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* This goes far beyond window managers and basic GUI implementation. Many if not most software applications for general, nontechnical users are designed with copious amounts of flashy bells and whistles that serve little to no actual function. This often sacrifices flexibility on the altar of simplicity. Users with more technical experience often find this annoying.
** Apple's entire design paradigm is based on this. Since the hardcore start digging (or messing with the firmware and hardware) for extra functions from the get go, Mac software and iProducts tend to offer only the most basic and intuitive options to a new user on startup unlike other devices that usually go through a lengthy customization phase.
* This is the principle behind the "[
* Most antivirus programs display on screen the name of the exact file they are scanning. You'll have about 1/20th of a second to read each one.
** Though this is justified in that you probably only care about (a) a rough idea of where it's up to (especially if it's going through directories in alphabetical order), and (b) any file it pauses on.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Mass Effect]] has Virtual Intelligences. They are advanced computers with a humanoid hologram instead of a screen and they can respond to and produce normal speech, sort of like IBM's Watson. They were likely added so players didn't have to do a whole bunch of reading when encountering a machine.
** While the use of a VI to assist with starting a nuclear reaction is questionable, the ones on the Presidium are meant to be a [[Viewer
* The game [[Uplink]] is a simulation of [[Hollywood Hacking]]. It has a UI set at a resolution low enough that you can, provides highly visible progress bars for ''everything'', scrolls a list of attempted passwords (complete with individual letters locking into place) when hacking, and has an animation of dialing IP addresses.
** And that's not all! You also get ridiculously simple LAN configuration displays, access screens that have apparently been standardized ''all over the world'', and just for shits and giggles, Elliptic Curve Cyphers that make no sense in real life and provide no reasonable means of unlocking them ''without'' hacking. As in, even the people who ''should'' have access would arguably have to hack it ''anyway''.
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