in 4 years Slashdot has had the same exact look and layout.
And thank God for that. I like the Slashdot layout, and there is nothing wrong with it (in both appearance and 'usability'). The Slashdot layout has pretty much become a trademark. People expect it. They don't want it to change; just look at all the negative comments on the OSDN navbar.
As much as I admire the geekyness of the/. layout. There are still things that really bug me, that I think should be changed.
And I don't mean whacking 70kb images everywhere. I mean things like spacing between the top and bottom of posts, padding around the sides etc.
One thing that really bugs me. Is that the.sigs are the same size and color as the post. Quite oftern, it's hard to tell if a.sig is part of the post or not.
Kudos to/. for not using pixels to define the size of the fonts (unlike alot of heavy text-content-based sites. Currenly...IE doesn't re-size fonts defined in px when you hold down CTRL and use the scroll wheel.
I personaly think it would be worth the effort, for the/. crew to go over the site, and make it work with CSS. No more tables. More layout options, and user could make there own layout (/. would save a CSS file with the use info, or fetch a CSS file from a URL). It would also make it easier to change the layout/fix bugs in the future. And would take a load off the servers to.
People who don't want CSS or anything, could either dissable it there browser, or in their user prefs.
Sure, 640x480 is fine for puting on web-pages etc... But if you paid attention to the artical, they say this:
..They decided the service should be print-oriented because their market research showed that 50 to 60 percent of digital still camera users prefer to print their recorded images.
In the future, the companies also want to expand the services on the Internet for data distributing as well as printing, and increase the resolution of the camera up to 1.3 megapixels...
So at the moment, you can't get the digital copies. Only prints.
IMHO, if they want this business to succsed, they need to have an internet service from day one. Not sometime in the future.
But my point is that Joe-'taking snaps at a party'-Drunk could just as easly use a disposable film camera instead. Since Joe Drunk can only have either printed out at the camera store.
Also, even Joe-'Don't know shit photography or computers'-Drunk could tell the difference between a disposable film printout, and a 640x480 printout. Infact, Joe Drunk would probably start complaining to the guy at the camera store.
Encode a MP3 at 12kbps, at tell me the average Joe won't care.
The only usefull thing that I can think about these disposable digitals, is the fact that you can view an delete images you don't want. But then again. I'm not sure if Joe Drunk realy cares that the lighting in the last shot was a bit off.
"Yeah! I mean, for the low price of 50 of these, you could buy a high end camera!"
Don't forget. This disposable holds 24 pictures. Most digitals come with w 16-32MB card these days. I could get atleast 50 pics on my 32MB CF card. That was at full res(~1200x960), for.3MP it would pobably get atleast 100 photos.
Oh yeah... and it's reusable.
"Seriously, high definition isn't really as important as an accurate picture. even a decent 640x480 picture is fine, as long as the picture is accurate(no glitchy pixels)."
Most high-end digitals will produce an acurate picture, probably better than this dispoable, + they have a higher res. aswell.
I spose it depends on how oftern you use a camera, and how many photos you plan on taking.
It's definitly talored to the occasional photo snapper.
"...and I don't think I could find a use for anything greater. 2megapixels is 1200x1600, which is full screen at the resolution I run at."
Someone else mentioned printing, which is the big one. But I also find that the images too noisy for use strait out of the camera. Halving the size seems to make then nice and crisp, but that takes them from a 4MP imgage to a 1MP image.
People also like to crop their images.
And don't forget about the future, screen resolution always increases. 2 years time, and 4MP camera might not be big enough for even a desktop image.
I'm sure it can't be that hard to lock the drive when it's reading/writing data (except audio CD and DVD), but alow the eject button to work other times.
It should even be possable on win2k, Nero can lock the drives when burning. So win2k, should be able to do the same when coppying files.
Oh yeah. If you have suggestions/opinions/points/gipes about OS X, from either using OS X or by reading these reviews.
Don't forget to post your opinion where is really matters http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/.
Unlike a certian OS company the begins with M. Apple seems to listen to their users. If enough people compain that they miss for example: spring loaded folders. They will bring them back.
And remember...post nicely! E.G. Don't tell them "the dock sucks". Tell them you "think the usability of the dock should be improved", and make suggestions to improve it.
"So, this guy is telling me that his motor will not require a drive train. That tells me the engine is high torque with a really flat curve, already I'm skeptical. Add in no lubrication and I must assume his rpm's are low. I won't dismiss his engine out of hand, but I'd need to see the design.:
Hell yeah... I read an artical anout someone who made an 'eletric motor', they claimed that it was 80% effecient, was smaller, contained only 1 movinbg part, quieter, more torque and also didn't produce any edmissions. He went on to say that these 'eletric motors' would power the fastest trains in the world, and one day cars to.
Yeah right... Nothing will be a pratical as a pistion engine for ages.
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Really, the only thing that holds back electric cars, is the energy storage, that is, batteries are heavy because they only hold 1% the amount of energy that petrol holds.
This new engine runs on hydrogen and oxygen. Probably not as much energy as petrol, but more than batteries. With the fact that this engine will be more effiecient than a pistion engine. The claims he makes seem reasonable.
"Since whend did "hi-res" mean "larger than a postage stamp? High-resolution is more like a 300dpi photo, not this slightly larger picture."
Off topic. But just becasue a photo is 300dpi. It dosn't make it big. The even smaller ones on the Nokia site could have been 6000dpi if they had wanted it. And it still would have been the same physical size.
DPI means nothing unless it is accomanied by physical dimentions, like inches/cm/mm.
Better yet. A dimention in pixels is always the clearist.
So yeah.. some nice ~1500x1000 photos would probably be in the hi-res catagory, not those ~400x400 pics they had.
Just had another idea. Instead of copyright violations, we could use EULAs instead. Just pack few B52s with EULAs, then scatter them all over Afghanistan.
Bin Laden: "Hmmm... what's this?"
EULA: "By reading this document, you automaticly agree to the following:
You will not lauch any more terrorist attacks.
You will close down all terrorist training camps.
You will remove the Taliban from govenment power.
You will turn over everyone involved in terrorist attacks, and the Taliban."
Just thought I'd point out, that the reason no one seems to give a toss about standards anymore is because the browsers didn't impliment standards properly, and where too forgiving with mistakes.
Also, now that CSS, etc. are getting more popular, and browsers are starting to support standards better. People do seem to be caring about standards more than they used to.
And I hardly think that the need for standards is over. Sure, the browser war may be over, most people use IE. But alot of people don't. And alot of people use other kinds of browsers, like PDAs, WAP, browsers for the blind, web applicances, web TV, the list will grow.
And do you really think MS is going to bother innovating, unless it's to make profit, or gain/hold a monopoly?
Standards are needed.
I do agree with you last paragraph though. The W3C is the only thing stopping MS and the like from destorying the openess/freeness of the web.
If they go ahead with this patent thing, they will end up being like MS etc.
I'm planning to get a Apple laptop soon. And after seeing both in real life. I've decided to go for the iBook. Funnyly enough, because of the screen. The G4 screen is bigger. But when compared to the iBook, the iBook's sceen is so much crisper because of the higher res (DPI, not amount of pixels), the PowerBook IMHO, looked a bit to pixilated at at max res. Wonder if the next PowerBook will have 1290x960 (or whatever). instead of the 1152x756.
Only thing about the iBook is that it's slower than the PowerBook. But then again...way cheaper.
Decisions decisions...
I never said that you should do nothing. My point is the US involvement in WW2 is differnt to the middle-east foreign policy or 9/11 situation. So don't lay down the whole "If it wasn't for us..." thing.
If you mean by your comment that the US should be getting into other countries affaris. It's silly, because the most of the middle-east places don't want the US around. Unlike the countries you mentioned during WW2.
All of these people bashing the U.S. and claiming it's our expansionist foreign policy to blame for all this need to get a clue. If the U.S. wasn't around, you wouldn't be here to complain about it. Are you European? You'd be speaking German, and not speaking your mind. Are you from Asia or Australia? Welcome to the Japanese empire. Fifty years ago, Americans went and fought and died to keep your countries free. There wasn't a whole lot of complaining about American interventionism then.
Of course no one was complaining about American interventionism during WW2, because it was supported! People wanted the help of the USA and such.
Also. I fail to see the comparison between WW2 and the 9/11 attacks.
Also: yes-innocent people will die. War is indiscriminate slaughter. Grow up; this has been the way of things for 20,000 years. It is ugly, sad and perhaps wrong. We get it, now shut up.
Well, if it's ugly, sad, and perhaps wrong. And has been happening for 20,000 years. Maybe it's about time you grew up.
Just because something has been done for 20,000 years. It dosn't meant that it's OK and can't be changed.
But unless you are doing CAD/CAM or publishing , imagine how tiny your icons are going to look at 3840x2400... that is a huge expanse of desktop. Not to mention our beloved porn, hell 800x600 pictures of Anna K bending over will be postage stamp sized... can't even appreciate image
If you can afford that display, you can also afford a Nikon D1x, and can probably afford to hire models...Just make you own hi-rez porn.
A better idea would be to have ordinary batteries. But have a solar planel on the back as a charger.
When your not using it. Just place it face down in a sunny spot.
I'll help nail the lid on...
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Good ridance Palm. That's what you get for sitting on your ass and making out-dated technology, when you know there are features that users are demanding, but you're just too lazy to innovate.
That's also what you get for giving out cheap plasic styluses as spares, instead of a metal ones, like the main stylus. And for using crappy power buttons (Palm V). And for not being to able to sort contacts by their first name, etc...
Palm OS is easy to use, and reliable. But it is still missing lots of basic things, that should be there, that will NOT clutter or otherwise reduce the 'simplicity' of Palm.
Simplicity in an OS, is not about how many features it has. It's about how they are accessed, and how they work.
M$ board members, CEOs, markering dep. may be 'evil'. But PocketPC have been improved vastly since I used WinCE on my HP 680. So someone there is actually doing something good.
I have a funny feeling that my Palm Vx will be my last Palm product. I just wish those PPC makers could get there hardware down in size!
Who knows, maybe that linux version of Palm OS might take off, along with Handera.
Of course. If you had bothed to read any of the posts, you'd know that the Challanger was a bad exanple. Since it was carring liquid oxygen (or some high density oxidizer) with it. A hydrogen plane would not.
Also, you would have knowen that it wasn't the big fire ball that took down the towers. It was the high temp., slow burning fire. An hydrogen fire might be high temp. to. But would not burn as long.
I don't think that we'll see hydrogen planes anytime soon either. But at least argue with valid points. It makes you look less like an flaming idiot (puns intended).
"I very much doubt that a pilot would be able to steer a plane effectively if it was venting a large amount of expanding gas."
If a large amount of gas vented. It would do more that just apply thrust a (probably wrong) direction. It would probably rip the whole wing to peices. Just as if you where to damage the fuselage, and that's hardly comnpressed at all compared to liquid hydrogen. Just another reason hydrogen is a long shot. A ruptured aviation fuel tank, would not blow the wing apart if the fuel wasn't ignited
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As much as I admire the geekyness of the /. layout. There are still things that really bug me, that I think should be changed.
And I don't mean whacking 70kb images everywhere. I mean things like spacing between the top and bottom of posts, padding around the sides etc.
.sigs are the same size and color as the post. Quite oftern, it's hard to tell if a .sig is part of the post or not.
/. for not using pixels to define the size of the fonts (unlike alot of heavy text-content-based sites. Currenly...IE doesn't re-size fonts defined in px when you hold down CTRL and use the scroll wheel.
One thing that really bugs me. Is that the
Kudos to
I personaly think it would be worth the effort, for the /. crew to go over the site, and make it work with CSS. No more tables. More layout options, and user could make there own layout (/. would save a CSS file with the use info, or fetch a CSS file from a URL). It would also make it easier to change the layout/fix bugs in the future. And would take a load off the servers to.
People who don't want CSS or anything, could either dissable it there browser, or in their user prefs.
In the future, the companies also want to expand the services on the Internet for data distributing as well as printing, and increase the resolution of the camera up to 1.3 megapixels...
So at the moment, you can't get the digital copies. Only prints.
IMHO, if they want this business to succsed, they need to have an internet service from day one. Not sometime in the future.
Also, even Joe-'Don't know shit photography or computers'-Drunk could tell the difference between a disposable film printout, and a 640x480 printout. Infact, Joe Drunk would probably start complaining to the guy at the camera store.
Encode a MP3 at 12kbps, at tell me the average Joe won't care.
The only usefull thing that I can think about these disposable digitals, is the fact that you can view an delete images you don't want. But then again. I'm not sure if Joe Drunk realy cares that the lighting in the last shot was a bit off.
Don't forget. This disposable holds 24 pictures. Most digitals come with w 16-32MB card these days. I could get atleast 50 pics on my 32MB CF card. That was at full res(~1200x960), for .3MP it would pobably get atleast 100 photos.
Oh yeah... and it's reusable.
"Seriously, high definition isn't really as important as an accurate picture. even a decent 640x480 picture is fine, as long as the picture is accurate(no glitchy pixels)."
Most high-end digitals will produce an acurate picture, probably better than this dispoable, + they have a higher res. aswell.
I spose it depends on how oftern you use a camera, and how many photos you plan on taking.
It's definitly talored to the occasional photo snapper.
Someone else mentioned printing, which is the big one. But I also find that the images too noisy for use strait out of the camera. Halving the size seems to make then nice and crisp, but that takes them from a 4MP imgage to a 1MP image.
People also like to crop their images.
And don't forget about the future, screen resolution always increases. 2 years time, and 4MP camera might not be big enough for even a desktop image.
I'm sure it can't be that hard to lock the drive when it's reading/writing data (except audio CD and DVD), but alow the eject button to work other times.
It should even be possable on win2k, Nero can lock the drives when burning. So win2k, should be able to do the same when coppying files.
Unlike a certian OS company the begins with M. Apple seems to listen to their users. If enough people compain that they miss for example: spring loaded folders. They will bring them back.
And remember...post nicely! E.G. Don't tell them "the dock sucks". Tell them you "think the usability of the dock should be improved", and make suggestions to improve it.
Or even better yet, include an eject button on the front of the drive, like every other CD-ROM, stereo, Discman, or other device that has CD drive.
Hell yeah... I read an artical anout someone who made an 'eletric motor', they claimed that it was 80% effecient, was smaller, contained only 1 movinbg part, quieter, more torque and also didn't produce any edmissions.
He went on to say that these 'eletric motors' would power the fastest trains in the world, and one day cars to.
Yeah right... Nothing will be a pratical as a pistion engine for ages.
------
Really, the only thing that holds back electric cars, is the energy storage, that is, batteries are heavy because they only hold 1% the amount of energy that petrol holds.
This new engine runs on hydrogen and oxygen. Probably not as much energy as petrol, but more than batteries. With the fact that this engine will be more effiecient than a pistion engine. The claims he makes seem reasonable.
Off topic. But just becasue a photo is 300dpi. It dosn't make it big. The even smaller ones on the Nokia site could have been 6000dpi if they had wanted it. And it still would have been the same physical size.
DPI means nothing unless it is accomanied by physical dimentions, like inches/cm/mm.
Better yet. A dimention in pixels is always the clearist.
So yeah.. some nice ~1500x1000 photos would probably be in the hi-res catagory, not those ~400x400 pics they had.
Bin Laden: "Hmmm... what's this?"
EULA: "By reading this document, you automaticly agree to the following:
You will not lauch any more terrorist attacks.
You will close down all terrorist training camps.
You will remove the Taliban from govenment power.
You will turn over everyone involved in terrorist attacks, and the Taliban."
Bin Laden: "Awwww...Fuck! I'm screwed!"
We all know how un-relenting lawyers are, especialy when it involves: DCMA, copyright violations, [big corporation here], etc.
They wouldn't stand a chance!
Also, now that CSS, etc. are getting more popular, and browsers are starting to support standards better. People do seem to be caring about standards more than they used to.
And I hardly think that the need for standards is over. Sure, the browser war may be over, most people use IE. But alot of people don't. And alot of people use other kinds of browsers, like PDAs, WAP, browsers for the blind, web applicances, web TV, the list will grow.
And do you really think MS is going to bother innovating, unless it's to make profit, or gain/hold a monopoly?
Standards are needed.
I do agree with you last paragraph though. The W3C is the only thing stopping MS and the like from destorying the openess/freeness of the web.
If they go ahead with this patent thing, they will end up being like MS etc.
Off topic: Can you explain what you sig means?
128-but VPU? Don't belive I've heard of one of them before.
Woudn't be related to this would it?
Only thing about the iBook is that it's slower than the PowerBook. But then again...way cheaper.
Decisions decisions...
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I never said that you should do nothing. My point is the US involvement in WW2 is differnt to the middle-east foreign policy or 9/11 situation. So don't lay down the whole "If it wasn't for us..." thing.
If you mean by your comment that the US should be getting into other countries affaris. It's silly, because the most of the middle-east places don't want the US around. Unlike the countries you mentioned during WW2.
The protester might:
Of course no one was complaining about American interventionism during WW2, because it was supported! People wanted the help of the USA and such.
Also. I fail to see the comparison between WW2 and the 9/11 attacks.
Well, if it's ugly, sad, and perhaps wrong. And has been happening for 20,000 years. Maybe it's about time you grew up.
Just because something has been done for 20,000 years. It dosn't meant that it's OK and can't be changed.
If you can afford that display, you can also afford a Nikon D1x, and can probably afford to hire models...Just make you own hi-rez porn.
A better idea would be to have ordinary batteries. But have a solar planel on the back as a charger.
When your not using it. Just place it face down in a sunny spot.
That's also what you get for giving out cheap plasic styluses as spares, instead of a metal ones, like the main stylus. And for using crappy power buttons (Palm V). And for not being to able to sort contacts by their first name, etc...
Palm OS is easy to use, and reliable. But it is still missing lots of basic things, that should be there, that will NOT clutter or otherwise reduce the 'simplicity' of Palm.
Simplicity in an OS, is not about how many features it has. It's about how they are accessed, and how they work.
M$ board members, CEOs, markering dep. may be 'evil'. But PocketPC have been improved vastly since I used WinCE on my HP 680. So someone there is actually doing something good.
I have a funny feeling that my Palm Vx will be my last Palm product. I just wish those PPC makers could get there hardware down in size!
Who knows, maybe that linux version of Palm OS might take off, along with Handera.
Also, you would have knowen that it wasn't the big fire ball that took down the towers. It was the high temp., slow burning fire. An hydrogen fire might be high temp. to. But would not burn as long.
I don't think that we'll see hydrogen planes anytime soon either. But at least argue with valid points. It makes you look less like an flaming idiot (puns intended).
If a large amount of gas vented. It would do more that just apply thrust a (probably wrong) direction. It would probably rip the whole wing to peices. Just as if you where to damage the fuselage, and that's hardly comnpressed at all compared to liquid hydrogen. Just another reason hydrogen is a long shot. A ruptured aviation fuel tank, would not blow the wing apart if the fuel wasn't ignited