The X-10 ads have been around for months; they've taken over major websites like yahoo. Do I know anyone who has bought one?
Actually, when I first got enough disposable income to consider feeding my geek fantasies, I X-10'ed my apartment. It was fun for like a day and a half. ("Look! I can turn on and off the lights!" "That's what the switch is for." "Yeah, but I can do it from HERE!" "Whatever, dude...") and I scrapped it. In my defense, this is BEFORE the X-10 people with apeshit with pop-up ads.
I do know of ONE person who has the X-10 Cam that is the subject of those ads... kind of a spooky apartment in my complex with an American flag on the door and an X-10 camera above it. No one ever seems to be home...
I'd be surprised if many people really use floppies anymore, but I'm pretty out of touch with society.
More than you'd think. I work tech support for a company that (rather famously) stopped shipping floppy drives in their computers FOUR YEARS ago, and people still buy third-party drives in droves to pick up the slack. It's a dreaful little format, but it simply refuses to lie down and die.
People grabbed at Zip when it came out, but then everyone realized that Zips had the same reliability problem as floppies. What good is a new format with 100MB capacity if all you're going to get when you stick it in is a clicking noise?
Also, BTW, a lot of consumers are under the impression that CD-RW's work just like the aforementioned formats... it's pretty tough explaining to them that they can't use them as larger floppies.
There is only one good solution to this: Place a dozen or more of dynamite sticks inside your case (don't stint), and make sure not to be seen by your colleagues from your company.... Have fun.
Huh? There's no right and wrong! The functionality of a UI is subjective.
You're thinking of morality. In UI there are right and wrong. Right is what's easiest for the untrained user to arrive at without prompting, wrong is everything else. There are very clear rules, carefully arrived at over many years.
That said, I obviously don't know much about what the rules actually are or I wouldn't have an ugly website.:-D
Is anyone complaining because their new Toyota doesn't have to be cranked before driving?
No, of course not, but let me ask you this -- if your car got to the point where it was no longer road-worthy (say, the minimum highway speed was changed to 75MPH and your little Yugo just couldn't hack it) and the new ones all had joysticks instead of steering wheels, you would be right to grumble. It probably wouldn't take too long to get used to, but in that time period, your productivity would suffer.
UI is organic. Changing it up means one of two things: You were doing it wrong before, or you're doing it wrong now. Customers are more keenly attuned to this than a lot of people think.
Perhaps I should have a regional domain, but a TLD is easier to work with.
I considered it for my site, but that idea was killed by all the post-911 advertising that says stuff like "Show your patriotism! Get a.US domain!" Even though.us is probably the most appropriate since I'm definitely not a.com and not really an organization, I couldn't bring myself to do it.
I wonder, does anyone mistake.uk or.nz people for being overly patriotic?
Exactly what I was talking about! www.slashdot.com takes you to -- you guessed it -- Slashdot! They own both variations. (They don't seem to own slashdot.net though. Odd.) So which is it, CmdrTaco, is SlashDot a money-grubbing whore site, or is it a bastion of hipster iconoclasm resisting the commercialization of our internet?
Of course! Why didn't I think of it before? Who better to serve the best interests of the public, than private enterprise? After all, I'm sure that they can be trusted to put civic duty above profits, in the extremely unlikely event that the two should ever conflict...
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I completely understand when people talk to me about how they don't trust big government. They totally should. But then these same people talk about turning around and putting the administration of this country (my country being the U.S.) in the hands of for-profit corporations. To which I can only muster a "whhhaaa?"
I had always been under the impression that.org was actually reserved for non-profits. It was disheartening to find out that this is not the case, the registrars will sell one to anyone (and indeed, apparently a lot of people buy both the.com and.org names for their sites). I would like to see the administration of.org go to someone willing to enforce a policy of "no businesses allowed," but I'm not naive enough to think this will happen.
I'm not sure this is really analogous. I think a better analogy would be the move from silent movies to talkies rather than the move from literature to movies. The experience is the same, just rendered more life-like.
I am not sure there is much intellectual stimulation going on in the process of reading depth into a 2-D scene, at least not the same way there is in imagining the scene in the first place. But then, IANAN.
(I am not a neurologist)
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Leaving aside the civil-liberties issues for a moment, I don't even know how these biometric methods of ID are supposed to work. Say you've got a retinal print, is is still the same if you, say, develop glaucoma? Do you still have the same voiceprint after being hit in the throat really hard?
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In how many languages do you code? You want to learn a separate keyboard layout for each one?
Actually, when I first got enough disposable income to consider feeding my geek fantasies, I X-10'ed my apartment. It was fun for like a day and a half. ("Look! I can turn on and off the lights!" "That's what the switch is for." "Yeah, but I can do it from HERE!" "Whatever, dude...") and I scrapped it. In my defense, this is BEFORE the X-10 people with apeshit with pop-up ads.
I do know of ONE person who has the X-10 Cam that is the subject of those ads... kind of a spooky apartment in my complex with an American flag on the door and an X-10 camera above it. No one ever seems to be home...
More than you'd think. I work tech support for a company that (rather famously) stopped shipping floppy drives in their computers FOUR YEARS ago, and people still buy third-party drives in droves to pick up the slack. It's a dreaful little format, but it simply refuses to lie down and die.
People grabbed at Zip when it came out, but then everyone realized that Zips had the same reliability problem as floppies. What good is a new format with 100MB capacity if all you're going to get when you stick it in is a clicking noise?
Also, BTW, a lot of consumers are under the impression that CD-RW's work just like the aforementioned formats... it's pretty tough explaining to them that they can't use them as larger floppies.
Before the flaming starts, I'm sure the poster means "homo" to be short for "homogenized", or watered-down and bland.
Right?
Legislation can stop music piracy? Well, then there ought to be a law!
Damn. You live in Montana, don't you? :)
All these people can potentially be compromised. THEY have the power. THEY probably got to your wife, sister, and lawyer a long time ago.
No, no, that's the beauty of it! It works if they've captured you, too!
Just imagining situations where this feature would be useful is kinda fun, in a stupid sort of way...
You're thinking of morality. In UI there are right and wrong. Right is what's easiest for the untrained user to arrive at without prompting, wrong is everything else. There are very clear rules, carefully arrived at over many years.
That said, I obviously don't know much about what the rules actually are or I wouldn't have an ugly website. :-D
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No, of course not, but let me ask you this -- if your car got to the point where it was no longer road-worthy (say, the minimum highway speed was changed to 75MPH and your little Yugo just couldn't hack it) and the new ones all had joysticks instead of steering wheels, you would be right to grumble. It probably wouldn't take too long to get used to, but in that time period, your productivity would suffer.
UI is organic. Changing it up means one of two things: You were doing it wrong before, or you're doing it wrong now. Customers are more keenly attuned to this than a lot of people think.
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I wonder, does anyone mistake .uk or .nz people for being overly patriotic?
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Of course! Why didn't I think of it before? Who better to serve the best interests of the public, than private enterprise? After all, I'm sure that they can be trusted to put civic duty above profits, in the extremely unlikely event that the two should ever conflict...
I completely understand when people talk to me about how they don't trust big government. They totally should. But then these same people talk about turning around and putting the administration of this country (my country being the U.S.) in the hands of for-profit corporations. To which I can only muster a "whhhaaa?"---------
We all live under Monkey Law.
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We all live under Monkey Law.
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We all live under Monkey Law.
I am not sure there is much intellectual stimulation going on in the process of reading depth into a 2-D scene, at least not the same way there is in imagining the scene in the first place. But then, IANAN.
(I am not a neurologist)
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