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One in Five Children Receive Food Stamps, Census Bureau Reports
[Jan 28, 2015]
The number of children receiving food stamps remains higher than it was before the start of the Great Recession in 2007.
FFF: St. Patrick's Day: March 17
[Jan 27, 2015]
To commemorate Irish American Heritage Month the Census Bureau has compiled a list of statistics pertaining to the Irish ancestry population group
First State and Local Level Economic Census Data Now Available
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Today the Census Bureau released manufacturing statistics from its 2012 Economic Census at state, metro area and county levels, as well as for cities and towns.
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Expressing one's love to another is a celebrated custom on Valentine's Day; sweethearts and family members present gifts and other symbols of affection.
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FFF: Black (African-American) History Month: February 2015
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Educational Attainment in the United States: 2014
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2014 CPS ASEC Research Files
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Look Back at a Year of Unprecedented Victories for the LGBT Community
December 17, 2012 by Carolyn Simon, Deputy Director of Digital Media
2012 was a year of unprecedented victories for the LGBT community, and HRC is celebrating these victories with the launch of a new website, "Changing the Course of History: Best of 2012."
The election was just one part of the success we saw this year. We are closer to full LGBT equality in our relationships, in workplaces, in schools, for our families and beyond.
We simply could not have done it without your support. Your commitment to this organization enabled us to do truly incredible things this year — and your support made it possible for us to outwork our adversaries and win commanding victories at every turn.
Celebrate with us by watching the video below and checking out the Best of 2012 site.
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HRC Launches New Maps of State Laws and Policies
January 14, 2015
You Won't Believe What Statewide Protections LGBT People Lack
January 23, 2015
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Flyers Can't Catch The Predators In 4-1 Loss
The Flyers fell to the Nashville Predators 4-1 Saturday night.
Simmonds Leads Flyers To 3rd Straight Win
Wayne Simmonds scored the go-ahead goal late in the second period, lifting the Philadelphia Flyers to a 5-2 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday night for their third straight win.
Flyers Rally To Beat Jets 4-3 In OT
Jakub Voracek scored 10 seconds into overtime, sending the Flyers to a 4-3 victory over the Winnipeg Jets Sunday night.
Giroux Helps Flyers Beat Maple Leafs 7-4
Claude Giroux had two goals and two assists as the Flyers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 7-4 on Saturday night.
Flyers Fall To Panthers 2-1 In Shootout
Scottie Upshall scored in regulation for Florida while Voracek had Philadelphia's goal.
Flyers Lose To Lightning, 3-1
Wayne Simmonds scored for Philadelphia (11-14-5), which entered 3-0-2 in its last five but lost its sixth straight to Tampa Bay. The Flyers are 2-13-1 against the Lightning since the 2010-11 season.
Flyers Host An Explosive Lightning Squad Tonight
The Flyers hope to continue their recent success tonight, against the Lightning.
The Flyers Pummel The Hurricanes 5-1
The Flyers topped the Hurricanes 5-1 for their second straight win.
Flyers Taking Precautions Against Mumps Outbreak Hitting NHL Teams
The Philadelphia Flyers are defending… themselves… against an outbreak of mumps in the NHL.
Flyers Take Down The Devils 4-1
The Flyers homestand got off to a good start with a win over NJ.
Flyers Fall To Blue Jackets In Overtime, 3-2
Brayden Schenn had both goals for the Flyers, including one after a video review with 55.3 seconds left in the third period. Mason stopped 21 shots.
Flyers Hang On To Defeat The Kings 2-1
The Flyers defeated the defending champion Kings, 2-1.
Slumping Flyers Fall To Ducks 5-4 In Shootout
Anaheim rebounded from Wayne Simmonds' late goal for a 5-4 victory over the spiraling Flyers on Wednesday night.
Flyers Edged By Sharks, 2-1
Sean Couturier scored the lone goal for the Flyers, who have lost eight straight road games for their longest skid away from home since March 1998. Steve Mason made 25 saves but had no chance to stop the game-winner.
Flyers Look To Get On Track In San Jose
The Flyers look to turn things around on Tuesday night at the San Jose Sharks.


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How Do You Handle a Fitness-Related Injury?
Whether you pull a muscle at yoga or sprain an ankle while running, getting injured during a workout is no fun. It's painful and can often lead to a period of downtime. For some, the idea of putting their workout schedule on hold is out of the question. I usually take a few days off, but getting started again can be a struggle after a hiatus. What about you?
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I'm afraid to lose the momentum, so I try to find something different to do. I don't have a pool or a bike or a gym membership, so if I get a running injury it can be hard to come up with an alternative aerobic activity. Walking (even uphill, if the injury permits) just isn't as satisfying of a workout.
5 years
I switch to something that doesn't aggravate the injury. I had some killer tendonitis from running a lot, so I went to the elliptical for a while while it got better. I'm not about to just stop working out because I have a minor injury.
5 years
LOL runningesq. I complain too. I'm a whiner. But then I just try to work around it.
5 years
I just aggravated my coccyx (right below the tailbone). I rested up for two days, initially (when it was painful), and then added back in just upper body strength and lighter walking. I've slowly added other stuff - elliptical, ab work, etc. - and am making sure to really, really listen to my body and STOP when I feel it aggravating that area. This method has worked good very well thus far. I get to still workout, but am letting it heal at the same time.
5 years
I rest the injury and do easier exercises until it's better. Depending on the injury I just might do something differently. When I sprained something in my neck I didn't use the weights or the rowing machine until it healed.
5 years
I am of the thinking that if you get injured, your body is telling you to slow down and rest. So that is what I do.
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Watt Gets 2 Turnovers, Dances in Friendly Pro Bowl
one flattened a quarterback and there were ..... friendly version of football played Sunday ..... passes apiece. Andrew Luck was nearly perfect ..... New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees said ..... conduct penalty, Luck threw a 14-yard
AFC Final Not First Time Colts Complained About Pats Deflating Balls
The patriots quarterback talking about it ..... Overnight colts quarterback Andrew luck addressing deflate-gate ..... in ESPN network football analyst Jesse palmer, former quarterback in the NFL and ..... Jesse, as a qb , what real difference
Pro Bowl Players Vary on Importance of Deflated-Ball Issue
Andrew Luck was asked how he ..... a word the Colts quarterback wished he'd never ..... required inflation. Luck , the No. 1 pick ..... something wrong with the football after he intercepted ..... using a deflated football helped the Patriots
Luck selected 1st in Pro Bowl draft
four years, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck was drafted first overall. He ..... Stadium. "It's nice, I guess," Luck said. "The reality is that everybody ..... quickly countered by drafting Dallas quarterback Tony Romo . Carter then gave Luck
Some Things to Know as NFL Investigates Patriots' Footballs
air can make the football easier to grip, especially ..... also can cause a football to lose pressure ..... preferences of each quarterback . The quarterbacks ..... Patriots while Andrew Luck handled footballs ..... tampering with a football , even if it's
NFL Investigating Whether Patriots Used Deflated Footballs
000." Deflating a football could change the way ..... notice issues with the football . He did not specify ..... lopsided AFC finale, quarterback Tom Brady threw for ..... past 14 years. Colts quarterback Andrew Luck had his worst game
Column: No. 1 Question of Super Bowl Week, 'You, Mad, Bro?'"
30 seconds, good luck , and don't forget ..... time away from pro football . He always had ..... develop a very good quarterback of his own in third-year ..... confounding the Colts' Andrew Luck , another very good young quarterback and in between
Patriots Punch Ticket to Super Bowl With Knockout of Colts
are the dominant coach- quarterback pair in the NFL. And ..... Belichick is smiling." Andrew Luck 's expression was much ..... fresh off this game," Luck said. "We had our sights ..... Bowl appearances for a quarterback and tied defensive lineman
Brady, Belichick, Pats up to old tricks
self-evident: Their quarterback will make plays, their ..... Indy's veteran backup quarterback Matt Hasselbeck , who ..... commanding, harassing Andrew Luck (12-for-33, 126 ..... time, spurred on by a quarterback who knows his opportunities
Belichick, Brady to 6th Super Bowl With 45-7 Rout
wins than Bill Belichick. No quarterback has been to more Super Bowls than ..... stay up for one more game." Quarterback Andrew Luck and the Colts have a long wait ..... Elway for most Super Bowls for a quarterback and tied defensive lineman Mike
Luck , Colts Fall _ Again _ to Patriots 45-7
Andrew Luck made no excuses after his ..... the ball and catch it. But Luck wouldn't blame the weather ..... 14-4) is nothing new for Luck or the Colts. The two-time Pro Bowl quarterback is 0-4 against Tom Brady
Belichick, Brady to 6th Super Bowl With 45-7 Rout of Colts
surpassed John Elway for the most by a quarterback and tied defensive lineman Mike ..... in the 1990 season. For Colts quarterback Andrew Luck , it was the worst game of his ..... better against the pass. And when Luck threw an interception that Darrelle
Patriots Beat Colts 45-7, Will Play Seattle in Super Bowl
game in AFC championship history. Brady completed 23 of 35 passes for 226 yards. Blount ran 30 times for 148 yards. Andrew Luck completed 12 of 33 passes for 126 yards with two interceptions for the Colts (13-6). ———
Colts working on Andrew Luck deal
parameters of a blockbuster deal for quarterback Andrew Luck , according to league sources ..... around the league expect to make Luck the highest-paid player in the ..... per year. Conversations between Luck and the Colts have been ongoing
NFL Teams Compete for Spots in This Year's Super Bowl
football fans. Super bowl Sunday now two weeks ..... here right now. Clearly, we take our football seriously. Fans like Ron are letting ..... patriots. The colts bringing their good luck charm, Andrew luck . F for fans, today's matchups are
Luck Would Take Another Big Step If Colts Beat Patriots
Step by step, Andrew Luck has climbed into ..... beat the best," Luck said. "There's ..... Patriots (13-4), Luck will have accomplished ..... role model for any quarterback at any level playing ..... first pick out of Stanford in 2012. This season ..... I've been playing football ." FOR THE RECORD
Colts Vs. Patriots: Key Matchups in AFC Title Game
13-5) HAVE THE BALL: Andrew Luck (12) led the NFL in TD ..... is, against New England. Luck stands 0-3 vs. the Patriots ..... 144-66 in those games. Luck needs to be as calculating ..... all-time great winners, QB Tom Brady (12) will pick
Column: Take a Break From the Hate to Appreciate the Pats
rules. The dashing quarterback with the model wife ..... franchise in all of football , maybe all of sports ..... 11-5 (with backup quarterback Matt Cassell running ..... everyone else. Colts quarterback Andrew Luck summed up what it's
Jones Brothers Meet in Colts Vs Pats AFC Title Game
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
You're blaming the wrong people!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Why High-tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (Hardcover)
In my experience with system design, it is rarely the engineers who add the "extraneous" features. We're a lazy bunch and like to design to spec. It's the non-technical people...the marketing department, the customer reps, who blather about the software doing this and that and the customer bites. The customer thinks they get all these great features, but when the technical folks try to explain why it's a bad idea, managment says "Just put it in, we already promised them."
Besides, who says you HAVE to upgrade?? Most people upgrade because they believe they need all the 'new features' the next version has. I'm sure you've realized that nobody is fixing bugs in these new versions...ahem..windows..ahem...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
I remember enjoying it,
This review is from: The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Why High-tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (Paperback)
I will confess, it is some years since I read this book, so my appraisal will be vague, perhaps completely irrelevant and really just an excuse for me to rant about my current job. However, this book did leave an impression on me and, as a UI Designer/Developer, it did express the frustration that I felt in my experience of the software development process and explained why so often it produced bad products.
I make a distinction between front-end and back-end developers. There are some that do both very well, but on the whole I see people specialising. The two camps are often identified by different mental attitudes and perspectives, not just about software, but about people and the world. Front-end people tend to be more in tune with the physical and emotional experience of using software; they enjoy visuals, sound, style and art, have technical expertise, but enjoy it for the experience it creates. Back-end people tend to be more into the engineering, generally have deeper technical expertise and concentrate on functionality and performance. Obviously these are very loose definitions, but they are complimentary when there is mutual respect. I'm sure that we have all seen examples on software forums of one poster presenting a problem with code examples and another more experienced poster not only posting a solution, but with a fraction of the code. One can't help but admire this kind of elegance and efficiency; the kind of mind and the depth of understanding that can distil and optimise down to only the absolute essentials, but also allow for extension. Not wanting to perpetuate the image of back-end developers, who are into Dungeons and Dragons and obscure and clever humour, but this kind of mind is mathematical, highly focused, perhaps a little binary and not a little irritated at perceived human irrationality. This kind of mind is also aware and rather proud of the fact that it can perform mental feats that many cannot and that if one can master a fully fledged programming language then other seemingly much simpler tasks (HTML, CSS and graphics) appear a doddle. On many occasions, back-end developers have approached me and referred to my front-end work as "colouring in", "prettying it up", or "the icing", or referred to disciplines such as User Experience as "just common sense". They don't believe that concepts such as inheritance, scope, re-usability, extensibility etc. exist in the front-end disciplines, they imagine it all to be about whim and preference. As a result of this misconception, they rather resent the attention that front-end developers get from clients and users concerning the UI when to them the real genius is in the back-end functionality. Development roles require a certain focus and the human mind is not very good at focussing in multiple directions. Hence front-end/UI developers are more focussed on the UI and the experience of the user; they are more aware of what is referred to as the Visceral Reaction, which evaluates on an emotional/physical level way before any intellectual consideration. Task flow, proportions, visual consistency, complimentary palettes, Accessibility, UI patterns are just a portion of what UI Designer/Developers consider; when back-end developers understand and support these processes you get great products. What I remember about "The Inmates are Running the Asylum" was the emphasis on the requirements and design stage for the user's benefit and not the technology's. Too often the architecture of a particular language, framework, database, or CMS is used by back-end developers to brow beat others into pursuing design decisions that are more about the back-end developers' convenience than about the best design for the user and their tasks. Coupled with a complete lack of empathy for users, who may seldom use their computers and even then only for the most rudimentary tasks, the end result is invariably an unprofessional and visually inconsistent product, devoid of joy in its appearance and use. "The Inmates are Running the Asylum" did describe my experience of the nonsensical and non-empirical decisions for one feature to be dropped in favour of another and for crucial bugs to remain unfixed. I say nonsensical and non-empirical because they were not based upon client or user requirements or evidence, but these decisions made perfect sense to back-end developers because they were all about what was important to them. A common back-end developer response to a user's inability to understand or perform a task on their software is to either curse their stupidity, or suggest the creation of documentation; the idea of an intuitive and self-explaining interface is not generally considered, nor do they recognise their major part in preventing it's creation.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Insightful, educational, but sometimes ridiculous.,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Why High-tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (Hardcover)
The manner in which Alan Cooper points out problems with many high tech products is thoughtful and insightful. The book contains many descriptive examples and entertaining anectodes to illustrate the problem of "dancing bearware". His case for the necessity of "interaction design" is convincing. Overally the book is thought provoking and educational. So why only three stars?
His accusation of engineers being the root cause of the problem is badly misguided, with a silly generalization of programmers as a whole. I develop software professionally for a living, and I certainly do not consider myself or my peers "techno-jocks". I do not look down upon end users any more than I would expect an M.D. to look down upon me for lack of knowlege about medicine. In the organizations I have worked in, I have seen that developers have the task of interaction design UNWILLINGLY thrust upon them due to miserable product specifications coming from sales and management. I have also seen useless gadget features come from sales and management more often than from engineers. From my experience, these things alongside unreasonable project plans and "we can fix it later" attitude on the part of managers have resulted in awkward products many customers dislike. Also, the book was too self-referential. In some portions, it appeared that the author was advertising his own company. It's a shame the "inmates running the asylum" theme and self-advertisements were over-emphasized. Aside from these things, this is a good read for both high-tech managers and engineers.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
The Technical Personnel Are Not The Problem!,
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This review is from: The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Why High-tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (Hardcover)
I am a senior IT specialist with over 27 years in the field and was looking forward to reading Mr. Cooper's book until I read the reviews and noted his emphasis on technical personnel as the primary catalysts for poor software.
They may be a factor but not the primary catalyst. Unfortunately, it is and has always been corporate management that have initiated much of the problems we are all facing today. Computers in the hands of the individual or the scientist can offer a tremendous enhancement to their work and lives in an increasingly difficult and complex world. However, in the hands of business management and/or under their aspices the computer has become a plaything for fools who rampantly execute decisions against their technical communities based more on fantasy and personal agenda than that of reality and common sense. And since it is the business realm that produces much of what the consumer uses the results tend to be less than stellar. Most fail to remember that technicians have very little say in the finality of their projects that are usually run by an organizational stream of management. This is not to say that there aren't plenty of bad technicians who are as equally guilty of incompetence and the infusion of their own personal agendas into a project. There are more than enough. Yet management has consistently failed to understand in depth the technologies they are having implemented which would then allow them to develop quality teams with a balanced forum for input from both sides. Instead, management prefers the "glory" of the technical implementation with the attitude that they they "don't understand this stuff". And how can they when most technicians themselves are having a difficult time keeping up with the high-speed evolutionary pace of their own technology. If Mr. Cooper had more experience in the everyday development environments that most have to contend with I believe his book would have had a much more balanced emphasis and thus a superior impact on the reading public which is what is really needed. Changing the way software works will not alter the stupidity behind it!
43 of 50 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Deeply flawed - aimed at those outside the industry,
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The most fundamental and consistent error throughout the book is the idea that usability, failure to meet requirements and lack of an adequate design phase are new phenomena, as consequences of this era's computer technology alone.
This simply isn't true. If it were books like "design for the real world" written by Papanek over 30 years ago would have been unnecessary, Three mile island wouldn't have happened, and no one would ever misdial a telephone. Sadly Cooper does not present proper evidence for a 'new' problem, preferring an informal and anecdotal style and, in doing so, extrapolating his entire argument from false foundations. He also sees the need to invent a whole unnecessary set of jargon to use, with fairly woolly and subjective definitions. There are constant inappropriate references and analogies to other forms of engineering (particularly building), their methods and traditions. "In the industrial age, engineers were able to solve each new problem ... they made bridges, cars, skyscrapers, and moon rockets that worked well and satisfied their human users. .... But unlike the past [computer] things haven't worked so well. " Is he implying there were no problems before? Tay bridge, Tacoma Narrows, Ford Pinto, Challenger shuttle, Soyuz-1 and Soyuz-11. All suffering from dangerous design flaws (and not isolated) and none of them had anything to do with computers. By ignoring the reality of past and current failures in (non Software) engineering Cooper quickly leaps to the conclusion that we "... have encountered a problem qualitatively different from any they confronted in the industrial age". Errr, no. One of the first things we learn in engineering is how much of our wisdom has come from analysing failure and disaster fully, objectively and with academic rigour. "When engineers invent, they arrive at their solution ... [it] will always be a derivative of the old beginning solution, which is often not good enough. " Eh? Brunel? Stephenson? Even Santiago Calatrava doesn't shy from the title 'engineer'. Even in our beloved computer field, engineers and scientists abound; John von Neumann, Berners-Lee, Wozniak and Jobs. All brilliant in their day, and derived of what exactly? Not only a questionable assertion but grossly disrespectful and immodest from someone whose claim to fame is prettying up other peoples' work. These were and are the Engineering geniuses, and Cooper clearly doesn't understand engineering enough to see the differences between invention, innovation and merely doing what the budget allows. In terms of descriptions of what a UI needs to be to qualify as usable, Cooper totally glosses over important concepts such as context. He ignores any Cost-Benefit analysis of designing and building this "no-training, no-maintenance system", blithely asserting that achieving that software (mirage) will reap all rewards. No proof, again, let alone an attempt to prove it would even be feasible. The problem in programming is not that programmers are ill equipped or unprepared to solve the problems (though some may be), it is that no-one is demanding it of them in a coherent fashion. Programmers are still being pushed to add 'features' buttons, wizards, gizmos and gadgets of little purpose because marketeers know they need to be able to print it on the box, and that is needed to generate the revenue. Some programmers have the mindset he characterises, they are hardly very influential. Lack of proper requirements gathering, design, and industry-wide experience of very late, swingeing specification changes cause the problems. Programmers aren't to blame, even anti-social ones, the marketeers aren't, or the pushy ill-informed managers, the customer isn't either, but, at the same time, we all are. What we see is the consequence of nobody really knowing what they want, still less clearly stating, but everyone wanting to stamp their influence on the end product. Nice conspiracy theory Cooper, but it is nonsensical in the real world. All the evidence sadly refutes Coopers Business Case. Products which demonstrate brilliant consideration of their target users fail miserably to make an impact (or a profit). Look at the few of case studies of his own consultancy work he is able to offer; 1. A piece of support software for Logitech to bundle with their page scanners. = Logitech got out of the scanner market some time ago, didn't help their sales obviously. 2. Drumbeat web authoring. Well reviewed in its industry journals but scored poorly for ease of use. Elemental Software was bought out by Macromedia, Drumbeat was discontinued shortly after. 3. His in-flight entertainment (IFE) system (Clevis, et al.) for Sony Trans Com. Bought out by a competitor, Rockwell Collins, 2 years ago. Their new IFE will now be run, in their words, "on an industry standard Microsoft windows platform", Coopers system is not their flagship at all. Now I am not going to say I think Cooper's advise for UI design is poor, or that his design methodologies are wrong. I think he is right in most of what he asserts there. It is just all based on flawed reasoning and syllogisms, and furthermore, most of it is not ground-breaking or even new ... there are plenty of good books out there discussing usability and making recommendations which are far more realistic and thoroughly presented than Cooper's descriptions of how he runs his consultancy. And he still has to demonstrate examples of where applying those principles won't cause you to crash and burn. Cooper is presenting arguments firmly directed at those who are outside this industry and relying on their ignorance of what goes on. He plays on Technophobia and peddles misinformation. He very cleverly characterises programmers as having something to protect and a reason to be put on the defensive by what he says, in doing so appears to be trying to pre-empt responses and criticisms from technically informed readers. This has (as can be seen from the mudslinging here) unhelpfully stifled debate on his assertions. As Cooper is clearly intelligent and experienced enough to be aware of the flaws I identified, I can only conclude he was having a wry giggle with this book. The book's populist slant and claim to have "the solution" are very appealing to some, and almost guaranteed its success. Sadly, it contributes little of use to a known and serious set of problems.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must read for all people involven in software development.,
This review is from: The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Why High-tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (Paperback)
The book addresses many areas of why the culture that exists in IT and firms that deal with IT is not working and why many IT projects go wrong. He points out that this is not due to lack of design, but because design is not done in the proper way. He talks about the roles of everyone (managers, programmers, designers, users, etc.) during the design and what things are been done wrong. He goes into depth why programmers are the least suitable people to do the design and how they can not "think as users". The good thing about this book is that it also gives many advices and ways on how to do things the right way. Thus, he does not only identify the problem areas, but he goes on and suggest solutions and ways to improve.
This book is a very good reading for everyone who is involved in the ANY part in the software development phase. I strongly recommend that people take some time to read it, or just browse through some areas of it. The book is split in two major parts: The first part (Chapters 1-8) shows why there is more of a cultural problem than a technical problem on the way that software is developed. It is a good background reading to understand the rest of the book. The second half (Chapters 9-14) suggest ways to improve the bad culture and create software that is actually helping and not embarrassing the users. This is the part is the main core of the book and needs reading. It can be understood more deeply once the first part has been read, but this part can be read on its own as well.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Could be a lot more dense,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Why High-tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (Hardcover)
This book could be a lot more dense; there are some interesting ideas, but theses could be presented on 80 to 100 pages easily. "Interaction design" is necessary, yes, I agree. But I don't like redundancy, at least not in such amounts.
The cure that Cooper proposes for insanity-inducing high-tech products could lead to some improvements, but perhaps not more or less than usability engineering or any other structured, conceptual, mature approach.
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not Suitable for those with High Blood Pressure,
By MATT VANE (Reading, Berks United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Why High-tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (Hardcover)
I had to force myself to finish this book. On more than one occasion I had the compulsion to shred my copy, and every other copy in existance.
I entirely agree with everything in Ben Carey's review, with a few extra points. The new panacean methodology he proposes is nothing more than renamed UML (actors for personas, use cases for scenarios, etc). Fortunately, a short while ago you didn't need to do much more than think up some funky new names for ideas to market your product in the Silicon Valley. Worse is the suggestions that programmers are power-hungry, obtuse individuals who like nothing better than to write software that noone can use. What would be the point in creating software that was so unservicable that noone could use it? I think the three main reasons software ends up in the state he describes are 1) sometimes there actually are badly designed interfaces (graphically and interactively) 2) the problem is sufficiently complex and extensive that there is no easy solution or 3) conflicting or dubious requirements from users and management confuse the real requirements of the software. Rather than try to convince the people responsible for the "dancing bearware", he immediately sets about berating them. At the same time he gives credence to every manager who couldn't work a coffee pot and wanted to blame "them" for all his woes. Don't read it before going to bed.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent information aggressively presented,
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This book provides a wealth of knowledge if you can stick with it through the generalisations and attacks on the group of people who need this book the most.
Something Mr Cooper talks about is people not knowing their customers, but falls into this trap himself. While the book may have been written with managers and project leaders in mind, many developers will read it as a means of improving themselves. With this in mind, writing a book that often hints at poor interface design being a deliberate attack on users, and in some places implies that software is hard to use because programmers are getting back at people because they were picked on in high school might be a little silly. This kind of hyperbole is not helpful in getting the message across, and will not help business people further understand their staff. Helping business people understand that different people have different skills and getting the right person for the job will deliver better results than forcing someone to do a job they are not suited for would have been a better result. As it is, I can see how some PHBs would come away from this book believing that they produce bad software because their developers hate them, rather than because they have poor processes and do not invest enough time and money in the right places.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
I can save you some time here..,
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Share + Aug 26, 2009 9:29 pm US/Eastern NEW CASTLE, Pa. Attorneys for an 11-year-old western Pennsylvania boy accused of fatally shooting his father's pregnant fiancee are again asking a judge to dismiss key evidence.
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Aug 29, 2009
Murder is murder no matter what age you are. He knew what he was doing. If he killed the whole family would it have changed anyones attitude ?
Aug 29, 2009
Really? Would it have been murder if the 4 year old girl shot the gun? IF the boy did this, it could have been a accident, he could have been troubled, rightfully, and acted on impulse. He is a child very violated by the PA system because he is not an adult and should have not been exploited as he was. The fact is, if this boy was an adult this case would have been dismissed for lack of evidence. PA, justice has to be justice for a child made adult. You cannot hold a child on suspicion. Anyone could have gone in the house and committed this crime. Our differences in thought reminds me of an old song...
It's a song by George and Ira Gershwin, from 1937. "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off." (verse) Things have come to a pretty pass, Our romance is growing flat, For you like this and the other While I go for this and that. Goodness knows what the end will be; Oh, I don't know where I'm at... It looks as if we two will never be one, Something must be done. (refrain) You say eether and I say eyether, You say neether and I say nyther; Eether, eyether, neether, nyther, Let's call the whole thing off! You like potato and I like potahto, You like tomato and I like tomahto; Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto! Let's call the whole thing off! But oh! If we call the whole thing off, Then we must part. And oh! If we ever part, Then that might break my heart! So, if you like pajamas and I like pajahmas, I'll wear pajamas and give up pajahmas. For we know we need each other, So we better call the calling off off. Let's call the whole |
Aug 29, 2009
One more time! Lets call the whole thing off!!! |
Aug 29, 2009
If it was an accident he should have said so. But he didn't
If he would have been an adult nothing would have changed because if you commit murder everyone is considered an adult. Not anyone could have gone in the house. The wood cutters said they only saw two sets of footprints leaving that morning. No tire tire tracks |
Aug 29, 2009
Who saw the woodcutter? What time was he there? Why was he looking for footprints? Does he have a witness? Does his witness have a witness? Or was it only the 4-year old girl? If it was an accident, the kid could have been afraid to say it even happened and judging by the way the victim's family is, that makes sense. This would not be an uncommon reaction and the law is so horrendous that I am certain the lawyers had to advise complete silence. An uncommon reaction on the other hand is a 7 year old hearing a "boom" and not running to see what happened. Anyone could have been stalking the home and went in after the kids went to school and shot the gun and cleared the signs of entry. Only the PA LAW is calling "everyone" an adult but the law is a civil violation to this boy because he clearly is not an adult. So the LAW needs looked into and very much so. So you are saying we can charge a child because of footprints in the snow, according to the woodcutter........hmmm...
Aug 29, 2009
Let's discount the woodcutter all together, and go by what YOU think. Can you tell me why we should give more validity to YOUr description of the events?
One may excuse the 7 y/o's reaction to the "boom" by relating the fact there's enough area around there to allow people to target practice. Example: I live on the lower east side. It's common to hear people going by, far into the evening, with their music vibrating my home. Would I be able to tell you what time a particular car went by? NO! Understand now?? You people are giving "children" too much leeway. You're forgetting that you're vulnerable to "children" too. Let it happen to you, or yours, and see what your reaction would be!! |
Aug 29, 2009
I will quit wasting time. Your mind is closed because you are to close to the family.
Aug 29, 2009
Jr, we are not related to, nor do we know the family personally. We are normal people that feel a child is being violated by the PA system as it stands. This law is a violation to ANY child and a child in this circumstance should always be protected by the juvenile system because of their age, their vulnerability, and mostly because it is humane.
P.I. This is our point. Your validity, is YOUR theory, our validity is ours. How can you convict a child on theory? I understand what you mean by the vibrating music,and the target shooting. I hear target shooting often, I hear planes overhead my home, and I hear nearby trains that vibrate my house. I would know if a gun went off in the house, if a plane landed on my roof, and if a train fell on my home....Any I would run to see what happened. |
"Sub sinks at the Point. " Since: Sep 08 490 Pittsburgh DUH!! |
Aug 29, 2009
ah. just let the kid out of jail. he'll fit right back into the general populous with all the goofs, panty puller, diaper snippers, pedo van drivers and murders in New Castle.
Aug 29, 2009
I'm dealing on realism, Perry...NOT theroy. I'm going by evidence. What are the odd's of sweet lil innocent Jordan going into Kenzie's room with a LOADED gun, to tell her he was upset because she bought the girls their favorite cereal, but NEGLECTED to buy his? Could he have meant to tell her they were out of toilet tissue? Could he have been there to tell on one of his mean, soon-to-be, stepsisters, or to ask where his father was, so he could get some much needed attention, before he went to school, blah, blah? Unless he MEANT to do her harm, he WOULDN'T HAVE TAKEN THAT GUN DOWN FROM THE WALL!! HE WOULDN'T HAVE LEFT HIS ROOM WITH IT!! HE WOULDN'T HAVE AIMED IT AT THE BACK OF HER HEAD. Give me, and all of the rest of the world who is vulnerable to people, child/teen/adult, who has a problem they can't overcome. I don't s'pose you were ever angry at someone, when you were Jordan's age? How many people have you killed? DON'T waste the gun thing on me, either. I grew up around guns, my children were raised around guns, and now, my grandkids. If someone wants you dead, they'll find a way...even the poor lil bullied, misunderstood things, like Jordan. |
Aug 29, 2009
Correction: Give me, and all of the rest of the world who is vulnerable to people, child/teen/adult, who has a problem they can't overcome, A BREAK!!
Aug 30, 2009
You keep singin the same old song. Realism involves the truth and accuracy. The truth is an 11 year old is not an adult. The truth is there are no witnesses to the crime. The law requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt, therefore squashing your realism to utter "theory". You cannot convict on theory.
Aug 30, 2009
Hey Frank, That's why they have trials. This will probably be moved to Juvenile Court and all this rhetoric will be for nothing.
I don't think that witnesses are required for a conviction. The DA has more than theory. If he didn't, the defense attorney wouldn't be working so hard to throw out EVIDENCE. |
Aug 30, 2009
From where I stand, I've heard about a gun in the home of hunters, a bullet in the yard, a blanket, clothes with gun powder. And lately, a father of one of the girl's that learned he has been paying child support for years and is not the father. Better get a witness.
Aug 30, 2009
Jr, Everybody who is anybody would hope to high heaven that their lawyer is doing everything to protect them. They are doing their job, not sweeping things under the rug, like you imply. Maybe the DA should do things legally or not so "improperly". Ever think of that?
"Life is Short, Don't Sleep" Since: Aug 09 258 |
Aug 31, 2009
Now the truth is, people along that route 422 corridor develop slower than most, so in reality 11 years old is more like 5 years old. take it for what it's worth, it is what it is.
Aug 31, 2009
Truth is people in Western PA would hang a 5 year old just to keep them huntin laws....gotto get em whitetail deer,....truth is your not far off the corridor....
Sep 1, 2009
And Ohio is any better. You hicks in ohio hunt even on Sunday. Can't let bamby have a day off.
Sep 2, 2009
I say shave the kid's head and see if there is a "666" on top of it.
Regardless, there was probably powder residue on the kid's finger plus his prints on the stock and barrel or the Troopers wouldn't have gone as far as they did...but yes, he's an 11 year old, albeit a dangerous 11 year old and should be tried in Juvenile Court....what we have here ladies and gentlemen of the jury is a mongoloid judge who can't tie his own shoe laces and an idiot defense attorney who doesn't know procedure. Who wants to practice law in Lawrence County? Bueller? Anybody? |
Sep 2, 2009
It may have been the kid's gun. Naturally his prints will be on everything. That does not mean someone else could not have used the gun with gloves. You do not have to be a dangerous kid to shoot a gun. At eleven, all you need is a gun to be dangerous. The 666 belongs to the government who year after year declines to acknowledge the gun laws need changed. The 666 also goes to the PA law-makers. Jolly good show, men, really... great thinking here. "IT'S ENOUGH TO MAKE ME THROW-UP!" Big Brother will never take me down!!!
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It's a tradition before Chinese New Year that you clean things up and generally put your house in order; this is true for email marketing, too. So I approached our agency team to better understand what are some of those client bad habits that can bring disorder and disharmony. The things we would like to clean up as we approach the Year of the Rabbit.
Huge Single JPEG E-mails
We still get them! And are told to slice them up and send them out, sometimes little more than print ads. Many email clients and service providers still default to block images, so our reader sees precisely nothing - maybe just a subject line. The great thing about HTML is we can do all that stuff like copy, links, formatting, and, yes, images. Let's use it.
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JavaScript, Flash Page Flips, forms... these are all really cool on the Web and we love them. But email clients and corporate security people hate them in equal measure. At best, elements will not render or appear; at worst, you get blocked and our IP address white listing takes a hammering. Sorry guys, we won't send them! We have HTML5 for that sort of thing.
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Please let us put a call to action in there for you. This is the direct business and we live by results. We were once asked to send out stuff with nothing in the way of a response - a click-through, anything to engage the customer and the relationship. At least we insist on putting the unsubscribe link on the bottom.
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Our good friends in the glamorous, above-the-line advertising world love to produce copy in fantastic fonts, with equally fantastic names. Problem is, being non-system, they are not on everyone's (anyone's) PC and they render all wrong. One pig ugly email. "Send it as an image they say." There are lots of great fonts on Windows, we can find one for you that is pretty close to your corporate font; honestly, nobody will notice.
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A client took away a broadcast from us once, because they had another agency that was able to send it, not only cheaper, but their reporting verified that an entire and fairly large broadcast had generated zero, yes zero, bounce backs. Hard, soft, whatever... possibly they didn't even send it! We are all for clean data and good performance, let's use the reporting and the data to understand how we can continuously improve upon it.
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We had a client that wanted to have a monster-sized animated GIF on the email. We warned them, but they insisted. Since the tracking pixel is the last one to download, they achieved some notoriety with a 'technically' zero opening rate. Everyone gave up on the email. Let's keep it light, fluffy, and quick to load. We don't all have fiber in our homes. Put the heavy stuff on a landing page.
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Sometimes they just pile it in, pages and pages of it. All good content but way too much of it. All the tests make it absolutely clear that attention span is evaporating wildly as we page down, if we bother at all. E-mail is about relevancy and timeliness, if we have that much great content, we should be versioning and targeting. It will get better results.
All this, of course, hits results. And for all of us, email is about working hard, being effective, being considerate, and getting results...whilst always being true to the brand values. One of the more successful emails we manage has travel agents printing it out and faxing it to their clients; we like that, cross media integration or something!
We love our clients, even when we argue about all of the above with them. Perhaps some email marketing workshops to kick off the Year of the Rabbit are in order. Here's wishing you a prosperous new year and a hope that your email marketing is as productive as our friend - Mr Rabbit. Kung Hei Fat Choi!
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