Chapter 1: Secion 1 'Remember that the purpose of any software application... So, the first things to establish when designing your application are:
who your users are
what you want to enable them to do '
'what you want to enable them to do' should read, 'and what they want to do'
Personaly I think the 1st chapter is quite bad. Not in it's aims but in they way it presents them.
The document hasn't been writen for it's target audiance, namely Hackers/Programmers. The definitions are too frilly and abstract and seem like something a designer might come up with not a groups with broad HCI implemtation knowlage.
e.g.
'Create a Match Between Your Application and the Real World'
This is the wrong thing to say, think of all the applications that take the statement literally, how useable are they?
I think you'll find windows XP is like Windows 2k. Microsoft moved all the configuration into one place instead of The control panel or my computer or administrator tools common,Option pack 4/MTS etc..... good idea I say.
Unfortunatly they picked Microsoft Management Console probably to force you to upgrade Internet Explorer every other week.
but what if you don't have it? you want to know that if you install a new application to do something you can't already do that the UI is familiar, be it command line, GUI, voice controlled.....
"people learned win 3.1, hell people even learned DOS. (I know cli)"
You need to compare the people who owned PC's 'then' and the people who own them 'now'
'then' buyers were on average more technically minded (that's why they brought a PC), things were a hell of a lot slower, and less intuitive having to lookup commands all the time was common place so standards weren't all that important.
Now every man and his dog has a PC, things are fast, very GUI and intuitive? there are loads of applications out there.
Standards for HCI need to be put in place and followed, getting the PC working shouldn't distract you from what your trying to do.
Microsoft has had certification for ages which is why Windows apps are generally the same(except Bryce!)
Theres a GNU standard for command line apps, that's why --help usually works
so why don't linux apps have a general LSB certification for applications, not just GUI/UI but also where they install things, what permissions they set files to etc....
The write up was complete shit, I was thinking turn a coffee cup into a doughnut in a topological sense, but couldn't see any spaces that needed to be changed.
The writer was just trying to explain what topology is but very badly!.
Hey that's easy any idiot can do that. 1: take the doughnut in you right hand 2: take the coffee cup in you left hand 3: move you right hand towards the coffee cup, ensure that you 'turn the doughnut into the coffee cup ' on you approach.
It will cost too much and with have an impact of inflation which no one in the EU wants to see at the moment. There will be bandwidth implications because of the storage and processing overheads and investment and development in new infrastructure and technologies will be hit.
And who gains, well if the police can actually filter the data and find out what you up to then maybe a few people who have had criminals take away there liberties will feel better.
capitalism this has to be the weirdest site I've ever seen, even weirder than most of those religious sites.
It's full of contradictions and has an autistic sense of philosophy, some of the things in the FAQ are just sick in there failure to notice that others may be different from you.
There is a clear avoindance of mentioning communism, IP, patents and copyright. The second to last page of the tour is good too, they should have missed out air and water and just put property.
That's because the task bar is explorer (they run in the same process).
If it was part of the OS you wouldn't be able to get the file-browser or task bar up again, and everything else would probably crash.
I normally take OS to be things that run at ring 0 + ring1 Applications (like explorer) run in ring 3. (at least that's what i remember from my dos days!) Quick guide to protected mode
I would also add Rebuilding corrupt/scratched or broke Vinal/CD's/DVD as fair use, especially old CD's that were sold as 'indestructible'.
You may still be licensed for any CD's/DVD's that have been stolen because in the UK at least you still own the stolen goods unless they are recovered or you claim on an insurance policy, even if the thief sells them.
No government intervention is anarchy unless the police and laws aren't government which would probably make you a police or corporate state so there still government.
capitalism is ownership(capital)
DMCA/Copyright protect ownership of IP (DMCA strongly protects ownership)
Now if you had capitalism without IP then DMCA/Copyright would be some weird laws/government intervantion.
I don't think so, the gui isn't tied to explorer. Nost of explorers functionality comes from a library shell32.dll this could be considered in part an os component.
In a simila fassion a lot of IE is in wininet.dll is this part of the OS?
I must admit, they seem to be a hell of a lot better e.g. search for Cuba and you get some fair lessons (you also get a bit of propaganda 'see how x escaped the evils of castros commi cuba')
You would expect a things to go with the 'american way of life', personally when I was at school I hated be dumbed down and targeted with 'kids will like this' crap, the pizza excersize is a good example of this. I also refused to do the 'what did you do on you holidays' work we always got after getting back from a break.
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Chapter 1: Secion 1 ... So, the first things to establish when designing your application are:
'Remember that the purpose of any software application
who your users are
what you want to enable them to do
'
'what you want to enable them to do'
should read,
'and what they want to do'
Personaly I think the 1st chapter is quite bad. Not in it's aims but in they way it presents them.
The document hasn't been writen for it's target audiance, namely Hackers/Programmers.
The definitions are too frilly and abstract and seem like something a designer might come up with not a groups with broad HCI implemtation knowlage.
e.g.
'Create a Match Between Your Application and the Real World'
This is the wrong thing to say, think of all the applications that take the statement literally, how useable are they?
any how here's a breif of my design principals!
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I don't run windows at home so I wouldn't know.
I think you'll find windows XP is like Windows 2k. Microsoft moved all the configuration into one place instead of The control panel or my computer or administrator tools common,Option pack 4/MTS etc..... good idea I say.
Unfortunatly they picked Microsoft Management Console probably to force you to upgrade Internet Explorer every other week.
I've just checked you kind of scenario and
the cell doesn't have to be reselected with multidesk.
but what if you don't have it?
you want to know that if you install a new application to do something you can't already do that the UI is familiar, be it command line, GUI, voice controlled.....
it's called MultiDesk
there be no troll here.
"If you went to a kiddie porn site they could find out from your network traffic and get a search warrant."
and
"If you were frequently on a chat room the same time as xx who was later found dead they'd be round the next morning."
are the kind of arguments that government boddies would use to 'justify' holding and searching of logs.
which is not that different to:
"If you were connecting to predominantly Jewish sites then the secret police would be round and take you away."
"people learned win 3.1, hell people even learned DOS. (I know cli)"
You need to compare the people who owned PC's 'then' and the people who own them 'now'
'then' buyers were on average more technically minded (that's why they brought a PC), things were a hell of a lot slower, and less intuitive having to lookup commands all the time was common place so standards weren't all that important.
Now every man and his dog has a PC, things are fast, very GUI and intuitive? there are loads of applications out there.
Standards for HCI need to be put in place and followed, getting the PC working shouldn't distract you from what your trying to do.
Microsoft has had certification for ages which is why Windows apps are generally the same(except Bryce!)
Theres a GNU standard for command line apps, that's why --help usually works
so why don't linux apps have a general LSB certification for applications, not just GUI/UI but also where they install things, what permissions they set files to etc....
The write up was complete shit, I was thinking turn a coffee cup into a doughnut in a topological sense, but couldn't see any spaces that needed to be changed.
The writer was just trying to explain what topology is but very badly!.
I understand, the representation was more euclidian type geometry not topological.
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I wan't sure if the plane counted as seperating the sphere and the doughnut or not, because it's only solid in 2d not 3d.
if not then the sphere(solid) is just a part of the doughnut.
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Well somthing like this ( O = sphere, @=doughnut, | a non closeing surface)
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I'm don't know how the topology works though but I can't see how the sphere can be merged into the doughnut
doughnut as the name might suggest has a hole in the middle.
jam doughnut does not, and that's the problem you seem to be having.
My doughnut didn't go soggy because it's not half baked but YMMV.
Aren't doughnuts and coffee cups topologically the same or does a coffee cup have a plane poking out the side?
Hey that's easy any idiot can do that.
1: take the doughnut in you right hand
2: take the coffee cup in you left hand
3: move you right hand towards the coffee cup, ensure that you 'turn the doughnut into the coffee cup ' on you approach.
Maths is easy.
is like knowing where you've been.
/usr/share/doc/myapp) ....
The problem with the current Linux desktop is that it's almost very hard to 'know',
You never know exactly what cut and paste is.(crtl+insert, drag over , crtl+c{things are sure to break!} anything else).
Or how the printer options are going to come up. {KDE print dialoge, configure lpr dialoge}
What a right click will do.
Where the help is (man, info{ahhh the great info},kde help or
Things are far better than a few years ago..
Some things that might help would be:-
Put some UI, design (aesthetic and technical) principals into the LSB
and have a LSB certification for applications.
Resolve the GTK,QT issues (should hopefully happen over the next year or two)
Ask other people if they could kindly implement there GFX toolkits/widgets using QT or GTK.
That would force up prices to drive income from other sectors and create inflation.
The cost of basic services would go up, causing inflation.
There making 1024 x 1024 arrays of qauntum dots of corse.
You would have to re-write all the network protocols (IP/TCPIP etc...) with encryption.
If you went to a kiddie porn site they could find out from your network traffic and get a search warrant.
If you were frequently on a chat room the same time as xx who was later found dead they'd be round the next morning.
If you were connecting to predominantly Jewish sites then the secret police would be round and take you away.
There's no way this will get through (he says!)
It will cost too much and with have an impact of inflation which no one in the EU wants to see at the moment. There will be bandwidth implications because of the storage and processing overheads and investment and development in new infrastructure and technologies will be hit.
And who gains, well if the police can actually filter the data and find out what you up to then maybe a few people who have had criminals take away there liberties will feel better.
Who looses, everyone else.
capitalism
this has to be the weirdest site I've ever seen, even weirder than most of those religious sites.
It's full of contradictions and has an autistic sense of philosophy, some of the things in the FAQ are just sick in there failure to notice that others may be different from you.
There is a clear avoindance of mentioning communism, IP, patents and copyright. The second to last page of the tour is good too, they should have missed out air and water and just put property.
That's because the task bar is explorer (they run in the same process).
If it was part of the OS you wouldn't be able to get the file-browser or task bar up again, and everything else would probably crash.
I normally take OS to be things that run at ring 0 + ring1
Applications (like explorer) run in ring 3.
(at least that's what i remember from my dos days!)
Quick guide to protected mode
Fair use normally say you can take a backup incase of ...,
All i am saying is that you can use p2p as global backup facility
I would also add
Rebuilding corrupt/scratched or broke Vinal/CD's/DVD as fair use, especially old CD's that were sold as 'indestructible'.
You may still be licensed for any CD's/DVD's that have been stolen because in the UK at least you still own the stolen goods unless they are recovered or you claim on an insurance policy, even if the thief sells them.
at least that's what I use P2P networks for!
No government intervention is anarchy unless the police and laws aren't government which would probably make you a police or corporate state so there still government.
capitalism is ownership(capital)
DMCA/Copyright protect ownership of IP (DMCA strongly protects ownership)
Now if you had capitalism without IP then DMCA/Copyright would be some weird laws/government intervantion.
I don't think so, .
the gui isn't tied to explorer
Nost of explorers functionality comes from a library shell32.dll this could be considered in part an os component.
In a simila fassion a lot of IE is in wininet.dll is this part of the OS?
What would happen if all the geeks in the country went on strike for a week, would joe public the banks etc... notice what's missing?
I must admit, they seem to be a hell of a lot better e.g. search for Cuba and you get some fair lessons (you also get a bit of propaganda 'see how x escaped the evils of castros commi cuba')
You would expect a things to go with the 'american way of life', personally when I was at school I hated be dumbed down and targeted with 'kids will like this' crap, the pizza excersize is a good example of this. I also refused to do the 'what did you do on you holidays' work we always got after getting back from a break.