I disagree. Rather I believe that too much regulation is the problem. There are too many laws and regulations that prevent markets to naturally adjust to new products and changes in consumption patterns & consumer tastes. Artificial barriers to entry are erected using copyright, patents, regulations, legal harassment, etc. that hold back new and better ideas & products & services from being presented to the consumer. These barriers are usually put in place as the result of lobbing & favors given by companies that already are entrenched in their industry. As with most economic theories, pure capitalism (and even pure communism) makes sense, looks good, logical, and practical on paper, and might work, but only if they would remain pure and not the subject of external influence, greed, politics, or favors.
Discovery has redesigned Klingons that dress in King-Tut outfits and take 15 seconds to say every word, a Fungus drive that derives it's power from space-fungal spores, and an unlikable protagonist who routinely disobeys orders and stabs everyone she works with in the back yet somehow was promoted to being just one step away from being Captain. What's not to like?
They did do one cool episode, though, in the "Mirror-Mirror" alternate universe where some bridge-equivalent rebels hear about and set out to steal this new Empire warship being developed. It ends up being the Empire's equivalent of the original NCC-1701 Enterprise. They steal it and you finally get a feeling for Big-E's power, how far advanced it was compared to other ships at the time, and get to watch it do battle like never before! Oh wait, that's an episode from Enterprise.
Ditto Fuck Dice, ditto fuck Beta Creep. We said we don't want it so why do you dumb fucks at Dice still keep trying to put this crap in here? If I wanted to share everything I'd be on Twitter or Facebook or using the "social app of the month" on my phone. I've had it! I'll check back in a year to see how much you look like Digg. Goodbye Slashdot, good riddance Dice. Maybe you should change you name to Douche?
Strange how so many people around the world choose to use these "mostly useless" products.
But many people chose not to use these new products with their new-fang-dangled UI designed by some young whippersnapper fresh out of UI design school. People avoided upgrading to Windows 8 because of the design and stuck with Windows 7 or even Windows XP, and the only way Apple could get the large percentage of Snow Leopard holdouts was to drop security updates. They kept using an older version of OSX because they knew it was a bad idea to reverse the default mouse scrollwheel behavior, auto hide the already narrowed-down grey flat scrollbars, the progressive flattening of the icons, and changing every colored UI elements to 50 shades of gray or just black.
These are all changes that added nothing useful to OSX, but were added because someone wanted change for the sake of change. It's like project managers see pics of the original Mac and think 'OOoooo...let's make our UI look awesomely retro"
Soooooo, you're saying that Apple copied the current-day Samsung Note when they designed the Newton 20+ years ago? You android fanbois are famous for stretching the truth, but seriously, come on!
It took weeks for Guardians of the Galaxy to have a non-3D release at our closest (15 away) location
This is exactly why I only go to a couple movies a year instead of going to a couple of moves every month like I did years ago. The cinemas don't give you a choice to view movies in non-3D at peak times. Every bloody movie that starts from 6:30PM to 8:30PM is in 3D so they can charge an extra $4-$7 per ticket. If you want to see non-3D then you have to catch the 4:20PM or 9:50PM showing, and when you work 9-5, both of those times are too inconvenient for me to bother.
I use to be like you and believed that cursive is faster than printing, but that all changed one day half a lifetime ago when I was reading tips on how to take better notes in college, and one tip was to print your notes because printing is faster and neater than cursive.
"Bullshit!" I said, "Everyone knows that cursive is faster than print. Who do they think they are kidding?". On top of this heresy they also stated that writing with a pencil is neater than with a pen. Their tips were changing from heresy to blasphemy! "Little kids print with pencils." I smugly muttered, "and adults write in cursive with pens, where the letters are joined beautifully together in flowing strokes in order to save time and be neater.". Although I knew cursive would best printing in speed and neatness, I must have had some doubts, for at that moment I grabbed my best pen, some crappy dog-chewed pencil, a few sheets of foolscap, and picked out a couple paragraphs in a book to copy to prove them wrong. I should have left well enough alone.
After numerous iterations of writing and printing with pencil and pen, I could not believe the results but had to accept them:printing, with pencil or pen, was about 30% faster than writing, and clearly more legible. My fastest writing was nothing better than the worst chicken-scratches and would be unreadable by another person, whereas my quickest print was still legible and neat.
"Oh my god!" I exclaimed just as the dizziness hit me. As I fell to my knees, then to the floor, as my belief system crumbled around me, the last thing I remember before I lost consciousness is muttering "Printing IS faster than writing!"
Seriously. Write,then print a few paragraphs as fast as you can. The fastest printing is faster and much more legible than the fastest writing. I shit you not.
Probably because android has all-or-nothing, non-granular permissions where you have to grant the app access to everything it requests, or else it's 'no app for you!' If the app wants to access to your contacts, accounts, phone history, photos, camera, messaging, mail, you give it access or you don't get to install it.
It's a stupid, dumb, and poorly thought out implementation and google should (?) know better.
The fact that the green button now fullscreens an application is another change I don't like.
Recent versions of BetterTouchTools can reverse this 'new and improved' behavior.
Here's my rant: That change really pisses me off. I know I can hold the option-key down and it will still zoom, but the green-button zoomed since at least Snow Leopard so why change it now? More importantly, why make it default without any way to change it back. Does anyone even use full-screen apps? Will reclaiming a few dozen pixels from the menu-bar change increase anyone's productivity?
You know, it seems that in every OSX release Apple inserts one ridiculous, boneheaded, unnecessary change in default functionality that leaves users dumbfounded why Apple would put that in. In Lion it was the so called 'natural scrolling', in Mountain Lion it was hiding the scroll-bars by default, in Mavericks it was replacing Save-As with Duplicate, and now with Yosemite Apple changed the green-button's behavior from Zoom to Full-screen. At least Apple should put a toggle in system preferences so the user can revert the behavior.
They FX look old, they don't look awful. I look thru the 90's CGI and see that the fights are some of the best directed, edited, musically scored battles ever. I still get goosebumps and my heart pounds when I watch the fights when B5 seceded from the Earth Alliance, the Shadow War, the battle to free Proxima, the fight with the Centauri vessel when B5 was protecting the Narn cruiser (the sweeping camera arc showing the B5 interceptors intercepting the Centauri shells) among many others. That being said, I always thought that the PPG's look silly.
Remember when Apple came out with the Retina display and all of the FAndroids laughed at it and said 'No one will want, no one will notice, and no one needs, a display with such high PPI on a smartphone'?
Climate change is happening and nothing is going to stop it. The thing is, nobody is willing to make sacrifices to stop human-made climate change. Essentially we will have to cease being such zealous consumers of resources. That 's never going happen generally because very few people are willing to:
Give up your cars, including hybrids and electricals. Those may be low or zero-emission vehicles, but the factory where they were build isn't. Cancel your annual flight down south each winter. Give up your 300W 50" LCD TV, 100W/channel 7-speaker amplifier, and the rest of their electronic gadgets that soak up coal-plant produced electricity. Endorse nuclear energy and be willing to allow reactors to be build nearby your homes. Be willing to wait an extra week for your courier packages to get shipped by rail instead of fuel-guzzling trucks. Give up tropical fruits & vegetables in winter months to cut down on the trucks (thus emissions) needed to ship those items up north from the tropics. Do you really need watermelon in January when it's -25C outside? Get rid of your lawn so you no longer need to fertilize it. The nitrogen fixation process uses a ridiculous amount of energy, which likely comes from coal plants.
The point of this comment is that (if) climate change, sea level increase, melting glaciers & polar ice caps, etc. are caused by human activities, then we humans are going to have stop doing many of things that we normally take for granted in our high standard of living lifestyles. How many of us are willing to make these changes? I bet very few.
The studios might save a few dollars. Making these has got to comprise a double-digit percentage of development costs because games are filled with them nowadays. I play a game to play the game, not watch countless movie-clips. Some games today have so many cutscenes that it seems the gameplay was added just to show off the 'fab' cutscenes.
So many things are designed with form-over-function nowadays, nobody likes it, yet they blindly continue on. I would say that the new UI designers come from smartphone or tablet backgrounds where screen real estate is at a premium so they have to hide all the borders, menus, buttons and such, and when they switch to designing desktop applications they seem to forget they are no longer working on a 5" screen and what works on mobile devices does not work on the desktop most of the time.
Even Apple started doing dumb things like hiding 'Save-As' and replacing it with a stupidly dumb absurd 'Duplicate' command that takes three times as many clicks to do a 'Save-As', reversing 20+ years of scrolling direction with their so-called Natural Scrolling, and hiding scroll-bars on 2560x1440 screens in order to save 10 pixels.
I like FF, but this redesign may be too much if I cannot restore it ALL back to before. At least there is still SeaMonkey.
Looks exactly the same to me. Take your finger, touch the slider, and move your finger to drag the slider to change the state. If you think Apple's implementation is fundamentally different, then patent trolls have taught you well, young lawyer.
Snow Leopard is the last great version of OSX so I'm not surprised people still choose to use it. It looked nice-everything wasn't low contrast dark grey-on-light grey, performance was snappy, sure seemed more stable than Mavericks, and didn't suffer from Apple's failed 'let's fill OSX with useless IOS features that have no place on the desktop' experiment. OSX has steadily gotten worse since SL in design, usability, and reliability, and I still have two older machines that run it.
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I disagree. Rather I believe that too much regulation is the problem.
There are too many laws and regulations that prevent markets to naturally adjust to new products and changes in consumption patterns & consumer tastes. Artificial barriers to entry are erected using copyright, patents, regulations, legal harassment, etc. that hold back new and better ideas & products & services from being presented to the consumer. These barriers are usually put in place as the result of lobbing & favors given by companies that already are entrenched in their industry.
As with most economic theories, pure capitalism (and even pure communism) makes sense, looks good, logical, and practical on paper, and might work, but only if they would remain pure and not the subject of external influence, greed, politics, or favors.
Crappy-shitty-ridiculous hair styles have been around since like forever, how is it still a thing in 2018? thor
Discovery has redesigned Klingons that dress in King-Tut outfits and take 15 seconds to say every word, a Fungus drive that derives it's power from space-fungal spores, and an unlikable protagonist who routinely disobeys orders and stabs everyone she works with in the back yet somehow was promoted to being just one step away from being Captain. What's not to like?
They did do one cool episode, though, in the "Mirror-Mirror" alternate universe where some bridge-equivalent rebels hear about and set out to steal this new Empire warship being developed. It ends up being the Empire's equivalent of the original NCC-1701 Enterprise. They steal it and you finally get a feeling for Big-E's power, how far advanced it was compared to other ships at the time, and get to watch it do battle like never before! Oh wait, that's an episode from Enterprise.
Ditto Fuck Dice, ditto fuck Beta Creep. We said we don't want it so why do you dumb fucks at Dice still keep trying to put this crap in here? If I wanted to share everything I'd be on Twitter or Facebook or using the "social app of the month" on my phone.
I've had it! I'll check back in a year to see how much you look like Digg. Goodbye Slashdot, good riddance Dice. Maybe you should change you name to Douche?
Strange how so many people around the world choose to use these "mostly useless" products.
But many people chose not to use these new products with their new-fang-dangled UI designed by some young whippersnapper fresh out of UI design school.
People avoided upgrading to Windows 8 because of the design and stuck with Windows 7 or even Windows XP, and the only way Apple could get the large percentage of Snow Leopard holdouts was to drop security updates. They kept using an older version of OSX because they knew it was a bad idea to reverse the default mouse scrollwheel behavior, auto hide the already narrowed-down grey flat scrollbars, the progressive flattening of the icons, and changing every colored UI elements to 50 shades of gray or just black.
These are all changes that added nothing useful to OSX, but were added because someone wanted change for the sake of change. It's like project managers see pics of the original Mac and think 'OOoooo...let's make our UI look awesomely retro"
MicroBerry?
BlackSoft??
MicroBlackSoftBerry???
Soooooo, you're saying that Apple copied the current-day Samsung Note when they designed the Newton 20+ years ago?
You android fanbois are famous for stretching the truth, but seriously, come on!
Do you mean the default embedded one that is so slow I'm better off drawing the PDF by hand?
It took weeks for Guardians of the Galaxy to have a non-3D release at our closest (15 away) location
This is exactly why I only go to a couple movies a year instead of going to a couple of moves every month like I did years ago. The cinemas don't give you a choice to view movies in non-3D at peak times. Every bloody movie that starts from 6:30PM to 8:30PM is in 3D so they can charge an extra $4-$7 per ticket. If you want to see non-3D then you have to catch the 4:20PM or 9:50PM showing, and when you work 9-5, both of those times are too inconvenient for me to bother.
I use to be like you and believed that cursive is faster than printing, but that all changed one day half a lifetime ago when I was reading tips on how to take better notes in college, and one tip was to print your notes because printing is faster and neater than cursive.
"Bullshit!" I said, "Everyone knows that cursive is faster than print. Who do they think they are kidding?". On top of this heresy they also stated that writing with a pencil is neater than with a pen. Their tips were changing from heresy to blasphemy! "Little kids print with pencils." I smugly muttered, "and adults write in cursive with pens, where the letters are joined beautifully together in flowing strokes in order to save time and be neater.". Although I knew cursive would best printing in speed and neatness, I must have had some doubts, for at that moment I grabbed my best pen, some crappy dog-chewed pencil, a few sheets of foolscap, and picked out a couple paragraphs in a book to copy to prove them wrong. I should have left well enough alone.
After numerous iterations of writing and printing with pencil and pen, I could not believe the results but had to accept them:printing, with pencil or pen, was about 30% faster than writing, and clearly more legible. My fastest writing was nothing better than the worst chicken-scratches and would be unreadable by another person, whereas my quickest print was still legible and neat.
"Oh my god!" I exclaimed just as the dizziness hit me. As I fell to my knees, then to the floor, as my belief system crumbled around me, the last thing I remember before I lost consciousness is muttering "Printing IS faster than writing!"
Seriously. Write,then print a few paragraphs as fast as you can. The fastest printing is faster and much more legible than the fastest writing. I shit you not.
Probably because android has all-or-nothing, non-granular permissions where you have to grant the app access to everything it requests, or else it's 'no app for you!'
If the app wants to access to your contacts, accounts, phone history, photos, camera, messaging, mail, you give it access or you don't get to install it.
It's a stupid, dumb, and poorly thought out implementation and google should (?) know better.
The fact that the green button now fullscreens an application is another change I don't like.
Recent versions of BetterTouchTools can reverse this 'new and improved' behavior.
Here's my rant:
That change really pisses me off. I know I can hold the option-key down and it will still zoom, but the green-button zoomed since at least Snow Leopard so why change it now? More importantly, why make it default without any way to change it back.
Does anyone even use full-screen apps? Will reclaiming a few dozen pixels from the menu-bar change increase anyone's productivity?
You know, it seems that in every OSX release Apple inserts one ridiculous, boneheaded, unnecessary change in default functionality that leaves users dumbfounded why Apple would put that in.
In Lion it was the so called 'natural scrolling', in Mountain Lion it was hiding the scroll-bars by default, in Mavericks it was replacing Save-As with Duplicate, and now with Yosemite Apple changed the green-button's behavior from Zoom to Full-screen. At least Apple should put a toggle in system preferences so the user can revert the behavior.
Someone has already given it a 5-star rating so you can put your suspicions to rest!
Saskatoon in November would be the optimal location. The runners would not necessarily be from Canada.
How dare you link to a site that shows anything other than bent iPhones....it is an affront to LEET android fanatics everywhere!
It would be nice to see some new episodes of that.
They FX look old, they don't look awful. I look thru the 90's CGI and see that the fights are some of the best directed, edited, musically scored battles ever.
I still get goosebumps and my heart pounds when I watch the fights when B5 seceded from the Earth Alliance, the Shadow War, the battle to free Proxima, the fight with the Centauri vessel when B5 was protecting the Narn cruiser (the sweeping camera arc showing the B5 interceptors intercepting the Centauri shells) among many others.
That being said, I always thought that the PPG's look silly.
You can do anything at zombo.com!
Remember when Apple came out with the Retina display and all of the FAndroids laughed at it and said 'No one will want, no one will notice, and no one needs, a display with such high PPI on a smartphone'?
Climate change is happening and nothing is going to stop it. The thing is, nobody is willing to make sacrifices to stop human-made climate change. Essentially we will have to cease being such zealous consumers of resources. That 's never going happen generally because very few people are willing to:
Give up your cars, including hybrids and electricals. Those may be low or zero-emission vehicles, but the factory where they were build isn't.
Cancel your annual flight down south each winter.
Give up your 300W 50" LCD TV, 100W/channel 7-speaker amplifier, and the rest of their electronic gadgets that soak up coal-plant produced electricity.
Endorse nuclear energy and be willing to allow reactors to be build nearby your homes.
Be willing to wait an extra week for your courier packages to get shipped by rail instead of fuel-guzzling trucks.
Give up tropical fruits & vegetables in winter months to cut down on the trucks (thus emissions) needed to ship those items up north from the tropics. Do you really need watermelon in January when it's -25C outside?
Get rid of your lawn so you no longer need to fertilize it. The nitrogen fixation process uses a ridiculous amount of energy, which likely comes from coal plants.
The point of this comment is that (if) climate change, sea level increase, melting glaciers & polar ice caps, etc. are caused by human activities, then we humans are going to have stop doing many of things that we normally take for granted in our high standard of living lifestyles. How many of us are willing to make these changes? I bet very few.
Uhhhh, so if a region's climate changes from wet to semiarid, the local weather is not going to change?
The studios might save a few dollars. Making these has got to comprise a double-digit percentage of development costs because games are filled with them nowadays.
I play a game to play the game, not watch countless movie-clips.
Some games today have so many cutscenes that it seems the gameplay was added just to show off the 'fab' cutscenes.
So many things are designed with form-over-function nowadays, nobody likes it, yet they blindly continue on.
I would say that the new UI designers come from smartphone or tablet backgrounds where screen real estate is at a premium so they have to hide all the borders, menus, buttons and such, and when they switch to designing desktop applications they seem to forget they are no longer working on a 5" screen and what works on mobile devices does not work on the desktop most of the time.
Even Apple started doing dumb things like hiding 'Save-As' and replacing it with a stupidly dumb absurd 'Duplicate' command that takes three times as many clicks to do a 'Save-As', reversing 20+ years of scrolling direction with their so-called Natural Scrolling, and hiding scroll-bars on 2560x1440 screens in order to save 10 pixels.
I like FF, but this redesign may be too much if I cannot restore it ALL back to before. At least there is still SeaMonkey.
Looks exactly the same to me. Take your finger, touch the slider, and move your finger to drag the slider to change the state. If you think Apple's implementation is fundamentally different, then patent trolls have taught you well, young lawyer.
Snow Leopard is the last great version of OSX so I'm not surprised people still choose to use it. It looked nice-everything wasn't low contrast dark grey-on-light grey, performance was snappy, sure seemed more stable than Mavericks, and didn't suffer from Apple's failed 'let's fill OSX with useless IOS features that have no place on the desktop' experiment.
OSX has steadily gotten worse since SL in design, usability, and reliability, and I still have two older machines that run it.