too, especially for a job that pretty much monopolizes your attention.
he thought that it wanted to create a copy since logically the text was stored since he had written it
Umm.. why would he expect a program to pester a user to make an extra copy of a document when the user tells it to quit? I cannot think of a good reason why a program would do that... If he thought software UI designers just sucked when they wrote that in, then why would he have trusted the program to save automatically? It should have set off some bells.
As to why do a lot of editors not keep up to the minute autosaves... mostly because they are writing 5 API layers above the OS operation to actually flush content to disk, and at least 4 of those API layers suck balls.
Still have some of those old A123 B&D VPX batteries going strong. They'll probably outlast the toolset... the vac is already dead. Though the pack that fell under my car seat and was presumed lost for an entire new england winter didn't fair so well.
I was kinda expecting NiMH-LSD to take off for stationary uses once Li-ion started eating it's lunch in the portable market, but the UPS makers stuck with lead acid for so long that they've now leapfrogged to Li-ion (and it's still a tiny sliver vs. the lead acid share of the market.) It seems to have clung on in the single-cell AA/AAA market just due to no need to step down the voltage.
Don't go down that road. I did in the other thread and had to contend with a bunch of moron ACs who can't hack logical term elimination and who thought I was suggesting jerkoff nazis were a protected minority.
I mean, unless you don't give a screw about ACs. You know what, nevermind...
I guess you missed my whole point and/or mistook me for some other poster. I certainly do not consider asshat hatemongers deserving of group protections. But there's a bunch of these idiots here, so I wanted to get it across clear without allowing their persecution complex muddy the waters: My point was entirely to gloat at the irony of one right wing cause celebre, if successful, setting a precedent that would confound any and all efforts to litigate against businesses that don't care to ply their trade in support of white power bunkum.
We are wholly agreed on the "Fuck the nazis" point, though.
Yeah, but getting the mirrors to behave safely during an air bag deployment could deserve a patent.
It's about time. The visibility behind the A pillars has always bothered me. Not just the pillars but that crossbar along the back window. Somehow people always drive the exact distance behind me so their headlights jiggle behind that over bumps, which is irritating because it looks like they are flashing them frantically.
That too, but it only amplifies my point. About the only thing the wedding cake guy has on his side is a claim of "religious freedom" which I doubt crowd-funding sites will try to assert... and if the SCOTUS hangs its hat on "religious freedom" being the discriminating factor, then, well, long live The Great Spaghetti Monster.
Yeah, we'll see about that when Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission reaches the Gorsuch's desk.
Of course it also depends on where GoFundMe et al falls vis-a-vis the definition of "public accommodations", but if some guy can deny gay people a wedding cake, there's no way anyone is going to force crowdfunding sites to do anything whatsoever. Delicious irony.
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Yeah I am forced to get a new work phone more often than I want and have had to grit my teeth lately and go with the soft buttons due to other features. Really would prefer the haptics of a button with a contact behind it so I can feel it click and then know whether the phone is just being slow or it ignored my touches.
As to TFA, I disable the lockscreen pin or whatever other trash and have it only wake up during a side-button press, to keep it from turning on the screen in my pocket, then I combine the camera and gallery icons into a single icon to prevent accidentally opening the camera. Then I tell it I'm working without a google account and never enter any persistant creds for anything, basically using it as a phone, camera and a read-mostly web browser. Use a real PC for email because if you don't at least SMS it is not urgent enough for my immediate attention. Kill and deinstall everything app I can get away with without rooting it. Hit up fdroid for a notepad app and file explorer both of which should come standard, install connectbot for the rare emergency and otherwise try to forget it is there. Oh yeah, and curse at how the camera app UI gets worse and worse every time I get a new one.
My personal phone is still a flip, grandfathered into a $200/year pre-payed plan. Will be keeping that until it dies... it's almost a decade old and still runs many days on a single charge on the original battery.
his complaint about being forced to use a mouse to adjust rotary knob-style controls is entirely valid - and many (if not most) VST audio plug-ins for DAWs provide NO scrollwheel functionality. You HAVE to move the damned knob around its full travel via click-and-drag (which usually means you have to "let go" at the 12:00 position, shift the mouse slightly to the right, "grab" the knob from the other side, and drag it back down to adjust it from 50% to 100%).
Congratulations. You just condensed TFA down to the length it probably should have been in the first place. In fact, there is more of value in your paragraph above than that entire article, as it actually describes a problem instead of just complaining about "damn knobs". Otherwise it is worthless snide drivel making fun of people for creating skinning art. Well, I guess it did serve as a pretty screenshot gallery.
Now, you suggest one solution for fixing this type of UX knob. One that requires two hands, but still at least you suggest one. Others here seem to like the idea of replacing knobs with sliders. Still others are fine with knobs as long as after you click on them it is a linear motion to turn them, with the knob only serving to tell the app what thing to tune. Personally I'd say why make people click on them, just use the scrollwheel on whatever you are mouse over... and click/drag if you need to go fine grained.
But you're right I don't use this kind of kit, so go argue it over with your compatriots and come back when you have some solid suggestions, then maybe someone who knows how to code will help you out.
Actually, no.
First, the author provides no solid complaint. Just that "there are knobs, and I don't know what most of them do". The latter is a matter of documentation, not UX, and for the former he offers zero in the way of alternatives. He complains that you have to control the knobs with a mouse... as opposed to what, real knobs? Does he suggest something like using mouseover-then-scrollwheel as opposed to drag-the-knob? No not even that. Instead he complains about retro app skins. At best he can point to a failure to herd cats into a more unified UX approach (even then, some behavioral variety may actually be desirable to help the muscle memory build.)
Now if you are a live performance musician or soundboard operator, you want everything you normally tweak to be in a known location so your muscle memory can get you there. Does TFA want someone to open a search box, type the first few letters of a control, select it from a dropdown, and type in a numerical value in a popup? Or use a giant cascading menu? Or some sort of touch-and-hold-then-drag thing on an inaccurate laggy touchscreen? Good luck staying in the pocket with any of those schemes.
No, you have two alternatives: 1) use a physical layout so your hands know where stuff is, either on the desktop or with peripherals and 2) use live coding... which, is indeed a CLI thing and very popular.
My bet would be that most packs fail in one bad cell, leaving several good cells remaining.
My real question is, where are you getting laptop batteries with cylindrical cells? I thought they were all pouch over the last decade or so due to the thin craze.
"Meta-expert" might be a good way to brand things, but the reality of the matter is there's always a need for glue to hold things together, and that glue often comes in the form of being 1) able to communicate with an expert in a way that affords you at least a "well, not a complete moron" level of respect and 2) be willing to do a few menial things that nobody else wants to stoop to, but contain the fact that you do them so people don't mistake you for a "grunt"... only the people who should be grateful should know... and 3) maintain some level of focus so you don't get spread so completely thin knowledge-wise that you end up being nothing but a headline recycler. In all these aspects the single critical component is that you get people to ask you for things, and you ask people to do things. Try to keep as many debts and debtors in the air as possible.
They left out "from Uzbekistan transcribing Navajo - underwater".
and "...working on cell phones with auto-correct enabled"
The missing part in this equation is the quality of the "human transcribers". I worked a few mturk transcription microjobs JOOC a decade or so back. Occasionally the job was to validate another person's transcription. It was rather awful. I don't blame them, though, because the pay is rather awful, too, especially for a job that pretty much monopolizes your attention.
Yeah, but the question just mutates to whether companies would be willing to rescind IP rights for older hardware for a price.
Yeah, drivers, drivers, drivers, firmware, firmware, firmware. And full chipset documentation for no-longer-commercially developed hardware.
he thought that it wanted to create a copy since logically the text was stored since he had written it
Umm.. why would he expect a program to pester a user to make an extra copy of a document when the user tells it to quit? I cannot think of a good reason why a program would do that... If he thought software UI designers just sucked when they wrote that in, then why would he have trusted the program to save automatically? It should have set off some bells.
As to why do a lot of editors not keep up to the minute autosaves... mostly because they are writing 5 API layers above the OS operation to actually flush content to disk, and at least 4 of those API layers suck balls.
Think of it as the snake eating it's own tail.
Still have some of those old A123 B&D VPX batteries going strong. They'll probably outlast the toolset... the vac is already dead. Though the pack that fell under my car seat and was presumed lost for an entire new england winter didn't fair so well.
I was kinda expecting NiMH-LSD to take off for stationary uses once Li-ion started eating it's lunch in the portable market, but the UPS makers stuck with lead acid for so long that they've now leapfrogged to Li-ion (and it's still a tiny sliver vs. the lead acid share of the market.) It seems to have clung on in the single-cell AA/AAA market just due to no need to step down the voltage.
But then we need a word to refer to them all as a group. I got it! How about "assholes"?
In Charlottesville, the evil right side had guns and were peaceful until they found some clergy to attack
FTFY
Man, you are up in that conspiracy rectum really deep. Be sure to come up for air.
Do you realize your fantasy is ridiculous and will never come to pass? The revolution will not be homogenized.
Don't go down that road. I did in the other thread and had to contend with a bunch of moron ACs who can't hack logical term elimination and who thought I was suggesting jerkoff nazis were a protected minority.
I mean, unless you don't give a screw about ACs. You know what, nevermind...
You are an idiot. Of course he isn't a protected minority you utter git. Stop trying to derail a discussion on legal precedent with flamebait.
I guess you missed my whole point and/or mistook me for some other poster. I certainly do not consider asshat hatemongers deserving of group protections. But there's a bunch of these idiots here, so I wanted to get it across clear without allowing their persecution complex muddy the waters: My point was entirely to gloat at the irony of one right wing cause celebre, if successful, setting a precedent that would confound any and all efforts to litigate against businesses that don't care to ply their trade in support of white power bunkum.
We are wholly agreed on the "Fuck the nazis" point, though.
Yeah, but getting the mirrors to behave safely during an air bag deployment could deserve a patent.
It's about time. The visibility behind the A pillars has always bothered me. Not just the pillars but that crossbar along the back window. Somehow people always drive the exact distance behind me so their headlights jiggle behind that over bumps, which is irritating because it looks like they are flashing them frantically.
That too, but it only amplifies my point. About the only thing the wedding cake guy has on his side is a claim of "religious freedom" which I doubt crowd-funding sites will try to assert... and if the SCOTUS hangs its hat on "religious freedom" being the discriminating factor, then, well, long live The Great Spaghetti Monster.
Yeah, we'll see about that when Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission reaches the Gorsuch's desk.
Of course it also depends on where GoFundMe et al falls vis-a-vis the definition of "public accommodations", but if some guy can deny gay people a wedding cake, there's no way anyone is going to force crowdfunding sites to do anything whatsoever. Delicious irony.
Oops.. meant to add: "with a tin can"