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Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 04/27/06 17:20
On 4/27/2006, Ken posted this:
> Sorry, I'll elaborate: I didn't mean that DVD "finalizing" is
> technically a part of DRM. I meant to infer that the apparent
> "convenient neglect" of the designers (and/or manual writers) of my DVD
> recorder to make it reasonably plain to the uninitiated consumer, the
> need to manually finalize a recording, looks to me to be a
> DRM-motivated.
>
> Ken
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
OTOH, after a lifetime of dealing with many, many badly designed user
interfaces and badly written manuals, I do not agree with you at all.
Was it H. L. Mencken who said "Do not ascribe to malice what can be
adequately explained by stupidity"?
It was someone, anyway, and in conjunction with Occam's razor, it is
all I need to explain the problem with the location and documentation
of finalizing commands.
But then, I normally reject conspiracy theories, regardless of any
evidence to the contrary :-)
Besides that, I just can't see how the quality of the UI and the
documentation can be ascribed to DRM. It is there, it is documented,
and it not the world's biggest secret, it's just clumsy.
Moreover, in the devices I've used, it is neither obscure in the UI nor
obscure in the manual.
Gino
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