These are two very good rules. If a process is complex but for design reasons the interface has four buttons it requires modes and ends up being _more_complex_.
I am rather weary, however, of every proggramer having their own little design rules. You could, and should, read up on Cognative research into the field of UI design. They can give you equations for how easy it is to click a button, studies showing things like the max number of buttons in a given area, even frameworks by which you can work out the relative speed of an interface, error rates, habituation rates, and more.
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Virii, yes. Coffee spills, maybe. Disk errors, shit no. It may be waaaaay better than NTFS, but there still can be problems.
Windows Laptops have a need to be protected from coffee spills, viruses, and general disk errors.
RAID isn't a backup, its a performance tool. It makes a system more resilliant to _a_single_rare_ failure but NOT the majority of data failures. Having a redudant drive just sucks battery life.
RAID is great on a server where the disks are being used a _lot_ where high redudancy is needed becuase downtime is expensive but there still needs to be an offsite backup solution.
If someone is worried (as they should be) they should have an external HD with an automatic backup everynight. If they have a really important buisness meeting they should be carrying an external USB drive, not a second HD. Speaking of which why doesn't Dell offer an external HD with an auto recovery system? A clean and updated copy of Windows, nightly backups of their applications, documents, and preferences checked against an anti-malware scanner? Something goes wrong, boot into the Dell branded Norton CD and autorecover from the external HD.
This sounds like Intel's Centrino with WiFi, no one cares. All the vendors turned it off and eventually Intel backed off. They show charts of before and after Centrino with WiFi, bleah. WiFi is super proliferated becuase every damn DSL and Cable providers modem comes with WiFi running unsecure by default, on top of those who went and bought routers for it.
With the proliferation of multi-user logins, hand-me-down, and that most people in a single house (age wise) will be going to different sites. I imagine that this will continue to decline as an obstacle.
AFAIK (someone correct me as I don't have a test machine right here) these programs don't delete ALL cookies they delete _ad_based_ cookies. So say,/. and Amazon will still have it's cookies while known ad companies cookies will be gone.
The less effort it takes too make an account/log in will require less incentive. Please go through as few steps as possible, with log-in and account creatons on the same page as a reply box. Having that reply box on the same page is nice too. Go and read up on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOMS GOMS].
While I agree this is hardly a paradigm shit I think the poster is grasping at straws with his/her example. How many people surf between two browsers? I switch browsers when FF can't handle something. I migrate to a news browser every time something compelling comes along. How many people switch browsers in the same month?
Computers, that might be a larger percentage. But even then more tests could be done. Message boards you distract youself with at work that have a login-system which sets an everlasting cookie with a uniqe ID would be trackable across locations. What percentage of all internet users have more than one computer they browse a variety of sites with?
Okay, but what can they do? With the first admendment in place all they can seemingly do is pressure retailers? I'm sorry, but with the most violent games getting the best sales can this really effect the market long term?
You have a page rank of 8/10. Thats insane. You have one tiny Google Ads box. While ads can be annoying, just choose non-annoying ads. With such a high page rank you should be exploiting that.
...or causality is violated and we have (dead virgins/future grandfathers) all over the place
"And so the Trekkies were executed in the mannor most befitting virgins - thrown into volcanoes" - Futurama
I never realized there might be a corollation!
So, this involves throwing waving vigin trekkies waiting in line to be thrown into volcanoes to go faster than light?
Wow, Idaho made it to/., too bad it's Microserv. Their signal strength will grind to halt wildly, clear or cloudy. I service two hotels networks in the area. I kept getting calls the network ground to a halt, every time its confirmed the problem is on their end. Wireless ISP's are for those who cannot get DSL or cable, and definitely not for critical operations. Most DSL companies can get the higher 3-6 megabit cable to centralized areas. Whatever Microserv is claiming they can deliver is like the early PS2 benchmarks. On a clear day, line of sight, with not other neighbors hogging traffic, and no electromagnetic interference.
Sidenote, while traveling tell people you are from Idaho. It's either, "What country is that?" or the conversation will lead too potatoes. Even though everyone out does us on potatoes as a cash crop. Our river rafting kicks ass though...
LiveLinux CD's have been doing exactly that for years. Large enough USB stick will hold the OS too. I've been on servers running on an iPod. Doesn't work out too well though, the HD gets too hot and burns up.
So wait. You have an HD you carry around. You go to work, stick it in some computer, pull it out, go home stick it in another computer. So, they are doing what a USB memory stick has done for ages, but instead they are going to sell this as a (secure?) replacement for a laptop? Couldn't I just carry a laptop around, with a segmented HD and do the same shit at half the cost, and be able to work on whatever when I am not at either location. Uhh, sweet. Oh, encryption, right. Not that my entire HD isn't secure enough.
Or not. OS X can't handle multiple threads. It's handling is a thenth of of Windows and Linux. Mach, while a good idea, was a bad implimentation of a microkernel. The new L4 kernels fix that.
YES they have. Sorry, but this is a question everyone asks.
From their website:
"I heard that ZETA is using some illegal code. Is this true?
No. yellowTAB does not use illegal or leaked software."
They aquired the rights to the code before Be was eaten by Palm. There was also some code Be opensourced before kicking the bucket. Zeta is based on BeOS 5 Dano.
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These are two very good rules. If a process is complex but for design reasons the interface has four buttons it requires modes and ends up being _more_complex_.
I am rather weary, however, of every proggramer having their own little design rules. You could, and should, read up on Cognative research into the field of UI design. They can give you equations for how easy it is to click a button, studies showing things like the max number of buttons in a given area, even frameworks by which you can work out the relative speed of an interface, error rates, habituation rates, and more.
Virii, yes. Coffee spills, maybe. Disk errors, shit no. It may be waaaaay better than NTFS, but there still can be problems.
Becuase it is a hell of a lot cheaper and faster to pop two HD's into a computer and software RAID it.
Windows Laptops have a need to be protected from coffee spills, viruses, and general disk errors.
RAID isn't a backup, its a performance tool. It makes a system more resilliant to _a_single_rare_ failure but NOT the majority of data failures. Having a redudant drive just sucks battery life.
RAID is great on a server where the disks are being used a _lot_ where high redudancy is needed becuase downtime is expensive but there still needs to be an offsite backup solution.
If someone is worried (as they should be) they should have an external HD with an automatic backup everynight. If they have a really important buisness meeting they should be carrying an external USB drive, not a second HD.
Speaking of which why doesn't Dell offer an external HD with an auto recovery system? A clean and updated copy of Windows, nightly backups of their applications, documents, and preferences checked against an anti-malware scanner? Something goes wrong, boot into the Dell branded Norton CD and autorecover from the external HD.
This sounds like Intel's Centrino with WiFi, no one cares. All the vendors turned it off and eventually Intel backed off. They show charts of before and after Centrino with WiFi, bleah. WiFi is super proliferated becuase every damn DSL and Cable providers modem comes with WiFi running unsecure by default, on top of those who went and bought routers for it.
Gentoo doesn't need it. There is an 56K optimized version, you just need to download with the -shittyconnection flag.
Now mandrake, or redhat, or fuck the 7 CD debian need to get on the ball. Gentoo is just so much more, uh, fantasmagorical!
(jk)
With the proliferation of multi-user logins, hand-me-down, and that most people in a single house (age wise) will be going to different sites. I imagine that this will continue to decline as an obstacle.
AFAIK (someone correct me as I don't have a test machine right here) these programs don't delete ALL cookies they delete _ad_based_ cookies. So say, /. and Amazon will still have it's cookies while known ad companies cookies will be gone.
The less effort it takes too make an account/log in will require less incentive. Please go through as few steps as possible, with log-in and account creatons on the same page as a reply box. Having that reply box on the same page is nice too. Go and read up on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOMS GOMS].
While I agree this is hardly a paradigm shit I think the poster is grasping at straws with his/her example. How many people surf between two browsers? I switch browsers when FF can't handle something. I migrate to a news browser every time something compelling comes along. How many people switch browsers in the same month?
Computers, that might be a larger percentage. But even then more tests could be done. Message boards you distract youself with at work that have a login-system which sets an everlasting cookie with a uniqe ID would be trackable across locations. What percentage of all internet users have more than one computer they browse a variety of sites with?
Okay, but what can they do? With the first admendment in place all they can seemingly do is pressure retailers? I'm sorry, but with the most violent games getting the best sales can this really effect the market long term?
How the HELL can I get that job? Who's dick do you have to suck to play video games for a living?
They already have a Google Rank of 8/10. They don't need a single /.'ing. They need to make money off what they already have.
You have a page rank of 8/10. Thats insane. You have one tiny Google Ads box. While ads can be annoying, just choose non-annoying ads. With such a high page rank you should be exploiting that.
...or causality is violated and we have (dead virgins/future grandfathers) all over the place "And so the Trekkies were executed in the mannor most befitting virgins - thrown into volcanoes" - Futurama I never realized there might be a corollation! So, this involves throwing waving vigin trekkies waiting in line to be thrown into volcanoes to go faster than light?
Weird, my 'production cycle' is about 5 minutes.
It will be running goatse (mirror) by default.
Dammit, now I have that song stuck in my head.
Or even better, the flash animation.
Exccpt teh BDS's
Wow, Idaho made it to /., too bad it's Microserv. Their signal strength will grind to halt wildly, clear or cloudy. I service two hotels networks in the area. I kept getting calls the network ground to a halt, every time its confirmed the problem is on their end. Wireless ISP's are for those who cannot get DSL or cable, and definitely not for critical operations. Most DSL companies can get the higher 3-6 megabit cable to centralized areas. Whatever Microserv is claiming they can deliver is like the early PS2 benchmarks. On a clear day, line of sight, with not other neighbors hogging traffic, and no electromagnetic interference.
Sidenote, while traveling tell people you are from Idaho. It's either, "What country is that?" or the conversation will lead too potatoes. Even though everyone out does us on potatoes as a cash crop. Our river rafting kicks ass though...
LiveLinux CD's have been doing exactly that for years. Large enough USB stick will hold the OS too. I've been on servers running on an iPod. Doesn't work out too well though, the HD gets too hot and burns up.
So wait. You have an HD you carry around. You go to work, stick it in some computer, pull it out, go home stick it in another computer. So, they are doing what a USB memory stick has done for ages, but instead they are going to sell this as a (secure?) replacement for a laptop? Couldn't I just carry a laptop around, with a segmented HD and do the same shit at half the cost, and be able to work on whatever when I am not at either location. Uhh, sweet. Oh, encryption, right. Not that my entire HD isn't secure enough.
Or not. OS X can't handle multiple threads. It's handling is a thenth of of Windows and Linux. Mach, while a good idea, was a bad implimentation of a microkernel. The new L4 kernels fix that.
I'm with you man. Everytime I think about older computers I cringe. SCSI Voodoo keeps me awake at night.
BeUnited is working on a native port.
e -history-of-java-on-beos/
http://bryan.varnernet.com/archives/2004/09/01/th
YES they have. Sorry, but this is a question everyone asks.
From their website:
"I heard that ZETA is using some illegal code. Is this true?
No. yellowTAB does not use illegal or leaked software."
They aquired the rights to the code before Be was eaten by Palm. There was also some code Be opensourced before kicking the bucket. Zeta is based on BeOS 5 Dano.