Please explain to me what Apple saw back in 2001. iTunes store opened in 2003, two years after the original iPod. Apples success came from iTunes, not the iPod.
The iPod took off with the Windows-release, which was well before the iTunes Music Store.
I personally bought the iPod (the very first one) before it was cool:P
As far as I remember from the books, the spells also require a certain set of mind (blind rage for Avada Kedavra or something like that), just like the Patronus charm requires you to recall a good memory.
Okay, I can understand wanting some kind of rudimentary spreadsheet viewing/editing application for tablet/mobile devices, but Excel is a particularly good example of a program that really needs a physical, full-size keyboard. There are numerous key combinations and shortcuts that are absolutely essential for efficient usage of Excel. If you're doing any kind of spreadsheet work, you need a keyboard with a numeric keypad, cursors, and Ctrl/Alt/Shift/F-number keys. Tapping an on-screen keyboard just isn't going to cut it, especially when that keyboard takes up valuable screen space that would otherwise be used to display more cells.
If you think shortcuts on an on-screen keyboard are the way UIs on touch devices are done, you haven't understood how they work. On touch devices, there are no shortcuts. The on-screen keyboard is used for text entry, nothing more. If you want to select a cell, you just tap on it, you don't press some kind of arrow button. If you want to make something bold, you tap the bold button right next to the text field. With a pure software UI, you can make any special-purpose input you want. For example, take a look at the Numbers number keyboard. You just have exactly the buttons you need, and they say exactly what they do. No need to remember any shortcuts or functional correspondences.
Had I been a GoDaddy user, then at least I could have changed registrar when they showed their stupidity by endorsing SOPA.
I'm not defending GoDaddy at all (see a pattern here?), but how was that a stupid move? They specifically made sure that they were exempt from SOPA, so it would have gotten them a competitive advantage.
Looking at the claims it would be very interesting to know if any source was actually lifted from Zynga by Vostu.
It might be a case of cargo cult: Perhaps the programmers had the management-given task to replicate the game in every detail, noticed the bug and implemented it as well.
I'm a freelance programmer, and I get a spec like "do it exactly like program X" very often (it's just limited to certain features in my case, not whole apps). Nowadays I refuse these tasks, since it's hard to replicate a feature in every detail without just copying the source, and it might even be something the client didn't want.
Uh, educating the politicians is the wrong way to go there. The politicians are well aware of the facts, and either don't care or are paid to do what they're doing. Even those fully-funded $10k would be a drop in the bucket compared to the millions the supporting parties are investing.
I agree, the "recently launched" section is overflowing with art and music projects, which I don't care about. The other projects are just lost in the noise.
Also don't forget the Canadian man of Arabic descent who recently was investigated on terrorism charges after tweeting to his coworkers at a trade fair here in the U.S. to "blow away" the competition.
No, actually he wrote a private SMS, which raised a big red flag for me.
News flash. All the Android phones with 4G let you turn it off when you don't need/want it.
So the most important aspect of 4G is that you can turn it off? Wow.
Given a choice between having a feature you can turn on and off at will, and not having the feature, the better choice is always having the feature.
Apple always goes for fewer options when possible in any way. Just compare the VLC preferences dialog to the QuickTime Player X preferences dialog (hint: there is none on the latter). The reason for this is that people don't care about configuring their appliances, they just want them to work.
Yes, however I don't think that many users know what an internal hard drive looks like... So using this as an icon for saving is not a solution either. USB sticks and external drives vary too wildly in their looks to be recognized at that size.
If the user never saved it, then where is it when the user needs it later? Auto-saved, OK, but where and under what name? There still needs to be a save option, and an icon, even if outdated, is useful for that.
Saved to an internal directory, and will be opened as an untitled document the next time you open the application.
Continuous autosave is possible with current technology, but it requires wasting battery power on spinning a hard drive's platter at all times while the user continues to edit the document. I agree that it's an implementation issue, but the underlying technical reason for the implementation issue is still present in 2012 technology. I don't see the distinction between fast temporary storage and large nonvolatile storage "becom[ing] negligible" until large SSDs and cellular data become a lot cheaper. In addition, one ordinarily doesn't want to create a new numbered revision of the document in a revision control system after each keypress; there has to be some way to mark one's changes as suitable for being viewed by other editors of the document, not unlike the SQL keyword COMMIT.
Yes, you shouldn't save after every single keypress, but a timer for saving every minute or so (if there are any changes) should suffice. Committing for others to see is a different thing, that's something a user can be expected to understand.
Ultimately, for revert/versions there should be a timeline slider like there was in Google Wave, where you can go back to your document's state of any point in the past.
btw, affordable SSDs are already large enough for everyday use. My notebook has a 256GB SSD in it, and I didn't have to sell my car for it.
What exactly did you mean by this statement? What are you calling an implementation detail with which the user shouldn't be bothered?
The location where the data ist stored (RAM vs. harddrive). There are some effects that play against each other here:
For editing, the data has to be in RAM (at least the part that's edited at the moment).
When the data is in RAM, but not on the disk, the state is lost after a crash or sudden power loss. This is undesirable.
Copying from RAM to harddrive (aka "saving") takes time.
As computers get better, the latter effect becomes negligible. This means that when this is done automatically in the background (which is certainly possible for most data these days), the user doesn't have to manage this technical detail. Less management means that the user has more time thinking about the things that he/she really wants to do using the application, and it reduces the number of errors (losing hours of work, because the user forgot to save).
A similar thing happend to me as well: I wanted to pay in a store with my ATM card (yes, we frequently do such things here), but I couldn't recall the PIN. When I went to the ATM where I always get my money (which has a very different keypad), the muscle memory came back and I could gather the PIN from the way my fingers moved by themselves. It was very weird.
Since that occurrence, I made it a habit to repeat the code in my mind whenever I enter it there, in order to not forget.
The calls for "we need kids to know how to program" are coming from industries who want cheap skilled labor, and the industry puts a lot of pressure on universities to dumb down the curricula to be more like a trade school.
I think you're right, but in the long term, those companies will either change their thinking, or go bankrupt. A program is more like a painting than a factory line product: if you replace the painter in mid-cycle, the painting will still be done, but it'll be ugly as hell, and nobody will want to buy it.
when I went to school, programming courses looked at BASIC and Pascal. Nice languages - for teaching - but I'm not sure whether it will really prepare you for coding C/C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby,...
I started programming in BASIC, then went to Pascal. These two languages I had to learn formally, with reading books about them. After that, I switched to C++ by simply looking at other people's code and writing some myself. That's the power of knowing at least one programming language: once you do that, switching to anything else with the same paradigm (procedural in this case) is a breeze.
Of course, after writing a bit of code in those languages, I read some documentation, so I don't make non-obvious errors (memory management comes to mind). But that's much easier when you already know the language.
You realize that Apple now is almost down to a 50% market share in tablets, right?
Ok, I think I found what you were referring to: it's 61% of all sales in Q3 2011. However, remember that the iPad2 will soon be replaced by an updated model, which will boost the sales market share. Same thing happened with the iPhone 4S.
You realize that Apple now is almost down to a 50% market share in tablets, right?
Would you be so kind to provide a source for that? The most recent numbers I could find are in the Guardian, where it's 88% worldwide and 95.5% in the US, from November 21, 2011.
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Please explain to me what Apple saw back in 2001. iTunes store opened in 2003, two years after the original iPod. Apples success came from iTunes, not the iPod.
The iPod took off with the Windows-release, which was well before the iTunes Music Store.
I personally bought the iPod (the very first one) before it was cool :P
In addition, is a pottery wheel really a "wheel"? It looks more like a turntable to me
"Don't reinvent the turntable" doesn't have the same ring to me.
Actually, in my experience having HP knowledge is actually a bonus to many girls.
As far as I remember from the books, the spells also require a certain set of mind (blind rage for Avada Kedavra or something like that), just like the Patronus charm requires you to recall a good memory.
Okay, I can understand wanting some kind of rudimentary spreadsheet viewing/editing application for tablet/mobile devices, but Excel is a particularly good example of a program that really needs a physical, full-size keyboard. There are numerous key combinations and shortcuts that are absolutely essential for efficient usage of Excel. If you're doing any kind of spreadsheet work, you need a keyboard with a numeric keypad, cursors, and Ctrl/Alt/Shift/F-number keys. Tapping an on-screen keyboard just isn't going to cut it, especially when that keyboard takes up valuable screen space that would otherwise be used to display more cells.
If you think shortcuts on an on-screen keyboard are the way UIs on touch devices are done, you haven't understood how they work. On touch devices, there are no shortcuts. The on-screen keyboard is used for text entry, nothing more. If you want to select a cell, you just tap on it, you don't press some kind of arrow button. If you want to make something bold, you tap the bold button right next to the text field. With a pure software UI, you can make any special-purpose input you want. For example, take a look at the Numbers number keyboard. You just have exactly the buttons you need, and they say exactly what they do. No need to remember any shortcuts or functional correspondences.
Had I been a GoDaddy user, then at least I could have changed registrar when they showed their stupidity by endorsing SOPA.
I'm not defending GoDaddy at all (see a pattern here?), but how was that a stupid move? They specifically made sure that they were exempt from SOPA, so it would have gotten them a competitive advantage.
Looking at the claims it would be very interesting to know if any source was actually lifted from Zynga by Vostu.
It might be a case of cargo cult: Perhaps the programmers had the management-given task to replicate the game in every detail, noticed the bug and implemented it as well.
I'm a freelance programmer, and I get a spec like "do it exactly like program X" very often (it's just limited to certain features in my case, not whole apps). Nowadays I refuse these tasks, since it's hard to replicate a feature in every detail without just copying the source, and it might even be something the client didn't want.
Uh, educating the politicians is the wrong way to go there. The politicians are well aware of the facts, and either don't care or are paid to do what they're doing. Even those fully-funded $10k would be a drop in the bucket compared to the millions the supporting parties are investing.
I agree, the "recently launched" section is overflowing with art and music projects, which I don't care about. The other projects are just lost in the noise.
Also don't forget the Canadian man of Arabic descent who recently was investigated on terrorism charges after tweeting to his coworkers at a trade fair here in the U.S. to "blow away" the competition.
No, actually he wrote a private SMS, which raised a big red flag for me.
I mean, really, nobody has the mental capacity to remember a unique, strong password for every titchy site they have an account on.
Yes, I'm using a password manager for the rest (1password). It can also generate super-secure randomly generated passwords.
News flash. All the Android phones with 4G let you turn it off when you don't need/want it.
So the most important aspect of 4G is that you can turn it off? Wow.
Given a choice between having a feature you can turn on and off at will, and not having the feature, the better choice is always having the feature.
Apple always goes for fewer options when possible in any way. Just compare the VLC preferences dialog to the QuickTime Player X preferences dialog (hint: there is none on the latter). The reason for this is that people don't care about configuring their appliances, they just want them to work.
I look more like a young Steve Jobs than a terrorist.
Note that Steve Jobs' father is from Syria, and thus Jobs was likely a terrorist (according to TSA's definition at least).
Yeah, like the software patent stuff, which was trying to slip by in the Agricultural and Fisheries Commission. Luckily, it didn't work out.
Yes, however I don't think that many users know what an internal hard drive looks like... So using this as an icon for saving is not a solution either. USB sticks and external drives vary too wildly in their looks to be recognized at that size.
If the user never saved it, then where is it when the user needs it later? Auto-saved, OK, but where and under what name? There still needs to be a save option, and an icon, even if outdated, is useful for that.
Saved to an internal directory, and will be opened as an untitled document the next time you open the application.
Continuous autosave is possible with current technology, but it requires wasting battery power on spinning a hard drive's platter at all times while the user continues to edit the document. I agree that it's an implementation issue, but the underlying technical reason for the implementation issue is still present in 2012 technology. I don't see the distinction between fast temporary storage and large nonvolatile storage "becom[ing] negligible" until large SSDs and cellular data become a lot cheaper. In addition, one ordinarily doesn't want to create a new numbered revision of the document in a revision control system after each keypress; there has to be some way to mark one's changes as suitable for being viewed by other editors of the document, not unlike the SQL keyword COMMIT.
Yes, you shouldn't save after every single keypress, but a timer for saving every minute or so (if there are any changes) should suffice. Committing for others to see is a different thing, that's something a user can be expected to understand.
Ultimately, for revert/versions there should be a timeline slider like there was in Google Wave, where you can go back to your document's state of any point in the past.
btw, affordable SSDs are already large enough for everyday use. My notebook has a 256GB SSD in it, and I didn't have to sell my car for it.
What exactly did you mean by this statement? What are you calling an implementation detail with which the user shouldn't be bothered?
The location where the data ist stored (RAM vs. harddrive). There are some effects that play against each other here:
As computers get better, the latter effect becomes negligible. This means that when this is done automatically in the background (which is certainly possible for most data these days), the user doesn't have to manage this technical detail. Less management means that the user has more time thinking about the things that he/she really wants to do using the application, and it reduces the number of errors (losing hours of work, because the user forgot to save).
The "don't bother me with those implementation details"-icon?
A similar thing happend to me as well: I wanted to pay in a store with my ATM card (yes, we frequently do such things here), but I couldn't recall the PIN. When I went to the ATM where I always get my money (which has a very different keypad), the muscle memory came back and I could gather the PIN from the way my fingers moved by themselves. It was very weird.
Since that occurrence, I made it a habit to repeat the code in my mind whenever I enter it there, in order to not forget.
The calls for "we need kids to know how to program" are coming from industries who want cheap skilled labor, and the industry puts a lot of pressure on universities to dumb down the curricula to be more like a trade school.
I think you're right, but in the long term, those companies will either change their thinking, or go bankrupt. A program is more like a painting than a factory line product: if you replace the painter in mid-cycle, the painting will still be done, but it'll be ugly as hell, and nobody will want to buy it.
when I went to school, programming courses looked at BASIC and Pascal. Nice languages - for teaching - but I'm not sure whether it will really prepare you for coding C/C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, ...
I started programming in BASIC, then went to Pascal. These two languages I had to learn formally, with reading books about them. After that, I switched to C++ by simply looking at other people's code and writing some myself. That's the power of knowing at least one programming language: once you do that, switching to anything else with the same paradigm (procedural in this case) is a breeze.
Of course, after writing a bit of code in those languages, I read some documentation, so I don't make non-obvious errors (memory management comes to mind). But that's much easier when you already know the language.
you do however have an obligation to ensure fair working conditions and above-starvation wages for your workers.
The workers there get full housing and food from the factory, so it's impossible to receive below-starvation wages.
You realize that Apple now is almost down to a 50% market share in tablets, right?
Ok, I think I found what you were referring to: it's 61% of all sales in Q3 2011. However, remember that the iPad2 will soon be replaced by an updated model, which will boost the sales market share. Same thing happened with the iPhone 4S.
You realize that Apple now is almost down to a 50% market share in tablets, right?
Would you be so kind to provide a source for that? The most recent numbers I could find are in the Guardian, where it's 88% worldwide and 95.5% in the US, from November 21, 2011.