tomflack

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by tomflack 15y ago
I don't understand. Care to explain further than that link? Edit: don't bother. It's a needless deviation from the topic of conversation here and I disagree with your interpretation of that link anyway.
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by tomflack 15y ago
> No, it's utterly ridiculous to post evidence related to ongoing legal matters to the peanut gallery of the internet. Any lawyer or legal TV show will recommend against that. This is where you and I disagree. Regardless of real-world i
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by tomflack 15y ago
Please read the following in an exasperated tone of voice, because that's what I feel here. The problem is the very public trashing of kickstarter on her blog, combined with the multitude of people who have had run-ins with Rachael over the
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by tomflack 15y ago
That's a terrible cop-out argument. If they're actually skilled - say so. If the bulk of the workforce isn't? Then saying so only hurts fixing the problem. If they're so unstable that being told they're not good at their job sends them in t
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by tomflack 15y ago
And simultaneously eliminates the "oh this photo is in portrait/landscape I have to rotate my phone to view it properly."
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by tomflack 15y ago
> But just thinking about it 30 sec and there are plenty of cases where the magic breaks and you find yourself in a corner with only one version when you need the other. Name a single one an end-user would encounter. They wouldn't.
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by tomflack 15y ago
For reference (everything else has been covered by the other poster replying to you) I was talking about the 16:10-16:9 move forced on consumers. 4:3-16:9 didn't happen directly, there was a brief stop off at 16:10.
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by tomflack 15y ago
Yeah actually, it is. It's devilishly simple and has a physical action to represent the virtual action taking place.
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by tomflack 15y ago
The users don't have a choice for the most part and it's a small enough difference that most don't know about it. That doesn't mean it doesn't negatively impact people. If you want a non-16:9 laptop you have to buy Apple.
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by tomflack 15y ago
We already have it in the rest of the world - in Australia since the beginning of last decade. I'm confused why it has taken this long for the United States to implement.
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by tomflack 15y ago
Because almost every single use of QR codes I've seen has been a terrible UX mistake. They're unwieldy, slow and annoying.
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by tomflack 15y ago
You totally missed his point. He's not saying the experience should present to the user as anything but what it does now - but behind the scenes there isn't any reason for the universal binary to exist. The phone or tablet should just downl
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by tomflack 15y ago
You post them in your stream, you can choose to only show your photos to people who you've friended or you can choose to post them all publicly. There is no middle ground. You can share the photos outside of instagram on Twitter, Facebook,
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by tomflack 15y ago
In Australia we have an "expected life" provision in consumer law, where more expensive products have a higher expectation they'll keep working - a $2000 fridge should last longer than a $200 fridge for instance. I've never seen it actually
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by tomflack 15y ago
The way I see software (excluding SAAS and software that comes with an explicit service contract) is the moment you pay your money, and the software is "fit for the purpose" that you were sold it for, you might be stuck with that version fo
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by tomflack 15y ago
In perpetuity? When a major OS upgrade breaks the app completely after being in use with no problems for 5 years? Again we find that conflating real-world examples with technology issues is a bad way of understanding them. With a house you
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by tomflack 15y ago
The university I work at, without any kind of official direction, has had the entire staff body move from the internal mailing list to Yammer for staff chat. It is brilliant.
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by tomflack 15y ago
I suspect (but have no evidence for) studios being able to get a lot more money selling the rights to another studio, rather than crowd-sourced single episodes.
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by tomflack 15y ago
Opportunity cost of his time.
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by tomflack 15y ago
> According to the "Economics of Anime" post, it should be possible now for people to revive gone but beloved shows in that medium on Kickstarter. New episode of Firefly, anyone? That IP is owned by Fox isn't it? Surely Fox would notice
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by tomflack 15y ago
That sounds like it's true, but I don't think it is. People have been making music for as long as we have recorded history, why would that change now?
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by tomflack 15y ago
> Compare with Apple and some of the iOS gestures such as four-finger (!) swipes... Are you trying to imply the four-finger swipes in iOS are bad?
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by tomflack 15y ago
I'd be extremely curious to see this story of a suddenly sentient android being tested re-written by a gender studies academic. But not just once, I'd like to see it re-written from various historic gender perspectives. Because I can't real
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by tomflack 15y ago
The main problem is third-party apps that don't respect the settings. It's not a huge problem. I've noticed some of the UI elements in windows get distorted sometimes too.
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by tomflack 15y ago
He's not talking about resolutions provided (and my Vaio has a 1920x1080 15" display if you're looking for examples there) he's talking about support for different DPIs. Windows 7/8 "kinda" work in this regard - I have to use accessibility
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by tomflack 15y ago
It's a nice dream, but would it actually make sense? Spend a lot of money to get an expensive capital-intensive business that is very different to any other business units in Apple and operates in only one of the countries Apple has a marke
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On a traditional PC, let metro apps run windowed(thomashambleton.com)
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by tomflack 15y ago
There are a lot of changes to little things; Windows 8 brings a proper 3g/4g manager. Or you can tell it certain wireless networks are "limited" and it won't download updates when connected to them. Lots of little things like that. All thes
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by tomflack 15y ago
What is it you specifically want to see? "make some experiences" is a bit vague to respond to, and the internet is loaded with videos and hands-on articles.
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by tomflack 15y ago
I think my only objection to that is how the new start screen comes up in a jarring Desktop > Metro transition. But then again I disliked the Windows7 Superbar until i'd been using it a while, so I'll reserve my judgement until I've use

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