Of course most of those guidelines are still valid. Human behavior hasn't changed, and that's what these guidelines are based on. The real trick is getting people to follow the damn guidelines. Programmers should have them tattooed into their foreheads. They should be able to recite them verbatim, and show examples for every guideline. Apple got it right with their Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines (and associated Thought Police). Following these guidelines shouldn't be an option or an afterthought, it should be at the core of everything a programmer does.
You'd need an insanely powerful radio transmitter to fry a satellite. Read up on EMP. Using a missile (like the old American ASAT program) would be more feasible.
Safety IS being considered, all the time. Airliners are stuffed with quadruple-redundant systems, and built from components that are checked and certified to standards so stringent that a single bolt can cost $ 10 (because every single one is X-rayed before use). Airliners already are just about the safest mode of transport available.
They're focused mainly on lowering cost. Speed got sacrificed for that (airliners are no faster now than in the 1960s). Noise is an important factor in engine design (due to ever more stringent regulation), so modern airliners are a lot quieter than 1960s designs.
And they'd be right. Apple was working on non-folder groupings of data they called "piles" in the early 1990s. "a pile is a loose grouping of documents. Its visual representation is an overlay of all the documents within the pile, one on top of the other, rotated to varying degrees. In other words, a pile on the desktop looked just like a pile on your real desktop."
The BeOS took this a step further (the ability to create/maintain piles automatically with a search). more info
No, we can safely say Antarctica is the one place where no space elevator is ever going to be built. Hint: elevators need Earth's rotational speed to stay 'up'. Building it on the equator would seem the most logical choice.
"Unfortunately... we're known as a legal defendant" Better that than being known as litigitous, we-bulldoze-over-everyone-in-our-way bastards. Oh wait...
Das Record oder Film ist nicht fuer CopyPasten oder DownloadFileSharePiratDuplizieren. Ist easy schnappen der Monopoly, blowenfusen der Oligopolisten und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Mussen Protectieren das ScroogeMcDuck-Geldgewinn und das Monopoly. Uber Alles! Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das Generalpublikum. Das Piratbenutzer keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das Blinkenlichten.
For several-hundred-page documents, you should be using FrameMaker instead of Word. Word blows for large documents, Frame is made for them. Making a business case for FrameMaker over Word is easy enough: keep track of the time you spend correcting Word errors, searching/scrolling etc. for a week. If you use FM instead of Word, this time would have been 0 (I predict a 30-40% time savings over Word). The time saved should pay for moving to FrameMaker (incl training, implementation) within weeks.
Asking for a "reveal codes" feature is asking for a way to kludge around Word's faults, not a solution. You should be asking for a better way to handle formatting and styles instead.
A well-designed application doesn't need a "reveal codes" feature. WP needs it because of the FUBAR way it handles formatting, requiring you to manually fudge codes (putting them in the right order, that sort of nonsense). Word is blighted by too many autoformatting bots interfering with the user and with each other.
Applications like FrameMaker show that it's perfectly doable to design a word processor that handles formatting/text styles correctly, reliably, and predictably. It has NO need for "reveal codes". I've spent the last 7 years taking Frame to the limit, and I've never come across a formatting problem that can't be solved using the GUI. In fact, the number of Word-like formatting problems (things are being aligned funny, line numbers appear in different areas, page count numbers restart at 1, things cannot be deleted, etc) I've encountered is 0.
ITBWTCL very nearly made me not want to read anything by Stephenson ever again. I enjoyed the books I'd read up to then, but IMO his whole line of reasoning in ITB was Just Plain Wrong. How someone who can write Cryptonomicon can lose the plot so completely is beyond me. It reads like he swapped sanity for zealotry in anger over his Powerbook crashing.
These aren't contributing to landfills any more than any other digital camera Actually they do. If you own a digital camera, you're likely to get a set of rechargeables for it. This thing looks like it uses nonrechargeable batteries.
Unless there's a mechanism that clearly separates the ad links from the links the author inserted to annotate his story, you won't be able to distinguish between the two. Or IOW, ads become an editorial influence.
The article claims that an ad would pop up on mouse-over. Since I generally keep te mouse pointer outside the text I'm reading it would be easy enough to avoid the ads.
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Of course most of those guidelines are still valid. Human behavior hasn't changed, and that's what these guidelines are based on.
The real trick is getting people to follow the damn guidelines. Programmers should have them tattooed into their foreheads. They should be able to recite them verbatim, and show examples for every guideline.
Apple got it right with their Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines (and associated Thought Police). Following these guidelines shouldn't be an option or an afterthought, it should be at the core of everything a programmer does.
You'd need an insanely powerful radio transmitter to fry a satellite. Read up on EMP.
Using a missile (like the old American ASAT program) would be more feasible.
Hundreds? "Bazillions" would be closer, methinks...
Safety IS being considered, all the time. Airliners are stuffed with quadruple-redundant systems, and built from components that are checked and certified to standards so stringent that a single bolt can cost $ 10 (because every single one is X-rayed before use).
Airliners already are just about the safest mode of transport available.
They're focused mainly on lowering cost. Speed got sacrificed for that (airliners are no faster now than in the 1960s). Noise is an important factor in engine design (due to ever more stringent regulation), so modern airliners are a lot quieter than 1960s designs.
And how much bandwidth would an A380 filled with DVDs/harddisks/etc. have?
Enjoy it while it lasts. My D600 is down to less than 2 hours. It's about a year old.
And they'd be right.
Apple was working on non-folder groupings of data they called "piles" in the early 1990s.
"a pile is a loose grouping of documents. Its visual representation is an overlay of all the documents within the pile, one on top of the other, rotated to varying degrees. In other words, a pile on the desktop looked just like a pile on your real desktop."
The BeOS took this a step further (the ability to create/maintain piles automatically with a search).
more info
Except no politician ever reads his own mail. They have secretaries to filter it for them, so they've no idea about the scope of the spam problem.
No, we can safely say Antarctica is the one place where no space elevator is ever going to be built. Hint: elevators need Earth's rotational speed to stay 'up'. Building it on the equator would seem the most logical choice.
"Unfortunately ... we're known as a legal defendant"
Better that than being known as litigitous, we-bulldoze-over-everyone-in-our-way bastards. Oh wait...
"Waste cycles drawing trendy 3D junk" checkbox
(thanks to Eudora 3)
But, most importantly, what tasks can you, as a user, do with a $500 PC that you can't with the $500 Mac?
Contract viruses?
Mac mini interior shows the RAM stick is about 6" wide, it looks like a DIMM to me.
Too late! Bwahahahaaaaa!
Achtung! Alles Lookenspeepers!
Das Record oder Film ist nicht fuer CopyPasten oder DownloadFileSharePiratDuplizieren. Ist easy schnappen der Monopoly, blowenfusen der Oligopolisten und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Mussen Protectieren das ScroogeMcDuck-Geldgewinn und das Monopoly. Uber Alles!
Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das Generalpublikum. Das Piratbenutzer keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das Blinkenlichten.
Gruss Gott, die RIMPAAaaargh
how can any consumer intelligently know which one to buy into?
Duh, it's just like every other decision: use the "Eenie, meenie, miney, moe" algorithm.
For several-hundred-page documents, you should be using FrameMaker instead of Word. Word blows for large documents, Frame is made for them. Making a business case for FrameMaker over Word is easy enough: keep track of the time you spend correcting Word errors, searching/scrolling etc. for a week.
If you use FM instead of Word, this time would have been 0 (I predict a 30-40% time savings over Word). The time saved should pay for moving to FrameMaker (incl training, implementation) within weeks.
Asking for a "reveal codes" feature is asking for a way to kludge around Word's faults, not a solution. You should be asking for a better way to handle formatting and styles instead.
A well-designed application doesn't need a "reveal codes" feature. WP needs it because of the FUBAR way it handles formatting, requiring you to manually fudge codes (putting them in the right order, that sort of nonsense). Word is blighted by too many autoformatting bots interfering with the user and with each other.
Applications like FrameMaker show that it's perfectly doable to design a word processor that handles formatting/text styles correctly, reliably, and predictably. It has NO need for "reveal codes". I've spent the last 7 years taking Frame to the limit, and I've never come across a formatting problem that can't be solved using the GUI. In fact, the number of Word-like formatting problems (things are being aligned funny, line numbers appear in different areas, page count numbers restart at 1, things cannot be deleted, etc) I've encountered is 0.
ITBWTCL very nearly made me not want to read anything by Stephenson ever again. I enjoyed the books I'd read up to then, but IMO his whole line of reasoning in ITB was Just Plain Wrong. How someone who can write Cryptonomicon can lose the plot so completely is beyond me. It reads like he swapped sanity for zealotry in anger over his Powerbook crashing.
These aren't contributing to landfills any more than any other digital camera
Actually they do. If you own a digital camera, you're likely to get a set of rechargeables for it. This thing looks like it uses nonrechargeable batteries.
Isn't that what the "I feel lucky" link is about? :-P
It is rather disenchanting, isn't it? The whole thing has left me discombobulated.
Unless there's a mechanism that clearly separates the ad links from the links the author inserted to annotate his story, you won't be able to distinguish between the two.
Or IOW, ads become an editorial influence.
The article claims that an ad would pop up on mouse-over. Since I generally keep te mouse pointer outside the text I'm reading it would be easy enough to avoid the ads.
Will this be any more of an issue than today's hearing aids? After all, they could be used to record sounds...