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2008-10-28 , 12:52
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#100
Originally Posted by xxM5xx View Post
LMAO.... you don't like buttons and now you admit you don't like large stores where there are many items to chose from.
Exactly. The point is that less is (sometimes) more. If you never deal with people who want something to just work you don't have this compassion.

If you're from a society where everybody wants more more more and becomes fatter and fatter. Yes, then I understand you are not able to sympathise, let alone empathise.

You're no UI designer. You probably never wrote software for a non-tech, normal person. And I'm pretty sure you've never worked in a helpdesk environment either. Just like your buddy GA.

BTW- I am an engineer, and I have designed many a user interface. I was in the biomedical electronics instrumentation business. I understand user interfaces and the value of numerous buttons.
Sorry, you do not understand user interfaces.

I do not "freak out" for fear of pressing the wrong button as you admitted to being earlier.

Buttons are good.
What does this button do? *Poof*.

I had a toaster oven with an on/off button. I moved it aside. It touched the wall. It went on. I didn't notice. No light indicator for on/off. Later, there was a fire. Bad design. A toaster oven shouldn't have an on/off button on its side, and it should give user feedback about whether it is on or off. OTOH, it was very cheap.

I bet when someone comes at your door theres an entire interface to control the US nuke supply instead of one simple doorbell.

The Philips plasma TV I dumped??? It stopped responding to the remote control one day (some defect occured), and all that could be done with that TV after that was turning it on and off at the set. Nice design....NOT! If it had a few buttons the set would still have some value. No buttons meant no changing channels, no volume up/down, no selecting video source. The thing ended up in a landfill prematurely primarily because Philips ( from the Netherlands ??? ) was too lame to understand the things which many of us understand. I guess in Holland the Dutch just dislike (or fear) buttons.
Buy a new remote control.

Or buy it in EU with a standard 3 years warranty.

No wait, you did neither, you bought a second hand device with no knowledge of its usage history, and you complain it doesn't work. Sherlock!

We don't have many outlets in the Netherlands.

But you're right. In Holland everybody rides a bicycle equipped with a little bell. Everyone eats cheese. A garden without a windmill is a golf terrain.

Nobody has a Nokia. Too many buttons. They're actually banned here. The Dutch have a too low IQ to handle 'em. When George Bush visited the country his Nokia was confiscated. Everybody has a Philips Plasma, and Philips flags, towels, etcetera. Everybody has an iPhone. And we are all the lowest common denominator in the world, with the lowest IQ.

About the only thing true is that 'everybody has an iPod'. I got a different device, and I'm satisfied with it (+ Rockbox 3.0), so I'm not switching.
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