This is the blurb from the website hosting some of the pics:
Macminicolo.net, a Las Vegas colocation company, has been hosting Mac minis since their introduction in January 2005.... They currently host hundreds of Mac minis for satisfied customers located in 26 different countries around the world.
Why on earth would you co-locate a mac mini?! It seems like the entire point of the mac-mini is their "mini-ness": that they're small, silent, and attractive -- attributes that don't matter if they're located somewhere else....
I think the comments so far some up one of the major issues with the open source world and usability... Usability is all about making the device simple for someone with limited knowledge or experience to use
No it's not -- that's merely one aspect of usability (other aspects include efficiency of use for an expert, etc). Whether it's the most or least important aspect depends strongly on the context.
Sadly, many UI creators do seem to emphasize this aspect way too much, often with strongly detrimental effects on other important attributes of the UI. Sure it's great to make your program accessible to beginners -- but if it's a program they'll use every day, and your UI is "expert unfriendly" (inefficient/limiting/unpleasant), then on balance, you've created a bad UI.
The dualshock wasn't the worst controller in history, but they really should have corrected its mistakes somewhere along the line... E.g., don't put the !@#% digital pad in the sweet spot, when nobody uses it for the main controls (the sony dpad was a horrid dpad too, literally painful to use for any length of time).
Even worse, they repeated their mistakes with the PSP -- putting the dpad (and it's the same painful dpad as the playstation) in the sweet spot, and cramming in the analog control in an awkward and uncomfortable position -- despite having the opportunity to design the controls without compatibility concerns.
It proves that a Martian dog found a leg to pee on.
... and he had been holding it in for close to five billion years! ("Any place to pee now?" "nope" "...how about now?" "nope" "oooh, a rock! roof! er, how about now?"... "nope"...)
The headline case may (or may not) be true, but the FA continues on to whine randomly about traffic lights and speed cameras in general.
I know many people consider a yellow light to mean "floor it", and think running a red light is not a big deal, but please, don't expect a whole lot of sympathy when you get caught doing it.
Traffic laws by and large exist for good reasons: You're driving around an extremely dangerous machine at high speeds, and rules are necessary to reduce the carnage.
Seeing how annoying some of the teeny trackpads in netbooks are, why on earth aren't some of them using trackpoint/eraserhead/clit/whatever controllers instead?
I get the impression most manufacturers do not do a whole lot of thinking when designing these things...
I just don't understand why any American wants to work for IBM.
I think it depends greatly on where you work at IBM.
I know a bunch of people that work there (in fairly high-level positions), and they seem to be treated quite well. The biggest effect for most of them seems to be the cutting of perks (e.g., a company-wide ban on business-class air travel).
Of course on the positive side, kids will become incredibly skilled at making animated powerpoint presentations with dancing chipmunks and disco soundtracks, to cover up their ignorance.
They should make ceo in no time with skills like that!
Reasons to write applications for the gnome desktop environment are getting fewer every day. When QT4 became available under the GPL on all 4 major platforms- Windows/BSD/Linux/OSX the argument for GTK was weak. Now, I'd argue its virtually non-existent.
I dunno, I like gtk because it's a good looking, popular, fairly nice to use toolkit, with good bindings in many languages.
You obviously like qt a lot, which is fine, but don't be blinded by your enthusiasm into thinking it's obviously superior -- it's not.
... will it be before the average politician has the slightest clue about how the internet actually works, and is savvy enough to simply laugh off hopelessly stupid ideas like the one presented in this story?
I don't mean "technically", I just mean at least as good as the average 10 year old.
Do we really have to wait until the current crop is dead?
A few years ago I took a tourist photo of the Pentagon in D.C. from just outside the metro stop, which is pretty far away from the building. A security officer came and asked me to delete the photo from my camera.
Keep in mind that "a security offer asked" and "it is the law" are very, very, different things.
Sometimes they're simply full of shit and trying to intimidate you into doing something they have no legal power to enforce.
On the subject of 64 bit software, Skype is the more urgent need. Presently, it is not possible to run any version of Skype on a 64 bit Linux system.
The 32-bit version of skype runs fine on my 64-bit debian system. It's the version from skype website which is statically linked against libqt; dynamic libraries it gets from/lib/lib32 and/lib32.
I'm not really very knowledgeable about every-day shaving (I have a beard, and I'm ashamed to say I've only ever shaved with a single-blade razor...), but are these surreal straight-out-of-the-onion razors actually any good?
[Gillette's onionesque razors are so damn ugly, that I kind of want to believe they're crap too... but I suppose they may be onto something...]
Oddly enough I thought Mario Galaxy was awesome but Twilight Princess was trash, although I probably would have liked TP if I played it on the gamecube instead.
I never played TP on the wii, so I don't know how it was affected by the different controller, but I can confirm that TP is an excellent game on the gamecube. Besides the moving story, fun gameplay, and engaging characters (the sidekick, Midna, was great, probably the best NPC in any zelda game to date), the controls on the GC were utterly spot on. It was also graphically very well done.
On the other hand, by all (most) accounts, e-paper is just as good as regular paper.
Eh? From what I've seen, that's far from true. The general reputation of e-paper seems to be that it's a step in the right direction compared to more traditional display technologies, but still lacking in various ways.
Ebooks obviously have additional advantages and disadvantages of course, but it seems pretty clear that real books still have the advantage with regard to the reading surface itself.
Obviously Nintendo's stuff sells well enough, so one has to wonder what gives. In part, I have seen publishers take a defeatist attitude toward the Wii.
I think part of the problem is that many game makers bought big-time into the idea that the ps3 would inherit the ps2's title. When the wii ended up eating the ps3's lunch, it was kind of hard for many of them to adjust.
Even where they do end up releasing games for the wii, the games often seem rushed and to lack the full attention of the company. I get the impression that some companies view their wii games almost as a kind of stopgap until the ps3 "catches up" and they can get back to their original plan...
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This is the blurb from the website hosting some of the pics:
Macminicolo.net, a Las Vegas colocation company, has been hosting Mac minis since their introduction in January 2005. ... They currently host hundreds of Mac minis for satisfied customers located in 26 different countries around the world.
Why on earth would you co-locate a mac mini?! It seems like the entire point of the mac-mini is their "mini-ness": that they're small, silent, and attractive -- attributes that don't matter if they're located somewhere else....
A joke site...?
I think the comments so far some up one of the major issues with the open source world and usability ... Usability is all about making the device simple for someone with limited knowledge or experience to use
No it's not -- that's merely one aspect of usability (other aspects include efficiency of use for an expert, etc). Whether it's the most or least important aspect depends strongly on the context.
Sadly, many UI creators do seem to emphasize this aspect way too much, often with strongly detrimental effects on other important attributes of the UI. Sure it's great to make your program accessible to beginners -- but if it's a program they'll use every day, and your UI is "expert unfriendly" (inefficient/limiting/unpleasant), then on balance, you've created a bad UI.
Sony just doesn't care...
The dualshock wasn't the worst controller in history, but they really should have corrected its mistakes somewhere along the line... E.g., don't put the !@#% digital pad in the sweet spot, when nobody uses it for the main controls (the sony dpad was a horrid dpad too, literally painful to use for any length of time).
Even worse, they repeated their mistakes with the PSP -- putting the dpad (and it's the same painful dpad as the playstation) in the sweet spot, and cramming in the analog control in an awkward and uncomfortable position -- despite having the opportunity to design the controls without compatibility concerns.
Despite the fact that Resident Evil 4 for the Wii was very popular, and highly acclaimed?
Capcom has some very skilled technical people, but their management often seems to be almost comically wrong-headed.
It proves that a Martian dog found a leg to pee on.
Guaranteed, that martian dog is now, Our Friend!
Yeesh, does he ever say anything in public that doesn't sound like drug-addled desperate bluster...? He's like the Ken Kutaragi of the PC world...
The headline case may (or may not) be true, but the FA continues on to whine randomly about traffic lights and speed cameras in general.
I know many people consider a yellow light to mean "floor it", and think running a red light is not a big deal, but please, don't expect a whole lot of sympathy when you get caught doing it.
Traffic laws by and large exist for good reasons: You're driving around an extremely dangerous machine at high speeds, and rules are necessary to reduce the carnage.
what a shame he didn't have teh better aim.
From what I remember, he threw pretty well -- but Bush also did a good job of ducking.
Lenovo is slowly but surely tossing out everything that made thinkpads nice. They'll be yet-another-generic-laptop before long.
Seeing how annoying some of the teeny trackpads in netbooks are, why on earth aren't some of them using trackpoint/eraserhead/clit/whatever controllers instead?
I get the impression most manufacturers do not do a whole lot of thinking when designing these things...
I just don't understand why any American wants to work for IBM.
I think it depends greatly on where you work at IBM.
I know a bunch of people that work there (in fairly high-level positions), and they seem to be treated quite well. The biggest effect for most of them seems to be the cutting of perks (e.g., a company-wide ban on business-class air travel).
Of course on the positive side, kids will become incredibly skilled at making animated powerpoint presentations with dancing chipmunks and disco soundtracks, to cover up their ignorance.
They should make ceo in no time with skills like that!
What's annoying is that the typical "matte" option is also crappy...
I think the sort of "dully glossy" surface that seemed to be the default in the days before the stupid glossy/matte split, was much nicer than either.
Reasons to write applications for the gnome desktop environment are getting fewer every day. When QT4 became available under the GPL on all 4 major platforms- Windows/BSD/Linux/OSX the argument for GTK was weak. Now, I'd argue its virtually non-existent.
I dunno, I like gtk because it's a good looking, popular, fairly nice to use toolkit, with good bindings in many languages.
You obviously like qt a lot, which is fine, but don't be blinded by your enthusiasm into thinking it's obviously superior -- it's not.
... will it be before the average politician has the slightest clue about how the internet actually works, and is savvy enough to simply laugh off hopelessly stupid ideas like the one presented in this story?
I don't mean "technically", I just mean at least as good as the average 10 year old.
Do we really have to wait until the current crop is dead?
A few years ago I took a tourist photo of the Pentagon in D.C. from just outside the metro stop, which is pretty far away from the building. A security officer came and asked me to delete the photo from my camera.
Keep in mind that "a security offer asked" and "it is the law" are very, very, different things.
Sometimes they're simply full of shit and trying to intimidate you into doing something they have no legal power to enforce.
Does Sony make desktop computers? I'm just asking, I've never seen any.
Yes: http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/RM6/
Deli sandwich tests...? What were the results?
Well obviously one should play one's cards close to the chest in interviews.
The "ditch this microsoft crap" campaign begins after getting hired. Then you have some leverage.
On the subject of 64 bit software, Skype is the more urgent need. Presently, it is not possible to run any version of Skype on a 64 bit Linux system.
The 32-bit version of skype runs fine on my 64-bit debian system. It's the version from skype website which is statically linked against libqt; dynamic libraries it gets from /lib/lib32 and /lib32.
... and an aloe strip!
I'm not really very knowledgeable about every-day shaving (I have a beard, and I'm ashamed to say I've only ever shaved with a single-blade razor...), but are these surreal straight-out-of-the-onion razors actually any good?
[Gillette's onionesque razors are so damn ugly, that I kind of want to believe they're crap too ... but I suppose they may be onto something...]
Avoid "Jurassic Park" (the book) though -- it's complete drivel from beginning to end. Utterly awful writing.
[The idea behind the book is entertaining enough, it's just the execution that sucked.]
Oddly enough I thought Mario Galaxy was awesome but Twilight Princess was trash, although I probably would have liked TP if I played it on the gamecube instead.
I never played TP on the wii, so I don't know how it was affected by the different controller, but I can confirm that TP is an excellent game on the gamecube. Besides the moving story, fun gameplay, and engaging characters (the sidekick, Midna, was great, probably the best NPC in any zelda game to date), the controls on the GC were utterly spot on. It was also graphically very well done.
On the other hand, by all (most) accounts, e-paper is just as good as regular paper.
Eh? From what I've seen, that's far from true. The general reputation of e-paper seems to be that it's a step in the right direction compared to more traditional display technologies, but still lacking in various ways.
Ebooks obviously have additional advantages and disadvantages of course, but it seems pretty clear that real books still have the advantage with regard to the reading surface itself.
Obviously Nintendo's stuff sells well enough, so one has to wonder what gives. In part, I have seen publishers take a defeatist attitude toward the Wii.
I think part of the problem is that many game makers bought big-time into the idea that the ps3 would inherit the ps2's title. When the wii ended up eating the ps3's lunch, it was kind of hard for many of them to adjust.
Even where they do end up releasing games for the wii, the games often seem rushed and to lack the full attention of the company. I get the impression that some companies view their wii games almost as a kind of stopgap until the ps3 "catches up" and they can get back to their original plan...