File - menu - list with text that a person can scan through in about 2 seconds.
As long as the list is short. Applications like Word have gathered so many features that menus now have sub-menus of sub-menus that lead to a dialogue with multiple tabs. Often the feature you want to access is buried 5 layers deep. You can argue that some of these features should be trimmed, but then you have to decide which ones, and everyone of course will have a different opinion depending on how they use the program.
Ribbon brings 90% of the functionality of word within two clicks (one to select the appropriate ribbon, one to select the feature). For commonly used functions you still have the option of creating shortcuts, at least in office.
The ribbon even has benefits for smaller programs like paint, where the available shape tools can be displayed at once, for example.
Then - how often does one undo the automatic (by default) snap/all screen window hog feature in W7? Ridiculous!
Aero snap is one of my favorite features in Windows 7; I use it constantly. When I use XP, I'm constantly dragging my windows to the edge of the screen to no avail.
If you want to turn it off, just search for "snap." The first result should be "Turn off automatic window rearrangement," Just select it and click the check box.
I started a computer engineering in the fall. Literally (I counted) 90% of the incoming first years were foreign. The breakdown of the foreign students is 75% Chinese, 25% Indian.
That advice is great if all you're motivated by is a paycheck. Each of those professions seems awfully boring to me, and I can't imagine spending over 10 years worth of advanced education for a career that might just potentially pay better. In the end, I'd rather do something I love than something I hate every day, even if my car is better.
Specifically for note taking, the apps for the iPad are more capable then you'll find in standard Windows or Mac software. Audio recording with annotation, stylus input, etc.
No.... not at all. Microsoft one note is pretty much the gold standard for note taking apps. I used it on a tablet PC for my undergraduate degrees, and it was, and still is leagues ahead of anything available on my iPad. The iPad in particular will (at least with only a touch display) will never be able to compete against the hardware I used back in 2001. Capacitive styluses just cannot compare to the accuracy of a digitizer. And trust me, you need that accuracy if you want your notes to be searchable... and even remotely compact.
Hopefully they got nice cases to go along with it. I've found even through light use the back of my iPad is scratched and the aluminum is soft enough to easily dent. However, the screen is admittedly the same as when I bought it, so I suppose that's all that really matters.
2. They have the appeal and sexiness of Cisco or Oracle. They're that middle aged slightly pudgy guy driving a sports car. There doesn't seem to be anybody at Microsoft with any sense of design. At least nobody of any apparent authority.
I know design is mostly a matter of opinion, but I consider the WP7/Zune and the Xbox 360/Kinect UIs as some of the best looking out there, especially compared to Android. Maybe the Microsoft brand isn't as appealing, but some of their latest products, Windows 7 included have been top notch visually.
I don't know how this compares to iPhone and Android, but 1.5 million SDK downloads, 36k developers, and 13k apps is impressive for a 6 month old platform that, by Slashdot's account, has 4 users.
No reinstalls? I cringe at the thought of updating Ubuntu without doing a clean wipe. Last two times burned me hard, and I think I've finally learned my lesson.
Are you referring to the black rectangular slate with a grid of icons Apple is suing Samsung over? Why is this copying Apple, when black rectangular slates and grids of icons have existed before the iPhone both separately and in tandem? I'm sure many people have seen this image, but it seems to invalidate anything Apple has to say about owning the slate form factor/grid of icons UI.
What about private tabs. They don't keep a history and they don't seem to save any cookies, and they don't even know about cookies I've already save (i.e. if I navigate to slashdot in a private tab I'm not logged in).
For some people, yes I guess it is a matter of faith. But only because they are lazy. But the difference between religion and science is that religion is a matter of faith for everyone. The roots of religion trace back to hearsay and legend. The roots of science trace back to provably true axioms which are constant through space and time. Anyone with the motivation can educate themselves enough to trace the logic behind any scientific claim to assess its validity.
If I want, I can educate myself enough to perform the necessary steps to produce quantum entanglement. I can verify the experiments on my own, given enough knowledge and funding. On issue of dark matter, I absolutely can measure the rotational speed of galaxies and perform the necessary calculations to arrive at the conclusion that there isn't enough matter in the galaxy (this calculation is easily done with readily available data, but I can produce my own given the right observatory).
As for the angel, no. No matter how much education, equipment, or experiments I cannot reproduce an angel sighting. This is the critical difference between religion and science.
I'm sorry, but that is very disorientating. I understand how the zooming is supposed to provide some sort of spatial relationship between ideas, but the effect it had on me was to just make me dizzy.
The best LIDAR you can buy for the size is probably the Hokuyo UTM and URG. Definitely small enough and light enough to mount on a copter. They'll set you back $2000-$6000 though. To get a 3D image out of them you need to pivot them on the y-axis. They also generate a lot of heat, and suck up a lot of energy.
Crowdsourcing I guess? Instead of 2-3 sterile environments trying to figure out robot vision algorithms, now a bajillion institutes and hobbyists are working on the problem.
Not really. The people who have been doing the amazing research are still doing it; the really exciting stuff is still coming out of CMU, MIT, Stanford, etc. It's just that now the hobbyist can implement the research on their own platforms.
What's the difference between a user buying music from amazon and uploading it to his own server to stream from anywhere, and Amazon uploading it to their server automatically for just that user to stream. Is listening to your own music over the internet only legal when it's difficult to set up?
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File - menu - list with text that a person can scan through in about 2 seconds.
As long as the list is short. Applications like Word have gathered so many features that menus now have sub-menus of sub-menus that lead to a dialogue with multiple tabs. Often the feature you want to access is buried 5 layers deep. You can argue that some of these features should be trimmed, but then you have to decide which ones, and everyone of course will have a different opinion depending on how they use the program.
Ribbon brings 90% of the functionality of word within two clicks (one to select the appropriate ribbon, one to select the feature). For commonly used functions you still have the option of creating shortcuts, at least in office.
The ribbon even has benefits for smaller programs like paint, where the available shape tools can be displayed at once, for example.
Then - how often does one undo the automatic (by default) snap/all screen window hog feature in W7? Ridiculous!
Aero snap is one of my favorite features in Windows 7; I use it constantly. When I use XP, I'm constantly dragging my windows to the edge of the screen to no avail.
If you want to turn it off, just search for "snap." The first result should be "Turn off automatic window rearrangement," Just select it and click the check box.
People didn't migrate to Windows 7? Is that why it runs on over 30% of PCs worldwide, and is the most used OS in the United States?
do I love it? Playing with robots all day? Absolutely!
I started a computer engineering in the fall. Literally (I counted) 90% of the incoming first years were foreign. The breakdown of the foreign students is 75% Chinese, 25% Indian.
That advice is great if all you're motivated by is a paycheck. Each of those professions seems awfully boring to me, and I can't imagine spending over 10 years worth of advanced education for a career that might just potentially pay better. In the end, I'd rather do something I love than something I hate every day, even if my car is better.
Specifically for note taking, the apps for the iPad are more capable then you'll find in standard Windows or Mac software. Audio recording with annotation, stylus input, etc.
No.... not at all. Microsoft one note is pretty much the gold standard for note taking apps. I used it on a tablet PC for my undergraduate degrees, and it was, and still is leagues ahead of anything available on my iPad. The iPad in particular will (at least with only a touch display) will never be able to compete against the hardware I used back in 2001. Capacitive styluses just cannot compare to the accuracy of a digitizer. And trust me, you need that accuracy if you want your notes to be searchable... and even remotely compact.
Hopefully they got nice cases to go along with it. I've found even through light use the back of my iPad is scratched and the aluminum is soft enough to easily dent. However, the screen is admittedly the same as when I bought it, so I suppose that's all that really matters.
2. They have the appeal and sexiness of Cisco or Oracle. They're that middle aged slightly pudgy guy driving a sports car. There doesn't seem to be anybody at Microsoft with any sense of design. At least nobody of any apparent authority.
I know design is mostly a matter of opinion, but I consider the WP7/Zune and the Xbox 360/Kinect UIs as some of the best looking out there, especially compared to Android. Maybe the Microsoft brand isn't as appealing, but some of their latest products, Windows 7 included have been top notch visually.
I don't know how this compares to iPhone and Android, but 1.5 million SDK downloads, 36k developers, and 13k apps is impressive for a 6 month old platform that, by Slashdot's account, has 4 users.
No reinstalls? I cringe at the thought of updating Ubuntu without doing a clean wipe. Last two times burned me hard, and I think I've finally learned my lesson.
I'm not sure frequency of patches says anything about security. I mean, my Ubuntu install wants to be updated daily, with multiple patches.
My guess is that the next iOS release will wipe this data every seven days or so.
It just so happens that my life cycles at a frequency of roughly 7 days.
Location services serve a function. There still no good reason to log all of the data. This is not a solution.
Are you referring to the black rectangular slate with a grid of icons Apple is suing Samsung over? Why is this copying Apple, when black rectangular slates and grids of icons have existed before the iPhone both separately and in tandem? I'm sure many people have seen this image, but it seems to invalidate anything Apple has to say about owning the slate form factor/grid of icons UI.
http://photos.appleinsider.com/Sam.Apple.001.jpg
What about private tabs. They don't keep a history and they don't seem to save any cookies, and they don't even know about cookies I've already save (i.e. if I navigate to slashdot in a private tab I'm not logged in).
For some people, yes I guess it is a matter of faith. But only because they are lazy. But the difference between religion and science is that religion is a matter of faith for everyone. The roots of religion trace back to hearsay and legend. The roots of science trace back to provably true axioms which are constant through space and time. Anyone with the motivation can educate themselves enough to trace the logic behind any scientific claim to assess its validity.
Yes, yes, yes and no.
If I want, I can educate myself enough to perform the necessary steps to produce quantum entanglement. I can verify the experiments on my own, given enough knowledge and funding. On issue of dark matter, I absolutely can measure the rotational speed of galaxies and perform the necessary calculations to arrive at the conclusion that there isn't enough matter in the galaxy (this calculation is easily done with readily available data, but I can produce my own given the right observatory).
As for the angel, no. No matter how much education, equipment, or experiments I cannot reproduce an angel sighting. This is the critical difference between religion and science.
5 years was considered extra? Did she have a master's first? The minimum at my school is 5 years for a Computer Engineering Ph.D. without a master's.
You mean Hanlon's Razor... which came from a guy from Scranton PA? Where did you get French?
I'm sorry, but that is very disorientating. I understand how the zooming is supposed to provide some sort of spatial relationship between ideas, but the effect it had on me was to just make me dizzy.
Samsung's CEO is Korean. Samsung is Korean company, you know.
The best LIDAR you can buy for the size is probably the Hokuyo UTM and URG. Definitely small enough and light enough to mount on a copter. They'll set you back $2000-$6000 though. To get a 3D image out of them you need to pivot them on the y-axis. They also generate a lot of heat, and suck up a lot of energy.
Crowdsourcing I guess? Instead of 2-3 sterile environments trying to figure out robot vision algorithms, now a bajillion institutes and hobbyists are working on the problem.
Not really. The people who have been doing the amazing research are still doing it; the really exciting stuff is still coming out of CMU, MIT, Stanford, etc. It's just that now the hobbyist can implement the research on their own platforms.
What's the difference between a user buying music from amazon and uploading it to his own server to stream from anywhere, and Amazon uploading it to their server automatically for just that user to stream. Is listening to your own music over the internet only legal when it's difficult to set up?
IE9 has been released. I'd wager the real reason is because the people who would download IE9 aren't the people who follow browser release schedules.