"...KPT is a set of Photoshop plugins. It was written by Kai Krause, an extremely talented graphics programmer."
I'm not going to debate the relative merits of OS Native Widgets vs. Custom Widgets, or why KPT was revolutionary.
But, To set the record straight, Kai is not a programmer, he is a designer/UI designer and Computer Graphics visionary, but not a coder.
Yes, he was (at least at first) the inspiration, but others designed most of the pixels, programmed the UI systems, and created the astounding algorithms. Since their company is no longer around, many of those people have spread out and their work can be seen in products like Picasa, Hello, GotoMyPC while others carry the torch still maintaining other (revolutionary) products like Painter and Poser.
...a couple resistors and maybe hardware ID string. At least that's how it it was in the GF2 and GF3 cards.
A couple of years ago when I got my GF3 and was taking some Maya Classes, I learned that nice tidbit. The "consumer" drivers are D3D optmized while the "PRO" drivers are OGL optimized. and will switch routines depending on how the hardware is identified. So, at the time, soldering a couple of resistors would change a consumer card into a Quadro.
UNTIL, some tricky Russians patched the driver to allow you to run the Quadro OGL optimized routines on the GF3 with measurable increace in performance.
Disclaimer: While this is ofcourse unsupported, it is a nice way for students and other budget 3D modellers to get some more performance.
or just do a search for the windows build of wget (wget.exe) - I use it all the time, still isn't a GUI for it though. However if you want to pass in a text file with all the urls you want to download - its killer. and fast too.
The problem with this test in this particular case it that he's not desiging a kiosk or some one-time-use thing.
The people who will be using this app are going to be using it often for long periods of time. If you make it "dummy friendly" it will only hamper the productivity of the "power users" - this is no excuse for poor design, but in this case, it is worth it for the users to go through a learning curve inorder to have an *efficient* interface for the long run.
About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design
by Alan Cooper
His examples are windows-centric but he has a lot of very important things to say about where modern interfaces go wrong as well as things that are done right.
I think he's talking about the diagnostic tools and not the computer in the car.
A car's computers are really just small embeded systems. Well lots of them networked together on modern cars.
The dealer's diagnostic tools are indeed quite expensive (For example for Audi/VW the VAS-5052 is $15k) and probably not that powerful, but then again how much power do you need to read a serial line at 9600 baud.
For your Audi or VW you can use the VAG-COM software. You're able to read and write not only the OBD-II but also audi/vw specific stuff.
There are actually a lot of people (GIAC for one) who are reprogramming ECUs to enhance performance. But it seems like most of them are manually tweaking various mappings.
That prefs menu was there in the beta and the 6.0 release. The submittor makes it sound like the mic and cam capability was slipped in there under the guise of a security update.
Slashdot Mirror
Similar methods are used to protect the tracks on Windows 98/ME and Mac OSX systems.
and
Computers running Linux or Mac OS 9 can't run the MediaMax software at all, so they can always copy the recording.
http://www.eholster.com/
http://www.utilikilts.com/
(But I'll post their URL!)
Take it up with CORE or see if Ari (esqwire.com) can provide any advice/assistance.
"...KPT is a set of Photoshop plugins. It was written by Kai Krause, an extremely talented graphics programmer."
I'm not going to debate the relative merits of OS Native Widgets vs. Custom Widgets, or why KPT was revolutionary.
But, To set the record straight, Kai is not a programmer, he is a designer/UI designer and Computer Graphics visionary, but not a coder.
Yes, he was (at least at first) the inspiration, but others designed most of the pixels, programmed the UI systems, and created the astounding algorithms. Since their company is no longer around, many of those people have spread out and their work can be seen in products like Picasa, Hello, GotoMyPC while others carry the torch still maintaining other (revolutionary) products like Painter and Poser.
Bummer...
It was a great example of "general purpose" hardware though.
...a couple resistors and maybe hardware ID string. At least that's how it it was in the GF2 and GF3 cards.
A couple of years ago when I got my GF3 and was taking some Maya Classes, I learned that nice tidbit. The "consumer" drivers are D3D optmized while the "PRO" drivers are OGL optimized. and will switch routines depending on how the hardware is identified. So, at the time, soldering a couple of resistors would change a consumer card into a Quadro.
UNTIL, some tricky Russians patched the driver to allow you to run the Quadro OGL optimized routines on the GF3 with measurable increace in performance.
Disclaimer: While this is ofcourse unsupported, it is a nice way for students and other budget 3D modellers to get some more performance.
The positioning seems to be off, they're all showing up on the left side, and not under their menuitem.
Yup. Not a realtime chat client. But. It's already got this dialed.
WORD! - all but one of those (caffine) are the only things that can drag me away from the computer.
Take them away and... well... let's not go there...
Sure, just show me your resume of related experience. These guys can!
I don't concider $20 million "amazing capital" these days.
or just do a search for the windows build of wget (wget.exe) - I use it all the time, still isn't a GUI for it though. However if you want to pass in a text file with all the urls you want to download - its killer. and fast too.
Here's a screenshot of what I saw when I loaded this page:
http://images.805net.com/msft/slashdot_msft.gif
Should I be angry or worried?
...reading Alan Cooper's book about face will really enlighten you about what it gets right and the many glaring examples of where it falls down.
The problem with this test in this particular case it that he's not desiging a kiosk or some one-time-use thing.
The people who will be using this app are going to be using it often for long periods of time. If you make it "dummy friendly" it will only hamper the productivity of the "power users" - this is no excuse for poor design, but in this case, it is worth it for the users to go through a learning curve inorder to have an *efficient* interface for the long run.
About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design by Alan Cooper
His examples are windows-centric but he has a lot of very important things to say about where modern interfaces go wrong as well as things that are done right.
Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology
Aimed a bit more towards smaller cooperative apps - but it has a lot of REALLY good things to say.
Actually AudiWorld.
I think he's talking about the diagnostic tools and not the computer in the car.
A car's computers are really just small embeded systems. Well lots of them networked together on modern cars.
The dealer's diagnostic tools are indeed quite expensive (For example for Audi/VW the VAS-5052 is $15k) and probably not that powerful, but then again how much power do you need to read a serial line at 9600 baud.
For your Audi or VW you can use the VAG-COM software. You're able to read and write not only the OBD-II but also audi/vw specific stuff.
There are actually a lot of people (GIAC for one) who are reprogramming ECUs to enhance performance. But it seems like most of them are manually tweaking various mappings.
and laptop drives are normally 2.5 inches - so it's quite a bit smaller.
true, but not to such a obscene degree...
no, because begat is the right word - look it up.
That prefs menu was there in the beta and the 6.0 release. The submittor makes it sound like the mic and cam capability was slipped in there under the guise of a security update.