1. Implement retarded RFID bin thing 2. Pocket kickback from RFID maker 3. PROFIT!!! 4. Observe householders tipping rubbish all over the countryside 5. Meet landfill reduction targets 6. Avoid fine 7. MORE PROFIT!!!! 8. Increase council tax to cover clean-up of fly-tipping 9. Make only a token effort at cleaning up 10. STILL MORE PROFIT!!!
you use the WYSIWYG editor to create the initial mockup, see how it looks and feels, and then code it from hand - you throw out the WYSIWYG editors code entirely
This is wonderful, and allows you to get the best of both worlds. However, in practice I've found that having an HTML document, any HTML document, tells your PHB that the HTML is "done". I remember being handed a bit of HTML (for a form that was maybe 200x300px) straight out of Dreamweaver and told to JSPify it. Six levels of nested tables, and a printout that ran the length of my desk and down to the floor. "But Dreamweaver's done all the hard work for you, just drop the JSP tags in..."
One more reason not to have HTML mockups and go for paper prototyping instead.
Seconded. HTML mockups, whether hand-coded or bastardised together in something like Dreamweaver, are too much like hard work. I've also found that if you email them, or put them up on a site for users to look at, people forget that these are mockups and bitch about the things that don't work yet. As long as whatever you use is obviously not a web page, and a programmer can make sense of it, it doesn't matter what you choose.
I would say paper prototype, and use the chance to get some user feedback before you've poured heart and soul into a full-blown mock-up (or, worse, application). You'll probably find it easier to accept when these crude user tests show up problems - once you've got too much emotional investment in your design, it's far harder not to come up with reasons not to change it.
Of course, some people won't believe in paper prototypes. (I have one or two of those around here.) The compromise that works best here is to use - ick - PowerPoint. You might want to use whatever the OpenOffice equivalent is. As long as whatever you use is obviously not a web page, and a programmer can make sense of it, it probably doesn't matter what you choose.
I sometimes think I should change the sort order on comments the next time I get mod points, to try and even it out a bit - but when I get them I never remember. Might be nice if I could set that to happen automagically, though if I'm viewing a thread upside-down I should probably have the "Redundant" option taken away too, for safety's sake...
'[S]ome of the "best" comments (obviously there's some subjectivity to it) are ones that may not be as highly moderated as some decent ones which happen to have been made earlier and therefore had more time to be moderated up.'
This new technology can be used to [...] provide enhanced security of ports and borders
I've got some new technology here, and if you gave me a billion dollars of Government funding I could plant examples of it all round our ports. Then, when Uncle Al (Qaeda) tries to sneak in, he'll get a spike in his foot and yell out. Yes, it looks like a regular thumb-tack, but this is an anti-terrorist thumbtack.
Can we dispense with the it's-anti-terrorism-honest-give-me-money bullshit, please? It's getting rather tiresome.
If my science says that a "cat" by definition has a tail, then these things you call "cats without tails" aren't actually "cats" at all, but something else, perhaps yet to be named.
'Hmmm, very interesting... may we see this so-called "cat"? We'd like to run some - um - tests.'
...minutes pass, followed by a squeal of tyres from outside. After a few more minutes, scientist re-appears, carrying a bucket.
'Just as we thought, sir - it's not a cat. We call that "roadkill".'
(I'm reminded of the Manx cat incident referred to in The Chrysalids.)
M and O are both on the 6 key. This means that the user has to hit the key once to enter M, then wait or press some other key, before they can press 6 three times more to get the O.
This is already a problem with all.com addresses. Which idiot thought it would be a good idea to make the same mistake again?
Slashdot Mirror
From TFEA:
Edgy is all about cutting edge, perhaps bleeding edge, brand new code and infrastructure
No it's not - it's all about jumpy, nervous. Not really the sort of image I'd want to be projecting. OK, so you can do worse, like not checking the registration you've been given before taking your new plane to an airshow.
At least now I know WTF an eft is, though.
1. Implement retarded RFID bin thing
2. Pocket kickback from RFID maker
3. PROFIT!!!
4. Observe householders tipping rubbish all over the countryside
5. Meet landfill reduction targets
6. Avoid fine
7. MORE PROFIT!!!!
8. Increase council tax to cover clean-up of fly-tipping
9. Make only a token effort at cleaning up
10. STILL MORE PROFIT!!!
Edgy Eft? FFS. That's even worse than Breezy Badger. What's that supposed to tell me or any other random person about what I'm downloading?
Who comes up with these names?
you use the WYSIWYG editor to create the initial mockup, see how it looks and feels, and then code it from hand - you throw out the WYSIWYG editors code entirely
This is wonderful, and allows you to get the best of both worlds. However, in practice I've found that having an HTML document, any HTML document, tells your PHB that the HTML is "done". I remember being handed a bit of HTML (for a form that was maybe 200x300px) straight out of Dreamweaver and told to JSPify it. Six levels of nested tables, and a printout that ran the length of my desk and down to the floor. "But Dreamweaver's done all the hard work for you, just drop the JSP tags in..."
One more reason not to have HTML mockups and go for paper prototyping instead.
Windows Vista, now with fewer holes!*
*Than a shot-up brothel.
Seconded. HTML mockups, whether hand-coded or bastardised together in something like Dreamweaver, are too much like hard work. I've also found that if you email them, or put them up on a site for users to look at, people forget that these are mockups and bitch about the things that don't work yet. As long as whatever you use is obviously not a web page, and a programmer can make sense of it, it doesn't matter what you choose.
I would say paper prototype, and use the chance to get some user feedback before you've poured heart and soul into a full-blown mock-up (or, worse, application). You'll probably find it easier to accept when these crude user tests show up problems - once you've got too much emotional investment in your design, it's far harder not to come up with reasons not to change it.
Of course, some people won't believe in paper prototypes. (I have one or two of those around here.) The compromise that works best here is to use - ick - PowerPoint. You might want to use whatever the OpenOffice equivalent is. As long as whatever you use is obviously not a web page, and a programmer can make sense of it, it probably doesn't matter what you choose.
This used to work in an older Outlook, but I like my current job so I haven't tried it...
Order your inbox (or wherever most of your mail lives) by sender.
Highlight all mails from $ANNOYING_PERSON
Mark them unread.
Read them.
All the Read receipts get re-sent. At once.
11-year-old Proves Locks Not So Secure
from the from-the-hands-of-babes dept.
CowboyNeal describes an eleven-year-old girl as a "babe"! Lock him up!
Priceless! And I just happen to have mod points, too :)
No wonder the submitter chose to remain anonymous - but really, Timothy, you should hang your head in shame.
RTFS!
Well, that depends on the size of the package ;)
At least his is a "bodily fluid" that was created for the express purpose of another being drinking it.
Like, dude, seriously... Bad. Typo.
Cool! I've missed that Turbo button.
Well, if you want to cause damage, yes...
:)
...but ketchup smeared under the car door handles is just as funny.
Fair enough :)
I sometimes think I should change the sort order on comments the next time I get mod points, to try and even it out a bit - but when I get them I never remember. Might be nice if I could set that to happen automagically, though if I'm viewing a thread upside-down I should probably have the "Redundant" option taken away too, for safety's sake...
That sounds a lot like "Moderation is broken".
I thought the sheer number of pages was the "torture test".
Strangely enough, I read 1/19 of TFA.
Can we dispense with the it's-anti-terrorism-honest-give-me-money bullshit, please? It's getting rather tiresome.
But there's a Slashdot comment as well, now.
And the legend that will become 6Yankee the Terrible replied to it!
Couldn't understand TFA - so I'm waiting for some nice helpful spammer to send me a PowerPoint presentation on this vulnerability.
OK, the new style is stupid. Grandparent is modded into oblivion, so parent looks like a reply to something else altogether. Yay.
If my science says that a "cat" by definition has a tail, then these things you call "cats without tails" aren't actually "cats" at all, but something else, perhaps yet to be named.
'Hmmm, very interesting... may we see this so-called "cat"? We'd like to run some - um - tests.'
...minutes pass, followed by a squeal of tyres from outside. After a few more minutes, scientist re-appears, carrying a bucket.
'Just as we thought, sir - it's not a cat. We call that "roadkill".'
(I'm reminded of the Manx cat incident referred to in The Chrysalids.)
"how many Swedish police officers does it take to screw in a lightbulb"
Two - but how do you get them in there?
M and O are both on the 6 key. This means that the user has to hit the key once to enter M, then wait or press some other key, before they can press 6 three times more to get the O.
.com addresses. Which idiot thought it would be a good idea to make the same mistake again?
This is already a problem with all
"ME SO SOLLY! AH SO!"
Well, if you're sorry, stop calling me an asshole!