Digital billboards are often too bright and cause me to be very angry. I personally like to be able to see where I am driving. I highly suggest a built in daylight sensor, so that the billboards can be bright enought to read during the day and dark enough to blind people at night.
Bright billboards are often dangerously bright and should be regulated by the city council. If something is dangering the lives of people, there needs to be rules.
Fonts mock me every where I go. Especially Papyrus. I have decided it is evil and rarely used in a proper manner. Anyway, not the point of this blog.
Fonts on the web are easiest to read when the are sans serif. Serif fonts are sometimes hard to read, especially if the serifs are thin because screen resolutions are low and they get lost causing a blurred look to the text. I like to use Helvetica, Verdana and Futura.
I am a cashier. I know how to read price tags. I do not need a computer to tell me how much each item I am buying costs. Then it tells me how to put it in my bag. A kindergartener can figure out how to put a box of kleenex in a bag. It is not rocket science. While waiting for the computer to tell me how much my kleenex costs, I could have scanned everything else in my cart. Other than waiting for the computer to talk at me, the basic navigation of the system is very straight forward and easy to use. In general, I think people need a lot of instruction, so that aspect is good for others even though it is annoying to me.
Second life is a very interesting activity that can easily consume the lives of people looking to fill time. I fear that this program will eventually become some people replacement of real life. We may be fat Americans now, but when the world gets there hands on this program, the porblem will worsen. Many people are uncultured and socially awkward because the spend all there time on the internet, but if people start to play Secon Life, we are all going to be hermits that will no longer be able to interact with people outside of the computer chat room.