1.Write down every feature you can't live without in your GUI.
2. Scratch out 97.5% of them.
3. Build your gui and base it on the remaining 4 items.
People working on handheld gui's need to step out of the freaking desktop paradigm. Icons and flashy menus are not the way to create a good handheld interface. Who needs enlightenment in your freaking handheld? Apart from wankers, I can't think of anyone.
I think cases like these are beginning to bog down SO much in federal courts, that we need to increase their capacity. Seriously, this stuff is happening everywhere with every major industry right now. Anyone who has merged enough times now has the money to fight to protect their monopolies, and it's not the final decision that matters. It's the god-damn court time. Because during that decision-making process they are able to continue practicing their unfair business practices and we, the consumers pay the freaking price.
I would almost be willing to give up the internet if it meant I could put just one cable/telephone/etc. company out of business in the process.
who had just released some new hardware, I would live in constant fear. You all do realize that our electroics prices are going to go sky high cause we'll al be paying for therapy for these poor souls?
Though as a consumer, I think this TiVo hack is more exicting than accidentally voting for Monca Moorehead.
It's just like your toleracnce to violence. Over time, you need more and more realistic stimuli to get the adrenalyne flowing.
Here is an example. Remember that Sega arcade game where you ski downhill and control your player by standing on a wobbly pedestal?
The first time I played that I was blown away. I was so focused on the aciton, and so enveloped by the big screen and sound coupled with my motions I thought I was going to get frostbite. However, my immersion quotiet has been raised over the past 4 years. now it takes MUCH more to get my heart racing, and to really get me into a game.
this is why arcade box manufacturers need to come up with a machine that goes beyond the joystick and Cathode ray tube. That design has just about reached it's limits, and it's not nearly immersive enough anymore.
What else do I have to base my entire self-esteem upon?
IN any case (what a pun), my point was that a processor that competes directly with a "theoretical" pentium Four fits two in a case. I don't think your pentium 3 arguement holds up.
You know what would truly make a virus destructive.
Design a macro virus that is time activated, but don't be stupid and set it off two weeks after you distribute it.
Send that puppy out to propogate, and set it to infect a full year later. By that time it would be on every computer in the universe. Kind of like the AOL install.
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Oh but I disagree. Sure the price of ads to a general audience is dropping, but the prices of banners to highly targeted browsers is higher than ever. Some sites pull up to $200 per M.
What consumer is more targeted than someone who just downloaded Steve Millers' greatest hits?
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All very good points. I can't argue that someone else could simply piggyback on to their system, but I will argue that I'll bet less than 15% of Mp3 users actually rip tracks off thier CD's.
There's something to be said for seeing a really good movie in a theater filled with 150 people that you can never recreate at home. I remember seeing Jurassic park the day it came out, and watching the theater scream and writhe was worth the price of admission.
That is a very good point. Govt. Regulations are driving quite a bit of change, but they're only as solid at the candidate's careers who put them into practice. As a member of a family of excavating contractors, I hope cat can cut emissions, (in tractors as well as trucks) but I'll bet its a LONG time before GM, DaimerChrysler, Ford, etc. pick this up.
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Their search engine for the nail database is awesome too.
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Janet RenoMargolis
2. Scratch out 97.5% of them.
3. Build your gui and base it on the remaining 4 items.
People working on handheld gui's need to step out of the freaking desktop paradigm. Icons and flashy menus are not the way to create a good handheld interface. Who needs enlightenment in your freaking handheld? Apart from wankers, I can't think of anyone.
tcd004 Tired of election coverage? How about some UNCOVERAGE?
sure, it's great for page layout, but that's why I have a mac.
tcd004 Tired of Election Coverage? How about some UNCOVERAGE?
tcd004 Tired of Election Coverage? How about some Uncoverage?
Of course I'm not sure what a paintball does on impact at -350 degrees farenheit.
tcd004 Janet RenoMargolis, the least downloaded woman on the planet
Cellphones fry your brain, but pagers tickle your groinal region.
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I would almost be willing to give up the internet if it meant I could put just one cable/telephone/etc. company out of business in the process.
tcd004 Janet RenoMargolis, Election Uncoverage
Though as a consumer, I think this TiVo hack is more exicting than accidentally voting for Monca Moorehead.
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LostBrain, Where our ballots are free to flap in the wind
He has been posting early, and he's been right on almost every call.
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Here is an example. Remember that Sega arcade game where you ski downhill and control your player by standing on a wobbly pedestal?
The first time I played that I was blown away. I was so focused on the aciton, and so enveloped by the big screen and sound coupled with my motions I thought I was going to get frostbite. However, my immersion quotiet has been raised over the past 4 years. now it takes MUCH more to get my heart racing, and to really get me into a game.
this is why arcade box manufacturers need to come up with a machine that goes beyond the joystick and Cathode ray tube. That design has just about reached it's limits, and it's not nearly immersive enough anymore.
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MDK2 is MORE FUN than any video game I was playing 10 years back.
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What else do I have to base my entire self-esteem upon?
IN any case (what a pun), my point was that a processor that competes directly with a "theoretical" pentium Four fits two in a case. I don't think your pentium 3 arguement holds up.
tcd004
Design a macro virus that is time activated, but don't be stupid and set it off two weeks after you distribute it.
Send that puppy out to propogate, and set it to infect a full year later. By that time it would be on every computer in the universe. Kind of like the AOL install.
just rambling.
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I vote we strap that old navy wench to the next russian rocket headed for the ISS. And after that, the taco bell dog.
Good thing for pizza hut it went off without a hitch. If the rocket whent kablowie, they could have ended up with pie on their face.
tcd004 Janet Renomargolis , nuff said.
What consumer is more targeted than someone who just downloaded Steve Millers' greatest hits?
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In fact, it may even be less.
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Forget the ads.
Develop their own napster-like system, which is 200X better than the current one:
More reliable servers
better search mechanism
wider selection
etc...
Then advertise on the website and in the client software, as seen in Apple's Sherlock.
Think of the targeted ads you could develop. "Do you like the Beatles track you just downloaded. Buy it now by clicking here!"
The problem is they're too stuck in the old ways to consider this solution.
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Check out Janet RenoMargolis, the least downloaded woman on the internet!
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Here's my Microsoft Parody,where's yours?
Yesterday they said the future of the web depends on stopping those mp3 file jamming companies. Man, the web is having a tough week!
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send a Postcard!
My question is how did they write that web page without once regressing into a monster-truck announcer's voice?
Suddenly my open pci slots became much more valuable.
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Send a Postcard!
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However, I sure hope I'm wrong.
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