Just to through a kink in your argument that homosexuality is a defect. True, it is one in terms of individual evolution, but you dismiss a broader "species" effect. Perhaps homosexual couples provide a certain benefit to traditional or modern society. For example there is species based reason why women can no longer have children after a certain age. Not only would pregnancy be difficult on the older mother, but older women (and men) can provide help to raise others' young children who are probably healthier. In the case of grandchildren, there is a point at which the gain in terms of having mroe kids is less than if an older person just helps their grandchildren.
Personally, I say: look at the successful dynamic sites. Google, Yahoo, Slashdot. Light HTML, very light images, strong dynamic backend. Don't get too caught up in the format details; it's the power of what's driving the web page, and the content, that matters.
Useful, but oversold I believe. The question really is what are some really solid examples of web site design. I refuse to believe that there is only competent design and bad design.
You cited popular and well though of web sites, but that doesn't mean they have good design. Yahoo and Google DO for their tasks, but few of us are creating search engine home pages. For example there is good and bad Newspaper design. There are still basic tenants, but the most popular newspapers aren't the best design. (Even taking out national enquirer etc.) What pulls the user in. What really does make the user's job easier. What makes the user feel at home.
Key tasks: Understand what the user is looking for, make it easy to find.
Screw Yall that say we need a GHZ. My PII 400 with 256 megs of ram is plenty fast! It runs every app I need it too at this point. (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, MS Office, In Design, Acrobat) The only thing that's a bit slow is writing large PDF's and large In Design files and these are way past the needs of most users.
Still, the processor companies are in trouble. The reason is that the smart money will go towards some nice peripherals. Software just isn't crying out for more processor speed. Maybe a video camera, an IPod and some decent software.
Give me a desktop with no fan, lots of pixels and video RAM, and a reasonable-sized disk and a CD-burner. In a small case. And put the disk in one of those removable-drive drawers so it's easy to replace
Management is damn hard and takes genuine real work and genuine talent. Good management is hard and expensive to come by. (So are good employees). It seems to me one of the most important aspects is for the company to be pro employee and to encourage friendly critique of management.
I'm not in the tech industry, but you guys ain't exactly famous for having good communications skills. This is management: communications. It means finding people who understand not only your particular project, but are professional managers! They study how to improve their departments output and keep employees productive and happy.
On as side note, my grandfather was an engineer who owned a major part of Parsons Brinckerhoff. He made every engineer under his command take a course in public speaking. He had lots of brilliant people with brilliant ideas, but they couldn't express it to the people that mattered. This I imagine is still needed desperately in tech programs.
It's time to give these folks some credit. I still go crazy without my farside and calivin. Really can't you let me down slow? Make the sacrifice folks!
A number of written that the sky is fallen because Google is allowing sponsored rankings. Of course, if you read the article it's the sponsored links on the right side of the page - where the ads have always been.
See this is the problem with assuming causal/effect realationships. The writers correctly determined that the sky was falling but failed to realize the actual cause was that Slashdot editors actually READ the story and CORRECTED peoples inflamatory assumptions.
I was just entering my CC# when I realized I could just pay somone to carry me around for a year. Yeah Yeah, they won't go 17 MPH, but come on...which looks better
What I don't get is why television companies don't get together. Come up with an alternative to TIVO that keeps the comercials and market the shit out of it. Every time a comericial for an NBC show comes up, press "bookmark" and the unit will record every showing of the comericial. Integrate the hell out of it and price it low. Boom suddenly guess what: Folks buy it and watch the shows they want. Stop competing ruthlessly against each other. Suddenly the networks have 24 hours where they can send programing that people will watch.
Oh. Now I do 1. I'll watch Friends, but I'll won't tune in 20 minutes before hand and realize I love that show too.
2. I'll stop watching cheap crappy reruns of Gilligans Island just because it's 3AM
3. The Networks won't cooperate
4. It upsets the entire system. That's damn scary. Everything they know is suddenly wrong. New business means new execs;-)
5. 24 hours worth of quality TV is demanded
6. The system will be hacked
7. The content will be traded
8. Reruns of shows and movies... why. I moved it to my writeable DVD 2 years ago.
9. Customers arn't stupid
Damnit I hate to answer my own stupid thoughts.
It's going to be awhile before these catch on. They're just to radical a change.
(In the U.S. anyway)
Actually phones are a basic right. This is the only way many rural communities get access to the phones. It costs much more to install the line than the phone companies will ever recieve. Of course phones have that 911 feature which is often seen as pretty important.
Equally importantly, though is postal service which everyone gets.
Just so you know. It likely the reporter never touched the headline of the story. That job is generally done by an editor who skimmed through the story for 30 seconds.
I wouldn't neccesarily blame Matthew Broersma personally.
Re:What Difference Does It Make In The Long Run?
on
Palm OS 5.0 Preview
·
· Score: 1
Interestingly I can see the phone adding some serious PDA capabilities, but not the other way around. I'll bet phones are going to get cheap and small in the next few years. The new features will be
You'll still have Joe's address and phone number synced in it, you just won't have your sales database in it.
Living a five minute walk from the Pentagon I sort of followed the "WTF WHERE WERE THE JETS" stories. I was wondering myself. Turns out the Jets were launched and sent towards New York as air controllers were searching for additional planes. Then they found one...heading for Washington. The Jets arrived within range about 5-10 minutes after the first Jet crashed into the Pentagon.
Washington Post critics almost NEVER like movies;-). Really, I think they're allowed to like about 2 per year. I often take their reviews with a grain of salt. (And I work there!)
Sure and your price will go up for your "connection". Why? Because this is complicated stuff. Calling in, a new modem, perhaps a router, "how do I know when it's down", etc. They need to provide more serviices that make doing whatever you want to do EASIER. Then people will sign up and the companies won't have lots of capability and comparitiveley few users
To date, roughly 80 percent of the country's homes have broadband service available to them -- via cable lines, satellite or souped-up telephone lines (known as digital subscriber lines, or DSL). Yet only about 10 percent, or 10 million homes, have signed up.
The number of subscribers has risen steadily since broadband became widely available five years ago, but the rate of growth slowed last year.
That and speed... Yes this is an obnoxious post to an insightful comment, but broadband isn't exactly dieing from lack of demand... It's "slow rollout" problems.
But yes, if broadband companies would network and support my parents two computers at home, they would have bought in 6 months ago. They won't sign up until they can coordinate their regular ISP's contact ending, broadband sign up with install, and me at home to set it up with a week of troublehsooting
I totally agree. USB Hubs are cheap now, but this is supposed to reduce clutter not add to it. Plus, this machine is supposed to be about connections, which it has too few of.
USB: Mouse and Keyboard
USB: Printer
USB: PDA
USB: IPOD
FIREWIRE/USB: Scanner
FIREWIRE: Video Camera..
I mean, really. Your average non-savy user won't try to share a connection because they don't know it's possible. The Wireless product makers are cleaning up the partially-savy and geek markets. Hardcore geeks are wiring their houses with cat 5, etc.
The thing is people arn't dumb. It might not be this years "Tickle me Elmo," but remember, few people had computers in the 1980s. Making user friendly products brings geek technology to the average folk. This just might be a product to do it. No more drilling or sending wires through walls. No wierd wires. Just plug it in and off you are.
Slashdot Mirror
Simply brilliant ;-)
"Unsure how to proceed. One True Way needs revision"
Dear Slashdot,
Drop the large ads and wierd payment system and just move to Oklahoma!
Just to through a kink in your argument that homosexuality is a defect. True, it is one in terms of individual evolution, but you dismiss a broader "species" effect. Perhaps homosexual couples provide a certain benefit to traditional or modern society.
For example there is species based reason why women can no longer have children after a certain age. Not only would pregnancy be difficult on the older mother, but older women (and men) can provide help to raise others' young children who are probably healthier. In the case of grandchildren, there is a point at which the gain in terms of having mroe kids is less than if an older person just helps their grandchildren.
Personally, I say: look at the successful dynamic sites. Google, Yahoo, Slashdot. Light HTML, very light images, strong dynamic backend. Don't get too caught up in the format details; it's the power of what's driving the web page, and the content, that matters.
Useful, but oversold I believe. The question really is what are some really solid examples of web site design. I refuse to believe that there is only competent design and bad design.
You cited popular and well though of web sites, but that doesn't mean they have good design. Yahoo and Google DO for their tasks, but few of us are creating search engine home pages.
For example there is good and bad Newspaper design. There are still basic tenants, but the most popular newspapers aren't the best design. (Even taking out national enquirer etc.) What pulls the user in. What really does make the user's job easier. What makes the user feel at home.
Key tasks: Understand what the user is looking for, make it easy to find.
Screw Yall that say we need a GHZ. My PII 400 with 256 megs of ram is plenty fast! It runs every app I need it too at this point. (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, MS Office, In Design, Acrobat) The only thing that's a bit slow is writing large PDF's and large In Design files and these are way past the needs of most users.
Still, the processor companies are in trouble. The reason is that the smart money will go towards some nice peripherals. Software just isn't crying out for more processor speed. Maybe a video camera, an IPod and some decent software.
Give me a desktop with no fan, lots of pixels and video RAM, and a reasonable-sized disk and a CD-burner. In a small case. And put the disk in one of those removable-drive drawers so it's easy to replace
The Cube is back!
Management is damn hard and takes genuine real work and genuine talent. Good management is hard and expensive to come by. (So are good employees). It seems to me one of the most important aspects is for the company to be pro employee and to encourage friendly critique of management.
I'm not in the tech industry, but you guys ain't exactly famous for having good communications skills. This is management: communications. It means finding people who understand not only your particular project, but are professional managers! They study how to improve their departments output and keep employees productive and happy.
On as side note, my grandfather was an engineer who owned a major part of Parsons Brinckerhoff. He made every engineer under his command take a course in public speaking. He had lots of brilliant people with brilliant ideas, but they couldn't express it to the people that mattered. This I imagine is still needed desperately in tech programs.
It's time to give these folks some credit. I still go crazy without my farside and calivin. Really can't you let me down slow? Make the sacrifice folks!
A number of written that the sky is fallen because Google is allowing sponsored rankings. Of course, if you read the article it's the sponsored links on the right side of the page - where the ads have always been.
See this is the problem with assuming causal/effect realationships. The writers correctly determined that the sky was falling but failed to realize the actual cause was that Slashdot editors actually READ the story and CORRECTED peoples inflamatory assumptions.
I was just entering my CC# when I realized I could just pay somone to carry me around for a year. Yeah Yeah, they won't go 17 MPH, but come on...which looks better
What I don't get is why television companies don't get together. Come up with an alternative to TIVO that keeps the comercials and market the shit out of it. Every time a comericial for an NBC show comes up, press "bookmark" and the unit will record every showing of the comericial. Integrate the hell out of it and price it low. Boom suddenly guess what: Folks buy it and watch the shows they want. Stop competing ruthlessly against each other. Suddenly the networks have 24 hours where they can send programing that people will watch.
;-)
Oh. Now I do
1. I'll watch Friends, but I'll won't tune in 20 minutes before hand and realize I love that show too.
2. I'll stop watching cheap crappy reruns of Gilligans Island just because it's 3AM
3. The Networks won't cooperate
4. It upsets the entire system. That's damn scary. Everything they know is suddenly wrong. New business means new execs
5. 24 hours worth of quality TV is demanded
6. The system will be hacked
7. The content will be traded
8. Reruns of shows and movies... why. I moved it to my writeable DVD 2 years ago.
9. Customers arn't stupid
Damnit I hate to answer my own stupid thoughts.
It's going to be awhile before these catch on. They're just to radical a change.
Hmm seems silly to me. Maybe Intel should talk with a real marketing company. The sure fire solution to this is
;-)
PIV Turbo...
Poof! Oh so it's like a biplane with a jetpack. I get it. Faster!
(In the U.S. anyway)
Actually phones are a basic right. This is the only way many rural communities get access to the phones. It costs much more to install the line than the phone companies will ever recieve. Of course phones have that 911 feature which is often seen as pretty important.
Equally importantly, though is postal service which everyone gets.
Just so you know. It likely the reporter never touched the headline of the story. That job is generally done by an editor who skimmed through the story for 30 seconds.
I wouldn't neccesarily blame Matthew Broersma personally.
Interestingly I can see the phone adding some serious PDA capabilities, but not the other way around. I'll bet phones are going to get cheap and small in the next few years. The new features will be
You'll still have Joe's address and phone number synced in it, you just won't have your sales database in it.
Palm already made a big concession to this audience when they released a color Palm device.)
;-)
Maybe. Depending on the application and the use I think color can be pretty important. Even if I can't afford it yet.
You know exactly what they're drinking: the pub's extra special bitters. But the glasses where labeled Budweiser. Huh?
;-)
Happens all the time. It's called product placement in restaurant... The glasses say bud no matter what the beer is.
Living a five minute walk from the Pentagon I sort of followed the "WTF WHERE WERE THE JETS" stories. I was wondering myself. Turns out the Jets were launched and sent towards New York as air controllers were searching for additional planes. Then they found one...heading for Washington. The Jets arrived within range about 5-10 minutes after the first Jet crashed into the Pentagon.
Washington Post critics almost NEVER like movies ;-). Really, I think they're allowed to like about 2 per year. I often take their reviews with a grain of salt. (And I work there!)
Sure and your price will go up for your "connection". Why? Because this is complicated stuff. Calling in, a new modem, perhaps a router, "how do I know when it's down", etc. They need to provide more serviices that make doing whatever you want to do EASIER. Then people will sign up and the companies won't have lots of capability and comparitiveley few users
The number of subscribers has risen steadily since broadband became widely available five years ago, but the rate of growth slowed last year.
wrong illegal. Not illegal in the governmental sense. Illegal ON CAMPUS.
That and speed... Yes this is an obnoxious post to an insightful comment, but broadband isn't exactly dieing from lack of demand... It's "slow rollout" problems.
But yes, if broadband companies would network and support my parents two computers at home, they would have bought in 6 months ago. They won't sign up until they can coordinate their regular ISP's contact ending, broadband sign up with install, and me at home to set it up with a week of troublehsooting
I totally agree. USB Hubs are cheap now, but this is supposed to reduce clutter not add to it. Plus, this machine is supposed to be about connections, which it has too few of.
USB: Mouse and Keyboard
USB: Printer
USB: PDA
USB: IPOD
FIREWIRE/USB: Scanner
FIREWIRE: Video Camera..
Is it just me, or is this product useless?
I mean, really. Your average non-savy user won't try to share a connection because they don't know it's possible. The Wireless product makers are cleaning up the partially-savy and geek markets. Hardcore geeks are wiring their houses with cat 5, etc.
The thing is people arn't dumb. It might not be this years "Tickle me Elmo," but remember, few people had computers in the 1980s. Making user friendly products brings geek technology to the average folk. This just might be a product to do it. No more drilling or sending wires through walls. No wierd wires. Just plug it in and off you are.