MTA Vending machines use Windows NT 4?!
KILL. IT. WITH. FIRE.
I, for one, welcome our new robotic toilet overlords.
A Klingon band; song in Wookie: accompanying a Wookie bellydancer. It’s that kinda Tuesday.
“Only on Cable. Never on Fios. Never on Satellite.”
Or on the internet, for that matter (unless you pay a cable provider already or agree to pony up $5/mo). I don’t think I’ve seen a news channel brag so much about being so unavailable.
A new Cyriak. Without comment… ‘cause, well, it’s hard to comment on Cyriak.
Ladies and gentlemn, Ace Rimmer.
edit: lamesauce. tumblr won’t let the gif animates.
This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”, “optimized” UI for Windows Explorer. They were so proud of it they wrote a blog post about it.
The post is a sort of masterpiece of crazy rationalization, but I think my favourite part may be this screenshot:
Here, they proudly overlay the UI with data from their research into how often various commands are used. They use this to show that “the commands that make up 84% of what users do in Explorer are now in one tab”. But the more important thing is that the remaining 50% of the bar is taken up by buttons that nobody will ever use, ever, even according to Microsoft’s own research. And yet somehow they remain smack bang in the middle of the interface. The insanity is further enriched by this graph:
Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the menu bar, and only 10% of users use the command bar. Nearly everybody is using the context menu or hotkeys. So the solution, obviously, is to make both the menu bar and the command bar bigger and more prominent. Right?
Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody.
