I think sometimes people have been educated if not almost brainwashed into believing that point and drool interfaces and flashy graphics make for a better user interface.
But POS systems are fairly specialist. By removing excess graphics you can allow the end user to view the information they *need* in a clearly presented form. Anti-aliased fonts would be nice because higher resolution fonts can be more clear. Animated gifs don't really add any value though:-)
From an intranet development point of view, people like w.i.m.p.-driven interfaces as they're easy to learn but if they have to use them every day (possibly unlikely in a pure web field) they start asking for keyboard shortcuts because they're quicker...
If you watch a user on a unix-telnet system (like one used at a mobile phone company I worked for) you see them struggle to learn to 'archane' keyboard commands but once they have the experience they can switch between screens and get things done with almost amazing speed. The moment they we're 'upgraded' to a windows based system, they had to learn again.
The users never reach the levels of speed previously attainable because physically moving the mouse to the neccessary command buttons takes longer than, say, the time to move between keys on a keyboard.
Despite all this, I've still got to concede that 90%+ of all users, if given a demo of two new systems, will say they 'prefer' the graphical one over the text-based one. Talk about expensive window-dressing!
As Jason is known to many in the Linux community, we really can't call it cheap that he uses the current attention he is experiencing to highlight drink driving.
Ultimately he is sacrificing his privacy by sharing his (and his wifes) personal experiences of the whole incident.
Christopher Reeve surely doesn't relish people seeing him as he is now rather than the "indestructible super hero" he used to be able to easily play? But he doesn't shy away from the attention his tragedy has created, instead choosing to use it to help promote awareness of his and others challenges.
Does Diana's death in a drunk-driver related incident lend more credit to her (still ongoing) land-mine crusade than it would if her death had actually been at the hands on a land-mine?
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But POS systems are fairly specialist. By removing excess graphics you can allow the end user to view the information they *need* in a clearly presented form. Anti-aliased fonts would be nice because higher resolution fonts can be more clear. Animated gifs don't really add any value though :-)
From an intranet development point of view, people like w.i.m.p.-driven interfaces as they're easy to learn but if they have to use them every day (possibly unlikely in a pure web field) they start asking for keyboard shortcuts because they're quicker...
If you watch a user on a unix-telnet system (like one used at a mobile phone company I worked for) you see them struggle to learn to 'archane' keyboard commands but once they have the experience they can switch between screens and get things done with almost amazing speed. The moment they we're 'upgraded' to a windows based system, they had to learn again.
The users never reach the levels of speed previously attainable because physically moving the mouse to the neccessary command buttons takes longer than, say, the time to move between keys on a keyboard.
Despite all this, I've still got to concede that 90%+ of all users, if given a demo of two new systems, will say they 'prefer' the graphical one over the text-based one. Talk about expensive window-dressing!
Ultimately he is sacrificing his privacy by sharing his (and his wifes) personal experiences of the whole incident.
Christopher Reeve surely doesn't relish people seeing him as he is now rather than the "indestructible super hero" he used to be able to easily play? But he doesn't shy away from the attention his tragedy has created, instead choosing to use it to help promote awareness of his and others challenges.
Does Diana's death in a drunk-driver related incident lend more credit to her (still ongoing) land-mine crusade than it would if her death had actually been at the hands on a land-mine?
6. Are you also acquiring the board-related business?
No, the board business remains with 3dfx.
So what chips are they going to put on these boards, NVidia??? Now that would be ironic...