When there's a tradoff between simplicity and obvious function and performance perhaps with obscure functionality the choice can be determined by eventual use.

If it is a rarely performed function, simplicity...

Actually the statistical backing is somewhat vague. Research shows some common activities much more often associated with accidents including eating, and dealing with children. However phones are a politically convenient...

I disagree that it causes more trouble than changing work time.

It changes the schedule of all operations and systems together. Your train schedule shifts the same amount as your work...

Obsessed with larger, fuel-guzzling cars, the Detroit Big 3 didn't respond quickly. Or even have the foresight to be looking ahead.

This is the common explanation, but misses the mark....

One of the biggest economic mistakes is to try to preserve a snapshot an economic situation as a permanent thing. Economy is dynamic at an ever increasing rate and trying...

There was a bit of tongue in cheek joking about not being able to change colors in EM etc, but that brings me to an actual annoyance with EM (in...

I agree with the demand vs supply explanation, and that the best way to keep one's demand (pay) high is to be able to do stuff (or combinations of stuff)...

It's incredible the stuff people will discuss on a mobile device, as if no one around them is able to hear.

I remember being in a dentist waiting room while a...

Actually catching cheaters in Vegas is a very different task.

1) They are looking for a very definable task. If a person is cheating, or if they're not is a...

I could be missing something but I'm a little nervous about Thomson's approach, it seems to be depending on a specific sequence of operation which is not really guaranteed. While...

Windows Haiku error messages:

A file that big?

It might be very useful.

But now it is gone.

The Web site you seek

Can not be located but

Countless more exist.

Chaos reigns within.

Reflect, repent, and reboot.

Order...

A criminal attack does not change our *way* of life. The real threats to our way of life come from an ever intrusive governments who feel themselves justified in monitoring...

The term 'service economy' has acquired a bad connotation, especially when compared to 'manuracturing' but that's really not justified. At it's heart is the concept of doing something, specifically for...

For years our company has had a SOP to manually set speed/duplex on all machines. Auto detect cannot be trusted.

Interestingly auto detect is more likely to work if the unit...

Looks like our beloved leaders in Congress have been taking part in Wikipedia twisting; from childish insults to rewriting history:

http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_3444567

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/United_States_Congress

http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-6033082.html

List of the edits here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Congressional_Staffer_Edits

These are the guys...