When you start applying them as though they were cold, autistic rules, you start degrading usability. Emerson said it better than I ever could, but I will say this: Judicious use of dissimilar UI paradigms can emphasize the aspects of your application that are dissimilar to others, the aspects that need special attention from the user. Not everything should be treated the same.
That said, there are plenty of amazingly talented programmers who turn out to be rather shitty UI designers. While guidelines like the Mac OS X HIG are most useful in the hands of designers who already know what they're doing, I suppose as a cheat sheet for coders who have nowhere else to seek advice, they're better than nothing.
Oh wow, citing open source software projects to argue that medical research doesn't cost money?
While I'm sympathetic to your goal here—hey, I'll even throw out a Jonas Salk to help you with your point—either I'm missing some brilliant satire, or you've got your head buried so far up your ass you're incapable of even the merest bit of self-awareness it would have taken not to hit "Submit" on your post.
Yep. And it's not as if Merck couldn't have predicted this would happen. They're smart enough to have factored the risk of this patent being voided into their decision to pursue an AIDS drug. They gambled, and in this case they lost, but they weren't completely blindsided. It happens.
No, but do you honestly believe it wouldn't happen much, much slower? Few of the brightest minds in medicine are lucky enough to be able to devote themselves heroically and selflessly to their work in the manner of a Jonas Salk. Innovation will always happen, yes, but the point here is that we want to encourage it to happen sooner.
Coming from a Cocoa background, but for quite a while now having been diligently coding Windows apps in C# on the side, I feel confident in asserting that the.NET framework is, indeed, utter shit. Oh sure, it's nicer than the Java framework, but that's a bare minimum, not an achievement. Last year.NET (C# really) finally gained partial classes (like Objective-C categories, except shitty and inflexible), but that doesn't help the brain-dead class hierarchy (the fuck is a SortedList doing with IDictionary?). Don't even get me started on the whole heap of garbage they call ADO.
In short,.NET is a framework only a Microsoft programmer could love. Jesus tittyfucking Christ, why couldn't they rip off Apple for this one? I'd almost respect them if they had.
Really? Windows has a confirmation dialog before moving files to the Recycle Bin? That seems like it would be a waste of time. An "are you sure" dialog makes sense if the action is going to be permanent, but if you can always just go to the Recycle Bin and hit Command-Y to undo (or whatever the Windows equivalent of "return to original location" is), throwing roadblocks in your way is just fucking mind-bogglingly stupid.
The reason iTunes is shit is, quite frankly—and I'm sure I'll be modded down by offended PC users—because Apple has had to cater to you troglodytes ever since 2003, which is when iTunes was first released for Windows. Every other iApp has advanced by leaps and bounds in the interim. iTunes is the only one that hasn't been retooled in Cocoa, for example, since that would make cross-platform development (in the literal-minded sense) more difficult.
It's sad to see things get to the point where you PC users are retarding progress not only on your own platform, as has been the case for decades, but now for us Mac users as well.
Not to mention, what makes them think any self-respecting Apple TV hacker would be caught dead with such an example of tasteless undesign as the Neuros? I mean, just look at that remote. My God.
You say to your girlfriend; "I'll meet you here for dinner when the sun is about right there ((pointing at a spot in the sky)) on the earth's next rotation."
As you can see it would also not work so well for your sex life.
So I guess you could also say our perception of time is an evolved trait?
I just thought of a better way of explaining it, too. CD audio is 1,411.2 kbps. Imagine what you could do with an AAC of that bitrate, if you had the source material to do it justice. You certainly wouldn't pass up an AAC at that bitrate just because AAC's lossiness is perceptual where PCM's is a dumb cutoff.
Perhaps you don't realize that CDs are downsampled—lossily—to cram the original audio signal into a 44.1kHz, 16-bit stereo stream?
When the iTunes music store opened, it was announced that they'd be going back to the original masters to encode the AACs, instead of ripping from CDs. As I understand it, this means it's entirely possible for an AAC at 256kbps to be more faithful to the original signal than would be the equivalent Red Book-compliant CD.
It does seem that the AACs from the iTS are sampled at 44.1kHz, which lends your concern some relevance. But don't attempt to draw such a sharp distinction between "lossy" and "lossless" when the "lossless" to which you refer is, in fact, also lossy, and a cruder type of lossy at that.
No, Firefox's UI widgets (the ones in the browser chrome, like the Preferences window—er, sheet—why the fuck isn't it a window, like in any well-designed Mac application?) are not actually native widgets. They are terrible, ghastly simulacra of native widgets that manage to replicate much of the look, but exhibit disturbingly PC-like behavior. If you think Firefox's widgets are passably Mac-like, you're either not a genuine Mac user or you haven't ever launched Firefox on a Mac.
Seriously, there's only three reasons I use Firefox over Safari: - the "type to search" system in Firefox is unholy goodness - allowing the addressbar to be "programmed" to search various sites via keywords is amazing - plugins (of which I find myself not using very many of)
Check out the Safari plugins available at www.pimpmysafari.com. Typeahead search and address bar search shortcuts are there (and do check out Inquisitor for an even more elegant solution than address bar shortcuts, even if the developer, Dave Watanabe, is a raging prick).
Maybe you meant that as a joke, but—in the unlikely event you didn't already know—Jobs is indeed a flaming hippie liberal. So's his wife. Hell, so is Cupertino. One more reason I'm glad to give my money to Apple instead of to Michael Dell.
Well, to borrow the language of Apple haters, all they did was build the thing, right? I mean, Leonardo da Vinci and Bernoulli did all the hard work, why should the Wright brothers get any credit?:-P
Still not seeing it. I'm familiar with the various forms of Holocaust denial and revisionism espoused by Persian and Arab leaders. Shocking, yes, and reprehensible to us, but if you take this to mean these guys think they can get away with nuking Tel Aviv, you're guilty of looking at their words instead of their actions—and quite naïvely at that.
I'm still not seeing how this makes a nuclear-armed Iran a credible threat to Israel, or more generally stability in the Middle East. Our own politicians make threats against America's enemies all the time, but—and here's the important part—nobody takes these threats at face value. Or do you really think McCain's about to round up a bunch of his old Army buddies and go "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran"?
American politicians aren't stupid. Well, sometimes they are, but usually not that stupid (cue lame Iraq jokes). Fortunately, on that note, Iran's administration has shown a far better understanding of Middle Eastern power politics than our own. And consider that Iran actually did have something to fear from Saddam's regime.
"If you are gonna claim he doesn't want to remove Israel you are not only ignoring his public statements, your ignoring Iran's actions as well."
Which of Iran's actions over the past thirtysome years indicate its intent to remove Israel from the map? None. Similarly, George H.W. Bush would have liked to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Didn't mean he was stupid enough to actually try it.
You know, if we'd spent the '90s listening to people like you, we'd still regard the PLO as a terrorist organization today. And the world would be that much more fucked up.
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When you start applying them as though they were cold, autistic rules, you start degrading usability. Emerson said it better than I ever could, but I will say this: Judicious use of dissimilar UI paradigms can emphasize the aspects of your application that are dissimilar to others, the aspects that need special attention from the user. Not everything should be treated the same.
That said, there are plenty of amazingly talented programmers who turn out to be rather shitty UI designers. While guidelines like the Mac OS X HIG are most useful in the hands of designers who already know what they're doing, I suppose as a cheat sheet for coders who have nowhere else to seek advice, they're better than nothing.
Um, all I'm seeing here is that you've destroyed your own point.
Oh wow, citing open source software projects to argue that medical research doesn't cost money?
While I'm sympathetic to your goal here—hey, I'll even throw out a Jonas Salk to help you with your point—either I'm missing some brilliant satire, or you've got your head buried so far up your ass you're incapable of even the merest bit of self-awareness it would have taken not to hit "Submit" on your post.
Yep. And it's not as if Merck couldn't have predicted this would happen. They're smart enough to have factored the risk of this patent being voided into their decision to pursue an AIDS drug. They gambled, and in this case they lost, but they weren't completely blindsided. It happens.
No, but do you honestly believe it wouldn't happen much, much slower? Few of the brightest minds in medicine are lucky enough to be able to devote themselves heroically and selflessly to their work in the manner of a Jonas Salk. Innovation will always happen, yes, but the point here is that we want to encourage it to happen sooner.
Sounds like NYC, or frankly anywhere that isn't flyover country. All of this is possible, and more.
Of course, in Mr. Reiser's case, Oakland doesn't seem like the sort of place you wouldn't need a car.
There's no accounting for taste.
Coming from a Cocoa background, but for quite a while now having been diligently coding Windows apps in C# on the side, I feel confident in asserting that the .NET framework is, indeed, utter shit. Oh sure, it's nicer than the Java framework, but that's a bare minimum, not an achievement. Last year .NET (C# really) finally gained partial classes (like Objective-C categories, except shitty and inflexible), but that doesn't help the brain-dead class hierarchy (the fuck is a SortedList doing with IDictionary?). Don't even get me started on the whole heap of garbage they call ADO.
.NET is a framework only a Microsoft programmer could love. Jesus tittyfucking Christ, why couldn't they rip off Apple for this one? I'd almost respect them if they had.
In short,
Jeez, show some appreciation! After all, without a first poster, there wouldn't be a second.
$50 says the submitter is from Windows/Linux land, where bombarding the user with useless options at every opportunity is somehow considered helpful.
Really? Windows has a confirmation dialog before moving files to the Recycle Bin? That seems like it would be a waste of time. An "are you sure" dialog makes sense if the action is going to be permanent, but if you can always just go to the Recycle Bin and hit Command-Y to undo (or whatever the Windows equivalent of "return to original location" is), throwing roadblocks in your way is just fucking mind-bogglingly stupid.
The reason iTunes is shit is, quite frankly—and I'm sure I'll be modded down by offended PC users—because Apple has had to cater to you troglodytes ever since 2003, which is when iTunes was first released for Windows. Every other iApp has advanced by leaps and bounds in the interim. iTunes is the only one that hasn't been retooled in Cocoa, for example, since that would make cross-platform development (in the literal-minded sense) more difficult.
It's sad to see things get to the point where you PC users are retarding progress not only on your own platform, as has been the case for decades, but now for us Mac users as well.
Not to mention, what makes them think any self-respecting Apple TV hacker would be caught dead with such an example of tasteless undesign as the Neuros? I mean, just look at that remote. My God.
I just thought of a better way of explaining it, too. CD audio is 1,411.2 kbps. Imagine what you could do with an AAC of that bitrate, if you had the source material to do it justice. You certainly wouldn't pass up an AAC at that bitrate just because AAC's lossiness is perceptual where PCM's is a dumb cutoff.
Perhaps you don't realize that CDs are downsampled—lossily—to cram the original audio signal into a 44.1kHz, 16-bit stereo stream?
When the iTunes music store opened, it was announced that they'd be going back to the original masters to encode the AACs, instead of ripping from CDs. As I understand it, this means it's entirely possible for an AAC at 256kbps to be more faithful to the original signal than would be the equivalent Red Book-compliant CD.
It does seem that the AACs from the iTS are sampled at 44.1kHz, which lends your concern some relevance. But don't attempt to draw such a sharp distinction between "lossy" and "lossless" when the "lossless" to which you refer is, in fact, also lossy, and a cruder type of lossy at that.
No, Firefox's UI widgets (the ones in the browser chrome, like the Preferences window—er, sheet—why the fuck isn't it a window, like in any well-designed Mac application?) are not actually native widgets. They are terrible, ghastly simulacra of native widgets that manage to replicate much of the look, but exhibit disturbingly PC-like behavior. If you think Firefox's widgets are passably Mac-like, you're either not a genuine Mac user or you haven't ever launched Firefox on a Mac.
Honest question. Are you retarded or something?
"No, Your Honor, I guess I just see things differently."
"I'm a misfit. A rebel. A troublemaker. I admit it."
"I'm not fond of rules. And I have no respect for the status quo."
Maybe you meant that as a joke, but—in the unlikely event you didn't already know—Jobs is indeed a flaming hippie liberal. So's his wife. Hell, so is Cupertino. One more reason I'm glad to give my money to Apple instead of to Michael Dell.
Well, to borrow the language of Apple haters, all they did was build the thing, right? I mean, Leonardo da Vinci and Bernoulli did all the hard work, why should the Wright brothers get any credit? :-P
Still not seeing it. I'm familiar with the various forms of Holocaust denial and revisionism espoused by Persian and Arab leaders. Shocking, yes, and reprehensible to us, but if you take this to mean these guys think they can get away with nuking Tel Aviv, you're guilty of looking at their words instead of their actions—and quite naïvely at that.
I'm still not seeing how this makes a nuclear-armed Iran a credible threat to Israel, or more generally stability in the Middle East. Our own politicians make threats against America's enemies all the time, but—and here's the important part—nobody takes these threats at face value. Or do you really think McCain's about to round up a bunch of his old Army buddies and go "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran"?
American politicians aren't stupid. Well, sometimes they are, but usually not that stupid (cue lame Iraq jokes). Fortunately, on that note, Iran's administration has shown a far better understanding of Middle Eastern power politics than our own. And consider that Iran actually did have something to fear from Saddam's regime.
"If you are gonna claim he doesn't want to remove Israel you are not only ignoring his public statements, your ignoring Iran's actions as well."
Which of Iran's actions over the past thirtysome years indicate its intent to remove Israel from the map? None. Similarly, George H.W. Bush would have liked to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Didn't mean he was stupid enough to actually try it.
You know, if we'd spent the '90s listening to people like you, we'd still regard the PLO as a terrorist organization today. And the world would be that much more fucked up.