I would trade all the fun yet essentially useless features such as Reading Stats, Awards and social networking (none of which I care in the least about) for the above
actually useful functions.
Not exact matches
And that is much more
useful than David simply providing a new definition for two reasons: he's seeking not necessarily to redefine, but to challenge already existing inconsistencies between our use of the words and how people
actually function, AND because such terms are given their meaning collectively so redefining it alone would be meaningless because it wouldn't draw on people's real experience with their beliefs and views of the labels.
The liver
actually has a whole slew of amazing
functions including organizing
useful nutrients, cleaning out the toxins (and sending them off to be disposed of properly), detoxifying the metabolites, maintaining the balance of fats and carbs, storing glucose as glycogen, and feeding the tissues in the body.
Researchers were shocked to learn that these undigested foods
actually served as nourishment for the probiotics in the gut, those beneficial microbes that perform
useful biological
functions and are a critical component of a healthy immune system.
There is also a very
useful suspend and save slot
function, but you
actually have to get up and press the reset button to access the menus.
They might combine locality and orthogonal
functions in a
useful way, but such methods have perhaps not been developed well enough for practical use (
actually I present this as an idea without any knowledge on the state of science in this area).
Though Techhit's SimplyFile http://www.techhit.com/SimplyFile/ would seem to fall into that category since MS Outlook has a strong rules
function and has added the «Move» group in the Home tab, it is
actually amazingly
useful despite some overlap.
The app can be disabled if you find it too intrusive (an icon remains on - screen whenever you're playing) but the streaming
function is
actually quite
useful, and we came away impressed with how thoughtfully Asus has integrated such a feature.
Were it
actually pointed at a
useful or desirable
function, I'd laud and applaud it.
While chopping and twisting the wrist never felt quite right to me for completing the
functions they've been designed to do,
actually doing those things was relatively easy and many users will find them not only
useful but fun.
Google Maps does much more than get you from point A to point B. Maps
actually has a whole list of
functions — some more
useful than others.