Which is as you know nothing new to the analog guys. I worked with a fellow that had made a living behind the iron curtain designing integrated analog circuits that would make their own adjustments for temperature, enabling them to operate over a broad range of temperature.
Stateside at the time he had a devil of a time finding work because everything was digital...butt simple in comparison to what he was capable...but the HR guys didn't see the right buzz words on the resume.
So with this new concept...why are so many so quick to piss on it? I know folks aren't fond of Sun at the moment, but geez give them some props for having at least 2 or 3 people doing R&D.
If you can provide a mathematical representation of that volume of space over time you will unfortunately find that at times the owners of the Moon, Venus, and Mercury will have a thing to say about your property impinging on theirs.
I personnaly would demand a stake survey and "Do not Trespass" postings every 10 meters.
I think it is a matter of insulating the business world from your soul...a corporate entity in itself has no soul/emotion/angst/id whatever. If there is money to be had the dispassionate corporation will do so regardless of right or wrong, but within the law (hopefully).
So if you are an inventor and that gives you joy, protect your ability to invent.
If you enjoy golf. Golf...and leave your cell phone at home.
If you value your family, and your job demands you unduly shortchange them, find a new job or resist the temptation to be consumed by the one you are in.
In a nutshell, look out for whatever is important to you. Your employer, boss, government certainly won't.
They have been working this problem for years as well. Some airports (Orange County CA for instance) have fairly complex takeoff and landing procedures to mitigate the noise over residential areas.
I actually found it refreshing that Nintendo didn't spout some nonsense about his hack being illegal and sending a lawyerly letter to pull his site down.
When debating the merits of various cost models step back and reason a bit...
A company chooses Oracle or whatever on a cost basis. Big guys negotiate their own price.
Oracle gets their piece based on the merits, pricing and marketing of their products versus their competitors.
If Oracle based their costs on $/million SQL calls or $/NIC or $/cooling fan or whatever any "abuse" on their part would result in a change in customer behavior up to and including going to a different Db solution. In the short term companies may try to game the cost model, but Oracle will in turn respond.
So in a nutshell, pricing is a balancing act within economics 101. It will all work out so that Oracle targets X% margin and Company ABC targets Y% of datacenter costs on software licensing.
There are few things in this world that make LESS sense than classifying something after it has been released in the public domain.
Unless what you are trying to do is manipulate public opinion and spin the "liberal media".
Remember when Bush said Lay was a good man?...remember that he was one of the gang on Cheney's little energy task force?
In the short term this cynical manipulation of information may pay off in November, but in the long haul I do not think historians will paint a pretty picture of this administration 20...50...100 years down the road. Historian researchers have access to old Russian documents down to Stalin's love letters. Maybe this administration wants to out fascist him? Yikes!
Actually most CAD systems use a combination of a mouse and a spaceball.
The only application I have observed for a 3-D input device was at GM R&D for programming the movement of the end effecter of a robot (e.g. weld guns, CNC machining operations...)
I happened to attend 1986-1990. That was the cross-over point were in effect out of state tuition cost more than the per-student operations expenses. In effect out of state students subsidized in state students.
What was a bargain in 1986 was no longer one in 1990. No regrets though.
Will the naive, lowest common denominator user operating the program for the first time immediately know what to do next at every stage or do they have to be a mind reader or a detective?
Find someone unfamiliar with your application. Then explain what its purpose is. "You use this to configure a printer so other computers can use it"
The set up a web cam on them and record them using your application.
Afterwards play it back and ask for the users comments as you go.
I notice you paused for a long time at this point...
Ala Carte shopping is another big motivator. If for whatever reason you only like one of Justin Timberlake's songs (lord help you) why would you spend $15.95 for that song and 12 other tracks that don't make you want to scream and throw your panties at someone?
A few years ago the likes of Lay and Fastow were poster boys for rewarding innovation and the private sector/market forces controlling everything rather than "Big Government".
Now that CA has been bankrupt by the leeches in TX and the leeches in TX have been sucked dry in turn by greedy bastards...
To cut my rant short...Government needs to do what no market force free enterprise will. And that in my opinion is a good thing.
he first has to sit down with his peers, the art department, marketing, and eventually focus groups
So the best UI is written by a committee? No wonder folks complain!
The best way to better UI is to be minimalist to start and add "options" grudgingly. It tends to result in more thought and less code.
Strive for an elegant solution...that just works. I was just at a conference today where in a demo the only way to see a relationship between two business objects in the application was to try to delete one of them...quite ugly.
For the last 4 years our president has said nothing more meaningful than the "word of the day" printed on the banner behind him.
At least on Sesame Street they also have a number and letter of the day too.
In the 19th century Lincoln would give very long speeches that actual served to inform and convince. Sadly our soundbite world has replaced thought with 5 second bits with no context or depth.
Nobody should be in too much of a hurry to think for themselves. For sports, there is no harm, but for our political process it has been dumbed down enough already.
I am still kicking myself. Starbucks had a handful of stores in Seattle and some snobs out there liked them over the other local chains. I thought...what's the big deal? They overroast their beans, the choco treats weren't as good as my favorite shop...
I guess that was one IPO I should have jumped onto!
In the early 1990's I supported a system that ran on both VAX/VMS and Unix HP/AIX/Sun/SGI...
For each major release the VMS build was hands down the most trouble free for any changes to OS or hardware.
Like others have said....IT JUST WORKS.
My theory is that the DEC sales guys had a poor golf game and couldn't hold their liquer. Otherwise they had a very cost effective solution. Maybe they were their own worst enemy in terms of getting repeat customers while market share whittled away bit by bit.
No tinfoil hats required. Put fear of loosing their job and big fines into media conglomarate middle management and Program Directors minds and they will self censor.
The more ambiguous big brother can be...the larger the shadow cast if the lines are not clearly drawn.
Slashdot Mirror
I ccoked Sasser right out of your system!!!!
Think of the problems in the futures for the hardware admins (swap-ologists) finding spares when a CPU cooks.
Would it have been a better idea to have based something like this on a go-forward architecture?
Stateside at the time he had a devil of a time finding work because everything was digital...butt simple in comparison to what he was capable...but the HR guys didn't see the right buzz words on the resume.
So with this new concept...why are so many so quick to piss on it? I know folks aren't fond of Sun at the moment, but geez give them some props for having at least 2 or 3 people doing R&D.
So a high octane Mindstorm...now that might actually be interesting.
If you can provide a mathematical representation of that volume of space over time you will unfortunately find that at times the owners of the Moon, Venus, and Mercury will have a thing to say about your property impinging on theirs.
I personnaly would demand a stake survey and "Do not Trespass" postings every 10 meters.
So if you are an inventor and that gives you joy, protect your ability to invent.
If you enjoy golf. Golf...and leave your cell phone at home.
If you value your family, and your job demands you unduly shortchange them, find a new job or resist the temptation to be consumed by the one you are in.
In a nutshell, look out for whatever is important to you. Your employer, boss, government certainly won't.
They have been working this problem for years as well. Some airports (Orange County CA for instance) have fairly complex takeoff and landing procedures to mitigate the noise over residential areas.
If the terrorists REALLY want to get our governments attention they will figure out a way for people to get free gas!
I actually found it refreshing that Nintendo didn't spout some nonsense about his hack being illegal and sending a lawyerly letter to pull his site down.
A company chooses Oracle or whatever on a cost basis. Big guys negotiate their own price.
Oracle gets their piece based on the merits, pricing and marketing of their products versus their competitors.
If Oracle based their costs on $/million SQL calls or $/NIC or $/cooling fan or whatever any "abuse" on their part would result in a change in customer behavior up to and including going to a different Db solution. In the short term companies may try to game the cost model, but Oracle will in turn respond.
So in a nutshell, pricing is a balancing act within economics 101. It will all work out so that Oracle targets X% margin and Company ABC targets Y% of datacenter costs on software licensing.
Unless what you are trying to do is manipulate public opinion and spin the "liberal media".
Remember when Bush said Lay was a good man?...remember that he was one of the gang on Cheney's little energy task force?
In the short term this cynical manipulation of information may pay off in November, but in the long haul I do not think historians will paint a pretty picture of this administration 20...50...100 years down the road. Historian researchers have access to old Russian documents down to Stalin's love letters. Maybe this administration wants to out fascist him? Yikes!
The only application I have observed for a 3-D input device was at GM R&D for programming the movement of the end effecter of a robot (e.g. weld guns, CNC machining operations...)
At least they can pay them off with grants and loans rather than being $2K in credit card debt.
What was a bargain in 1986 was no longer one in 1990. No regrets though.
Find someone unfamiliar with your application. Then explain what its purpose is. "You use this to configure a printer so other computers can use it"
The set up a web cam on them and record them using your application.
Afterwards play it back and ask for the users comments as you go.
I notice you paused for a long time at this point...
Or, why did you go into that other menu? etc.
Not in a good way, but they were "Security Patches".
Ala Carte shopping is another big motivator. If for whatever reason you only like one of Justin Timberlake's songs (lord help you) why would you spend $15.95 for that song and 12 other tracks that don't make you want to scream and throw your panties at someone?
Until it is over a 50% pay cut I am not budging. If I am going to be cold, I certainly don't want to be compensated for it!
Now that CA has been bankrupt by the leeches in TX and the leeches in TX have been sucked dry in turn by greedy bastards...
To cut my rant short...Government needs to do what no market force free enterprise will. And that in my opinion is a good thing.
So the best UI is written by a committee? No wonder folks complain!
The best way to better UI is to be minimalist to start and add "options" grudgingly. It tends to result in more thought and less code.
Strive for an elegant solution...that just works. I was just at a conference today where in a demo the only way to see a relationship between two business objects in the application was to try to delete one of them...quite ugly.
For the last 4 years our president has said nothing more meaningful than the "word of the day" printed on the banner behind him.
At least on Sesame Street they also have a number and letter of the day too.
In the 19th century Lincoln would give very long speeches that actual served to inform and convince. Sadly our soundbite world has replaced thought with 5 second bits with no context or depth.
Nobody should be in too much of a hurry to think for themselves. For sports, there is no harm, but for our political process it has been dumbed down enough already.
Many campus's around the country had this in the '80's. VAX mainframe and a pile of thin clients all oer the place.
I guess that was one IPO I should have jumped onto!
For each major release the VMS build was hands down the most trouble free for any changes to OS or hardware.
Like others have said....IT JUST WORKS.
My theory is that the DEC sales guys had a poor golf game and couldn't hold their liquer. Otherwise they had a very cost effective solution. Maybe they were their own worst enemy in terms of getting repeat customers while market share whittled away bit by bit.
The more ambiguous big brother can be...the larger the shadow cast if the lines are not clearly drawn.