Kung Fu, American Cars, and Microsoft
I had a nice workout in Woodland Park this morning from about 7 to 8:30 am.
* Yang Taiji long form, sections 4, 5, and 6.
* Broadsword warm ups
* Yang “Basic Broadsword” form
* Fu Bagua “Cyclone Broadsword” form
* Nine Palace Bagua “Seven Star Staff” form
* Fu Bagua “Dragon Palm” form
I have heard tell that American car manufacturers have a serious blind spot, in that, when they look to see how they are doing relative to the competition they only compare themselves to other American auto makers.
This is part of what gives us such beauties as the Aries K car, and is also what tends to make American cars inferior to most imported automobiles.
I have also heard that Microsoft’s notion of usability testing includes running new applications on computers in the cafeteria, and letting other Microsoft employees rate the usability of the application.
This explains a great deal. An application interface deemed “intuitive” by Microsoft might be intuitive to their own employees, but not be intuitive to your great aunt. Likewise, this may go a long way towards explaining why, inexplicably, Microsoft’s position on tabbed browsers is that “they are too confusing for most users to feel comfortable with them.”
Oy. Vey.