Actually it wasn't until I started to learn Russian where they have three letters for the 'k' 's' and 'ch' sounds (and one for 'sh'... and another for 'shch' but that's just getting a bit ridiculous), that the idea of eliminating 'c' started to actually make sense. Sure, a lot of words would start to look funny, but it eliminates ambiguity.
I agree paper is better - but if, in the future, we want to save trees and all that (as well as have copies of our scribbled notes at hand digitally) then tablets need to step up. (We won't go into the production costs ($$?oil/resources etc) of electronics...)
Or e-paper - yes I think that will fit the niche more.
if it could be done well, a tablet would be a big step towards this whole 'paperless office' buzzword craze that never was able to materialise due to lack of suitable technological implementations.
when you got to a meeting, do you write notes or type notes? What if you are trying to type notes over the page of a document, like you can so effectively with a pen? Having a cheap (one day) light easy to use tablet is essential if you want to reproduce the workflow you are already used to - scribbling notes and pictures all over a piece of paper. THAT would be very appealing.
one button, picture messaging is hideously expensive, 3g on the way but wifi is good, and noone likes to see themselves on video, let alone be caught on camera while way too drunk and being embarrassingly stupid!
it's not like the rest of the experience counts for anything... oh wait, it does. *rolls eyes*
In technical presentations bullet points can be very important, as are slides with a lot of (readable) information (not a slide full of pictures and tiny graphs where you can't read the axes).
In the end it comes down to being effective at communicating the point you are making, but don't underestimate the importance of redundancy between what you SAY and what is SHOWN - not everyone is listening all the time. In technical presentations your audience will want all your numbers and steps listed (for reproducibility of the method, or correlating with your results).
Training is important. Going to conferences/talks and making note of GOOD styles is just as important. At the end of the day, though, the style depends on your content and a certain amount of text is not always a bad thing.
Instead of a complex system of separate queues, one could attach coloured stickers on the priority luggage. Maybe red for priority and the regular ones will do for the others.
Almost easier done than said - just load all the non-red-stickered baggage first and set the red-stickered bags aside until all of the others are done.
You mean like they ALREADY DO with bright orange priority tags for business/first/frequent flyers on many airlines?:)
This whole thread seems like an over heated vent (well deserved I'm sure) - but priority bags are nothing new, except for the concept of being able to pay for the priority without paying for the business/first seat.
Charging extra for CC purchases (and even more for Amex/Diners) is pretty common practice in Australia. I wish the banks would do something about it but since a CC is not legal tender I guess the merchant can charge whatever extra they want to cover their charges from the banks. Well, thats how I understand it only because thats how it works:/ IANAL.
The n95 is pretty clunky, and the whirly menus gave me a headache (didn't help the navigation was terrible), but maybe I haven't used a new phone (apart from iPhone) for a while so perhaps all new phone menus are that obtuse. (I was a little drunk and it wasn't my phone, but damned if I could figure it out)
So is there the same sort of developer and consumer interest for Nokia 3rd party apps? Are there programs to easily manage/upload these new apps?
My sister has an N95 - does it support new apps? Is there a web community page where they are listed?
The iPhone had enough hype that it seemed (to a non-iPhone owner) that there were very easy programs being developed to load and manage the extra apps, and there was a lot of coverage, making them easy to find. Does this (yet) exist for Nokia?
OTOH, keep in mind WiFi isn't nearly as ubiquitous as cellphone towers. Yet.
I visited the USA a couple months ago, and I was surprised at how ubiquitous WiFi coverage WAS - stops on the side of I-90 in the middle of nowhere had not only the usual toilets but WiFi! - and how little my GSM phone was able to get coverage over much of the country (I understand there is CDMA-only coverage someplaces)
So people will now just buy their music through these online stores other than iTMS, transfer the mp3 to iTunes and then onto their iPod.
It's not going to hurt Apple, it is gonig to hurt consumers. I doubt the user experience of the other stores will compare, though I don't have a problem with every store doing it's best and at least if they are mp3s it solves the 'wont load on my ipod' problem.
I think they will still do quite well, IF people ever hear of them and have a good experience when they DO try to buy something.
The thing they don't get by leaving iTunesMS out of the deal is that you can still use iTunes (the program) once you have bought the DRM-free tracks (assuming they are mp3s or AAC) and load them on your pod and really, most people would be happy to do this.
Apple still has the best user experience in terms of storing, sorting and listening to your music. Sure it's more conveienient to buy songs in the iTunes program from the iTMS, but once extra step isn't going to kill iPods. I'm sure Apple would rather people still buy iPods than songs, though they will (rightyfully) acknowledge the overall experience of obtaining online msuic is going to suffer...
I disagree. I think in txt messaging punctuation is more important than words because you have limited space and an exclamation or a pause saves you from having to type full sentences, allowing you to infer mood and tone more effectively.
I'd love if you could get a standard T9(?) keypad like on a standard mobile (which a lot of people are pretty quick at typing with), but with the rest of the screen filled with smiley faces, ellipses, exclamation points etc etc that are more useful in conveying mood over txt rather than being too wordy.
Ditto on the Pontiac Grand Prix I rented a few weeks ago. The odo, trip meters, date, tyre pressure, fuel mileage left etc was all on a LCD panel that could only display one item at a time. I LIKE having the odo on the dash, AND being able to see the trip meter at the same time. Flicking between 10 screens is dangerous while driving!
Sure have the LCD panel for obscure things like tyre pressure and oil temperature that you don't need to see constantly, but the ODO/trip meter is useful pretty much all the time.
Right now flights between places like LA and OZ & NZ, there is not much to do except to sleep especially since it is an overnight flight.
Er, no. Last flight I flew SYD->LAX left Sydney at midday. Sure, after lunch they dimmed the lights to try and adjust people to the time difference, but I wasn't fooled.
Flying LAX-> SYD I left at midday again, and arrived at Sydney 8.30pm at night. No overnight there! Actually it was a great flight, I was really adjusted when I got to Sydney - stayed up a few hours then hit the sack and *bam* no jet lag!
Imagine looking through 50 articles on the computer every day
Try RSS - I look through far more than 50 articles a day, but only have to read in-depth those that catch my attention. The benefit of a good RSS reader (I use Vienna) being that articles are only listed in one place (not dynamically all over the page like some newspaper sites) and you know what you've looked at (by changing the article status to read - eg like email).
I get migraines from aspartame and Splenda too. In fact I have one right now because, despite intentionally never consuming products with them, I decided this morning I would risk a low-card protein drink with Splenda. Now I get to put up with a sore head for the rest of the day:/ Never again.
National Bank and Commonwealth Bank (and probably others) in Australia have an SMS feature where they SMS a code to your mobile and you have to enter that to authorise the transaction. It is voluntary (for me it's not worth the hassle) but it's a good option to have.
How so? I'll tell you - it's because the students are violating the Acceptable Use Policy that all students sign and agree to.
Wow. You think kids give a shit about Acceptable Use Policies? Consider it from their point of view - what you want them NOT to do is not illegal or immoral, just an adult's opinion of what they should do and think. Are they hurting anyone? No. It is not the same as stealing a book from the library.
I have no doubt they understand the concept of 'on school time' but how is a few websites different to reading a magazine under their text book in class?
Besides, kids love to push boundaries and investigate ways to get around artificial barriers. You should be congratulating them for having the skills to look up a solution and implement it.
Slashdot Mirror
KULLA
sounds rather New Zealand-ish.
Actually it wasn't until I started to learn Russian where they have three letters for the 'k' 's' and 'ch' sounds (and one for 'sh'... and another for 'shch' but that's just getting a bit ridiculous), that the idea of eliminating 'c' started to actually make sense. Sure, a lot of words would start to look funny, but it eliminates ambiguity.
I agree paper is better - but if, in the future, we want to save trees and all that (as well as have copies of our scribbled notes at hand digitally) then tablets need to step up. (We won't go into the production costs ($$?oil/resources etc) of electronics...)
Or e-paper - yes I think that will fit the niche more.
show off! :P
if it could be done well, a tablet would be a big step towards this whole 'paperless office' buzzword craze that never was able to materialise due to lack of suitable technological implementations.
when you got to a meeting, do you write notes or type notes? What if you are trying to type notes over the page of a document, like you can so effectively with a pen? Having a cheap (one day) light easy to use tablet is essential if you want to reproduce the workflow you are already used to - scribbling notes and pictures all over a piece of paper. THAT would be very appealing.
jesus h christ
one button, picture messaging is hideously expensive, 3g on the way but wifi is good, and noone likes to see themselves on video, let alone be caught on camera while way too drunk and being embarrassingly stupid!
it's not like the rest of the experience counts for anything... oh wait, it does. *rolls eyes*
In technical presentations bullet points can be very important, as are slides with a lot of (readable) information (not a slide full of pictures and tiny graphs where you can't read the axes).
In the end it comes down to being effective at communicating the point you are making, but don't underestimate the importance of redundancy between what you SAY and what is SHOWN - not everyone is listening all the time. In technical presentations your audience will want all your numbers and steps listed (for reproducibility of the method, or correlating with your results).
Training is important. Going to conferences/talks and making note of GOOD styles is just as important. At the end of the day, though, the style depends on your content and a certain amount of text is not always a bad thing.
Instead of a complex system of separate queues, one could attach coloured stickers on the priority luggage. Maybe red for priority and the regular ones will do for the others.
:)
Almost easier done than said - just load all the non-red-stickered baggage first and set the red-stickered bags aside until all of the others are done.
You mean like they ALREADY DO with bright orange priority tags for business/first/frequent flyers on many airlines?
This whole thread seems like an over heated vent (well deserved I'm sure) - but priority bags are nothing new, except for the concept of being able to pay for the priority without paying for the business/first seat.
Charging extra for CC purchases (and even more for Amex/Diners) is pretty common practice in Australia. I wish the banks would do something about it but since a CC is not legal tender I guess the merchant can charge whatever extra they want to cover their charges from the banks. Well, thats how I understand it only because thats how it works :/ IANAL.
The n95 is pretty clunky, and the whirly menus gave me a headache (didn't help the navigation was terrible), but maybe I haven't used a new phone (apart from iPhone) for a while so perhaps all new phone menus are that obtuse. (I was a little drunk and it wasn't my phone, but damned if I could figure it out)
So is there the same sort of developer and consumer interest for Nokia 3rd party apps? Are there programs to easily manage/upload these new apps?
My sister has an N95 - does it support new apps? Is there a web community page where they are listed?
The iPhone had enough hype that it seemed (to a non-iPhone owner) that there were very easy programs being developed to load and manage the extra apps, and there was a lot of coverage, making them easy to find. Does this (yet) exist for Nokia?
Windows media player is a better alternative to iTunes??? yuk
OTOH, keep in mind WiFi isn't nearly as ubiquitous as cellphone towers. Yet.
I visited the USA a couple months ago, and I was surprised at how ubiquitous WiFi coverage WAS - stops on the side of I-90 in the middle of nowhere had not only the usual toilets but WiFi! - and how little my GSM phone was able to get coverage over much of the country (I understand there is CDMA-only coverage someplaces)
So people will now just buy their music through these online stores other than iTMS, transfer the mp3 to iTunes and then onto their iPod.
It's not going to hurt Apple, it is gonig to hurt consumers. I doubt the user experience of the other stores will compare, though I don't have a problem with every store doing it's best and at least if they are mp3s it solves the 'wont load on my ipod' problem.
I think they will still do quite well, IF people ever hear of them and have a good experience when they DO try to buy something.
The thing they don't get by leaving iTunesMS out of the deal is that you can still use iTunes (the program) once you have bought the DRM-free tracks (assuming they are mp3s or AAC) and load them on your pod and really, most people would be happy to do this.
Apple still has the best user experience in terms of storing, sorting and listening to your music. Sure it's more conveienient to buy songs in the iTunes program from the iTMS, but once extra step isn't going to kill iPods. I'm sure Apple would rather people still buy iPods than songs, though they will (rightyfully) acknowledge the overall experience of obtaining online msuic is going to suffer...
I disagree. I think in txt messaging punctuation is more important than words because you have limited space and an exclamation or a pause saves you from having to type full sentences, allowing you to infer mood and tone more effectively.
I'd love if you could get a standard T9(?) keypad like on a standard mobile (which a lot of people are pretty quick at typing with), but with the rest of the screen filled with smiley faces, ellipses, exclamation points etc etc that are more useful in conveying mood over txt rather than being too wordy.
Ditto on the Pontiac Grand Prix I rented a few weeks ago. The odo, trip meters, date, tyre pressure, fuel mileage left etc was all on a LCD panel that could only display one item at a time. I LIKE having the odo on the dash, AND being able to see the trip meter at the same time. Flicking between 10 screens is dangerous while driving!
Sure have the LCD panel for obscure things like tyre pressure and oil temperature that you don't need to see constantly, but the ODO/trip meter is useful pretty much all the time.
Right now flights between places like LA and OZ & NZ, there is not much to do except to sleep especially since it is an overnight flight.
Er, no. Last flight I flew SYD->LAX left Sydney at midday. Sure, after lunch they dimmed the lights to try and adjust people to the time difference, but I wasn't fooled.
Flying LAX-> SYD I left at midday again, and arrived at Sydney 8.30pm at night. No overnight there! Actually it was a great flight, I was really adjusted when I got to Sydney - stayed up a few hours then hit the sack and *bam* no jet lag!
how is myspace better for bands than any other free blogging website?
Imagine looking through 50 articles on the computer every day
Try RSS - I look through far more than 50 articles a day, but only have to read in-depth those that catch my attention. The benefit of a good RSS reader (I use Vienna) being that articles are only listed in one place (not dynamically all over the page like some newspaper sites) and you know what you've looked at (by changing the article status to read - eg like email).
I get migraines from aspartame and Splenda too. In fact I have one right now because, despite intentionally never consuming products with them, I decided this morning I would risk a low-card protein drink with Splenda. Now I get to put up with a sore head for the rest of the day :/ Never again.
Except when they changed it (on some) and I once almost tried to take out $4000!
National Bank and Commonwealth Bank (and probably others) in Australia have an SMS feature where they SMS a code to your mobile and you have to enter that to authorise the transaction. It is voluntary (for me it's not worth the hassle) but it's a good option to have.
How so? I'll tell you - it's because the students are violating the Acceptable Use Policy that all students sign and agree to.
Wow. You think kids give a shit about Acceptable Use Policies? Consider it from their point of view - what you want them NOT to do is not illegal or immoral, just an adult's opinion of what they should do and think. Are they hurting anyone? No. It is not the same as stealing a book from the library.
I have no doubt they understand the concept of 'on school time' but how is a few websites different to reading a magazine under their text book in class?
Besides, kids love to push boundaries and investigate ways to get around artificial barriers. You should be congratulating them for having the skills to look up a solution and implement it.