The 1 cent (and 2 cent) has been abolished in quite a few countries with a currency value comparable to the dollar. They still price items at $x.99, and will round down if you buy enough that it ends up as $x.x6 or $x.x7
It's a flight sim type game. Trading is an aspect and the most effective way to make money and buy upgrades but there's also plenty of space combat, and the option to go into piracy.
Designing a UI to facilitate telephone support doesn't seem like a particularly sensible way to maximise benefits to power users, or, indeed, most users.
Is there a benefit to the majority of users from this cumbersome method of launching applications?
Metro seems to be going for a lot of consistency though. The start menu wasn't consistent. Only the windows desktop shell used it. Personally I really hate the start menu. It's a slow and inefficient way of starting an app. My Windows systems have dozens of shortcuts on the desktop. Pinning to the taskbar is a nice feature but going to start->All programs->accessories->calculator seems a cumbersome way to start calc.exe.
The metro chooser only takes up the entire screen when you're using the metro chooser screen. The rest of the time, it's where it should be. Out of the way. That means I have the entire screen to myself to tile windows as I see fit.The start menu is really the start menu and taskbar. I'm a screen real estate miser. Especially on my low res netbook I'm using right now.
Metro can tile screens quite nicely. I find it hard to deal with overlapping windows that well. Dragging and dropping from one to another means I need to fiddle around with positioning. Okay, it's not that hard to do but it's one of those much less than optimal processes. Tiling seems to do that a lot better.
I see your point about oversized borders and buttons. I haven't used it enough to know if these actually are a problem.
I quite like Metro. Less clutter. And I never have understood why the Start menu seems to be the epitome of UI design. Menus are okay, but going through a nest of subwindows isn't fun, and most of the time it just takes up space.
Both articles are quite right. TV is a medium. It's a successful medium like music and books. In this case, people want to be told an audiovisual story. They don't really care to interact. There are other media for that that do that job better.
What people do like is better delivery mechanisms. MP3 players and kindles allow data to be delivered across the internet. So do smart TVs but not very well.
The big problem is that people aren't using internet streaming/downloading. Why? I don't know but I know why I don't. Because it doesn't behave how I want it to. I don't want to splash out on a TV that supports iPlayer, netflix and LoveFilm (UK centric here but the same could apply to the US) unless I know it will also support the next media provider that I might be interested in. I want a standard here. I want to buy TV that supports a standardised streaming mechanism that is supported by all these providers. If I upgrade my TV I can be sure to find one that works. If I switch to a different streaming video service I know it will work.
I do think wired.com has a valid point as well. From my experience with Tivo, the apps that are available are difficult to use. I need to navigate through menus which make it feel very much like the afterthought it is.
I agree. I'd have thought that the ultimate value comes from getting money out of my wallet and into the company's coffers. Clearly this is only of secondary interest.
3D in a TV isn't all that expensive. You just need a TV that can handle a high enough refresh rate, and some cheap electronics to sync with shutter glasses. The rest can be handled by software.
Expensive 3D TVs are expensive because it tends to be a gimmick added to high end televisions.
What it actually determines is if the first sale means the fist sale made anywhere in the world or the first sale in the US. It makes little difference where it was manufactured.
Once the produce is legally sold in the US, first sale rights apply no matter where it's made or who holds the copyright. But what's undecided is whether the first sale in the US is legal if the previous sale was in another country.
The actual issue at stake is whether copyright/trademark/other IP licence holders have the right to licence something to different manufacturers in different countries effectively backed up by trademark law. There's a certain aspect of consumer protection here as well. Consumers see value in official products, fashion clothing being an example. Cheap foreign imports are seen as not the same thing. Often there are genuine differences that will not be immediately obvious to the purchaser, and that the purchaser will be able to rely on the domestic manufacturers reputation.
If this goes the way Slashdot seems to want, nobody will gain. The publishers' low margin sales in other countries will simply be stopped because a company doesn't like to compete with itself. US customers won't be able to get cheap imported textbooks, but now the people in the countries the textbooks were imported from won't be able to get them at a price they can afford.
Like most people here, I feel this guy comes across as a bit of a petty whiner, and far too submissive.
They want a date in December? Well, I could give a date in March I'll be free. March 13th will be fine. If they don't like it they're free to suggest another day. If there's no response in a week, that's when you respond. Not after almost a month! Demand confirmation of the time then. If they come back with an inconvenient time and don't offer any flexibility, then facebook fails the interview
If you feel the need to prepare, then prepare. Are you really going to forget everything you've prepared after a week?
Then the connection. Well, that's a fairly reasonable complaint, I guess. Not really sure it's facebook's fault.
I do agree that facebook has a poor interview process. But why did he feel such a need to work for them? There are other companies. I presume he's employed since he wasn't desperately looking for other jobs at the time.
Okay, but that's why a Lego copter would have been impressive. Because we think it's impossible. Building a copter with a few Lego parts is nice, I guess but not as impressive as the article suggests.
But one has to question whether their right to freedom of speech would be substantially harmed if they were restricted from using such hateful speech specifically to cause direct upset to people, and whether that right should be balanced against other rights such as, for example, the right of the family to have a dignified funeral ceremony for a loved one.
As a freedom of speech advocate, finding I'm obliged to support organisations like Westboro causes me issues.
You complain that Microsoft doesn't innovate. Microsoft has no ideas. Microsoft just copies.
Then, when they realise they might need to update the 3 decade old UI to handle innovations such as trackpads, touchscreens, multitouch, and multiple screens everyone is horrorstruck that they're actually trying to do something different.
And while the UI experts analyse how people use computers, they maximise real estate, maximise flexibility, and design a UI that tries to fit these usage patterns, people who have barely even used it declare it the worst idea ever.
You're quite right, except even if I do as you suggest, and even if the whole of Slashdot does as you suggest, it's not going to make a dent in the amount of attention these morons get.
because then he can pretend that the total damage done to the copyright holders was 99c multiplied by the number of song titles Thomas downloaded.
I don't think that's totally unreasonable. The average upload/download ratio for a given user will be 1:1 (there are exactly as many uploads as downloads since every uploaded file is downloaded). Leeches increase this a bit for those who do upload but not by a factor of thousands.
Then there's the matter of intent. Was Thomas' primary intent to distribute? No. It was to download. There's a difference between intentional harm, recklessness and negligence , although I have no idea if something similar applies in this case.
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Needs to be more specific than that. "sucks" doesn;t help make it not suck.
"Your function names are so terse as to be unreadable", "This function is way too long" and the like are much more useful.
The 1 cent (and 2 cent) has been abolished in quite a few countries with a currency value comparable to the dollar. They still price items at $x.99, and will round down if you buy enough that it ends up as $x.x6 or $x.x7
Nitpick: LOTR was 6 books, and not a trilogy. It's just that publishers often published it as three volumes.
That's very original.
It's a flight sim type game. Trading is an aspect and the most effective way to make money and buy upgrades but there's also plenty of space combat, and the option to go into piracy.
Wasn't on my copy of the C64 game. Maybe they stopped including it because it was so annoying.
I thought guns were meant to deter would be criminals.
True.
I think the cinema needs to make itself an important place for the community as well, outside of just showing the latest films, if it isn't already.
Never heard it here. Nor would I expect to. A British pint of water weighs about 1lb 4oz.
Designing a UI to facilitate telephone support doesn't seem like a particularly sensible way to maximise benefits to power users, or, indeed, most users.
Is there a benefit to the majority of users from this cumbersome method of launching applications?
Metro seems to be going for a lot of consistency though. The start menu wasn't consistent. Only the windows desktop shell used it. Personally I really hate the start menu. It's a slow and inefficient way of starting an app. My Windows systems have dozens of shortcuts on the desktop. Pinning to the taskbar is a nice feature but going to start->All programs->accessories->calculator seems a cumbersome way to start calc.exe.
The metro chooser only takes up the entire screen when you're using the metro chooser screen. The rest of the time, it's where it should be. Out of the way. That means I have the entire screen to myself to tile windows as I see fit.The start menu is really the start menu and taskbar. I'm a screen real estate miser. Especially on my low res netbook I'm using right now.
Metro can tile screens quite nicely. I find it hard to deal with overlapping windows that well. Dragging and dropping from one to another means I need to fiddle around with positioning. Okay, it's not that hard to do but it's one of those much less than optimal processes. Tiling seems to do that a lot better.
I see your point about oversized borders and buttons. I haven't used it enough to know if these actually are a problem.
I quite like Metro. Less clutter. And I never have understood why the Start menu seems to be the epitome of UI design. Menus are okay, but going through a nest of subwindows isn't fun, and most of the time it just takes up space.
Both articles are quite right. TV is a medium. It's a successful medium like music and books. In this case, people want to be told an audiovisual story. They don't really care to interact. There are other media for that that do that job better.
What people do like is better delivery mechanisms. MP3 players and kindles allow data to be delivered across the internet. So do smart TVs but not very well.
The big problem is that people aren't using internet streaming/downloading. Why? I don't know but I know why I don't. Because it doesn't behave how I want it to. I don't want to splash out on a TV that supports iPlayer, netflix and LoveFilm (UK centric here but the same could apply to the US) unless I know it will also support the next media provider that I might be interested in. I want a standard here. I want to buy TV that supports a standardised streaming mechanism that is supported by all these providers. If I upgrade my TV I can be sure to find one that works. If I switch to a different streaming video service I know it will work.
I do think wired.com has a valid point as well. From my experience with Tivo, the apps that are available are difficult to use. I need to navigate through menus which make it feel very much like the afterthought it is.
I agree. I'd have thought that the ultimate value comes from getting money out of my wallet and into the company's coffers. Clearly this is only of secondary interest.
3D in a TV isn't all that expensive. You just need a TV that can handle a high enough refresh rate, and some cheap electronics to sync with shutter glasses. The rest can be handled by software.
Expensive 3D TVs are expensive because it tends to be a gimmick added to high end televisions.
What it actually determines is if the first sale means the fist sale made anywhere in the world or the first sale in the US. It makes little difference where it was manufactured.
Once the produce is legally sold in the US, first sale rights apply no matter where it's made or who holds the copyright. But what's undecided is whether the first sale in the US is legal if the previous sale was in another country.
The actual issue at stake is whether copyright/trademark/other IP licence holders have the right to licence something to different manufacturers in different countries effectively backed up by trademark law. There's a certain aspect of consumer protection here as well. Consumers see value in official products, fashion clothing being an example. Cheap foreign imports are seen as not the same thing. Often there are genuine differences that will not be immediately obvious to the purchaser, and that the purchaser will be able to rely on the domestic manufacturers reputation.
If this goes the way Slashdot seems to want, nobody will gain. The publishers' low margin sales in other countries will simply be stopped because a company doesn't like to compete with itself. US customers won't be able to get cheap imported textbooks, but now the people in the countries the textbooks were imported from won't be able to get them at a price they can afford.
Like most people here, I feel this guy comes across as a bit of a petty whiner, and far too submissive.
They want a date in December? Well, I could give a date in March I'll be free. March 13th will be fine. If they don't like it they're free to suggest another day. If there's no response in a week, that's when you respond. Not after almost a month! Demand confirmation of the time then. If they come back with an inconvenient time and don't offer any flexibility, then facebook fails the interview
If you feel the need to prepare, then prepare. Are you really going to forget everything you've prepared after a week?
Then the connection. Well, that's a fairly reasonable complaint, I guess. Not really sure it's facebook's fault.
I do agree that facebook has a poor interview process. But why did he feel such a need to work for them? There are other companies. I presume he's employed since he wasn't desperately looking for other jobs at the time.
Not everyone has the technical knowledge to do that, or to really know what cookies are or quite how common they are.
Okay, but that's why a Lego copter would have been impressive. Because we think it's impossible. Building a copter with a few Lego parts is nice, I guess but not as impressive as the article suggests.
True.
But one has to question whether their right to freedom of speech would be substantially harmed if they were restricted from using such hateful speech specifically to cause direct upset to people, and whether that right should be balanced against other rights such as, for example, the right of the family to have a dignified funeral ceremony for a loved one.
As a freedom of speech advocate, finding I'm obliged to support organisations like Westboro causes me issues.
Better frame rate
You do notice this sort of thing. Even menus seem a lot more responsive at 60fps.
You complain that Microsoft doesn't innovate. Microsoft has no ideas. Microsoft just copies.
Then, when they realise they might need to update the 3 decade old UI to handle innovations such as trackpads, touchscreens, multitouch, and multiple screens everyone is horrorstruck that they're actually trying to do something different.
And while the UI experts analyse how people use computers, they maximise real estate, maximise flexibility, and design a UI that tries to fit these usage patterns, people who have barely even used it declare it the worst idea ever.
You're quite right, except even if I do as you suggest, and even if the whole of Slashdot does as you suggest, it's not going to make a dent in the amount of attention these morons get.
People fall for it hook line and sinker.
I don't think that's totally unreasonable. The average upload/download ratio for a given user will be 1:1 (there are exactly as many uploads as downloads since every uploaded file is downloaded). Leeches increase this a bit for those who do upload but not by a factor of thousands.
Then there's the matter of intent. Was Thomas' primary intent to distribute? No. It was to download. There's a difference between intentional harm, recklessness and negligence , although I have no idea if something similar applies in this case.
For most people this really doesn't make a huge difference. This is an amount that will take a lifetime to pay.