Bruce says that Evil Dead 2 was his favorite. They had more money than ED1, but not so much that they had to give in to the studio's whims.
And there were tons of memorable scenes in ED2 (versus the only one in AOD, "klaatu verata..."): Linda's head and the chainsaw, the laughing deer head, the monster in the basement's eye popping out, and everything involving the severed hand. The cinematography was innovative, with the weird angles and flying Bruces, and has yet to be duplicated.
Bruce Campbell, one of the most charismatic actors of our time, was in his finest hour to date.
A tree structure IS a perfect represention of the data, as the article noted. Traversing hyperlinked documents is much more analogous to tree traversal than the stack-based data model currently in use by most browsers.
Also, contrary to what the article says I don't think temporal data is relevant to web browsers. They don't want to know when they clicked a link, just how to get back to where they came from.
If you liken the web to a maze, most people don't want to go back through the tunnels that were dead ends.
I agree that it would be nice to represent the history in different views but honestly, how many times have you ever wished you could sort your browser's history?
The back button is used so frequently because it's so usable, other than the lost links problem. Enhancing it by adding submenus where there is a banch in the history tree doesn't take anything from existing users and gives more info to users when they want it.
Ok, shoot me for replying to myself, but I thought about it more and it occurred to me that the best UI tool isn't a explorer-style tree, but a multiple-level menu--similar to existing back-menus, but branched:
BACK BUTTON ^ Page3 (last visited) | page4 (linked from page3)
| page5 (linked from page3)
| page6 (linked from page3) Page2 (linked from page1) Page1 (started here)
You are currently on page7, linked from page3. As you can see, it only branches when the back button is hit on page4,5 or 6, and you choose another link on page3. So back-button behavior is preserved, but enhanced to prevent information (clicked link) loss.
I've had it for two years and have had good service, aside from the flaky Fujitsu Speedport modems (yeah, I know they're not technically modems). The tech support guys are friendly and go out of their way to return calls, send people out, and fix problems.
The service is pretty cheap, too. I got in when it was 32.95/month + fees. Now I think it's $39.95 which is still a good deal for 768/384 up/down kbps, dynamic ip. Dynamic IP hasn't been a problem since I use dyndns for a free domain name.
They're probably fighting to save the big trees to hide the little trees.
There was a pretty good movie, Homegrown , about pot growers in Humboldt County.
I've been looking for them for months and tried googling and LUGnetting without results. I know they were made before 1975. They came in a set of all-rectangular bricks that was big enough to build a structure I could actually sit inside, at least when I was 4 yrs old.
I've got a kid now who's coming up on that age and I'd like him to have some.
Gotta agree with him on this one. I finally got out of a multi-year project where we used a gigantic POS graphics package as the back end. It added unnecessary complexity and over a year of hacked code to what should have been a month-long project (had we coded the graphics functions ourselves).
We got stuck with the package because the client chose it, and refused to admit they were wrong. When the project when 10X over budget and people got fired, they still stayed with the graphics package and even upgraded it to the 2.0 version.
The only way out was to quote them an astronomical figure for upgrading our software to match the POS and hope they wouldn't bite. I cheered when they politely declined.
It's good to have a job where you can choose your clients.
I'm tired of saying 'these data' when everybody else says 'this data'.
Common usage becomes standard usage, as in Data, singular or plural?, where they compare the pluralization of data in some technical and popular journals. The verdict: nobody says datum, so it's ok to use singular data.
Now if we can acknowledge the fact that 'they' may be incorrect, but is a much better replacement for the indefinite 'him or her', I'd be satisfied and wouldn't ask for any more usage changes.
I went to college with a very smart guy who also had diabetes. His senior project was a program called GlucoPilot that took data directly from his glucose meter and fed it into his palmpilot, compiled it and produced graphs and stuff.
I haven't found design patterns to work as well as rule-based coding.
A philosophy I build into all of my GUI applications is "show the user as much useful information as possible". Users make thousands of decisions a day and informed decisions are easier to make. To that end, I eliminate useless information as much as possible to make room for the good stuff.
There are simple facts that need to be remembered while designing a UI: - eyes move more easily than fingers - buttons don't provide useful information (but can!) - scrolling is useless and should be avoided - minimize clicks, mouse moves and keystrokes - informed decisions are better decisions - context-based mouse clicks make sense - keyboard shortcuts save time - don't invent new keystrokes for old functions - everything should work as expected - file managers should show more files, db apps should show more data - people can't choose from more than 7 items unless they are grouped
BTW There's no such thing as information overload. There's only useless information. If everything you show on a GUI is well organized it's all useful.
Depends on your definition of 'scam'. Another company profitting from a misspelling of Thawte's name seems like a scam to me, especially when Thawte's name is all that they have to sell.
And the fine print was in a font so small that it wasn't legible at 1024x768. Does it still count?
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Diversity makes the world go 'round, folks.
Bruce says that Evil Dead 2 was his favorite. They had more money than ED1, but not so much that they had to give in to the studio's whims.
..."): Linda's head and the chainsaw, the laughing deer head, the monster in the basement's eye popping out, and everything involving the severed hand. The cinematography was innovative, with the weird angles and flying Bruces, and has yet to be duplicated.
And there were tons of memorable scenes in ED2 (versus the only one in AOD, "klaatu verata
Bruce Campbell, one of the most charismatic actors of our time, was in his finest hour to date.
Maybe I should ask for a raise.
Easy-to-click link
Troops is my personal favorite--It's a very funny spoof of Cops with Stormtroopers and Jawas.
A tree structure IS a perfect represention of the data, as the article noted. Traversing hyperlinked documents is much more analogous to tree traversal than the stack-based data model currently in use by most browsers.
Also, contrary to what the article says I don't think temporal data is relevant to web browsers. They don't want to know when they clicked a link, just how to get back to where they came from.
If you liken the web to a maze, most people don't want to go back through the tunnels that were dead ends.
I agree that it would be nice to represent the history in different views but honestly, how many times have you ever wished you could sort your browser's history?
The back button is used so frequently because it's so usable, other than the lost links problem. Enhancing it by adding submenus where there is a banch in the history tree doesn't take anything from existing users and gives more info to users when they want it.
Ok, shoot me for replying to myself, but I thought about it more and it occurred to me that the best UI tool isn't a explorer-style tree, but a multiple-level menu--similar to existing back-menus, but branched:
BACK BUTTON ^
Page3 (last visited) | page4 (linked from page3)
| page5 (linked from page3)
| page6 (linked from page3)
Page2 (linked from page1)
Page1 (started here)
You are currently on page7, linked from page3. As you can see, it only branches when the back button is hit on page4,5 or 6, and you choose another link on page3. So back-button behavior is preserved, but enhanced to prevent information (clicked link) loss.
When you hit your back button and select another link, you're really branching the tree of visited sites.
It makes more sense to have an explorer-style tree view than a history. That way you can navigate a site and still have an idea where you have been.
I think this was the link
I'm high?
What about oregon's natural beauties?
I've had it for two years and have had good service, aside from the flaky Fujitsu Speedport modems (yeah, I know they're not technically modems). The tech support guys are friendly and go out of their way to return calls, send people out, and fix problems.
The service is pretty cheap, too. I got in when it was 32.95/month + fees. Now I think it's $39.95 which is still a good deal for 768/384 up/down kbps, dynamic ip. Dynamic IP hasn't been a problem since I use dyndns for a free domain name.
They're probably fighting to save the big trees to hide the little trees.
There was a pretty good movie, Homegrown , about pot growers in Humboldt County.
Bill, YOU STUD!!!
Oops, I guess I misread it.
use REALLY loud speakers.
Then go to a lan party where you can frag your neighbor with 173 decibels. That would be coooooooool.
To hook up with your old friends from BBSing days. I only wish a few of mine would show up. Sigh... Underworld Network Hawaii, where are you?
Be nice, he's using IIS
I've been looking for them for months and tried googling and LUGnetting without results. I know they were made before 1975. They came in a set of all-rectangular bricks that was big enough to build a structure I could actually sit inside, at least when I was 4 yrs old.
I've got a kid now who's coming up on that age and I'd like him to have some.
Help would be appreciated.
Gotta agree with him on this one. I finally got out of a multi-year project where we used a gigantic POS graphics package as the back end. It added unnecessary complexity and over a year of hacked code to what should have been a month-long project (had we coded the graphics functions ourselves).
We got stuck with the package because the client chose it, and refused to admit they were wrong. When the project when 10X over budget and people got fired, they still stayed with the graphics package and even upgraded it to the 2.0 version.
The only way out was to quote them an astronomical figure for upgrading our software to match the POS and hope they wouldn't bite. I cheered when they politely declined.
It's good to have a job where you can choose your clients.
I'm tired of saying 'these data' when everybody else says 'this data'.
Common usage becomes standard usage, as in
Data, singular or plural?, where they compare the pluralization of data in some technical and popular journals. The verdict: nobody says datum, so it's ok to use singular data.
Now if we can acknowledge the fact that 'they' may be incorrect, but is a much better replacement for the indefinite 'him or her', I'd be satisfied and wouldn't ask for any more usage changes.
I went to college with a very smart guy who also had diabetes. His senior project was a program called GlucoPilot that took data directly from his glucose meter and fed it into his palmpilot, compiled it and produced graphs and stuff.
You might find it useful.
His website is http://www.tweak.org
And GlucoPilot is available from healthetech.com
You want to help people who defend your rights? Become a member of the ACLU
Call your mom.
I haven't found design patterns to work as well as rule-based coding.
A philosophy I build into all of my GUI applications is "show the user as much useful information as possible". Users make thousands of decisions a day and informed decisions are easier to make. To that end, I eliminate useless information as much as possible to make room for the good stuff.
There are simple facts that need to be remembered while designing a UI:
- eyes move more easily than fingers
- buttons don't provide useful information (but can!)
- scrolling is useless and should be avoided
- minimize clicks, mouse moves and keystrokes
- informed decisions are better decisions
- context-based mouse clicks make sense
- keyboard shortcuts save time
- don't invent new keystrokes for old functions
- everything should work as expected
- file managers should show more files, db apps should show more data
- people can't choose from more than 7 items unless they are grouped
BTW There's no such thing as information overload. There's only useless information. If everything you show on a GUI is well organized it's all useful.
Maybe they can be refueled at the lavatory.
33 years old and still making potty jokes. It's sad, really.
Depends on your definition of 'scam'. Another company profitting from a misspelling of Thawte's name seems like a scam to me, especially when Thawte's name is all that they have to sell.
And the fine print was in a font so small that it wasn't legible at 1024x768. Does it still count?
And appears to be a different company than Thawte. I wouldn't trust them (or nelsonal now that I've read his endorsement).
Thwate's site is a different design than Thawte's site but still uses the 'Thawte' name. This looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Here it is at Sharp's site