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Comment Re:Fork in 3...2...1... (Score 2) 114

by weilawei (#61059232) Attached to: VLC Will Get a New UI This Year With 4.0 Launch

Flat UI, when done right, is always an improvement.

Assertion made! Please prove it.

There's really no need for this flat UI. I can either go true fullscreen, without the controls showing, or I can leave them on the screen, and my visual cortex will strongly prefer the central region of my vision. The controls will be invisible to my brain, because they're in an ignored area of peripheral vision.

Flat is stupid. Saying it needs to be "done right" is the same line we hear about True Communism. Also, now that you've said it has to be "done right", you've paved your way to make No True Scotsman fallacies. "Aaaah, well, that one sucked, so it wasn't done right!"

Can you show me an example of a UI with 3D relief that's "done right" and the corresponding improved flat UI that is also "done right".

Comment Re:"modern design" (Score 1) 114

by weilawei (#61059222) Attached to: VLC Will Get a New UI This Year With 4.0 Launch

As for flat UI, there's very much a reason for it - it's heavily documented as to why it is the right path for user interfaces on screens.

Citation please.

it is flat in order to immediately convey purpose

I do not understand your English. Please rephrase. "convey purpose" is very wishy-washy and ill-defined.

Submission + - NASA to use commercial launch vehicle for Europa Clipper (spacenews.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: NASA is no longer considering launching the Europa Clipper mission on the Space Launch System, deciding instead to launch the spacecraft on a commercial rocket it will procure in the next year.

During a Feb. 10 presentation at a meeting of NASA’s Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG), leaders of the Europa Clipper project said the agency recently decided to consider only commercial launch vehicles for the mission, and no longer support a launch of the spacecraft on the SLS.

“We now have clarity on the launch vehicle path and launch date,” Robert Pappalardo, project scientist for Europa Clipper at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said. That clarity came in the form of a Jan. 25 memo from NASA’s Planetary Missions Program Office to “immediately cease efforts to maintain SLS compatibility” and move forward with a commercial launch vehicle, or CLV, he said.

Congress had directed NASA for several years to launch Europa Clipper on SLS, including provisions to that effect in annual spending bills. NASA, though, requested the flexibility to procure an alternative launch vehicle, arguing it needed the SLS to support its Artemis human lunar exploration program and claiming that a commercial vehicle could save NASA as much as $1.5 billion.

Submission + - Minneapolis Bans Its Police Department From Using Facial Recognition Software (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Minneapolis voted Friday to ban the use of facial recognition software for its police department, growing the list of major cities that have implemented local restrictions on the controversial technology. After an ordinance on the ban was approved earlier this week, 13 members of the city council voted in favor of the ban, with no opposition. The new ban will block the Minneapolis Police Department from using any facial recognition technology, including software by Clearview AI. That company sells access to a large database of facial images, many scraped from major social networks, to federal law enforcement agencies, private companies and a number of U.S. police departments. The Minneapolis Police Department is known to have a relationship with Clearview AI, as is the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, which will not be restricted by the new ban.

Submission + - Frontier Raises Sneaky 'Internet Infrastructure Surcharge' From $4 To $7 (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Frontier Communications is raising its sneaky "Internet Infrastructure Surcharge" from $4 to $7 later this month, widening the gap between its advertised broadband prices and the actual prices customers pay. Telecom providers love to advertise low rates and then sock customers with bigger bills by charging separate fees for things that are part of the core service. In cable TV, that means customers see one advertised rate for a bundle of channels and then pay way more after the addition of "Broadcast TV" and "Regional Sports Network" fees that supposedly cover the costs of certain channels that are part of the bundle. With Frontier Internet service, customers pay the advertised rate for Internet service and then get hit with fees including the Internet Infrastructure Surcharge.

While some fees cover costs that providers must pay to the government, the Internet Infrastructure Surcharge is decidedly not one of them. In its list of fees, Frontier describes the surcharge as follows: "Internet Infrastructure Surcharge — This is a Frontier-assessed surcharge, not a government surcharge. It supports maintenance and other costs associated with our network infrastructure and your continued access to high speed Internet service. As a result of increased Internet traffic and usage, including bandwidth, demand for services, and other requirements that impact our Internet network infrastructure we impose this charge on our internet customers." In other words, the fee covers the cost of providing the Internet service that customers are already paying for in the advertised rates. If Netflix priced its video service this way, the company would advertise one price and then charge an extra fee for "streaming infrastructure" or something similar.

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