A drawback of cloud computing I guess. Wonder whats the app programing language is?
Oxygene, C#, maybe Visual Basic ? - Michael. On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Paul Mander <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone else noticed a major flaw in this app? That is, that from time > to > time it leaks? I believe the developers are aware of the problem and will > release a fix shortly. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark > Newton > Sent: 24 October 2012 16:54 > To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. > Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Sky 1 Installation Update > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 09:38:06AM +0800, Texler, Michael wrote: > > > I have have just installed something fantastic. > > It is called Sky(TM). > > It is applied to the entire outer surface of the canopy. > > Although it is solar powered it doesn't need batteries, or a link to a > > > GPS unit or any extra holes drilled into your instrument panel. > > It's a fairly mature product, but like any ancient system it has exhibited > some difficult to fix bugs and usability defects. > > By far the worst aspect of Sky(TM) is that its rendering of other aircraft > defies basic user interface standards. Modern systems have benefited from > quite a lot of psychological research which keeps harmless or trivial user > interface elements unobtrusive and promotes important elements to the > forefront of the user's attention, but Sky(tm) comes from an earlier > generation of systems where that wasn't always the case. > > In particular, the most visually prominent Sky(TM) objects are the ones > that > are least harmful and easiest to avoid (security in the cloud!). The most > visually unobtrusive objects are the ones which can cause irretrievable > data > loss if you accidentally interact with them, something that even the most > well-trained experts occasionally have trouble with. > > If we were designing it today, we'd make other aircraft as prominent as > clouds, and perhaps impose a modal "Are you sure?" dialog when you touch > one, to make sure you're really intending to die in a crash before allowing > it to happen. > > The architecture of Sky(TM) makes this usability deficiency very difficult > to fix. In the same way that the UNIX community has greybeards who say > that > "rm -rf /" is easy to avoid if you don't accidentally type it (but seem, to > a man, to have accidentally typed it themselves!), the Sky(TM) user > community is full of curmudgeons who claim that you can overcome its > usability deficiencies by adopting a "See and Avoid" strategy while > simultaneously entertaining us with bar stories about near > misses^H^H^H^H^H^Hhits, so perhaps part of the problem is architectural, > and > part of it is lack of interest in finding a fix. > > Meanwhile, newer users are working-around the deficiencies with toolkits > layered on top of Sky(TM), just like we layer GNOME and KDE on top of UNIX > to improve its usability. There's an active development community engaged > in solving these problems with overlays such as FLARM, cheap ADSB-* > equipment, and various PDA applications. > > Best of luck to them, I say. > > - mark > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring >
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