Why is it that only the self-centered idiots are the ones who fail to accept that GUI design IS a science. There are entire sections in every book store about good (and bad) design...you might want to start with the basics, such as color, proximity, alignment, repetition, consistency and contrast, before you continue to spout off about things you don't know. Did I just make those terms up, or are they established principles in design?
Those who complain that the Mac OS is only good to those people who it appeals to on a "subjective" level are also the people who think that the "art" you can buy at Wal-mart is good. If understanding good from bad makes me elite, than PLEASE....call me an elitist. Just because you are mature and on slashdot, doesn't mean you have good taste (and by good taste I mean sound understand of good design principals). As a matter of fact, being on slashdot automatically makes me suspicious of one's design knowledge (given the sheer amount of anti-Apple comments and the pure love for every crappy Linux GUI ever).
I didn't realize Walmart shoppers were smart enough to use Linux. One thing I do know is that they'll be the cheapest thing possible, so a $200 computer was a pretty smart move, even if your average Walmart customer has about three brain cells and is married to his cousin.
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Actually, the Nokia is MUCH more expensive if you get it without a service plan (around $750)
Yeah, and there aren't zillions of poor Hispanic / Black / Asian single parent families suriving on the minimum wage in every city in the USA (and the UK, for that matter).
This is the lie they want you to believe. The overwhelming number of minimum wage jobs are held by students and people who CHOOSE to work part-time. If you go to work for a few years and keep your nose clean, it's your own fault if you are *stuck* in a minimum wage job.
When I lived in the UK, I noticed Google has Google.co.uk and Google.de domains. It seems pretty easy to me to make Nov. 11th Veteran's Day for Google.com, and Armistice Day for Google.co.uk.
That's how much the current administration has trashed my concept of what being a Republican means. To me, the worst thing you could call me is a conservative, but I'm proudly Republican. Weird eh? Whatever happened to the real Elephants I wonder...
The overwhelming number of people working minimum wage jobs are teens and part-time employees who aren't supporting a family. Once the knucklehead leftists realize that there are millions of jobs out their for high school students and second income house-wives, they'll drop this stupid notion that you can't support a family on minimum wage.
Any Republican who "always voted Republican" isn't a real Republican anyway: a Conservative, probably, but not a Republican. All Conservatives are Republicans but not all Republicans are Conservative (or something like that).
Well, one will make you work for your handouts (which you will probably never attain) and the other just gives you handouts (which does nothing for you in the long run). Call me a cynic, but you are screwed.
Man, I align with the dems on nearly every issue on the planet, but initiatives like these are what make me fail to put a check mark in the Democrat party affiliation box when I registered to vote 20 years ago. Yeah, this is a GREAT idea dems; make it HARDER to get an education and let people fall further behind in life just because they happen to download a few songs...
Except the NSA doesn't care if you smoke weed, uses p2p, or jaywalk. None of those activities would trigger a flag in the first place, but if they DID come across such activity, it is non-reportable anyway. Nice try though.
As if secret CIA prisons were new? Oh wait, I forgot that Bush Bashing is always accepted on slashdot, and actually, we are encouraged to place the blame of all 50 year old programs on the CURRENT administration as if the previous 10 administrations were totally innocent.
I have to be honest, I'm more concerned that you, a private citizen working for a corporation, is doing this stuff. I have no problem with trained NSA employees doing this, since it IS their job, and they are trained in security matters AND they are bound by a 99-year non-disclosure agreement, AND they have high level security clearances. In other words, I trust them to keep their knowledge compartmentalized and shielded from those lacking proper clearances and need-to-know. I'd much rather the NSA do these sort of things in the name of national security than you and corporations doing it in the name of "marketing". The NSA knowledge is never released outside the Intelligence realm, so there is no privacy concern. A corporation armed with the same info though is a menace. I see a lot of "you better hope you are smoking weed, jaywalking or using bittorrent", but this is frankly stupid, because the NSA doesn't care about your activities outside of their tasking. Hell, criminal activity that isn't related to the tasking at hand is irrelevant and non-reportable anyway (exceptions being threats to US persons installations). You slashdotters can complain about how the administration has trampled all over our rights, but this stuff has been in place long before the current administration.
That's why these threads are ridiculous. It would take the NSA an entire lifetime to analyze ALL traffic on AT&T nets from just ONE day. The NSA doesn't operate this way at all. They have tasking based on intelligence analysis and target specific networks based on the activity. US consumers using AT&T networks don't pass muster, so this story is a non-story.
Oops, sorry. I actually don't mind Macromedia's Flash UI, it's the other programs that I thought were really awful (like Dreamweaver). Adobe has an interesting problem now in appeasing long time Adobe users like myself who are relatively new to the Flash arena. How do you keep the old tools to keep the old users happy when you have to somehow now make them makes sense in a SUITE of Adobe tools? At work I use Flash, Fireworks, Premiere and Photoshop...often all at the same time on the same project. It doesn't feel like software from one company (obviously), so how do they integrate them all without alienating users like yourself?
The should KEEP the Photoshop UI since it is the standard for graphics professionals. What they should do is standardize the keyboard shortcuts better with the newly acquired Macromedia apps. I've only just started using Flash, but I've noticed that some of the normal Photoshop shortcuts don't work in Flash. Alt+t for Free Transform? Nope, try just the letter Q. Because Q makes sense? Shift key to constrain proportions? Almost. Unlike EVERY other program on the market (thanks to Photoshop v.1.0), when you constrain proportions, the image anchors and then grows/shrinks proportionately. But in Flash, you have to hold down the shift key AND the ALT key to keep the image in the same spot as you resize, otherwise it resizes all sides based around the center point instead of an anchored point. I know Macromedia always tried to stand out, since they were always second best to Adobe products, but their UI was just dumb in most cases. Hopefully Adobe will do a better job of integrating Macromedia tools with version2 of everything. Siderant: why have Dreamweaver AND GoLive now? Kill one and integrate the best features into the other.
They bought Flash from Macromedia, who in my opinion made the worst UI in the creative industry. The problem with the macromedia acquisition is that Adobe has to try and find a way to take the Macromedia gimmick UI and make it more Adobe like. After all, the Adobe way IS the industry standard. All Macromedia was doing was trying to be different to stand out. Now that Adobe owns it all, they have a tough challenge in making the old Macromedia programs look liked Adobe programs (*cough*, flash, *cough)
teenagers as a result are so aimless, unmotivated, and generally obnoxious and full of their own perception of their "rights" that it is very difficult to counter.
If this describes your teens, then you might want to look in the mirror. Parenting is cumulative. Your kids don't become disrespectful teens just because they become teenagers; they become disrespectful teens because they have found a voice to go with their disrespectful roots.
Speak for yourself, but my kids are generally goal-oriented, motivated and respectful. I'm thinking my opposition to stupid Xbox timers might be a little insight to the values I hold that have allowed my children to grow up the way they have.
Not a good analogy. For one, I love my children and they love me. I don't love anyone I work with, nor is it my responsibility to ensure my coworkers grow up to be responsible human beings because I didn't create them.
Ok, I'll take your senario... I have a watch and a clock on nearly EVERY electronic device in my home. Why do I need ANOTHER timer to monitor my child's xbox time when I could, I dunno, be a good parent and maybe keep track of how much time my kid is playing. Hell, maybe I could even spend a couple hours and join them!
I already have the best parental control device: ME. I'm a parent and I control how much time my kids spend playing video games. Is there really anything to this "story" other than yet another indictment of the parenting skills of today?
As with any study, it is the bad conclusion of an otherwise sound study that is flawed. This is a sad attempt by a bunch of nerds on/. to rationalize being fat. And in true slashdot fashion, it is a poorly worded summary as well. Don't we all have the same death rate since we all die eventually? I would say the human death rate, regardless of body weight, is 100%.
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Well, I agree that the Nokia N95 is cool gadget, but it is stymied by over-complexity and feature-glut. The thing tries to do WAY too many things, and thus, a few things suffer. In certain niches, the N95 is a "better" phone, but on the whole, when taken from multiple reviews/sources, the iPhone is simply the best all-around convergence device available. How you can dismiss the iPhone as not functioning as a phone is amazing. The phone part is the best part of the entire device (the mp3 player a close second and the web browser a really close 3rd). The iPhone could have NONE of the non-phone features, and I still would have bought it, because it is the best phone I've used.
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Why is it that only the self-centered idiots are the ones who fail to accept that GUI design IS a science. There are entire sections in every book store about good (and bad) design...you might want to start with the basics, such as color, proximity, alignment, repetition, consistency and contrast, before you continue to spout off about things you don't know. Did I just make those terms up, or are they established principles in design?
Those who complain that the Mac OS is only good to those people who it appeals to on a "subjective" level are also the people who think that the "art" you can buy at Wal-mart is good. If understanding good from bad makes me elite, than PLEASE....call me an elitist. Just because you are mature and on slashdot, doesn't mean you have good taste (and by good taste I mean sound understand of good design principals). As a matter of fact, being on slashdot automatically makes me suspicious of one's design knowledge (given the sheer amount of anti-Apple comments and the pure love for every crappy Linux GUI ever).
I didn't realize Walmart shoppers were smart enough to use Linux. One thing I do know is that they'll be the cheapest thing possible, so a $200 computer was a pretty smart move, even if your average Walmart customer has about three brain cells and is married to his cousin.
Actually, the Nokia is MUCH more expensive if you get it without a service plan (around $750)
When I lived in the UK, I noticed Google has Google.co.uk and Google.de domains. It seems pretty easy to me to make Nov. 11th Veteran's Day for Google.com, and Armistice Day for Google.co.uk.
Google is an American company. All this nonsense about "which veterans should they honor" is just stupid.
That's how much the current administration has trashed my concept of what being a Republican means. To me, the worst thing you could call me is a conservative, but I'm proudly Republican. Weird eh? Whatever happened to the real Elephants I wonder...
The overwhelming number of people working minimum wage jobs are teens and part-time employees who aren't supporting a family. Once the knucklehead leftists realize that there are millions of jobs out their for high school students and second income house-wives, they'll drop this stupid notion that you can't support a family on minimum wage.
Any Republican who "always voted Republican" isn't a real Republican anyway: a Conservative, probably, but not a Republican. All Conservatives are Republicans but not all Republicans are Conservative (or something like that).
Well, one will make you work for your handouts (which you will probably never attain) and the other just gives you handouts (which does nothing for you in the long run). Call me a cynic, but you are screwed.
Man, I align with the dems on nearly every issue on the planet, but initiatives like these are what make me fail to put a check mark in the Democrat party affiliation box when I registered to vote 20 years ago. Yeah, this is a GREAT idea dems; make it HARDER to get an education and let people fall further behind in life just because they happen to download a few songs...
Except the NSA doesn't care if you smoke weed, uses p2p, or jaywalk. None of those activities would trigger a flag in the first place, but if they DID come across such activity, it is non-reportable anyway. Nice try though.
Yet 99% of them were actively engaged in terrorist activities directed against US forces in Afghanistan...
As if secret CIA prisons were new? Oh wait, I forgot that Bush Bashing is always accepted on slashdot, and actually, we are encouraged to place the blame of all 50 year old programs on the CURRENT administration as if the previous 10 administrations were totally innocent.
I have to be honest, I'm more concerned that you, a private citizen working for a corporation, is doing this stuff. I have no problem with trained NSA employees doing this, since it IS their job, and they are trained in security matters AND they are bound by a 99-year non-disclosure agreement, AND they have high level security clearances. In other words, I trust them to keep their knowledge compartmentalized and shielded from those lacking proper clearances and need-to-know. I'd much rather the NSA do these sort of things in the name of national security than you and corporations doing it in the name of "marketing". The NSA knowledge is never released outside the Intelligence realm, so there is no privacy concern. A corporation armed with the same info though is a menace. I see a lot of "you better hope you are smoking weed, jaywalking or using bittorrent", but this is frankly stupid, because the NSA doesn't care about your activities outside of their tasking. Hell, criminal activity that isn't related to the tasking at hand is irrelevant and non-reportable anyway (exceptions being threats to US persons installations). You slashdotters can complain about how the administration has trampled all over our rights, but this stuff has been in place long before the current administration.
That's why these threads are ridiculous. It would take the NSA an entire lifetime to analyze ALL traffic on AT&T nets from just ONE day. The NSA doesn't operate this way at all. They have tasking based on intelligence analysis and target specific networks based on the activity. US consumers using AT&T networks don't pass muster, so this story is a non-story.
Oops, sorry. I actually don't mind Macromedia's Flash UI, it's the other programs that I thought were really awful (like Dreamweaver). Adobe has an interesting problem now in appeasing long time Adobe users like myself who are relatively new to the Flash arena. How do you keep the old tools to keep the old users happy when you have to somehow now make them makes sense in a SUITE of Adobe tools? At work I use Flash, Fireworks, Premiere and Photoshop...often all at the same time on the same project. It doesn't feel like software from one company (obviously), so how do they integrate them all without alienating users like yourself?
The should KEEP the Photoshop UI since it is the standard for graphics professionals. What they should do is standardize the keyboard shortcuts better with the newly acquired Macromedia apps. I've only just started using Flash, but I've noticed that some of the normal Photoshop shortcuts don't work in Flash. Alt+t for Free Transform? Nope, try just the letter Q. Because Q makes sense? Shift key to constrain proportions? Almost. Unlike EVERY other program on the market (thanks to Photoshop v.1.0), when you constrain proportions, the image anchors and then grows/shrinks proportionately. But in Flash, you have to hold down the shift key AND the ALT key to keep the image in the same spot as you resize, otherwise it resizes all sides based around the center point instead of an anchored point. I know Macromedia always tried to stand out, since they were always second best to Adobe products, but their UI was just dumb in most cases. Hopefully Adobe will do a better job of integrating Macromedia tools with version2 of everything. Siderant: why have Dreamweaver AND GoLive now? Kill one and integrate the best features into the other.
They bought Flash from Macromedia, who in my opinion made the worst UI in the creative industry. The problem with the macromedia acquisition is that Adobe has to try and find a way to take the Macromedia gimmick UI and make it more Adobe like. After all, the Adobe way IS the industry standard. All Macromedia was doing was trying to be different to stand out. Now that Adobe owns it all, they have a tough challenge in making the old Macromedia programs look liked Adobe programs (*cough*, flash, *cough)
Speak for yourself, but my kids are generally goal-oriented, motivated and respectful. I'm thinking my opposition to stupid Xbox timers might be a little insight to the values I hold that have allowed my children to grow up the way they have.
Not a good analogy. For one, I love my children and they love me. I don't love anyone I work with, nor is it my responsibility to ensure my coworkers grow up to be responsible human beings because I didn't create them.
Ok, I'll take your senario... I have a watch and a clock on nearly EVERY electronic device in my home. Why do I need ANOTHER timer to monitor my child's xbox time when I could, I dunno, be a good parent and maybe keep track of how much time my kid is playing. Hell, maybe I could even spend a couple hours and join them!
I already have the best parental control device: ME. I'm a parent and I control how much time my kids spend playing video games. Is there really anything to this "story" other than yet another indictment of the parenting skills of today?
As with any study, it is the bad conclusion of an otherwise sound study that is flawed. This is a sad attempt by a bunch of nerds on /. to rationalize being fat. And in true slashdot fashion, it is a poorly worded summary as well. Don't we all have the same death rate since we all die eventually? I would say the human death rate, regardless of body weight, is 100%.
Well, I agree that the Nokia N95 is cool gadget, but it is stymied by over-complexity and feature-glut. The thing tries to do WAY too many things, and thus, a few things suffer. In certain niches, the N95 is a "better" phone, but on the whole, when taken from multiple reviews/sources, the iPhone is simply the best all-around convergence device available. How you can dismiss the iPhone as not functioning as a phone is amazing. The phone part is the best part of the entire device (the mp3 player a close second and the web browser a really close 3rd). The iPhone could have NONE of the non-phone features, and I still would have bought it, because it is the best phone I've used.