user-hostile

The files are very small in their proprietary format, but that format is otherwise user-hostile, so I convert the files to MP3's, which tend to be 3 or 4 times larger.

mp3's and lectures, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

That's what I mean by being a user-hostile format.

mp3's and lectures, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I'm making a distinction between say, the level of Harper Collins publishers, and their "bosses" at News Corp. The bosses are the ones issuing the fiats, not the publishing professionals--with the possible exception, in my experience, of Random House who have gotten increasingly difficult about DRM and wanted ebooks with any of their content, even if it's a tiny percentage, to be locked down with ridiculous user-hostile and support-hostile DRM.

Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it 2010

A pox upon whomever it was at Microsucksdonkeyballs Microsoft that decided to release Vista in the horribly under-functional, user-hostile state in which it was not only brought to market, but forced upon those of us who needed to purchase a cheap as opposed to expensive enough to either be a Mac or else come with "downgrade to XP" rights new computer about a year and a half ago.

Making Light: Open thread 137 2010

You may have seen the dreaded user-hostile Google error if your posts were too long.

Blogger can't seem to handle long comments 2010

Lisa Spangenberg, #193: "Random House who have gotten increasingly difficult about DRM and wanted ebooks with any of their content, even if it's a tiny percentage, to be locked down with ridiculous user-hostile and support-hostile DRM"

Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it 2010

"Referring to versions of OS X by cat names ... seems astoundingly user-hostile."

Smug Ugly - Anil Dash 2007

It's that the names are opaque to the user -- in other words, user-hostile.

Smug Ugly - Anil Dash 2007

(Thanks to Joerg for the image.) [1] Referring to versions of OS X by cat names, when those names appear nowhere in the operating system itself, seems astoundingly user-hostile.

Smug Ugly - Anil Dash 2007

And then there were things that were not errors, but simply the sorts of annoying user-hostile phenomena that are all too familiar: endless dialogue boxes, loud unwanted music, annoying rebooting, cluttered menus, even tough-to-open shrink-wrapped software boxes.

A Window On Their World 2008