According to various students, it has been a massive disaster, students using Instant Messanger all the time, hardware failures running rampant, the latches on those things just can't take the abuse of a teenager.
Well, since they all use Airport to link up to a Mac, pressumably running MacOS X Server. They can keep all the crap off the laptops, and only put what the admins/teachers want on the laptops, each time they boot-up etc.
As for the hardware abuse. Yes, that'll be a problem a bit harder to solve. Maybe that's why they ordered 38,600 of them;)
If I could find a loving girlfriend as easily as walking into a store and buying something, I would. But I can't. So I'll just have to amuse myself with fancy material possessions while I wait to find someone.
There is nothing wrong with combine 2 or more technologies if it's done properly. Infact. If nothing was ever integrated, technology would die (or slow down to a crawl).
Don't bother mentioning web-clipping. It's available on PalmOS already, so whether it's bad or not should be left out of the argument.
The fact is. They have combines 2 technologies. And done a good job of it. Hence, this new device has more capabilities that a seperate cellphone and PDA.
I hope you never listen to music, browse the web, check e-mail, chat with friends, do word processing on the same computer. Because that would make you a hypocrite.
Intergrating techologies is important. The problems only occur when it's not done properly.
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Keep the slave labour thing out of this. It's just an example.
Maybe you don't. But I bet my life there are people who do enjoy a site that is interesting, colourfull and animated.
I'm so sick of this argument. I'm not saying that all sites should be like that. I'm not saying nike couldn't have improved there site a bit. I'm not saying that they couldn't have had a low res version.
There's a difference between a site with bad contect trying to discuise it with flashy stuff, and a site that was designed to be flashy because that's what will apeal to it's target audience.
Hopefully you might realise that not everyone uses the internet as a database/resourse, some people use it as entertainment/promotion. And yes, Jacob says that he dosent include entertainment sites when he talks about this stuff. But you did not.
Also....What Jacob and alot of other people fail to realize is that entertainment and business tend to combine alot. Hence the flashy looking nike site.
I went through the McDonalds drive-through with a friend a few days ago. After the order the guy asked me if I wanted to try a Chocolate Sunday.
'twas the first time I've ever heard them not mention the word fries. Maybe it's just me not going there much. Maybe it's just new in NZ or something.
I was almost going to ask him if it was free, since he said try, as if they where giving them away as free samples or something. But then I remembered it's not a good idea to mess with the staff at food places when you buying your food there.
I've also got an example here of slashdot using CSS. It's still incomplete (a few problems when it's resized to something smaller than 1024x768). But shows what can be done with CSS. Feel free to download all the files and play about with it.
www.alistapart.com also have quite a resorces for CCS related stuff (aswell as articals on design, usability, coding, and content).
Go to nike.com.
Do you really think that they would get as many visitors to there site if it wasn't a flashy site? No way.
Alot of the people who goto that site, don't just want to get info on shoes, they want to have fun doing it.
Sure, that isn't the case most of the time. But there still are reasons to have a graphics heavly, flashy sites.
The main problems is that some people don't know when or where to use this style of design.
I think once CSS and PNGs with alpha channels are supported more. You will start to see more fluid, and user friendly layouts.
Currently. There's alot of designers (me included since clients make the descistions). That make a graphics heavy mockup in photoshop. Then cut it all up and put it into some complex table. Something that was once a simple set of elements (maybe a company logo, on a photo background, with a ovel etc.) is now a bunch one meaningless images (logo cut up into 3 peices etc).
Current methods also mean that every once ends up downloading extra stuff. CSS means you can keep all that extra stuff speperate, and the only extra stuff is a few blank <DIV> tags.
The way to keep decoration images out, is to use a DIV with a background image. That way, the only way your are going to download the decoration images, is if you have CSS on. Else the browser never seems them.</DIV>
"would smartcards benifit from this? Are they going to put LCD displays on smartcards now? Thats really the only use I can think of, since every other use requires a reader anyway, so there's no point in the smartcard having a self contained power source..."
Yip... that's what they said in the artical if someone had read it.
They said that you would be able to view your account details and stuff.
I think it's great idea. No need to go to an ATM/shop/whatever just to see how much is left. You might even be able to change your PIN number on it, incase you get a little paranoid 'cause of the creep behind you was whaching you type in you PIN at the check-out. Plus it couls have the usual stuff like time/date etc.
"Not much power. 1/22 of an AA batt. wont power much for very long. even LCD screens are rather power intensive."
Well....I'm not sure how much power your average hearing-aid battery has compared to an AA battery. My Casio Databank can last a few years on one battery. And my caculator has lasted 5 years on 2 small ones.
I'm sure that the intended use for devices that will use this battery won't take much power.
I've always thought of.com/net/org as a international/US domain. Not just US. I think it would be good to have a.us.
It's as if the.coms are being used as an interational suffex. Even though a site may not be based in the US, they might have a.com to show that they are expect an international audiance.
Sometimes is's even sillier, like when people get somethingNZ.com, and don't even bother to get something.co.nz or somethingNZ.co.nz. When the site is clearly supposed to be local.
So, don't think that MS or Canon, IBM, even slashdot (any big company, or location irrelivent sites) will be getting a.com.us for their main domain anytime soon. But maybe walmart.com.us might appear (or any other US only places).
I think a better anology would be Windows. I can't think of any non-MS windows programs that begin with Microsoft or MS. But Win is quite common: Winamp, WinZip etc.
Would an X10 cam fit in a rugby ball? Include image stablizing software? Handle being thowen round and crushed by big rugby players? Are X10 developing cams that will be usefill in broudcast television?
Even if X10 do. It's a project. It would be a bit pointless to just buy the stuff.
They're also doing a helmet cam. The only helmet cams I've every seen a big and clumsy looking, not something that would be allowed in a game.
And they've inserted pressure pads into the players top to measure the impact force of tackles.
These a bit more going on than just shoving some crusty X10-like cam into a ball for the hell of it.
I saw is on the news. It's about the same size as a 9v battery, and runs off one to.
They are also making software/hardware, that will stablize the picture when the ball is rotating, so it doesn't look like someone's put a handycam in a washing machine.
I know hardly any people at all that prefer command line to a desktop metaphor. I think it's time you looked around in the real world.
Of course, this doesn't mean I support 3D interfaces. There's no point since you can currently only interface with computers in 2D.
Once hollograms become common, and the computer can sence where your finger is, and what it's doing, that's when you'll start to see the benifits of 3D interfaces.
Yes, but it's to you if you want to risk tarnishing your memory of him. And it's up to you to remember him how you want to. They're your memories, you choose how they go.
If you don't want to risk it. Don't read the book.
Not only that. But when is tries to look slightly differnt, so they don't look exactly like palmOS. They do a bad job. Go to the screenshots page, and look at all the wasted space on the display. Unessesary borders/icons, colums not set out to the full width of the screen etc.
These may seem like weak points. But not when you consider that the screen is only 160x160, it's important.
If they had improved the interface (and belive me, there are 100's of things that could be added/fixed to out of the box PalmOS), then the fact that there aren't as many apps out at the moment, woudn't bother me so much, since half the apps installed on my Vx are extentions/enchantments anyway.
your just shifting the problem. Instead of coming up with some whacked way of resizeing windows into differnt shapes. you should be working on a better UI. Either that, or you just need a bigger screen.
When designing UI, you always have to go back to the goal of what you want to achive. Somehow I don't odd shapped windows are the answer.
It seems like a nice product. But after thinking about it for a while. I can't see it being that popular.
If they wanted a clamshell type PDA, why not make it like a Jornada 680/700, or like a Psion?
the screen would suit text better, and you would actualy be able to touchtype on the keyboard.
It looks as if it's trying to get the best of both worlds, but has ended up getting the worst.
And no CF slot? That's even more of a shocker considering it's a linux PDA.
Oh well, the search goes on to find the holy grail of the PDAs. I think Handera are going in the right direction.
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Well, since they all use Airport to link up to a Mac, pressumably running MacOS X Server. They can keep all the crap off the laptops, and only put what the admins/teachers want on the laptops, each time they boot-up etc.
As for the hardware abuse. Yes, that'll be a problem a bit harder to solve. Maybe that's why they ordered 38,600 of them ;)
If I could find a loving girlfriend as easily as walking into a store and buying something, I would. But I can't. So I'll just have to amuse myself with fancy material possessions while I wait to find someone.
There is nothing wrong with combine 2 or more technologies if it's done properly. Infact. If nothing was ever integrated, technology would die (or slow down to a crawl).
Don't bother mentioning web-clipping. It's available on PalmOS already, so whether it's bad or not should be left out of the argument.
The fact is. They have combines 2 technologies. And done a good job of it. Hence, this new device has more capabilities that a seperate cellphone and PDA.
I hope you never listen to music, browse the web, check e-mail, chat with friends, do word processing on the same computer. Because that would make you a hypocrite.
Intergrating techologies is important. The problems only occur when it's not done properly.
Maybe you don't. But I bet my life there are people who do enjoy a site that is interesting, colourfull and animated.
I'm so sick of this argument. I'm not saying that all sites should be like that. I'm not saying nike couldn't have improved there site a bit. I'm not saying that they couldn't have had a low res version.
There's a difference between a site with bad contect trying to discuise it with flashy stuff, and a site that was designed to be flashy because that's what will apeal to it's target audience.
Hopefully you might realise that not everyone uses the internet as a database/resourse, some people use it as entertainment/promotion. And yes, Jacob says that he dosent include entertainment sites when he talks about this stuff. But you did not.
Also....What Jacob and alot of other people fail to realize is that entertainment and business tend to combine alot. Hence the flashy looking nike site.
I went through the McDonalds drive-through with a friend a few days ago. After the order the guy asked me if I wanted to try a Chocolate Sunday.
'twas the first time I've ever heard them not mention the word fries. Maybe it's just me not going there much. Maybe it's just new in NZ or something.
I was almost going to ask him if it was free, since he said try, as if they where giving them away as free samples or something. But then I remembered it's not a good idea to mess with the staff at food places when you buying your food there.
www.alistapart.com also have quite a resorces for CCS related stuff (aswell as articals on design, usability, coding, and content).
It would be nice to have both a text zoom, and a total zoom.
Do you really think that they would get as many visitors to there site if it wasn't a flashy site? No way.
Alot of the people who goto that site, don't just want to get info on shoes, they want to have fun doing it.
Sure, that isn't the case most of the time. But there still are reasons to have a graphics heavly, flashy sites.
The main problems is that some people don't know when or where to use this style of design.
I think once CSS and PNGs with alpha channels are supported more. You will start to see more fluid, and user friendly layouts.
Currently. There's alot of designers (me included since clients make the descistions). That make a graphics heavy mockup in photoshop. Then cut it all up and put it into some complex table. Something that was once a simple set of elements (maybe a company logo, on a photo background, with a ovel etc.) is now a bunch one meaningless images (logo cut up into 3 peices etc).
Current methods also mean that every once ends up downloading extra stuff. CSS means you can keep all that extra stuff speperate, and the only extra stuff is a few blank <DIV> tags.
The way to keep decoration images out, is to use a DIV with a background image. That way, the only way your are going to download the decoration images, is if you have CSS on. Else the browser never seems them.</DIV>
Probably just the same a spilling liquid butane when your fill up a lighter (and that's fairly preventable).
I really don't see what the problem is.
Yip... that's what they said in the artical if someone had read it. They said that you would be able to view your account details and stuff.
I think it's great idea. No need to go to an ATM/shop/whatever just to see how much is left.
You might even be able to change your PIN number on it, incase you get a little paranoid 'cause of the creep behind you was whaching you type in you PIN at the check-out. Plus it couls have the usual stuff like time/date etc.
Well....I'm not sure how much power your average hearing-aid battery has compared to an AA battery. My Casio Databank can last a few years on one battery. And my caculator has lasted 5 years on 2 small ones.
I'm sure that the intended use for devices that will use this battery won't take much power.
I've always thought of .com/net/org as a international/US domain. Not just US. I think it would be good to have a .us. .coms are being used as an interational suffex. Even though a site may not be based in the US, they might have a .com to show that they are expect an international audiance.
It's as if the
Sometimes is's even sillier, like when people get somethingNZ.com, and don't even bother to get something.co.nz or somethingNZ.co.nz. When the site is clearly supposed to be local.
So, don't think that MS or Canon, IBM, even slashdot (any big company, or location irrelivent sites) will be getting a .com.us for their main domain anytime soon. But maybe walmart.com.us might appear (or any other US only places).
I think a better anology would be Windows. I can't think of any non-MS windows programs that begin with Microsoft or MS. But Win is quite common: Winamp, WinZip etc.
Else IMHO, it's just boring.
Besides, my reply still has some interesting points to it. So does it really matter what the intent of the origonal post was?
Even if X10 do. It's a project. It would be a bit pointless to just buy the stuff.
They're also doing a helmet cam. The only helmet cams I've every seen a big and clumsy looking, not something that would be allowed in a game.
And they've inserted pressure pads into the players top to measure the impact force of tackles.
These a bit more going on than just shoving some crusty X10-like cam into a ball for the hell of it.
I saw is on the news. It's about the same size as a 9v battery, and runs off one to.
They are also making software/hardware, that will stablize the picture when the ball is rotating, so it doesn't look like someone's put a handycam in a washing machine.
Of course, this doesn't mean I support 3D interfaces. There's no point since you can currently only interface with computers in 2D.
Once hollograms become common, and the computer can sence where your finger is, and what it's doing, that's when you'll start to see the benifits of 3D interfaces.
When I first saw it. I thought it must have been a photo of an HP project from the 70's. The monitor looks like a 70's TV set.
Microwave oven, or TV set. Either way. It looks more like one of them then a 21st century computer.
Maybe it's the small images tricking me.
Hmmm... flat-panel microwave oven anyone? "Only to be use with bread, waffles, or other flat foods".
Why go parachuting?
Why sail across the Atlantic?
Why cross the Antartica?
Why circumnavigate the globe on a plane?
Besides. Maybe you should bother doing a bit or research before you make any claims about this event?
Yes, but it's to you if you want to risk tarnishing your memory of him. And it's up to you to remember him how you want to. They're your memories, you choose how they go.
If you don't want to risk it. Don't read the book.
Go to the screenshots page, and look at all the wasted space on the display. Unessesary borders/icons, colums not set out to the full width of the screen etc.
These may seem like weak points. But not when you consider that the screen is only 160x160, it's important.
If they had improved the interface (and belive me, there are 100's of things that could be added/fixed to out of the box PalmOS), then the fact that there aren't as many apps out at the moment, woudn't bother me so much, since half the apps installed on my Vx are extentions/enchantments anyway.
When designing UI, you always have to go back to the goal of what you want to achive. Somehow I don't odd shapped windows are the answer.
Yes you are.
If they wanted a clamshell type PDA, why not make it like a Jornada 680/700, or like a Psion?
the screen would suit text better, and you would actualy be able to touchtype on the keyboard.
It looks as if it's trying to get the best of both worlds, but has ended up getting the worst.
And no CF slot? That's even more of a shocker considering it's a linux PDA.
Oh well, the search goes on to find the holy grail of the PDAs. I think Handera are going in the right direction.