Bad designs make me furious

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Riot Bimbo: Dec 28, 2006

Laserface posted:

I have 3 cards, with my most frequently used one in the front sleeve. it takes .5 of a second to remove it.

I guess the bad design that makes me furious is dumb loving americans?

Try propagating new technology that requires people to learn how to do a thing differently, that takes longer than the less secure swipe and sign/enter pin method.

To 300,000,000 people.

You get this thing called backlash, and it makes even sensible things difficult. People poo poo their loving pants when facebook slightly changes their layout you think they're gonna be 100% chill with being issued new cards that have new procedures that require you to stare at the ugly cashier for too many more seconds than used to be necessary?

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Riot Bimbo: Dec 28, 2006

Andrast posted:

Europeans managed to do it just fine.

You may not have noticed this but americans are... not very much like europeans.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2016 08:29

Riot Bimbo: Dec 28, 2006

Podcast as a word showed up around the time MP3 players took off, which you know, that was basically the ipod leading that, and was always the dominant presence in the market. My first mp3 player was a creative NOMAD 2 with a 32mb flash memory card, and it had a better interface than just about every ipod for several generations but Creative never really mattered and you don't see them being called Nomadicasts or whatever creative's flagship thing was in the ipod era.

I bought a Zune on purpose, I'm not happy with the way history went but yeah podcast and ipod are probably connected. My memory of the word was newscasters trying to understand and communicate the complex, incomprehensible technology of people talking and recording, distributing them digitally. Itunes was the major platform for that, for a long time, one of the only worthwhile legal ones.

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Riot Bimbo: Dec 28, 2006

Last Chance posted:

lmfao

plz don't laugh at me

# ¿ Mar 22, 2016 05:02

Riot Bimbo: Dec 28, 2006

Gorilla Salad posted:

Me too. drat that was a bad idea.

But a worse idea was how it was designed to handled file deletion. The Zune linked to the music on your hard drive and you dragged and dropped it in the horribly designed software it used. But not too many files in one go or it would just forget to upload some. I just wanted something I could plug in and use like a removable hard drive, dammit

When you deleted a file on your Zune, however, it would also delete it from your computer's hard drive. Permanently delete it. So if you wanted to make some space or were just bored of a song and decided to remove it, congratulation you now lost your hard drive copy as well.

I never had a problem like this. I thought the sync software was some garbage, but I always managed deletion from the software, and I'll be honest I was a jobless 17 year old I wasn't paying for a loving thing, so there was no sense of loss to simply re-download if something bad happened. I have no memories of poo poo like what you're talking about happening.

What I remember is the ring around the interface button coming off, the button losing sensitivity over time, and eventually the software/flash memory corrupting.

it was the 8gb model I think, green. It lasted me a long rear end time. I put it away when I begrudgingly got myself an ipod touch because android wasn't quite there yet but I definnitely was not paying for smart phone service in 2008/9. I had a dumb phone and an itouch until like 2011 i think.

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