I really like what Opera did with the Forward button. Do a Google search, and you can use the Forward button (or the equivalent keyboard keys) to go forwards through the search result. I just tried it on a review site and it worked on one of the reviews! It appears that Opera will allow you to use forwards on any page with a "Next" link.
This is a good idea. Infact the W3C have already recommended buttons like that. But the implimentation in Opera is bad. It should be a seperate button, else it is confusing 2 differnt things: Going forward in your navigation history, and going to the next page of a site. The are 2 different things that should not be considered the same.
Well, now Opera has this much needed feature, and hopefully the other browsers will copy it from them.
I'm pretty sure that Mozilla already has this, it's probably somewhere in the View menu (I don't have it on my work box). Enable that toolbar, and you get things like Home, Previous, Next, etc.
Back button improvement? Nah, forward button is what needs the improvement...
Unless you have conducted a lot of testing regarding the back button--like these guys in the artical obviously have--then I can't really take any credibility in that claim. That's half the problem with bad GUI's--People just guessing what they think is right instead of getting out there with people and doing real research.
BTW, when they talk about the back button, I suspect that they also mean the forward button to.
I don't see how it could be similar at all. The snapback button takes you to the last time you entered a URL (or visited the site root?).
This is basicly revising how the back button history is created and used. And for the better I might add.
I suspect that Apple will incorporate this in to Safari though. Hopefully before the final release.:)
Well I've got 3 busses on mine (standard: 2 buses with 2 ports, but can connect 2 ports to a 3rd bus). So unless either of us can be bothered to do some more research...;)
"People who are predicting the demise of record companies say there will be no more Michael Jacksons"
Unfortunately, there will always be pedophiles.
Oh...you were speaking of his musical career.
Sorry. Drive through.
*sigh* I feel someone has to deffend this poor freak.
Sure he is weird (now that's an understatment), and he does have an obsesion with kids, but I don't think it's a sexual one.
Personaly I think he's making up for a lack of normal childhood by trying to give one to others.
This is what the whole point of the artical is. Nobody was suggesting that programmers change the techical way they write code. This is a design/concept/planning issue that isn't looked at enough.
When developing code for a medical device, you've got to understand how the hardware responds to a software crash, etc
I think the whole point that the author is making (or should be making) is that programmers should know more about how their code will end up in the real world--how it's used in the end goal etc.
There have been many posts taking about how programmers need to think of different code moduals and hardware as black boxes. This is irrelivant, since all that is still only part of a larger system/end goal.
If i write a component that takes in X1 and outputs X2, isn't it the designer's job to make it look pretty? I mean, supposedly they were the ones that came up with needing the component in the first place, to accomplish some function or other, and thus make the user happy.
I think your post shows exactly what the author is talking about.
Lets say that X3 is the best output for this case. But the designer never even though of that. But you did, but didn't impliment it because were told that X2 needs to be output.
If you knew the bigger picture, you might have realized that X3 was the best solution here, and could have taked to the designer about it.
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One of the problems one has to grasp not being from the U.S. is that it's freakin' huge. We have a lot of land, so implementing a system such as this and have it be the "final word" is next to impossible. After all you could be driving through some isolated town in Iowa and the buck toothed yahoo in cover-all jeans sure as hell isn't going to accept credit/debit. =)
How does the Debit Cards network work? Over here, it just uses the phoneline, which I'm guessing is a major reason everyone has it--no new infastructure needed. Perhaps your telecom companies are doing something that might be preventing a system like ours?
Devils advocade: If it broke apart in the atmosphere, then it wasn't nessesary ever in space was it?
The media could have been faked, the wreckage could have been fake and dumped out the back of a plane at high altitude. These guys can ignore basic physics. If anything, it will just be fuel for the fire.
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Yeah, we have basically the same thing in NZ to. It's called EFTPOS (run by a private company I think).
Apperently, we are one of the highest users of this type of transaction. Pretty much 99.999% of shops have this, even some of the pizza places have portable Eftpos machines. The fees can be a bit hefty (~NZ$0.25). But most banks have fee free plan.
Now I only carry a note around "just-in-case" and can keep my wallet free of coins most of the time.
I know a few other countries have a system like this. But is there such a thing in the US?
I doubt the card in the artical will take off here, since the combination of cash and Eftpos fills out it's spot.
... gives a whole new meaning to the term "Cluster Bomb".
One link from slashdot and your cluster is totally wasted.
And before you know it:
Linux Box Installed In Warhead
From the connected-to-a-teddy-bear-hub dept.
GWBush writes: I found this really cool site the other day. Some guys have installed an old 486 running Linux in an empty WMD warhead.
In other words, the thing that would be interesting to inject into someones blood.:-) Everyone who'd seen the reaction of H202 and blood know what I'm talking about.;-)
Care to tell us what happens? As I'm not too keen on setting up an experiment myself, for obvious reasons.
Not mentioning the fact that usb is a shared bus, and thus your keyboard/mouse may be slowed by other devices on the bus... do you really want your mouse to become jerky and your keyboard to act like a telnet session over 2400bps when your downloading pictures from a camera or using a usb based networking device?
No, me neither... such important devices as keyboards/mice should have their own busses that arent interfered with by other devices...
I've never had a problem. When I was using an older iMac, I burnt CDs to. Never had a problem like that once. Not on PCs or Macs.
Besides, most computers have more than one USB port. Plug all the low bandwidth stuff into one, and keep the other free for high bandwidth stuff like cameras etc.
I think the point is more that it's very easy to just sit there and watch TV, even if there is something good on, there is always that "I'll just see what else is on next" though that keeps me just sitting there.
If I don't like the book I'm reading, I usally just stop reading it. Because it takes effort to read a book.
The other part is that most stuff on TV is crap. The good stuff just seems too far in between. Once you add in the fact that you must watch it at a specific time (unless you can be bothered with a VCR, which I don't, and don't have the $ for one anyway), and being interupted every few minuets, it just not worth it for me.
I still hire a lot of DVDs, and watch episodes of things that I can't get on TV anyway. The only things I miss are the news, Discovery channel, and National Geographic. But even then, the good stuff is oftern too far inbetween.
That's one of the problems with OSS--Lack of focus can affect projects.
It's kinda like how there are many parties/groups that have the same general goal/opinion (say, left wing politics for example), but instead of putting their differences aside and taking on their major opponent/aiming for the main goal, they just argue with each other over little things.
GWBush said that athiests shouldn't be considered citizens. does that mean it's OK for me to kill a couple of dozen Americans?
No. Why should the people of Iraq suffer just because of what one person said? Hell, you can hardly blame them for what they said anyway, considering what the US is about to do to their country.
Next time someone says something you find offensive, just ignore it, else, you're like one of those high-school jocks with an insecurity problem.
Or...I already own a non-sony digital camera, and most of my friends have a Palm with a SD slot. So I'll always be hooked to something with an SD slot.
Yes! As much as I admire the project, I also think that this is incredibly stupid. It's not like there are no tools, basic XML, or even HTML would be usefull. Infact, there is already a open ebook XML-type standard being created by a lot of the big corps like Adobe etc.
It doesn't have to be anything flash, just something to show chapters, titles, [P]s, [BR]s, [B]s, [I]s, etc.
It just seems like such a waste of effort to convert all these books, only to end up with something that has no semantic structure, I thought that would be half the reason for doing it.
NZ is too small and too dependent on Australia's and US economies that it will have to obey probable requests of this kind.
Well, we have essentially told both the US and OZ "No we don't want to join your war. But we will probably clean up after your mess." On the military side, we haven't just been going along like OZ has.
We also seem to have a higher percentage of people using the net, hopefully that means there are more people who understand and don't like these DMCA type laws.
We're also under a Labour lead gov, and have the Greens in parliment.
Hopefully, all this will be just enough to dodge DMCA type laws, without totaly fucking up our OZ-US dependant economy.
No, that means that a database is not a DBMS, and that a DBMS is not a database. See, a DBMS is a database management system, therefore it cannot be the thing it was created to manage. Similarly, data does not manage itself, but needs a DBMS (or a SysAdmin, operator or whatever else) to do that.
Ah, slight missunderstanding of deffinitions. In that case, MySQL must also be a DBMS. If it's not, I'd like you to prove me wrong since it's does infact--manage my data for me.
You could prove to me that it's a very basic or not very good DBMS. But not that it isn't a DBMS at all.
According to my definition it tries to be a DBMS, but fails for requiring too much of users and programmers. And it fails to be a SQL system too. But it sure can be used to suboptimally access a database.
How is requiring less requiring to much? Is this some kind of doublethink? I had a quick look over a begginers guide to Oracle and PHP, the amount of code for a connection or query was more complicated than MySQL. Now if the application doesn't need anything more complex than MySQL. What the point in going with anything else?
Sure, it isn't a real SQL DBMS either. But it still uses a lot of it's language--It supports a subset of MySQL. And like I said before, if that all that's needed, why bother with something else?
MySQL suits my current projects just fine. And if I ever find I need something more powerfull, then I'll use that.
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This is a good idea. Infact the W3C have already recommended buttons like that. But the implimentation in Opera is bad. It should be a seperate button, else it is confusing 2 differnt things: Going forward in your navigation history, and going to the next page of a site. The are 2 different things that should not be considered the same.
Well, now Opera has this much needed feature, and hopefully the other browsers will copy it from them.
I'm pretty sure that Mozilla already has this, it's probably somewhere in the View menu (I don't have it on my work box). Enable that toolbar, and you get things like Home, Previous, Next, etc.
Back button improvement? Nah, forward button is what needs the improvement...
Unless you have conducted a lot of testing regarding the back button--like these guys in the artical obviously have--then I can't really take any credibility in that claim. That's half the problem with bad GUI's--People just guessing what they think is right instead of getting out there with people and doing real research.
BTW, when they talk about the back button, I suspect that they also mean the forward button to.
This is basicly revising how the back button history is created and used. And for the better I might add. :)
I suspect that Apple will incorporate this in to Safari though. Hopefully before the final release.
Well I've got 3 busses on mine (standard: 2 buses with 2 ports, but can connect 2 ports to a 3rd bus). So unless either of us can be bothered to do some more research... ;)
Unfortunately, there will always be pedophiles.
Oh...you were speaking of his musical career. Sorry. Drive through.
*sigh* I feel someone has to deffend this poor freak.
Sure he is weird (now that's an understatment), and he does have an obsesion with kids, but I don't think it's a sexual one.
Personaly I think he's making up for a lack of normal childhood by trying to give one to others.
This is what the whole point of the artical is. Nobody was suggesting that programmers change the techical way they write code. This is a design/concept/planning issue that isn't looked at enough.
Read this quote:
I think the whole point that the author is making (or should be making) is that programmers should know more about how their code will end up in the real world--how it's used in the end goal etc.
There have been many posts taking about how programmers need to think of different code moduals and hardware as black boxes. This is irrelivant, since all that is still only part of a larger system/end goal.
I think your post shows exactly what the author is talking about.
Lets say that X3 is the best output for this case. But the designer never even though of that. But you did, but didn't impliment it because were told that X2 needs to be output.
If you knew the bigger picture, you might have realized that X3 was the best solution here, and could have taked to the designer about it.
How does the Debit Cards network work? Over here, it just uses the phoneline, which I'm guessing is a major reason everyone has it--no new infastructure needed. Perhaps your telecom companies are doing something that might be preventing a system like ours?
Devils advocade: If it broke apart in the atmosphere, then it wasn't nessesary ever in space was it?
The media could have been faked, the wreckage could have been fake and dumped out the back of a plane at high altitude. These guys can ignore basic physics. If anything, it will just be fuel for the fire.
Apperently, we are one of the highest users of this type of transaction. Pretty much 99.999% of shops have this, even some of the pizza places have portable Eftpos machines. The fees can be a bit hefty (~NZ$0.25). But most banks have fee free plan.
Now I only carry a note around "just-in-case" and can keep my wallet free of coins most of the time.
I know a few other countries have a system like this. But is there such a thing in the US?
I doubt the card in the artical will take off here, since the combination of cash and Eftpos fills out it's spot.
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Got any prof that they usally on the same bus? I though it was the other way around. Atleast in my experience anyway.
One link from slashdot and your cluster is totally wasted.
And before you know it:
Care to tell us what happens? As I'm not too keen on setting up an experiment myself, for obvious reasons.
No, me neither... such important devices as keyboards/mice should have their own busses that arent interfered with by other devices...
I've never had a problem. When I was using an older iMac, I burnt CDs to. Never had a problem like that once. Not on PCs or Macs.
Besides, most computers have more than one USB port. Plug all the low bandwidth stuff into one, and keep the other free for high bandwidth stuff like cameras etc.
If I don't like the book I'm reading, I usally just stop reading it. Because it takes effort to read a book.
The other part is that most stuff on TV is crap. The good stuff just seems too far in between. Once you add in the fact that you must watch it at a specific time (unless you can be bothered with a VCR, which I don't, and don't have the $ for one anyway), and being interupted every few minuets, it just not worth it for me.
I still hire a lot of DVDs, and watch episodes of things that I can't get on TV anyway. The only things I miss are the news, Discovery channel, and National Geographic. But even then, the good stuff is oftern too far inbetween.
Only more reliable if the pump doesn't fail. This method has no pump to fail, making it more reliable.
It's kinda like how there are many parties/groups that have the same general goal/opinion (say, left wing politics for example), but instead of putting their differences aside and taking on their major opponent/aiming for the main goal, they just argue with each other over little things.
Just a thought anyway.
Perhaps he stole someones stapler?
No. Why should the people of Iraq suffer just because of what one person said? Hell, you can hardly blame them for what they said anyway, considering what the US is about to do to their country.
Next time someone says something you find offensive, just ignore it, else, you're like one of those high-school jocks with an insecurity problem.
You're even more of a geek if you can say that is true, and say you have only ever been with one PDA.
Or...I already own a non-sony digital camera, and most of my friends have a Palm with a SD slot. So I'll always be hooked to something with an SD slot.
It doesn't have to be anything flash, just something to show chapters, titles, [P]s, [BR]s, [B]s, [I]s, etc.
It just seems like such a waste of effort to convert all these books, only to end up with something that has no semantic structure, I thought that would be half the reason for doing it.
Well, we have essentially told both the US and OZ "No we don't want to join your war. But we will probably clean up after your mess." On the military side, we haven't just been going along like OZ has.
We also seem to have a higher percentage of people using the net, hopefully that means there are more people who understand and don't like these DMCA type laws.
We're also under a Labour lead gov, and have the Greens in parliment.
Hopefully, all this will be just enough to dodge DMCA type laws, without totaly fucking up our OZ-US dependant economy.
Ah, slight missunderstanding of deffinitions. In that case, MySQL must also be a DBMS. If it's not, I'd like you to prove me wrong since it's does infact--manage my data for me.
You could prove to me that it's a very basic or not very good DBMS. But not that it isn't a DBMS at all.
According to my definition it tries to be a DBMS, but fails for requiring too much of users and programmers. And it fails to be a SQL system too. But it sure can be used to suboptimally access a database.
How is requiring less requiring to much? Is this some kind of doublethink? I had a quick look over a begginers guide to Oracle and PHP, the amount of code for a connection or query was more complicated than MySQL. Now if the application doesn't need anything more complex than MySQL. What the point in going with anything else?
Sure, it isn't a real SQL DBMS either. But it still uses a lot of it's language--It supports a subset of MySQL. And like I said before, if that all that's needed, why bother with something else?
MySQL suits my current projects just fine. And if I ever find I need something more powerfull, then I'll use that.