'It's only good if you never use them.' Please elaborate, have you any experamental data to back up you findings, or are you using the 'feed a man patatoes' argument?
BTW, I prefer the hidden (or even funkier reording menus) but if you like 'But a better way to do this would be to emphasize the often-used features', please add some comments to my kde-app proposal that starts to facilitate what you are asking for
The entries aren't removed there only 'hidden' and as soon as you use them they will become visiable next time.
What's the time and thought process difference between mixing all the menu entries up so they wrap three time round the screen, or only displaying the three entries you ever used, with the option of displaying every entry available.
Well, my bookmarks looks like the first option (I have a few thousand) and I wish it'd look like the second.
If the menu changes by removing options that you never use/need then that's good design. (unless is the windows start menu, hiding applications that I would have uninstalled if I had have seen them on the menu)
"a new craze amongst London youths: slapping random commuters in the face and filming the result on mobile phones with video cameras. The resulting 'Happy Slap TV' clips are then shared amongst friends (via MMS?), causing much hilarity."
When I added dates I just assumed that ISO date format should be used, or the same format kicked out by http or Javascript (yyyy-mm-dd GMT +- nn)
Doesn't everyone?
I've had to use popups for cross domain scripting. The popup connected to a different site and then populated data in the original window. I would have used Iframes, but mozilla prevents all scripting with iframes, even the read-only DOM kind.
Well, you could have a Linux that didn't support any of the software you purchased in the shops and only ran GPL code. Most of the applications will be developed by volunteers to their own specification in there own time.
Or, you could have a Linux that was capable of running the thousands of applications that are out in the shops AS WELL AS all the GPL and OSS apps.
WINE also allows companies to port their Windows applications over to Linux far more easily than Linux on it's own does, allowing more native Linux ports of applications.
And then there's the critical mass argument, until Linux has a critical mass then there will be very few commercial applications produces for it (just like the MAC), allowing Linux users to run Windows applications reduces their need to ever install Windows on the PC, increasing the number of Linux only users.
OS/2 was a horrible mess-up between IBM and Microsoft, and cannot be compared to Linux vs Windows in any sensible way.
Would firefox be usable for many companies if it didn't support embedded OCX controls.
For a start, WINE is designed to run on non-windows OS's, so the end user probably won't have the required dlls to hand, and even if they do there's Microsoft EULA to content with.
So far as DirectX goes, we would have to implement some kernel level features to allow the Windows drivers to be loaded (about like ndiswrapper) and still require WINE for the API emulation.
BTW. The guys at react-os are going to use Windows drivers, because they have a controlled windows emulation environment to run them under.
I remember the night my father used to read struwwelpeter to me.
"When children have been good,
That is, be it understood,
Good at meal-times, good at play,
Good at night, and good all day, -
They shall have the pretty things
Merry Christmas always brings.
Naughty, romping girls and boys
Tear their clothes and make a noise,
Soil their aprons and their frocks,
And deserve no Christmas-box.
Such as these shall never look
At this pretty Picture-Book."
That's why I'm working on making DirectX available under Linux via WINE, so that joe public can pop down their local store, buy a piece of software and have it run under Linux without having to know what's going on under the hood.
I use more or less identical setups for all the apps I run under WINE, and when you consider that the work I've done is still in beta at best the possibility of being able to run 'anything' on Linux doesn't seem so hard to swallow. I certainly hope that in a year from most games and media applications will be working flawlessly.
' Not enough testers were using the 2.odd series,' That was because it was buggy, now everyone gets to test the the 2.odd series because it's the the 2.even series
I have a home wifi network and a pan bluetooth network at home. Sure setting them up an installing with routing tables ment changing a couple of lines on a file that I took from a howto, but in that was a hell of a lot easier than setting them up under windows.
I think most people can work through a howto, it just a shame that windows doesn't come with a couple of hundred megs of howtos.
there are quite a few things I don't like too, even some of my 'customers', but that's life and I prepared to accept the things I don't like in case one day I'm something that someone else doesn't like.
Most , 'old school' positions are no longer what they used to be this is called 'progress' but I'm not sure by whom. I would expect the overall quality of photography to go down as the market is split. I just hope the same thing doesn't happen to music, from those people who can still make a living from it, it's already about as low as it can get.
it depends how much effort I want to put into finding the right flowers. Did the woman who charged a $50 consultation fee look like she was collecting a social security check?
Maybe it's time to spilt the job up into, consultation fees, charging for taking photographs, and touching the photos up..
This sound almost exactly the same as the story that MP/RIAA come up with when their talking about p2p networks and DRM.
Don't forget, there are lots of other events that don't happen on a Sunday but people want professional pictures of, e.g. school photos, sports teams, parties, bar mitzvah, christenings.
that's really going to help the economy, people are going to stop spending money and start saving it up. This will severely handicap consumer [customer] spending and prevent market growth, putting the contry into the dark ages or recession.
No is doesn't you can perform HDR using standard 32bit textres. All that it means is that the textures aren't clamped at 100%.
So, if in my normal 32bit texture 255,255,255,255 represents 100%, I can perform HDR by making 128,128,128,255 = 100%.
by applying the same texture twice.
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'It's only good if you never use them.'
Please elaborate, have you any experamental data to back up you findings, or are you using the 'feed a man patatoes' argument?
BTW, I prefer the hidden (or even funkier reording menus) but if you like 'But a better way to do this would be to emphasize the often-used features', please add some comments to my kde-app proposal that starts to facilitate what you are asking for
The entries aren't removed there only 'hidden' and as soon as you use them they will become visiable next time.
What's the time and thought process difference between mixing all the menu entries up so they wrap three time round the screen, or only displaying the three entries you ever used, with the option of displaying every entry available.
Well, my bookmarks looks like the first option (I have a few thousand) and I wish it'd look like the second.
If the menu changes by removing options that you never use/need then that's good design.
(unless is the windows start menu, hiding applications that I would have uninstalled if I had have seen them on the menu)
I figure that there parents didn't make it much past the age of 13 before they conceived.
it's called happy slap
"a new craze amongst London youths: slapping random commuters in the face and filming the result on mobile phones with video cameras. The resulting 'Happy Slap TV' clips are then shared amongst friends (via MMS?), causing much hilarity."
ahh, the children of the children of thatcher.
When I added dates I just assumed that ISO date format should be used, or the same format kicked out by http or Javascript (yyyy-mm-dd GMT +- nn)
Doesn't everyone?
I've had to use popups for cross domain scripting. The popup connected to a different site and then populated data in the original window.
I would have used Iframes, but mozilla prevents all scripting with iframes, even the read-only DOM kind.
'they can't say this thing has no value so I shouldn't pay for it; if it had no value they would not pirate it.'
If I can reproduce a song without having to listen to it then the recording of the song no-longer has any value to me.
This is why I say that if you haven't managed to milk an idea to death in 25 years then someone else should be given the opportunity.
Well, you could have a Linux that didn't support any of the software you purchased in the shops and only ran GPL code. Most of the applications will be developed by volunteers to their own specification in there own time.
Or, you could have a Linux that was capable of running the thousands of applications that are out in the shops AS WELL AS all the GPL and OSS apps.
WINE also allows companies to port their Windows applications over to Linux far more easily than Linux on it's own does, allowing more native Linux ports of applications.
And then there's the critical mass argument, until Linux has a critical mass then there will be very few commercial applications produces for it (just like the MAC), allowing Linux users to run Windows applications reduces their need to ever install Windows on the PC, increasing the number of Linux only users.
OS/2 was a horrible mess-up between IBM and Microsoft, and cannot be compared to Linux vs Windows in any sensible way.
Would firefox be usable for many companies if it didn't support embedded OCX controls.
I don't, well I've got a really old win95 disk, so old that it has started peeling and no longer works.
You can use windows dlls with the current version of WINE with mixed results...
'Why not use the Microsoft .dlls'
For a start, WINE is designed to run on non-windows OS's, so the end user probably won't have the required dlls to hand, and even if they do there's Microsoft EULA to content with.
So far as DirectX goes, we would have to implement some kernel level features to allow the Windows drivers to be loaded (about like ndiswrapper) and still require WINE for the API emulation.
BTW. The guys at react-os are going to use Windows drivers, because they have a controlled windows emulation environment to run them under.
not yet, I'll put one together soon though. (well as soon as I've freed up enough HDD space0
I remember the night my father used to read struwwelpeter to me.
"When children have been good,
That is, be it understood,
Good at meal-times, good at play,
Good at night, and good all day, -
They shall have the pretty things
Merry Christmas always brings.
Naughty, romping girls and boys
Tear their clothes and make a noise,
Soil their aprons and their frocks,
And deserve no Christmas-box.
Such as these shall never look
At this pretty Picture-Book."
That's why I'm working on making DirectX available under Linux via WINE, so that joe public can pop down their local store, buy a piece of software and have it run under Linux without having to know what's going on under the hood.
I use more or less identical setups for all the apps I run under WINE, and when you consider that the work I've done is still in beta at best the possibility of being able to run 'anything' on Linux doesn't seem so hard to swallow. I certainly hope that in a year from most games and media applications will be working flawlessly.
all you need is a couple of european languages and your in.
' There's a reason they can get away with paying pennies overthere'
Because it costs pennies to live?
Maybe funny, but there's a real lack of European langauge speekers in India.
If you want to make a bit of cash, and speak at least English and one other European language go get a top level management job in India.
' Not enough testers were using the 2.odd series,'
That was because it was buggy, now everyone gets to test the the 2.odd series because it's the the 2.even series
I have a home wifi network and a pan bluetooth network at home. Sure setting them up an installing with routing tables ment changing a couple of lines on a file that I took from a howto, but in that was a hell of a lot easier than setting them up under windows.
I think most people can work through a howto, it just a shame that windows doesn't come with a couple of hundred megs of howtos.
there are quite a few things I don't like too, even some of my 'customers', but that's life and I prepared to accept the things I don't like in case one day I'm something that someone else doesn't like.
Most , 'old school' positions are no longer what they used to be this is called 'progress' but I'm not sure by whom. I would expect the overall quality of photography to go down as the market is split. I just hope the same thing doesn't happen to music, from those people who can still make a living from it, it's already about as low as it can get.
it depends how much effort I want to put into finding the right flowers. Did the woman who charged a $50 consultation fee look like she was collecting a social security check?
Maybe it's time to spilt the job up into, consultation fees, charging for taking photographs, and touching the photos up..
This sound almost exactly the same as the story that MP/RIAA come up with when their talking about p2p networks and DRM.
Don't forget, there are lots of other events that don't happen on a Sunday but people want professional pictures of, e.g. school photos, sports teams, parties, bar mitzvah, christenings.
that's really going to help the economy, people are going to stop spending money and start saving it up. This will severely handicap consumer [customer] spending and prevent market growth, putting the contry into the dark ages or recession.
Like, the far east has super secure systems that hackers can't break into and use for sending out, spam, trojans etc...
Tracking something out of Asia is like tracking something in the black hole of Calcutta.
Yes, there are lots of ways to perform HDR in opengl (not least by using floating point textures)
There's a demo here
Proper HDR is easy to emulate using integer textures, the DirectX sdk even comes with some demos.
No is doesn't you can perform HDR using standard 32bit textres. All that it means is that the textures aren't clamped at 100%.
So, if in my normal 32bit texture 255,255,255,255 represents 100%, I can perform HDR by making 128,128,128,255 = 100%.
by applying the same texture twice.