I work in a different area of usability, so I'm not up to speed on books specifically about app usability, but the principles in recent books will still largely apply. Have a look at About Face 2.0 to get started. User-Centred Design (UCD) is the current way of thinking: there is some good background in Contextual Design. There are of course, lots more...
Add to all that the fact that Flash is only marginally functional on Linux desktops, either demanding reinstallation every time or claiming that it is not installed when it is. I long since lost interest in what is basically a dead platform.
All scams involve a movement of money from stupid people to smart people (that includes, of course, our current economic crisis, which is just a banking scam to get money out of gullible governments). Maybe teens are just getting smarter. I'd love to know the geopolitical demographics of those 15,000 though.
And goodluckwiththat if they want to search every computer that has used my IP address; that includes the 10 or so in the house, virtually every relative and friend who has come a-visiting, several business associates and clients, members of assorted local clubs and social committees who rotate to my house for meetings, neighbours and their kids on occasions when their own connection has been down, and every random joe and jill who has benefitted from my FÓN shared bandwidth.
Don't forget these lawyers don't actually believe all this crap about licensing and ownership. They know perfectly well it's bullshit, and that the legal framework for IP is broken in the gutter, but their employers and clients pay them money to pretend. It's their job to lie to us. That's what makes them lower than vole scrota.
One of the main reasons is that in many jurisdictions, the courts still persist in accepting a signed fax (which a child of 10 can fake up) as equivalent to a signed original of a contract, and in rejecting anything signed digitally (which takes a CS degree to install in your email system).
The increase in spending doesn't lead to an increase in test scores.
WTF thought that it would? The tests (assuming they are properly designed) presumably measure certain aspects of acquired knowledge. Unless the curriculum teaches the kids how to increase their knowledge, the tests will show zilch. Teaching the kids how to use Word and Excel (for example) won't add anything to their store of knowledge in areas other than Word or Excel.
Kyrene school district spent $3 million modernizing their classrooms.
Whoopee for them. And how much did they spend on books (e or otherwise)? How much on lab equipment? Art supplies? Foreign-language teachers?
There would seem to be some seriously stupid school boards and teachers out there with way too much money to spend. Parents, too.
There is also a practice, growing elsewhere as well as in the US, of calling technicians "engineers" out of some ass-backwards bleeding-heart HR idea that it's in some way demeaning to be called a technician. But the real reason for any shortage is economic. There is simply a shortage of qualified engineers who are prepared to work 100+ hours a week for peanuts. This is called "let the market decide", a philosophy beloved of the idiots who run businesses these days.
Not really, this is just the influence of the old colonial power trickling down.
Bullshit. The old colonial power was never that paranoid. Incompetent, self-centered, racist, arrogant, and lots of other things for sure. But this is paranoia, whether religious or political. It's a hallmark of lunatics and delusionals everywhere, particularly when they are trying to cling to ill-gotten and undeserved power.
So, wealthy people should have no expectation of privacy by virtue of being wealthy, but the poor should receive extra protection?
Yes, exactly that. It's better than the other way round. The wealthy can afford to protect themselves; the poor cannot.
You suck.
Retard. Has it never occurred to you that wealth, like fame, high office, talent, and insight bring with them obligations? Obviously not. You want power without responsibility, the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
I know my trigonometry is a bit off these days, and we have no indication here of zoom, but from 6M miles away, I would have expected the earth and the moon to appear closer together; in fact I would have expected them to be virtually indistinguishable.
Clearly before 1487, when the idea of a beer purity law was first mooted (according to Mr Wikipedia at Reinheitsgebot). So if it genuinely originated in S. America, someone must have brought it over (or back).
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If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it had bloody well better be a duck, or there'll be trouble.
Google certainly didn't buy Motorola for its phones, which are among the crappiest on the market. Therefore it was for some other reason: either the patents (most likely) or the manufacturing capacity (unlikely: the product would need a complete redesign, which takes months) or some other corporate aspect which is well-hidden.
One simply tells one's gardener to mow the lawn. Of course, a good gardener doesn't need telling...
In fact, of course, what the OP describes isn't mowing: it's grass-cutting. Mowing is done with a cylinder mower, not a rotary grass-cutter.
To mow a lawn, first trim the edges with clippers or a power trimmer, and then mow around the periphery twice, so you have a border two mowers' widths wide. Next, mow the border closest to the house two or three more strips, evening up any curves of the shape, so that you have a mown area deep enough to turn the machine in. Repeat for the edge farthest from the house. Finally, position the mower centrally at the top of the lawn (ie closest to the house; in front of the main door), and mow a central strip away from and exactly perpendicular to the frontage of the house. Turn and mow further strips to one side, alternating directions each time, until one side is done; then repeat for the other side, starting from the centre outwards again. This results in the classic striped lawn, so that when looking out on it, the stripes will run evenly away from you. Never mow across the field of view, or in ever-decreasing circles, lest, like the Oozlum bird, you end up disappearing up your own orifice:-)
LaTeX is a formatter: it does an excellent job of typesetting and can produce publication-quality PDF (my company uses it all the time for this).
But it is not a reusable file format. The only processor that really groks it is TeX, and that can only output PDF or DVI. If you want multiple formats of output under program control, you need to use a output-agnostic file format like XML, from which you can generate LaTeX and any other kind of appropriate source code to create PDF and other kinds of output (eg HTML, XHTML, and whatever else you need).
I very strongly suggest you use TeX4ht to convert what you have into an intermediate format of XML, and then postprocess it and clean it up to create a master copy in a well-known and robust XML format like DocBook or TEI, and start from there. There are then plenty of good tools that will let you create multiple outputs, including eBooks, web sites, topic maps, even Braille and voice output...and of course LaTeX, to regenerate your original, if needed.
<plug>I am chairing the session on XML and Publishing at this year's XML SummerSchool in Oxford next month. Come and find out all about it.</plug>
Same as the difference between the developer and the end user. The developer reckons the program is done when it executes without segfaulting, regardless of the fact that the interface can only be understood by another developer. Making a system correct and maintainable is only part of the job; making it usable by the rest of the world is a whole other business, and requires a knowledge of cultural linguistics and human-computer interaction which are not yet part of most developers' skillsets. Writing stuff for other developers to use is only a start.
Except that in most shitty economies they don't loot the rich. They are the rich. What they do is loot the poor and keep it for themselves. We call that "corruption". The only difference in the western economies now in trouble (US included) is that they did it via the taxation system and via corporations, which makes it legal. It's still corrupt, though.
They'll start to care when they start being killed as food in the streets. In any event, people in the US have no idea what serious unemployment is like. In some areas elsewhere in the westernised world it's headed for the 50% mark and more.
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I work in a different area of usability, so I'm not up to speed on books specifically about app usability, but the principles in recent books will still largely apply. Have a look at About Face 2.0 to get started. User-Centred Design (UCD) is the current way of thinking: there is some good background in Contextual Design. There are of course, lots more...
It lets us see the little green men even when they're not there.
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The best cure for seasickness is to go sit under a tree (Spike Milligan)
Add to all that the fact that Flash is only marginally functional on Linux desktops, either demanding reinstallation every time or claiming that it is not installed when it is. I long since lost interest in what is basically a dead platform.
"It's very interesting, but I cannot foresee any practical application"
etc etc blah blah blah.
All scams involve a movement of money from stupid people to smart people (that includes, of course, our current economic crisis, which is just a banking scam to get money out of gullible governments). Maybe teens are just getting smarter. I'd love to know the geopolitical demographics of those 15,000 though.
And goodluckwiththat if they want to search every computer that has used my IP address; that includes the 10 or so in the house, virtually every relative and friend who has come a-visiting, several business associates and clients, members of assorted local clubs and social committees who rotate to my house for meetings, neighbours and their kids on occasions when their own connection has been down, and every random joe and jill who has benefitted from my FÓN shared bandwidth.
Don't forget these lawyers don't actually believe all this crap about licensing and ownership. They know perfectly well it's bullshit, and that the legal framework for IP is broken in the gutter, but their employers and clients pay them money to pretend. It's their job to lie to us. That's what makes them lower than vole scrota.
But still, as Schuerger admits, the risks are tiny.
So are the microbes...
One of the main reasons is that in many jurisdictions, the courts still persist in accepting a signed fax (which a child of 10 can fake up) as equivalent to a signed original of a contract, and in rejecting anything signed digitally (which takes a CS degree to install in your email system).
The increase in spending doesn't lead to an increase in test scores.
WTF thought that it would? The tests (assuming they are properly designed) presumably measure certain aspects of acquired knowledge. Unless the curriculum teaches the kids how to increase their knowledge, the tests will show zilch. Teaching the kids how to use Word and Excel (for example) won't add anything to their store of knowledge in areas other than Word or Excel.
Kyrene school district spent $3 million modernizing their classrooms.
Whoopee for them. And how much did they spend on books (e or otherwise)? How much on lab equipment? Art supplies? Foreign-language teachers?
There would seem to be some seriously stupid school boards and teachers out there with way too much money to spend. Parents, too.
The star's composition is surprising (Pdf)
Damn, I never knew you could make a star out of PDFs. Clever.
There is also a practice, growing elsewhere as well as in the US, of calling technicians "engineers" out of some ass-backwards bleeding-heart HR idea that it's in some way demeaning to be called a technician. But the real reason for any shortage is economic. There is simply a shortage of qualified engineers who are prepared to work 100+ hours a week for peanuts. This is called "let the market decide", a philosophy beloved of the idiots who run businesses these days.
Not really, this is just the influence of the old colonial power trickling down.
Bullshit. The old colonial power was never that paranoid. Incompetent, self-centered, racist, arrogant, and lots of other things for sure. But this is paranoia, whether religious or political. It's a hallmark of lunatics and delusionals everywhere, particularly when they are trying to cling to ill-gotten and undeserved power.
So, wealthy people should have no expectation of privacy by virtue of being wealthy, but the poor should receive extra protection?
Yes, exactly that. It's better than the other way round. The wealthy can afford to protect themselves; the poor cannot.
You suck.
Retard. Has it never occurred to you that wealth, like fame, high office, talent, and insight bring with them obligations? Obviously not. You want power without responsibility, the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
I know my trigonometry is a bit off these days, and we have no indication here of zoom, but from 6M miles away, I would have expected the earth and the moon to appear closer together; in fact I would have expected them to be virtually indistinguishable.
No matter who you are or what you look like, you are someone's cup of tea. Internet porn has already proven this conclusively.
Moving all porn sites to .xxx simply makes it easier to find your perfect cup of tea.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Step 3: beat whites until stiff.
(Black BDSM Cookbook, Meringues)
Hah! Just wait for full Unicode in domain names :-) Then the heist can start all over again...
$600 or $400 is way too much for a tablet. Half that, or less, is plenty to pay. Pile 'em high and sell 'em cheap.
> I'm not sure when the first lager was brewed
Clearly before 1487, when the idea of a beer purity law was first mooted (according to Mr Wikipedia at Reinheitsgebot). So if it genuinely originated in S. America, someone must have brought it over (or back).
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If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it had bloody well better be a duck, or there'll be trouble.
Google certainly didn't buy Motorola for its phones, which are among the crappiest on the market. Therefore it was for some other reason: either the patents (most likely) or the manufacturing capacity (unlikely: the product would need a complete redesign, which takes months) or some other corporate aspect which is well-hidden.
So it's not rare. Gotta be one or the other...
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If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it had bloody well better be a duck, or there'll be trouble...
One simply tells one's gardener to mow the lawn. Of course, a good gardener doesn't need telling...
In fact, of course, what the OP describes isn't mowing: it's grass-cutting. Mowing is done with a cylinder mower, not a rotary grass-cutter.
To mow a lawn, first trim the edges with clippers or a power trimmer, and then mow around the periphery twice, so you have a border two mowers' widths wide. Next, mow the border closest to the house two or three more strips, evening up any curves of the shape, so that you have a mown area deep enough to turn the machine in. Repeat for the edge farthest from the house. Finally, position the mower centrally at the top of the lawn (ie closest to the house; in front of the main door), and mow a central strip away from and exactly perpendicular to the frontage of the house. Turn and mow further strips to one side, alternating directions each time, until one side is done; then repeat for the other side, starting from the centre outwards again. This results in the classic striped lawn, so that when looking out on it, the stripes will run evenly away from you. Never mow across the field of view, or in ever-decreasing circles, lest, like the Oozlum bird, you end up disappearing up your own orifice :-)
LaTeX is a formatter: it does an excellent job of typesetting and can produce publication-quality PDF (my company uses it all the time for this).
But it is not a reusable file format. The only processor that really groks it is TeX, and that can only output PDF or DVI. If you want multiple formats of output under program control, you need to use a output-agnostic file format like XML, from which you can generate LaTeX and any other kind of appropriate source code to create PDF and other kinds of output (eg HTML, XHTML, and whatever else you need).
I very strongly suggest you use TeX4ht to convert what you have into an intermediate format of XML, and then postprocess it and clean it up to create a master copy in a well-known and robust XML format like DocBook or TEI, and start from there. There are then plenty of good tools that will let you create multiple outputs, including eBooks, web sites, topic maps, even Braille and voice output...and of course LaTeX, to regenerate your original, if needed.
<plug>I am chairing the session on XML and Publishing at this year's XML SummerSchool in Oxford next month. Come and find out all about it.</plug>
Same as the difference between the developer and the end user. The developer reckons the program is done when it executes without segfaulting, regardless of the fact that the interface can only be understood by another developer. Making a system correct and maintainable is only part of the job; making it usable by the rest of the world is a whole other business, and requires a knowledge of cultural linguistics and human-computer interaction which are not yet part of most developers' skillsets. Writing stuff for other developers to use is only a start.
Except that in most shitty economies they don't loot the rich. They are the rich. What they do is loot the poor and keep it for themselves. We call that "corruption". The only difference in the western economies now in trouble (US included) is that they did it via the taxation system and via corporations, which makes it legal. It's still corrupt, though.
They'll start to care when they start being killed as food in the streets. In any event, people in the US have no idea what serious unemployment is like. In some areas elsewhere in the westernised world it's headed for the 50% mark and more.