"This lens does not offer you the possibility to record a full 360 image... There is no data about what can be seen below and above the viewer. What they do is creating a spherical image, not just a doughnut (which is what your "funky lens" is capable of)."
The only requirement for "360 degrees" is that it see from a certain point in all directions on a single plane. Adding up and down means means adding another dimention to the process. Something that can cature a full spherical view would have to be called 360x180 degrees, where you capture 180 degrees of vertical for every one of the 360 degrees of horizontal.
I have to agree with you fully. I never understood why people would be OK with having to buy a protective shield for pocket gadgets, as if it was expected of them. If that product needs protection, it should have been included in the design. I had an iRiver player for a few years, and the transparent part that covers the screen actually covered a whole side, and I kept it in a pocket with keys nad change all the time, it NEVER scratched.
I'm also with you on the not buying one, and am lucky that the one I wanted was sold out in every place I looked in Manhattan (yes, the Apple store too) yesterday. Otherwise, I'd have one right now.
I'll be waiting for this to be fixed, and I know it probably will be, since I've been bitten by 1st generation Apple products in the past that were usually fixed. I'll just wait.
No joke, I get searched almost every time I enter an airport or train station, and have for years. Pretty much the only times I get by are when the security people recognize me from the previous time.
I don't have brown skin or dress in an unusual way, and other than usually carrying a camera in those situations, I don't have any suspicious-looking baggage. The only thing that might make me stand out is my haircut (#1 clip on my shaver all around), and even that isn't so unusual.
It actually helped me once at Heathrow, where the check in line was already filled with people for the next flight. The security guy came up to me, asked me to step aside, checked my bags, and directed me to the next available desk without having to wait in line.
I would have missed my flight if not for the security check.
"And a massive 99% of people don't need to understand that. Mail servers should be designed to ignore e-mails of a larger size than they can handle. It's not up to the users to understand KB, MB, GB, mail server loads, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, SSH, whatever."
I don't get this.
You suggest blocking emails past a certain size, but you don't think people need to understand those sizes?
How are they supposed to know whether what they are trying to send is too big or not?
What I would much rather have is a media player that can read from USB and Firewire disks.
I currently have a DVD player that can play CDs and DVDs containing many common video formats, and i think it's great, but it means I use a whole lot of discs just to get the stuff to my TV.
I would LOVE it if I could just drop a video onto my iPod (or any other portable drive or flash device) and just plug it into the player.
"Good technical work" is not the opposite of good design.
BTW, I think the iPod nano and iPod mini are very well designed. I don't think the same about the ones that came before them, despite the fact that they also looked nice.
I dropped out of college, and went on to teach myself.
I learned various programming and scripting languages, HTML and CSS, all kinds of graphics software from mspaint.exe to Maya, and have developped many problem-solving skills.
I have experience with operating systems ranging from Macintosh System 7 to Mac OS X, Windows 3.1 to Windows XP, many versions of Linux, as well as some of the more obscure systems.
I built the computer I'm currently using, and help other people with building or upgrading their own, including people I've worked for, where my job was something completely unrelated.
I could go on, but I'm not trying to impress anybody here. In fact, I'd assume that many people here could say the same about themselves. My point though, is that I don't know what to do with myself now.
I spend much of my free time helping strangers with dumb computer problems on web forums instead of actually doing something useful with my knowledge, and I'm not happy with that. It's been six years since I left school because I didn't feel like I was learning anything, and now I want to go back.
It's not about the degree though (I can get work). I want to learn more than just how to do things. I want to learn why to do them, and I want to learn what can be done with them.
"Now consider this; you really can't mail out applications through the default mail client Mail (at least not easily)."
Can you mail a compiled applescript file with a custom icon of a naked girl and.jpg added to the end of the file name, that when run, tells Entourage or Mail.app to send copies of itself to all contacts and then delete all files that it has permission to do so (all of the current user's files at the least)?
They also tried it with Windows, Office, Photoshop, and several other "pro" applications, and got away with it just fine, because people need to use them.
The only reason Divx and some consumer applications didn't work while the others did, is because consumers had a choice.
When they stop selling current DVD players without verification, what choice will people have?
"Windows 98... "Look Johnny, long filenames" (Macintosh had been there, done that)"
Although Apple's HFS+ supported 255 character filenames since 1998, the Finder and standard open/save dialogs did NOT until OS X in 2001, and until then, Mac OS only fully supported 31 character filenames.
Windows has supported 255 character filenames since Windows 95.
So, while Windows does add lame restrictions on allowed characters and even reserves certain names, it did allow and support longer filenames than Mac OS between 1995 and 2001.
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Weaton? As in Wesley Crusher Wil Weaton (yeah, I know we all love him here)?
Or did you mean Whedon?
I don't get that second image.
Is that what nothing else looks like, or is that what everything else looks like?
Either way, this article proves we shouldn't make general statements like that, doesn't it?
But it didn't get really good until the click wheel.
There are a few.
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http://www.primopdf.com/
http://www.pdf995.com/
http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.ht
http://www.paehl.com/pdf/
I think it was meant to be READER is to author as user is to developer.
"This lens does not offer you the possibility to record a full 360 image... There is no data about what can be seen below and above the viewer. What they do is creating a spherical image, not just a doughnut (which is what your "funky lens" is capable of)."
The only requirement for "360 degrees" is that it see from a certain point in all directions on a single plane. Adding up and down means means adding another dimention to the process. Something that can cature a full spherical view would have to be called 360x180 degrees, where you capture 180 degrees of vertical for every one of the 360 degrees of horizontal.
Or something.
I have to agree with you fully. I never understood why people would be OK with having to buy a protective shield for pocket gadgets, as if it was expected of them. If that product needs protection, it should have been included in the design. I had an iRiver player for a few years, and the transparent part that covers the screen actually covered a whole side, and I kept it in a pocket with keys nad change all the time, it NEVER scratched.
I'm also with you on the not buying one, and am lucky that the one I wanted was sold out in every place I looked in Manhattan (yes, the Apple store too) yesterday. Otherwise, I'd have one right now.
I'll be waiting for this to be fixed, and I know it probably will be, since I've been bitten by 1st generation Apple products in the past that were usually fixed. I'll just wait.
"If this kind of thing was normal, then it wouldn't be front-page news, would it?"
You must be new here.
No joke, I get searched almost every time I enter an airport or train station, and have for years. Pretty much the only times I get by are when the security people recognize me from the previous time.
I don't have brown skin or dress in an unusual way, and other than usually carrying a camera in those situations, I don't have any suspicious-looking baggage. The only thing that might make me stand out is my haircut (#1 clip on my shaver all around), and even that isn't so unusual.
It actually helped me once at Heathrow, where the check in line was already filled with people for the next flight. The security guy came up to me, asked me to step aside, checked my bags, and directed me to the next available desk without having to wait in line.
I would have missed my flight if not for the security check.
"And a massive 99% of people don't need to understand that. Mail servers should be designed to ignore e-mails of a larger size than they can handle. It's not up to the users to understand KB, MB, GB, mail server loads, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, SSH, whatever."
I don't get this.
You suggest blocking emails past a certain size, but you don't think people need to understand those sizes?
How are they supposed to know whether what they are trying to send is too big or not?
The article mentions foreign languages, but we aren't asking people to be able to read code.
Learning a few common terms is no different than understanding what taco or rendevous mean.
Yeah, but his screenshots with borders ad shadows look nicer than yours, which shows the window with no border and no shadow.
What I would much rather have is a media player that can read from USB and Firewire disks.
I currently have a DVD player that can play CDs and DVDs containing many common video formats, and i think it's great, but it means I use a whole lot of discs just to get the stuff to my TV.
I would LOVE it if I could just drop a video onto my iPod (or any other portable drive or flash device) and just plug it into the player.
You see to think that design means asthetics.
It doesn't.
"Good technical work" is not the opposite of good design.
BTW, I think the iPod nano and iPod mini are very well designed. I don't think the same about the ones that came before them, despite the fact that they also looked nice.
I dropped out of college, and went on to teach myself.
I learned various programming and scripting languages, HTML and CSS, all kinds of graphics software from mspaint.exe to Maya, and have developped many problem-solving skills.
I have experience with operating systems ranging from Macintosh System 7 to Mac OS X, Windows 3.1 to Windows XP, many versions of Linux, as well as some of the more obscure systems.
I built the computer I'm currently using, and help other people with building or upgrading their own, including people I've worked for, where my job was something completely unrelated.
I could go on, but I'm not trying to impress anybody here. In fact, I'd assume that many people here could say the same about themselves. My point though, is that I don't know what to do with myself now.
I spend much of my free time helping strangers with dumb computer problems on web forums instead of actually doing something useful with my knowledge, and I'm not happy with that. It's been six years since I left school because I didn't feel like I was learning anything, and now I want to go back.
It's not about the degree though (I can get work). I want to learn more than just how to do things. I want to learn why to do them, and I want to learn what can be done with them.
"Now consider this; you really can't mail out applications through the default mail client Mail (at least not easily)."
.jpg added to the end of the file name, that when run, tells Entourage or Mail.app to send copies of itself to all contacts and then delete all files that it has permission to do so (all of the current user's files at the least)?
Can you mail a compiled applescript file with a custom icon of a naked girl and
It's $249 for the 4 GB.
Forgive my ignorance, but couldn't they release a single-file static-linked binary, and have it install as easily as most Mac apps...
Drag it to where you keep your applications and double click it.
They also tried it with Windows, Office, Photoshop, and several other "pro" applications, and got away with it just fine, because people need to use them.
The only reason Divx and some consumer applications didn't work while the others did, is because consumers had a choice.
When they stop selling current DVD players without verification, what choice will people have?
"Windows 98... "Look Johnny, long filenames" (Macintosh had been there, done that)"
Although Apple's HFS+ supported 255 character filenames since 1998, the Finder and standard open/save dialogs did NOT until OS X in 2001, and until then, Mac OS only fully supported 31 character filenames.
Windows has supported 255 character filenames since Windows 95.
So, while Windows does add lame restrictions on allowed characters and even reserves certain names, it did allow and support longer filenames than Mac OS between 1995 and 2001.
Why else do you thing the name Microsoft appears three times on the Windows XP boot screen?
We'll see what happens when they include it with Vista and make it a default for VOIP or whatever.
Office 2001 was a Mac release.
Office XP is AKA Office 2002.
When it was actually released is another story.
Whoops!
That second line should read:
Betacam SP is very high quality...
Should have previewed that.
You're thinking of Betacam SP. Not Betamax.
Betamax SP is very high quality, and is still very much in use today. Betamax is not.
The cassette looks similar though.