在工作上我們都有不錯的電腦設備, 但當初就是為了避免盲點, 我特地組了一台低階電腦放在家裡單純上網用, 好讓我可以用一般消費者的角度看事情. 以下是幾個我覺得不該允許但卻是最常見的Flash網站設計問題:

01. 還我上下頁
Flash網站通常已經夠難逛了, 當一個人迷路想按上一頁都不行時真的只是逼他們關閉視窗. 再來, 內頁沒有獨立網址所以當他想傳某內容給朋友看還要教對方先點A再按B再點選下面的小圖時, 他們八成選擇不分享.

02. 請讓我選文字
大多的使用著有邊選字邊閱讀的習慣. 再來, 可以做複製. 無論是HTML還是Flash, 不讓使用者選字是不負責的行為.

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文章中提到的11點問題，常關注Flash網站設計問題的人大概都知道，只是許多網站設計者剛好不知道、或是在客戶要求下不得不做。本文的回應也很有參考價值。

"Why people are dumping Flash". People may not be really dumping Flash yet, but designers are realizing that Flash is not necessary a good or attractive thing to Web site visitors.

Although a lot of people are excited about ebooks, it’s very difficult to get hard information on how the market for them is growing. We don’t even know how many Kindles Amazon has sold, let alone more detailed specifics on the market.

So I was very happy Wednesday when the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) gave details from its recent survey of ebook adoption in the US. The survey was first revealed in January, but the press release was very sketchy and sometimes confusing. In its presentation at the Tools of Change conference, the BISG gave much more details on the results.

Well, there might be *a lot* of Kindles are there in the field, but maybe not that many. It's not about how strong Apple is or what, it's about how fast people are really adopting e-books.

Job 1: Crime Scene Cleaner

Talk about cleaning up after someone. In the aftermath of a bloody crime or the discovery of an illegal chemical lab, the police investigators rush in to save the day and bring the perpetrators to justice. But in the hurry to clean up crime in the city, police don't have time to clean up the walls. Be it blood and guts or hazardous chemicals, not a lot of people jump at the chance to be a crime scene cleaner.

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After the media and the police have moved on, crime scene cleaners come in to do the dirty work.

Murders and suicides can get extra bloody. Throw in fragments of bone, gore and other body pieces strewn about the place, and you've got quite a mess. This job isn't for the faint of heart -- anyone who is prone to getting queasy or emotional won't succeed in this line of work. Developing stress disorders from this work isn't uncommon. It's also pretty dangerous. Even on days they don't have to deal with anthrax-laden labs, they do have to worry about getting infectious diseases from the body fluids. This means suiting up with hazardous materials protection gear.

Depending on how bad the mess is, the cleanup could take a few hours to a few days. But you won't hear these crime scene cleaners complaining too much -- they charge by the hour. With a little experience under your belt and flexibility with your work hours, you can easily make about $75,000 a year with this job [source: Sahadi]. Although you don't need a college degree to get a crime scene cleaning job, it can help boost that salary into six figures.

There's no doubt these past 10 jobs justify the old maxim, "It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it." Maybe the next time we see a garbage collector or meet a funeral home worker, we can tip our hats to them for doing the jobs that most of us couldn't handle for one day.

Well, I am not against doing "dirty" jobs if it's really it; however it still pays to earn the money in the hard ways, so they don't really make that much. But sometimes it's where life goes, sometimes we just don't have a choice.

National Defense Science Exposition – Hyogo, 1941 [+]

Japanese posters from the pre-WWII era – an exhibition of their ambition and intention to become a major player in the world. Though they failed miserably by using the wrong approach (well, it seemed to be right to them at that time), however they eventually succeeded in some other way decades later.

By the way, these are good examples of the "Asianized" Art Deco and Art Nouveau poster design though.

As you can see from this video, John and Doris fall into the half-glass-full camp of China watchers, emphasizing that those looking at China’s development must recognize how much change has taken place in just 30 years. Western democracy has developed for more than 200 years with lots of bumps on the way - the same is now happening in China.

China is in the middle of an emancipation process, they said, but the goal is not to become exactly like the west. The new (digital) generation of Chinese wants to join the world, but on their own terms. In fact, China has become a model for other developing nations.

It would be a good analogy to compare China and Japan before and during the "bubble economy" era as well.

If anyone wants to have an in-depth look about China's "democracy" changes, Taiwan and Hong Kong's past shouldn't be overlooked; and their current economy growth can learn lessons from Japan and Korea in the '80s and '90s. Making comparison with only the West in the past 200 years will miss many important issues and scenarios happening in China.

After all, China and the West are on different tracks, different vehicles and may head for different destinations.

Demographics are everything to magazine (and blog) publishers. It's how you sell ads. Under the iTunes model, content producers receive sales numbers, and the money that goes with them. No credit card numbers, no addresses, no hint whatsoever of who's buying what. This does not sit well with publishers.

This is one of the difficulties publishers opt for the iTunes model are facing. There must be a solution, the problem is that who wins the most.

整個大愛園區，從入口及至原民的圖騰出現，短短的五百公尺，就有了「誰該先被看見」的強勢，進入大愛村的人必須先看見慈濟龐大的圖騰、行經大愛橋並且看見訓誡的話語，才能進到所謂的「房子」。而在這短短的路途，那些刻上感恩話語的石頭如磐石不動，為什麼災民必須每天被提醒「一早看見浮屍」？為什麼必須說服自己在這樣龐大的災難後，歷經沒有中繼的選擇，而自己還是「有福的人」？

不是只有說出口的語言才叫語言。不是只有動手打人才叫暴力。

The controversy between Tsu-zhi (Taiwan's largest Buddhist charity group) and the victims of last year's Morakot typhoon. Tsu-zhi has been alleged to put their own will and propaganda in front of the mental, cultural and actual needs of the people suffered from loss of home, friends and families.

根據APPLE LINKAGE網站轉述AppleInsider消息，IDC方面發表2009年全球Smartphone市場出貨調查報告，其中Apple方面出貨的市場佔比為14.4%，較2008年成長5.3%，而Apple的iPhone出貨總數量則成長了81.9%。

 

The world's smartphone market share in 2009.

Steve Jobs incorrectly addressed Apple A4 as a CPU. We're not sure was this to keep the mainstream press enthused, but A4 is not a CPU. Or we should say, it's not just a CPU. Nor did PA Semi/Apple had anything to do with the creation of the CPU component.

Apple A4: latest SOC that ARM added to its family of IP customers - not only with the CPU but with GPU IP as well

A4 is a System-on-a-Chip, or SOC, that integrates the main processor [ARM Cortex-A9, identical to ones used in nVidia Tegra and Qualcomm Snapdragon] with graphics silicon [ARM Mali GPU], and other functions like the memory controller on one piece of silicon - not unlike what Intel is trying to achieve with its future "Moorestown" Atom processor that debuted inside LG's Smartphone.

蘋果使用在iPad上的A4處理器不只是處理器，而是單晶片系統，上面包含Cortex-A9處理器、ARM Mali繪圖晶片、以及記憶體控制晶片等組件。