have you ever tried to reposition a firefox or chrome window that is full of tabs?
what happens when the window manager uses BeOS style titlebars?
what happens to my webex/remote-desktop overlays when there is no empty space for them to live over?
somewhat related: have you ever tried to resize a window that does not have obvious resize control handles? or have you ever tried to *not* resize a window when the non-obvious control 'areas' take your click instead of the drag-to-select-text that you intended?
and don't get me started on scrollbars that appear and disappear depending on where you put your cursor instead of what the content is.
take a look at the green eye from brultech, or a less-capable unit from smart energy groups. if you want more of a do-it-yourself kit try the hardware (and software) from openenergymonitor.org. there are many power monitor systems on the market, but imho these three are making the most progress for the home/maker market.
pedestrians simply walk around the roundabout (in either direction) until they reach the desired street. a crosswalk at each street that enters the roundabout (where incoming traffic must stop or yield anyway) makes this obvious.
Oh... and for the math pendants, all brackets are inclusive and rounded.
is that a calculator that you hang around your neck?:)
forget night vision goggles, i want 'nems' goggles
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i imagine a set of 'wifi-vision goggles' or, more generally, non-visible electro-magnetic spectrum goggles. when you look through the goggles, you see the normal world with overlays of different colors representing different parts of the non-visible (to humans) electromagnetic spectrum, with the brightness proportional to the signal strength.
if 3d edge detection is possible, then render a surface as well.
you could filter individual wifi channels, or filter for other bands such as vhf/uhf television, am/fm radio frequencies, microwave ovens, etc.
> Yeah, it would nice nice if Firewire was there. However Firewire has always been associated with > "Professional" and it has become an artifact of days gone by. Apple sunk FW themselves when they > pushed USB to the forefront on iMacs and even with iPods now.
it's not just about "consumer" versus "professional". how about so-called "professional" features on a small form factor? the problem is that someone at apple is dictating what categories their customers must fit into. and if you do not fit into a category, too bad.
apple must do this, to some extent, since they are constrained by manufacturing processes and technology. it would be wonderful if they could do the ultimate build-to-order: specify a form factor, then add in the ports you want, cpu speed you want, battery size you want, screen gloss/matte, etc.
unfortunately they cannot.
however, even more unfortunately, they create artificial barriers such as "illuminated keyboard only on non-entry-level models". so one must pay for a faster cpu and bigger hard disk even if all one wants is an illuminated keyboard.
dell's web site reflects this kind of attitude as well: "home" versus "small business" versus "business". does anyone else out there cringe at such web sites? i want a computer, i do not want to pigeonhole myself into someone else's taxonomy just to find the product i need.
This is a bit off-topic, but it does have to do with comcast.
Last month I called comcast to tell them I did not want to be called, mailed, or emailed by them or any of their 'partners'. I called in response to a mailing from comcast that provided a phone number for opting out. FWIW, I have been receiving junk mail (post and electronic) from comcast encouraging me to get internet service from them, despite the fact that I have been a comcast internet customer since it was RCN.
Yesterday I received my monthly comcast bill, and on the bill was a $1.99 charge for "change of service". I called comcast, since I recalled making no changes to my service in the past decade. The telephone operator said "that charge is for when you called to opt-out of the comcast and partner mailings". She quickly followed with "we can remove that charge with a credit to your next statement".
Sigh.
$1.99 is not much, and almost not worth the time calling about it. But the attitudes and practices behind the fee are what get my goat.
>indemnify their customers and go to the >mattresses with their unparalleled patent arsenal
i'm not sure if this was intentional, but "go to the mattresses" has connotations and implications different than the more commonly used "go to the mat". and i'm not quite sure whether ibm-microsoft would be a mat or mattress situation.
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have you ever tried to reposition a firefox or chrome window that is full of tabs?
what happens when the window manager uses BeOS style titlebars?
what happens to my webex/remote-desktop overlays when there is no empty space for them to live over?
somewhat related: have you ever tried to resize a window that does not have obvious resize control handles? or have you ever tried to *not* resize a window when the non-obvious control 'areas' take your click instead of the drag-to-select-text that you intended?
and don't get me started on scrollbars that appear and disappear depending on where you put your cursor instead of what the content is.
take a look at the green eye from brultech, or a less-capable unit from smart energy groups. if you want more of a do-it-yourself kit try the hardware (and software) from openenergymonitor.org. there are many power monitor systems on the market, but imho these three are making the most progress for the home/maker market.
pedestrians simply walk around the roundabout (in either direction) until they reach the desired street. a crosswalk at each street that enters the roundabout (where incoming traffic must stop or yield anyway) makes this obvious.
Oh... and for the math pendants, all brackets are inclusive and rounded.
is that a calculator that you hang around your neck? :)
i imagine a set of 'wifi-vision goggles' or, more generally, non-visible electro-magnetic spectrum goggles. when you look through the goggles, you see the normal world with overlays of different colors representing different parts of the non-visible (to humans) electromagnetic spectrum, with the brightness proportional to the signal strength.
if 3d edge detection is possible, then render a surface as well.
you could filter individual wifi channels, or filter for other bands such as vhf/uhf television, am/fm radio frequencies, microwave ovens, etc.
alas, too many projects and not enough time.
> Yeah, it would nice nice if Firewire was there. However Firewire has always been associated with
> "Professional" and it has become an artifact of days gone by. Apple sunk FW themselves when they
> pushed USB to the forefront on iMacs and even with iPods now.
it's not just about "consumer" versus "professional". how about so-called "professional" features on a small form factor? the problem is that someone at apple is dictating what categories their customers must fit into. and if you do not fit into a category, too bad.
apple must do this, to some extent, since they are constrained by manufacturing processes and technology. it would be wonderful if they could do the ultimate build-to-order: specify a form factor, then add in the ports you want, cpu speed you want, battery size you want, screen gloss/matte, etc.
unfortunately they cannot.
however, even more unfortunately, they create artificial barriers such as "illuminated keyboard only on non-entry-level models". so one must pay for a faster cpu and bigger hard disk even if all one wants is an illuminated keyboard.
dell's web site reflects this kind of attitude as well: "home" versus "small business" versus "business". does anyone else out there cringe at such web sites? i want a computer, i do not want to pigeonhole myself into someone else's taxonomy just to find the product i need.
> Yes, except we won't get paid this time.
at first i read that as "we won't get laid this time", then i remembered that this is slashdot :)
This is a bit off-topic, but it does have to do with comcast.
Last month I called comcast to tell them I did not want to be called, mailed, or emailed by them or any of their 'partners'. I called in response to a mailing from comcast that provided a phone number for opting out. FWIW, I have been receiving junk mail (post and electronic) from comcast encouraging me to get internet service from them, despite the fact that I have been a comcast internet customer since it was RCN.
Yesterday I received my monthly comcast bill, and on the bill was a $1.99 charge for "change of service". I called comcast, since I recalled making no changes to my service in the past decade. The telephone operator said "that charge is for when you called to opt-out of the comcast and partner mailings". She quickly followed with "we can remove that charge with a credit to your next statement".
Sigh.
$1.99 is not much, and almost not worth the time calling about it. But the attitudes and practices behind the fee are what get my goat.
>indemnify their customers and go to the
>mattresses with their unparalleled patent arsenal
i'm not sure if this was intentional, but "go to the mattresses" has connotations and implications different than the more commonly used "go to the mat". and i'm not quite sure whether ibm-microsoft would be a mat or mattress situation.