If I have, say Dreamweaver running side-by-side with Safari and Navicat, then when I'm working with one of those applications my cursor already tends to be in that application's "neighborhood". So yes, such a small point would be harder to hit starting from halfway across the screen, but usually I'm starting from just a few inches away. Given those circumstances, such a menu is no harder a target to hit than an application window's toolbar or tabs.
I might also mention that "whacking" the cursor against the top of the screen is usually a two motion affair. Once to whack it to the top left, and again to move left or right to the desired position.
I've also seen some interesting UI work done with gradients, where certain UI elements like menus and buttons seem to "attract" a cursor decelerating into their area.
That's picking an extremely fine nit. I guess the iTunes window I have up at the moment doesn't represent the iTunes application, even though to get it there I ran iTunes.app. Odd...
Second the audiobook recomendation. Spacewise, I have more audiobooks on my pod than music. I'm also an Audible member, so I can get most of the latest bestsellers for about $11 a book. Much better than paying $30-$50 for the cd versions.
"Also, widescreen threw me for a bit of a loop... webpages aren't designed to be viewed at 1920 pixels wide..."
Sounds to me like bad habbits. I resize my windows to an optimum size for each and rarely run applications full screen (though there are a few exceptions like Photoshop and Dreamweaver). Since my widescreen system is a Mac, I also use Expose a lot, and I've found it also works better with smaller, non-maximized windows.
This is in direct contrast to my old Dell laptop, with its 1024x768 screen resolution. There, it was easier to simply maximize every application and use the task bar to switch.
Since you mentioned Apple displays and a mini, I assume you're on a Mac as well. At any rate, Mac OS X has a "feature" that definitely works against multiple monitors, namely the single top-of-the-screen menu bar. As implemented, any application you put in the second monitor will have it's menu all the way back over on the first monitor.
As such, I'd like an option to "echo" the menu bar onto each monitor, reducing at least half of the problem.
The other half, however, is inherent in their single shared menu design. Yes, I know about the usability studies, but the majority of those stem from the time when most Apples had a single 9" screen. If you've ever used a Mac with a 30" widescreen display, I think you'll agree that the top menu bar, as with the split screen setup, often seems a long ways away from your current work window. It kills a lot of the benefits of having a huge monitor if you need to cluster most of your work in the top-left corner of the screen.
Yeah, I'm afraid that Mr. Appleton is engaged in a major bit of wishful thinking. I'm still chafing under the restriction that the largest available notebook drive is ONLY 120GB. I have a 11MP digital camera, and I can fill up a dozen gigabytes in a single afternoon.
Now, maybe if he makes an inexpensive 30GB USB thumb drive...
It's equally likey the true price is lower, due the fact that governments love to throw additional taxes on gas at the pump. One estimate I say recently said the various taxes made up as much as 30% the total price. What one hand giveth...
From TFA: "four single RCS thrusters, placed 90 degree apart around the circumference of the service module, with the ability to direct thrust to any direction in a hemispherical motion, replacing - and capable of even more manoeuvres than - the current four groups of four (16 in total) body-fixed thrusters."
And I'm pretty sure the orginal CSM did not have a gimbled engine. The Saturn did, but with no where near the same range of motion as being discussed here.
Most recomendation system are not context based, but more of the you're looking at this movie, so here's other movies that people who looked at this movie also looked at (or rented or purchased), based on a large statistical sample. As such, the connection probably wasn't created by the system, but instead reflected the connections and tastes and preferences that existing people had already made.
If you can't seen the value then you can't, and in that case you're right, other products will work for you just fine. As to your opinion, accepted as such, rejected as such.
"The only way to mitigate this is to make the information on its own worthless."
Frankly, that's impossible. A list of your phone calls has value to someone (DHS). What you buy with your credit card has value to marketers and creditors. Your health and driving records are of supreme value to insurance carriers. All that info is out there, and it's definitely not worthless.
"The security needs to be seperate from the identification."
And that one is still pretty hard, as now we have to be able to determine that you're you, which implies some form of biometric data on file somewhere, as identity cards and passwords can be stolen. And a secure way of passing that information along so we know someone isn't pretending to be you. And a way of validating it so your credit card company knows that you're you. And so on.
As opposed to other organizations who're full of F/OSS shills and Linux loyalists who've sold their souls to SourceForge? Oh, wait, sorry, I meant F/OSS supporters and Linux advocates.
People REALLY need to watch what words they use. To many loaded sentences with words like "shill" tend to mark their speakers as fanatics, and do little more than cause others to discount their opinions accordingly. If you're going to convince people, do so with more facts and less rhetoric.
Otherwise, as Lindsey said in The Abyss, "Hippy, I know you're trying to help, but get off my side."
I don't see adding a second video card via a slot, as you're still limited to mobile video chips. Nor Fibre Channel, for that matter. A FC connection from a notebook?
As far as that goes, what can you really do with a PCMCIA slot that you can't also accomplish with a powered USB or Firewire port? Most modern notebooks should dump PCMCIA, PS/2, RS-232, SCSI, VGA, and that old standby, the Centronics Parallel port.
Add instead DVI, 4 USB 2.0 ports, a 6-pin FireWire 400 and 800 port, a couple of audio i/o jacks, and maybe a GB Ethernet port. Almost everything else is available as a USB-to-whatever adaptor cable.
"If any of this stuff was for real, physicists would have jumped all over this a couple of decades ago. "
IIRC, the original F-117 Stealth Fighter design was based on a Russian research paper almost two decades old. Just because we don't jump on things immediately doesn't mean they don't work.
USB chargers have become ubiquitous as a standard charging mechanism. I carry one laptop charger, one wall USB charger, and a USB auto adaptor, which manages my laptop, phone, ipod, and PDA (when I carry it) under almost any circumstances.
If you REALLY want an all-in-one device charger check out http://www.igo.com/. Buy one charger and a bunch of different power tips. I've found, however, that the extra USB charger lets me do a quick recharge when I don't want to dig out the notebook, or let's me charge one device in it while the notebook's ports are in use.
And "most" people that I know have ripped their CDs AND bought music from iTunes AND bought books from Audible. So unless you have some verifiable statistics that "most" iPod owners download illegally...
"The evidence is compelling that body-on-frame light trucks cannot safely coexist with passenger cars..."
Well, that settles it then. It's obvious we need to outlaw passenger cars. Not only will that remove millions of unsafe cars from the road, it will give a much needed economic boost to the SUV manufacturers.
Besides, if a car is unsafe around a light body truck, it must be a death trap around a standard truck or a semi-tractor trailer rig...
"..but having a list of 500 simple buffer overflows in rarely used games.."
You should look at the list. http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB2005.html Hardly any are "rarely used games", unless "Multiple Vendors Linux Kernel Asynchronous Input/Output Local Denial Of Service" is the latest FPS...
"We just need to be ready to spend the money and stop subsidizing late 19th-century methods."
Somehow, buried in that statement is the supposition that all late 19th-century methods are bad simply because they're late 19th-century methods. Gas, as an example, is an amazingly clean power source. Hydro is a late 19th-century method. Nukes are as well, but modern designs eliminate many of their drawbacks.
The main problem is that many of the technologies you mention, like wind and solar, don't produce enough power to be suitable for many highly energy intensive manufacturing processes, nor are they consistent power sources. When it night comes and the wind dies down we're supposed to... what? Huddle in the dark?
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I might also mention that "whacking" the cursor against the top of the screen is usually a two motion affair. Once to whack it to the top left, and again to move left or right to the desired position.
I've also seen some interesting UI work done with gradients, where certain UI elements like menus and buttons seem to "attract" a cursor decelerating into their area.
That's picking an extremely fine nit. I guess the iTunes window I have up at the moment doesn't represent the iTunes application, even though to get it there I ran iTunes.app. Odd...
Second the audiobook recomendation. Spacewise, I have more audiobooks on my pod than music. I'm also an Audible member, so I can get most of the latest bestsellers for about $11 a book. Much better than paying $30-$50 for the cd versions.
Sounds to me like bad habbits. I resize my windows to an optimum size for each and rarely run applications full screen (though there are a few exceptions like Photoshop and Dreamweaver). Since my widescreen system is a Mac, I also use Expose a lot, and I've found it also works better with smaller, non-maximized windows.
This is in direct contrast to my old Dell laptop, with its 1024x768 screen resolution. There, it was easier to simply maximize every application and use the task bar to switch.
As such, I'd like an option to "echo" the menu bar onto each monitor, reducing at least half of the problem.
The other half, however, is inherent in their single shared menu design. Yes, I know about the usability studies, but the majority of those stem from the time when most Apples had a single 9" screen. If you've ever used a Mac with a 30" widescreen display, I think you'll agree that the top menu bar, as with the split screen setup, often seems a long ways away from your current work window. It kills a lot of the benefits of having a huge monitor if you need to cluster most of your work in the top-left corner of the screen.
More old news. CES is happening and the best we can do is recycled news stories?
Now, maybe if he makes an inexpensive 30GB USB thumb drive...
It's equally likey the true price is lower, due the fact that governments love to throw additional taxes on gas at the pump. One estimate I say recently said the various taxes made up as much as 30% the total price. What one hand giveth...
Agreed. Sounds like a great way to fill up a player with "popular" music you know you don't want.
And I'm pretty sure the orginal CSM did not have a gimbled engine. The Saturn did, but with no where near the same range of motion as being discussed here.
Most recomendation system are not context based, but more of the you're looking at this movie, so here's other movies that people who looked at this movie also looked at (or rented or purchased), based on a large statistical sample. As such, the connection probably wasn't created by the system, but instead reflected the connections and tastes and preferences that existing people had already made.
If you can't seen the value then you can't, and in that case you're right, other products will work for you just fine. As to your opinion, accepted as such, rejected as such.
Frankly, that's impossible. A list of your phone calls has value to someone (DHS). What you buy with your credit card has value to marketers and creditors. Your health and driving records are of supreme value to insurance carriers. All that info is out there, and it's definitely not worthless.
"The security needs to be seperate from the identification."And that one is still pretty hard, as now we have to be able to determine that you're you, which implies some form of biometric data on file somewhere, as identity cards and passwords can be stolen. And a secure way of passing that information along so we know someone isn't pretending to be you. And a way of validating it so your credit card company knows that you're you. And so on.
People REALLY need to watch what words they use. To many loaded sentences with words like "shill" tend to mark their speakers as fanatics, and do little more than cause others to discount their opinions accordingly. If you're going to convince people, do so with more facts and less rhetoric.
Otherwise, as Lindsey said in The Abyss, "Hippy, I know you're trying to help, but get off my side."
I don't see adding a second video card via a slot, as you're still limited to mobile video chips. Nor Fibre Channel, for that matter. A FC connection from a notebook?
Add instead DVI, 4 USB 2.0 ports, a 6-pin FireWire 400 and 800 port, a couple of audio i/o jacks, and maybe a GB Ethernet port. Almost everything else is available as a USB-to-whatever adaptor cable.
IIRC, the original F-117 Stealth Fighter design was based on a Russian research paper almost two decades old. Just because we don't jump on things immediately doesn't mean they don't work.
Forget all the guns. When are we going to get those instantly-bringing-you-back-from-near-death medpacks?
I'd like to go to a mall and ask 100 people that question, and see if I get ANY intelligent responses...
If you REALLY want an all-in-one device charger check out http://www.igo.com/. Buy one charger and a bunch of different power tips. I've found, however, that the extra USB charger lets me do a quick recharge when I don't want to dig out the notebook, or let's me charge one device in it while the notebook's ports are in use.
And "most" people that I know have ripped their CDs AND bought music from iTunes AND bought books from Audible. So unless you have some verifiable statistics that "most" iPod owners download illegally...
And some are on the windows side too. But "500 simple buffer overflows in rarely used games"? I think not...
Well, that settles it then. It's obvious we need to outlaw passenger cars. Not only will that remove millions of unsafe cars from the road, it will give a much needed economic boost to the SUV manufacturers.
Besides, if a car is unsafe around a light body truck, it must be a death trap around a standard truck or a semi-tractor trailer rig...
You should look at the list. http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB2005.html Hardly any are "rarely used games", unless "Multiple Vendors Linux Kernel Asynchronous Input/Output Local Denial Of Service" is the latest FPS...
Somehow, buried in that statement is the supposition that all late 19th-century methods are bad simply because they're late 19th-century methods. Gas, as an example, is an amazingly clean power source. Hydro is a late 19th-century method. Nukes are as well, but modern designs eliminate many of their drawbacks.
The main problem is that many of the technologies you mention, like wind and solar, don't produce enough power to be suitable for many highly energy intensive manufacturing processes, nor are they consistent power sources. When it night comes and the wind dies down we're supposed to... what? Huddle in the dark?