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Perhaps I'm wrong, but I've always remembered this as Ugly bags of mostly water. Am I wrong? And along with several other commenters here, I strongly d

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I've always remembered this as *Ugly* bags of mostly water. Am I wrong? And along with several other commenters here, I strongly dislike this sort of multi-direction navigation with no overall map showing what's there, where I've been, and what I haven't yet visited. Beautifully designed and presented, with no concern for the user experience. A bit like the cars being described. The car is designed | The presentation is perfectly. | designed perfectly Any crashes are the | Any inability to navigate driver's fault. | is the user's fault. EDIT: The Wikipedia page about this episode agrees with me, but other "quotation" pages have "ugly giant bags of mostly water." Does anyone have the episode to hand and the time to watch it? Am I paying too much attention to trivial details? EDIT II: Found a script[0]: First reference is in an initial translation and is: Ugly... Ugly... Giants... Bags of Mostly Water... Subsequently as the translator gets better it's: Ugly Bag of Mostly Water So there we are. EDIT III: Wow - downvotes! No complaint, obviously people feel either that this comment is wrong, or doesn't belong. I'd appreciate knowing why people might think that, but I guess I'll never know. Which is a shame, I'd welcome the opportunity to learn. [0] http://www.st-minutiae.com/resources/scripts/117.txt http://www.st-minutiae.com/resources/scripts/117.txt

Joeri 10y ago
Press escape to get the slides overview.
- yxlx 10y ago
  There's no escape on my tablet. Also, the whole experience is horrible on tablet also wrt the other parts of navigation. Doesn't fit right on screen, navigates when trying to adjust, jumps around when trying to navigate. Hard to hit the arrows. I bailed out on this after three slides. Unusable.
- CarolineW 10y ago
  I'd be interested to know how you know that. Did you just experiment? Others have said that "space" will take one through the slides in sequence. Is that genuinely discoverable? How does one know when hitting space that one has seen all the slides, and not just taken a single path through a subset. These are genuine questions - I'm heavily into usability (in a different context) and I'd be interested to know what people try, and what they conclude. In my context people are uneasy about hitting keys and random just to see what happens. On some web sites I'm afraid to move the mouse, because the mouse-over event has been trapped, and things happen that I don't want, and can't undo. So how did you discover that ESC will produce an overview?
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fapjacks 10y ago
Yes, I have some Star Trek on in the background day and night (I mean that literally). It is exactly as you describe. Ugly giant bags of mostly water. But for some reason, this pared down version ("giant bags of mostly water") has persisted online.
KON_Air 10y ago
"The presentation is designed perfectly. Any inability to navigate is the user's fault." is spot on. It took me a lot of slides to figure out something was terribly wrong. On the otherhand organizing slides by index/subindex + it is on internets already won me over.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I've always remembered this as *Ugly* bags of mostly water. Am I wrong? And along with several other commenters here, I strongly d

Joeri 10y ago

Press escape to get the slides overview.

yxlx 10y ago
There's no escape on my tablet. Also, the whole experience is horrible on tablet also wrt the other parts of navigation. Doesn't fit right on screen, navigates when trying to adjust, jumps around when trying to navigate. Hard to hit the arrows. I bailed out on this after three slides. Unusable.
CarolineW 10y ago
I'd be interested to know how you know that. Did you just experiment? Others have said that "space" will take one through the slides in sequence. Is that genuinely discoverable? How does one know when hitting space that one has seen all the slides, and not just taken a single path through a subset. These are genuine questions - I'm heavily into usability (in a different context) and I'd be interested to know what people try, and what they conclude. In my context people are uneasy about hitting keys and random just to see what happens. On some web sites I'm afraid to move the mouse, because the mouse-over event has been trapped, and things happen that I don't want, and can't undo. So how did you discover that ESC will produce an overview?
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fapjacks 10y ago

Yes, I have some Star Trek on in the background day and night (I mean that literally). It is exactly as you describe. Ugly giant bags of mostly water. But for some reason, this pared down version ("giant bags of mostly water") has persisted online.

KON_Air 10y ago

"The presentation is designed perfectly. Any inability to navigate is the user's fault." is spot on. It took me a lot of slides to figure out something was terribly wrong. On the otherhand organizing slides by index/subindex + it is on internets already won me over.