Why isn't there a tracker page at Defective By Design for how many of these DRM services have died? Google's video, Yahoo's music service, MSN Music, MTV, MLB.tv, CSS, etc?
Yeah, Fastmail is insanely cool. They have a very refined (albiet oldskool HTML) interface that works VERY well.
They are incredibly geek friendly, you can pass you own scripting to the spam filters, lots of aliases, manipulating the email from fields, accessing IMAP over non-standard ports, they were among the first to offer mobile access, etc, etc, etc! Everyone I have set up on it is very happy.
Comparing this to "Launchy" is pretty silly. Recognize this for what it is, the first steps of a new wave of Interface Design brought about by Interface Engineering.
Ubiquity's pedigree is MUCH older, going all the way back to the Canon Cat and the late Jef Raskin's idea of The Humane Interface, this being a subset closer related to The Humane Editor and Aza Raskin's Enso.
The Humane Interface is, in fact, an entire rethinking of human computer interaction, restructured around what Cognitive Science has to say about human mental capabilities instead of a strange, cobbled together desktop metaphor and separate applications.
I cannot find an analogy to how fundamentally incorrect the submitters mental model of PDF's and Tiffs are.
Think of PDF as a container format, you can compress the images inside the PDF to your heart's content, much smaller than TIFF will do since it can use JPEG or PNG or whatever format you want. Tools->Print Production->PDF Optimizer. It even has OCR and some scanned image auto cleaning.
The easiest thing is just to have them change their scan resolution, down to say, 150 DPI and B+W instead of color.
Odd, since we really don't understand gravity, nor does the Newtonian style theory work universally, which is why we have so many different theories; Newton's, general relativity, quantum. Yet we can all play 3D pool with Newtonian physics. Similarly we are beginning to model what the brain does, by mimicking neuron's responses with computer algorithms.
Uhh, 1940 and no progress? Are you nuts? Cognitive scientists didn't theorize basic semantic networks until 1966, let alone artificial neurons.
And no, that isn't just more brute forcing, yeah it is a *lot* more computation, but it's a completely different angle of attack than parsing sentence structure and swapping out words.
While I am a high Kyu player and only played GnuGo I would like to weigh in that computer Go seems very artificial. It doesn't play like any of the high Kyu or Dan players I know. It got me into bad habits. Better just to hop online and play real people with KGS. Better yet go to your local Go club, it is quite a different experience playing with people.
In the interviews that Nintendo's CEO had online they talked about applying new chip technology to the GC and had a 50%(?) power savings. I am no expert but guessing from that figure this does not go where you think it is going.
GUIs were around in academia long before Xerox. Xerox, not knowing what to do with all this stuff coming from the lab, invested in Apple and let them wander through. None of that made it into the myth, kinda anti-climatic.
The whole "Why shouldn't my computer take three nanoseconds to turn on, read my mind, and then never ever have errors!!!?!?one1" thing is a very amateur approach to the problem, if you ask me. Sure, it would be nice, but I'm absolutely sure it's technically impossible.
Thanks for the insight, Troll.
Windows, cutting edge of OS design! Raskin did it in the 80's. You could check out orthogonal persistence OS's. Maybe none right _now_ can do it in a few nanoseconds, but most are using hacks on existing computer hardware. Look at what LinuxBIOS has been able to do. It's not just possible, it's been done.
"Why should you have to double-click anything? What does Ctrl+D mean one thing in one program and a completely different thing in another? And what's the point of the Yes/No confirmation if the user is in the habit of clicking Yes without thinking about it?"
All of those things make sense in the context they are being used in, and they're relatively intuitive. After all, it's not the programmers fault the user is an idiot, especially with something as simple as a yes/no dialog box, as long as the dialog box is written in language comprehensible for the designed userbase.
I wouldn't bite this obvious troll bait if only some people didn't believe you. "Intuitive" is "Learned Behavior" NOT what humans are good at, or can do. They habituate, just like you habituate to gasing the car on a green light, or at least many of us do. But how many times have you caught yourself pressing the pedal for the wrong green light? Probably less than everyone reading this has clicked yes or no on a dialog box without reading it. If you had read the book you would have found answers to avoiding such dialog boxes, and how to make it so the user is forced to actually make a choice, they can't just habituate to hitting "yes."
Exactly, you can't have an interface free interface, we are interfacing with the world. Want some really mind blowing interface design work check out Jeff Raskin's The Humane Interface Go back to the fundamentals of how humans interact with the world, find where we retain the most information, are the fastest to react, what gives us higher error rates, etc and redisign computer interfaces. Imagine an OS without applications or files. That's what he outlines. This is just another input device.
Even if you are not designing an OS, any programmer, designer, or engineer (computer related or not), can gain a lot from this book.
"The titanium dioxide contains 'superhydrophilicity' which makes it so liquid droplets do not form on the surface. It makes the liquid run off and washes as it drips off."
Riiiight, so now those little droplets of piss will form puddles.
The best way is prevention; blacklights. If the only lighting in your bathroom is blacklights everyone will see every tiny mismatch in the surface of your bathroom, and no will walk in again. Of course you know where the real light switch is and can see how it looks in "reality."
Marginally more original. I'd at least facilitate cutting-edge paradigms to visualize tracking users and facilitate clicks-and-mortar deliverables deployment to leading-edge consumers
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Why isn't there a tracker page at Defective By Design for how many of these DRM services have died? Google's video, Yahoo's music service, MSN Music, MTV, MLB.tv, CSS, etc?
Yeah, Fastmail is insanely cool. They have a very refined (albiet oldskool HTML) interface that works VERY well.
They are incredibly geek friendly, you can pass you own scripting to the spam filters, lots of aliases, manipulating the email from fields, accessing IMAP over non-standard ports, they were among the first to offer mobile access, etc, etc, etc! Everyone I have set up on it is very happy.
And for $20 a year, you get REAL support!
Comparing this to "Launchy" is pretty silly. Recognize this for what it is, the first steps of a new wave of Interface Design brought about by Interface Engineering.
Ubiquity's pedigree is MUCH older, going all the way back to the Canon Cat and the late Jef Raskin's idea of The Humane Interface, this being a subset closer related to The Humane Editor and Aza Raskin's Enso.
The Humane Interface is, in fact, an entire rethinking of human computer interaction, restructured around what Cognitive Science has to say about human mental capabilities instead of a strange, cobbled together desktop metaphor and separate applications.
It doesn't have quite enough jazz to be a /. meme.
And with that, the next great /. meme is born.
I cannot find an analogy to how fundamentally incorrect the submitters mental model of PDF's and Tiffs are. Think of PDF as a container format, you can compress the images inside the PDF to your heart's content, much smaller than TIFF will do since it can use JPEG or PNG or whatever format you want. Tools->Print Production->PDF Optimizer. It even has OCR and some scanned image auto cleaning. The easiest thing is just to have them change their scan resolution, down to say, 150 DPI and B+W instead of color.
Odd, since we really don't understand gravity, nor does the Newtonian style theory work universally, which is why we have so many different theories; Newton's, general relativity, quantum. Yet we can all play 3D pool with Newtonian physics. Similarly we are beginning to model what the brain does, by mimicking neuron's responses with computer algorithms.
This is always what I think when a new Google Killer comes along, why can't google, with it's vast team of PHD's replicated the competition?
Uhh, 1940 and no progress? Are you nuts? Cognitive scientists didn't theorize basic semantic networks until 1966, let alone artificial neurons. And no, that isn't just more brute forcing, yeah it is a *lot* more computation, but it's a completely different angle of attack than parsing sentence structure and swapping out words.
Anyone remember the first USB Zip drives? They would actually pop out.
No, seriously, where the hell are the pictures?
While I am a high Kyu player and only played GnuGo I would like to weigh in that computer Go seems very artificial. It doesn't play like any of the high Kyu or Dan players I know. It got me into bad habits. Better just to hop online and play real people with KGS. Better yet go to your local Go club, it is quite a different experience playing with people.
Or when will that patch actually get updated?
In the interviews that Nintendo's CEO had online they talked about applying new chip technology to the GC and had a 50%(?) power savings. I am no expert but guessing from that figure this does not go where you think it is going.
GUIs were around in academia long before Xerox. Xerox, not knowing what to do with all this stuff coming from the lab, invested in Apple and let them wander through. None of that made it into the myth, kinda anti-climatic.
Thanks for the insight, Troll.
Windows, cutting edge of OS design! Raskin did it in the 80's. You could check out orthogonal persistence OS's. Maybe none right _now_ can do it in a few nanoseconds, but most are using hacks on existing computer hardware. Look at what LinuxBIOS has been able to do. It's not just possible, it's been done.
I wouldn't bite this obvious troll bait if only some people didn't believe you. "Intuitive" is "Learned Behavior" NOT what humans are good at, or can do. They habituate, just like you habituate to gasing the car on a green light, or at least many of us do. But how many times have you caught yourself pressing the pedal for the wrong green light? Probably less than everyone reading this has clicked yes or no on a dialog box without reading it. If you had read the book you would have found answers to avoiding such dialog boxes, and how to make it so the user is forced to actually make a choice, they can't just habituate to hitting "yes."
Exactly, you can't have an interface free interface, we are interfacing with the world. Want some really mind blowing interface design work check out Jeff Raskin's The Humane Interface Go back to the fundamentals of how humans interact with the world, find where we retain the most information, are the fastest to react, what gives us higher error rates, etc and redisign computer interfaces. Imagine an OS without applications or files. That's what he outlines. This is just another input device.
Even if you are not designing an OS, any programmer, designer, or engineer (computer related or not), can gain a lot from this book.
I hope Apple will never have another development cycle as long as OS X 1.0 :p
Oh wait, the iPhone.
Ugh, need to preview my posts, Do they have this feature as well. I tried to check the commands documentation, but the PDF is downloading at 1KB/sec.
I know a few companies try to have the same commands for their gear, is this a "feature" as well?
"The titanium dioxide contains 'superhydrophilicity' which makes it so liquid droplets do not form on the surface. It makes the liquid run off and washes as it drips off."
Riiiight, so now those little droplets of piss will form puddles.
The best way is prevention; blacklights. If the only lighting in your bathroom is blacklights everyone will see every tiny mismatch in the surface of your bathroom, and no will walk in again. Of course you know where the real light switch is and can see how it looks in "reality."
Kinda like this?
Marginally more original. I'd at least facilitate cutting-edge paradigms to visualize tracking users and facilitate clicks-and-mortar deliverables deployment to leading-edge consumers
-jkPlus, Apple has a low-end publishing competition: Pages.
Which competes with MS Publisher, not InDesign
Good, high quality. Still not as good as 8bit D&D