Every day we have stories about children travelling to the Middle East to be child brides to terrorists. Just think of the orgasms news editors get from this one! (Sorry).
The OP was exactly right: It is more important that the UI doesnt change than that it is good. That is why you have a qwerty keyboard - so its the same as all the other damn keyboards!
Even if a UI isnt very good, a COMPULSORY change always. If the UI stinks to hell, but it works, it is ALWAYS better to keep it. No one is against optional changes. No people can buy other wierd (Dvorak) keyboards if theyw ant. But they are not the answer to most people's requirements.
Most USERS are strongly opposed to having raw fish rammed down their throat against their will. Most "new improved" UI's appear to lack support for important use cases the inventors had not realised existed (or were opposed to on religious grounds).
As for the mad fucks that keep inventing new icons. I wish horrible things happen to them. Its bad enough having to learn about Icons when I learned to read perfectly well over 60 years ago. Why do they not keep the ones they have invented? Are they smoking something I should know about?
It's kind of like the worst parts of COBOL, Javascript and PHP were all mixed together and then baked at 400* until charred and smoking.
Absolutely the best description of the most dreaded PDP/11 infection ever., but I think there was some evil Perl miasma there too - hence the Zombie like undeadness.
Indeed so, my good friend: this is the hard evidence that, when quality matters, an Open Source (BSD) version is infinitely preferable to a closed source version - even to Microsoft.
Yes sirree! The real message here is MS know damn well they cant deliver code of the same quality as BSD code.
You have omitted to mention that pretty much all software was open source till Gates came along: When you got an OS (or compiler), you got the source code - and had to patch it, possibly daily. If you invented the patches yourself, you normally shared them via the user group.
It was not (necessarily) "Free as in Beer" - you might pay very big bucks for the OS, but the code was open. (EG RSX11, BSD, Ultrix, George 2, 3, 4, OS9).
Well given that most of us end up with the cable modem next to the TV,
WTF?
In many countries, there is no such thing as cable. In others cable is limited to a few blocks of a few cities. America is not the whole world.
Meanwhile, my Chromecast has become useless. Not sure whether it is sabotage by Samsung or blunders by Google, or maybe ineptly implemented copyright protection: I can use the (Samsung) phone to point the Chromecast at Youtube, but as soon as I actually try to watch a video, connection is lost!
It was not like that a few months ago (we loaned the Chromecas to a neighbour for a few months).
I dont watch much on TV, cos it is much easier to use a desktop computer anyway, and I never watch American films, but occasionally it is a family activity. These days far less frequently as the providers seem not to understand that viewers get bored of strugging to view crap.
even the basic UI of a car does not change (clutch, brakes, gas, steering wheel, gear stick).
Only becase of state intervention. Before that, every new model had the pedals and handbrake in different places, sometimes to work around a competitor's patents.
I believe Ford had a patent on having all the switches on a single stalk on the steering column with the Mk1 Cortina (about 1962), so everyone else had to have two stalks, and then switch them around so you can squirt yourself in the face with the screen washer when you want the turn indicator in you partner's car, or go for the horn in an emergency.
Its not only computer UI designers that are a manace to society. The world has been subjected to this nightmare for quite some time.
The MS ribbon what what made my 80 year old mum switch to a Mac.
I have emailed a whole bunch of TV dinner manufacturers explaing that if someone is going to eat the dinner, they first need to read the instructions, and if you print them in 75DPI resolution using 6 point type, in white on yellow, then this is unlikely to happen. Given that there is masses of space around the instructions, it would be easy to enlarge the print, and a change of colour might improve the contrast from 7/4 against.
I think you misunderstand - for most people, static content is far preferable. We dont want anything that moves unless we click on it, and probably not even then!
Lately I keep having a popup saying "this site contains flash and your add-on needs an update because the version you have is insecure" but the update mechanism does not actually work (Iceweasel, Debian).
This has the fortunate side effect of making the site load faster, and much easier to to navigate, because it does not keep refreshing! (The worst offender is "The Independent" which I often had to abandon reading because of constant redraws - why the hell do people build these unuseable websites?)
So, in summary: "you might want to sell those Samsung shares".
Yes, I am still using my SGS3, and the SGS6 is definitely not more attractive to me (no external SD, No removable battery = no use. With CyanogenMod = no bloatware).
No. In American terms, are paries are "Left, Super-left and Mega-left". Or, to put it another way, what you consider Left, we would consider Extreme Right.
Different people obviously have very diffferent requirements. In the UK, you can be fined huge amounts of money for a small excess of speed, so speed is important. If you are an older driver, the time taken to refocus from the dashboard to infinity (or vice versa) can be very long. However, spotting moose or crazy drivers is probably automatic (not that there are many moose on the road in the UK).
The question is, is it better than people at spotting small children running out from behind stationary buses?
If not, then it should avoid attempting to spot any problem, as it will lead to drivers relying on it the way they rely on satnav instead of knowing how to get anywhere.
The driver should be able to decide what is critical information. Since it is possible for the driver to change frequently, this needs to be set every trip, and probably needs to default to no info at all, as some people wont be familar with it. In which case it will probably rarely be used and can be safely junked.
Your Moose May Vary.
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Or at least an order of magnitude less acceptable than slapping your customers round the face with a wet fish.
Why did anyone need to do any research to discover that this was the optimal way of pissing of web users?
You might want to get out a bit more, sonny.
Every day we have stories about children travelling to the Middle East to be child brides to terrorists. Just think of the orgasms news editors get from this one! (Sorry).
Even if a UI isnt very good, a COMPULSORY change always. If the UI stinks to hell, but it works, it is ALWAYS better to keep it. No one is against optional changes. No people can buy other wierd (Dvorak) keyboards if theyw ant. But they are not the answer to most people's requirements.
Most USERS are strongly opposed to having raw fish rammed down their throat against their will. Most "new improved" UI's appear to lack support for important use cases the inventors had not realised existed (or were opposed to on religious grounds).
As for the mad fucks that keep inventing new icons. I wish horrible things happen to them. Its bad enough having to learn about Icons when I learned to read perfectly well over 60 years ago. Why do they not keep the ones they have invented? Are they smoking something I should know about?
The UK government categorically opposes anything that might be even slightly secure "think of the terrorists". I am sure others will agree with them.
I would go there too, but my adblocker only has 1024x1024 resolution.
Absolutely the best description of the most dreaded PDP/11 infection ever., but I think there was some evil Perl miasma there too - hence the Zombie like undeadness.
That is "gag" orders, not "gay" orders, you idiot!
His first language is probably Wierdo.
Only because there are so many/much more demonic activities they have indulged in.
Yes sirree! The real message here is MS know damn well they cant deliver code of the same quality as BSD code.
It was not (necessarily) "Free as in Beer" - you might pay very big bucks for the OS, but the code was open. (EG RSX11, BSD, Ultrix, George 2, 3, 4, OS9).
WTF?
In many countries, there is no such thing as cable. In others cable is limited to a few blocks of a few cities. America is not the whole world.
Meanwhile, my Chromecast has become useless. Not sure whether it is sabotage by Samsung or blunders by Google, or maybe ineptly implemented copyright protection: I can use the (Samsung) phone to point the Chromecast at Youtube, but as soon as I actually try to watch a video, connection is lost!
It was not like that a few months ago (we loaned the Chromecas to a neighbour for a few months).
I dont watch much on TV, cos it is much easier to use a desktop computer anyway, and I never watch American films, but occasionally it is a family activity. These days far less frequently as the providers seem not to understand that viewers get bored of strugging to view crap.
If you are complaining the Osbourne was too light, you need to stop taking steroids - NOW! (it might improve your temper too).
This. a thousand times this!
Never underestimate the power of bloat!
Only becase of state intervention. Before that, every new model had the pedals and handbrake in different places, sometimes to work around a competitor's patents.
I believe Ford had a patent on having all the switches on a single stalk on the steering column with the Mk1 Cortina (about 1962), so everyone else had to have two stalks, and then switch them around so you can squirt yourself in the face with the screen washer when you want the turn indicator in you partner's car, or go for the horn in an emergency.
Its not only computer UI designers that are a manace to society. The world has been subjected to this nightmare for quite some time.
The MS ribbon what what made my 80 year old mum switch to a Mac.
OK, how about "We suck less, but not a lot?" - I am all for truth in advertising.
Some of them reply politely.
I think you misunderstand - for most people, static content is far preferable. We dont want anything that moves unless we click on it, and probably not even then!
Lately I keep having a popup saying "this site contains flash and your add-on needs an update because the version you have is insecure" but the update mechanism does not actually work (Iceweasel, Debian).
This has the fortunate side effect of making the site load faster, and much easier to to navigate, because it does not keep refreshing! (The worst offender is "The Independent" which I often had to abandon reading because of constant redraws - why the hell do people build these unuseable websites?)
Yes, I am still using my SGS3, and the SGS6 is definitely not more attractive to me (no external SD, No removable battery = no use. With CyanogenMod = no bloatware).
The penalty should be double what you claim, plus double the legal costs of both parties (in addition to paying both parties legal costs).
No. In American terms, are paries are "Left, Super-left and Mega-left". Or, to put it another way, what you consider Left, we would consider Extreme Right.
Different people obviously have very diffferent requirements. In the UK, you can be fined huge amounts of money for a small excess of speed, so speed is important. If you are an older driver, the time taken to refocus from the dashboard to infinity (or vice versa) can be very long. However, spotting moose or crazy drivers is probably automatic (not that there are many moose on the road in the UK).
The question is, is it better than people at spotting small children running out from behind stationary buses?
If not, then it should avoid attempting to spot any problem, as it will lead to drivers relying on it the way they rely on satnav instead of knowing how to get anywhere.
The driver should be able to decide what is critical information. Since it is possible for the driver to change frequently, this needs to be set every trip, and probably needs to default to no info at all, as some people wont be familar with it. In which case it will probably rarely be used and can be safely junked. Your Moose May Vary.