Yeah, you're right. Headaches are nothing more than caffeine or ibuprofen withdrawal symptoms. They're certainly never caused by stress, tension, hunger, physical activity, dietary factors, or anything else.
I didn't feel the need to put all this in context of the actual parent reply because I would figure people reading this would take that into account, so I guess I am wrong. Let me spell it out for you plainly.
Person 1:
The article says, "It can relieve headaches." Isn't that just plain obvious. Especially considering that the most common headache relieved by coffee is in fact caused by caffeine withdrawl.
Person 2:
Caffeine can relieve tension headaches, They're caused by overdilation of capillaries in your head, and caffeine (like ibuprofen) is a vasoconstrictor.
Me:
In regards to a headache caused by tension you are refering to muscles and external aspects of stress that would not nesscarily cause any effect on capillaries in your head. But will most certainly cause headaches.
Where as a headache caused by resizing (going back to normal from constriction) capillaries in the brain is a proven and direct result of caffeine withdrawl.
If you are going to say that a tension headache that is caused by resizing capillaries, that is 100% purely seperate from any caffeine ingestion, you need to back this up with at least one reasonable study to show this. And to actually prove your point, show a bunch.
Considering the plethora of studies that show that caffeine ingestion will indeed cure a caffeine withdrawl headache, trying to spin this notion to mean something else appears as just that, spin.
You really need to calm down.
Feel free to stand idly by while lies are passed as the truth. I personally have done research on caffeine effects on my own body and with a few other people and found conclusively that caffeine robs your body of energy, health, vitality and makes you mentally less able to deal properly with normal everyday stress.
If you are at all scientific, try this, quit caffeine cold turkey, see how you feel for a week. Then don't drink it for a month. Exercise eat properly, then go back to caffeine. Take careful note on how you react to people, how your temper is, what irritates you, have well you work, how your body feels on the inside as well as the outside.
I quit for 3 months, and came back to it, and then quit again. Talk from experience or back your statements up with facts.
Considering that caffeine actually put's your body in distress and adds tension, I find it to be extremely poor solution to a headache, unless it's a caffeine withdrawl headache, and then only a temporary solution.
Caffeine can relieve tension headaches, which have nothing to do with caffeine withdrawal. They're caused by overdilation of capillaries in your head, and caffeine (like ibuprofen) is a vasoconstrictor.
Sorry I have to reply to this, you are just way off.
One question:
Why do you think you get a headache from expanding capillaries?
[drum roll]
Answer:
Because caffine initially "constricted" them in the first place, then you go into caffine withdrawl your capillaries start to go back to _normal_ (of which you would like to call "overdilation") you get your headache, and *boom*, caffine cures your headache... (call them tension headaches if you want, look up some unbiased research out there, there's plenty of it)
That way you get 6 more years to enjoy your colostomy bag when you are 80, if you even get there. As caffine over taxes your colon among hundreds of other horrible things it causes directly and indirectly.
Caffine is just an energy charge card, it will eventually come back to collect and your health will be payment at bankruptcy time...
Could I support my family with an at-home job? Could I work somewhere that lets me spend more time with my kids?
Yes, you do get more time to spend with your kids. I've been working at home for over 3 years now and it's wonderful. My kids are young still, but I am looking forward to the day they will be able to work with me and I can teach them.
My Dad owned a business with his brothers (he had a office of course, not at home) that my great grandfather started. I really feel a loss that I never was taught the business growing up. I talk with a cousin of mine, who is also a great friend, and he and his Dad talk about the business alot it seems my Dad didn't care too. Well I would love nothing more than having having my daughter as a designer and my son as a programmer working with me.
The only problem is that you need clients, the first year or so was so dry for work I am still dealing with the debt. But the great part is that with good credit cards (I have one with 8%) you can get money very easily to finance yourself.
Try calling a bank sometime and see about getting a small business loan, they can't beat the credit cards, it's terrible... unless I don't know what kind of loan to ask for.
Anyways, another idea is to simply start your own business, even if you have an office somewhere else, if you own it, you can take any day off you want when ever you want...
One more thing, I don't make incredible amounts of money, it's just ok, but every year I've increased my income by about %30 for the last 3 years. Considering that I could never get raises like that, I will bet on being self employed for future better salaries than at an office, also I like the control over my own destiny this position has.
A note of warning, you have to be disciplined, it's very hard to tell your cute little kids that Daddy has to work every day, they don't understand it... my daughter is 7 and she is just now starting to accept it.:P
Actually, QuickTime is not a player, it's a multimedia framework.
Yes I know about this, and the framework is extremely basic. (at least a couple years ago) and Apple didn't even offer a proper authoring environment for it, only some unknown company with a an authoring tool that was still in beta... ugh.
Considering QT supports flash (very, very poorly), and now flash supports video, how much value is there in QT's framework? Just a question, as I only care about the lack of.mov support in other players...
so there's nothing stopping someone creating a free QT player that has all of the encoding functionality of the Pro player.
Post a link if you have one... but from other posts it seems this is impossible
.mov is a container format like Microsoft's AVI. It is a completely documented format
Not trying to be a pest, but show me a player (windows, linux) that can play mov files... mplayer?
Not that I think everything should be free (beer) but doesn't licensing like this limit even free (speech) when a person is nagged mercilessly for money, or even tricked into paying more?
I already _had_ paid them for the pro license. It was basically so I could do fast, short edits right in quicktime, it was nice...
I don't know any other software besides this and MS software that _removes_ your ability to keep software you are paid for _and_ keep your software up to date...
Why ask it like that? Quicktime is a player, not a format... (.mov files?)
The producer's of Quicktime seem to want user lock-in just as much as REAL does, I am so sick of seeing the ridiculous request for more money for the Pro Version of quicktime _every_ time I open the player...
[RANT] I bought the pro version of quicktime 5, and guess what????? I HAD to upgrade my quicktime player to 6 to see some trailer of movie, and my PRO VERSION STOPPED WORKING?? What is the next thing I see? Buy the pro version again... that is _just as bad_ as what real does if not worse...
And to be equal with M$, I can't have two versions of Quicktime on my machine at one time!!! So uninstall/reinstall just to use software I have rightfully paid for, utterly ridiculous...
I say forget the closed MOV Quicktime altogether, open formats only _please_...
I think he needs suggestions more like one of these..
1. RUN AWAY!!!
2. Nothing to see here, move along, nothing to see here.
3. *spew current drink violently* *cough* *cough* you said you wanted to do what??!!?
4. Pat him softly on the head on say "that's nice, now run along and play."
5. Just some advice, now that I've had a chance to work with technology for a few years, I think you should also be considering jobs like 'pulling hair', 'pulling teeth', 'whipping post'(you'd be the whippee) or the fast growing field of 'stress manager'... but I would advise an industry known for having workers that remain sane and alive past the age of 30 like 'watching grass grow' (or paint dry, very similar occupations), these tend to be very peaceful and enjoyable jobs if you can get yourself into a zen state at the beginning of each day, something that is quite impossible in the previously mentioned lines of work.
You need to study your enemy. Economic war is being fought here and your mind is being won over by the concept that other countries are looking out for our benefit, when all they are interested in, is seeing our entire country taken over.
This tidbit of small knowledge was pointed out by my economic teacher in high-school years ago. Do a study of war, you will find that not a single country has ever successfully conquered another country with physical war perminently. Just like in Iraq right now or the British Empire, the people will rebel indefintely.
The US on the otherhand is being taken over economically. All this balogna about "fairness" is a mask, go tell how fair free trade without proper tarrif's is to the thousands of people that have lost their jobs _permanently_ because of the lack of proper tarrifs.
Also, read up on your history in the US, the _main_ source of Federal income was supposed to be from tarrifs, and has now become income tax and other internally supported revenues. We are being destroyed economically, proove me otherwise...
Americans who cry foul have to offer a reason for cost-conscious companies to employ them instead of offshore alternatives.
I am an employer, but I also have clients. _All_ the work I do could be sent to India.
I recently started looking for more contractors and was inundated with emails from India, Russia, Poland, Israel, South America, etc... Of course I got emails from the US as well.
I discussed my options with my most trusted advisor and it was pointed out to me that if I outsourced outside the US, why shouldn't my clients?
The concept of treating others as you want to be treated came to mind. I wouldn't want to loose work simply on the basis of my geographical location and minimum standards of living, I would loose 100% of the time, so I should not base my contracting/hiring on this either.
Henry Ford made sure he paid his workers enough to be able to buy one of his own cars. What happens when Americans are too poor to buy Dell computers? Will they pack up and move completely to a different country? They already have major offices in India from what I read... same with HP.
My father also runs a company with his brothers that his grandfather started, and they pay their workers _more_ than the industry standard because they want happy and content workers.
Will outsourcing ever ruin us? I don't know, but what I drives me nuts is that every other country can protect their workers, but the US is somehow bad and evil if it does... Note the steel industry. If world war 3 starts, and we can't make steel, because we've been buying it from our enemy for the last 2 decades how we would survive. Steel _has_ to stay in our country for our own survival, I don't see how many of these other jobs are any different in the long run.
I quit for 3 months after just reading 1/3 of this book. Then a disaster at work pushed me back into coffee for awhile, now I am getting cleaned up again. Have only had a few cups in the last week or so.
I commend your desire to quit, my body feels so much better even after just a few days of not drinking coffee... (I quit white sugar before, so soda pop hasn't been an issue... which is another good thing to be rid of.)
Of course your theory is just as possible as mine, until some new facts come to light though, I am disposed to think the wording of the email was done in a way to dispell any ill will towards Dell, _not_ because of the true purpose behind it.
Also I think I can safely assume the originator of the email would assume his email would hit the internet in moments and so was probably critiqued by a lawyer.
If I was a Dell exec or manger in a situtation where either lawsuit is threatened by a partner vendor or a rogue corp with a bone to pick I would most certainly be careful about sending out emails like this.
Ok, let's look at the logic briefly, as obviously some people here aren't looking at the root of this whole thing.
What are the 2 only possible causes of this kind of memo going out?
1. A company that sues companies for calling their software "spyware" has contacted Dell and threatened them.
OR
2. A company that has a bulk licensing deal with Dell has complained that their support staff is helping the end users remove their "software", which would be in direct conflict with Dell's agreement with said vendor.
If this isn't as obvious as the nose on your face, give me a better explaination, I am certainly open to the truth if it can be 'prooved', until then, I will go with common sense.
So it sounds like just what the parent of your post claimed; they simply won't help you remove the crap you put on yourself. Try to keep your facts straight next time instead of jumping to unwarranted conclusions.
You may want to reconsider your statement. Read carefully.
NOTICE: Use of spyware removal software may conflict with user license agreements of other applications installed on your system.
Of what knowledge does Dell have of EULA's on your system other than the ones they have installed?
... is that Mr. Coat tells someone else that you have crashed.
Mr.Coat: Hey! Anybody out there? Heeeelllloooo! Hey, buddy just think, if you haddn't been so cheap I would have a cell card in me and I would actually be able to give you a hand..."
Unfortunately, UI can also be an area that should *not* be consumer-driven.
You are actually sorta wrong here. People don't ask for those ridiculous bubble-alien interfaces, they are often times shoved in their faces by over zealous graphic artists. (read MS media player, ugh I can't stand that thing anymore, I like version 6.4...) Though I do agree with the rest of your comments and think they are right in line with the reality of the end user.
The absolute worst interfaces I have seen in my life are made by pure artists, and then the poor programmer has to make the thing work.
I am a designer, artist and programmer. I have found my niche here, I design interfaces for about 1/3 of my job, I get hired just to do that at times. A couple of things I found are that -
1. I have to force myself to keep things simple.
2. The graphics have to amplify the use of the tools.
3. You have to always put yourself in the position of the end user.
These keys basically make my interfaces look like everyone elses out there except for some basic visual look and feel things. There is only so many places and so many ways you can make a button or a menu and have it be useable. My job ultimately comes down to dealing with custom interfaces for dealing very custom data. (not really like media players which are very common and a VCR style control can only be made so many ways)
End user's scream for easy to use stuff. Graphic designers are impressed with _cool_ interfaces and tend not to consider useability, but ultimately get the job of UI design regardless of their qualifications for it.
Programmers tend to not consider useability in the sense of where to put buttons/menus, what context to place them in or what to name them for end users.
So outside of these two camps is where I have to sit. I have to argue with the management, the other designers and programmers to make it obvious to them that the users' need things these groups don't consider important.
The values of the graphic designer are they make you feel good when you see and use the application. The value the programmer brings is that the application runs well and the controls work as they should. The value I bring as the UI designer is that I make sure everyone plays nice together to make something that an outside user will want to use, can use and ultimately doesn't have to be taught how to use, as it is intuitive.
What the basis of inituitive _is_ though is a matter of a different debate.
yah, like I said, I'm not really one that argue for this point, as I don't know this kind of coding.
The issue it seems is that the core teachers must just like c#, regardless of it's merits. When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail kinda thing, perhaps.
I will copy your notes and pass them on, but I doubt it will matter, as the ciricullum is already set.
What did they dislike about Linux, why did they switch (back?) to Windows?
I just started teaching a class at a local college recently (mainly for fun) and I found out from grilling the tech guys there that they have been phasing _out_ their linux servers. They only have 1 left. I saw their server room (not the only place where there are servers, btw) there was at least 12 boxes in there, only 1 running linux.
The reason? Nobody knows linux at the college. It's quite simple I guess... Any serious hosting is outsourced anyways, and they are mad-crazy over c# and.net there, and Java is going out the door, just because web services are built in. I am not one to argue this as I don't know either one at all, but MS is starting to take over the tech dept where I am at...
The Pentium V is likely to fly along at between 5GHz to 7GHz, have 2MB plus of level two cache, be built on a 90 nanometer process, and have a stackable design. ' And raise the temperature of the room it's in by 50 Celsius.
From an inside source.
"Yes the new pentiums heat will rise exponetially with the number of cycles. So we've added special bios to control the useage of excess CPU cycles, and allow the users to decide whether or not to run their chips full out. If this protection system fails and the chips are allowed to go full out to 5 to 7Ghz we've included a free fire extiguisher with each CPU we sell.
We are working with motherboard manufaturers to install default halon fire control systems and possibly even liquid nitrogen based fire prevention. Intel is certainly on the bleeding edge of processor technology."
Translation: The system has worked exactly as it should have but since I screwed up I'll blame Microsoft.
You see this is a very core issue with software in general, perhaps more so with Linux even. Unless you are en expert or at least have a ton of experience with security then you are a moron by most "experience" people's standards. BUT, then if you are really going to use your argument, you should really look at their system.
1. To encrypt files, all you have to do is alt+double click a file, click "Advanced" then click "Encrypt".
2. The process of actually protecting your data from destruction from this system is on the page you linked. (I will just say by comparison to step 1, it's extremely extensive.)
50% of my job is application design, if the clients I make software for complain that they lost information on something as ridiculously simple as this, then I would take the blame, it certainly wouldn't be their fault. Here's why-
If my app put their data in a state that may cause it to be lost due to unforseen incidences (Win2k crash) then I should at the very, very least put a help button next to encryption check box, or simply add a small warning to "back up your Recovery Agent's key 'click here to read how'"
I am the same user that installed both systems, if I had used a 3rd party tool (not MS), I would simply have a password to use to access all my material.
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I didn't feel the need to put all this in context of the actual parent reply because I would figure people reading this would take that into account, so I guess I am wrong. Let me spell it out for you plainly.
Person 1:
The article says, "It can relieve headaches." Isn't that just plain obvious. Especially considering that the most common headache relieved by coffee is in fact caused by caffeine withdrawl.
Person 2:
Caffeine can relieve tension headaches, They're caused by overdilation of capillaries in your head, and caffeine (like ibuprofen) is a vasoconstrictor.
Me:
In regards to a headache caused by tension you are refering to muscles and external aspects of stress that would not nesscarily cause any effect on capillaries in your head. But will most certainly cause headaches.
Where as a headache caused by resizing (going back to normal from constriction) capillaries in the brain is a proven and direct result of caffeine withdrawl.
If you are going to say that a tension headache that is caused by resizing capillaries, that is 100% purely seperate from any caffeine ingestion, you need to back this up with at least one reasonable study to show this. And to actually prove your point, show a bunch.
Considering the plethora of studies that show that caffeine ingestion will indeed cure a caffeine withdrawl headache, trying to spin this notion to mean something else appears as just that, spin.
You really need to calm down.
Feel free to stand idly by while lies are passed as the truth. I personally have done research on caffeine effects on my own body and with a few other people and found conclusively that caffeine robs your body of energy, health, vitality and makes you mentally less able to deal properly with normal everyday stress.
If you are at all scientific, try this, quit caffeine cold turkey, see how you feel for a week. Then don't drink it for a month. Exercise eat properly, then go back to caffeine. Take careful note on how you react to people, how your temper is, what irritates you, have well you work, how your body feels on the inside as well as the outside.
I quit for 3 months, and came back to it, and then quit again. Talk from experience or back your statements up with facts.
Considering that caffeine actually put's your body in distress and adds tension, I find it to be extremely poor solution to a headache, unless it's a caffeine withdrawl headache, and then only a temporary solution.
Sorry I have to reply to this, you are just way off.
One question:
Why do you think you get a headache from expanding capillaries?
[drum roll]
Answer:
Because caffine initially "constricted" them in the first place, then you go into caffine withdrawl your capillaries start to go back to _normal_ (of which you would like to call "overdilation") you get your headache, and *boom*, caffine cures your headache... (call them tension headaches if you want, look up some unbiased research out there, there's plenty of it)
Some interesting notes on those you who shoot guns...
The habitual use of alcohol, coffee, tobacco and various drugs is harmful to the average person and in no way promotes better body function.
That way you get 6 more years to enjoy your colostomy bag when you are 80, if you even get there. As caffine over taxes your colon among hundreds of other horrible things it causes directly and indirectly.
Caffine is just an energy charge card, it will eventually come back to collect and your health will be payment at bankruptcy time...
That is certainly better, what kind of card is it? Mine is a discover card...
Yes, you do get more time to spend with your kids. I've been working at home for over 3 years now and it's wonderful. My kids are young still, but I am looking forward to the day they will be able to work with me and I can teach them.
My Dad owned a business with his brothers (he had a office of course, not at home) that my great grandfather started. I really feel a loss that I never was taught the business growing up. I talk with a cousin of mine, who is also a great friend, and he and his Dad talk about the business alot it seems my Dad didn't care too. Well I would love nothing more than having having my daughter as a designer and my son as a programmer working with me.
The only problem is that you need clients, the first year or so was so dry for work I am still dealing with the debt. But the great part is that with good credit cards (I have one with 8%) you can get money very easily to finance yourself.
Try calling a bank sometime and see about getting a small business loan, they can't beat the credit cards, it's terrible... unless I don't know what kind of loan to ask for.
Anyways, another idea is to simply start your own business, even if you have an office somewhere else, if you own it, you can take any day off you want when ever you want...
One more thing, I don't make incredible amounts of money, it's just ok, but every year I've increased my income by about %30 for the last 3 years. Considering that I could never get raises like that, I will bet on being self employed for future better salaries than at an office, also I like the control over my own destiny this position has.
A note of warning, you have to be disciplined, it's very hard to tell your cute little kids that Daddy has to work every day, they don't understand it... my daughter is 7 and she is just now starting to accept it. :P
I just want a player that opens .mov _and_ .avi files...
Open QT6, the nag is definitely still there...
Yes I know about this, and the framework is extremely basic. (at least a couple years ago) and Apple didn't even offer a proper authoring environment for it, only some unknown company with a an authoring tool that was still in beta... ugh.
Considering QT supports flash (very, very poorly), and now flash supports video, how much value is there in QT's framework? Just a question, as I only care about the lack of .mov support in other players...
so there's nothing stopping someone creating a free QT player that has all of the encoding functionality of the Pro player.
Post a link if you have one... but from other posts it seems this is impossible
Not trying to be a pest, but show me a player (windows, linux) that can play mov files... mplayer?
Not that I think everything should be free (beer) but doesn't licensing like this limit even free (speech) when a person is nagged mercilessly for money, or even tricked into paying more?
I already _had_ paid them for the pro license. It was basically so I could do fast, short edits right in quicktime, it was nice...
I don't know any other software besides this and MS software that _removes_ your ability to keep software you are paid for _and_ keep your software up to date...
Why ask it like that? Quicktime is a player, not a format... ( .mov files?)
The producer's of Quicktime seem to want user lock-in just as much as REAL does, I am so sick of seeing the ridiculous request for more money for the Pro Version of quicktime _every_ time I open the player...
[RANT] I bought the pro version of quicktime 5, and guess what????? I HAD to upgrade my quicktime player to 6 to see some trailer of movie, and my PRO VERSION STOPPED WORKING?? What is the next thing I see? Buy the pro version again... that is _just as bad_ as what real does if not worse...
And to be equal with M$, I can't have two versions of Quicktime on my machine at one time!!! So uninstall/reinstall just to use software I have rightfully paid for, utterly ridiculous...
I say forget the closed MOV Quicktime altogether, open formats only _please_...
I think he needs suggestions more like one of these..
1. RUN AWAY!!!
2. Nothing to see here, move along, nothing to see here.
3. *spew current drink violently* *cough* *cough* you said you wanted to do what??!!?
4. Pat him softly on the head on say "that's nice, now run along and play."
5. Just some advice, now that I've had a chance to work with technology for a few years, I think you should also be considering jobs like 'pulling hair', 'pulling teeth', 'whipping post'(you'd be the whippee) or the fast growing field of 'stress manager'... but I would advise an industry known for having workers that remain sane and alive past the age of 30 like 'watching grass grow' (or paint dry, very similar occupations), these tend to be very peaceful and enjoyable jobs if you can get yourself into a zen state at the beginning of each day, something that is quite impossible in the previously mentioned lines of work.
Have a nice day!
You need to study your enemy. Economic war is being fought here and your mind is being won over by the concept that other countries are looking out for our benefit, when all they are interested in, is seeing our entire country taken over.
This tidbit of small knowledge was pointed out by my economic teacher in high-school years ago. Do a study of war, you will find that not a single country has ever successfully conquered another country with physical war perminently. Just like in Iraq right now or the British Empire, the people will rebel indefintely.
The US on the otherhand is being taken over economically. All this balogna about "fairness" is a mask, go tell how fair free trade without proper tarrif's is to the thousands of people that have lost their jobs _permanently_ because of the lack of proper tarrifs.
Also, read up on your history in the US, the _main_ source of Federal income was supposed to be from tarrifs, and has now become income tax and other internally supported revenues. We are being destroyed economically, proove me otherwise...
I am an employer, but I also have clients. _All_ the work I do could be sent to India.
I recently started looking for more contractors and was inundated with emails from India, Russia, Poland, Israel, South America, etc... Of course I got emails from the US as well.
I discussed my options with my most trusted advisor and it was pointed out to me that if I outsourced outside the US, why shouldn't my clients?
The concept of treating others as you want to be treated came to mind. I wouldn't want to loose work simply on the basis of my geographical location and minimum standards of living, I would loose 100% of the time, so I should not base my contracting/hiring on this either.
Henry Ford made sure he paid his workers enough to be able to buy one of his own cars. What happens when Americans are too poor to buy Dell computers? Will they pack up and move completely to a different country? They already have major offices in India from what I read... same with HP.
My father also runs a company with his brothers that his grandfather started, and they pay their workers _more_ than the industry standard because they want happy and content workers.
Will outsourcing ever ruin us? I don't know, but what I drives me nuts is that every other country can protect their workers, but the US is somehow bad and evil if it does... Note the steel industry. If world war 3 starts, and we can't make steel, because we've been buying it from our enemy for the last 2 decades how we would survive. Steel _has_ to stay in our country for our own survival, I don't see how many of these other jobs are any different in the long run.
What do you use instead? I am not keen on their software either, but I haven't found a decent alternative... :P
I quit for 3 months after just reading 1/3 of this book. Then a disaster at work pushed me back into coffee for awhile, now I am getting cleaned up again. Have only had a few cups in the last week or so.
I commend your desire to quit, my body feels so much better even after just a few days of not drinking coffee... (I quit white sugar before, so soda pop hasn't been an issue... which is another good thing to be rid of.)
Also I think I can safely assume the originator of the email would assume his email would hit the internet in moments and so was probably critiqued by a lawyer.
If I was a Dell exec or manger in a situtation where either lawsuit is threatened by a partner vendor or a rogue corp with a bone to pick I would most certainly be careful about sending out emails like this.
What are the 2 only possible causes of this kind of memo going out?
1. A company that sues companies for calling their software "spyware" has contacted Dell and threatened them.
OR
2. A company that has a bulk licensing deal with Dell has complained that their support staff is helping the end users remove their "software", which would be in direct conflict with Dell's agreement with said vendor.
If this isn't as obvious as the nose on your face, give me a better explaination, I am certainly open to the truth if it can be 'prooved', until then, I will go with common sense.
You may want to reconsider your statement. Read carefully.
NOTICE: Use of spyware removal software may conflict with user license agreements of other applications installed on your system.
Of what knowledge does Dell have of EULA's on your system other than the ones they have installed?
Mr.Coat: Hey! Anybody out there? Heeeelllloooo! Hey, buddy just think, if you haddn't been so cheap I would have a cell card in me and I would actually be able to give you a hand..."
Snowmobile driver: doh!
Now these actually sounds useful, but having this does not-
snowmobilers jacket that can detect crashes
YOU HAVE JUST CRASHED! have a nice day.
Thanks Mr. Coat... :P
You are actually sorta wrong here. People don't ask for those ridiculous bubble-alien interfaces, they are often times shoved in their faces by over zealous graphic artists. (read MS media player, ugh I can't stand that thing anymore, I like version 6.4...) Though I do agree with the rest of your comments and think they are right in line with the reality of the end user.
The absolute worst interfaces I have seen in my life are made by pure artists, and then the poor programmer has to make the thing work.
I am a designer, artist and programmer. I have found my niche here, I design interfaces for about 1/3 of my job, I get hired just to do that at times. A couple of things I found are that -
1. I have to force myself to keep things simple.
2. The graphics have to amplify the use of the tools.
3. You have to always put yourself in the position of the end user.
These keys basically make my interfaces look like everyone elses out there except for some basic visual look and feel things. There is only so many places and so many ways you can make a button or a menu and have it be useable. My job ultimately comes down to dealing with custom interfaces for dealing very custom data. (not really like media players which are very common and a VCR style control can only be made so many ways)
End user's scream for easy to use stuff. Graphic designers are impressed with _cool_ interfaces and tend not to consider useability, but ultimately get the job of UI design regardless of their qualifications for it.
Programmers tend to not consider useability in the sense of where to put buttons/menus, what context to place them in or what to name them for end users.
So outside of these two camps is where I have to sit. I have to argue with the management, the other designers and programmers to make it obvious to them that the users' need things these groups don't consider important.
The values of the graphic designer are they make you feel good when you see and use the application. The value the programmer brings is that the application runs well and the controls work as they should. The value I bring as the UI designer is that I make sure everyone plays nice together to make something that an outside user will want to use, can use and ultimately doesn't have to be taught how to use, as it is intuitive.
What the basis of inituitive _is_ though is a matter of a different debate.
yah, like I said, I'm not really one that argue for this point, as I don't know this kind of coding. The issue it seems is that the core teachers must just like c#, regardless of it's merits. When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail kinda thing, perhaps. I will copy your notes and pass them on, but I doubt it will matter, as the ciricullum is already set.
I just started teaching a class at a local college recently (mainly for fun) and I found out from grilling the tech guys there that they have been phasing _out_ their linux servers. They only have 1 left. I saw their server room (not the only place where there are servers, btw) there was at least 12 boxes in there, only 1 running linux.
The reason? Nobody knows linux at the college. It's quite simple I guess... Any serious hosting is outsourced anyways, and they are mad-crazy over c# and .net there, and Java is going out the door, just because web services are built in. I am not one to argue this as I don't know either one at all, but MS is starting to take over the tech dept where I am at...
From an inside source.
"Yes the new pentiums heat will rise exponetially with the number of cycles. So we've added special bios to control the useage of excess CPU cycles, and allow the users to decide whether or not to run their chips full out. If this protection system fails and the chips are allowed to go full out to 5 to 7Ghz we've included a free fire extiguisher with each CPU we sell.
We are working with motherboard manufaturers to install default halon fire control systems and possibly even liquid nitrogen based fire prevention. Intel is certainly on the bleeding edge of processor technology."
You see this is a very core issue with software in general, perhaps more so with Linux even. Unless you are en expert or at least have a ton of experience with security then you are a moron by most "experience" people's standards. BUT, then if you are really going to use your argument, you should really look at their system.
1. To encrypt files, all you have to do is alt+double click a file, click "Advanced" then click "Encrypt".
2. The process of actually protecting your data from destruction from this system is on the page you linked. (I will just say by comparison to step 1, it's extremely extensive.)
50% of my job is application design, if the clients I make software for complain that they lost information on something as ridiculously simple as this, then I would take the blame, it certainly wouldn't be their fault. Here's why-
If my app put their data in a state that may cause it to be lost due to unforseen incidences (Win2k crash) then I should at the very, very least put a help button next to encryption check box, or simply add a small warning to "back up your Recovery Agent's key 'click here to read how'"
I am the same user that installed both systems, if I had used a 3rd party tool (not MS), I would simply have a password to use to access all my material.
Thanks for the link, I will read the article.