I used them for common tasks (bottom right for lock screen, top right for lauchpad or something can't remember). I found generally there is a couple corners not in use. On windows bottom left would suck because of proximity to start, top right sucks because of closeness to the close on a maximized window but top left, and bottom right are relatively free IMHO for this type of functionality. The transition between double monitor setups where you end up with the charms when going from left to right near the top should be rethought. Not sure how because people that actually use the charms a lot probably would gripe that they have to go all the way across two screens to get to it (there is a keyboard shortcut but someone using a mouse to get the the charms likely are a mouse-centric user). Anyways edges and corners will always be overloaded in a touch centric UI IMO because they are the only things you are sure to have across form factors/devices. The stuff in the middle might move around but your device will always have an edge.
I'm not sure if they would be wrong in assuming that the majority will be on a touch device soon. Laptops and ultrabooks (I think we should have called them codpieces personally since they are smaller than your lap but still rest there:)) are coming out with touch screens. A lot of people have a tablet (> 34% now apparently: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Tablet-Ownership-2013.aspx) and more people are buying laptops as their primary PC rather than desktops. It is kind of a cycle but MS optimizing for touch would push OEMs to produce more products with touch, lowering the cost of touch screens and eventually it just becomes a standard feature on pretty much every screen.
Admittedly a specialist market but a bunch of developers at my work have a 3 monitor setup dual ~24" + a 30" reclined touch monitor that sits in front of their keyboard/below the main screens. I could see a layout like that working for some people with a much smaller screen as the third one (say 6"): just a small monitor with the metro screen on it the main screens still the primary work area but you have a touch access to volume, media controls, casual gaming, zooming etc. Heck throw a battery into it and bluetooth and you have a touch remote: you aren't limited to a preset configuration of buttons anymore.
and no one got arrested for practicing it. Those who released someone else's slaves were charged with theft. What's your point?
Laws can be morally wrong that doesn't mean that you have to follow them though you are still subject to the consequences. Fight for the laws to change but that doesn't mean that if you break them in the mean time that you get a free ride. Snowden broke the law to point out something he didn't think was right. That something he didn't think was right might need to be changed but he still broke the law. Like giving money to charity, beating the shit out of someone trying to rape someone etc sometimes doing what is right still ends up costing you. That's life.
Do you find OS X intuitive? They've had hot corners for a very long time and everyone keeps raving on how intuitive their OS is. Also Win 8.1 when freshly installed (not sure about OEM) gives you a tutorial. If you are too busy to RTFM when the manual is already opened for you to the correct page, with highlighted mouse movements and animations then you deserve what you get.
Sadly, but rather obviously, all you have to do to figure out win 8+ is think "what would I do if this was a tablet". Answer sides of the screens and corners are where you'd find everything.
and everyone has pretty much followed along. The swipe from the edges to get toolbars/options is now standard UI design on touch devices. The majority of people now have at least one touch device so this is not going to be a foreign thing for anyone soon. Does it make sense for people with a mouse and keyboard? No. But is it somewhat intuitive once you put your "what would I try doing if I could touch this?" yes.
I agree the going to the start screen bit is jarring other than trying to force people to use it more to promote the Windows Store I don't see the point in it. They should have left the start menu, and left the sidebar search when the user was already on the "modern interface". Voila: tablets where people are expected to live on the modern interface would have the modern search, people that go out of their way to get to the desktop wouldn't be bounced around/forced to learn more about the modern interface than just how to get to the desktop (and as of 8.1 make it so they don't have to ever see the start menu again).
I haven't been following it too closely but my understanding was that everything that Snowden was complaining about were data collection activities that the courts had allowed and just that Snowden (and probably the majority of the public) thought was excessive. If I'm right with that than I'm not sure if you can claim whistle blower status if there is no crime being done. The law might need to be changed or interpreted differently but that doesn't undo the fact he didn't have the right to disclose legal actions.
Sometimes doing what is right isn't what is legal and sometimes doing what is right costs you dearly (example parent fighting off an attacker so their kids can get away and end up dying/convicted of manslaughter because of it). Actions have consequences some positive some negative. You weight the options and make the choice then live with both.
Now now Linux and OS X (at least anything above what it ships with) will let you do something. You just have to RTFM, follow instructions very carefully and not screw up otherwise you might end up breaking something. So MS lets you find and install things easily some of which might be malware which might do something to screw things up. Linux/OS X (again beyond the trivial webbrowser and such) require YOU to be very careful that YOU don't screw things up. The Windows problem can be largely mitigated by a strong AV and actually paying attention to UAC prompts, the linux one requires more skill (and interest) than the average user possesses. I'd rather give someone a PC and install a good AV application and let them go to town then have them either not be able to figure out how to get something to work and use a limited system (by their lack of skill) or hound me and any IT savvy people they can find to spend an hour or two of their time RTFM'ing for them to get it to work.
I say they both would be crap. The best of "damn it MS my desktop is not a tablet" combined with the best of "damn it Google my desktop is not a smartphone". Please everyone stop trying to turn my computer into a smartphone: I don't want one at least not one with dual 24" screens and a keyboard and mouse attached (I look too "fabulous" like Richard Simmons sweating to the oldies swinging my arms around over a ~40" range of motion). Yes I realize trackpads and to those who recommend such shitty workarounds I say: so your solution to a crappy resolution pointing device is to scale down the large real space into an even more tightly packed (and thus even more crappy precision) mockup? No thanks.
The only (albeit large) exception is text values I think. I think a lot of people don't write tests to see that FirstName can be 40 chars but not 41 if for no other reason then creating a 41 char test string is a pain. I think unit testing suites should provide easy ways to test bounds like this. Something like Assert.MustBe(Firstname = 40); no generating of random strings, or how is often done someone pounding on a keyboard and counting manually that the string matches the criteria they are trying to impose, just a expression of the actual constraint not an example of the constraint.
Can't buy for two months probably means it will be an even heat for comparable quality hardware by the time you can actually buy one of these (and of course dropping the Xeon and associated mobo, and ecc ram will save shitloads) and by the time Apple gets around to offering an upgraded version you'll be getting ripped off so bad you'll think you are an 80's band at a rap concert.
Do you get upgradability while still fitting everything into the same size and shape a box? Saying you can upgrade a full tower case you pick up for ~$100 is obvious. Upgrading a 12 core, 64GB of RAM small wastebasket is another thing.
Good point. I never can use a laptop anyways in a plane. The second the guy in the front tilts his seat back I'm done. If I get lucky and the person in front doesn't then I'd be okay but rare. I stopped even trying to pull the thing out when flying as by the time I got it booted and ready to do something they'd come with a drink, I'd move it out of the way drink then wait 40min for someone to come take the cup. Then another setup and dude in front leans back. Etc. just not worth it.
Guns don't kill people children behind the gun kill people.
The AK matches the philosophy of it's designers country and the majority of those that adopted it: don't waste money on rifles when people themselves are cheap. Its crude but if you are training a bunch of troops for a warlord via a magazine of ammo and a few targets in a desert you don't exactly need the best tech because you aren't going to be getting the best troops either. Good enough that a idiot won't break it then lots of idiots that is the key to success.
The thing is each hospital likely only has one of these and they are "only" worth $20,000. It doesn't take long before any custom development effort becomes a significant cost. Easier to just attach a dedicated workstation on a cart and block that computer from ever accessing the internet.
Drivers sometimes determine the OS. I worked at a place that got a new SL3000 tape library ~2007. StorageTek which was bought by Sun a couple years before I think. Anyways a ~$200k tape library and it was running Win2k. Just seems funny to drive a $40k file server with a 32 core Sparc/Solaris system and have the hardware running Win2k.
Here's an idea make a laptop where the long direction is the vertical. Stability is probably the limitation but 16:10 would be great if the 16 was the height. Same size and shape of laptop cases would work the hinge would just be on another side and you'd have ~ a 13" laptop's keyboard on a 15" laptop form factor.
Look under: "unlocking value". There are pros and cons of being big. One of the cons (at least perceived) is that a big company tries to have "synergistic" sales sometimes at the expense of what is good for the product group. Example: the MS SQL server group might be able to make more money if they supported other OSs but the parent won't allow it. The cumulative amount of sales might be better since a lot of people stick with Windows because they want Office and use Office because they have Windows. For Blackberry as far as I can tell their big selling point back in the day would have been to spin off BBM and a security appliance that would support all vendors equipment. Anyways the games the transition teams/banks can play is trading the estimated synergistic sales against the hypothetical unrealized sales forgone because of corporate pressure.
Add to that the dillution of power/responsibility for success when you are just a 10M business unit in a 30B company, versus the whole pie, the reduction in innovation as financial and project controls get more formalized rather than just being a skunks works company trying to see if they can make their 100k market into a 100B one.
They'd do that for one version then the next version would have a "more easy to use" camera that comes without the screen.
The funny thing is that the first solution wasn' t just to have the camera hidden and a slot to pop it out when you need it for things like iMacs and laptops (where the user sits relatively close to the device). Going out of your way to make firmware to turn a light on whenever the camera is working regardless of the OS installed sounds like more work than just physically blocking the damn thing when you don't need it (like card readers have the little cover over the slot when not in use in a lot of systems). It seems pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain that the first thing that someone wanting to spy on you will do is look for a way to disable that light. Where as a camera that can't see anything can't spy.
Yep. For example I worked at a cancer centre (radiation therapy). We had a $30k device whos drivers were written for Win 3.1. It is a niche product made by a research hospital. It was made years ago probably by doctoral student. They no longer work there and there isn't enough revenue to justify full time positions (only sell a few a year). So: Win 7 in XP compatiblity mode, didn't work, Win 7 running Virtual PC didn't work. Had to install real XP as a secondary boot and then run that in compatibility mode (16 bit driver). This is in an industry that hadn't even been into scale till ~late 80's. So how old do you think the drivers are going to be for a dentist's X-ray machine?
Probably higher up in the list: because you've already paid for it and have no need to replace everyone's computers. Sorry secretary/order entry clerk etc, but your P4 with 512MB RAM is good enough.
I agree with the trendy bullshitery but no kids? The world population needs to shrink but making it a requirement for people not intelligent enough to "better themselves" to not reproduce shreaks of eugenics. Stupid enough also includes people that screwed up their lives with unplanned parenthood before they went to college, live in small towns were Walmart is THE job, didn't have sufficient savings at the time things went to hell on them (and never will have at part time minimum wage) to move somewhere else with better opportunities etc.
A big party of the bullshit are all the econimist groups and business magazines claiming they need to stimulate consumer spending to get the economy going. You need some spending obviously but they try to make the poor feel guilty when they try to gather together a few thousand in net worth rather than buy the latest trendy bullshitery in order to ensure Big Corps required earnings growth.
I agree the stereotype is dated. Most people started getting home computers in the 80's. If you were a teen then you'd now be in your mid to late 40's. You'll probably know more about hardware than most people that are younger and almost certainly more than the "javascript weenies" that just hunt down an existing script and plug it into something.
Next up the OP's question: it is broken they want security but they want to stay with an obsolete OS: not going to happen. You don't have to like change but if you don't change you'll be using something that is easily exploitable.Chances are fairly good that these Office and browser type computer users would be completely fine on the latest windows/mac/linux offering. The browser will be the same or close enough and unless they are power users of office the basic type an invoice functionality isn't affected by the "new" Office ribbon to any meaningful extent. Probably 90% of users of Office could get away with a free offering (the remaining 10% are writing macros/using plugins someone else has made that they need/already know how to do in VBA).
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I used them for common tasks (bottom right for lock screen, top right for lauchpad or something can't remember). I found generally there is a couple corners not in use. On windows bottom left would suck because of proximity to start, top right sucks because of closeness to the close on a maximized window but top left, and bottom right are relatively free IMHO for this type of functionality. The transition between double monitor setups where you end up with the charms when going from left to right near the top should be rethought. Not sure how because people that actually use the charms a lot probably would gripe that they have to go all the way across two screens to get to it (there is a keyboard shortcut but someone using a mouse to get the the charms likely are a mouse-centric user). Anyways edges and corners will always be overloaded in a touch centric UI IMO because they are the only things you are sure to have across form factors/devices. The stuff in the middle might move around but your device will always have an edge.
I'm not sure if they would be wrong in assuming that the majority will be on a touch device soon. Laptops and ultrabooks (I think we should have called them codpieces personally since they are smaller than your lap but still rest there :)) are coming out with touch screens. A lot of people have a tablet (> 34% now apparently: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Tablet-Ownership-2013.aspx) and more people are buying laptops as their primary PC rather than desktops. It is kind of a cycle but MS optimizing for touch would push OEMs to produce more products with touch, lowering the cost of touch screens and eventually it just becomes a standard feature on pretty much every screen.
Admittedly a specialist market but a bunch of developers at my work have a 3 monitor setup dual ~24" + a 30" reclined touch monitor that sits in front of their keyboard/below the main screens. I could see a layout like that working for some people with a much smaller screen as the third one (say 6"): just a small monitor with the metro screen on it the main screens still the primary work area but you have a touch access to volume, media controls, casual gaming, zooming etc. Heck throw a battery into it and bluetooth and you have a touch remote: you aren't limited to a preset configuration of buttons anymore.
and no one got arrested for practicing it. Those who released someone else's slaves were charged with theft. What's your point?
Laws can be morally wrong that doesn't mean that you have to follow them though you are still subject to the consequences. Fight for the laws to change but that doesn't mean that if you break them in the mean time that you get a free ride. Snowden broke the law to point out something he didn't think was right. That something he didn't think was right might need to be changed but he still broke the law. Like giving money to charity, beating the shit out of someone trying to rape someone etc sometimes doing what is right still ends up costing you. That's life.
Do you find OS X intuitive? They've had hot corners for a very long time and everyone keeps raving on how intuitive their OS is. Also Win 8.1 when freshly installed (not sure about OEM) gives you a tutorial. If you are too busy to RTFM when the manual is already opened for you to the correct page, with highlighted mouse movements and animations then you deserve what you get.
Sadly, but rather obviously, all you have to do to figure out win 8+ is think "what would I do if this was a tablet". Answer sides of the screens and corners are where you'd find everything.
and everyone has pretty much followed along. The swipe from the edges to get toolbars/options is now standard UI design on touch devices. The majority of people now have at least one touch device so this is not going to be a foreign thing for anyone soon. Does it make sense for people with a mouse and keyboard? No. But is it somewhat intuitive once you put your "what would I try doing if I could touch this?" yes.
I agree the going to the start screen bit is jarring other than trying to force people to use it more to promote the Windows Store I don't see the point in it. They should have left the start menu, and left the sidebar search when the user was already on the "modern interface". Voila: tablets where people are expected to live on the modern interface would have the modern search, people that go out of their way to get to the desktop wouldn't be bounced around/forced to learn more about the modern interface than just how to get to the desktop (and as of 8.1 make it so they don't have to ever see the start menu again).
I haven't been following it too closely but my understanding was that everything that Snowden was complaining about were data collection activities that the courts had allowed and just that Snowden (and probably the majority of the public) thought was excessive. If I'm right with that than I'm not sure if you can claim whistle blower status if there is no crime being done. The law might need to be changed or interpreted differently but that doesn't undo the fact he didn't have the right to disclose legal actions.
Sometimes doing what is right isn't what is legal and sometimes doing what is right costs you dearly (example parent fighting off an attacker so their kids can get away and end up dying/convicted of manslaughter because of it). Actions have consequences some positive some negative. You weight the options and make the choice then live with both.
Now now Linux and OS X (at least anything above what it ships with) will let you do something. You just have to RTFM, follow instructions very carefully and not screw up otherwise you might end up breaking something. So MS lets you find and install things easily some of which might be malware which might do something to screw things up. Linux/OS X (again beyond the trivial webbrowser and such) require YOU to be very careful that YOU don't screw things up. The Windows problem can be largely mitigated by a strong AV and actually paying attention to UAC prompts, the linux one requires more skill (and interest) than the average user possesses. I'd rather give someone a PC and install a good AV application and let them go to town then have them either not be able to figure out how to get something to work and use a limited system (by their lack of skill) or hound me and any IT savvy people they can find to spend an hour or two of their time RTFM'ing for them to get it to work.
I say they both would be crap. The best of "damn it MS my desktop is not a tablet" combined with the best of "damn it Google my desktop is not a smartphone". Please everyone stop trying to turn my computer into a smartphone: I don't want one at least not one with dual 24" screens and a keyboard and mouse attached (I look too "fabulous" like Richard Simmons sweating to the oldies swinging my arms around over a ~40" range of motion). Yes I realize trackpads and to those who recommend such shitty workarounds I say: so your solution to a crappy resolution pointing device is to scale down the large real space into an even more tightly packed (and thus even more crappy precision) mockup? No thanks.
The only (albeit large) exception is text values I think. I think a lot of people don't write tests to see that FirstName can be 40 chars but not 41 if for no other reason then creating a 41 char test string is a pain. I think unit testing suites should provide easy ways to test bounds like this. Something like Assert.MustBe(Firstname = 40); no generating of random strings, or how is often done someone pounding on a keyboard and counting manually that the string matches the criteria they are trying to impose, just a expression of the actual constraint not an example of the constraint.
Exactly. What test your code with values on eitehr side of the branching points in the code. Wow never would have thought of that one.
Can't buy for two months probably means it will be an even heat for comparable quality hardware by the time you can actually buy one of these (and of course dropping the Xeon and associated mobo, and ecc ram will save shitloads) and by the time Apple gets around to offering an upgraded version you'll be getting ripped off so bad you'll think you are an 80's band at a rap concert.
They paint them black and call them Reapers for a reason.
Do you get upgradability while still fitting everything into the same size and shape a box? Saying you can upgrade a full tower case you pick up for ~$100 is obvious. Upgrading a 12 core, 64GB of RAM small wastebasket is another thing.
Good point. I never can use a laptop anyways in a plane. The second the guy in the front tilts his seat back I'm done. If I get lucky and the person in front doesn't then I'd be okay but rare. I stopped even trying to pull the thing out when flying as by the time I got it booted and ready to do something they'd come with a drink, I'd move it out of the way drink then wait 40min for someone to come take the cup. Then another setup and dude in front leans back. Etc. just not worth it.
Guns don't kill people children behind the gun kill people.
The AK matches the philosophy of it's designers country and the majority of those that adopted it: don't waste money on rifles when people themselves are cheap. Its crude but if you are training a bunch of troops for a warlord via a magazine of ammo and a few targets in a desert you don't exactly need the best tech because you aren't going to be getting the best troops either. Good enough that a idiot won't break it then lots of idiots that is the key to success.
The thing is each hospital likely only has one of these and they are "only" worth $20,000. It doesn't take long before any custom development effort becomes a significant cost. Easier to just attach a dedicated workstation on a cart and block that computer from ever accessing the internet.
Drivers sometimes determine the OS. I worked at a place that got a new SL3000 tape library ~2007. StorageTek which was bought by Sun a couple years before I think. Anyways a ~$200k tape library and it was running Win2k. Just seems funny to drive a $40k file server with a 32 core Sparc/Solaris system and have the hardware running Win2k.
Here's an idea make a laptop where the long direction is the vertical. Stability is probably the limitation but 16:10 would be great if the 16 was the height. Same size and shape of laptop cases would work the hinge would just be on another side and you'd have ~ a 13" laptop's keyboard on a 15" laptop form factor.
Look under: "unlocking value". There are pros and cons of being big. One of the cons (at least perceived) is that a big company tries to have "synergistic" sales sometimes at the expense of what is good for the product group. Example: the MS SQL server group might be able to make more money if they supported other OSs but the parent won't allow it. The cumulative amount of sales might be better since a lot of people stick with Windows because they want Office and use Office because they have Windows. For Blackberry as far as I can tell their big selling point back in the day would have been to spin off BBM and a security appliance that would support all vendors equipment. Anyways the games the transition teams/banks can play is trading the estimated synergistic sales against the hypothetical unrealized sales forgone because of corporate pressure.
Add to that the dillution of power/responsibility for success when you are just a 10M business unit in a 30B company, versus the whole pie, the reduction in innovation as financial and project controls get more formalized rather than just being a skunks works company trying to see if they can make their 100k market into a 100B one.
They'd do that for one version then the next version would have a "more easy to use" camera that comes without the screen.
The funny thing is that the first solution wasn' t just to have the camera hidden and a slot to pop it out when you need it for things like iMacs and laptops (where the user sits relatively close to the device). Going out of your way to make firmware to turn a light on whenever the camera is working regardless of the OS installed sounds like more work than just physically blocking the damn thing when you don't need it (like card readers have the little cover over the slot when not in use in a lot of systems). It seems pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain that the first thing that someone wanting to spy on you will do is look for a way to disable that light. Where as a camera that can't see anything can't spy.
Yep. For example I worked at a cancer centre (radiation therapy). We had a $30k device whos drivers were written for Win 3.1. It is a niche product made by a research hospital. It was made years ago probably by doctoral student. They no longer work there and there isn't enough revenue to justify full time positions (only sell a few a year). So: Win 7 in XP compatiblity mode, didn't work, Win 7 running Virtual PC didn't work. Had to install real XP as a secondary boot and then run that in compatibility mode (16 bit driver). This is in an industry that hadn't even been into scale till ~late 80's. So how old do you think the drivers are going to be for a dentist's X-ray machine?
Probably higher up in the list: because you've already paid for it and have no need to replace everyone's computers. Sorry secretary/order entry clerk etc, but your P4 with 512MB RAM is good enough.
Thanks Jack Bauer.
I agree with the trendy bullshitery but no kids? The world population needs to shrink but making it a requirement for people not intelligent enough to "better themselves" to not reproduce shreaks of eugenics. Stupid enough also includes people that screwed up their lives with unplanned parenthood before they went to college, live in small towns were Walmart is THE job, didn't have sufficient savings at the time things went to hell on them (and never will have at part time minimum wage) to move somewhere else with better opportunities etc.
A big party of the bullshit are all the econimist groups and business magazines claiming they need to stimulate consumer spending to get the economy going. You need some spending obviously but they try to make the poor feel guilty when they try to gather together a few thousand in net worth rather than buy the latest trendy bullshitery in order to ensure Big Corps required earnings growth.
computer security ... in bed, meme :)
I agree the stereotype is dated. Most people started getting home computers in the 80's. If you were a teen then you'd now be in your mid to late 40's. You'll probably know more about hardware than most people that are younger and almost certainly more than the "javascript weenies" that just hunt down an existing script and plug it into something.
Next up the OP's question: it is broken they want security but they want to stay with an obsolete OS: not going to happen. You don't have to like change but if you don't change you'll be using something that is easily exploitable.Chances are fairly good that these Office and browser type computer users would be completely fine on the latest windows/mac/linux offering. The browser will be the same or close enough and unless they are power users of office the basic type an invoice functionality isn't affected by the "new" Office ribbon to any meaningful extent. Probably 90% of users of Office could get away with a free offering (the remaining 10% are writing macros/using plugins someone else has made that they need/already know how to do in VBA).