Good advice, but only enough to take you from a crap interface to a mediocre one. There's a hell of a lot more to actually making a good interface. For example, you don't seem to have considered issues of input devices, accessibility, i8n and so on. This really is a big subject, and while "just a few principles" can help get you off the ground (and yours do look like good principles to me), the person who wants to deliver a good user experience is going to have to go a lot further. "About Face" is good, as is Preece et al "Human Computer Interaction", although both are a bit dated in the application of the principles. I'd also second the recommendation for "The Design of Everyday Things" -- in fact, anything by Donald Norman, even though he's not computer specific. The value of his books is more in instilling the mindset that if you have to give instructions then you've got the affordances wrong.
If I had mod points I'd give you an insightful. I wouldn't hire the guy even to code, because I reckon he'd poison the team. He sees somebody describing open repositories and closed repositories as "polar opposites" as being a personal attack? Heck, he seems to see everything as a personal attack. Actually, he seems to tick pretty much all the boxes for paranoid personality disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_personality_disorder (assuming the contrary indications such as schizophrenia or a history of substance abuse are not present). I hope he sorts out his issues -- not least because I'm nervous about him coming over to the Python community!
What if the cable goes out for some reason? It usually takes several days for Comcast to even come out and take a look when ever I have had a problem. You do without TV for a couple of days. Look out of the window, buy a newspaper, read a book, maybe even talk to people. It's survivable.
I think it does, but it means something else too, which seems to be more on the minds of slashdotters.
Sure it means something other that the assumed! But, go into your boss and say you need more storage because of an ejaculation on the disks and see what they say...
While you're at it try to use "niggardly" in a sentence... I doubt I'd have any trouble with either. But then, my boss knows that I'm doing an English Language degree in my own time for fun, and knows to check things like that:-)
Put another way, in the uk, you cannot buy one for love nor money at the moment, and probably not until mid April will there be sufficient stocks. I ordered one on 11 Dec, and it arrived in time for Christmas. I had to accept black instead of white, though, which is a pity -- the thing turns out to be something of a babe-magnet, and I reckon the white one would be even more effective!
HE keeps using that word... I don't think it means what he thinks it does... I think it does, but it means something else too, which seems to be more on the minds of slashdotters.
"It's endless world of hardware modifications that smart people worldwide have embraced" Um.. what the hell is that supposed to mean?
That the author failed their English grammar classes.
Dan East Really? What's wrong with that grammar? It looks to me like perfectly good English that anybody reasonably literate should have no trouble with.
A Linux desktop logged in as standard user is safe from the numpties and is still usable. Maybe, but if Linux is adopted by the masses then the masses will run as root because it's easier.
I don't think it's a question of metaphysics about physics. It's that physics can't avoid being based on metaphysics (in the extreme, even to the point of whether or not there is actually a universe being observed). Many scientists seem to be in denial about their metaphysical assumptions, which means that those assumptions tend to go unexamined. Of course, it need not be up to the scientists to do that examining -- unless they also happen to be scientists who insist that science has the answer to everything.
Did you actually read the RAs? Oh, of course not, this is/.
Had you read them, you would have seen that the issue is that the University has raised new issues at a point in the process where new issues are not permitted, because it wouldn't give the RIAA proper opportunity to reply to them. What the RIAA is asking is that either the new issues are struck down without consideration or they be given the right of reply.
The RIAA seems to do some pretty dreadful things, but this one looks perfectly reasonable to me.
"Marina" from Stingray in my case, which is giving my age away. In my defence and in retrospect, she does seem to have been based on Sophia Loren. Damn, giving my age away again:-(
This is especially true because there would be no such thing as a robot that is "out of your league". Until the price comes down to the price of a PS3, they're out of my league.
I'm pretty sure that under UK law it would be illegal if the robot looked like a minor. Would they have to come with certificates saying "This robot was modelled on somebody aged 18 or over"?
Every mechanical device fail eventually. The only variables are when and how painful... Same thing goes for human relationships. They all end in separation or death.
The saying "the way to a man's heart is through his stomach" was obviously coined by a woman. So they'd only have to get the knife through soft tissue, rather than all those hard-to-break ribs getting in the way?
Explored countless times in sci-fi, of course. Maybe never in more detail than Mihara's "Doll" Manga series (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=3339)
Even if nothing goes wrong, they've set a dangerous precedent of basically telling their watchdog group "Well, we'll let you do your thing, but even though we know little about the engineering behind a reactor, we are also going to basically feel free to disregard you and tell you to suck it if we don't like what you say." As I read the article, the government asked the watchdog "Can it wait" and the watchdog said "Yes". That doesn't look to me as if anybody is being steamrollered.
Ah, well, the dictionary has to assume that when a man tells a woman he loves her, when really he's just trying to get into her pants, then he's telling the truth so that's what the word must mean. That's what comes of words being defined by usage.
e.g. love: "a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend", instead of lust: "sexual passion or desire". There, fixed that for you.
I also think in the interest of public safety you should withdraw your invite, especially to those from countries that drive on the right side of the road - it is hard enough to get used to that change let alone the loose traffic laws and darting motorcycle taxis. If Bangkok is anything like Mumbai, the side of the road is irrelevant. I had to ask a local which side of the road people were supposed to be driving on, because I couldn't tell by looking at the traffic.
You'd forfeit the PDP-10 OS(es) compatibility, that way. Dang, I was planning on using FOCAL as an IL, but I'm not sure that was ever implemented on the PDP-10.
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Good advice, but only enough to take you from a crap interface to a mediocre one. There's a hell of a lot more to actually making a good interface. For example, you don't seem to have considered issues of input devices, accessibility, i8n and so on. This really is a big subject, and while "just a few principles" can help get you off the ground (and yours do look like good principles to me), the person who wants to deliver a good user experience is going to have to go a lot further. "About Face" is good, as is Preece et al "Human Computer Interaction", although both are a bit dated in the application of the principles. I'd also second the recommendation for "The Design of Everyday Things" -- in fact, anything by Donald Norman, even though he's not computer specific. The value of his books is more in instilling the mindset that if you have to give instructions then you've got the affordances wrong.
If I had mod points I'd give you an insightful. I wouldn't hire the guy even to code, because I reckon he'd poison the team. He sees somebody describing open repositories and closed repositories as "polar opposites" as being a personal attack? Heck, he seems to see everything as a personal attack. Actually, he seems to tick pretty much all the boxes for paranoid personality disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_personality_disorder (assuming the contrary indications such as schizophrenia or a history of substance abuse are not present). I hope he sorts out his issues -- not least because I'm nervous about him coming over to the Python community!
But it's a Cray, so it's American, right?
So it won't leak oil. But for all its power, it will perform like a family sedan.
Have you been there to check? Well, it would explain why you came back ;-)
While you're at it try to use "niggardly" in a sentence... I doubt I'd have any trouble with either. But then, my boss knows that I'm doing an English Language degree in my own time for fun, and knows to check things like that
Sounds like a marriage made in heaven!
That the author failed their English grammar classes.
Dan East Really? What's wrong with that grammar? It looks to me like perfectly good English that anybody reasonably literate should have no trouble with.
Is it worth mentioning that Lesley Gore didn't write it, she just performed it? No, didn't think so.
I don't think it's a question of metaphysics about physics. It's that physics can't avoid being based on metaphysics (in the extreme, even to the point of whether or not there is actually a universe being observed). Many scientists seem to be in denial about their metaphysical assumptions, which means that those assumptions tend to go unexamined. Of course, it need not be up to the scientists to do that examining -- unless they also happen to be scientists who insist that science has the answer to everything.
Did you actually read the RAs? Oh, of course not, this is /.
Had you read them, you would have seen that the issue is that the University has raised new issues at a point in the process where new issues are not permitted, because it wouldn't give the RIAA proper opportunity to reply to them. What the RIAA is asking is that either the new issues are struck down without consideration or they be given the right of reply.
The RIAA seems to do some pretty dreadful things, but this one looks perfectly reasonable to me.
"Marina" from Stingray in my case, which is giving my age away. In my defence and in retrospect, she does seem to have been based on Sophia Loren. Damn, giving my age away again :-(
I'm pretty sure that under UK law it would be illegal if the robot looked like a minor. Would they have to come with certificates saying "This robot was modelled on somebody aged 18 or over"?
Explored countless times in sci-fi, of course. Maybe never in more detail than Mihara's "Doll" Manga series (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=3339)
Ah, well, the dictionary has to assume that when a man tells a woman he loves her, when really he's just trying to get into her pants, then he's telling the truth so that's what the word must mean. That's what comes of words being defined by usage.