Whoever did the QA on this product is good as fired.
I can't believe they didn't send the classic "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". Back when I was doing QA, if there was a text field, I'd fill it to the gunnels with stuff like that.
The programming error was stupid, but things happen - that's why you have a QA Team.
It's also an example why it's important to have QA do something other than run matrices and automated test scripts. Those only get what they're scripted to catch, and that's not where the "critical fumbles" occur.
It's gonna take a while for them to live THIS one down.
OK - so you have a clear display. Do this little experiment: Take a picture of room. Put it on your computer desktop. Now - try and find an icon...
kinda sucks, don't it?
that's what a clear display will be like.
another problem:
people getting their finger prints all over the monitor. I don't touch my monitor, but I've had bunchies of greasy fingered bosses/supervisors/cowrkers/subordinate drones come to my desk and point at and TOUCH sometihng on my screen in a discusion over some visual elements of some work.
If the clear screen is a sheet of plastic people won't touch it, but the dog will chew it, or it'll get bent up, or folded/stapled/mutilated. If it's rigid (like plexi) then it'll attrach dust and fingerprints, and look *hideous*.
I'll prolly get modded down for this, but it's a sincere statement:
I wish people would stop living in some antiseptic hi-tek fantasy masturbation world where everything is out of some emotionally retarded second rate sci-fi novel / movie and live in the real world and make machines that solve problems for people, instead of making toys for the over paid anal retentives of the world.
Extending copyrights to life +70 will keep much of our literature, film, and culture out of the public domain where it belongs, creating massive distortions in our educational and cultural fabric. Kindly explain to the world (much of whom find American Copyright Law onerous and absurd)
1. how sequestering said culture in the hands of giant for profit publishing conglomerates is fair, just and reasonable and in the best interests of the free growth of human society and culture?
2. How it's not just a typical powergrab by plutocrats and their corrupt perfidious minions in the American Government?
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I can't believe they didn't send the classic "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". Back when I was doing QA, if there was a text field, I'd fill it to the gunnels with stuff like that.
The programming error was stupid, but things happen - that's why you have a QA Team.
It's also an example why it's important to have QA do something other than run matrices and automated test scripts. Those only get what they're scripted to catch, and that's not where the "critical fumbles" occur.
It's gonna take a while for them to live THIS one down.
Ralphie
kinda sucks, don't it?
that's what a clear display will be like.
another problem:
people getting their finger prints all over the monitor. I don't touch my monitor, but I've had bunchies of greasy fingered bosses/supervisors/cowrkers/subordinate drones come to my desk and point at and TOUCH sometihng on my screen in a discusion over some visual elements of some work.
If the clear screen is a sheet of plastic people won't touch it, but the dog will chew it, or it'll get bent up, or folded/stapled/mutilated. If it's rigid (like plexi) then it'll attrach dust and fingerprints, and look *hideous*.
I'll prolly get modded down for this, but it's a sincere statement:
I wish people would stop living in some antiseptic hi-tek fantasy masturbation world where everything is out of some emotionally retarded second rate sci-fi novel / movie and live in the real world and make machines that solve problems for people, instead of making toys for the over paid anal retentives of the world.
Woof.
R.Ss.
Extending copyrights to life +70 will keep much of our literature, film, and culture out of the public domain where it belongs, creating massive distortions in our educational and cultural fabric. Kindly explain to the world (much of whom find American Copyright Law onerous and absurd) 1. how sequestering said culture in the hands of giant for profit publishing conglomerates is fair, just and reasonable and in the best interests of the free growth of human society and culture? 2. How it's not just a typical powergrab by plutocrats and their corrupt perfidious minions in the American Government?