Well iChat can now display keynote / powerpoint slides, and can remote control desktops like VNC. This is a fairly useful dev tool in combination with audio and or video conferencing.
It'll be quite nice to use this as a tool to show and illustrate specification documents, builds of software, etc.
Yet, this will only be handy if Apple develops a Windows and a Tiger client. If it only works with other Leopard users... forget it.
It'll probably ship around that time, but I doubt it will be ready.
It looks like MS is going to do what Apple did with OS X. They're going to get Vista "good enough" and ship that. By the end of the year massive patches will have finally made it usable.
Ahh, gotcha. That parent post was worded oddly. I thought the Real software would start showing up in FireFox downloads from mozilla.org.... but it's the other way around. Moreover, from the looks of it, I'm not the only one who thought that.
By why the hell don't they distribute something like VLC or MPlayer? Real loves to brag and brag about their download stats, but I imagine most of those numbers are from their install base. I practically NEVER need to view RM. Almost everything I run into is Quicktime, MPEG, Windows Media, DivX, or Flash Video.
The more features you add to an OS the better it is.
That's what I've learned from this contest.
Ignore the fact that the finder, like explorer, it's a fucked up hodgepodge of mixed conventions and metaphors... just cram some more features into to it. Tired of having a desktop or dock cluttered with several windows all viewing the same god damn directory? Well now you can have those windows hidden in finder tabs! Weee!! Now you can forget about currently opened windows even faster!! RAM be damned!
Or what about viewing windows with windows in side of them!! Sure it's not a MacOS convention at all, but wouldn't it be awesome? Ohh, and make sure to put all close boxes on the right-hand side of nested windows... Mac users are accustom to seeing it on the left hand side, and you're going to want to confuse or slow them down.
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Ughh, but seriously, those entries where full of human factors disasters.
But you can't sit here and tell me that, in the day and age when we're blowing up near photorealistic procedurally programmed monsters, we can't sit down a GD table and agree on a way to embed a stupid typeface or figure out how to get halfway decent tracking.
The web ain't a book, but that doesn't mean it's exempt from the rules of visual communication.
My main beef with CSS is the fact that it completely bastardizes typography. It's a horrible horrible solution for type.
Sure, it's simple. I'll give it that. Nevertheless, typography is, without a doubt, one of the most complicated things to master with the design industry. There is an insane amount of visual communication and cognitive psych research behind it (and therefore, there's no way I can possibly articulate it's complexity within this tinny comment box).
If you ask me, we really need to transition to functional vector graphic and embedded type solutions. CSS simply does not have the toolset to address even the most rudimentary aspects of typography.
Simple is good... but people with down's syndrome are also simple, and that doesn't mean there effective staffing for executive management.
Bah. I'm a professional graphic and interactive designer (and developer), and I combat this BS mentality every god damn day at work.
I'm not going to speak for the multitude of shitty designers in the world, but I will speak for the professionally trained designers. Those are the people who had 70 hour weeks in college and spent all day and night studying the psychology and sociology of visual communication.
The devil's in the details. Look at the recent redesign of the Wall Street Journal. Most people would -never- notice the miniscule detailed alterations. The tiny serifs, the kerning / leading / tracking, etc. Nevertheless, the redesign resulted in a paper that held more content and even increased reading speed and comprehension.
Problem is, it you must to attend to a lot of seemingly insignificant details in order to have a pay off like this. If you don't attend to these details you end up with something that doesn't "work" like it should.
You can kill someone by just focusing on the stereo display instead of the road, too. This guy was just more Darwinian than most
Have you ever actually -used- an iPod while driving?
Most car stereos have a UI that is, at least to some extent, designed for the environment it resides in. This is far from the case with the iPod, Zen Micro, or just about any other portable media player I've touched.
I try not to change playlists or albums while I'm driving with my iPod. That stupid thing has caused me to drive outside of the white lines on several occasions. Oddly enough, other monuments to distraction (such as my phone or car stereo) aren't nearly as bad.
The iPod has a great little GUI, but it does not suit driving at all. I'm quite surprised some litigious bastards have not taken Apple to court over this yet.
7. You can get involved in projects that have absolutely no impact on the real world. You can work on things simply because theyâ(TM)re interesting and fun. You often get paid to do this.... is really only applicable to PhDs, or talented / well networked master's degree students. I sure as hell did not get compensated for any of my silly theoretical projects. Yet I did get compensated for certain real world projects.
Free advice that's actually worth something: get as much schooling done as you can all at once. It's hard to quit your job, sell a house and a car, and move into a tiny two-bedroom apartment. (You can believe me, because I did it, and it was only supreme desperation that made it possible - along with my wife's support, which not everybody can count on.) That's pretty much what's required. Almost nobody is capable of getting a graduate degree while sticking it out in a full-time job.
All in all, it depends on what you're doing. If you're only getting a MBA, you can probably continue to work full time. Heck, I know a number of people who have had their tuition paid for by their full time employer.
That said, there is no way on god's green earth I could have worked full time while attending grad school. I was in a fairly intense graphic and industrial design program. 9 units would generally result in 70 hour weeks. Every week felt like undergrad finals. It was normal for me to pull one or two all nighters every week.
Moreover, nothing annoyed me more then being sneered at by some moron with and MBA who didn't understand why I was broke, tired, taking forever, and had absolutely no life.
Some post graduate degrees are easy to attain, some will make you wish you were in boot camp instead.
The author seems fairly certain that a patent equals an imminent new feature, but that's not the case. A patent is a patent. Apple may implement this in 6 Gen iPods, they may wait for later revisions, they may never implement the feature.
Technology companies, especially Apple, have piles patented software features, devices, etc that have never seen the light of day. And speaking of piles, one of which is actually called "piles."
As I recall, Apple also has also recently patented several different new hardware interfaces for the iPod. You can bet money they're not all going to be implemented. Heck, none of them may be implemented.
As a designer I'll contest to the IDSA not being "in bed" with anyone... aside from industrial designers... and perhaps collective gatherings in pubs.
Take the Reveal CT-80 on page 6. http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/06/idea2006/s ource/6.htm That explosive detection machine may not scan as many bags per hour as the competition, but it is intuitive, affordable, and miles ahead of the competition when you consider how the machine exists within an environment or how users interact with the hardware.
I'm not saying engineering and features are not important, I'm simply saying those products are reviewed on a number of levels.
In the case of that camera I wouldn't spend time harping on what isn't there. I'd concentrate on why a panel of seasoned industrial designers found value in that particular product.
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The remix / combination of several songs.
Well iChat can now display keynote / powerpoint slides, and can remote control desktops like VNC. This is a fairly useful dev tool in combination with audio and or video conferencing.
It'll be quite nice to use this as a tool to show and illustrate specification documents, builds of software, etc.
Yet, this will only be handy if Apple develops a Windows and a Tiger client. If it only works with other Leopard users... forget it.
why is this "insightful?"
It'll probably ship around that time, but I doubt it will be ready.
It looks like MS is going to do what Apple did with OS X. They're going to get Vista "good enough" and ship that. By the end of the year massive patches will have finally made it usable.
Ahh, gotcha. That parent post was worded oddly. I thought the Real software would start showing up in FireFox downloads from mozilla.org.... but it's the other way around. Moreover, from the looks of it, I'm not the only one who thought that.
So, really, this isn't very "ewww" after all.
Seriously.
By why the hell don't they distribute something like VLC or MPlayer? Real loves to brag and brag about their download stats, but I imagine most of those numbers are from their install base. I practically NEVER need to view RM. Almost everything I run into is Quicktime, MPEG, Windows Media, DivX, or Flash Video.
"F*ck you, F*ck you, F*ck you, you're cool, F*ck you, I'm out"
The more features you add to an OS the better it is.
That's what I've learned from this contest.
Ignore the fact that the finder, like explorer, it's a fucked up hodgepodge of mixed conventions and metaphors... just cram some more features into to it. Tired of having a desktop or dock cluttered with several windows all viewing the same god damn directory? Well now you can have those windows hidden in finder tabs! Weee!! Now you can forget about currently opened windows even faster!! RAM be damned!
Or what about viewing windows with windows in side of them!! Sure it's not a MacOS convention at all, but wouldn't it be awesome? Ohh, and make sure to put all close boxes on the right-hand side of nested windows... Mac users are accustom to seeing it on the left hand side, and you're going to want to confuse or slow them down.
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Ughh, but seriously, those entries where full of human factors disasters.
As if OS X doesn't have a enough of them already.
But you can't sit here and tell me that, in the day and age when we're blowing up near photorealistic procedurally programmed monsters, we can't sit down a GD table and agree on a way to embed a stupid typeface or figure out how to get halfway decent tracking.
The web ain't a book, but that doesn't mean it's exempt from the rules of visual communication.
Who busts out with Fatah jokes? Seriously
That's just weird.
This post is about as funny as Steve Martin's "The Pink Panther"
Hide it in your Oakland Raiders Starter parka.... muggers don't seem to care about those anymore.
My main beef with CSS is the fact that it completely bastardizes typography. It's a horrible horrible solution for type.
Sure, it's simple. I'll give it that. Nevertheless, typography is, without a doubt, one of the most complicated things to master with the design industry. There is an insane amount of visual communication and cognitive psych research behind it (and therefore, there's no way I can possibly articulate it's complexity within this tinny comment box).
If you ask me, we really need to transition to functional vector graphic and embedded type solutions.
CSS simply does not have the toolset to address even the most rudimentary aspects of typography.
Simple is good... but people with down's syndrome are also simple, and that doesn't mean there effective staffing for executive management.
Bah.
I'm a professional graphic and interactive designer (and developer), and I combat this BS mentality every god damn day at work.
I'm not going to speak for the multitude of shitty designers in the world, but I will speak for the professionally trained designers. Those are the people who had 70 hour weeks in college and spent all day and night studying the psychology and sociology of visual communication.
The devil's in the details. Look at the recent redesign of the Wall Street Journal. Most people would -never- notice the miniscule detailed alterations. The tiny serifs, the kerning / leading / tracking, etc. Nevertheless, the redesign resulted in a paper that held more content and even increased reading speed and comprehension.
Problem is, it you must to attend to a lot of seemingly insignificant details in order to have a pay off like this. If you don't attend to these details you end up with something that doesn't "work" like it should.
If that site were any more out of touch it would download via Senator Ted Stevens' tube based internet.
I think Walmart's been taking marketing advise from Steven Colbert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PbJJUy1KD8
You can kill someone by just focusing on the stereo display instead of the road, too. This guy was just more Darwinian than most
Have you ever actually -used- an iPod while driving?
Most car stereos have a UI that is, at least to some extent, designed for the environment it resides in. This is far from the case with the iPod, Zen Micro, or just about any other portable media player I've touched.
I try not to change playlists or albums while I'm driving with my iPod. That stupid thing has caused me to drive outside of the white lines on several occasions. Oddly enough, other monuments to distraction (such as my phone or car stereo) aren't nearly as bad.
The iPod has a great little GUI, but it does not suit driving at all.
I'm quite surprised some litigious bastards have not taken Apple to court over this yet.
Although I will say that this note...
... is really only applicable to PhDs, or talented / well networked master's degree students. I sure as hell did not get compensated for any of my silly theoretical projects. Yet I did get compensated for certain real world projects.
7. You can get involved in projects that have absolutely no impact on the real world. You can work on things simply because theyâ(TM)re interesting and fun. You often get paid to do this.
Free advice that's actually worth something: get as much schooling done as you can all at once. It's hard to quit your job, sell a house and a car, and move into a tiny two-bedroom apartment. (You can believe me, because I did it, and it was only supreme desperation that made it possible - along with my wife's support, which not everybody can count on.) That's pretty much what's required. Almost nobody is capable of getting a graduate degree while sticking it out in a full-time job.
All in all, it depends on what you're doing. If you're only getting a MBA, you can probably continue to work full time. Heck, I know a number of people who have had their tuition paid for by their full time employer.
That said, there is no way on god's green earth I could have worked full time while attending grad school. I was in a fairly intense graphic and industrial design program. 9 units would generally result in 70 hour weeks. Every week felt like undergrad finals. It was normal for me to pull one or two all nighters every week.
Moreover, nothing annoyed me more then being sneered at by some moron with and MBA who didn't understand why I was broke, tired, taking forever, and had absolutely no life.
Some post graduate degrees are easy to attain, some will make you wish you were in boot camp instead.
Yup... this is "VPC: Don't Give A Sh*t About Edition".... As opposed to "VPC: You have a PPC Mac & Are Suborn & Desperate Edition".
Although, Suborn & Desperate Edition is transitioning to "VPC: Mac Don't Give A Sh*t About Edition"
The author seems fairly certain that a patent equals an imminent new feature, but that's not the case. A patent is a patent. Apple may implement this in 6 Gen iPods, they may wait for later revisions, they may never implement the feature.
Technology companies, especially Apple, have piles patented software features, devices, etc that have never seen the light of day. And speaking of piles, one of which is actually called "piles."
As I recall, Apple also has also recently patented several different new hardware interfaces for the iPod. You can bet money they're not all going to be implemented. Heck, none of them may be implemented.
This doesn't effect places like Walmart.
The records they carry are sanitized by the copyright holders... the labels. This suit refers to those who edit content without holding a copyright.
For the most part, this suit effects religious nuts who have been white washing rentals.
I've known some people who have designed some -really- cool products under the past CEO.
http://www.ideo.com/portfolio/re.asp?x=11176131
http://www.ideo.com/portfolio/re.asp?x=88834
Is it possible to rate a post "6?"
As a designer I'll contest to the IDSA not being "in bed" with anyone... aside from industrial designers... and perhaps collective gatherings in pubs.
s ource/6.htm
Take the Reveal CT-80 on page 6.
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/06/idea2006/
That explosive detection machine may not scan as many bags per hour as the competition, but it is intuitive, affordable, and miles ahead of the competition when you consider how the machine exists within an environment or how users interact with the hardware.
I'm not saying engineering and features are not important, I'm simply saying those products are reviewed on a number of levels.
In the case of that camera I wouldn't spend time harping on what isn't there. I'd concentrate on why a panel of seasoned industrial designers found value in that particular product.
Eh, whatever. It should really be called the 2005/2006 awards.
Next year's 2007 awards will include everything from the second half of 2006 and the first half of 2007.