Hm. I actually can’t bring myself to watch the series through again because I know I won’t enjoy the end.
I remember I was living with my roommate at the time and we’d watch the show religiously as episodes came out. At the end we both couldn’t help but laugh at how bad it became, haha. We really didn’t want it to be true, but… It was cheesy as hell. I won’t watch it again.
I don’t know in France, but at least in Italy companies are not a shield for penal responsibility; crimes are always committed by persons. If a company does something criminal, someone is responsible for that decision within the company, and that could be the CEO.
Apple used to sell stuff that had “curated UIs”: few control, few functions, and excellent UX. I remember the cleanliness of the iPod vs the overfeatured and complicated competitors.
iPod was useless without iTunes, and I wouldn't call iTunes a curated, excellent UX. We can't only look at the beautiful light and ignore the angler fish behind it.
PS: if we include Sony's minidisk in the competion, the overall listening experience, especially the wired remote was just better. The digital walkman was still a better UX on the device side, except it has an even worse horrible PC experience and Sony barriers that made it a non starter.
The competitors were too cheap to have any feature, usually they had a big play button, a next and previous button and that's pretty much it.
The settings were usually pretty poor on those mp3 players, on mine you had a microphone mode, language, timezone, some shuffle configuration and that's pretty much it.
The iPod did look much much better and refined but in terms of simplicity, it's hard to beat the single play button of an mp3 player which doesn't know to do anything else. Those things were designed like appliance more than tech products.
I don’t think that’a true. Too many years have passed so I cannot cite makes and models, but I worked in an IT magazine back then and there were mp3 players with a lot of buttons, not unlike those overcomplicated VHS recorders which sold on “features”.
That's true, those also existed but what I've seen, they were not bought as much as the cheap kind. The ipod gave a reason to pay extra, those half way though products really did not.
Alledgedly simple UI (although I never was a Apple guy, was using iRivers at that time), but building the iPod was hard, probably entailing a flew of difficult, complex hardware and design issues to tackle.
I have been using Seamonkey since when it was called Netscape, but there are so many sites that do not work with it that I been forced to switch to Firefox. I still use Seamonkey for my mail though, I prefer it to Thunderbird.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC AmigaOS is the whole operating system, while AmigaDOS is the part of that OS that handles disk I/O, plus the CLI, etc. Yeah, a naming mess.
> IMHO exec.library is great, but dos.library was a huge mistake.
I'm interested in your take on this point. I cut my m68k teeth on Amiga demo programming, but never delved into exec (apart from a very small amount of init).
Trying to fix a rather large and mostly dysfunctional parliament, Italy recently tried the opposite solution: it slashed the number of representatives. It did not go well.
