There a definite gap between the experiences, but use cases are usually a bit different, too. Mobile devices are mostly used to check something up quickly on-the-fly as on PC you also do more planning ahead. So a scaled down experience is not necessarily a bad thing on mobile as that eases the pain of having a small screen, slow text input and possibly moving around in a noisy environment. Scaling down the features also forces the development team to focus on the essentials, which is not a bad thing even on PC.
Then again, it would be nice to get Slashdot css working on small screens, too.
I bleme the belief that the goal of an UI is to lower the required understanding (and thus salary) of the operators.
How the UI worked is irrelevant. Operators who understood what they were doing would have checked what needed to be checked, and taken the precautions the situation warranted, no matter what kind of warnings were lost because of a bad UI.
In an enviroment like this you really need both, trained personnel and a decent UI. The goal of the UI should not be to reduce understanding and cost, but to support the people making the decisions with the best information available. Even the most talented professionals can only make educated guesses if they have no situational information whatsoever and the only feedback is boom/no boom.
The problem is that Nature is a whole lot better of churning out interface-proof idiots than programmers are at making idiot-proof interfaces.
And that is exactly why you don't use programmers to design a UI.
The kids who gather there are an effing nuisance, they insist on playing football right in front of the cars trying to use the car park, they harrass people and treat adults there like crap...
So how about building them a proper place to play football. As you said, deal with the root of the problem.
Step 1: set up the straw man: "The concept that searching a blog site is an invasion of privacy is almost an oxymoron."
Step 2: knock it down: "It is called the World Wide Web."
However, in my car when there's snow on the road just tapping the brakes can lead to a loss of control.
ABS does shorten stopping distances on wet or snow covered roads, but if the road is dry, the stop time will be much shorter if the wheels lock and you skid.
I agree. In my experience, even on slippery conditions locking the wheels is not neccessarily a bad thing. The car stops faster, a physical fact. Without ABS you can just manually unlock the wheels for a split second if the car starts to turn (or you want to steer clear of something), you just have to be quick. This is in fact the opposite they told me in driving school, but seems to work anyway.
What I'd want is an ABS system that unlocks the wheels only when you are trying to steer during braking or the car starts to turn sideways. And does that quicker than me.
...my slow downloads, the Internet is just two tiered.
It may work for him, but not for everyone.
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At least I find it obvious that the are other types of people/users than me. Not only do they think and behave completely differently, but also like different things.
Btw. since when did Linus become a usability god anyway.
2. There is absolutely no comparison with the real police states, which are, unfortunately, still very common on our miserable planet. I think, It's insulting for the tortured to death victims in Iran, or China, or Russia...
Slashdot Mirror
Looks like adblockers are working then.
There a definite gap between the experiences, but use cases are usually a bit different, too. Mobile devices are mostly used to check something up quickly on-the-fly as on PC you also do more planning ahead. So a scaled down experience is not necessarily a bad thing on mobile as that eases the pain of having a small screen, slow text input and possibly moving around in a noisy environment. Scaling down the features also forces the development team to focus on the essentials, which is not a bad thing even on PC.
Then again, it would be nice to get Slashdot css working on small screens, too.
I bleme the belief that the goal of an UI is to lower the required understanding (and thus salary) of the operators. How the UI worked is irrelevant. Operators who understood what they were doing would have checked what needed to be checked, and taken the precautions the situation warranted, no matter what kind of warnings were lost because of a bad UI.
In an enviroment like this you really need both, trained personnel and a decent UI. The goal of the UI should not be to reduce understanding and cost, but to support the people making the decisions with the best information available. Even the most talented professionals can only make educated guesses if they have no situational information whatsoever and the only feedback is boom/no boom.
The problem is that Nature is a whole lot better of churning out interface-proof idiots than programmers are at making idiot-proof interfaces.
And that is exactly why you don't use programmers to design a UI.
The kids who gather there are an effing nuisance, they insist on playing football right in front of the cars trying to use the car park, they harrass people and treat adults there like crap...
So how about building them a proper place to play football. As you said, deal with the root of the problem.
Institute for Policy Innovation = IFPI = International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
Coincidence?
And a neat water cooling solution!!1!
...you insensitive clod!
Btw. in soviet russia, you call friends.. no wait.
... we simply used walls for that.
My scarf is made of tinfoil!
Spontaneous origin of life, perhaps? Simple viruses aren't that complicated.
Step 1: set up the straw man: "The concept that searching a blog site is an invasion of privacy is almost an oxymoron."
Step 2: knock it down: "It is called the World Wide Web."
I agree. In my experience, even on slippery conditions locking the wheels is not neccessarily a bad thing. The car stops faster, a physical fact. Without ABS you can just manually unlock the wheels for a split second if the car starts to turn (or you want to steer clear of something), you just have to be quick. This is in fact the opposite they told me in driving school, but seems to work anyway.
What I'd want is an ABS system that unlocks the wheels only when you are trying to steer during braking or the car starts to turn sideways. And does that quicker than me.
How is this a new idea, corporations have been doing it for ages!
"MP3 players don't cause hearing loss, small headphones do."
is just too similar to
"Guns don't kill people, bullets do."
...my slow downloads, the Internet is just two tiered.
At least I find it obvious that the are other types of people/users than me. Not only do they think and behave completely differently, but also like different things. Btw. since when did Linus become a usability god anyway.
I don't know if the treaty makes any difference, but do you really think the climate change is not going to punish the USA economically?
Just like hooking it up to /dev/random...
http://cs.helsinki.fi/u/janmatti/copyprot_readme.t xt
But are you sure those copy machines are not "evil" ?-)
Oh, really?
And yes, it worked well for two hunderd years, but so did the preceding systems.
2. replace walls with expensive equipment
Just.. typical.
...they went to the same doctor than I do.
He's old as dinosaurs and keeps telling me to prefer vegetables to meat.
That's simple: HDTV.
As predicted here...