*sigh*

[aletheiafelinea]

Google has 'improved' its logo.

I hate it.

That's all, thank you for attention, proceed with your day.

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[alumfelga.livejournal.com]

I know a popular Doctor Who line which can be useful in such cases: "You've redecorated? I don't like it."
Why?

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

It fits into the current trend of design which I hate in general. Before that, layouts competed in being as 'real' looking and 'palpable' as possible - buttons popping out at you; transparency, shadows, simulated reflections and glassy surfaces everywhere; soft edges and rounded corners; fotorealistic/hyperrealistic ornaments and gradiented backgrounds. Sometimes it was overdone, but I liked it much better than what we have now, which goes opposite - all hail minimalism! Painfully bright plastic colors rather than pastels and nature-like tones (which actually is not exactly minimalistic approach, too, if you think about it); sans-serif fonts (that's actually one thing I can appreciate a little, but not in Google logo and generally not in HEADERS and MAIN TITLES, unless they have a reason to aim at 'blocky' feel); huge, empty, wasted spaces (that's rather my beef with sites having some actual content, especially in gallery views; Google's main page always has been this way, and in their case it's not a flaw); buttons becoming nothing more than a patch of color with no contour to make them out from the background (daltonists and those with less contrasted monitors must be really happy); straight-cut shapes with sharp edges and right angles (oh-so-innovative and famous 'tiles', argh); written labels discarded in favour of pictograms that often are obvious only to their designer; fotorealistic details banned as mortal sin and replaced with 'flat' vector graphics in the most simplified option of thereof... Altogether it makes the effect of a kindergarten toy, a big and plastic one. I may be wrong, but I think it began with Windows 8, and other software and websites follow it now. And I hope fervently it's just a phase, a fashion, the sooner gone, the better. And the irony is that it only is supposed to look minimalistic, in fact being far from it, because it's inexplicably more demanding for browsers than the previous loaded (and even those overloaded) with details layouts were. Partially to blame is a sub-trend in this trend, that is all this floating-and-unfolding-upon-hovering, which is not so bad idea if applied carefully, but also not exactly older-browsers-friendly...

It's not like I say Google's new logo checks off all these boxes, but it's just another site that's gone W8-ed. And this makes me want to strangle someone. Preferably this genius at Microsoft who first said "Hey, let's make it totally different! What usability...? Oh, who cares. And esthetics? That's the point! We'll make new one! *insert mwahaha*" Well, as far as I'm concerned, you can shove your 'esthetics', Microsoft. :P

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

written labels discarded in favour of pictograms that often are obvious only to their designer; fotorealistic details banned as mortal sin and replaced with 'flat' vector graphics in the most simplified option of thereof...

This!! But I like my Windows 8...

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

Life would be easier if I could like it too...

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Did you ever read, or do you remember my post on my Wordpress about it? Here you are again, just in case:
https://jaymountney.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/falling-in-love-with-windows-8/#comments

My old Compaq is being resuscitated by my son in law because I had problems with the Lenovo - it has no inbuilt mic - it should have, and they say send it back and they'll sort it out but to allow a month... do without for a month??? And remove all my sensitive stuff first??? I think not. So I thought about an external mic and there's no portal because of course there's an inbuilt one, except that there isn't... I need to use Skype, particularly for learning Portuguese but for all sorts of other things too, and am hoping that my Compaq will cope.

I might have to pay for Windows to be reinstalled - I didn't use it for months, it rejected my password and went to a default password which I didn't know and they couldn't tell me. Microsoft are mad, bad and dangerous. Anyway, Andrew says he can install 8.1 or 10 - no other options, which, considering I am paying for it is annoying. So I might have to go for 8.1. I'm not touching 10 - in their agreement they have a thing that says if they find any illegal programs on your machine they reserve the right to delete them. WFT??? The nanny state is with us and its name is Microsoft.

Actually, I don't have any illegal programs - I used to have a pirate copy of various things on the Compaq but only because the first crash and the filter-clean wrecked stuff I had already paid for. But it's the principle of it all!!

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

Ah, right! I think I've read it and forgot. I guess I'd get accustomed to 8 if I had no other choice, but as for now, my curiosity ("What can be so hard in shifting to new software, anyway. Not the first and not the last time in life. Let's check it out!") in matter of minutes turned into one of greatest software disappointments ever. I find it very counter-intuitive and seems like most effort was invested into hiding everything. I'm waiting anxiously for 10 and next ones. I hope they will be more to my taste.

in their agreement they have a thing that says if they find any illegal programs on your machine they reserve the right to delete them.
...?! Oh, come on, you must be kidding, Microsoft...

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

OTW FanNews 30 August 2015

http://transformativeworks.org/news/otw-fannews-staying-vigilant

The Daily Dot reported on an alarming development connected to Windows 10's End User License Agreement. "Microsoft won't hesitate to make sure the programs and games you have installed on your computer are legitimate, and if not, it has the right to disable them." The agreement includes preventing "unauthorized hardware peripheral devices" but who determines legitimate use could be a problem.

They are clearly hand in glove with TPP and TTIP. :(

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

This. Is. Wrong. On. So. Many. Levels.

And how are they going to guarantee me this legality detecting whatnot of theirs never mistakes? Knowing how such things tend to work, it will block honestly paid things because they were outdated versions it couldn't recognize or whatever. Meanwhile, I'm sure pirates will be finding a way to slalom around it in matter of days after every update, at worst. And I wish them fair winds.

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Exactly.