NonNefarious

+1 for "thither!"

Didn't we just have this on here? There was a Twitter thread where Philips tried to make excuses and sell this as a benefit. Embarrassing.

Yeah, two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37594377

Meanwhile, remember Logitech's Harmony remotes? They made you set up an online account too. Apologists mocked those of us who called that out, and then a couple months later Logitech shitcanned the entire product line and orphaned them all. I didn't quite LOL, but I enjoyed their come-uppance.

The Atari computers (except the 400) had S-video from the very beginning, and the JVC-made Commodore 1702 is a great match for them because it has separate luma & chroma inputs.

Interestingly, LaserDisc players, the best consumer video medium until the late '90s, mostly didn't have S-video outputs because the luma & chroma signals were mixed on the disc; providing a separate output for each wouldn't have gained you anything.

I was responding to the OP's willingness to pay extra for DoorDash. I agree with your complaint.

Of course some infantile shut-in or DoorDash shill downmodded my straightforward observation. Every day this site descends into Redditude.

Apple is a scummy, back-stabbing business "partner." Everyone from small-time developers to publicly-traded companies gets screwed by Apple burying their apps (or simply not showing them at all) in searches that spell the publisher's name exactly right. They lie about app discovery to developers, lie about it to judges, and lie to the users doing the searches.

However, the public hysteria over "big tech" should not be dragging Apple into everything, because developers are essentially the only aggrieved party. Unlike Google and Meta, Apple is not the gatekeeper to the Internet for millions of people. And I can almost always get a human being on the phone or chat from Apple, which today is truly worthy of praise.

I wonder if these assholes (Meta, Google) could be prosecuted under a Net Neutrality law for blocking particular sites.

It's bad enough that loads upon loads of sites require people to use their E-mail address as a user ID. What a stupid policy, one that embarrasses many companies that should know better (YES, THIS MEANS APPLE).

When you force people to log in with their E-mail address, what percentage of the public also thinks they need to use their E-mail password? I'm going to guess at least half. Now, if that site is compromised by a hack or disgruntled employee or whatever, people's E-mail accounts are wide open and identity theft galore can ensue.

Not to mention that your E-mail address is on thousands of spammers' lists. Combine that list with lists of common passwords, and you have a shitload of compromised E-mail accounts right there.

Nobody should have tolerated this amateur-hour policy, but here we are.

Or a TicketMaster purchase.

Their entire service IS delivery, so WTF is the "service" fee?

It's still an insulting rip-off.

It's not about the price YOU, the customer pay. It's about the scumbaggery that these lowlives perpetrate on restaurant owners. The best one is how they impersonate the restaurants online, hijacking their online presence and setting up fake numbers as the restaurants' own.

Never use food-delivery services. Not only are they scammers, but they (and this is first-hand observation) mess with, eat, or take your food into a public shitter.

Amen. BUT, be aware that the delivery assholes often hijack restaurants' online presence and put up fake phone numbers that go to the middleman, not the restaurant.

"If you can only operate out of airports (without vtol), the useful range of the airplane will be significantly reduced"

Why do you say that? That's backward. VTOL consumes a huge amount of energy, far more than a traditional rolling takeoff.

I would trust motors over an engine any day. Look at the contraption that is an ICE: You have fuel-, oil-, and air-delivery systems... you have ignition systems... you have mechanical parts violently changing directions thousands of times per minute...

A motor is metal spinning in a magnetic field, powered by chemical reactions in a battery.

Which seems more likely to fail?

STOP CALLING THIS A JET.

It is NOT a jet. I'm fully supportive of these innovators, but lying about what the product is hurts EVERYBODY.

Grow up.

On a side note: Why are there almost no VIEWERS for Markdown? Every project has a readme.md, which everyone ends up reading in a text viewer with all the formatting markers all over the place. WTF?

It’s not that different, but yes: I find that starting with a data model gets you a long way, forcing you to answer most of the important questions.

Or just down-mod fact-based rebuttals and slink off, weasel-like.

And coming back for more.

Pathetic.

More pro-illiteracy lobbyists down-modding the truth.

First of all, I never said American values are superior. So you've started your homily on a false premise.

Furthermore, most of your gripes SUPPORT my point, except of course for the tired catch-alls of "slavery" and "racism." As for the rest of what you cite (mass incarceration, worker oppression, the "religious" oppressing others): THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

Then of course there's democracy, and the alleged "resilience" of the American people. What a joke. Voting rights are being rolled back across "red" states nationwide. And "we" once rebuilt destroyed cities like Chicago and San Francisco in a few years... but it took over a decade to replace TWO buildings in New York after 9/11. And what have we built since?

If you want to roll out time-honored issues, how about abortion? Now a significant portion of the USA wants to (and has been given the go-ahead to) use women as baby farms. Even IRELAND abolished this disgusting regime.

Anyway, instead of a strawman, just create your own original post.

At a time when traditional American values are more desperately needed than ever around the world, they are dying right here in the USA.

Now it's time to chronicle its demise, on the WWW.

Thanks for the reply and that link. That article is replete with pretty bogus assertions, even for its time. Print is not all that informative for interactive presentations, aside from general principles of good layout with whitespace and appropriate visual emphasis. The article does indeed mention those, but goes on and on about print without saying what it has to do with buttons you need to press or values you need to adjust.

The article also treats all physical-control analogies as bad because of their (now-recognized-as) ridiculous descent into skeuomorphism. But before we had cheesy "leather" textures in "notebook" UIs, or "painted felt" that you could click on in a Blackjack game UI, we had simple two-pixel-wide highlights or shadows on the edges of buttons that instantly told you

A. This is a button. B. The button is "pressed."

At some point you can't do better than cues afforded by the real world. In the real world (even one full of touchscreens instead of mechanical switches), when you press on something malleable it will deform, and the light and shadow on it will change, showing you it's now concave where you pressed it. If it retains its shape, someone can come along an hour later and say, yep, this thing has been pressed.

This doesn't need to be (and never will need to be) learned. Therefore it makes much more sense to stick with minimalist real-world analogs than trying to invent some new design "language" that we're all supposed to memorize and that makes sense across all cultures. No no, blue means ON! Brown means OFF!

There's room for new clues, of course. "Greying out" unavailable functions is the best example I can think of. But I'd argue that reducing the contrast on something and making it less visible tells the user intuitively that it's ineffective (or less effective).

Conclusion: Windows 95 nailed it.

And yet the (defectively) giant trackpads don't support the Apple Pencil, which would have been great.

I'm going to write one about the idiocy of the "flat" design fad. I wonder how people of 1900 would have felt about having to experimentally poke at things that looked like plain labels or placards, or decorative swatches of paint, to operate a machine.

Fluffy but pretty interesting post. Thanks!

It's "win/win," FYI.

Usually when backpacking there's a backpack.

That's what I'd imagine too, but thinking it through... the keyboard on this thing is super lame. The lack of a Delete key alone would piss me off if trying to do any real writing.

I don't see a "travel" use case that couldn't be served by a MacBook Air (with the Karabiner utility to fix ITS insufferable lack of a Delete key).

To me this thing is for very limited technical scenarios, for example as a video signal generator or some kind of analysis or testing device to be used in the field. It might be pretty cool for something like that. Or for mobile hacking.

Yeah, all of that is too late. The ID verification has to take place at INTERVIEW time, not later.