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...//... I was used to the land compass and when I got my underwater compass, I was like, "WTF, over?" Then somebody explained to me and then I'm good to go. ...//...
Yes, exactly. The problem is that an underwater compass is trying to be both at the same time. This violates an important principle:
"Aesthetic and minimalist design: Dialogues should not contain information which is irrelevant or rarely needed. Every extra unit of information in a dialogue competes with the relevant units of information and diminishes their relative visibility."
So you can't see N/S/E/W in the window? Why? Because you don't use them. They are there because everybody knows that N/S/E/W just has to be on a compass or why buy it?
Here is the problem, I want to go West. So I look at the top, remember the number positioned next to the W, then orient myself until that number shows up in the window. Now I'm swimming East...
---------- Post added August 29th, 2014 at 03:46 PM ----------
Nobody is going to jump all over the fact that all you have to do is rotate the bezel and everything works fine if you look at the CORRECT set of numbers? The ambiguity is what annoys me.