You do knwo that is the only complaint against them, right. "They make money, therefore there bad" is a weak ass argument.
This tapdances around the very hot "is capitalism evil?" meme of the week.
If we're gonna go there, then truly, this isn't about making any farming more efficient, eco friendly, and safer. This is about the (extremely powerful) sugar lobby trying to dig their claws in more deeply to the American food network and get us even more hooked on the stuff. Seriously, why do we NEED sugar in stuff like chili seasoning or sloppy joes?????
Kudos to the judge for saying we need to take a step back and actually EVALUATE what's going on here.
A small Orthodox church in Columbia SC has one as a dome. They started out in a small steel-frame building and figured out a way to use this for a frame for the dome. For real...
That's the only life they know. Progress comes at a cost, so I'd say yeah, I say the same thing.
At the end of the day, who says our ways are the right ones? I say we've mucked things up pretty well so I won't be so smug as to say that these people NEED to be civilized and acclimated into our "modern" society.
Believe it or not, I am generally a pretty upbeat person. I just strongly think that we need to leave well enough alone.
I envy the simplicity of their lives. How much are they paying for gas these days? How many times have their phones rung today?
I'm betting dollars to doughnuts that there is some marketing genius sitting in an office at Coke (or insert your favorite conglomorate here) that is trying to figure out how to convince these poor people that they NEED their product: "Smithley, I have it! If I can expand our South American market share by selling each person in that tribe 3 of our widgets I will make VP next quarter! I want you on the next plane down there!!!"
Or, there is some travel and tourism company plotting how to get us there to "study" them in their "native environment", like animals in a zoo - the exchange for our freakish fascination of their primitive ways ("what??? They don't even KNOW what the INTERNET is?? Gasp!!") is driving their civilization into the ground as well as we have done to our own.
Agree 100%.
There used to be a group called Linux4Education that has since been rolled into SchoolForge. My hubby used to teach High School electronics and did computer renewal/repair with his students. They used donor machines and got them up and running with linux distros - enough to supply a couple of elementary school labs for the district.
http://www.schoolforge.net/schoolforge-history
@Cecil, well stated.
The other thing that absolutely torques me about marketers is that they are IN MY FACE constantly. How many "email newsletters" have you received in the past week? How many of these folks send multiple editions in the same week? I have gotten to the point where I'm either increasing my use of bogus emails or just unsub from everything. It makes me angry that I have to spend the time to work so hard from hiding from them.
What they just don't get is that if I want something, I will seek it out based on the criteria that I think is important, not what they tell me is important. I guess I just take offense to the collective opinion of what I, the consumer, am: a spineless lump incapable of making my own decisions. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Still, back to the original topic, this is just crossing the line. I am totally for the use of stuff like PET scans to help diagnose clinical problems e.g. Alzheimers, but this is simply crossing the lines.
Until someone stands up to the Chinese and hands down some pretty serious penalties for this sort of behavior, this ripoff bullshit is going to continue. Let's see what would happen: China would refuse to send us cheap/lead-riddled garbage to sell at WalMart, we'd actually have to fire up some shuttered American factories to manufacture what they're no longer sending us, people would have to actually go to work...How could this be a bad thing?
Personally, I don't think any of the emasculated world leaders could pull this off. This includes Hillary. We'll leave the discussion of whether she falls into the emasculated camp for another day.
Yep. The IT policy in our house for the under 18's is the same as yours - that NOTHING online is private or personal, and to assume if Dad wants to see what you've been doing online, he'll watch it himself, not ask you. It works pretty well, but then again they're on the cusp of teenaged-ness. Still, we're having the discussions about online safety on a fairly regular basis, and I'm reading privacy statements more frequently than I have ever done before.
It's one thing if I want to travel into a "bad neighborhood" on my own. It's something different if that mess comes to my kid's computer.
I will join that search party.
As a USER EXPERIENCE designer, I have lobbied against ads for about as long as they have been out, because how they support the UX is lost on me to this day. Still, the process wasn't a total waste. I learned to have a healthy mistrust of upper management ("I promise I will never put IMU's on our site" - SVP of product development) and marketing ("let's make it blink...oooooh, pretty")
I would consider it highly successful if we added these two demographics as targets of our little hunting party.
This will give you the basics on what needs to go on the page (interaction and information design). If you then skin these items with color palettes that are pleasing to you, you're pretty much good to go. Here are a couple of color palette resources: http://redalt.com/Tools/I+Like+Your+Colors http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/index.php (this one is particularly interesting to me in theory - I have not used it, but it seems promising)
I have heard this a lot from my Business Analyst colleagues - they can gather the bejeezus out of requirements, but translating them into GUI is tougher. I usually recommend Jakob Nielsen's Web Usability book (even though it's old, the basics never change), and Universal Principles of Design by Lidwell, Holden, and Butler as starting points.
If you prefer a cookbook-type approach, you can explore Jennifer Tidwell's work on design patterns, which provides you with some basic ideas for the most commonly used GUI widgets. I caution you to also consider the information design/information architecture. You can learn more about the basics of these topics by taking a look at Jesse James Garrett's Elements of User Experience.
Ultimately, though, this is something that most people cannot get straight off just by reading books. It takes practice and review cycles to truly craft your skills. You'll get better as you iterate through. Good luck!
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My MacBookPro is vented toward the back. That's a nice touch.
The only problem I have found with the MBP is that its complete lack of feet makes use of laptop "desks" with fans useless because there's no air intake for circ. Picking up a package of stick-on furniture feet and putting them on the laptop desk solved the problem.
Antec makes a pretty good desk with fan.
It strikes me that Apple did not choose to play the ridiculous game that Carriers play when an OEM launches a new device. Years ago working at SonyEricsson, we could not believe when the geniuses at one carrier came up with MyMediaNet and demanded we modify the UI we had designed - and tested - in favor of this baloney. The carriers are so geared toward generating revenue that they forget what users actually want to use. It seems our friends at Apple told AT&T they're not going to budge on stuff like visual voicemail and we all benefit as a result. More OEMs need to take charge like this.
Yeah this is where I was going to go with it - we're not looking at the long term effect. I passed up the chance to buy property very close to a tower, and this article isn't making me feel any regret whatsoever.
I was gonna ask to meet the guy who sits with his paper and pen and tallies up who plays what:
"Freebird? check...Back in the USSR? check...I better get those $.07 checks off to the Estates of Skynyrd and The Beatles post haste. I know they need the money..."
Now I'm disappointed to learn that he doesn't exist.
This reminds me of the crap that goes on in the credit industry, quite frankly.
Same thing happened to me while I was trying to photograph the King & Queen buildings in Atlanta at night for a photography class I was taking. Rent-a-cop security guard for the complex pulled up and said I could not take photos on the grounds. I challenged him: "Oh, so you mean I can go right over there on the PUBLICLY OWNED SIDEWALK and take photos instead?" Freaking ridiculous. It was 10:30 on a Saturday night. High time for terrorists, ya know...How do they think they can control the view? Access to buildings, I understand. But the view? Idiots.
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You do knwo that is the only complaint against them, right. "They make money, therefore there bad" is a weak ass argument.
This tapdances around the very hot "is capitalism evil?" meme of the week. If we're gonna go there, then truly, this isn't about making any farming more efficient, eco friendly, and safer. This is about the (extremely powerful) sugar lobby trying to dig their claws in more deeply to the American food network and get us even more hooked on the stuff. Seriously, why do we NEED sugar in stuff like chili seasoning or sloppy joes????? Kudos to the judge for saying we need to take a step back and actually EVALUATE what's going on here.
BING = "Big Idea: Nick Google!"
I am thinking those are definitely NOT for guys as one false move would risk removing the family jewels...?
Yep. My Saturday's pretty much accounted for, now. In short, this is impressive as hell.
A small Orthodox church in Columbia SC has one as a dome. They started out in a small steel-frame building and figured out a way to use this for a frame for the dome. For real...
That's the only life they know. Progress comes at a cost, so I'd say yeah, I say the same thing.
At the end of the day, who says our ways are the right ones? I say we've mucked things up pretty well so I won't be so smug as to say that these people NEED to be civilized and acclimated into our "modern" society.
Believe it or not, I am generally a pretty upbeat person. I just strongly think that we need to leave well enough alone.
I envy the simplicity of their lives. How much are they paying for gas these days? How many times have their phones rung today?
I'm betting dollars to doughnuts that there is some marketing genius sitting in an office at Coke (or insert your favorite conglomorate here) that is trying to figure out how to convince these poor people that they NEED their product: "Smithley, I have it! If I can expand our South American market share by selling each person in that tribe 3 of our widgets I will make VP next quarter! I want you on the next plane down there!!!"
Or, there is some travel and tourism company plotting how to get us there to "study" them in their "native environment", like animals in a zoo - the exchange for our freakish fascination of their primitive ways ("what??? They don't even KNOW what the INTERNET is?? Gasp!!") is driving their civilization into the ground as well as we have done to our own.
Yeah, call me bitter...
Agree 100%. There used to be a group called Linux4Education that has since been rolled into SchoolForge. My hubby used to teach High School electronics and did computer renewal/repair with his students. They used donor machines and got them up and running with linux distros - enough to supply a couple of elementary school labs for the district. http://www.schoolforge.net/schoolforge-history
I can only wish we had an American carrier as forward-thinking as DoCoMo.
That thing is CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPY!!! Talk about the wrong message! I want my kids to learn to save, not be terrified by the bank!!
@Cecil, well stated. The other thing that absolutely torques me about marketers is that they are IN MY FACE constantly. How many "email newsletters" have you received in the past week? How many of these folks send multiple editions in the same week? I have gotten to the point where I'm either increasing my use of bogus emails or just unsub from everything. It makes me angry that I have to spend the time to work so hard from hiding from them.
What they just don't get is that if I want something, I will seek it out based on the criteria that I think is important, not what they tell me is important. I guess I just take offense to the collective opinion of what I, the consumer, am: a spineless lump incapable of making my own decisions. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Still, back to the original topic, this is just crossing the line. I am totally for the use of stuff like PET scans to help diagnose clinical problems e.g. Alzheimers, but this is simply crossing the lines.
(/end rant)
Until someone stands up to the Chinese and hands down some pretty serious penalties for this sort of behavior, this ripoff bullshit is going to continue. Let's see what would happen: China would refuse to send us cheap/lead-riddled garbage to sell at WalMart, we'd actually have to fire up some shuttered American factories to manufacture what they're no longer sending us, people would have to actually go to work...How could this be a bad thing? Personally, I don't think any of the emasculated world leaders could pull this off. This includes Hillary. We'll leave the discussion of whether she falls into the emasculated camp for another day.
Yep. The IT policy in our house for the under 18's is the same as yours - that NOTHING online is private or personal, and to assume if Dad wants to see what you've been doing online, he'll watch it himself, not ask you. It works pretty well, but then again they're on the cusp of teenaged-ness. Still, we're having the discussions about online safety on a fairly regular basis, and I'm reading privacy statements more frequently than I have ever done before. It's one thing if I want to travel into a "bad neighborhood" on my own. It's something different if that mess comes to my kid's computer.
I defy you to find me one woman who would carry that thing...
I will join that search party. As a USER EXPERIENCE designer, I have lobbied against ads for about as long as they have been out, because how they support the UX is lost on me to this day. Still, the process wasn't a total waste. I learned to have a healthy mistrust of upper management ("I promise I will never put IMU's on our site" - SVP of product development) and marketing ("let's make it blink...oooooh, pretty") I would consider it highly successful if we added these two demographics as targets of our little hunting party.
In the spirit of teaching a man to fish rather than handing him a fish, let me recommend that you check out design patterns and page templates. Here are some *great* resources:
http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/
http://www.welie.com/patterns/
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/salaakso/patterns/
http://ui-patterns.com/docs/pages/about
This will give you the basics on what needs to go on the page (interaction and information design). If you then skin these items with color palettes that are pleasing to you, you're pretty much good to go. Here are a couple of color palette resources:
http://redalt.com/Tools/I+Like+Your+Colors
http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/index.php (this one is particularly interesting to me in theory - I have not used it, but it seems promising)
I have heard this a lot from my Business Analyst colleagues - they can gather the bejeezus out of requirements, but translating them into GUI is tougher. I usually recommend Jakob Nielsen's Web Usability book (even though it's old, the basics never change), and Universal Principles of Design by Lidwell, Holden, and Butler as starting points. If you prefer a cookbook-type approach, you can explore Jennifer Tidwell's work on design patterns, which provides you with some basic ideas for the most commonly used GUI widgets. I caution you to also consider the information design/information architecture. You can learn more about the basics of these topics by taking a look at Jesse James Garrett's Elements of User Experience. Ultimately, though, this is something that most people cannot get straight off just by reading books. It takes practice and review cycles to truly craft your skills. You'll get better as you iterate through. Good luck!
Mikael, I believe it's BOTH as there are no other air intakes anywhere on the machine. This article describes the redesigned air handling system that matches this machine: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005385&pageNumber=3 And yes, my cats DIG sitting behind my computer. ;)
My MacBookPro is vented toward the back. That's a nice touch. The only problem I have found with the MBP is that its complete lack of feet makes use of laptop "desks" with fans useless because there's no air intake for circ. Picking up a package of stick-on furniture feet and putting them on the laptop desk solved the problem. Antec makes a pretty good desk with fan.
It strikes me that Apple did not choose to play the ridiculous game that Carriers play when an OEM launches a new device. Years ago working at SonyEricsson, we could not believe when the geniuses at one carrier came up with MyMediaNet and demanded we modify the UI we had designed - and tested - in favor of this baloney. The carriers are so geared toward generating revenue that they forget what users actually want to use. It seems our friends at Apple told AT&T they're not going to budge on stuff like visual voicemail and we all benefit as a result. More OEMs need to take charge like this.
Lund is/was HQ for SonyEricsson... wonder how they're doing?
Yeah this is where I was going to go with it - we're not looking at the long term effect. I passed up the chance to buy property very close to a tower, and this article isn't making me feel any regret whatsoever.
I was gonna ask to meet the guy who sits with his paper and pen and tallies up who plays what: "Freebird? check...Back in the USSR? check...I better get those $.07 checks off to the Estates of Skynyrd and The Beatles post haste. I know they need the money..." Now I'm disappointed to learn that he doesn't exist. This reminds me of the crap that goes on in the credit industry, quite frankly.
Same thing happened to me while I was trying to photograph the King & Queen buildings in Atlanta at night for a photography class I was taking. Rent-a-cop security guard for the complex pulled up and said I could not take photos on the grounds. I challenged him: "Oh, so you mean I can go right over there on the PUBLICLY OWNED SIDEWALK and take photos instead?" Freaking ridiculous. It was 10:30 on a Saturday night. High time for terrorists, ya know...How do they think they can control the view? Access to buildings, I understand. But the view? Idiots.