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patrickl:

--- Quote from: hyiu on April 04, 2010, 10:44:17 pm ---why sit outside for 5 days ?

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Apparently the guy is a professional "line sitter". He was the first to buy an iPhone and he signed first at "ground zero".

This was a store that would sell the iPad first.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: Blanka on April 05, 2010, 02:18:50 am ---- Too much iCandy. Please pay us back killed time on sweeping pages, zooming dock icons, rotating orientation switches, fancy photoalbum zooms. Make a "don't steal my time with fancy stuff" button in the preferences.

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Yeah, I saw the Windows Mobile 7 demo and with that I was also wondering if you could switch all those ridiculous animations off. Why do I need to wait for a menu to slide into place?

People whine how their devices are so slow and then they are happy that designers actually make stuff go even slower with these swishy swashy user interfaces.

patrickl:
Oh BTW the biggest question on everybodies mind is of course ... will it blend?

protokatie:

--- Quote from: patrickl on April 05, 2010, 05:57:38 pm ---Yeah, I saw the Windows Mobile 7 demo and with that I was also wondering if you could switch all those ridiculous animations off. Why do I need to wait for a menu to slide into place?

People whine how their devices are so slow and then they are happy that designers actually make stuff go even slower with these swishy swashy user interfaces.

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That is done to hide load times. It is a pretty common "feature" and has been for more than a decade. I remember in the win 3.11 days that the menus were stored on the Hdd until you clicked on a menu. I could actually hear the hdd clicking away to get just the small bit of text + whatnot simply for menus.

shmokes:
I just clicked around my start menu and I hear the hdd clicking away each time I open a new folder.  This is on a Windows 7 machine with a Core i7 920 and 12 GB of DDR3 RAM.  Go figure.

Actually after opening about 10 folders it stopped accessing the hdd no matter how many more folders I opened.  Presumably the OS got wise to me and decided to cache the whole menu.

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