Hey, it's hard enough to hit a ICBM with a laser, try to do the same with something much smaller and much faster. Of course you could use a "fixed" beam and hope that something will fly in its way - which would be quite unlikely.
The difference you describe is not really that big. You can't just not see the adds in print material, you may choose to ignore them, but they still made an impression. When you turn a page, you don't know if and where you will see an add.
The reason why the online-ads check how many people saw them / were forced to see them is that the advertisers only want to pay per person actually seeing the add. The same reason why magazines usually only get paid for ads depending on the number of subscriptions - that's why they try everything to get new and hold old subscribers. The reason why the online-ads track you is because they can;-)
Eh? How did you get that from the article? There is no indication to what he testified, only what he pledged guilty to the one charge that he
did intentionally access a protected computer without authorization through the use of an interstate communication, and did thereby obtain information from a protected computer; to wit: the defendant, BRIAN KEITH WEST downloaded proprietary Practical Extraction Report Language scripts and password files from the protected computer.
"Protected" as in "the door was wide open, but there was a lock on it".
And he didn't want to "redistribute the code he downloaded", he analized it and rewrote it in a different programming/scipting language. Which leaves an interesting question: Would there have been a problem with what he did if the PERL scripts had been GPLed? Does the GPL still hold if you rewrite the program in another language?
Consider the case of an icon in the Finder. Without contextual menus, you move the pointer to the icon, then click on the icon once to select it, move the pointer to the pulldown menu, click to reveal the menu, move the pointer to the item you want, and click a third time to make your choice. That's three clicks and three pointer movements. The first pointer movement is probably a search and the last two can take advantage of muscle memory.
Unless you use direct manipulation or a keyboard shortcut - which is the case for almost everything I do in the Finder. Which is beside the point, but never the less.
Now, with contextual menus, you move the pointer to the icon, click to reveal the contextual menu, move the pointer to the item you want, and click to make your choice. That's two clicks and two pointer movements. The first pointer movement is probably a search (just like above) and the last can take advantage of muscle memory just like above.
Unless you get what I already pointed out: starting point in CM changed by proximity to the screen edges; different relative position of items in the menu because CMs are contextual.
So you have
for both :
- 1 pointer movement with potential search
Contextual menu approach:
- 1 click
- 1 pointer movement with potential search
- 1 click
Pulldown menu approach:
- 1 click
- 1 fluid pointer movement with one click-drag-release using muscle memory
On the Windows Desktop, an icon can have different CMs depending on what it represents, depending on where it is positioned on screen you start at different items in the CM. You can not tell just how much you have to move the mouse to get to "copy". And exactly because a CM only shows applicable items, it will drop non-applicable items.
Like I told the other AC, with CMs you have replaced two actions of muscle memory by one of searching and one of targetting. At best your equal in speed, IMHO "normal" menues are faster - at least when of the "top of screen" type like on the Mac.
Bingo! So you can't depend on items being where they have been before, you can't use "muscle memory" - and that defeats the Fitt's Law argument. If you have to search for the items, you're simply not as fast anymore.
There are several problems with contextual menues regarding to Fitt's Law, one being how they should appear near the edges of the screen. Second being unused/unavailable items (context!).
Anyway, my Dad's PC notebook with DVD didn't come with DVD player. But for some reason there is something about one in the Windows Help Files - not that this information is in any way useful.
Actually, buying AMD and renting it to Motorola would make more sense.
Sports not pr0n. (Well, "and" ;-)
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Imagine watching some sport event, and being able to chose which camera angle you want to watch it from right now. Not being limited to what the director thinks would be interesting right now, but what you want to see - and be it the Candid Cheerleader Cam;-)
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OK, I just went there, and I couldn't find anything there. What's up with that? :-(
Hey, it's hard enough to hit a ICBM with a laser, try to do the same with something much smaller and much faster. Of course you could use a "fixed" beam and hope that something will fly in its way - which would be quite unlikely.
At the speed of a bullet? That's slooooow space debris.
The reason why the online-ads check how many people saw them / were forced to see them is that the advertisers only want to pay per person actually seeing the add. The same reason why magazines usually only get paid for ads depending on the number of subscriptions - that's why they try everything to get new and hold old subscribers. The reason why the online-ads track you is because they can ;-)
And he didn't want to "redistribute the code he downloaded", he analized it and rewrote it in a different programming/scipting language. Which leaves an interesting question: Would there have been a problem with what he did if the PERL scripts had been GPLed? Does the GPL still hold if you rewrite the program in another language?
How rude, you forgot about the guys who made it all possible.
So you have
for both :
- 1 pointer movement with potential search
Contextual menu approach:
- 1 click
- 1 pointer movement with potential search
- 1 click
Pulldown menu approach:
- 1 click
- 1 fluid pointer movement with one click-drag-release using muscle memory
On the Windows Desktop, an icon can have different CMs depending on what it represents, depending on where it is positioned on screen you start at different items in the CM. You can not tell just how much you have to move the mouse to get to "copy". And exactly because a CM only shows applicable items, it will drop non-applicable items.
Ohh, I'd much rather get one of Q's toys than something Q sends me ;-)
See my other answers.
Like I told the other AC, with CMs you have replaced two actions of muscle memory by one of searching and one of targetting. At best your equal in speed, IMHO "normal" menues are faster - at least when of the "top of screen" type like on the Mac.
Bingo! So you can't depend on items being where they have been before, you can't use "muscle memory" - and that defeats the Fitt's Law argument. If you have to search for the items, you're simply not as fast anymore.
There are several problems with contextual menues regarding to Fitt's Law, one being how they should appear near the edges of the screen. Second being unused/unavailable items (context!).
Well, if you had a little experience with finer tools, you could probably do it, but since you're limited to "building your own PC", you can't.
Not that we wouldn't have enough to do with slamming MS for every big bug.
Anyway, my Dad's PC notebook with DVD didn't come with DVD player. But for some reason there is something about one in the Windows Help Files - not that this information is in any way useful.
No wonder you are confused by the lack of mouse buttons, when you think that plugging a mouse into a notebook is harder than into a desktop.
It's a common misconception that those early USB devices were Bondi blue, they were infact BSOD blue.
Wow, USB on the logic board. So, did it have USB connectors on the outside?
Most analysts in the semiconductor industry aren't Anonymous Cowards, or at least give a reference.
Actually, buying AMD and renting it to Motorola would make more sense.
Imagine watching some sport event, and being able to chose which camera angle you want to watch it from right now. Not being limited to what the director thinks would be interesting right now, but what you want to see - and be it the Candid Cheerleader Cam ;-)
Ghoulish removal of Gaul's Gall-bladder.
2. The message is: "Let's stop wasting our time with just 5000 infidels, hit a few cities with anthrax."
Wrong, RISC instructions (usualy) do less per instruction.