In my HCI class, we used Robert Bailey's Human Performance Engineering as well as a book on paper prototyping that is linked to in the also bought section on the HPE book's amazon page.
The HPE book was amazing. The previous revision was from the early 90's and was still totally relevant because he author doesn't really go into which controls should be used where. It's more about how humans process information and what developers can do to exploit those tendencies to improve usability.
The paper prototyping book was interesting too. It's a neat and cheap way to prototype things. You just draw each function on an index card, then go through and flip the cards while a user "clicks" on buttons and things.
You don't like them because even the dumbest can use them? Or do you not like them because "commoners" are encroaching on your "exclusive" domain and you don't feel special anymore?
Elitist prick. People like you and your massive egos are why Apple succeeds at making Unix accessible to everyone and Linux succeeds at making Unix accessible to Unix nerds.
Don't get me wrong, I know my way around the CLI and have edited my share of X configs and whatnot, but at this point in the game why should I have to? It's nice to know that I can really tweak out my system via some cryptic command line voodoo if I want, but why should it be required? Like most people, I just want my computer to work. Even if I only use it to browse the web and email people, I'd rather do that than fight with hardware.
If I decide I don't want to pay tax on tomatoes (I know, no sales tax on food, but this works), I can grow my own. Say I pay the say 10% tax on $1.00 worth of seeds and then grow a crop of 40 tomatoes. Now if I were to buy 40 tomatoes in the store for $1.00 apiece, the government would get $4.00 of that, however I only paid them $0.10. Did I just steal $3.90? Of course not, and it's the same with biodiesel fuel.
Actually, this works better with beer. I am allowed to brew my own beer at home and do not need a distributor's license or anything as long as I don't sell my beer to anyone, just as I should be able to "brew" my own fuel for "free" just as long as I don't sell it to anyone else.
So, what about the road maintenance? Those are generally paid for via licensing and registration fees and.... sales tax. Everyone has a right to use the roads even if they don't buy fuel. Ask almost any cyclist.
But seriously... "illegal fuel"?! That's like finding out that you can digest dirt and the state fining you for "illegal food" because you were outside licking the ground.
what have they created? most of the news places that google links to are just repeaters for reuters and ap stories anyway. they are just pissed because people are reading their ap feed on google's site, thereby NOT clicking on their ads.
That's the problem. If it were really a free market, sure the companies could do whatever they wanted, but then someone else would come along and give the CUSTOMERS what they want, and the companies that were limiting people would go away. But that doesn't exist. If I have Time Warner cable and they pull something like this, I usually can't just switch to another company that plays well with others. Time Warner has a natrual monopoly and I am forced to play by their rules or go home. This is why government intervention is needed here, to keep these companies from leveraging their natural monopolies against the best interest of the people.
Natural monopolies exist for things like utilities and phone and cable service because they are efficient. What a mess it would be if there were several different electric companies in a town!
sweat does not stink. bacteria cause the smell. if you don't have shower facilities at work, take a shower before you ride, then just put on some deoderant and wash up a bit in the restroom when you change into your work clothes. (don't ride in wearing them. in fact, keep them at work if you can, then drive one day a week to trade up clothes) If you really need extra help, buy some uncented baby wipes and keep them at work.
Because various Libertarian nuts on Slashdot make it so bloody clear that a society under Libertarian rule has only one rule: "every man for himself, and if you can't swim, you deserve to drown".
You almost get it. It's more like "every man for himself, and if you can't swim, the government won't pay for your swimming lessons"
Congratulations, you've found THE killer app for Outlook/Exchange. Seriously, it is probably the best out there right now. Also, unless your company is a startup with no venture capital, spend the money on a 2003 server and exchange. If your company won't spend money on it, I'd consider leaving/running away as soon as possible. As much as people on/. preach software religion, in the corporate environment, if you don't use the best tools you can get, you are a moron. I'll repeat that. IF YOU DON'T USE THE BEST TOOLS YOU CAN GET, YOU ARE A MORON! Outlook/Exchange happens to be the best tool right now. Software is not a religion, and Linux/OSS is not always the best solution (OMG!!) Just because you don't agree with MS's business practices doesn't mean everyone in your company (most importantly your boss) agrees with you.
Also, if you are even thinking about using something that's not from Red Hat or Novell, STOP. Don't trust anything that was just "written by some guy". No one else in the business world does, and neither should you.
have you ever used ADO or ADO.NET? You do realize there is an ODBC driver for nearly every database in existance? ADO and ADO.NET will run perfectly fine against MySQL. Or postgres or oracle or whatever. Stop spreading FUD.
A rule of thumb I've learned is that if your planning for stuff that occurs more then 2 standard deviations away from the mean, then chances are you want something that is (or can at least be considered virtually) full-proof.
At least slashdot is "full-proof" against FOOLS like yourself.
It's in the Great Miami River valley, and named after the Miami indian tribe. The sports mascot used to be called the 'Redskins', but they changed to the 'Redhawks' because they were scared of a lawsuit, even though they had the full endorsement of the Miami indian tribe to use 'Redskins'
They call themselves the Harvard of Ohio (hahaha) and try to put off a stuffy private school image, even though they are a public school. My younger brother is studying Zoology there, but thankfully he makes fun of the J Crew pink polo with a popped collar type.
Extreme programming is iterative and agile. There is nothing about speed. In fact, many of the XP and UP texts i've read advocate DAYS spent in design meetings. Unless every software project is released by large mega-corps, developers just don't have that kind of time.
It's quite likely that following the UP exactly may slow down development significantly.
I plan to actually buy an Apple after the switch happens. I'm more annoyed at the "lock out" chip to prevent OSX from running on anything but Apple's lineup of Intel stuff, but for the most part, I can't wait to go Mac
Agility Alliance is a group consisting of EDS, Sun, Microsoft, and others mostly to battle IBM's IGS. Yes, they are mortal enemies, but in this case, it's the whole "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" thing.
between posting on/. and actually writing code at work, i like to make good use of company time by um.. "dropping the kids off at the pool". During these "meditation sessions", i read whatever year old magazine or trade journal someone else dragged in there. today i happened to read a story about EDS and agility alliance in a channel reseller network journal.
For criminal infringement, you must copy more than 1000 dollars worth of material in 180 days, so logically:
1 DVD = about $25 You can copy and distribute 40 copies within 180 days or 80 copies per year and still not be a criminal infringer. As long as you don't sell them, you are money.
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In my HCI class, we used Robert Bailey's Human Performance Engineering as well as a book on paper prototyping that is linked to in the also bought section on the HPE book's amazon page.
The HPE book was amazing. The previous revision was from the early 90's and was still totally relevant because he author doesn't really go into which controls should be used where. It's more about how humans process information and what developers can do to exploit those tendencies to improve usability.
The paper prototyping book was interesting too. It's a neat and cheap way to prototype things. You just draw each function on an index card, then go through and flip the cards while a user "clicks" on buttons and things.
You don't like them because even the dumbest can use them? Or do you not like them because "commoners" are encroaching on your "exclusive" domain and you don't feel special anymore?
Elitist prick. People like you and your massive egos are why Apple succeeds at making Unix accessible to everyone and Linux succeeds at making Unix accessible to Unix nerds.
Don't get me wrong, I know my way around the CLI and have edited my share of X configs and whatnot, but at this point in the game why should I have to? It's nice to know that I can really tweak out my system via some cryptic command line voodoo if I want, but why should it be required? Like most people, I just want my computer to work. Even if I only use it to browse the web and email people, I'd rather do that than fight with hardware.
If I decide I don't want to pay tax on tomatoes (I know, no sales tax on food, but this works), I can grow my own. Say I pay the say 10% tax on $1.00 worth of seeds and then grow a crop of 40 tomatoes. Now if I were to buy 40 tomatoes in the store for $1.00 apiece, the government would get $4.00 of that, however I only paid them $0.10. Did I just steal $3.90? Of course not, and it's the same with biodiesel fuel.
.... sales tax. Everyone has a right to use the roads even if they don't buy fuel. Ask almost any cyclist.
Actually, this works better with beer. I am allowed to brew my own beer at home and do not need a distributor's license or anything as long as I don't sell my beer to anyone, just as I should be able to "brew" my own fuel for "free" just as long as I don't sell it to anyone else.
So, what about the road maintenance? Those are generally paid for via licensing and registration fees and
But seriously... "illegal fuel"?! That's like finding out that you can digest dirt and the state fining you for "illegal food" because you were outside licking the ground.
what have they created? most of the news places that google links to are just repeaters for reuters and ap stories anyway. they are just pissed because people are reading their ap feed on google's site, thereby NOT clicking on their ads.
I guess that depends on whom you ask.
That's the problem. If it were really a free market, sure the companies could do whatever they wanted, but then someone else would come along and give the CUSTOMERS what they want, and the companies that were limiting people would go away. But that doesn't exist. If I have Time Warner cable and they pull something like this, I usually can't just switch to another company that plays well with others. Time Warner has a natrual monopoly and I am forced to play by their rules or go home. This is why government intervention is needed here, to keep these companies from leveraging their natural monopolies against the best interest of the people.
Natural monopolies exist for things like utilities and phone and cable service because they are efficient. What a mess it would be if there were several different electric companies in a town!
gah!!! INTENTS AND PURPOSES
if i see it wrong another time, i'm gonna go nuts!! Sheesh! Do you really not know? Doesn't for all "intensive purposes" sound ridiculous to you?
sweat does not stink. bacteria cause the smell. if you don't have shower facilities at work, take a shower before you ride, then just put on some deoderant and wash up a bit in the restroom when you change into your work clothes. (don't ride in wearing them. in fact, keep them at work if you can, then drive one day a week to trade up clothes) If you really need extra help, buy some uncented baby wipes and keep them at work.
All they did was up the gamma setting on the games scheme...
It's April Fools already if your clock is set to GMT
fine. what about road bikes? Dell = Trek Alienware = Colagno
At least you are not in Cincinnati like me. Here, the present is 5 years into the future (at least Mark Twain seems to think so)
Because various Libertarian nuts on Slashdot make it so bloody clear that a society under Libertarian rule has only one rule: "every man for himself, and if you can't swim, you deserve to drown".
You almost get it. It's more like "every man for himself, and if you can't swim, the government won't pay for your swimming lessons"
...I'd have 128Meg USB drives laying around my house all over the place...
As opposed to 12cm plastic disks?
Although it would be strange, IBM could certainly give SCO a few Snipes or yes, even Jackalopes
But Duke Nukem Forever will only ever exist in folklore
Congratulations, you've found THE killer app for Outlook/Exchange. Seriously, it is probably the best out there right now. Also, unless your company is a startup with no venture capital, spend the money on a 2003 server and exchange. If your company won't spend money on it, I'd consider leaving/running away as soon as possible. As much as people on /. preach software religion, in the corporate environment, if you don't use the best tools you can get, you are a moron. I'll repeat that. IF YOU DON'T USE THE BEST TOOLS YOU CAN GET, YOU ARE A MORON! Outlook/Exchange happens to be the best tool right now. Software is not a religion, and Linux/OSS is not always the best solution (OMG!!) Just because you don't agree with MS's business practices doesn't mean everyone in your company (most importantly your boss) agrees with you.
Also, if you are even thinking about using something that's not from Red Hat or Novell, STOP. Don't trust anything that was just "written by some guy". No one else in the business world does, and neither should you.
In summary, just buy Exchange you cheap-ass!
what?
have you ever used ADO or ADO.NET? You do realize there is an ODBC driver for nearly every database in existance? ADO and ADO.NET will run perfectly fine against MySQL. Or postgres or oracle or whatever. Stop spreading FUD.
A rule of thumb I've learned is that if your planning for stuff that occurs more then 2 standard deviations away from the mean, then chances are you want something that is (or can at least be considered virtually) full-proof.
At least slashdot is "full-proof" against FOOLS like yourself.
It's in the Great Miami River valley, and named after the Miami indian tribe. The sports mascot used to be called the 'Redskins', but they changed to the 'Redhawks' because they were scared of a lawsuit, even though they had the full endorsement of the Miami indian tribe to use 'Redskins'
They call themselves the Harvard of Ohio (hahaha) and try to put off a stuffy private school image, even though they are a public school. My younger brother is studying Zoology there, but thankfully he makes fun of the J Crew pink polo with a popped collar type.
Extreme programming is iterative and agile. There is nothing about speed. In fact, many of the XP and UP texts i've read advocate DAYS spent in design meetings. Unless every software project is released by large mega-corps, developers just don't have that kind of time.
It's quite likely that following the UP exactly may slow down development significantly.
I plan to actually buy an Apple after the switch happens. I'm more annoyed at the "lock out" chip to prevent OSX from running on anything but Apple's lineup of Intel stuff, but for the most part, I can't wait to go Mac
Are you trying to imply that Windows 98 is stable?!!
Go sell your crazy talk somewhere else. We're all stocked up here.
didn't the FCC lay the smack down on some ISP for doing this? Verizon maybe?
Agility Alliance is a group consisting of EDS, Sun, Microsoft, and others mostly to battle IBM's IGS. Yes, they are mortal enemies, but in this case, it's the whole "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" thing.
/. and actually writing code at work, i like to make good use of company time by um.. "dropping the kids off at the pool". During these "meditation sessions", i read whatever year old magazine or trade journal someone else dragged in there. today i happened to read a story about EDS and agility alliance in a channel reseller network journal.
between posting on
looks like goofing off at work, paid off!!
rock on.
For criminal infringement, you must copy more than 1000 dollars worth of material in 180 days, so logically:
1 DVD = about $25
You can copy and distribute 40 copies within 180 days or 80 copies per year and still not be a criminal infringer. As long as you don't sell them, you are money.