Run of the mill consumer laptops are atrocious - Dell Inspiron, Acer, ASUS, Lenovo Ideapads and pseudo-Thinkpads (EDGE and so on) and the like... it's only when you start getting into high end business devices that you'll see build quality that feels on par with a MacBookPro.
In EU stores, the Samsung tablets are advertised by the floor sales people as "The Samsung iPad, it's better because it has flash" - part of the Samsung sales training. Seen it in multiple places in a couple of countries.
And generic drugs in the US advise you to compare the active ingredients of the brand name. There is nothing wrong with comparative marketing outside of the minds of companies with monopoly hard-ons and their fanboys.
You do realize that the free version doesn't have Google's apps? That is the opposite of pushing their services with the FLOSS version. They get paid for the privilage of having their services pushed, phone manufacturers and carriers see it as a value add.
Why, do they have to manually enter the details on their iPads to make it fast? It takes 3 days because it's easier to patch those mainframes. My bank shows instantly because eastern European banking infrastructure was built from the ground up in the 90's, not because they can't keep data safe.
I'd really love it if all the goons claiming they'll close their business or stop working (and deprive us of their inestimable talents) if they're taxed more would show us that they're not all talk.
It's particularly amusing to hear that line from people who have near-absolute faith in the market. You will close your profitable small business? Do you really think you have skimmed that much off the economy that no one can fill your niche?
Sansa Clip+ plus with Rockbox is a great combo. Sure, a smartphone also plays music, but it's huge (phones were shrinking nicely before people decided to do things that need big screens on them) and you can't make calls after you listen the battery empty.
Maybe you could stick to being angry instead of lashing out at the neighbor? So you sold one overpriced car and didn't buy another... Maybe you should have bought a subcompact too.
So you are mad that T-mobile fixed your problem but not quick enough for your liking.
They didn't fix it, they fixed it partially and I didn't find out until a few hours later. I.e. not only didn't they resolve the issue, they couldn't tell me what the status was either.
I don't give a shit how many people call in with problems straight from the faq and only need human answering machines. There is exactly one criteria that I evaluate customer service on. How efficiently, and if, they can solve my problem, one that I've made sure I can't solve on my own and have to call in for.
Yes it is inconvenient to get bounced around but there is not other way for a customer base that large.
The only way to handle a large customer base is to frustrate people who have "hard" problems into hanging up? I wasn't forwarded to a more experienced person, the right department or anything along those lines. Some people were actively wondering why I was forwarded to them! Decent customer service will forward your information so that you don't have to reconfirm who you are and explain your problem six or seven times over and over. No, I was bounced around because no one wanted to deal with me and the ones who tried didn't have the authority (or made it worse).
You don't remember them because you don't have to, not because you wouldn't be able to. That's kinda the point, make sure users understand that they need to and give them the opportunity to practice without being locked out of the system.
You don't mind T-Mobile's we're-gona-forward-you-every-five-minutes-through-several-countris-but-not-any-case-information-if-your-problem-is-not-the-top-five-on-the-script phone support?
While I generally agree, I don't think passwords really are that hard to memorize. People routinely remember telephone numbers for example. I believe the reason we are seeing a problem with passwords/paraphrases is twofold: there is the usual brain shutdown that people experience with computers even if they routinely deal with much more complex things and there is the fact that they don't get to train it. Make a system where the user can practice entering the password a few times before they actually have to remember (how people learn phone numbers), educate them why it's important and make sure that the people who's brain's shut down when they see a mixed case alphanumeric password with symbols (it looks scary, they won't try) get passphrases instead. That'd at least be a start.
Any GPL v3 code used in the machine would force the maker to hand over to customers on request the CAD blueprints for the mechanisms, the timing involved, down to the color of the engineer farts when the thing is put together.
FUD with modpoints is still FUD. If the user can replace the software you're green, now go troll somewhere else.
By default only addons from addons.mozilla.org are installed without additional warning. What you see is basically a security warning, you can still install addons from third party sites, but you have to explicitly tell Firefox you wanted to. And of course you can always install Adblock+ from addons.mozilla.org.
I'm not sure if notifyd is used by the Gnome Shell, but important notifications don't go away until dismissed and the rest are available in the notification area (bottom right hot-corner) until dismissed, there's an extension that puts a reminder icon in the top bar as well. Besides, not all flashing taskbar button implementations flash forever and by default you can only get notifications from windows on the given desktop. It's a hack.
Any moderately complex (and up) software package should provide a search-and-launch ability. It might feel silly to imitate an ancient Emacs feature but there are a few things anyone could learn from Emacs in regards to documentation and efficient UI (even if you think it lacks a good editor;).
Tough luck, "your" way of working is merely your adapting to the previous restrictions. You didn't pick the taskbar, the start menu or the alt-tab behavior, you adapted to the computer's way as it was and don't want to change. You should think in terms of what you want to get done and how that works now, instead of how you want to get them done and how that doesn't work anymore. Only then can you actually evaluate the workflow fairly.
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How you feel about a high-priced piece of hardware is not the same as data.
Depends, does GoDaddy pulling a 180 on their public SOPA stance in less than 24 after public posturing count at all?
And generic drugs in the US advise you to compare the active ingredients of the brand name. There is nothing wrong with comparative marketing outside of the minds of companies with monopoly hard-ons and their fanboys.
You do realize that the free version doesn't have Google's apps? That is the opposite of pushing their services with the FLOSS version. They get paid for the privilage of having their services pushed, phone manufacturers and carriers see it as a value add.
Why, do they have to manually enter the details on their iPads to make it fast? It takes 3 days because it's easier to patch those mainframes. My bank shows instantly because eastern European banking infrastructure was built from the ground up in the 90's, not because they can't keep data safe.
It's particularly amusing to hear that line from people who have near-absolute faith in the market. You will close your profitable small business? Do you really think you have skimmed that much off the economy that no one can fill your niche?
Sansa Clip+ plus with Rockbox is a great combo. Sure, a smartphone also plays music, but it's huge (phones were shrinking nicely before people decided to do things that need big screens on them) and you can't make calls after you listen the battery empty.
Maybe you could stick to being angry instead of lashing out at the neighbor? So you sold one overpriced car and didn't buy another... Maybe you should have bought a subcompact too.
They didn't fix it, they fixed it partially and I didn't find out until a few hours later. I.e. not only didn't they resolve the issue, they couldn't tell me what the status was either. I don't give a shit how many people call in with problems straight from the faq and only need human answering machines. There is exactly one criteria that I evaluate customer service on. How efficiently, and if, they can solve my problem, one that I've made sure I can't solve on my own and have to call in for.
The only way to handle a large customer base is to frustrate people who have "hard" problems into hanging up? I wasn't forwarded to a more experienced person, the right department or anything along those lines. Some people were actively wondering why I was forwarded to them! Decent customer service will forward your information so that you don't have to reconfirm who you are and explain your problem six or seven times over and over. No, I was bounced around because no one wanted to deal with me and the ones who tried didn't have the authority (or made it worse).
You don't remember them because you don't have to, not because you wouldn't be able to. That's kinda the point, make sure users understand that they need to and give them the opportunity to practice without being locked out of the system.
You don't mind T-Mobile's we're-gona-forward-you-every-five-minutes-through-several-countris-but-not-any-case-information-if-your-problem-is-not-the-top-five-on-the-script phone support?
While I generally agree, I don't think passwords really are that hard to memorize. People routinely remember telephone numbers for example. I believe the reason we are seeing a problem with passwords/paraphrases is twofold: there is the usual brain shutdown that people experience with computers even if they routinely deal with much more complex things and there is the fact that they don't get to train it. Make a system where the user can practice entering the password a few times before they actually have to remember (how people learn phone numbers), educate them why it's important and make sure that the people who's brain's shut down when they see a mixed case alphanumeric password with symbols (it looks scary, they won't try) get passphrases instead. That'd at least be a start.
Nothing like competing currencies to foster innovation and prof^H^H^H^Hefficiency.
Best when you can get a bunch of the wage back when the workers pay you for housing and food.
They do, but didn't originally. It's not widely used yet.
Try disabling Flash.
So instead of bothering with window management they just let buggy apps dictate the design? Somehow this is exactly what I'd expect from Microsoft.
FUD with modpoints is still FUD. If the user can replace the software you're green, now go troll somewhere else.
Furthermore, PSN still exists.
By default only addons from addons.mozilla.org are installed without additional warning. What you see is basically a security warning, you can still install addons from third party sites, but you have to explicitly tell Firefox you wanted to. And of course you can always install Adblock+ from addons.mozilla.org.
I'm not sure if notifyd is used by the Gnome Shell, but important notifications don't go away until dismissed and the rest are available in the notification area (bottom right hot-corner) until dismissed, there's an extension that puts a reminder icon in the top bar as well. Besides, not all flashing taskbar button implementations flash forever and by default you can only get notifications from windows on the given desktop. It's a hack.
Any moderately complex (and up) software package should provide a search-and-launch ability. It might feel silly to imitate an ancient Emacs feature but there are a few things anyone could learn from Emacs in regards to documentation and efficient UI (even if you think it lacks a good editor ;).
Tough luck, "your" way of working is merely your adapting to the previous restrictions. You didn't pick the taskbar, the start menu or the alt-tab behavior, you adapted to the computer's way as it was and don't want to change. You should think in terms of what you want to get done and how that works now, instead of how you want to get them done and how that doesn't work anymore. Only then can you actually evaluate the workflow fairly.
Yet we have these masses of people saying how great GNOME 2 was and how Unity/GNOME 3 destroyed that. Ergo GNOME 2 quite obviously didn't kill GNOME.
That is both made up and has no bearing on intuition. You learned to do it, that's your first hint on intuitiveness.