Wrong. If you have more than a few tabs open, their names are truncated to the point where you cannot tell which is which. And unlike with windows, there is no "tab" menu to allow you to see all the names in full.
I have opened more thna a few tabs, and still been able to read them. Besides, you might not need to read the whole title. As long as it's enought ot tell it apart, and alot of the time (for me anyway) it is. Even if you can't identify them by reding the text, there is also the case of mucle memory. Quite oftern I remember which tab I need to get back to etc.
And abut the window menu, one could also add one for the tabs.
Wrong. Command-` cycles one way through the list; command-shift-` cycles the other way.
That shortcut is a pain, it's not something that I can do fast. And their is still the point that you have to do it. It's easy to make a mistake, and it requires extra effort to correct it. This is not the case with tabs, if the user does hit the wrong one, the just hit the right one, they don't have to esspecialy go back a move.
It is very clear to me that you have no backgound in usability or GUI design. These are basic pricipals were talkling about here. I don't care what you argue, I know I'm it the right here.
This is one of thing that I prefer on Win than Mac. All my apps open maximised
Horrible. I don't know what kind of work you do, but when I use my computer I almost always have two or more windows arranged for use at once. For example, when I'm not goofing off as I am as I write this, I'm working on a programming project. I have my project window open over here, and my interface window open there, and two browser windows with documentation in them over here and here
Now that is just ignorant. I truly can't understand the mentality behind you saying that way I work is horrible, it just makes no sence, you don't even know what I do, what if I just did word processing all day? For the record, I do web development. When I'm editing HTML/CSS/PHP etc. I'm not looking at anything else. I can't fit both a browser and my text editor in the screen at the some time without it being too cramped, so I might as well maxmise both and flick between them.
For browsing, I can't read 2 things at the same time. So I don't need browsers side by side. And when I do need to view my text editor and some documentation at the same time (like you do), then I will put them side by side. But when I don't need to, most of the time I want to use all of my screen (explorer windows, GetRight and ICQ being a few examples of exceptions).
If that's true, then it's a shame because IMHO, Phoenix is the only thing that could bring Mozilla/Gecko into the mainstream (Netscape doesn't count, since it's commercialised). I was starting to use Phoenix quite a bit, I was thinking of replacing IE with it! But there still a few small things that I was waiting on. That would never happen with Mozilla, because I can't stand it at all.
I hope someone picks the project up again, because if they don't, I doubt I'll be using any Gecko based browser again, and that's also a shame because it's better than IE's rendering engine, and IE will never give people the feature set they want.
I think it comes down to a few weird little reasons... like, you can see how many tabs you have open at a glance. That's sorta nice. The instant-load thing, that's nice. But you know what it mostly is? (imho?)...
Those "little" reasons are are major reasons, they're basic GUI issues. Tabs are better than windows because all the tabs can be seen at once, and the user can see exactly what they want, and reach for it with a single click.
Cycling through each window, to see if it's the right one is a pain. If you fuck-up, you have to go though the entire cycle again! You cold always take it slowly, but that's even more of a pain.
...You don't have to re-size or move your new window
Yes, the user should not have to mess about with windows all the time, they should be using the app. When you find you self messing around with windows all the time, there is somethign wrong with the GUI. This is one of thing that I prefer on Win than Mac. All my apps open maximised, I never have to muck about with them untill I need to to some out of the ordinary.
...tab-browsing freaks to those who run the browser full-screen
What's so freaking about wanting to use all of you're screen space? Unless yoy need to view 2 windows at once, why waste space. What's freaking is people who have a 1600x1200 screen and have their windows so small that they have to scroll all the time.
Of course, if you mean full-screen as in the feature found on a few Win browsers which hides most of the GUI, then that is a bit freaky.
I believe the original story was in the cache files on the hard drives in question.
On a more serious note. I think it's probably the fact that the original artical had a stupid title.
Data-mining has nothing to do with finding old data on people's hard drives (the original title had something to that effect). I'm not exactly sure what it means. But I'm pretty sure it has to do with statistics and finding trends and other info from a database of collected (and seemingly meaning less) data. Seems to be a popular marketing tool.
You can see how someone might get confused though. But you can't blame Taco for going by the title.
Congratulations, you've taken your first step into a larger world.
Now write "iCommune" on a thick rubber band and wear it around your wrist. Whenever the urge to say "Apple will never knuckle under to DRM" comes over you, draw back the rubber band four or five inches and give yourself a good smack.
Congratulations, you've taken your first step into a larger world.
Now write "General Public Licence" on a thick rubber band and wear it around your wrist. Whenever the urge to say "The open source community will never knuckle under to DRM" comes over you, draw back the rubber band four or five inches and give yourself a good smack.
This is not a case of DRM. This is a simple licence volation. Even the open source community uses licences and expects people to uphold the terms and conditions of the licence.
Hmmm...I never realised that all RFDI tags were exactly the same.
RFID tags are not the size of "grains of sand" but rather the size of an oversized stamp.
Apparently, the ones used in livestock are just slightly larger than a grain of rice.
Outside an RFID scanners range, they are just circuits and have no function.
Given that this article gives a possible range of up to 5 meters, one could easily place scanners in high foot-traffic places like bus/train/subway terminals, airports, major shopping malls, fast-food joints etc.
So what is this technology being developed for? To replace UPC labels! Instead of having to scan a bar code, you bombared an RFID with energy.
Well apparently, you only know of one use of these devices in a certain field. They're already used in livestock, pets, and apparently tires. I'm sure the list goes on and one, and I'm positive that they're not just a replacement for UPC barcodes.
Even if the article is a little over-exaggerated, it's something that could happen in the very close future. It's definitely not FUD.
since cars already have license plates that identify them from a distance. I can't see why anyone would want to read RFID's out of tires on the freeways when they can just read the license plates of the cars instead.
'cause most criminals don't think to switch the tires of a stolen car?
This just feels so much like FUD. It reminds me of the warning to never pee in a swimming pool because there is some kind of chemical that'll react and turn some bright color;
Just like we all learned to type, on a QWERTY keyboard, which was designed to slow typists down so they didn't jam the early mechanical typewriters. Yet another example of designing for the machine and not the human. I'd say you've proven his point quite nicely.
Not at all. QWERTY wasn't designed to slow down exactly, it was deisgned to be spaced out so keys close together didn't jam. Yes that did slow it down a bit compard to alternatives. But it's still faster than an alphabetical layout that you wouldn't need to learn.
Not to mention that his point was probably aimed more at the keyboard it's self and not the nessesarily the layout. Regardless of layout, you still have to learn how to type if you want to construct a sentence in a decent amount of time.
No, I learned to type on a manual typewriter (in 6th grade (1976); I didn't get introduced to computers until 11th grade (1981)) to avoid having to write school papers by hand.
But the same principal still applies. If you want to use a keyboard, whether that's a computer keyboard or a typewritter, you still have to learn how to use it.
What if you had never used a typewritter before?
And the fact that you choose to use a keyboard over handwritting seems to suggest that learning a new UI was acctually of benifit to you, and certinaly not bad design.
I don't nessesarly disagree with your opinion on graffiti etc. but I do dissagree with you reasons for them.
"Capable of 97 mph and long-range travel, the HydroGen3 would satisfy most drivers? needs today."
Is this equivalent to the infamous quote: "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM..."?
Exactly how is this an equivilant? Speed limits are there for safety reasons. And your average person isn't going to nessesarily drive longer each day just because their car has a greater range.
Unless there are some major changes in motoring as a whole (like computer controled cars, driving at high speed on super-highways etc). Saying that it will satisfy most drivers needs today isn't silly at all.
what ever happened to "if it aint broke, dont fix it?" I dont see why we were having such a problem using our feet so as to need us to use our hands for brakes/gas.
From the artical:
SKF engineers confess that the all-in-one control is meant to emphasize the advantages possible with by-wire technology?it would work just as well with pedals to send the go/stop signals, freeing the steering wheel from its range limitation.
No one's going to be doing any major re-arranging of the controls of the car. This is a concept car. Please keep that in mind at all times.
1) People will have to know they're about to be slashdoted.
2) If they do sign-up for an AOL type account, and it is possible to set their site up their (it may be dynamic, or contain large files etc), and they do have time to do it and can be bothered, it will generally suffer the same fate because they AOL type hosting and free hosts generally have limits.
Otherwise, it would be a good idea (and infact perfect in some cases). Given the range of sites that/. links to, I think it's going to be very hard to come up with a solution that works nicely for the majority.
nor does it make any mention of how to even correctly discharge capacitors while working with them.
HowTo: Safely discharge a capacitor
Capacitors can store large amounts of electricity for a long time after the device has been turned off. Depending on the size/rating of the capacitor, this can be enought to injure or kill you.
If you ever plan to work on a device with capacitors, you should properly discharge them first to prevent youself from a potentialy fatal electric shock.
Look for the contacts of the capacitor, then, lick one of your fingers, and gentaly touch the contacts, making sure than your finger touches both of them at the same time.
You have successfully discharged the capacitor, and it is now safe to work on without the risk of an eletrical shock.
Disclaimer: Yes, most of use here know this is a joke. But just incase you might be up for the next Darwin award: Don't use your fingers to discharge a capacitor. Infact, if you didn't know that already, you should never taking apart anything in the first place.
Well, maybe you should learn where that danged zoom button is!;) I have it so I just hold down Ctrl, and use the scroll wheel, which seems to be standard these days.
I also think it's a bit harsh to say that an entire site sucks becuse the person made a bad descision on the font size. Esspecialy when you can resize it.
Ïf small font sizes are that much of an annoyance to you. Maybe you should ditch IE--the only browser that can't re-size the px unit--and go with something like Phoenix? I've been a long time IE user, but the only thing keeping me from Phoenix now is an old habit of clicking the blue "e" icon....I'm still working on that.
I think this guy needs to invest in some sandpaper and some paint. Having a neat-o super keen way to get into your house is great, but if it your house looks like shit to begin with...
...? What? What has the condition of the paint on the house got to do with securtity?
That's mainly why I try to avoid "pimping out" my car. What's the point of a nice paint job and a fart pipe if the brakes are failing and the engine's falling apart?
Your post makes the perfect example of contradiction;)
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I have opened more thna a few tabs, and still been able to read them. Besides, you might not need to read the whole title. As long as it's enought ot tell it apart, and alot of the time (for me anyway) it is. Even if you can't identify them by reding the text, there is also the case of mucle memory. Quite oftern I remember which tab I need to get back to etc.
And abut the window menu, one could also add one for the tabs.
Wrong. Command-` cycles one way through the list; command-shift-` cycles the other way.
That shortcut is a pain, it's not something that I can do fast. And their is still the point that you have to do it. It's easy to make a mistake, and it requires extra effort to correct it. This is not the case with tabs, if the user does hit the wrong one, the just hit the right one, they don't have to esspecialy go back a move.
It is very clear to me that you have no backgound in usability or GUI design. These are basic pricipals were talkling about here. I don't care what you argue, I know I'm it the right here.
Horrible. I don't know what kind of work you do, but when I use my computer I almost always have two or more windows arranged for use at once. For example, when I'm not goofing off as I am as I write this, I'm working on a programming project. I have my project window open over here, and my interface window open there, and two browser windows with documentation in them over here and hereNow that is just ignorant. I truly can't understand the mentality behind you saying that way I work is horrible, it just makes no sence, you don't even know what I do, what if I just did word processing all day? For the record, I do web development. When I'm editing HTML/CSS/PHP etc. I'm not looking at anything else. I can't fit both a browser and my text editor in the screen at the some time without it being too cramped, so I might as well maxmise both and flick between them.
For browsing, I can't read 2 things at the same time. So I don't need browsers side by side. And when I do need to view my text editor and some documentation at the same time (like you do), then I will put them side by side. But when I don't need to, most of the time I want to use all of my screen (explorer windows, GetRight and ICQ being a few examples of exceptions).
If that's true, then it's a shame because IMHO, Phoenix is the only thing that could bring Mozilla/Gecko into the mainstream (Netscape doesn't count, since it's commercialised). I was starting to use Phoenix quite a bit, I was thinking of replacing IE with it! But there still a few small things that I was waiting on. That would never happen with Mozilla, because I can't stand it at all.
I hope someone picks the project up again, because if they don't, I doubt I'll be using any Gecko based browser again, and that's also a shame because it's better than IE's rendering engine, and IE will never give people the feature set they want.
Those "little" reasons are are major reasons, they're basic GUI issues. Tabs are better than windows because all the tabs can be seen at once, and the user can see exactly what they want, and reach for it with a single click.
Cycling through each window, to see if it's the right one is a pain. If you fuck-up, you have to go though the entire cycle again! You cold always take it slowly, but that's even more of a pain.
Yes, the user should not have to mess about with windows all the time, they should be using the app. When you find you self messing around with windows all the time, there is somethign wrong with the GUI. This is one of thing that I prefer on Win than Mac. All my apps open maximised, I never have to muck about with them untill I need to to some out of the ordinary.
What's so freaking about wanting to use all of you're screen space? Unless yoy need to view 2 windows at once, why waste space. What's freaking is people who have a 1600x1200 screen and have their windows so small that they have to scroll all the time.
Of course, if you mean full-screen as in the feature found on a few Win browsers which hides most of the GUI, then that is a bit freaky.
If you want to see how it should be done, take a look here (need an account if you want to see how it works, or just read their FAQ etc).
On a more serious note. I think it's probably the fact that the original artical had a stupid title.
Data-mining has nothing to do with finding old data on people's hard drives (the original title had something to that effect). I'm not exactly sure what it means. But I'm pretty sure it has to do with statistics and finding trends and other info from a database of collected (and seemingly meaning less) data. Seems to be a popular marketing tool.
You can see how someone might get confused though. But you can't blame Taco for going by the title.
Now write "iCommune" on a thick rubber band and wear it around your wrist. Whenever the urge to say "Apple will never knuckle under to DRM" comes over you, draw back the rubber band four or five inches and give yourself a good smack.
Congratulations, you've taken your first step into a larger world.
Now write "General Public Licence" on a thick rubber band and wear it around your wrist. Whenever the urge to say "The open source community will never knuckle under to DRM" comes over you, draw back the rubber band four or five inches and give yourself a good smack.
This is not a case of DRM. This is a simple licence volation. Even the open source community uses licences and expects people to uphold the terms and conditions of the licence.
Even if they were set for saftly, they wouldn't be that much faster.
RFID tags are not the size of "grains of sand" but rather the size of an oversized stamp.
Apparently, the ones used in livestock are just slightly larger than a grain of rice.
Outside an RFID scanners range, they are just circuits and have no function.
Given that this article gives a possible range of up to 5 meters, one could easily place scanners in high foot-traffic places like bus/train/subway terminals, airports, major shopping malls, fast-food joints etc.
So what is this technology being developed for? To replace UPC labels! Instead of having to scan a bar code, you bombared an RFID with energy.
Well apparently, you only know of one use of these devices in a certain field. They're already used in livestock, pets, and apparently tires. I'm sure the list goes on and one, and I'm positive that they're not just a replacement for UPC barcodes.
Even if the article is a little over-exaggerated, it's something that could happen in the very close future. It's definitely not FUD.
Yes, because I'm sure they'll never want to see what's inside something unusual like a lead-lined bag.
'cause most criminals don't think to switch the tires of a stolen car?
Yellow?
Not at all. QWERTY wasn't designed to slow down exactly, it was deisgned to be spaced out so keys close together didn't jam. Yes that did slow it down a bit compard to alternatives. But it's still faster than an alphabetical layout that you wouldn't need to learn.
Not to mention that his point was probably aimed more at the keyboard it's self and not the nessesarily the layout. Regardless of layout, you still have to learn how to type if you want to construct a sentence in a decent amount of time.
But the same principal still applies. If you want to use a keyboard, whether that's a computer keyboard or a typewritter, you still have to learn how to use it.
What if you had never used a typewritter before?
And the fact that you choose to use a keyboard over handwritting seems to suggest that learning a new UI was acctually of benifit to you, and certinaly not bad design.
I don't nessesarly disagree with your opinion on graffiti etc. but I do dissagree with you reasons for them.
Can anyone say 'how the fuck do we turn these things off'?
What's with the non-standard UI? Why fix something that isn't broken?
Well, it's not like people overseas drive cars or anything.
Instead of having to develop 2 models of a car, you can just do one.
Is this equivalent to the infamous quote: "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM..."?
Exactly how is this an equivilant? Speed limits are there for safety reasons. And your average person isn't going to nessesarily drive longer each day just because their car has a greater range.
Unless there are some major changes in motoring as a whole (like computer controled cars, driving at high speed on super-highways etc). Saying that it will satisfy most drivers needs today isn't silly at all.
From the artical:
SKF engineers confess that the all-in-one control is meant to emphasize the advantages possible with by-wire technology?it would work just as well with pedals to send the go/stop signals, freeing the steering wheel from its range limitation.
No one's going to be doing any major re-arranging of the controls of the car. This is a concept car. Please keep that in mind at all times.
Maybe your right there, because I have absolutly no idea of what you're talking about.
They must have been set in something other than pixels then. Which is quite common and probable
1) People will have to know they're about to be slashdoted.
2) If they do sign-up for an AOL type account, and it is possible to set their site up their (it may be dynamic, or contain large files etc), and they do have time to do it and can be bothered, it will generally suffer the same fate because they AOL type hosting and free hosts generally have limits.
Otherwise, it would be a good idea (and infact perfect in some cases). /. links to, I think it's going to be very hard to come up with a solution that works nicely for the majority.
Given the range of sites that
HowTo: Safely discharge a capacitor
Capacitors can store large amounts of electricity for a long time after the device has been turned off. Depending on the size/rating of the capacitor, this can be enought to injure or kill you.
If you ever plan to work on a device with capacitors, you should properly discharge them first to prevent youself from a potentialy fatal electric shock.
Look for the contacts of the capacitor, then, lick one of your fingers, and gentaly touch the contacts, making sure than your finger touches both of them at the same time.
You have successfully discharged the capacitor, and it is now safe to work on without the risk of an eletrical shock.
Disclaimer: Yes, most of use here know this is a joke. But just incase you might be up for the next Darwin award: Don't use your fingers to discharge a capacitor. Infact, if you didn't know that already, you should never taking apart anything in the first place.
I also think it's a bit harsh to say that an entire site sucks becuse the person made a bad descision on the font size. Esspecialy when you can resize it.
Ïf small font sizes are that much of an annoyance to you. Maybe you should ditch IE--the only browser that can't re-size the px unit--and go with something like Phoenix? I've been a long time IE user, but the only thing keeping me from Phoenix now is an old habit of clicking the blue "e" icon....I'm still working on that.
yhbt? That's a new one to me.
That's mainly why I try to avoid "pimping out" my car. What's the point of a nice paint job and a fart pipe if the brakes are failing and the engine's falling apart?
Your post makes the perfect example of contradiction ;)