Hmmm...interesting that the GPS upgrade is about 1.5% of the program, but the documentation for the upgrade is four times that amount (6.25%) in percentage of the total documentation.
Wallace adds that not all hotels are a problem. For example, a scan of a card at a Disney resort came up with a series of garbled numbers and letters. "It looks like just junk on the card. But it ties back that information to their computer systems," he says.
This is the depth to which ComputerWorld has sunk? When did they do away with the assumption that their target readership has already seen a computer? Ooooh, garbled numbers and letters! Whatever could that be?
Ctrl + clicking is even faster, and Ctrl + F4 is the standard way to close child windows in an MDI app. (Or, as some other people noted, Ctrl + W is the "official" Firefox shortcut and does the same thing.)
Breaking news: Guardrails are responsible for more car crashes. People feel more confident when they see a guardrail and crash into it.
Uh, is this article serious? Do employees throw their trash all over because there's a janitorial staff to clean it up? Does it mean that companies don't need anyone to clean up?
I doubt it.
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It's actually worse than ever. I'm not sure what resolution the original screenshot was taken at, but let's assume it was 1024x768, which is pretty much the standard today. (All you multi-mon fanatics running 4 displays with quadravision and resolutions of 6400x1200 please resist the urge to chime in.)
The Word app is near-maximized, and the app measures 969x639 pixels. The document space, meanwhile, measures only 668x476 pixels, or barely more than half (51%) of the available screen space. So nearly half the screen is taken up by the app itself. If that doesn't violate the most basic of design principles I don't know what does.
Would you work on a desk where half of your space was taken up by the building infrastructure and to write on a page you had to move a sliding window to the part that you wanted to use? Of course not, it's a foolish way to work. And with each version of office, instead of getting better to a solution, we're getting worse.
There are features that help out, like full screen mode, but it's an after-the-fact, band-aid solution instead of proper design in the first place.
My best solution so far, which works modestly well, is to run one of my displays in portrait mode. In Word, I turn off all unnecessary toolbar buttons I don't need to get my toolbars to a solitary strip across the top of the screen. (If you can learn the keyboard shortcuts for dialogs and actions you don't need most of those buttons anyway, and it'll help you work faster.) All I have left is the title bar, menu, 1 toolbar strip, the rulers and status bar. Everything else is devoted to the document, as it should be. At 1024x1280 I can nearly fit an entire page on the screen at 100%.
Give it a try, if your equipment allows you to. You'd be amazed how seeing an entire page at a time makes you more spatially aware of where you are in a document, and helps you do simple tasks like layouts. I think that working with my document in an "overview" mode helps me write better, too.
Way back in the day I used to be an independent Palm developer. I didn't do it full time or anything, but it brought in a little money here and there.
I took some of my proceeds and decided to invest in the hand that fed me, so to speak. I bought 200 shares each of Palm (PALM) and Handspring (HAND). Shortly after I bought, Palm decided to do a reverse 20:1 split to bolster their share price and buy Handspring. My 200 Palm shares became just 10, and after they bought Handspring that left me with 15 Palm shares and a fractional share in cash, which I was paid about $10 for.
Palm then split to PalmOne (PLSO) and PalmSource (PSRC) and my 23 PALM shares turned into 8 PLMO shares. Again, I received some fractional share payout. Today I hold exactly 8 shares of Palm, Inc (again PALM) that I won't sell because I don't want to take the $15 or $20 eTrade comission hit.
I'm only satisfied in the fact that I knew going into this that it was a risky investment and only played with money that I didn't mind losing. If there's a moral to this story, maybe it's that Palm may yet stage a comeback, but this is not a good company to invest in.
What those Keyence barcode scanners are rated for and what they do in real life are usually two (sometimes very) different numbers. We use a Microscan scanner that's rated at 2,000 scans/sec. But add other factors like the sensor angle into the mix and the realistic speeds they run at are much less.
Besides, I've never heard of plant machinery that can run at 3,500 FPM. Max we've seen is a little over 2,000 FPM. What kind of equipment are you talking about?
I'm not going to waste my time RTFA, because from the description it sounds like they got the "FA" part about right. Reports of anything's "death" in the press are usually greatly exaggerated, because the standard low-cost, cheapo journalists will usually do the following:
Overhype a new technology to sell papers
Overhype companies using technology from #1 to sell papers
Write sky-is-falling articles about companies from #2 when overhyped profits from #1 fail to materialize (to sell papers)
Proclaim the death of technology from #1 to sell papers. Proceed to next technology, and start again at #1. (Yeah, to sell papers.)
What does this mean for barcodes? Their "death" is nowhere near imminent. I work in the packaging industry and applications for barcode readers are as prevalent as ever.
"Bar codes" aren't just the UPC codes you see at the store when you checkout. There are a lot of different codes out there--I2of5, pharmacode, EAN, code128, codabar, etc. There are a lot of Fortune 500 companies that have invested a lot of money on systems to print and read these codes, and that process isn't going to go away anytime soon. There are pharmaceutical companies that need to have zero per million defects. That's not going to happen with RFID in the near future.
RFID chips (and readers) still have too many problems with reliable reading to use them in the industry where barcodes are currently used.
(I'm sure it's much lower these days, but I was in a plant a few years ago that laid down RFID tags in boxes on a folder-gluer. Did you know that if the carton is produced on a very humid day at the plant the failure rate of RIFD tags can be up to 10%?)
Having gone to the movies at least once every two weeks for the past 10 years (usually once a week), I have never once had a showing ruined by a phone ringing, someone's kid screaming, or someone else throwing food.
Please let us know when you decide to return from the planet Strongbadia.
If you're interested in watching a quality movie, look up some reviews or look at IMDB before you go to the movie! Or wait a few days. No one is making you go the opening weekend, unless you're so bored that you have nothing else to do. (In which case you probably deserve that the random movie you picked 5 minutes before it started is crap.)
The main reason I go to the movies less these days isn't the quality of the movies, but the quality of the moviegoers.
Where else to people behave on par or worse than animals? At the movie theater people will
Leave their garbage where they sat
Spill their Coke or popcorn and not attempt to wipe it up (napkins are still free, everybody)
Spit out their gum on the floor or chair
Carry on full conversations completely unrelated to the movie and make no attempt to talk quietly
Do the same thing on their cell phone
Let their cell phone ring in the theater. Multiple times.
Do you blame theater workers for not being enthusiastic about cleaning up after all that? If they wanted to clean up after animals they'd be working at a zoo. Oh wait, maybe they are.
I'm not apologizing for the theaters. Ticket booths are usually understaffed, ticket checkers are usually retarded people in wheelchairs (seriously, for the tax breaks), ticket prices are too expensive, concession prices are probably inflated 500%, previews/commercials are WAY too long and theaters in general are messy. But if I was going into a business the last kind I'd choose would be one where my average customer is a slob that's going to leave their garbage all over the place.
The/. article is appropriatly titled. Just remove the "Piracy not to blame" part because it's really about the "Decline of moviegoers."
Theaters share some of the blame, but not all of it. Whose fault is it that the floor is sticky, there is gum on the seats, and trash all over the place?
Yours.
Not you specifically, of course, but people around you that behave like animals. People spill their soda and popcorn and don't bother to pick it up or use a napkin to wipe it up. People leave their trash in their seats, ignoring the trash cans that are usually inside or immediately outside the room. Where is the average person's manners these days? Where is the common courtesy of not acting like a lazy slob and not leaving your garbage where you sat?!
The main reason I go to the movies less isn't the quality of the movies, but the quality of the moviegoers. I'm sure the theaters could do a better job of cleaning up, but so could everyone else.
As another poster commented, their "special dot-matrix FLY paper" sounds a lot like Anoto paper, which means you can use the pen to write anywhere, but for it to actually do anything you need to be using official Anoto-licensed paper. It sounds like they've taken Logitech's and Nokia's digital pen concept and combined it with a kiddie-PDA. Interesting idea.
Wow, looking at Google's cached snapshot of desktop.google.com, it looks like version 1 never made it out of beta. Is that the first time a software company has gone from beta 1 straight to beta 2?
Wacky. (Well, on a positive note, they didn't need to change the logo.)
Slashdot Mirror
New extension developer features: 310976 - Treat 1.5.* as 1.5.infinity.
(In this case, "inifinity" is 2,147,483,647 ;-)
Also, my favorite bug:
Linux-specific bugs: 287523 - [GTK] Insensitive (disabled) check/radio buttons can't be distinguished in some GTK themes.
I DON'T USE RADIO BUTTONS YOU INSENSITIVE, uh, oh wait nevermind.
Is thre some similarity between these protothreads and fibers?
Hmmm...interesting that the GPS upgrade is about 1.5% of the program, but the documentation for the upgrade is four times that amount (6.25%) in percentage of the total documentation.
Don't you think he would've come to terms with that around 1865 or so?
So how do you get experience without going and helping?
Hey, didn't Microsoft already come out with this?
This is the depth to which ComputerWorld has sunk? When did they do away with the assumption that their target readership has already seen a computer? Ooooh, garbled numbers and letters! Whatever could that be?
Ctrl + clicking is even faster, and Ctrl + F4 is the standard way to close child windows in an MDI app. (Or, as some other people noted, Ctrl + W is the "official" Firefox shortcut and does the same thing.)
Uh, is this article serious? Do employees throw their trash all over because there's a janitorial staff to clean it up? Does it mean that companies don't need anyone to clean up?
I doubt it.
The Word app is near-maximized, and the app measures 969x639 pixels. The document space, meanwhile, measures only 668x476 pixels, or barely more than half (51%) of the available screen space. So nearly half the screen is taken up by the app itself. If that doesn't violate the most basic of design principles I don't know what does.
Would you work on a desk where half of your space was taken up by the building infrastructure and to write on a page you had to move a sliding window to the part that you wanted to use? Of course not, it's a foolish way to work. And with each version of office, instead of getting better to a solution, we're getting worse.
There are features that help out, like full screen mode, but it's an after-the-fact, band-aid solution instead of proper design in the first place.
My best solution so far, which works modestly well, is to run one of my displays in portrait mode. In Word, I turn off all unnecessary toolbar buttons I don't need to get my toolbars to a solitary strip across the top of the screen. (If you can learn the keyboard shortcuts for dialogs and actions you don't need most of those buttons anyway, and it'll help you work faster.) All I have left is the title bar, menu, 1 toolbar strip, the rulers and status bar. Everything else is devoted to the document, as it should be. At 1024x1280 I can nearly fit an entire page on the screen at 100%.
Give it a try, if your equipment allows you to. You'd be amazed how seeing an entire page at a time makes you more spatially aware of where you are in a document, and helps you do simple tasks like layouts. I think that working with my document in an "overview" mode helps me write better, too.
...from the screenshots it looks a LOT like War of the Monsters that came out for the PS2 a little while back.
I took some of my proceeds and decided to invest in the hand that fed me, so to speak. I bought 200 shares each of Palm (PALM) and Handspring (HAND). Shortly after I bought, Palm decided to do a reverse 20:1 split to bolster their share price and buy Handspring. My 200 Palm shares became just 10, and after they bought Handspring that left me with 15 Palm shares and a fractional share in cash, which I was paid about $10 for.
Palm then split to PalmOne (PLSO) and PalmSource (PSRC) and my 23 PALM shares turned into 8 PLMO shares. Again, I received some fractional share payout. Today I hold exactly 8 shares of Palm, Inc (again PALM) that I won't sell because I don't want to take the $15 or $20 eTrade comission hit.
I'm only satisfied in the fact that I knew going into this that it was a risky investment and only played with money that I didn't mind losing. If there's a moral to this story, maybe it's that Palm may yet stage a comeback, but this is not a good company to invest in.
Is the Creative "Zen Nano" just a rebadged Creative Muvo Micro?
In case you don't know who Vint Cerf is (he's the one on the right).
You mean those tiny Siberian cats?
And the world's best golfer is a black man while the best rapper is a white guy.
What's this world coming to?
Besides, I've never heard of plant machinery that can run at 3,500 FPM. Max we've seen is a little over 2,000 FPM. What kind of equipment are you talking about?
What does this mean for barcodes? Their "death" is nowhere near imminent. I work in the packaging industry and applications for barcode readers are as prevalent as ever.
"Bar codes" aren't just the UPC codes you see at the store when you checkout. There are a lot of different codes out there--I2of5, pharmacode, EAN, code128, codabar, etc. There are a lot of Fortune 500 companies that have invested a lot of money on systems to print and read these codes, and that process isn't going to go away anytime soon. There are pharmaceutical companies that need to have zero per million defects. That's not going to happen with RFID in the near future.
RFID chips (and readers) still have too many problems with reliable reading to use them in the industry where barcodes are currently used.
(I'm sure it's much lower these days, but I was in a plant a few years ago that laid down RFID tags in boxes on a folder-gluer. Did you know that if the carton is produced on a very humid day at the plant the failure rate of RIFD tags can be up to 10%?)
Please let us know when you decide to return from the planet Strongbadia.
The main reason I go to the movies less these days isn't the quality of the movies, but the quality of the moviegoers.
Where else to people behave on par or worse than animals? At the movie theater people will
Do you blame theater workers for not being enthusiastic about cleaning up after all that? If they wanted to clean up after animals they'd be working at a zoo. Oh wait, maybe they are.
I'm not apologizing for the theaters. Ticket booths are usually understaffed, ticket checkers are usually retarded people in wheelchairs (seriously, for the tax breaks), ticket prices are too expensive, concession prices are probably inflated 500%, previews/commercials are WAY too long and theaters in general are messy. But if I was going into a business the last kind I'd choose would be one where my average customer is a slob that's going to leave their garbage all over the place.
The /. article is appropriatly titled. Just remove the "Piracy not to blame" part because it's really about the "Decline of moviegoers."
Yours.
Not you specifically, of course, but people around you that behave like animals. People spill their soda and popcorn and don't bother to pick it up or use a napkin to wipe it up. People leave their trash in their seats, ignoring the trash cans that are usually inside or immediately outside the room. Where is the average person's manners these days? Where is the common courtesy of not acting like a lazy slob and not leaving your garbage where you sat?!
The main reason I go to the movies less isn't the quality of the movies, but the quality of the moviegoers. I'm sure the theaters could do a better job of cleaning up, but so could everyone else.
Looks like back then, you had not dont your English...
As another poster commented, their "special dot-matrix FLY paper" sounds a lot like Anoto paper, which means you can use the pen to write anywhere, but for it to actually do anything you need to be using official Anoto-licensed paper. It sounds like they've taken Logitech's and Nokia's digital pen concept and combined it with a kiddie-PDA. Interesting idea.
So what's a PM?
Wacky. (Well, on a positive note, they didn't need to change the logo.)