I call the classic start menus and such "I fear change" mode. Fitting, I think:D
And I call it the "I like standards" mode. Microsoft keeps releasing new products that break their own UI guidelines. Microsoft way back released a small book that detailed the WIMP interface, and it's sad that they threw it out just for "oooh shiny". I think it's pretty funny that you think navigating as you describe an improvement. The problem with what you described is that if you add an item to the menu the previous keystroke sequence you memorized to run an application becomes ambiguous. I much prefer hitting a sequence of keystrokes identifying the menu I set up. Part of the problem with the start menu is the lack of standardization of the categorization of applications. Way too many application developers think I care what the name of the company is that created their app. Uhhh, No, sorry, all I want to see is the application name on the start menu.
I would love to go to a Microsoft demo and have them use their fancy new products blindfolded just to show how broken their apps are.
Consistency is next to godliness.
Personalized menus break consistency. Someone please go bludgeon the idiot that thought them up. We are creatures of habit. We memorize paths to places, and when any part of the path changes on us we get lost. I memorize the keyboard shortcuts after a while. Whose bright idea was it to hide them anyways?
OS and the big industry players (Nokia etc) are meeting to agree upon an open standard to compete with Apple.
Is this what it takes to get an open standard? Some 800lb gorilla to come through as an obvious villain? Why aren't we the people refusing to buy into proprietary standards? (Communications protocols, Media formats, App stores)
THIS is why we need orbital laser capabilities. Get rid of the pesky atmospheric problem. I wonder though, is there a non-linear optics system that can re-focus an earth based laser to a much higher orbit? (Think LEO optical relay)
Leave the mom friended, but switch to using another service for the close friends. Post the nasty stuff on the new network only, leave the fb account with only mushy stuff.
He's talking about a big push to put stuff into orbit. I see several scenarios here:
Large solar flare destroying a bunch of satellites, replacement needed.
Some new weapon that can destroy a large number of satellites (ground based X-ray laser or an EMP/Nuclear weapon)
Reagan's Star Wars style satellites chain. I've heard we have some advances in Fiber laser efficiency. Any other recent big advances in beam weaponry?
And there you have it folks. You expect a phone. When you see how well it does movies compared to your phone instead of how poorly it does compared to your computer, you're happy.
The interface simplicity also emphasizes this. We associate complicated interfaces with complex, difficult to use machinery. A 747 cockpit has a ridiculous number of switches, gauges & dials, a door just has a knob.
So how would the toddlers react to our friendly neighborhood aliens? We need more robust testing here people!
Do they react positively towards the greys, Alf & alf-like (furry), and negatively towards Xenomorphs?
The proposals to beam microwave energy down from space spec the beam intensity low enough for people to be able to walk around in the beam with no ill effects.
It ceases to be their platform the minute it enters my hot grubby little hands.
It is then MY platform and they can keep their hot grubby greasy slimy anti-competitive hands OFF!
The government only kick-started the internet with the early DARPA projects and university internet connections. It hasn't been run by the government for a long time. Thank GOODNESS it's not run by the government too, it'd be 5x as expensive & 1/10 the speed.
In the US, population growth rate is lower than the rest of the world.
If the US did not have immigration, our growth rate would be negative. Liberia & Western Sahara are among the highest growth rates.
This could mean that population growth and medical care/human well-being are inversely correlated. If this is true we don't need to worry so much about overpopulation.
Is it possible to knock out p21 and then re-introduce it? How about knocking it out only in a certain region of the body?
Only a small percentage of the population need to regrow a limb, and only for a certain time frame. It might be worth the risk of developing a cancer to regrow an arm or pair of legs.
The modern MMOs like Anarchy Online have most of the things I've wanted from dungeon crawlers. Here's what I want in a dungeon crawler:
Class, equipment and skill asymmetry & synergism, complex crafting, interesting trade-able loot with enough space to store everything I loot (WoW is all nodrop nowadays from what I hear), and enough variety in the fighting to require use of different skill sets. I refuse to pay blizzard any more money after D2 because they deleted my set of 10 D2 accounts.... 3 times.
ps. Intrusive "we own your machine" DRM games need not apply.
They arrested Capone for tax evasion. Woulda taken them longer to find something to stick him with if he'd filled in that "illegal income" line on his tax return.
In the really old days, the parents would teach their children the tools for survival. Typically the father would teach his sons his own trade, the mother would teach the daughters how to be good mothers.
Given this model, how would an artistic or tradeskill oriented education stack up on a standardized test?
Lets see
She can can create $50,000 sculptures in a month, but she fails at geography and her english is poor?
He can create a couch from scratch, frame, stuffing, upholstery in 2 weeks, but is doing poorly on trigonometry?
She is bringing in $20k a month on her acting/singing career at the age of 12, but...
Our education system is geared towards creating a lot of very similar minded people with boringly similar skill sets. No wonder we no longer have "mechanical geniuses", Renaissance men.
I'd say standardized tests would be all right, but there are a TON of things you can't test for that are very usable real world skills. Homeschooling is a way to break out of this clone world we live in filled with fashion barbies and "All-American" quarterbacks.
My brother has Aspergers. What I see as his biggest hindrance to being more successful is that everyone is trying to make him adjust to being normal. As a society instead of ostracizing those we don't understand, we should encourage them to contribute in their own special way.
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I call the classic start menus and such "I fear change" mode. Fitting, I think :D
And I call it the "I like standards" mode.
Microsoft keeps releasing new products that break their own UI guidelines. Microsoft way back released a small book that detailed the WIMP interface, and it's sad that they threw it out just for "oooh shiny". I think it's pretty funny that you think navigating as you describe an improvement. The problem with what you described is that if you add an item to the menu the previous keystroke sequence you memorized to run an application becomes ambiguous. I much prefer hitting a sequence of keystrokes identifying the menu I set up. Part of the problem with the start menu is the lack of standardization of the categorization of applications. Way too many application developers think I care what the name of the company is that created their app. Uhhh, No, sorry, all I want to see is the application name on the start menu.
I would love to go to a Microsoft demo and have them use their fancy new products blindfolded just to show how broken their apps are.
Consistency is next to godliness.
Personalized menus break consistency. Someone please go bludgeon the idiot that thought them up. We are creatures of habit. We memorize paths to places, and when any part of the path changes on us we get lost. I memorize the keyboard shortcuts after a while. Whose bright idea was it to hide them anyways?
OS and the big industry players (Nokia etc) are meeting to agree upon an open standard to compete with Apple.
Is this what it takes to get an open standard? Some 800lb gorilla to come through as an obvious villain? Why aren't we the people refusing to buy into proprietary standards? (Communications protocols, Media formats, App stores)
THIS is why we need orbital laser capabilities. Get rid of the pesky atmospheric problem.
I wonder though, is there a non-linear optics system that can re-focus an earth based laser to a much higher orbit? (Think LEO optical relay)
How about if you heated the whole satellite hot enough to turn it into a gas? When the gas cooled would it be dangerous?
Leave the mom friended, but switch to using another service for the close friends. Post the nasty stuff on the new network only, leave the fb account with only mushy stuff.
He's talking about a big push to put stuff into orbit. I see several scenarios here:
Large solar flare destroying a bunch of satellites, replacement needed.
Some new weapon that can destroy a large number of satellites (ground based X-ray laser or an EMP/Nuclear weapon)
Reagan's Star Wars style satellites chain. I've heard we have some advances in Fiber laser efficiency. Any other recent big advances in beam weaponry?
And there you have it folks. You expect a phone. When you see how well it does movies compared to your phone instead of how poorly it does compared to your computer, you're happy.
The interface simplicity also emphasizes this. We associate complicated interfaces with complex, difficult to use machinery. A 747 cockpit has a ridiculous number of switches, gauges & dials, a door just has a knob.
So how would the toddlers react to our friendly neighborhood aliens? We need more robust testing here people! Do they react positively towards the greys, Alf & alf-like (furry), and negatively towards Xenomorphs?
The proposals to beam microwave energy down from space spec the beam intensity low enough for people to be able to walk around in the beam with no ill effects.
It ceases to be their platform the minute it enters my hot grubby little hands.
It is then MY platform and they can keep their hot grubby greasy slimy anti-competitive hands OFF!
If you "git thar fast with the most" you win with inferior product. Existing market penetration by itself raises a barrier to entry.
You're saying we should pay them to NOT read books?
The government only kick-started the internet with the early DARPA projects and university internet connections. It hasn't been run by the government for a long time. Thank GOODNESS it's not run by the government too, it'd be 5x as expensive & 1/10 the speed.
Send them to the playroom. That's the problem with education: No carrot, only stick.
Jesus: Mark 3:1
(a "man of god"): 1 Kings 13:4
Jesus also did an ear re-attachment, caused lame to walk & blind to see.
In the US, population growth rate is lower than the rest of the world. If the US did not have immigration, our growth rate would be negative. Liberia & Western Sahara are among the highest growth rates.
This could mean that population growth and medical care/human well-being are inversely correlated. If this is true we don't need to worry so much about overpopulation.
He's right, you forgot to mention that is has TWICE as much EPROM memory, positively cavernous at 512 12-bit words.
(heh those chips bring back memories, way back in 97 I used to use the a lot of those Microchip parts 16c, 18c, 17c etc families)
Is it possible to knock out p21 and then re-introduce it? How about knocking it out only in a certain region of the body?
Only a small percentage of the population need to regrow a limb, and only for a certain time frame. It might be worth the risk of developing a cancer to regrow an arm or pair of legs.
The modern MMOs like Anarchy Online have most of the things I've wanted from dungeon crawlers. Here's what I want in a dungeon crawler: Class, equipment and skill asymmetry & synergism, complex crafting, interesting trade-able loot with enough space to store everything I loot (WoW is all nodrop nowadays from what I hear), and enough variety in the fighting to require use of different skill sets.
I refuse to pay blizzard any more money after D2 because they deleted my set of 10 D2 accounts.... 3 times.
ps. Intrusive "we own your machine" DRM games need not apply.
just turning it off?
They arrested Capone for tax evasion. Woulda taken them longer to find something to stick him with if he'd filled in that "illegal income" line on his tax return.
Maybe Americans should be using Iranmail instead of Google. At least then we'd know the US gestapo wasn't reading it?
In the really old days, the parents would teach their children the tools for survival. Typically the father would teach his sons his own trade, the mother would teach the daughters how to be good mothers. ...
Given this model, how would an artistic or tradeskill oriented education stack up on a standardized test?
Lets see
She can can create $50,000 sculptures in a month, but she fails at geography and her english is poor?
He can create a couch from scratch, frame, stuffing, upholstery in 2 weeks, but is doing poorly on trigonometry?
She is bringing in $20k a month on her acting/singing career at the age of 12, but
Our education system is geared towards creating a lot of very similar minded people with boringly similar skill sets. No wonder we no longer have "mechanical geniuses", Renaissance men.
I'd say standardized tests would be all right, but there are a TON of things you can't test for that are very usable real world skills. Homeschooling is a way to break out of this clone world we live in filled with fashion barbies and "All-American" quarterbacks.
My brother has Aspergers. What I see as his biggest hindrance to being more successful is that everyone is trying to make him adjust to being normal. As a society instead of ostracizing those we don't understand, we should encourage them to contribute in their own special way.
http://www.godtellsus.com/aboutraisingchildren.html