A menu is a GUI (or, more accurately, a GUI element).
Uhh, yeah. Okay. What way using icons or other non-text GUI elements.
What is being raised is how continuing the use of the Trash as an ejection (more accurately, unmounting) widget is BAD UI.
Why? Nobody is forced to use it. It isn't the only way to do it.
Suddenly changing that behaviour to erasing a disk would be a bad idea. Being inconsistent with drives that can not be erased would be even worse UI. A bad UI is when you can only do something via the context menu but not the normal menu. Esp. when a large part of users don't use the right mouse button - and yes many Windows users still only use the "wrong" button.
Hell, yeah, adding something that only does something when you drag a disk on it, now that is the epitome of intuitive. Not to mention very effective use of screen space.
When you drag an icon "outside" the screen, it cancels the move. Why the hell would it be intuitive if that ejects a disc? And in 1984 (you know, when your daddy was still using DOS 2.x) there were no animated icons. Heck, your daddy made fun of Macs because they wasted precious processor time on a GUI.
I said GUI, not menu. Because there is a fucking menu on top of the Macs screen that has a command to ejectz a floppy, but that is obviously too fucking hard for you guys to understand.
Since the original Macintosh had no hard disk, and a single floppy drive, it was expected that users will typically use several diskettes while working on the Macintosh. A convenience feature of the system was that it cached (in memory) the list of files on a diskette even after it had been ejected. This was indicated by a grayed-out icon for that diskette on the Desktop, clicking on which would prompt the user to insert the appropriate diskette in the drive. If a user wanted to free-up the memory used by a diskette's cache, he would have to drag the grayed-out icon to the trash.
Thus, even if a user intended to permanently eject a diskette, two actions were required: the eject command, and dragging an icon to the trash. The redundancy was removed by combining these actions to a single action: dragging an "active" (non-grayed-out) icon to the trash caused the disk to be ejected, and its cache to be deleted.
So he does it one time - do you think he's gonna forget that it doesn't erase his disk?
OTOH, think of somebody who tries to get that damn floppy out of that damn computer using that damn GUI, damnit, and as a last resort drags the disk into the trash - mrrr-wurrrp - and gets what he wants. Perfectly intuitive if you think about it. And he too will never forget.
So what the GUI teaches you by using it is that moving stuff to the trash can either prepares to delete it OR unmounts it, depending what makes more sense.
"DO NOT use the backspace or back arrow to return to a previous page. History is bunk in the Wiki Game (unless a referee or an opponent demands a recount). PENALTY: Automatic forfeit. "
You are assuming that Microsoft is good at copying. Not even at that.
(Of course, I'm still wondering what you think Apple did create. The only original invention they made that I can think of is look-and-feel lawsuits, and those failed. Except for minor enhancements, just about else, they copied, stole, or bought up.)
Double-clicking. Drag'n'Drop. And-so-on.
Apple's first big success was the Apple II Plus, something that succeeded because of Microsoft Basic.
Just that Microsoft copied everything that Apple copied plus the stuff that Apple created from Apple. And Apple actually existed before the Mac. And without Apple asking Microsoft to write a spreadsheet for the Mac, there probably wouldn't be an Excel today.
A: CSI sometimes gets science so wrong it hurts (and is potentialy dangerous). Example: a case with a dead construction worker, something with an electric shock and a nail in the rubber soles. CSI guy says something like "That's why you are safe from lightning in your car, the tires are made of rubber." ARGGH!
B: There probably are too little tests done, esp. DNA tests.
Approximately 25 percent of DNA tests do not produce a match. I'm proud that throughout its existence, the FBI's DNA lab has served both to identify criminals and to exonerate suspects mistakenly identified by law enforcement investigations nationwide. But with 137 post-conviction DNA exonerations now on the books, I'm increasingly concerned about recent news stories suggesting a growing resistance by prosecutors to allow post-conviction DNA testing, even in cases when there is strong evidence of innocence.
Maybe it's time to try to catch the one who actually did it instead of just getting an easy (and cheap) conviction.
Distributed? In this case (as in most others) it's just one single machine not properly counting the votes. There isn't even as much to it as you thought;-)
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Wrong.
Now all Apple needs is to find the boy's pal at the UK/US Patent Office, and the case is set.
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one," he said.
A 250,000 dollar fine and 4-6 months of prison. And that under a plea bargain.
You mean these guys get fined for selling RAM cheaper?
Uhh, yeah. Okay. What way using icons or other non-text GUI elements.
What is being raised is how continuing the use of the Trash as an ejection (more accurately, unmounting) widget is BAD UI. Why? Nobody is forced to use it. It isn't the only way to do it.
Suddenly changing that behaviour to erasing a disk would be a bad idea. Being inconsistent with drives that can not be erased would be even worse UI. A bad UI is when you can only do something via the context menu but not the normal menu. Esp. when a large part of users don't use the right mouse button - and yes many Windows users still only use the "wrong" button.
Hell, yeah, adding something that only does something when you drag a disk on it, now that is the epitome of intuitive. Not to mention very effective use of screen space.
But what would the open window do with any other file/folder? That is the question here.
When you drag an icon "outside" the screen, it cancels the move. Why the hell would it be intuitive if that ejects a disc? And in 1984 (you know, when your daddy was still using DOS 2.x) there were no animated icons. Heck, your daddy made fun of Macs because they wasted precious processor time on a GUI.
I said GUI, not menu. Because there is a fucking menu on top of the Macs screen that has a command to ejectz a floppy, but that is obviously too fucking hard for you guys to understand.
Have you ever used a USB drive/stick on your PC? Sucks, hrrrm?
And what will it do for all other objects? There is a difference between an intuitive interface and one that takes a metaphor to damn literal.
And finaly:
OTOH, think of somebody who tries to get that damn floppy out of that damn computer using that damn GUI, damnit, and as a last resort drags the disk into the trash - mrrr-wurrrp - and gets what he wants. Perfectly intuitive if you think about it. And he too will never forget.
So what the GUI teaches you by using it is that moving stuff to the trash can either prepares to delete it OR unmounts it, depending what makes more sense.
So quite like the Smart...
What crumple zones do SUVs have?
The "Random page link in the left navigation menu" links to the Wiki Main Page. The one in the Wiki Game Wiki works.
"DO NOT use the backspace or back arrow to return to a previous page. History is bunk in the Wiki Game (unless a referee or an opponent demands a recount). PENALTY: Automatic forfeit. "
(Of course, I'm still wondering what you think Apple did create. The only original invention they made that I can think of is look-and-feel lawsuits, and those failed. Except for minor enhancements, just about else, they copied, stole, or bought up.)
Double-clicking. Drag'n'Drop. And-so-on.
Apple's first big success was the Apple II Plus, something that succeeded because of Microsoft Basic.
Which is another thing Microsoft copied.
Just that Microsoft copied everything that Apple copied plus the stuff that Apple created from Apple. And Apple actually existed before the Mac. And without Apple asking Microsoft to write a spreadsheet for the Mac, there probably wouldn't be an Excel today.
B: There probably are too little tests done, esp. DNA tests.
Maybe it's time to try to catch the one who actually did it instead of just getting an easy (and cheap) conviction.Well, sometimes he/she isn't. But then they are killed in a later episode by another bad guy ;-)
Yeah, it was obvious because he got 666%. Had he gotten 75% nobody would have bothered to check.
So when was the first meeting of the IEEE 1394 committee?
Distributed? In this case (as in most others) it's just one single machine not properly counting the votes. There isn't even as much to it as you thought ;-)
According to USA today
So it must be the name of the county, not the technology, because the machines are from different manufacturers. Errm, yeah.