Perhaps. We're all mac geeks in this department and we usually use Preview, which is really snappy, as opposed to Acrobat Reader... which is unbearably slow.
Sex with someone with horable burning VD is just as safe as sex with someone ho doesn't have VD... as long as you apply a symantec branded condom and use critical update cream liberally.
Well, it depends on the University / College or department. Parts of my university have definitely scaled back their use of bound books. I've acquired a lot of my recent reading materials through PDF documents. An instructor / professor / TA scans them in, and uploads them to a class server. No doubt, I'm sure there are some copyright violations taking place, but we're broke. Arnold isn't exactly helping out the CSU system like he claimed he would.
Last semester I only purchased 2 books.... and I'm a graduate student... we read a LOT.
And I would tend to disagree about "fork[ing] up $65." Everyone in my department has a computer or access to a computer. Having a computer at school is like having a paper notebook. You need one. It's part of going to college.
If you can afford one, we have grants/loans available to pay for hardware. We also have very nice computer labs open 7 days a week.
PDFs are quite nice. The biggest problems I see with them are a) scanning books is a bitch... but that's what TA's are for, b) reading something on paper is considerably more comfortable, c) you can't quickly dogear and markup a PDF, and d) you waist a lot of paper making print outs.
Originally, Steve Jobs tried to justify transparency by claiming you could see if there was anything being obstructed by a window bar, menu, dialog box, etc.
Really, it was little more then "cool for cool's sake." Transparent interface elements have practically been eliminated from OS X. Menu and sheets are at around 98% opacity (almost solid compared to OS X 10.0), and the dock's boarder is transparent, but that's about it.
Transparent interface elements were causing major usability problems. It was hard to grab windows when multiple transparent window bars were layered on top of each other. Moreover, transparent elements were incredibly hard to read when they were drawn over text documents.
I could go on and on, but in short, it was a bad idea then and it's a bad idea now. Microsoft should scrap this garbage on the default theme. I know it looks "cool" and some execs are probably attached to these stupid effect... but people will complain and they will be killed by sp1 anyway. There are other ways to make an interface hip and cool.
Seriously. Crazy J doesn't have sh*t on Captured by Robots.
That was one of the strangest concerts I've ever seen. He/they were playing at a tranny bar in SF. Transvestites and rocking bondage robots... now that's a site to be seen.
No doubt, it has more features then then the standard Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, etc google bar, but I find it fairly useless. All I see is features I don't need and browser clutter I don't want.
At the very least, this thing should access all of Google's weird searches. Movies, Maps, etc.
Also, it should be in Klingon.
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I doubt you could even call them "designers."
From the looks of the garbage they spit out, I question whether or not they have a creative director to oversee interactive design, or some people that actually went to design school and studied visual communication.
It looks like there interface designs are pushed by bad HCI buffs.
Yup, the "and finallys" get a little old after a while.
I hope no one was using this research to acquire a PHD or MS. The "brains are not computers" epiphany has been realized about billion times already. And this research could stand to be much deeper.
I'm a little bummed about the shallow linguistics analysis. It's interesting and all, but I wish they would have really jumped into something such as pattern recognition.
I'm and interactive designer, and I tend to believe that language and interaction is based upon pattern recognition. Our brains receive data, and compare them to flexible patterns in order to make decisions. This study certainly supports that theory.
In this case, if you show a candle and a dog to a user, and tell the user to click on the candle, the user will jump directly the candle since a dog does not fit the pattern of a candle at all...both visually and verbally. However, if you present someone with a picture of a candy stick and a candle, they will hesitate upon selecting the candle since they bare verbal and visual similarities. More processing time is needed to compare intricacies.
People probably slow down and curve their mouse movement since they are still comparing patterns while they are selecting. By curving the track path, users increase tracking distance and cognitive processing time. It also allots them a circular motion which can easily translate into a last minute decision change. When people are unsure of things, they usually prepare themselves for backing out.
State tax forms in CA are pretty damn easy. You'd have to be brain dead not to understand them.
Believe it or not, I look forward to my state tax form. I always know that one is going to be easy and cheep.... it's the federal form that's the royal pain.
Seriously. That was retarded. That was like 24 hour news channel, I won't even both to google for facts, monkeys hurling poop retarded.
That was one of the most unintelligent tech articles I've read in a while.
Question 1: Google for some benchmarks you moron. Question 2: Pentiums support x86-64... but you'd know that if you went to www.intel.com. Question 3: AMD can't play on the weekends. Also, they have crappy productions problems like IBM. Question 4: Seriously, you're retarded. Question 5: No, its about unicorns. Also its about the fact that a PowerBooks G5 would weigh 15 pounds and would need to be recharged after 30 minutes.
Agreed. But there's not much Apple can do about this. It's not like they can make this transition unannounced.
There will be universal binaries and PPC hardware will probably be supported for quite some time. People hold onto their Macs forever... so it's not like PPC is going away anytime soon. The vast majority of Mac users will be using PPC hardware well past Apple's 2 year transition timeline.
Who are the "innovators" explored within this journal article?
Only engineers, developers, and scientists?... or are product and industrial designers also taken into consideration? These people innovate and invent for a living. Moreover, older designers typically fall into positions of direction and administration.
Netflix development staff has now been replaced by poorly paid elderly people and downs syndrome kids working on adult assistance programs.
Moreover, users of Netflix.com will experience audio tracks which simulate an atmosphere consisting of rednecks beating their children and people buying firearms at 1am.
Also, Netflix.com be the first website to smell weird.
Slashdot Mirror
And hey, you could always be lucky enough to get cancer from US gunfire. Depleted uranium... yummy.
Nah, the coolers will be installed Priuses, and they will only turn on when the car breaks.
Well, I like to get really high and watch robots fight each other.... so I'll probably see this movie. ;)
Perhaps. We're all mac geeks in this department and we usually use Preview, which is really snappy, as opposed to Acrobat Reader... which is unbearably slow.
Sex with someone with horable burning VD is just as safe as sex with someone ho doesn't have VD... as long as you apply a symantec branded condom and use critical update cream liberally.
Well, it depends on the University / College or department. Parts of my university have definitely scaled back their use of bound books. I've acquired a lot of my recent reading materials through PDF documents. An instructor / professor / TA scans them in, and uploads them to a class server. No doubt, I'm sure there are some copyright violations taking place, but we're broke. Arnold isn't exactly helping out the CSU system like he claimed he would.
Last semester I only purchased 2 books.... and I'm a graduate student... we read a LOT.
And I would tend to disagree about "fork[ing] up $65." Everyone in my department has a computer or access to a computer. Having a computer at school is like having a paper notebook. You need one. It's part of going to college.
If you can afford one, we have grants/loans available to pay for hardware. We also have very nice computer labs open 7 days a week.
PDFs are quite nice. The biggest problems I see with them are a) scanning books is a bitch... but that's what TA's are for, b) reading something on paper is considerably more comfortable, c) you can't quickly dogear and markup a PDF, and d) you waist a lot of paper making print outs.
Originally, Steve Jobs tried to justify transparency by claiming you could see if there was anything being obstructed by a window bar, menu, dialog box, etc.
Really, it was little more then "cool for cool's sake." Transparent interface elements have practically been eliminated from OS X. Menu and sheets are at around 98% opacity (almost solid compared to OS X 10.0), and the dock's boarder is transparent, but that's about it.
Transparent interface elements were causing major usability problems. It was hard to grab windows when multiple transparent window bars were layered on top of each other. Moreover, transparent elements were incredibly hard to read when they were drawn over text documents.
I could go on and on, but in short, it was a bad idea then and it's a bad idea now. Microsoft should scrap this garbage on the default theme. I know it looks "cool" and some execs are probably attached to these stupid effect... but people will complain and they will be killed by sp1 anyway. There are other ways to make an interface hip and cool.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/multimedia /foolbush.mov
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What ever it was... it sounded retarded.
Dude, what are you talking about. According to Slashdot, cancer and AIDs are cured every other month.
Seriously. Crazy J doesn't have sh*t on Captured by Robots.
:)
That was one of the strangest concerts I've ever seen. He/they were playing at a tranny bar in SF. Transvestites and rocking bondage robots... now that's a site to be seen.
Damn, this city rocks
No doubt, it has more features then then the standard Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, etc google bar, but I find it fairly useless. All I see is features I don't need and browser clutter I don't want.
At the very least, this thing should access all of Google's weird searches. Movies, Maps, etc.
Also, it should be in Klingon.
I doubt you could even call them "designers."
From the looks of the garbage they spit out, I question whether or not they have a creative director to oversee interactive design, or some people that actually went to design school and studied visual communication.
It looks like there interface designs are pushed by bad HCI buffs.
Yup, the "and finallys" get a little old after a while.
:)
I hope no one was using this research to acquire a PHD or MS. The "brains are not computers" epiphany has been realized about billion times already. And this research could stand to be much deeper.
I'm a little bummed about the shallow linguistics analysis. It's interesting and all, but I wish they would have really jumped into something such as pattern recognition.
I'm and interactive designer, and I tend to believe that language and interaction is based upon pattern recognition. Our brains receive data, and compare them to flexible patterns in order to make decisions. This study certainly supports that theory.
In this case, if you show a candle and a dog to a user, and tell the user to click on the candle, the user will jump directly the candle since a dog does not fit the pattern of a candle at all...both visually and verbally. However, if you present someone with a picture of a candy stick and a candle, they will hesitate upon selecting the candle since they bare verbal and visual similarities. More processing time is needed to compare intricacies.
People probably slow down and curve their mouse movement since they are still comparing patterns while they are selecting. By curving the track path, users increase tracking distance and cognitive processing time. It also allots them a circular motion which can easily translate into a last minute decision change. When people are unsure of things, they usually prepare themselves for backing out.
damn I'm a geek
True, nevertheless, it's concerning to see that we've been slowly rolling backward over the past few years.
State tax forms in CA are pretty damn easy. You'd have to be brain dead not to understand them.
Believe it or not, I look forward to my state tax form. I always know that one is going to be easy and cheep.... it's the federal form that's the royal pain.
Seriously. That was retarded. That was like 24 hour news channel, I won't even both to google for facts, monkeys hurling poop retarded.
That was one of the most unintelligent tech articles I've read in a while.
Question 1: Google for some benchmarks you moron.
Question 2: Pentiums support x86-64... but you'd know that if you went to www.intel.com.
Question 3: AMD can't play on the weekends. Also, they have crappy productions problems like IBM.
Question 4: Seriously, you're retarded.
Question 5: No, its about unicorns. Also its about the fact that a PowerBooks G5 would weigh 15 pounds and would need to be recharged after 30 minutes.
Agreed. But there's not much Apple can do about this. It's not like they can make this transition unannounced.
There will be universal binaries and PPC hardware will probably be supported for quite some time. People hold onto their Macs forever... so it's not like PPC is going away anytime soon. The vast majority of Mac users will be using PPC hardware well past Apple's 2 year transition timeline.
... shitty ... broken ... virus infected
etc
Who are the "innovators" explored within this journal article?
Only engineers, developers, and scientists?... or are product and industrial designers also taken into consideration? These people innovate and invent for a living. Moreover, older designers typically fall into positions of direction and administration.
Yup. Ego.
Sounds similar to GWB's town hall events. :/
You have a shot at talking to the president, but first you have to pledge support.
Troll? Dude this is plus five funny!
"I've yet to find a blockbuster movie that isn't readily available on the net after it opens, but somehow this is still news."
Well, for the love of god, stop treating it like news.
Post something else. Shess.
Netflix development staff has now been replaced by poorly paid elderly people and downs syndrome kids working on adult assistance programs.
Moreover, users of Netflix.com will experience audio tracks which simulate an atmosphere consisting of rednecks beating their children and people buying firearms at 1am.
Also, Netflix.com be the first website to smell weird.
... which is on the other end of the city.