Perhaps the author, being an elitist know-it-all about lovely user interfaces should look around a bit.. there's plenty of examples, such as Window Blinds from Stardock.
But the answer truely is that software doesn't need to be pretty to be functional. Most of the time all the eye-candy crap just gets in the way or slows it down.
That's why you weigh the cart before you let them out the door. If the total cart weight doesn't match the total weight of the items scanned then you know a few things were missed.. but then again, what a haddle that would be..:)
Seriously, I have to agree with you. This article reads like it was written by my Dad. Obviously this guy doesn't embrace change very well, and doesn't have a salary based on selling software.
So you can spoof domain names, you can spoof sender IP's. What's to stop someone from just looking up a valid SPF domain and IP and spoofing both at the same time?
I use data modules exclusively for database apps. You can stuff all your DB components on your data module, contain all your database calls within that module, and expose only what you need to the rest of the application.
The company I work for has some Delphi products, and the original architect of those admits that Delphi makes them hard to maintain or change
I bet that has nothing to do with Delphi and everything to do with poor design skills. I maintain several large projects in Delphi and the only things that make it hard to maintain are bad decisions made by inexperienced programmers.
Further, due to the strong community around Linux, new users will receive education and encouragement in areas such as email security that are currently lacking in the Windows world, which should help to alleviate any concerns on the part of newbies.
Yeah right. I garuntee if my Mom started using Linux all she'd be doing the same things she's doing now. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them check if it's contaminated first...
Not only do we have the future of microprocessor technology, we have a people researching as a method to connect it to living flesh.
Not to put a damper on the overall excitement of the potential of this research, but I think he's refering to "organic" as materials that contain carbon and not necessarily organic as in living flesh, which most of happens to contain carbon as well.
Unless of course he's reffering to organic as in organic produce but somehow I doubt it...
The dialog can safely resize to eliminate wasted screenspace (by only taking up enough space for the relevant options) because the information you're looking for is always in the same location regardless of dialog size.
Umm.. no. I would assume (since I haven't actually seen it happen) that when the dialog resizes to accomdate the current tab, the "Cancel" and "OK" buttons move to a different location. Therefore the user would have to spend extra time looking for the new location of these buttons...
Acting with the genuine intention to save somebodys life is (under any legal system) is a legtimimate mitigation for any crime, up to and including murder.
ummm.. huh?!?!?!
So you're saying that it's all right for abortion doctors to be murdered by sicko right-wing religious fanactics?
Has anyone here really stopped and considered that millions of people driving personal trasportation devices is just going to be bad for the environment regardless of how they are powered? Sure, switching to a cleaner energy source will clear up alot of the pollution from emmisions, but what about the 'other' emmisions?
For instance, how often do you replace the tires on your vehicle? Once aevery year or so... and where do you think all that tread is going?
Wiper fluid... lubricants... turtlewax... it all adds up, you know? Maybe we should focus on ways to scrub our environment instead of just limiting what millions of people release into the world every day.
I just happened to notice a few particular things after reading his rant (I HATE ALL UPPERCASE):
1) He will never ever notice any sort of impact until ebooks are better than regular books. Maybe ten years from now, who knows..
2) It has never been the intent when pirating media to hurt the artists themselves, but instead the middleman distribution control who are pimping the artists' works.. I'm sure it's different with books and publishers than with the RIAA, but I've never heard any numbers of what kind of cut from book sales do popular writers get? How much more/less do writers get from unit sales compared with musicians?
3) Advertising the fact that people are getting free stuff 'illegally' will only increase the number of people getting free stuff. "I can download Ellison from the newsgroups? Sweet!" or something...
I totally agree.. the only way to insure a steady stream of quality posting is to limit access to the system via some kind of 'weeding out' process... at the BBS I used to run (Free Beer BBS in Atlanta) I made a voting system where new users 'applied' and were voted in or out by the rest of the users. Of course, Free Beer wasn't supported by advertising either...
And another thing... you'll never recreate the feel of a BBS community, mainly due to the fact that most of your BBS posters were all from the same area code. Even though I had a rather large LD user base, only a few of them actually wasted their precious time following message threads.
the software department where I work has their own big room where we've got four programmers sitting in each corner, a guy who just test and builds installs off to one side, and a big table in the middle for meetings and ad hoc discussions.. we used to have two couches and a coffee table in the middle, but that became impractible as we got larger.
It's WAY better than being off on your own, since we're always asking each other questions or commenting about/. stories.. and its totally open - no cube walls, and everyone faces towards the center.
We do have one rule - if you want to crank the music, bring your own headphones...
As far as 'war' goes, lan gaming is also much more fun when you can gloat right in front of your opponent..:)
I doubt it's nearly as black and white as that... though I bet you certainly could point out the major driving force behind many things MS releases - "Bob" had to be a marketing decision while TweakUI was released from the geek trenches.
At my company as lead developer I make most of the decisions regarding new features, while marketing usually just 'fine tunes' a little... shrug. Of course our marketing isn't nearly as institutionalized as MS's is I'm sure...
Um, actually, I believe Heinlein wrote a novel called _The Sixth Collumn_ where the scary Chinese invade America (of course we defeat them with technology disguised as religion)...
to me, the thing I hate most about the WIMP interface design is the flat desktop. I would MUCH rather have a volume to store objects (icons) and have the ability to zoom around. I really like the space metaphor - instead of root/folder/subfolder/etc. you could have galaxy/solar system/planet/moon/etc... OK, maybe its not a good idea to have all your icons in orbit around the local sun, but it would be very nice to at least zoom in and out and change camera views.
First, has anyone ever decided to catalog as many EULAs they could find? Something like eula.org or even eulabuse.org would be rather informative..
Second, and kinda offtopic, I used to run a DOS BBS that was at one time harboring, ahem, certain 'evaluation copies' of commercial software. One of the things that was popular at the time was to put a discliamer but before someone could apply to be a user that stated roughly 'If you are any way associated with law enforcement you must disconnect and erase all known references to this BBS'... doesn't it seem like an individual could use their own personal EULA to protect their freedom?
it really would have been nice during the beta testing to have any sort of feedback at all from the developers.. is just a simple 'Found a bug and server's will be down till we fix it' too hard?
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Of course, it would help if I went and read the entire article.. :) oopsey poopsey..
Perhaps the author, being an elitist know-it-all about lovely user interfaces should look around a bit.. there's plenty of examples, such as Window Blinds from Stardock.
But the answer truely is that software doesn't need to be pretty to be functional. Most of the time all the eye-candy crap just gets in the way or slows it down.
Get a new phone.. I've got google on mine. :)
That's why you weigh the cart before you let them out the door. If the total cart weight doesn't match the total weight of the items scanned then you know a few things were missed.. but then again, what a haddle that would be.. :)
Seriously, I have to agree with you. This article reads like it was written by my Dad. Obviously this guy doesn't embrace change very well, and doesn't have a salary based on selling software.
And maybe I'm missing something too...
So you can spoof domain names, you can spoof sender IP's. What's to stop someone from just looking up a valid SPF domain and IP and spoofing both at the same time?
Actually, I think the message is now "just share with people you can trust, not the whole world".
Between my coworkers and I, we have enough music to last us the rest of the decade.
That said, delphi can be a little nutty for updating to new versions.
I agree with that wholehardedly... but then again I tend to skip every other release (went from 1, 2, 4, and now 6).
And that's why I won't ever go the Kylix route unless I absolutely have to...
I use data modules exclusively for database apps. You can stuff all your DB components on your data module, contain all your database calls within that module, and expose only what you need to the rest of the application.
The company I work for has some Delphi products, and the original architect of those admits that Delphi makes them hard to maintain or change
I bet that has nothing to do with Delphi and everything to do with poor design skills. I maintain several large projects in Delphi and the only things that make it hard to maintain are bad decisions made by inexperienced programmers.
What version was that, Delphi 2? They've had ODBC for years...
Yeha, I love this quote:
Further, due to the strong community around Linux, new users will receive education and encouragement in areas such as email security that are currently lacking in the Windows world, which should help to alleviate any concerns on the part of newbies.
Yeah right. I garuntee if my Mom started using Linux all she'd be doing the same things she's doing now. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them check if it's contaminated first...
Here here.. and to add to that, authors continuing a series ad nauseu^H^H^H^H^H^Hinfinitum..
I stopped reading fantasy when I couldn't finish Robert Jordan's ninth book in the Wheel of Time series.
And Piers Anthony just wasn't funny anymore.
Unless of course he's reffering to organic as in organic produce but somehow I doubt it...
The dialog can safely resize to eliminate wasted screenspace (by only taking up enough space for the relevant options) because the information you're looking for is always in the same location regardless of dialog size.
Umm.. no. I would assume (since I haven't actually seen it happen) that when the dialog resizes to accomdate the current tab, the "Cancel" and "OK" buttons move to a different location. Therefore the user would have to spend extra time looking for the new location of these buttons...
Acting with the genuine intention to save somebodys life is (under any legal system) is a legtimimate mitigation for any crime, up to and including murder.
ummm.. huh?!?!?!
So you're saying that it's all right for abortion doctors to be murdered by sicko right-wing religious fanactics?
Has anyone here really stopped and considered that millions of people driving personal trasportation devices is just going to be bad for the environment regardless of how they are powered? Sure, switching to a cleaner energy source will clear up alot of the pollution from emmisions, but what about the 'other' emmisions?
For instance, how often do you replace the tires on your vehicle? Once aevery year or so... and where do you think all that tread is going?
Wiper fluid... lubricants... turtlewax... it all adds up, you know? Maybe we should focus on ways to scrub our environment instead of just limiting what millions of people release into the world every day.
I just happened to notice a few particular things after reading his rant (I HATE ALL UPPERCASE):
1) He will never ever notice any sort of impact until ebooks are better than regular books. Maybe ten years from now, who knows..
2) It has never been the intent when pirating media to hurt the artists themselves, but instead the middleman distribution control who are pimping the artists' works.. I'm sure it's different with books and publishers than with the RIAA, but I've never heard any numbers of what kind of cut from book sales do popular writers get? How much more/less do writers get from unit sales compared with musicians?
3) Advertising the fact that people are getting free stuff 'illegally' will only increase the number of people getting free stuff. "I can download Ellison from the newsgroups? Sweet!" or something...
I totally agree.. the only way to insure a steady stream of quality posting is to limit access to the system via some kind of 'weeding out' process... at the BBS I used to run (Free Beer BBS in Atlanta) I made a voting system where new users 'applied' and were voted in or out by the rest of the users. Of course, Free Beer wasn't supported by advertising either...
And another thing... you'll never recreate the feel of a BBS community, mainly due to the fact that most of your BBS posters were all from the same area code. Even though I had a rather large LD user base, only a few of them actually wasted their precious time following message threads.
the software department where I work has their own big room where we've got four programmers sitting in each corner, a guy who just test and builds installs off to one side, and a big table in the middle for meetings and ad hoc discussions.. we used to have two couches and a coffee table in the middle, but that became impractible as we got larger.
/. stories.. and its totally open - no cube walls, and everyone faces towards the center.
:)
It's WAY better than being off on your own, since we're always asking each other questions or commenting about
We do have one rule - if you want to crank the music, bring your own headphones...
As far as 'war' goes, lan gaming is also much more fun when you can gloat right in front of your opponent..
I doubt it's nearly as black and white as that... though I bet you certainly could point out the major driving force behind many things MS releases - "Bob" had to be a marketing decision while TweakUI was released from the geek trenches.
At my company as lead developer I make most of the decisions regarding new features, while marketing usually just 'fine tunes' a little... shrug. Of course our marketing isn't nearly as institutionalized as MS's is I'm sure...
Um, actually, I believe Heinlein wrote a novel called _The Sixth Collumn_ where the scary Chinese invade America (of course we defeat them with technology disguised as religion)...
to me, the thing I hate most about the WIMP interface design is the flat desktop. I would MUCH rather have a volume to store objects (icons) and have the ability to zoom around. I really like the space metaphor - instead of root/folder/subfolder/etc. you could have galaxy/solar system/planet/moon/etc... OK, maybe its not a good idea to have all your icons in orbit around the local sun, but it would be very nice to at least zoom in and out and change camera views.
First, has anyone ever decided to catalog as many EULAs they could find? Something like eula.org or even eulabuse.org would be rather informative..
Second, and kinda offtopic, I used to run a DOS BBS that was at one time harboring, ahem, certain 'evaluation copies' of commercial software. One of the things that was popular at the time was to put a discliamer but before someone could apply to be a user that stated roughly 'If you are any way associated with law enforcement you must disconnect and erase all known references to this BBS'... doesn't it seem like an individual could use their own personal EULA to protect their freedom?
it really would have been nice during the beta testing to have any sort of feedback at all from the developers.. is just a simple 'Found a bug and server's will be down till we fix it' too hard?