Or still ban guns. But keep bullets?;)
*imagines people pulling out a little box and throwing small metals objects at someone* "Ow...Ow! That hurts you barstard!".
The average magazine these days is mostly design and hardly any print. What's more, the design *sucks.*
Really? I haven't noticed that at all. Of course, that could be because I never see any actual content in mags any more. It's almost like buying an porfolio of advertisements.
Seriously though. I think you're confusing the difference between bad design and properly done typography/typesetting type design.
I can guarantee you, that a thoughtfully designed web-site, will not only look better than plain old HTML, but will also be easier to use and read. And if they use CSS, then it will also work around accessibility problems, ranging from disabilities, to choice in font sizes.
Unfortunately, there are so few websites that do proper design via CSS etc, that I can't pull a link out of my head at the moment (except for maybe A List Apart).
There is no reason a designer should not be able to get a design to look the exactly the way they want it. As long as the user is able to override it easly.
So can you explain the difference from an addiction that could be caused be a mental illness and a physical one?
People like you crack me up. That being: A person who belives that a person with low-self esteem or a mental illness is a loser or pathetic, the are not...Hell, not even you are pathetic in reality. Serial killers are not evil either. The human brain is just a set of electrons and chemical reactions. That fact that you are juding people by who they are is just silly.
If you can understand that, then it doesn't even matter if you don't understand anything about physical or psychological addition.
That's yet another reason I stick with my beloved old NS 3.04. 99% of the time, it renders fonts as plain old LEGIBLE 12pt Times Roman.
You should try 12pt Verdana. Times is a sans-serifed font, and sans-serif has been proven to be harder to read on computer screens.
In other browsers (incl. Mozilla) I'm much more often annoyed by spasms of tiny print. That may be fine for kids, but middle-aged eyes don't like it at all. Switch my default font size? Yeah, for every page I visit? cuz that's about what it would come to.
In Mozilla, you shouldn't need to, because it can resize fonts specified in pixels. Both IE and Mozilla (IIRC) keep you font size the same, so you don't have the enlarge it on every page.
BTW, there should be an option to have a toggle button on the toolbar that enables/dissables css., along with image and javascript toggles, having to go into the prefs each time is such a pain I never bother.
Bullocks....GUI research has been around since at least the 1980's. Apple was a good example. The bad usability decisions made with OS X aren't because there was a lack of expertise in the Apple development team. It was because they were comprised by the marketing division (Flashy stuff, and making certain parts more like Win to increase familiarity to potential switchers etc).
Of course there is no such thing as a perfect GUI, just like there is no such thing as perfect code. But that doesn't mean there aren't any major improvements that could be made.
It's all OK say you can run an error check over it, but even then, it can't be 100% reliable.
With a GUI, a user can't make an error in the first place.
I find a GUI much easier than config files. Everything is catagorised and layed out to make sence, with controls that suit the task at hand. Compare that to scrolling down and reading httpd.conf.
BTW. I'm only talking about properly designed GUIs. You're right in the case of MS Word. It has a horrible GUI...Far too many tabs, I'm pretty sure there's an entry in the Interface Hall of Shame for MS word (sorry, can't remember the link, Google prolly does though).
The GUI forces you to use click-to-focus and an auto-raise window behaviour even if you've not used machines with that behaviour for all of your 17 years in the computing industry. I'm told that even MS Windows allows you to change that behaviour, if you want.
I tried to use auto focus once. I just found it so horrible, I couldn't just move my mouse anywhere without thinking. it the kind of feature that you use, then realise why Linux will never be good for the desktop. I think that you will find very very few users who acctualy prefer it, given they had not gotten used to either.
And that single menu thing sucks too. For example, right now I am using Mozilla on a second monitor attached to my Powerbook. If I want to access the menu for mozilla, I have to move the mouse over to the other screen to do so. How brain dead is that? If I had 20 monitors attached to it (if it could handle that, which I don't think any Apple can), then it would be impossible - not a bright policy for the future.
I see your point. But they did this for usability reasons, of course, they obviously didn't take into a count people using the secondary monitor as the main one, maybe a few options would be better (which monitor the bar will apear on), but I don't think they need to consider the future, I doubt people will be hooking up 20 monitores to their computer. Less if anything.
Then there's the fact that they made Aqua incompatible with X windows, when there are plenty of window managers out there which work just fine, thank you. Why didn't they use one like that?
Because they're not tying to make a linux or unix distro? They want to make their own OS, they just happen to use unix under the hood. Plus the X window managers were probably lacking a few things that they wanted.
I think it's about time slashdot switched to a Kuro5hin type submittion. I have never seen dup once. And spelling and grammer errors are a lot less common. Or atlease a hybrid of the two.
uhh.. it's proprietary cousin's interfaces are just as bad. Face it, anything more complex then MSPaint is a geek tool and needs a geek interface.
I have used Photoshop for a long time. I know plently of non-geeks who can use it. Hell, I have even taught my mum some basics of Photoshop. There is a difference between a complex tool, and a complex/poorly done interface for that tool.
No. Sorry. But your being narrowminded, or I miss understood you.
There are plenty of people who use PDAs all the time and rely on them.
Just because you are well educated, and had a lot of experience with PDAs that doesn't mean that everyone else has had the same experience. That's why I called you narrowminded.
Does the library approve of this method? Or will I just have to buy all my books?;)
Seriously though. Not only does it sound like a waste (you could give those books away. But don't you think not using a PDA because it might get stolen or broken is a bit paranoid?
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Or maybe there just weren't than many 'coloured' people back in ancient england/euorpe where the story was set in.
I call it capitalism. And until you can convince most people to not give in to their primative instincts and get along with each other. It's still going to be like this for a while still.
I've never posted this on slashdot in related articles, because so many tech. zealots go crazy when you say great new technology is actually inefficient - but it's the absolute truth.
Some of them just go crazy because they can't beleive how narrowminded you are because of that fact you don't realise that while some people don't use their PDAs, other's make great use of them, and find them a very value tool.
You don't have to use you PDA as a scheduler you know. Mine doesn't let people contact me to tell me what to do at all.
I use mine for recording ideas that I come up with.
I keep lists of book, movies, music to get when I'm next at the library, video store, music store, etc.
I also have a full list of contacts, which even though I may hardly use (like you), it's till handy to have if I really need them.
I have a few handy apps the I use ever now-and-then, like unit converters, a stopwatch, dictionary.
The only alarms I have are not meetings, but just to remind me to do things.
Just because you have a PDA, doesn't mean you have to bend over to work and take it or anything.
My dad still has one of those, still in working order dispite being held together with duck-tape and a spot of spray-paint or two, still in daily use.
He's a forestry consultant, so he uses the keyboard and Lotus 123 a lot. It's taken quite a bit of punishment, but still keeps on working.
We were talking yesterday about what he'll when it finaly packs-up (if it ever does). The only real choice for him maybe something like the industrial Psions.
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Gun ownership and copyright violations are 2 completely different kettles of fish
Or still ban guns. But keep bullets? ;)
*imagines people pulling out a little box and throwing small metals objects at someone* "Ow...Ow! That hurts you barstard!".
I'd really like to see some stats on just how many oridnary people have used a gun as a defensive weapon (like to stop a rape, buglary etc).
But I can't--with any of those objects you mentioned--blow someone's head off, instantly, from 10 meters away, just by flexing my index finger.
Really? I haven't noticed that at all. Of course, that could be because I never see any actual content in mags any more. It's almost like buying an porfolio of advertisements.
Seriously though. I think you're confusing the difference between bad design and properly done typography/typesetting type design.
I can guarantee you, that a thoughtfully designed web-site, will not only look better than plain old HTML, but will also be easier to use and read. And if they use CSS, then it will also work around accessibility problems, ranging from disabilities, to choice in font sizes.
Unfortunately, there are so few websites that do proper design via CSS etc, that I can't pull a link out of my head at the moment (except for maybe A List Apart).
There is no reason a designer should not be able to get a design to look the exactly the way they want it. As long as the user is able to override it easly.
In Soviet Russia, joke tell YOU when it's stopped being funny!
I don't drink coffee. Maybe that's my problem :P
Yes, my bad. 10:00am is still to early in the morning for me....sans brain ;)
Should I say that you're just a cunt because you're dumb and don't understand anything what these people go though?
No, and No. Because then I would be as bad as you. But I hope I'm getting the point across.
Cripes, I though /. would be the last place to be overriden by pathetic, thoughtless, bigoted, stereotyped opinions.
People like you crack me up. That being: A person who belives that a person with low-self esteem or a mental illness is a loser or pathetic, the are not...Hell, not even you are pathetic in reality. Serial killers are not evil either. The human brain is just a set of electrons and chemical reactions. That fact that you are juding people by who they are is just silly.
If you can understand that, then it doesn't even matter if you don't understand anything about physical or psychological addition.
You should try 12pt Verdana. Times is a sans-serifed font, and sans-serif has been proven to be harder to read on computer screens.
In other browsers (incl. Mozilla) I'm much more often annoyed by spasms of tiny print. That may be fine for kids, but middle-aged eyes don't like it at all. Switch my default font size? Yeah, for every page I visit? cuz that's about what it would come to.
In Mozilla, you shouldn't need to, because it can resize fonts specified in pixels. Both IE and Mozilla (IIRC) keep you font size the same, so you don't have the enlarge it on every page.
BTW, there should be an option to have a toggle button on the toolbar that enables/dissables css., along with image and javascript toggles, having to go into the prefs each time is such a pain I never bother.
Of course there is no such thing as a perfect GUI, just like there is no such thing as perfect code. But that doesn't mean there aren't any major improvements that could be made.
With a GUI, a user can't make an error in the first place.
I find a GUI much easier than config files. Everything is catagorised and layed out to make sence, with controls that suit the task at hand. Compare that to scrolling down and reading httpd.conf.
BTW. I'm only talking about properly designed GUIs. You're right in the case of MS Word. It has a horrible GUI...Far too many tabs, I'm pretty sure there's an entry in the Interface Hall of Shame for MS word (sorry, can't remember the link, Google prolly does though).
What is you're idea of a shoe string budget?
5. A better education system so that people who use 1, 2 and 3 can be in the position to benifit from 4.
The GUI forces you to use click-to-focus and an auto-raise window behaviour even if you've not used machines with that behaviour for all of your 17 years in the computing industry. I'm told that even MS Windows allows you to change that behaviour, if you want.
I tried to use auto focus once. I just found it so horrible, I couldn't just move my mouse anywhere without thinking. it the kind of feature that you use, then realise why Linux will never be good for the desktop. I think that you will find very very few users who acctualy prefer it, given they had not gotten used to either.
And that single menu thing sucks too. For example, right now I am using Mozilla on a second monitor attached to my Powerbook. If I want to access the menu for mozilla, I have to move the mouse over to the other screen to do so. How brain dead is that? If I had 20 monitors attached to it (if it could handle that, which I don't think any Apple can), then it would be impossible - not a bright policy for the future.
I see your point. But they did this for usability reasons, of course, they obviously didn't take into a count people using the secondary monitor as the main one, maybe a few options would be better (which monitor the bar will apear on), but I don't think they need to consider the future, I doubt people will be hooking up 20 monitores to their computer. Less if anything.
Then there's the fact that they made Aqua incompatible with X windows, when there are plenty of window managers out there which work just fine, thank you. Why didn't they use one like that?
Because they're not tying to make a linux or unix distro? They want to make their own OS, they just happen to use unix under the hood. Plus the X window managers were probably lacking a few things that they wanted.
Maybe we could send the editors one of these ;)
I have used Photoshop for a long time. I know plently of non-geeks who can use it. Hell, I have even taught my mum some basics of Photoshop. There is a difference between a complex tool, and a complex/poorly done interface for that tool.
No. Sorry. But your being narrowminded, or I miss understood you.
There are plenty of people who use PDAs all the time and rely on them.
Just because you are well educated, and had a lot of experience with PDAs that doesn't mean that everyone else has had the same experience. That's why I called you narrowminded.
Seriously though. Not only does it sound like a waste (you could give those books away. But don't you think not using a PDA because it might get stolen or broken is a bit paranoid?
Or maybe there just weren't than many 'coloured' people back in ancient england/euorpe where the story was set in.
I call it capitalism. And until you can convince most people to not give in to their primative instincts and get along with each other. It's still going to be like this for a while still.
Some of them just go crazy because they can't beleive how narrowminded you are because of that fact you don't realise that while some people don't use their PDAs, other's make great use of them, and find them a very value tool.
I use mine for recording ideas that I come up with.
I keep lists of book, movies, music to get when I'm next at the library, video store, music store, etc.
I also have a full list of contacts, which even though I may hardly use (like you), it's till handy to have if I really need them.
I have a few handy apps the I use ever now-and-then, like unit converters, a stopwatch, dictionary.
The only alarms I have are not meetings, but just to remind me to do things.
Just because you have a PDA, doesn't mean you have to bend over to work and take it or anything.
He's a forestry consultant, so he uses the keyboard and Lotus 123 a lot. It's taken quite a bit of punishment, but still keeps on working.
We were talking yesterday about what he'll when it finaly packs-up (if it ever does). The only real choice for him maybe something like the industrial Psions.