Nicely done media-rich layout for an extremely important, if thoroughly depressing subject. Personally, I had a hard time slogging through it, due to the overwhelming nature of it all. We need more great coverage like this. Great job, Seattle Times!
Indeed, just to give some props to Nokia, my (now retired) Nokia N8 running its latest Symbian OS does the same thing for its alarm functionality and tells you the time duration before ringing.
One of the the last part about Warcraft's bright color palette is very fascinating. Especially the insight that you have to consider the actual environment that many of your users will be in.
I would argue, the bright color palette served the visual design of the warcraft games very well --all the way up to the mega-blockbuster, World of Warcraft.
I thought it was pretty interesting as well because I have always thought that game players played in the dark, the only light being their computer or TV.
If you look at the big LAN party conventions, or LAN parties in general, they're always hosted with the lights off.
I thought about this a while back, and the colour palette used was basically the reason I preferred the Red Alert series over the Tiberium universe series of Command & Conquer. The games were otherwise very similar.
@rmc Interesting, I have been doing research on Kindle publication, and most information online suggests that they sell only kindle file format, which is DRMed. Is there a way for publishers to sell and distribute PDFs and ePubs via Amazon?
No, you have to sell .mobi files. However .mobi files don't have to be DRMed. You can have non-DRMed .mobi files. When you sign up to the KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing), and are setting up a book to be published, there's a checkbox "Enable DRM". just don't check that.
Lots of self published authors use creative commons work as a cover art, so it even can be creative commons licenced.
Many books are sold on the Kindle Shop without DRM. Some large publishers (e.g. science fiction publisher Tor) is selling books on the Kindle Shop without DRM.
Kudos, Microsoft. Glad to see somebody give Apple a little competition. Been looking for a way to get my Chrome extension and scripts onto a tablet form-factor.
