Would you be okay with your mother, wife, or daughter performing in a porn flick?
Wow. Are you sure you don't want to join the Taliban? The female members of your immediate family are not your property. You may not want them to appear in a porn flick, but if they want to then the should be free to do so.
Unless he's a psychologist and technology expert, and also has something to back up this crazy notion, it might as well be a Feng-shui guy arrogantly chiming in on the layout of a motherboard.
In that case, it would be interesting to hear what you think the practice of modern architecture is.
And after just a few short years, there's a tremendous loss in efficiency as the mirrors used to collect all that sunlight become dirty and pitted.
I know this is
What exactly is your point?
Then again, a Ribbon on Explorer might not be bad, because it really only does 50 things.
Actually, Explorer has 200 commands (one of them is something called "rotate" apparently), according to the Microsoft blog post. But who's counting.
Perhaps the copyright owners want to make sure that it isn't abused. There are a lot of people out there who would love to twist Dr. King's words to their own advantage.
Fair use means that if I wanted to write something like "In saying 'I have a dream...' Martin Luther King was referring to radical Islam" or some such idiocy, then I would be perfectly able to quote passages to make my point.
Copyright in this case is about money. Not about abuse.
I don't care what the "reasoning" is - this is just ridiculous versioning. At this rate in 2020, we'll be using Firefox 153. It will be confusing for the users
Why? I'm using Chrome version "12.0.742.112 (90304)" and don't give a crap as long as it keeps working (and is updated without me having to do much).
People have been trying to make video chat popular for YEARS. Every single major comms player since about 1980 has tried to make it into something more than a niche for pervs and loons, and failed - miserably.
The latest flogging of the dead horse of video for interpersonal comms was Apple with Facetime. Flop.* Or at least, everyone I know has iPhone 4s and iPad 2's - they all used Facetime once, and concluded as bazillions of people have concluded down the years, that it was awkward, distracting and just downright useless.
Think about it: you do not open a comms channel in whatever medium and think "You know, I just WISH I could see their faces."
Let's see if FB can make it work. I give it 10,000:1 on past history.
* Cue people making up technical reasons why it was a flop. But they are wrong. The reasons are human. Non-technical. You don't want to talk up somebody's nose, or see them looking away from you, or get fixated on trying to work out if you are on the toilet on not.
I'd be pretty depressed. I mean, have they done *anything* they can be proud of in the last 20 years? XBox maybe.
Plus, some places make a rotary out of a 5-way intersection which can be incredibly confusing.
I've been driving the UK for about 20 years, most of which has been urban driving. In the UK we have lots and lots of these roundabout things. Some small (perhaps 20 feet wide) in cities and towns, some very big. They are all trivially easy to navigate, and make driving far less stressful than stopping and starting at traffic lights the whole time. You just give way to those already on the roundabout (if you are approaching it) and watch the danger on your right when you are at one (or on the left if you are in the States). I have never seen a significant roundabout accident in the UK, mainly because it's pretty much impossible to go into one at any speed unless you have a clear deathwish or a hunger to see how your suspension handles the rather large bit in the middle.
I also fail to see how the number of tributary roads make them any more confusing. I've been on roundabouts with about 10 roads coming in to them. You just keep driving until you see the sign you want, you then look in your MIRROR, you SIGNAL, and then MANOEUVRE off the roundabout while looking about. If you don't see the sign, you just keep driving and go around again (while your partners reads the map). So you can take you time to make up your mind, unlike on a large crossing.
Of course, if you are going too fast, or just don't know how to drive, you will have problems. But then, you deserve everything you get in that case.
When I first encountered McCandless's site a few years ago, I really loved it
Can you explain why? I would have thought that anyone who has ever considered data and the visualization of it would see his site and pretty much instantly realise it was pile of useless drek.
I feel this is done on purpose to direct attention to it.
I wish they'd make up their minds. It wasn't a year ago they were hiding it completely by default until you moved your mouse. Not even Larry Page himself knew what THAT was all about.
The history of OpenOffice has been utterly depressing in so far as they've just aped Microsoft Office. Maybe that had to happen if OO was to gain any of MSO's user base, but I hope that LO will break out of the cloud of crap that is MSO.
For example, there is no reason whatsoever to default to throwing away your work. The convention of opening up a new document and THEN having to save it is utterly ridiculous! In fact, there is no reason to have a "save" command at all. All user input should be sacred, and every keypress should be saved. Another example is the crazy arrangement of menu items (made worse by the "ribbon bar" in MSO) that attempts to cram every command into a menu structure. A word processor is for most people a tool of reasonably frequent use, yet even after many years of using MSO, I still can't remember where the word-count is, because I use it hardly ever. I also constantly forget how to bring up the styles library or insert a picture. Instead of a labyrinthine menu, why not have a search (with command completion), and leave the menu for those who want to browse?
This comment is way OT though, so I'll stop.
Early leaders in their respective fields, but then got lazy because they didn't think their customers would go anywhere.
Hey - I've got a five-digit ID, and I distinctly recall almost EXACTLY the same comment when I joined, only that time it was Slashdot being like Apple! Back then, Amelio was leaving, and things were looking grim for the Mac.
Not saying that RIM will go that way (oooooh no), but I just thought it was pretty funny.
No. The difference here is that Netflix has been held up almost as high as Apple by the "user experience design" community as being a web site that "does the right thing" in design for its customers:
specifically, the echo chamber:
http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/netflix_nails_it.php
http://www.uie.com/articles/kane_interview/
Bill Scott, their former head of UX is a high-profile UX consultant and speaker who often uses Netflix as an example of good design for profit.
Compare this to
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis
