While it is true that everyone has their own individual UI preferences, designing the UI to function well based on actually data instead of what the designers feel will work always provides the best UI. You need to find out how the user actually does their work in order to design a UI that helps them perform it.
Finally! Nice to see a bigname in online music stepping up and trying to do something without DRM
"I think the labels are interested in one thing: selling," but where did he come up with some a novel concept? Big Music is interested in selling? And here I was thinking they were only interested in being evil.
"It cannot be used to listen to satellite radio or broadcasts streamed over the Internet"
One has to wonder why they left this out. It seems like it would be a popular function. It's already hooked upto your computer. There's no reason (other than legal issues?) not to support time-shifting internet streams. I can't image there being any legal issues that prevent it, that don't already apply to time-shifting broadcast radio.
And not supporting satellite radio? I'd think they're be a larger market for this if the included it. Maybe even work out a deal with XM or something, providing time-shifting on all their recievers.
It looks like a good product, and a great idea, but I don't understand why they left those functions out. It can't have simply been an oversight, since it's just to obvious of an idea.
Anything involving popcorn is good. When my house full of crazy geek college students got involved in a prank war with another house full of geek college students, I'd have to say the popcorn prank was the best.
Our war started simply enough. They were the pirate house, they even flew pirate flag from their roof. So one night under cover of darkness we went over and stole it. The responsed by breaking into our house and waking us all up by turn our CD player on full blast and looping A pirates life for me.
Now that is annoying to wake up too.
The hacks on our various websites got pretty boring, as did the WEP cracking, so we decided to step it up a notch.
One of my housemates worked at a movie theater, so we had him bring home all the stale popcorn at the end of the night.
We snuck into their house, filled their whole bathroom with popcorn and went home happy.
We woke up to pictures in our e-mail boxes of the enemy playing NAKED in our wall of popcorn.
So my words of advice to you, popcorn is funny, but make sure you're prepared from strange naked popcorn prancing pictures.
It's nice to see people are finally noticing that overly protected copyrights are a problem. I encourage everyone to write them a comment, you have until March 25th, 5pm EST. They accept "electronic mail" so you don't even have to physically write anything. It's so easy!
It's great that they're requestings comments and focusing on the issue. My question is will they actually do anything with the comments? Or will it just be a matter of "Oh.. look... that's how people feel. Oh well, let's not do anything."
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As long as you design from data linked to actually users performing actual work, the UI design should become transparent.
I would recommend Designing the User Interface as a good starting point, as well as Contextual Design as a great way to learn how to gather actual user data.
While it is true that everyone has their own individual UI preferences, designing the UI to function well based on actually data instead of what the designers feel will work always provides the best UI. You need to find out how the user actually does their work in order to design a UI that helps them perform it.
Finally! Nice to see a bigname in online music stepping up and trying to do something without DRM
"I think the labels are interested in one thing: selling," but where did he come up with some a novel concept? Big Music is interested in selling? And here I was thinking they were only interested in being evil.
But that wasn't exactly filed yesterday. According to the EFF website it was filed on Jan. 14th
"It cannot be used to listen to satellite radio or broadcasts streamed over the Internet"
One has to wonder why they left this out. It seems like it would be a popular function. It's already hooked upto your computer. There's no reason (other than legal issues?) not to support time-shifting internet streams. I can't image there being any legal issues that prevent it, that don't already apply to time-shifting broadcast radio.
And not supporting satellite radio? I'd think they're be a larger market for this if the included it. Maybe even work out a deal with XM or something, providing time-shifting on all their recievers.
It looks like a good product, and a great idea, but I don't understand why they left those functions out. It can't have simply been an oversight, since it's just to obvious of an idea.
Anything involving popcorn is good. When my house full of crazy geek college students got involved in a prank war with another house full of geek college students, I'd have to say the popcorn prank was the best.
Our war started simply enough. They were the pirate house, they even flew pirate flag from their roof. So one night under cover of darkness we went over and stole it. The responsed by breaking into our house and waking us all up by turn our CD player on full blast and looping A pirates life for me.
Now that is annoying to wake up too.
The hacks on our various websites got pretty boring, as did the WEP cracking, so we decided to step it up a notch.
One of my housemates worked at a movie theater, so we had him bring home all the stale popcorn at the end of the night.
We snuck into their house, filled their whole bathroom with popcorn and went home happy.
We woke up to pictures in our e-mail boxes of the enemy playing NAKED in our wall of popcorn.
So my words of advice to you, popcorn is funny, but make sure you're prepared from strange naked popcorn prancing pictures.
Ewwww, the images are still burned into my mind.
OMG you mean I'd have to actually claim my copyrights? I couldn't just sit there and collect them for years? geez ... that's so much work ...
It's nice to see people are finally noticing that overly protected copyrights are a problem. I encourage everyone to write them a comment, you have until March 25th, 5pm EST. They accept "electronic mail" so you don't even have to physically write anything. It's so easy! It's great that they're requestings comments and focusing on the issue. My question is will they actually do anything with the comments? Or will it just be a matter of "Oh .. look ... that's how people feel. Oh well, let's not do anything."
I for one welcome our car building robot overlords.
Hopefully this will start a trend that pushes the laws in a more user friendly direction. Take that RIAA!