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I wonder what conversation at bloomberg resulted in adding all of those extremely distracting (and annoying) animated gifs..
Bloomberg has really gone off the deep end of the design pool. It seemed to start with those somewhat janky, but pretty nice zero-padded headline overlays on the pics, and culminated in this: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-design/ which...well.
I wonder what conversation at bloomberg resulted in adding all of those extremely distracting (and annoying) animated gifs..
Holy crap that is annoying. Is there a way to pause all animated gifs in chrome? Congratulations, Bloomberg, you captured the essence of a Geocities site. This has to be a not so subtle graphic design joke.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bclnijbemellankmoa...
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Holy crap that is annoying. Is there a way to pause all animated gifs in chrome? Congratulations, Bloomberg, you captured the essence of a Geocities site. This has to be a not so subtle graphic design joke.
I opened up Chrome Developer tools and added img { display: none } which hides everything but the top banner, which you can scroll past ;)
The filter for the curious:
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I agree with you, however I did enjoy opening up the developer console in Firefox and deleting all of the obnoxious background.
Thank you! That works for chrome too. Right-click => inspect, then on the highlighted line the inspection window right-click => delete element.
I wonder what conversation at bloomberg resulted in adding all of those extremely distracting (and annoying) animated gifs..
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-hardware-division-layo...
They have a real 'slaughter the goose that layed the golden egg because holy shit! there is a huge expensive golden egg and it's mine all mine, die, die, die..." culture. Bezos probably has an employee purge button built into his desk.
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I agree with you, however I did enjoy opening up the developer console in Firefox and deleting all of the obnoxious background.
Thank you! That works for chrome too. Right-click => inspect, then on the highlighted line the inspection window right-click => delete element.
I was looking for a fair comparison between Now, Siri, Cortana and Alexa and I stumbled across this [0]. I find it interesting because it seems you would need all of them to answer all your questions. Do you have also some personal experince comparing with Now , Siri or Cortana? What went really bad or amazed in terms of speech recognition and speech comprehension? [0] http://www.cio.com/article/2953989/software-prod…
There are two axes that I care about - how many useful commands are available, and how well they can understand me.
Google Now has a pretty wide range of behaviors, but it's the spooky-accurate voice recognition that sets it clearly ahead. In the last year, Google Now has only misunderstood me ONCE.
Alexa also has a very wide range of behaviors (especially with the Skills), but I do occasionally run into things I feel like it should do that it doesn't (yet). To be fair, I also use her the most, so it could be that I push her further than the others. The voice recognition is quite good; I would say it misunderstands me less than 5 times in 100.
Siri is by far the worst. Her abilities are limited, but worse, she has a tendency to funnel commands that she can't do into things she can. For example, asking for the hours of a restaurant will instead show you a Bing search (!) for the restaurant's name, sans hours. This is not useful. It would be better to just inform me that she can't do that yet, file that in a log at Apple, and then add that behavior some time down the road.
She also mishears me 25-45% of the time, AND she seems to be getting worse over time. I assume this is because they are trying to widen her audience beyond a standard California accent, but it's incredibly frustrating for a product to get worse, not better, over time. I now use her only for voice dictation of texts on my iPhone, and use Google Now in app form exclusively for more advanced queries.
A moment passes.
"Dad, Alexa just told us...!"
My geek dad game is strong.