Personal computing discussed
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Redocbew wrote:Seriously, what the hell.
biffzinker wrote:Does it really NEED drop downs though? Seems over complicated for no intended purpose.
just brew it! wrote:I'd bet money that the team lead said something along the lines of "Make sure you use drop-downs wherever possible, to make the forms easier to use", and some n00b developer on the team took it a little too literally.
localhostrulez wrote:Yeah, that's like sliding, sliding, sliding to select the date/time on iOS. Guys, wouldn't a numberpad have been easier?
cphite wrote:I don't have video or anything but years ago one of our developers, in a response to being told his interfaces were "too simplistic" designed one that emulated Doom engine... you had to enter a four digit PIN by walking through numbered doors. If you got it wrong you died and had to start over.
It was gloriously stupid
DancinJack wrote:localhostrulez wrote:Yeah, that's like sliding, sliding, sliding to select the date/time on iOS. Guys, wouldn't a numberpad have been easier?
omg those "wheels" they have are so so so so so so bad. I know they don't wanna take up the whole screen with a long list but the scrolling wheels are just awful.
cphite wrote:I don't have video or anything but years ago one of our developers, in a response to being told his interfaces were "too simplistic" designed one that emulated Doom engine... you had to enter a four digit PIN by walking through numbered doors. If you got it wrong you died and had to start over.
It was gloriously stupid
The Doom process manager (PSDoom) is a modification of the game Doom that displays representations of the processes running on a machine. Rather than using standard text-mode UNIX tools to view and manipulate processes, one surveys and shoots at a room full of bloodthirsty mutants, as shown in Figure 1. When a user starts PSDoom, currently running processes are instantiated as ``process monsters'' in a single room in a ``dungeon.'' These monsters have their associated process' name and id printed on them. The program periodically polls the operating system to add newly-created processes to the game. The user may choose to view the processes from a balcony above the room, as shown in Figure 2, or to enter the room to interact with them. If the user inflicts a wound upon a process monster, the corresponding process' priority is lowered to give it fewer CPU cycles. When the monster accumulates enough damage and is killed, the associated process is also killed.
PSDoom inherits the rest of its behavior from the original Doom, and play is not noticeably affected. Monsters attempt to attack the player and each other. The hostility of the monsters and the user's limited ammunition are disincentives to attack them. Conflict among process monsters could help regulate heavily-utilized systems by making crowded rooms have higher mortality rates. Killing random processes on an extremely loaded system is not an uncommon operating system strategy. When the user is ``killed,'' he or she will be healed and placed at the entrance of the dungeon with a pistol and a modest amount of ammunition.
biffzinker wrote:Who doesn't want this, and no waiting for it to load.
localhostrulez wrote:I know people packaged it up for 10, and it worked well when I last tried it.
Author Microsoft
Description Get the old Calculator app from Windows 8 or Windows 7 in Windows 10. It is the genuine classic Calculator app extracted from Windows 8.1, with full localization support. It will be always in your OS language. It supports both Windows 10 x86 and Windows 10 x64.