Teachers may have orthography rules and can try to teach "proper" writings, but as more and more people write 'u' for 'you' this rules have to be audjusted cause proper language is common language. Or does someone still spell it 'thou'?
Really nice idea I never thought of. Too bad I won't be writeing any OS X apps anytime soon. Are there more documents like this on UI design that arent' just about OS X, but more general?
So influenza viruses cause influenza. Smallpox viruses cause smallpox. Common cold viruses cause the common cold. But HIV viruses cause AIDS. It's weird how everyone becomes so picky when it comes to AIDS and HIV but not for other diseases. I wonder why.
AIDS is not limited to humans. Cats, for example, can get it too, but not from the HIV but the FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus).
moral of the story are: a) who says electrical engineers / connector designers are not perverted? b) to save yourself trouble, don't talk about male/femail connectors in front of little kids.
c) to save yourself big trouble teach your children the difference between man and woman before they are 17. Otherwise they might think that just using the fact that men have a penis and women a vagina in a metaphorical way is perverted. Or just get real.
Father: I'm looking for a Star Wars christmas gift for my son. Salesman: We have this R2 droid toy. Father: No, this looks cheap, I'm looking for something real impressive. Salesman: This is the droid you're looking for. Father: This is the droid I'm looking for. Salesman: You want to pay cash. Father: I want to pay cash.
I think including "2001 - A Space Odyssey" would have completed the review, stating that showing correct physics and making a good movie isn't impossible.
Understood, but what if your existing software is cutting edge? Easy thing: stay on windows. Don't force yourself on a certain system because it is hip. Be professional. If you need linux software, use them on a VM.
You are not supposed to keep on cutting edge while running your apps on wine. It is meant to be a possibility to keep your existing software when migrating to a *nix OS.
I think most of the bugs in software are the result of "Coding Under Influence". Wether it is a strict time-limit, ambiguous specifications, no sleep or other disturbances, it leads to blatant dumb assumptions or similar faults. Everyone knows that driving under influence is dangerous and can lead to accidents. Why do "software architects" think this is different when someone writes important programs? I think part of the problem is that writing software is a rather new handwork in comparison to e.g. metalworking. Programmers don't have a union, often they work under poorer confitions than workers at conveyor belts if you consider the higher responsibility they have.
I think it is needed to distinguish between programs and libraries/classes. gtk, qt, glibc and the mfc certainly are heavily used components, and I too regard them as an essential part of the OS, but why do you consider Gnome and X as essential as those? I think you can still set up a usefull system without a graphical interface as a server and low-end workstation for certain types of work, there is still no essential need for X or even a desktop environment. Nevertheless the user still has the choice to install these in the setup, no one is forced to include them in opposite to for example MSN Messenger in Win XP. I don't think that MS should be forced to cripple its OS down, but there are cerstainly less radical possibilities to unbloat windows.
IMHO comparing every software component with the engine of a car gives a rather distorted view on this issue. The engine of a car would be the kernel of a OS, and of course it is an essential component, but a program like MSN Messenger or Media Player would be more compareable to an A/C or a window lift than to a key component of a car. Of course a car needs engine, gearing and wheels, but theese aren't under consideration here at all here. We are fine with the kernel and the file system.
AFAIK the latent heat of evaporation of water is defined as the energy to heat liquid water at 10C to steam at 1000C, so it is measured in J/kg, not J/kgK. I indeed forgot to include the calculation for the heating of the steam, but this is rather difficult since it was not enclosed in a tank and could float away. But I calculated the energy to heat water from 20C to 100C, if you check the figures. 900 GJ from the kerosine, divided by 4200J/kgK divided by 80K, 2.6 million kg water. But I certainly was wrong with that cubicle of water, instead of 140 meters it should have been 14.
10 minutes, Where did you get that figure from? The report says there were appr. 10000gallons of fuel in the plane of which two third flew into the building. With an energy density of 34 MJ/L this is a total energy of about 900 GJ just from the kerosine. The specific heat capacity of water is 4200 J/kgK, so it was enough to vaporize 2.6 million litres of water, a cube with side lenghts of 140 meters. Plus the secondary fire of the furniture. This event was just too much for any security system. It was only a matter of time.
Burning kerosine swims on water. No sprinkler system would have put out that fire. Halon would have been needed, but this surely would have been too expensive for the whole building to be equipped with. Nevertheless it surely would have delayed the colapse for a certain time if the sprinklers had worked and cooled the fire. The report seems not to say anything about the fact that the WTC was a steel construction and thus rather unprotected against fire as opposed to ferroconcrete which is safer but would have needed the buildings to be smaller. This is the cause why there are not similar high buildings in Europe where regulations demand ferroconcrete.
The only limitation of the developement of technology is the human imagination. 50 Years ago mankind thought that today the whole world was connected by pneumatic delivery tubes. Nobody could just imagine that information could be coded in electromagnetic signals. Don't stop dreaming.
Oh there are other countries' companies who act so bully. For example Deutsche Telekom, who had a daughter T-Online sued anyone who had a word beginning with 'T-' as mark, e.g. "T-arif". They even sued someone who used magenta as main color in his website because, according to them, the color was associated with Telekom too much.
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As I understood, the tattoo shown was an example of the erroneous ones which occured during developement of the machine.
Actualy German experiments with manned rockets in WWII came very close to that. The only things left to tell a story were a hand and a foot, though.
Teachers may have orthography rules and can try to teach "proper" writings, but as more and more people write 'u' for 'you' this rules have to be audjusted cause proper language is common language.
Or does someone still spell it 'thou'?
The first time around is kinda tough... but if you've done it once, you can do it again easy enough.
Hey, kinda like sex.
Just have to make sure to RTFM...
*giggle*
Ideas and thoughts behind work: ...the internet user is reminded of this relationship
This work is...
IOW: We like to destroy expensive computers, let's think of an explanation for it to get funded.
Really nice idea I never thought of. Too bad I won't be writeing any OS X apps anytime soon. Are there more documents like this on UI design that arent' just about OS X, but more general?
Try the Interface hall of fame and hall of shame at Isys Information Architects
So influenza viruses cause influenza. Smallpox viruses cause smallpox. Common cold viruses cause the common cold. But HIV viruses cause AIDS. It's weird how everyone becomes so picky when it comes to AIDS and HIV but not for other diseases. I wonder why.
AIDS is not limited to humans. Cats, for example, can get it too, but not from the HIV but the FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus).
moral of the story are:
a) who says electrical engineers / connector designers are not perverted?
b) to save yourself trouble, don't talk about male/femail connectors in front of little kids.
c) to save yourself big trouble teach your children the difference between man and woman before they are 17. Otherwise they might think that just using the fact that men have a penis and women a vagina in a metaphorical way is perverted.
Or just get real.
Father: I'm looking for a Star Wars christmas gift for my son.
Salesman: We have this R2 droid toy.
Father: No, this looks cheap, I'm looking for something real impressive.
Salesman: This is the droid you're looking for.
Father: This is the droid I'm looking for.
Salesman: You want to pay cash.
Father: I want to pay cash.
I was interviewed at Adobe Systems a long time ago, and one of the people asked me if I liked my mother.
Leon: My mother?
Holden: Yeah.
Leon: Let me tell you about my mother...BLAM!
I think including "2001 - A Space Odyssey" would have completed the review, stating that showing correct physics and making a good movie isn't impossible.
What would be some good (funny) names for a German Gov't Linux distro?
BundesLinux
Understood, but what if your existing software is cutting edge?
Easy thing: stay on windows. Don't force yourself on a certain system because it is hip. Be professional. If you need linux software, use them on a VM.
You are not supposed to keep on cutting edge while running your apps on wine. It is meant to be a possibility to keep your existing software when migrating to a *nix OS.
I think most of the bugs in software are the result of "Coding Under Influence". Wether it is a strict time-limit, ambiguous specifications, no sleep or other disturbances, it leads to blatant dumb assumptions or similar faults. Everyone knows that driving under influence is dangerous and can lead to accidents. Why do "software architects" think this is different when someone writes important programs?
I think part of the problem is that writing software is a rather new handwork in comparison to e.g. metalworking. Programmers don't have a union, often they work under poorer confitions than workers at conveyor belts if you consider the higher responsibility they have.
The art of clockwork has not been forgotten, it's just more expensive to build a clock full mechanicaly.
man telnet
I still don't get your point, redhat can run apache, sendmail, etc serving hundreds of clients all without X and Gnome, I wouldn't call that crippled.
I think it is needed to distinguish between programs and libraries/classes. gtk, qt, glibc and the mfc certainly are heavily used components, and I too regard them as an essential part of the OS, but why do you consider Gnome and X as essential as those?
I think you can still set up a usefull system without a graphical interface as a server and low-end workstation for certain types of work, there is still no essential need for X or even a desktop environment.
Nevertheless the user still has the choice to install these in the setup, no one is forced to include them in opposite to for example MSN Messenger in Win XP.
I don't think that MS should be forced to cripple its OS down, but there are cerstainly less radical possibilities to unbloat windows.
IMHO comparing every software component with the engine of a car gives a rather distorted view on this issue. The engine of a car would be the kernel of a OS, and of course it is an essential component, but a program like MSN Messenger or Media Player would be more compareable to an A/C or a window lift than to a key component of a car.
Of course a car needs engine, gearing and wheels, but theese aren't under consideration here at all here. We are fine with the kernel and the file system.
AFAIK the latent heat of evaporation of water is defined as the energy to heat liquid water at 10C to steam at 1000C, so it is measured in J/kg, not J/kgK.
I indeed forgot to include the calculation for the heating of the steam, but this is rather difficult since it was not enclosed in a tank and could float away. But I calculated the energy to heat water from 20C to 100C, if you check the figures. 900 GJ from the kerosine, divided by 4200J/kgK divided by 80K, 2.6 million kg water.
But I certainly was wrong with that cubicle of water, instead of 140 meters it should have been 14.
10 minutes, Where did you get that figure from?
The report says there were appr. 10000gallons of fuel in the plane of which two third flew into the building. With an energy density of 34 MJ/L this is a total energy of about 900 GJ just from the kerosine. The specific heat capacity of water is 4200 J/kgK, so it was enough to vaporize 2.6 million litres of water, a cube with side lenghts of 140 meters. Plus the secondary fire of the furniture.
This event was just too much for any security system. It was only a matter of time.
Burning kerosine swims on water. No sprinkler system would have put out that fire. Halon would have been needed, but this surely would have been too expensive for the whole building to be equipped with. Nevertheless it surely would have delayed the colapse for a certain time if the sprinklers had worked and cooled the fire.
The report seems not to say anything about the fact that the WTC was a steel construction and thus rather unprotected against fire as opposed to ferroconcrete which is safer but would have needed the buildings to be smaller. This is the cause why there are not similar high buildings in Europe where regulations demand ferroconcrete.
The only limitation of the developement of technology is the human imagination.
50 Years ago mankind thought that today the whole world was connected by pneumatic delivery tubes. Nobody could just imagine that information could be coded in electromagnetic signals.
Don't stop dreaming.
Oh there are other countries' companies who act so bully. For example Deutsche Telekom, who had a daughter T-Online sued anyone who had a word beginning with 'T-' as mark, e.g. "T-arif". They even sued someone who used magenta as main color in his website because, according to them, the color was associated with Telekom too much.