It was popular enough that last year's re-release was a smash hit on the Nintendo DS. Nothing but minor tweaks from the original 13-year-old supernintendo rom, and it sold very well. I love Firefly, but it was always niche. CT was never niche, and it's popularity has repeatedly and recently been demonstrated to still be significant and mainstream.
Don't show the user what he/she doesn't need at the moment (context sensitivity).
I don't know why this 'customize options based on what the user is doing' design philosophy keeps cropping up. Everybody hates it, everybody turns it off the moment they get the chance, and design professionals recommend against it. Simple reason and common sense tells you that changing a UI on the fly is a sure fire way to slow people down and introduce mistakes.
Ok, I'm exaggerating when I say everybody. I don't think I'm exaggerating, though, when I say 90%. A particular menu (or ribbon, or whatever paradigm we're going after) should be as constant as possible, requiring practically no attention to navigate through once it's learned.
You also had Nimoy's Spock deciding not to live in obscurity in this new timeline, so no doubt he debriefed Starfleet on his knowledge of James T. Kirk.
That's interesting! I hadn't thought of that. I wonder if Spock is giving the federation an infodump of everything that happened during the Enterprise's five-year mission.
This is good evidence that the people you talk with are abnormal. I don't mean that as a joke; Star Trek is one of the most universally well reviewed, by critics and by audiences, of all wide release movies this year. A random selection of people would tend to run 80% plus positive.
My son, born in '90, replays X-Com every year or so... along with some other classics like Fallout 1 and Planescape. Those aren't EARLY classics, but definitely before his time. Both he and his younger brother play emulated SNES games from the early 90s on a weekly basis. I think true quality won't be forgotten.
Zealous trademark enforcement can't shut anything down. No matter how crazy, say, Mozilla someday goes with a powerhungry IP grab, all they can do is stop you from representing your product as Firefox, identifying your product using their logo/name. You can still mention Firefox. Trademarks don't give a company control over a word. You could absolutely market "JoesBrowser" and say "this awesome browser is based on the excellent opensourced Firefox(tm) code, with only the atrocious Awesomebar(tm) stripped out."
Of course they have the right not to sell him a part. Nobody reasonable denies that.
Customers also have the right to complain about it, spread the word that Dell/Alienware is a pisspoor company to do business with, and that the resale value of Dell products is especially low. Everything is legal, above board, and hopefully in the long run, it will all work out for the best.
Yeah, it's a national border; I have no problems with a minefield and machine gun turrets. As long as it's not used to keep anybody IN the u.s., it's completely acceptable.
Being against immigration is not a sensible position. Immigrants are often great contributors to American life. Being against illegal immigration is very sensible, and an entirely different issue.
I feel that many people deliberately conflate the two, in order to make border defense seem like a racist or xenophobic idea. It's not. Curbing illegal immigration would probably result in substantially increasing the legal immigration quotas.
You're arguing against a strawman. Nobody wants to punish the innocent owner of a company that has one employee commit fraud... but the actual guilty party SHOULD be punished. Corporations aren't humans, and should neither bear nor shield anyone from responsibility for their actions.
It's a minor annoyance. However, the ABILITY of a government to create that minor annoyance by criminalizing a minor, harmless activity is a MAJOR problem, with far reaching negative consequences.
It really bugged me that Cameron was Kirk's dad. I wish it had been some other random actress.
That does sound disturbing. I would even have thought an actOR would have been more appropriate.
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You obviously know your Trek, but I'm a bit confused by many of your criticisms. Everything that happens from the moment Nero's ship appears in the past, prior to Kirk's birth, can depart from the known history of Starfleet without contradicting one bit of canon. Spock and Uhura's romance? That doesn't break with canon. They aren't saying there was always a romance. They are simply saying there is NOW a romance. Same with Kirk's service on Farragut, and the events that happened to Romulus. The movie makes it clear that the future that you saw DID happen, but is no longer GOING TO happen.
I think that the official word is that this DOES create an alternate universe, due to quantum branching, but that's mostly just the creators covering their butts.
There are some inconsistencies, of course, like the technology on Kirk's Father's ship; but I think overall this movie tried harder to fit into canon then most STAR TREK episodes themselves did.
Ah, you wish to make a victim out of the person who DID the work. You believe your opinion of what the product is worth is more important than what THEY think it is worth.
Hmm. I imagine a 'Stop' button next to the 'Close' button for each tab, perhaps. That would probably use up to much space, though... maybe allow a right-click on the close button?
My preferred default behavior would be to have all rendering, animation, and scripting functions stop on all non-visible tabs, but not to suspend simple downloading of data. Having something like pandora playing in the background is rare enough (only done once per session), that I wouldn't mind having to right click and select a "execute while in background" option.
And if a train or bicycle take an extra hour every day, every day... that's the equivalent of a few thousand dollars wasted every year.
The biggest problem I've seen with these sorts of studies is that they really don't consider realistic decisions from the perspective of the consumer. Even if I bicycle to work 75% of the time, I NEED a car for the occasional long trip, and foul weather. Maybe I need a SECOND car for my wife, for the exact same reason. Now I have a sunk cost of the car, maintenance, and insurance. Suddenly, public transportation is only saving me the marginal cost of fuel, which really isn't much in the big picture.
That just bizarre. I won't argue your figures, because they're yours; but I can't image how that $20k figure is anywhere close to normal. That's close to 50% of a normal person's income, more than most people pay for the house they live in.
I don't mind the ribbons; the problem is the disparate mix of UI elements between Office and the rest of Windows. If something like ribbons was the new standard with Vista and Windows 7, it wouldn't be a problem. As it is, ribbons is the "special office 7" interface, which is as annoying as having a special interface for every media player. It adds little fraction-of-a-second pauses whenever you use the UI.
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It was popular enough that last year's re-release was a smash hit on the Nintendo DS. Nothing but minor tweaks from the original 13-year-old supernintendo rom, and it sold very well. I love Firefly, but it was always niche. CT was never niche, and it's popularity has repeatedly and recently been demonstrated to still be significant and mainstream.
Gnome is going to move gradually to Python and C# development
Seriously? C# in mono and all that?
Sometimes the decisions development teams make absolutely mystify me.
My son was partially involved in this (I saw a pdf of the C&D right after they got it).
The kid is making his old man proud. You're not a true programmer unless you get some letter from some lawyer before you turn 21.
Don't show the user what he/she doesn't need at the moment (context sensitivity).
I don't know why this 'customize options based on what the user is doing' design philosophy keeps cropping up. Everybody hates it, everybody turns it off the moment they get the chance, and design professionals recommend against it. Simple reason and common sense tells you that changing a UI on the fly is a sure fire way to slow people down and introduce mistakes.
Ok, I'm exaggerating when I say everybody. I don't think I'm exaggerating, though, when I say 90%. A particular menu (or ribbon, or whatever paradigm we're going after) should be as constant as possible, requiring practically no attention to navigate through once it's learned.
You also had Nimoy's Spock deciding not to live in obscurity in this new timeline, so no doubt he debriefed Starfleet on his knowledge of James T. Kirk.
That's interesting! I hadn't thought of that. I wonder if Spock is giving the federation an infodump of everything that happened during the Enterprise's five-year mission.
This is good evidence that the people you talk with are abnormal. I don't mean that as a joke; Star Trek is one of the most universally well reviewed, by critics and by audiences, of all wide release movies this year. A random selection of people would tend to run 80% plus positive.
My son, born in '90, replays X-Com every year or so... along with some other classics like Fallout 1 and Planescape. Those aren't EARLY classics, but definitely before his time. Both he and his younger brother play emulated SNES games from the early 90s on a weekly basis. I think true quality won't be forgotten.
Zealous trademark enforcement can't shut anything down. No matter how crazy, say, Mozilla someday goes with a powerhungry IP grab, all they can do is stop you from representing your product as Firefox, identifying your product using their logo/name. You can still mention Firefox. Trademarks don't give a company control over a word. You could absolutely market "JoesBrowser" and say "this awesome browser is based on the excellent opensourced Firefox(tm) code, with only the atrocious Awesomebar(tm) stripped out."
Of course they have the right not to sell him a part. Nobody reasonable denies that.
Customers also have the right to complain about it, spread the word that Dell/Alienware is a pisspoor company to do business with, and that the resale value of Dell products is especially low. Everything is legal, above board, and hopefully in the long run, it will all work out for the best.
Yeah, it's a national border; I have no problems with a minefield and machine gun turrets. As long as it's not used to keep anybody IN the u.s., it's completely acceptable.
Of course they thought of it.
The contractor is no doubt salivating at the $500,000,000 worth of equipment they'll be replacing every year, for ever.
Being against immigration is not a sensible position. Immigrants are often great contributors to American life. Being against illegal immigration is very sensible, and an entirely different issue.
I feel that many people deliberately conflate the two, in order to make border defense seem like a racist or xenophobic idea. It's not. Curbing illegal immigration would probably result in substantially increasing the legal immigration quotas.
You're arguing against a strawman. Nobody wants to punish the innocent owner of a company that has one employee commit fraud... but the actual guilty party SHOULD be punished. Corporations aren't humans, and should neither bear nor shield anyone from responsibility for their actions.
Perhaps the employee that was actually guilty of fraud should be punished?
It's a minor annoyance. However, the ABILITY of a government to create that minor annoyance by criminalizing a minor, harmless activity is a MAJOR problem, with far reaching negative consequences.
It really bugged me that Cameron was Kirk's dad. I wish it had been some other random actress.
That does sound disturbing. I would even have thought an actOR would have been more appropriate.
You obviously know your Trek, but I'm a bit confused by many of your criticisms. Everything that happens from the moment Nero's ship appears in the past, prior to Kirk's birth, can depart from the known history of Starfleet without contradicting one bit of canon. Spock and Uhura's romance? That doesn't break with canon. They aren't saying there was always a romance. They are simply saying there is NOW a romance. Same with Kirk's service on Farragut, and the events that happened to Romulus. The movie makes it clear that the future that you saw DID happen, but is no longer GOING TO happen.
I think that the official word is that this DOES create an alternate universe, due to quantum branching, but that's mostly just the creators covering their butts.
There are some inconsistencies, of course, like the technology on Kirk's Father's ship; but I think overall this movie tried harder to fit into canon then most STAR TREK episodes themselves did.
Is the recurrent use of "energy" some sort of weird internal jargon for speed or efficiency?
Reinforcing the truism that the cheaper the MP3 player, the more features and versatility it will have.
Ah, you wish to make a victim out of the person who DID the work. You believe your opinion of what the product is worth is more important than what THEY think it is worth.
Hmm. I imagine a 'Stop' button next to the 'Close' button for each tab, perhaps. That would probably use up to much space, though... maybe allow a right-click on the close button?
My preferred default behavior would be to have all rendering, animation, and scripting functions stop on all non-visible tabs, but not to suspend simple downloading of data. Having something like pandora playing in the background is rare enough (only done once per session), that I wouldn't mind having to right click and select a "execute while in background" option.
The savings would have been even greater if they assumed an average household would give up TWO cars.
My assumption is that most wouldn't give up any cars. This is fun; I think I win.
And if a train or bicycle take an extra hour every day, every day... that's the equivalent of a few thousand dollars wasted every year.
The biggest problem I've seen with these sorts of studies is that they really don't consider realistic decisions from the perspective of the consumer. Even if I bicycle to work 75% of the time, I NEED a car for the occasional long trip, and foul weather. Maybe I need a SECOND car for my wife, for the exact same reason. Now I have a sunk cost of the car, maintenance, and insurance. Suddenly, public transportation is only saving me the marginal cost of fuel, which really isn't much in the big picture.
That just bizarre. I won't argue your figures, because they're yours; but I can't image how that $20k figure is anywhere close to normal. That's close to 50% of a normal person's income, more than most people pay for the house they live in.
I don't mind the ribbons; the problem is the disparate mix of UI elements between Office and the rest of Windows. If something like ribbons was the new standard with Vista and Windows 7, it wouldn't be a problem. As it is, ribbons is the "special office 7" interface, which is as annoying as having a special interface for every media player. It adds little fraction-of-a-second pauses whenever you use the UI.