I got a great idea, let's release a first person shooter game, and instead of WASD as the move keys, we're going to use FBLR! FBLR! Front, Back, Left, Right! It makes so much sense doesn't it? It's really intuitive isn't it?
So do stars for a rating, but unless you put a text message that says "Click the stars" nobody will click them - they will just assume they are images for decoration or existing rating.
Oh wait, Jakob Neilsen and Edward Tufte aren't dead, are they? They'll cough up a hairball if they see this though.
It is so sad to see this kind of diffusion of UI styles that this, and every program like Winamp etc. offers with new "skins". I want to just use my computer, not hunt for the UI elements. "Oh, the clown's nose is a checkbox, and his shoes are radio buttons! AWESOME USER INTERFACE DESIGN MAN! THIS IS SO INTUITIVE! I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEW GARDEN GNOME INTERFACE!"
Doesn't anyone remember back when the Mac and Windows came out, how it was fantastic that we had a CONSISTENT user interface? How we didn't need to learn yet another persons crazy GUI scheme? How developers didn't need to hack up custom UI designs using graphics primitives but instead could call simple SDK calls?
And think of HTML. Why in the WORLD would I want to install all that "stuff" when I can just say...
...it seems odd to end a sentence with the word "confirmed" and also a question mark. If it was confirmed, it wouldn't be a question, would it. But that's just a rumor?
To get students more interested in using this, imagine giving it a "Sim" or "Civ" feeling. You'd get students staying up until 3 AM playing with it who would learn far more than a more traditional technical simulation.
If one guy can get sick and potentially torpedo an entire open source project, then just how well is the model being applied?
As far as a user goes, what's the difference between some guy getting sick, and some company going under? To the user they are both left stranded with a product that potentially doesn't get bug fixes or updates.
I'm not saying OS is flawed, but just that in this case, it makes me SERIOUSLY not want to even consider this distro. It all depends on one guy seems to be the message here.
Half-Life 2 does, and the engine directly supports them. Not only does it allow for subtitles for sound issues (hearing loss, sound off) but also subtitles in other languages.
Everyone's putting down the notion of blaming video games as a kneejerk reaction, which is fine.
But hypothetically speaking, what would you think if something like this happened, and they really DID dress like characters in the game. I mean not "happen to be the same" dressed as, but "we dressed the same on purpose" dressed as.
Precinct Person: Sir? Your name? Oh - I see it says "Freeman" on that suit of yours. Here is your ballot. Proceed to the voting booth and "use" the voting machine.
Gordon says nothing...
Precinct Person: Oh and sir? Please leave the crowbar here.
Hear hear. If someone had made "carmack.com" or "torvalds.com" and used it to skewer one of our beloved icons, we'd all be up in arms about how horrible the website owners were.
the number of Americans calling themselves IT professionals has decreased by nearly 160,000 in the last 3 years, and the number of programmers, analysts, and support specialists has fallen 15% since the first six months of 2004.
Probably because every hack who ever put into his webpage was checking off the "Dynamic Content Web Programmer" box, and a lot of people that read the latest issue of "Just Enough IT To Get A Job!" didn't get one, and now work somewhere else where their skills are better used.
I think the people this is targeted at are SECURITY (all caps) as opposed to just Security or security.
Parent company = ppl who do private security ops, etc. in Iraq, etc. It's their guys that run along with some VIP carrying the hardware and making security calls.
What's so insightful about the post above? It's just somebody's pessimistic comments about what he thinks might be true. Now post me some links of other providers who do the same thing or proof Verizon has this in mind, and I might think otherwise...
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...that if some geek gets a chip put in under his skin, we all go "OOH COOL MOD UP I WANT ONE TOO!"?
I got a great idea, let's release a first person shooter game, and instead of WASD as the move keys, we're going to use FBLR! FBLR! Front, Back, Left, Right! It makes so much sense doesn't it? It's really intuitive isn't it?
So do stars for a rating, but unless you put a text message that says "Click the stars" nobody will click them - they will just assume they are images for decoration or existing rating.
It is so sad to see this kind of diffusion of UI styles that this, and every program like Winamp etc. offers with new "skins". I want to just use my computer, not hunt for the UI elements. "Oh, the clown's nose is a checkbox, and his shoes are radio buttons! AWESOME USER INTERFACE DESIGN MAN! THIS IS SO INTUITIVE! I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEW GARDEN GNOME INTERFACE!"
Doesn't anyone remember back when the Mac and Windows came out, how it was fantastic that we had a CONSISTENT user interface? How we didn't need to learn yet another persons crazy GUI scheme? How developers didn't need to hack up custom UI designs using graphics primitives but instead could call simple SDK calls?
And think of HTML. Why in the WORLD would I want to install all that "stuff" when I can just say...
Interesting...
...it seems odd to end a sentence with the word "confirmed" and also a question mark. If it was confirmed, it wouldn't be a question, would it. But that's just a rumor?
...it just quotes people who sometimes have agendas.
I think it's called a key. You can't drive the car without it. If you lose it, you're screwed.
To get students more interested in using this, imagine giving it a "Sim" or "Civ" feeling. You'd get students staying up until 3 AM playing with it who would learn far more than a more traditional technical simulation.
If one guy can get sick and potentially torpedo an entire open source project, then just how well is the model being applied?
As far as a user goes, what's the difference between some guy getting sick, and some company going under? To the user they are both left stranded with a product that potentially doesn't get bug fixes or updates.
I'm not saying OS is flawed, but just that in this case, it makes me SERIOUSLY not want to even consider this distro. It all depends on one guy seems to be the message here.
Dental disease? DENTAL DISEASE? AKA "I didn't take care of my teeth nor visit a dentist regularly"?
???
Half-Life 2 does, and the engine directly supports them. Not only does it allow for subtitles for sound issues (hearing loss, sound off) but also subtitles in other languages.
Everyone's putting down the notion of blaming video games as a kneejerk reaction, which is fine.
But hypothetically speaking, what would you think if something like this happened, and they really DID dress like characters in the game. I mean not "happen to be the same" dressed as, but "we dressed the same on purpose" dressed as.
That's the more interesting conversation.
Curse you by Toutatis! That was gonna be MY POST!
Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Operating System?
Precinct Person: Your name sir?
Gordon says nothing...
Precinct Person: Sir? Your name? Oh - I see it says "Freeman" on that suit of yours. Here is your ballot. Proceed to the voting booth and "use" the voting machine.
Gordon says nothing...
Precinct Person: Oh and sir? Please leave the crowbar here.
Hehehe :^)
Hear hear. If someone had made "carmack.com" or "torvalds.com" and used it to skewer one of our beloved icons, we'd all be up in arms about how horrible the website owners were.
the number of Americans calling themselves IT professionals has decreased by nearly 160,000 in the last 3 years, and the number of programmers, analysts, and support specialists has fallen 15% since the first six months of 2004.
Probably because every hack who ever put into his webpage was checking off the "Dynamic Content Web Programmer" box, and a lot of people that read the latest issue of "Just Enough IT To Get A Job!" didn't get one, and now work somewhere else where their skills are better used.
...life still seems to exist here. It does however seem to be very slow at times.
Otherwise we'd probably have to rename the moon Hendrix
"Ancient" engine - still top of the charts. Has gotten better and better over the years.
Ask Slashdot...
"Has slashdot lost it?"
I think the people this is targeted at are SECURITY (all caps) as opposed to just Security or security.
Parent company = ppl who do private security ops, etc. in Iraq, etc. It's their guys that run along with some VIP carrying the hardware and making security calls.
This isn't an insightful post, it's just a rant.
What's so insightful about the post above? It's just somebody's pessimistic comments about what he thinks might be true. Now post me some links of other providers who do the same thing or proof Verizon has this in mind, and I might think otherwise...