Another thing, beyond the whole form factor issue, is that it seems the implied target audience for most UIs is content consumers. if you are a content creator, your requirements are rather different than those who are primarily consumers of pics and videos and texts. As a developer with decades of experience (ie, old fart) I like to see maximum amount of stuff on the screen(s), because I need access to lots of things to do my job.
The documentary about Kosmo.com, e-Dreams, is both fascinating and painful to watch. These guys went through a breathtakingly huge pile of money in a very short time, trying to do exactly this sort of personalized delivery. It gives you a real feel for how truly insane VC funding was in the late '90s. Maybe Kalanick should check this film out before putting too much effort into this idea.
Or maybe there was a high-volume profanity laden rant about the incident *after* boarding. I've seen individuals get tossed off planes for similar rage issues.
And I'm the opposite. Typically, my 1.5 hr layover between flight to $MAJOR_AIRPORT and the flight home turns into 45 minutes and a sprint to the gate for the connector flight. The last thing I want is to be carrying all of my crap while I'm running. And then there's the maintenance of that bag - Getting it to and from the nearest available spot, which might be a distance away from my seat, or worse, a gate check. Given the state of Intra-US flight, I'd have missed half my connectors if I had my stuff.
I've seen disorganized large systems like this before - In the one case I'm thinking of, the root cause was that upper level management had no concerns about consistency or a unified architecture, and let each app team deliver what the team wanted without much in the way of group collaboration. This smells like a similar scenario.
Here are some fun examples of what can happen with the latest generation of proximity based fobs. (Hint: Having them work at a distance that may include places outside the vehicle leads to some interesting use cases.)
The Palm runs a time logger that I've used to track my work hours since 2003. The thing has outlasted at least a couple of Apple notebooks that it synched to. The iPod Photo I bought in October of 2004 still uses it's original battery. And then there's the musical stuff - A set of Adcom audio separates talking to a pair of Magnepans bought in the late '80s. The Maggies were reconditioned in the mid '90s. That set up still sounds great.
In the rural valley I lived up until last year, my Internet was provided by cellular modem or MiFi - The only alternative was satellite, and the latency of satellite prevents VPN usage that I need for work. The MiFi comes with a 10GB cap, which is fine for most of my home and business usage. But 10GB is about 3 streamed movies. So I buy DVDs instead.
The article summary has a link to Parmitano's blog in which he mentions your solution: "The only idea I can think of is to open the safety valve by my left ear: if I create controlled depressurisation, I should manage to let out some of the water, at least until it freezes through sublimation, which would stop the flow. But making a ‘hole’ in my spacesuit really would be a last resort."
Speaking of cool to watch, I compete in dog agility, and the last show, a couple of weeks ago, was a couple of miles from Space X's range in Texas. They had two engine tests during the weekend, and even from that distance the noise rattled the arena we were in like an earthquake. A bunch of us would go running outside to watch the enormous cream colored clouds from the tests fill the sky near the horizon. BTW, some dogs totally freaked at the noise (and the sight of their nerd handlers bolting outdoors to see if they were launching Grasshopper didn't help their confidence much, either.) My pups didn't care, fortunately.
Or you think they could learn from the reworking of Google News back in 2010. I took a tour of the beta. It has that whitespace disease that lots of UI designers seem to have contracted from Windows 8, and they've done a really good job at stripping much of the information out of it.
As for this "let's retarget the site for a wider audience" marketing crap, I'll say what I've said before when this "wider audience" idea came up: The kiddies can go elsewhere.
Fubari gets it right. These are the questions to ask. Like others here, I've been involved in projects like these, and in most cases, just the fact I was there was a sign that management knew there was a mess - They simply wanted to know how bad, and what it would take for me (or maybe a team) to fix it.
In one case I worked on, there was an obvious technical solution to the problem, but for various reasons management found the solution to be politically incorrect. I spent several months trying other approaches (carefully documenting all of them) and concluded that the obvious technical solution they had originally created was actually the best. Management was okay with that, in the end. It turned out that they were willing to confront the political drama once they had technical backing from someone outside the company that they trusted. (I had done work for this company before.) So don't assume you're the scapegoat. Yes, it does happen, but, in my experience, far less often than you think.
I work on Windows 7 by day, have a MacBook as my personal machine, and on my business trips I have a Android tablet for email and such. I took a look at the Surfaces in their first iteration, but the RT version was crippled, and the Surface Pro just didn't bring enough to the table. And to make the Pro an even harder sell, the Microsoft Store I went to had a bunch of intriguing ultrabooks on display (Lenovo Yoga, Dell XPS12, etc) that were real Windows 8 machines without the hardware compromises of the Surface Pro. The new version at it's higher price point blurs the line further. It ultimately boils down to "do I want to save $100 to have a device that weighs a pound less than an ultrabook". YMMV, but the choice is clear to me - The Surface tablets look and feel too much like toys for me to purchase one.
They won't have to outlaw them. You don't need laws when you have insurance companies. Once self-driven cars are declared safer, insurance rates will skyrocket for manually driven cars, so only the rich will be able to have one.
What I've seen in the 3 decades I've been in the industry is that the number of programmers using OldVanillaLang versus SilverBulletLang is less of an issue - Managers are often willing to go with a more resource-efficient solution, given that IT/MIS departments are often considered overhead on the bean counter spreadsheets. The thing that keeps managers on the OldVanillaLang track is the answers to the questions: "Supposed my SilverBulletLang guys leave - Who takes over their code? How do I evaluate SilverBulletLang developers in interviews? And since they're rare, can I afford them?"
Actually, at least in Central Texas, looking like a hawk might not be the companies' best move. Around here, crows gather a posse and harass the crap out of any raptor dumb enough to get within 30 meters of them. This UAV better have a nice rate of climb to escape that sort of mob.
Tumblr informed me that the Zendesk hackers may have the email address and the subject lines of emails. The email content wasn't mentioned has part of the hacker's take, nor did they say that email accounts themselves were hacked. Nothing more than this, at least according to what I've received from Tumblr.
Removing the Start Button because it's rarely used is like removing the jack from your car because it's rarely used. Frequency of use is a different quality than necessity.
Well, good thing it's rare. I've got a friend in Elgin with a herd of 20 - 30 sheep, which provide her livelihood. Poison grass would be a rather bad thing for her.
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As someone once said: "A fool and his money are soon partying."
Another thing, beyond the whole form factor issue, is that it seems the implied target audience for most UIs is content consumers. if you are a content creator, your requirements are rather different than those who are primarily consumers of pics and videos and texts. As a developer with decades of experience (ie, old fart) I like to see maximum amount of stuff on the screen(s), because I need access to lots of things to do my job.
The documentary about Kosmo.com, e-Dreams, is both fascinating and painful to watch. These guys went through a breathtakingly huge pile of money in a very short time, trying to do exactly this sort of personalized delivery. It gives you a real feel for how truly insane VC funding was in the late '90s. Maybe Kalanick should check this film out before putting too much effort into this idea.
There's a map of Bardarbunga's earthquakes over the last week here. These are mostly magnitude 2 - 3, but there are dozens of them.
Or maybe there was a high-volume profanity laden rant about the incident *after* boarding. I've seen individuals get tossed off planes for similar rage issues.
And I'm the opposite. Typically, my 1.5 hr layover between flight to $MAJOR_AIRPORT and the flight home turns into 45 minutes and a sprint to the gate for the connector flight. The last thing I want is to be carrying all of my crap while I'm running. And then there's the maintenance of that bag - Getting it to and from the nearest available spot, which might be a distance away from my seat, or worse, a gate check. Given the state of Intra-US flight, I'd have missed half my connectors if I had my stuff.
I've seen disorganized large systems like this before - In the one case I'm thinking of, the root cause was that upper level management had no concerns about consistency or a unified architecture, and let each app team deliver what the team wanted without much in the way of group collaboration. This smells like a similar scenario.
Here are some fun examples of what can happen with the latest generation of proximity based fobs. (Hint: Having them work at a distance that may include places outside the vehicle leads to some interesting use cases.)
The Palm runs a time logger that I've used to track my work hours since 2003. The thing has outlasted at least a couple of Apple notebooks that it synched to. The iPod Photo I bought in October of 2004 still uses it's original battery. And then there's the musical stuff - A set of Adcom audio separates talking to a pair of Magnepans bought in the late '80s. The Maggies were reconditioned in the mid '90s. That set up still sounds great.
..Is this "News for Nerds"? It must be a slow news day, I guess.
In the rural valley I lived up until last year, my Internet was provided by cellular modem or MiFi - The only alternative was satellite, and the latency of satellite prevents VPN usage that I need for work. The MiFi comes with a 10GB cap, which is fine for most of my home and business usage. But 10GB is about 3 streamed movies. So I buy DVDs instead.
The article summary has a link to Parmitano's blog in which he mentions your solution: "The only idea I can think of is to open the safety valve by my left ear: if I create controlled depressurisation, I should manage to let out some of the water, at least until it freezes through sublimation, which would stop the flow. But making a ‘hole’ in my spacesuit really would be a last resort."
Speaking of cool to watch, I compete in dog agility, and the last show, a couple of weeks ago, was a couple of miles from Space X's range in Texas. They had two engine tests during the weekend, and even from that distance the noise rattled the arena we were in like an earthquake. A bunch of us would go running outside to watch the enormous cream colored clouds from the tests fill the sky near the horizon. BTW, some dogs totally freaked at the noise (and the sight of their nerd handlers bolting outdoors to see if they were launching Grasshopper didn't help their confidence much, either.) My pups didn't care, fortunately.
Or you think they could learn from the reworking of Google News back in 2010. I took a tour of the beta. It has that whitespace disease that lots of UI designers seem to have contracted from Windows 8, and they've done a really good job at stripping much of the information out of it. As for this "let's retarget the site for a wider audience" marketing crap, I'll say what I've said before when this "wider audience" idea came up: The kiddies can go elsewhere.
Was her last name Peng, by any chance? ;-)
Fubari gets it right. These are the questions to ask. Like others here, I've been involved in projects like these, and in most cases, just the fact I was there was a sign that management knew there was a mess - They simply wanted to know how bad, and what it would take for me (or maybe a team) to fix it.
In one case I worked on, there was an obvious technical solution to the problem, but for various reasons management found the solution to be politically incorrect. I spent several months trying other approaches (carefully documenting all of them) and concluded that the obvious technical solution they had originally created was actually the best. Management was okay with that, in the end. It turned out that they were willing to confront the political drama once they had technical backing from someone outside the company that they trusted. (I had done work for this company before.) So don't assume you're the scapegoat. Yes, it does happen, but, in my experience, far less often than you think.
I work on Windows 7 by day, have a MacBook as my personal machine, and on my business trips I have a Android tablet for email and such. I took a look at the Surfaces in their first iteration, but the RT version was crippled, and the Surface Pro just didn't bring enough to the table. And to make the Pro an even harder sell, the Microsoft Store I went to had a bunch of intriguing ultrabooks on display (Lenovo Yoga, Dell XPS12, etc) that were real Windows 8 machines without the hardware compromises of the Surface Pro. The new version at it's higher price point blurs the line further. It ultimately boils down to "do I want to save $100 to have a device that weighs a pound less than an ultrabook". YMMV, but the choice is clear to me - The Surface tablets look and feel too much like toys for me to purchase one.
They won't have to outlaw them. You don't need laws when you have insurance companies. Once self-driven cars are declared safer, insurance rates will skyrocket for manually driven cars, so only the rich will be able to have one.
What I've seen in the 3 decades I've been in the industry is that the number of programmers using OldVanillaLang versus SilverBulletLang is less of an issue - Managers are often willing to go with a more resource-efficient solution, given that IT/MIS departments are often considered overhead on the bean counter spreadsheets. The thing that keeps managers on the OldVanillaLang track is the answers to the questions: "Supposed my SilverBulletLang guys leave - Who takes over their code? How do I evaluate SilverBulletLang developers in interviews? And since they're rare, can I afford them?"
Actually, at least in Central Texas, looking like a hawk might not be the companies' best move. Around here, crows gather a posse and harass the crap out of any raptor dumb enough to get within 30 meters of them. This UAV better have a nice rate of climb to escape that sort of mob.
And at least in the case of Tumblr, the hack involved stealing addresses and subject lines from a handful of support accounts.
Tumblr informed me that the Zendesk hackers may have the email address and the subject lines of emails. The email content wasn't mentioned has part of the hacker's take, nor did they say that email accounts themselves were hacked. Nothing more than this, at least according to what I've received from Tumblr.
Removing the Start Button because it's rarely used is like removing the jack from your car because it's rarely used. Frequency of use is a different quality than necessity.
And I'm guessing you're gonna need a CAL for every Surface RT you want to connect to that Server 2012 you'll have to buy to make this all go.
Well, good thing it's rare. I've got a friend in Elgin with a herd of 20 - 30 sheep, which provide her livelihood. Poison grass would be a rather bad thing for her.