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Comment Re:Wow. locking feedback, telling people what to t (Score 2) 574

Fork it, you are still free to do it. That's why it is still open software. Other than that, they have a vision on what the browser called Chrome should be, of which Chromium is the dev version.

anyway this assholery has just persuaded me not to use chrome ever. and i had some complains with firefox too.

You still have Opera, IE and Safari...

Comment Re:Usability (Score 3, Insightful) 574

Generally, the less you have to move the mouse, the better. If the tabs are between the text and URL bar, you save 60ish pixels of movement compared to Chrome's arrangement every time you touch a tab, which tends to be a lot. On the other hand, you type into the URL bar at least an order of magnitude less often.

Yes, but you gain on the infinite height of a tab ending at the top of the screen. By having tabs on top with the window maximized, you have to only aim in the X axis and move the cursor up, instead of having to aim at a small area in XY, which is demonstrably harder and more time consuming.

Comment Re:Don't Make Me Think (Score 3, Insightful) 173

As others have already pointed out, Don't Make Me Think is great and to the point, but I'd like to recommend to you The Design of Everyday Things, which doesn't talk specifically about computer user interfaces, but does provide useful advice and gets you into the necessary mindset for the task. Good UI design isn't something you can just get from a book, but a book can help you get you thinking.
Also, look at horrible interfaces to learn what not to do.

Comment Re:LibreOffice on OS X Lion (Score 1) 242

LibreOffice works well enough on OS X Lion as does OpenOffice.org. However, neither of them are a native OS X application with the look and feel and this is a reasonable deal breaker for me. Plus it's not as fast as MS Office running under VMWare Fusion!

DSL

So, it works ok, but it doesn't look right on OS X, so your solution is running Windows' MS Office? Just trying to follow the logic here.

Comment Civilians that may die in games? (Score 4, Interesting) 431

I loved to play the Rainbow Six series, and those fucking civilians would always get between my gun and the head of the last remaining terrorist. I also remember killing scientists in Half-Life just because they wouldn't move anymore after some map point.
If games now don't have civilians in them is just because the games distributors don't have the balls or the will to take a little heat from stupid people that don't understand that a deaths in a video game are just as bad for your development as seeing a nipple: not at all.

If you put the player in front of a choice where they can do good things or bad things, they will do bad things, go [to the] dark side because people think it's cool to be naughty, they won't be caught

And that's bad because...?

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