Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Georg Wrede" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Those video editors, iTunes and such look like they're programmed by
12-year olds. Somewhere there should be an adult saying what not to do!
Well put.
I bet the guy who did this never expected that whole-picture dragging
actually uses more electricity in your computer. When every Firefox user
(and the others "who have to implement this too, so as not to look
inferior!") in the whole world drags whole pictures, the combined increase
in world electric usage rises well above his day-job salary.
Greenpeace ought to shoot him.
Funny, earlier today I was just thinking very much the same thing about a
video I saw a few weeks ago of Palm's WebOS (Or it might have been some
clone of WebOS). Fancy moving curves and scaling icons that serve absolutely
no purpose besides 1. "flash for the sake of flash" (I *hate* that!) and 2.
drain the battery. Which is really sad, I used to have so much respect for
Palm...But then they killed graffiti, and then replaced their PDAs with cell
phones (and we never did get PDAs with hard drives, which is ridiculous,
even my portable music player has a damn hard drive, which of course is one
device I wouldn't even need if my PDA *had a hdd!!*), and now this WebOS
garbage, sheesh...And speaking of PDAs, now Nintendo's been changing their
DS from a reasonable gaming device into the world's shittiest PDA...Man, the
world of software and consumer electronics really depresses me these days...
It was different in the old days. In 1981 HP introduced the HP-12c
financial calculator. Seems it's still sold, for about $60.
I'd like to see the consumer gadget introduced this year, that is still
sold in 2037.
And they're built to last. I have a few HP calculators (the earliest a
HP-25, I bought in 1975), and they're fiercely usable, sturdy, and
definitely not cluttered with unneeded "features". I still use them,
particularly the HP-28s, the HP-25, and the HP-95 (which is actually an
IBM PC in palmtop size).
