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Friday, August 3. 2012

Friday Linkabout

‘The Prediction Models Look Dismal for Obama’ --  The 'Bread And Peace Model' Says Obama Is Toast In November


Corporate Welfare in the Federal Budget


Abbott and Costello Explain California for You


Human rights ‘losing its meaning’


Facebook disappoints Sacramento spenders


The Illegal IRS Rule To Expand Tax Credits Under ObamaCare


Aging power grid on overload as U.S. demands more electricity --The Government Admits The US Power Grid Can Be Taken Out At Any Time


Gore Vidal: “a creepy conspiracy crank who made Joe McCarthy look judicious.”


How North Korea’s Kim Regime Survives


When the Right Is Right About the Left: Critics of Israel Should Be Open About Beliefs


New Evidence from Massachusetts Health Reform Shows the Poor Are Getting Treated More Poorly


Vietnam Veterans Outraged Over Navy Christening Of USS Jane Fonda  (smirk-tip to The Mellow Jihadi)


The False Allure of Group Selection: Group selection has become a scientific dust bunny, a hairy blob in which anything having to do with "groups" clings to anything having to do with "selection....


EMails Show Extent of Solyndra's Government Dependence


The Chicken Disses the Hat


Obama Campaign Sues to Restrict Military Voting


I bought two new cars, from different manufacturers, in the past year. I want to shoot the screens. It's time for a revolution in car audio and electronics "It still seems like most car manufacturers think the best way to build in their electronics is by working with partners, and most of those partners know as much about how their software and services work in an automobile environment as the car manufacturers know about how to build good electronics."


Don't take Obama's Electoral Advice: Ex-NLRB Counsel: Ignore WARN Act at Your Own Peril


Pew(ie) Polling for Obama


A Mormon In The Holy Land, a century ago ultimately had a decisive impact on Jewish history and America's response to the Holocaust


"Have you no decency, sir?" Waiting for Reid and Obama to show any.


Posted by Bruce Kesler at 06:00 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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"Have you no decency, sir?"

I'm sorry, what is this word, "decency"?
#1 Sam L. on 2012-08-03 14:50 (Reply)
Re: User 9nterfaces:

I'm not sure that this is the right question to ask. It should be "why are the user interfaces for all electronics so horribly bad?"

I read a report last year that approximately 90 % of electronics returned as defective actually worked to specification. The report indicated that the problem was due to customers not being able to figure out how to make it work. I didn't find this at all surprising. What did surprise me was the report blaming the problem on, in effect, stupid customers.

Wait, what? If you can't sell your products because it's too hard to use, who is it that's stupid?

I speak from experience, having been a design manager for many years. I can't even begin to count the number of times an engineer brought a proudct to a design review that even the other engineers at the table couldn't figure out.

The classic response to criticism was along the lines that if the customer would just spend a few days of his or her life figuring it out, it would all make sense. This is wrong on so many levels that I don't know where to start.

Electronics from Asia is usually worse, there appear to be cultural factors at play.
#2 GaryS on 2012-08-03 15:57 (Reply)

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