I can just see a guy insisting on going faster, resulting in rabbit-hopping: he leans forward, gets a spurt and is upright again, leans forward, spurt, upright...
Norman's The Design of Everyday Things is a great way to prep your mind for HCI. It's on my desk right now.
However, I have to say that Raskin's The Humane Interface is relatively - alien. I don't agree with some of his tenets, most notably his aversion to modality. Even so, it's worth reading. Ironically, the cover of the edition I read had a tendency to curl annoyingly, and was one of the most inhumane book interfaces I've ever seen...
If people want to feel patriotic, they should forsake getting that new Expedition and buy themselves a Dodge Neon or a Toyota Corolla : You're doing a great service to your country.
Ahem. My Saturn averages 35mpg. As long as we're talking patriotism, please buy American.:-)
Firestar was, as was said earlier, one of the New Warriors shortly after the cartoon came out. She's now one of the Avengers IIRC.
On the upside, I thought Doctor Doom's voice was really cool in SaHAF, better than in the Fox Kid's Spiderman series. And towards the end, there were some really wacky episodes, like the Video Man episode, and the second X-Men one.
And of course, at the end you'd have Stan Lee saying, "This is Stan Lee saying, 'Excelsior!'" Heh.
So the novelty has worn off to an extent. Now people are looking at what one can actually do with the Net. Art is becoming science, and science is becoming practice. Sounds like a good indicator to me. Of course, we all knew this was going to happen.
Because I haven't seen it yet...
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I agree; McDonald's apparently had it coming, and to be fair, the penalty was even lessened. What's more, a lot of people seem to be backing off from using this as an example of over-litigation, as you are. So in the end, this seems to be a nice case of the facts overcoming initial media-fueled public outrage.
How do they classify a film with more digital special effects than live action? If an otherwise "animated feature film" has one live action shot in it, does it automatically compete with all the other films? Or was this part of the debate?
When I first saw it, I thought "C-pound". I think "C-pound" is kinda funny, but even when I want to discuss it seriously, I catch myself calling it "C-pound" by accident.
It may also be that MGM was waiting for New Line to be worth suing. Until Lord of the Rings hit the box office, New Line was apparently in a tough spot, and might have been let go, or sold. Who knows? Maybe MGM was thinking of buying them.
The real reason gov't contractors are doing so well is actually because of cuts in government spending. Huge government agencies had to show that they were tightening their belts by laying off workers.
The logic gets really strange at this point. The agency heads then replace this lost labor by contracting out (hence contractors getting plenty of work). This actually costs more in some cases. Once you cut out all the government grunts, you can cut much of the personnel and admin departments as well, which looks great on the books. But you're also now paying money to a business trying to make a profit, so you end up paying more.
In some cases, the winners here are the employees they laid off - well, the bright ones at least. They often come back as contractors, now getting 50% more in salary. (They do give up the extraordinary amount of leave the government gives you, but many of them couldn't use all that leave anyway.)
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Don't forget Darkman. Raimi knows his comix.
I have no problem accepting the feasibility of webbing coming out of Peter Parker's wrists. After all, I have words coming out of my ass right now.
That award actually went to Bill Gates during his apologetic testimony in the anti-trust case.
I can just see a guy insisting on going faster, resulting in rabbit-hopping: he leans forward, gets a spurt and is upright again, leans forward, spurt, upright...
The storage compression utility will be called J-Lo. 'Cause there's always room for J-Lo.
Norman's The Design of Everyday Things is a great way to prep your mind for HCI. It's on my desk right now.
However, I have to say that Raskin's The Humane Interface is relatively - alien. I don't agree with some of his tenets, most notably his aversion to modality. Even so, it's worth reading. Ironically, the cover of the edition I read had a tendency to curl annoyingly, and was one of the most inhumane book interfaces I've ever seen...
If people want to feel patriotic, they should forsake getting that new Expedition and buy themselves a Dodge Neon or a Toyota Corolla : You're doing a great service to your country.
:-)
Ahem. My Saturn averages 35mpg. As long as we're talking patriotism, please buy American.
Firestar was, as was said earlier, one of the New Warriors shortly after the cartoon came out. She's now one of the Avengers IIRC.
On the upside, I thought Doctor Doom's voice was really cool in SaHAF, better than in the Fox Kid's Spiderman series. And towards the end, there were some really wacky episodes, like the Video Man episode, and the second X-Men one.
And of course, at the end you'd have Stan Lee saying, "This is Stan Lee saying, 'Excelsior!'" Heh.
Grrrr. Why was this modded as flamebait? It's FUNNY, dammit!
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Me: Grrrrrrrr...
Great list! But you forgot a few:
- T1 link
- choice of OS to develop in
- bookshelf (I can supply the books)
- marker board
- no #!$@ dress code
Not required, but definitely appreciated:
- microwave
- TV with VCR
- a good chair, dammit!
- sofa for naps
- massage therapist
Looks like this isn't going to be the exception that proves the rule.
Looks like it's not going to be the exception that disproves it, either...
So the novelty has worn off to an extent. Now people are looking at what one can actually do with the Net. Art is becoming science, and science is becoming practice. Sounds like a good indicator to me. Of course, we all knew this was going to happen.
...imagine a Beowulf cluster of Painstations...
"There are SIX billion people on Earth, Taco, not 4.98 billion."
He's deliberately not counting the 1 billion using AOL or WebTV. Frankly, I can't blame him.
I agree; McDonald's apparently had it coming, and to be fair, the penalty was even lessened. What's more, a lot of people seem to be backing off from using this as an example of over-litigation, as you are. So in the end, this seems to be a nice case of the facts overcoming initial media-fueled public outrage.
Good lord knows how many man hours have been spent in dimly lit rooms since video games hit the scene. WHat the hell did people usd to do? Work?
Made love. Where do you think the Baby Boom came from? Yet another benefit of video games - population control.
In this space, only you can hear everyone scream.
Is it an EEEEEEVIL giant water scorpion??
How do they classify a film with more digital special effects than live action? If an otherwise "animated feature film" has one live action shot in it, does it automatically compete with all the other films? Or was this part of the debate?
Now I can finally throw away that huge, clunky flat LCD that's hogging up my desk.
When I first saw it, I thought "C-pound". I think "C-pound" is kinda funny, but even when I want to discuss it seriously, I catch myself calling it "C-pound" by accident.
"C-pound". Heh.
I have a 5'x3' "module" I can plug into other devices, too, and it didn't take a $5 billion/year research budget to come up with, either.
(Had to be said...)
It may also be that MGM was waiting for New Line to be worth suing. Until Lord of the Rings hit the box office, New Line was apparently in a tough spot, and might have been let go, or sold. Who knows? Maybe MGM was thinking of buying them.
The real reason gov't contractors are doing so well is actually because of cuts in government spending. Huge government agencies had to show that they were tightening their belts by laying off workers.
The logic gets really strange at this point. The agency heads then replace this lost labor by contracting out (hence contractors getting plenty of work). This actually costs more in some cases. Once you cut out all the government grunts, you can cut much of the personnel and admin departments as well, which looks great on the books. But you're also now paying money to a business trying to make a profit, so you end up paying more.
In some cases, the winners here are the employees they laid off - well, the bright ones at least. They often come back as contractors, now getting 50% more in salary. (They do give up the extraordinary amount of leave the government gives you, but many of them couldn't use all that leave anyway.)