The problem is that roughly 90% of all the "responsive design" sites I have encountered have been poor. At some point, it becomes reasonable to say that the problem is responsive design itself. If the majority of implementations of something cannot get it right, perhaps the problem is the something.
Windows metro and the new iOS flat look both fail hard, but Material Design manages to be clear and consistently good across web pages, mobile and desktop.
Material design is certainly better than Metro, but that's about as far as I can agree with you. Material Design sucks. It obscures too much important usage information and eliminates too many important visual cues.
When I was handed an iPhone to do something, I was absolutely baffled at how to do certain basic operations.
Yes, I recently had this exact experience. Nothing about how the iPhone works is anything like intuitive or even discoverable. I had to ask how to accomplish basic operations.
I'm sure that material design is excellent for certain use cases. But for the uses I put my machines to, both mobile and desktop, it makes everything much, much worse.
It's easy to understand -- hardware manufacturers are hoping that if they constantly change up the hardware, then it will make people buy new hardware at a faster rate than they otherwise would.
The reason for this was a Firewire card in a PC, due to PC limitations, would only ever supply up to 12V (PC power supply rails only max out at 12V).
The reason for this is not the 12V power supply. It's not hard or very expensive to put the required circuitry on the card to boost that to higher voltages. The real reason is the card manufacturer being cheap.
I am almost never in a place where I would feel comfortable talking aloud to me phone.
I wish more people felt like you. The number of people talking to their phones in public places is getting annoying, but still not quite as annoying as people who have speaker phone conversations in public.
I live in the western US outside of California, and the majority of private home bathrooms I've seen have not had sufficient space for something like this. Most of the bathrooms I've seen that could accommodate such a thing without a major remodel have been in expensive houses, not ones that ordinary people live in.
True. The current adaptive web design techniques are a damned plague. So far, I have been able to simply not use those websites, but once that becomes impractical, I'll find a browser that lets me spoof window size reporting, etc. as well.
a) Getting data based updates through the radio is not something drivers have never seen before. It's actually pretty damn common.
Perhaps where you are, but certainly not where I am. I have never seen such a system -- I didn't even know there was such a thing until I read this article.
It can be turned back down to near the old level simply by setting it to "Basic."
The old telemetry system was opt-in. The new one isn't even opt-out. Setting it to "Basic" only reduces the amount of data being sent, it does not stop it.
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(zoom in far enough on desktop, you get the mobile view of the site in large print).
Which is a serious problem. Serious enough that I call such behavior "broken".
Yes, I have this exact problem as well. I frequently want the page to ignore the window size.
Then it's poor responsive design.
The problem is that roughly 90% of all the "responsive design" sites I have encountered have been poor. At some point, it becomes reasonable to say that the problem is responsive design itself. If the majority of implementations of something cannot get it right, perhaps the problem is the something.
Windows metro and the new iOS flat look both fail hard, but Material Design manages to be clear and consistently good across web pages, mobile and desktop.
Material design is certainly better than Metro, but that's about as far as I can agree with you. Material Design sucks. It obscures too much important usage information and eliminates too many important visual cues.
When I was handed an iPhone to do something, I was absolutely baffled at how to do certain basic operations.
Yes, I recently had this exact experience. Nothing about how the iPhone works is anything like intuitive or even discoverable. I had to ask how to accomplish basic operations.
I'm not sure why you would have some specific violent reaction to "UX".
I can't speak for fyngyrz, but here's why I have that reaction: pretty much everything I've seen the UX crowd produce has been aggressively terrible.
I'm sure that material design is excellent for certain use cases. But for the uses I put my machines to, both mobile and desktop, it makes everything much, much worse.
I agree as well. The ribbon is amongst the worst UI elements of the modern age. It needs to die a fiery death.
It's easy to understand -- hardware manufacturers are hoping that if they constantly change up the hardware, then it will make people buy new hardware at a faster rate than they otherwise would.
The reason for this was a Firewire card in a PC, due to PC limitations, would only ever supply up to 12V (PC power supply rails only max out at 12V).
The reason for this is not the 12V power supply. It's not hard or very expensive to put the required circuitry on the card to boost that to higher voltages. The real reason is the card manufacturer being cheap.
The lesson I'm taking home from this is to avoid USB-C until they get the kinks worked out.
I am almost never in a place where I would feel comfortable talking aloud to me phone.
I wish more people felt like you. The number of people talking to their phones in public places is getting annoying, but still not quite as annoying as people who have speaker phone conversations in public.
You can unlock the bootloader on the S4.
=They claim this leads to a 'consistent user experience' across the models.
You may disagree, but this is their reasoning.
Reasoning that makes no sense is not reasoning whatsoever.
Personally, the lack of an SD card slot is a showstopper. It is mandatory for me. Cloud storage is not a suitable replacement.
Fair enough.
For my part, I trust them more than I trust the ROMs that came with the devices when I bought them.
It's no less of a ROM than the old-school EPROM, EEPROM, EAROM, etc.
I use custom ROMs.
According to TFS, nothing was lost.
Well, except for any data generated from 9:19 to 10:33 a.m
Why to avoid trusting cloud services with any data that you can't afford to lose.
I live in the western US outside of California, and the majority of private home bathrooms I've seen have not had sufficient space for something like this. Most of the bathrooms I've seen that could accommodate such a thing without a major remodel have been in expensive houses, not ones that ordinary people live in.
True. The current adaptive web design techniques are a damned plague. So far, I have been able to simply not use those websites, but once that becomes impractical, I'll find a browser that lets me spoof window size reporting, etc. as well.
I just have my mobile browser spoof its user agent string to indicate that it's a desktop one. Problem solved.
a) Getting data based updates through the radio is not something drivers have never seen before. It's actually pretty damn common.
Perhaps where you are, but certainly not where I am. I have never seen such a system -- I didn't even know there was such a thing until I read this article.
It can be turned back down to near the old level simply by setting it to "Basic."
The old telemetry system was opt-in. The new one isn't even opt-out. Setting it to "Basic" only reduces the amount of data being sent, it does not stop it.