Hold on, did you say this was from a research lab trying to innovate the user interface? The interface is cute, but not really usable.
Lets bring back good old Donald A. Norman ("Design of Everyday Things"). He esentially says people shouldn't have to remember a lot of 'unusual'/not everyday information when using things; the information should be there at hand.
Lets have a look at Itsy: no visible information aside from the name, only a possibility to it through a bunch of undefined moves - which probably vary contextually. Poor user has to learn a whole new interface (not any more natural than what s/he's leaving behind)
Poor user; at least keyboards have letters printed on them.
Then again, the voice interface seems interesting.
With the recent upsurge in interest and availability, is wireless technology not a serious alternative to pulling your house apart with a bunch of wires which may need replacement? Apple, for one, is edging to having wireless as standard in their computers.
To avoid scrutiny, this is what the government is doing to save all those workers at the potentially closed Longbridge auto plant (which BMW might close (for all you outside the UK))... Imagine that, 11000 people filtering emails;-)
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I have two words - digital video. A little bird sung in my ear that Star Wars, in 320x200 window, takes 1.2 gb of space. How much would the whole movie occupy? - How _many_ 200 gB hard drives would one need to store one's favourite movies online?
With digital movie distribution we're beyond needing 200 gB hard drives already! (Hell, a digital VCR could probably do with a bit more....)...
Ehhhh... Did anyone say HDTV???? --- Ahhhh!!!! A 400 gB HD wouldn't be enough....
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Hold on, did you say this was from a research lab trying to innovate the user interface? The interface is cute, but not really usable.
Lets bring back good old Donald A. Norman ("Design of Everyday Things"). He esentially says people shouldn't have to remember a lot of 'unusual'/not everyday information when using things; the information should be there at hand.
Lets have a look at Itsy: no visible information aside from the name, only a possibility to it through a bunch of undefined moves - which probably vary contextually. Poor user has to learn a whole new interface (not any more natural than what s/he's leaving behind)
Poor user; at least keyboards have letters printed on them.
Then again, the voice interface seems interesting.
With the recent upsurge in interest and availability, is wireless technology not a serious alternative to pulling your house apart with a bunch of wires which may need replacement?
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Apple, for one, is edging to having wireless as standard in their computers.
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All right, all right
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Lots of 'nice' screen-shots of the OS (be they good or bad) but what I _really_ want to see is what it looks like when there's a crash
What does a MacOS X bomb look like? Has it been replaced with something more timely (read: PC) - a popping baloon?
Has it been replaced by a quicktime animation - (the system stays up only long enough to play it
To avoid scrutiny, this is what the government is doing to save all those workers at the potentially closed Longbridge auto plant (which BMW might close (for all you outside the UK))... Imagine that, 11000 people filtering emails ;-)
Miska
I have two words - digital video. A little bird sung in my ear that Star Wars, in 320x200 window, takes 1.2 gb of space. How much would the whole movie occupy? - How _many_ 200 gB hard drives would one need to store one's favourite movies online?
With digital movie distribution we're beyond needing 200 gB hard drives already! (Hell, a digital VCR could probably do with a bit more....)...
Ehhhh... Did anyone say HDTV???? --- Ahhhh!!!! A 400 gB HD wouldn't be enough....
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