I'm sorry, I know nothing of the books other than the premise and the target market and their extreme popularity. I really have no solid evidence that they are good or bad.
That said, I know they must be absolutely terrible.
I don't think it's that unusual. I think in reality people who can respect the hobbies of others just don't speak up. Thus, our perceptions are skewed.
If you don't mind, what corporation are you a member of?
I play EVE, and am currently a member of one of the default corporations and I mostly just run missions right now. Anyway, I'd like to get into some moderately serious PvP.
All my mission running has left me with a decent wallet, and I'd really enjoy getting a cheap ship blown up in a massive PvP battle.
Of course, I don't know if you guys are recruiting or what the situation is, but I'm interested, mostly because it sounds like you have your stuff together.
I think Microsoft's testing methods must be flawed. I don't know what they are, so I can't make specific criticisms.
In a strange way it makes sense to me that Microsoft focus-groups its UI. Their software seems like it was designed by committee. For example, (if I remember correctly) screensaver and desktop background are in the same preference pane as resolution and bit depth. This preference pane has something like 10 tabs which control all sorts of disparate things. These 10 tabs then form two rows which creates its own usability nightmare.
In Max OS X these are separated out. There's a 'Displays" preference which controls resolution, but depth, and various multiple monitor options. Additionally there's a 'Desktop and Screensaver" preference that controls desktop and screensaver stuff.
I can imagine a focus group of users demanding that all that stuff is 'monitor related' and therefor should all go together. However, I think at Apple someone looked and thought and decided that separating them out was the better way.
I find, in general, users say they want everything and the kitchen sink. Microsoft obliges its users and their UI design is the result. Some developers don't spend anything "testing", but they do think about their UI and the result is often not bad. Of course some developers are stupid and that's where the really atrocious stuff comes out.
I skimmed his site. It looks like Joel used to work for Microsoft. One thing he said made me laugh a little.
A hallway usability test is where you grab the next person that passes by in the hallway and force them to try to use the code you just wrote. If you do this to five people, you will learn 95% of what there is to learn about usability problems in your code.
Good user interface design is not as hard as you would think
I guess that explains Microsoft's shit-poor attempts at UI design?
Q: What's the only thing more moronic than having braille on a drive-up ATM?
A: Manufacturing two different keypads when one does just fine and incurring the costs to do so.
In other words, having braille on all ATMs doesn't hurt anyone, even if it's an ATM that would be otherwise impractical for a visually impaired person.
Not directly. But as more people buy stock in RHAT it means that Red Hat will be a more viable business and more people will put money into it. So indirectly Red Hat does get money.
Having a high stock price does not mean you have a viable business. Please remember the dotbomb bubble. Many businesses had completely ridiculous business plans yet their stock went through the roof. Then they ran out of money and the stock certificates were about as valuable as scratchy toilet paper.
I'm not saying this is true of RedHat, but PLEASE don't equate a high stock price with a viable business. If anything, a high stock price equates with the mere perception that the business is viable.
Actually, when say something that's obviously offensive to someone who is required to be proximate to you for their livelihood, they can't just walk away. That's why it's generally considered merely ridiculous when someone spouts racist garbage on the street, but as soon as you bring it to the workplace, you break the law.
"Walk away" is not a possible solution when you're trapped in a squad car with some bigot.
I agree with almost everything you say, but corporal punishment is seriously uncool.
In the United States it's generally poorer families that hit their kids when they do something wrong. Those are also the families that spawn most delinquents.
The problem is also that they averaged in slashdot with the other blogs. Without Slashdot's "yesterday's news today" and week-old repeats I'm sure the blog average would be higher.
Indeed it is more affordable, but this is a car that easily competes with the most luxurious of cars in terms of features and workmanship. If they wanted to make something cheaper, they could, but that's not their market. I think the GP is right about those more affordable pure electrics will be made under a different brand, possible a different company.
This Model S includes a built-in touch screen with 3g internet access for Pandora and Google maps, very high performance, and other luxuries that make go a long way to justify the price (even without the electric motor).
Google doesn't commission the images to be made, they pay to license already existing images. Then google patches them together. For example, my city commissioned some satellite images a while back for a certain stretch of town for highway construction purposes. A couple years later, some higher resolution images showed up on Google Earth. I guess no one has taken an interest in your area enough to have recent pictures taken.
I took the quiz and got that too, especially that question about why free markets result in a better economy than planned economies. Any moron should be able to recognize the giant assumption in that question.
Unfortunately, many people have user settings from when opening safe files WAS enabled by default (like me). All apple upgrades preserve user settings, so many people still have that little box checked.
The poor today have more options than any wealthy person in 1940 except in... Heath care (this one's a biggie) Travel Education Where to live Hired help Legal representation
If your sink is plugged and flooding your kitchen do you turn off the faucet or do you calculate how much it will cost to replace your floor if the sink is left on for another hour? Any sane person will turn off his sink immediately.
If human activity is putting massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and causing overall levels to rise more quickly than could possibly happen otherwise do you reduce carbon emissions as much as possible as quickly as possible or do you wait until you figure out exactly how long it will take until the damage is irreparable and humanity begins a quick decline? I would think any sane person would do the former, but you and many others seem to want wait around while our planet gets a little hotter and the oceans get a little deeper so that scientists can tell us exactly how fucked we will be if our carbon emissions remain at current levels.
I know computers are capable of doing the job, but what was wrong with paper? Paper doesn't crash, get deleted, or require technology training. Further, if someone loses a paper copy of the census, it doesn't cost that much to replace.
It doesn't even have to be nice paper, just as long as it can be written on.
Slashdot Mirror
OMFG Twilight is the best book ever.
SATIRE ENDS HERE.
I'm sorry, I know nothing of the books other than the premise and the target market and their extreme popularity. I really have no solid evidence that they are good or bad.
That said, I know they must be absolutely terrible.
I don't think it's that unusual. I think in reality people who can respect the hobbies of others just don't speak up. Thus, our perceptions are skewed.
10.1 was the free one. 10.0 was too buggy.
What you're missing about twitter is that it interfaces with the text messaging network. Its value is as a mass text-messaging service.
It has nothing to do with AIM or YahooIM or ICQ or etc.
If you don't mind, what corporation are you a member of?
I play EVE, and am currently a member of one of the default corporations and I mostly just run missions right now. Anyway, I'd like to get into some moderately serious PvP.
All my mission running has left me with a decent wallet, and I'd really enjoy getting a cheap ship blown up in a massive PvP battle.
Of course, I don't know if you guys are recruiting or what the situation is, but I'm interested, mostly because it sounds like you have your stuff together.
I think Microsoft's testing methods must be flawed. I don't know what they are, so I can't make specific criticisms.
In a strange way it makes sense to me that Microsoft focus-groups its UI. Their software seems like it was designed by committee. For example, (if I remember correctly) screensaver and desktop background are in the same preference pane as resolution and bit depth. This preference pane has something like 10 tabs which control all sorts of disparate things. These 10 tabs then form two rows which creates its own usability nightmare.
In Max OS X these are separated out. There's a 'Displays" preference which controls resolution, but depth, and various multiple monitor options. Additionally there's a 'Desktop and Screensaver" preference that controls desktop and screensaver stuff.
I can imagine a focus group of users demanding that all that stuff is 'monitor related' and therefor should all go together. However, I think at Apple someone looked and thought and decided that separating them out was the better way.
I find, in general, users say they want everything and the kitchen sink. Microsoft obliges its users and their UI design is the result. Some developers don't spend anything "testing", but they do think about their UI and the result is often not bad. Of course some developers are stupid and that's where the really atrocious stuff comes out.
I skimmed his site. It looks like Joel used to work for Microsoft. One thing he said made me laugh a little.
A hallway usability test is where you grab the next person that passes by in the hallway and force them to try to use the code you just wrote. If you do this to five people, you will learn 95% of what there is to learn about usability problems in your code.
Good user interface design is not as hard as you would think
I guess that explains Microsoft's shit-poor attempts at UI design?
Q: What's the only thing more moronic than having braille on a drive-up ATM?
A: Manufacturing two different keypads when one does just fine and incurring the costs to do so.
In other words, having braille on all ATMs doesn't hurt anyone, even if it's an ATM that would be otherwise impractical for a visually impaired person.
Bell's Brewery makes a Lager? How does it compare to Checkvar or Pilsner Urquel?
Wow.. way to rake in the Karma there :-P.
Not directly. But as more people buy stock in RHAT it means that Red Hat will be a more viable business and more people will put money into it. So indirectly Red Hat does get money.
Having a high stock price does not mean you have a viable business. Please remember the dotbomb bubble. Many businesses had completely ridiculous business plans yet their stock went through the roof. Then they ran out of money and the stock certificates were about as valuable as scratchy toilet paper.
I'm not saying this is true of RedHat, but PLEASE don't equate a high stock price with a viable business. If anything, a high stock price equates with the mere perception that the business is viable.
Actually, when say something that's obviously offensive to someone who is required to be proximate to you for their livelihood, they can't just walk away. That's why it's generally considered merely ridiculous when someone spouts racist garbage on the street, but as soon as you bring it to the workplace, you break the law.
"Walk away" is not a possible solution when you're trapped in a squad car with some bigot.
I agree with almost everything you say, but corporal punishment is seriously uncool.
In the United States it's generally poorer families that hit their kids when they do something wrong. Those are also the families that spawn most delinquents.
This is not a coincidence.
The problem is also that they averaged in slashdot with the other blogs. Without Slashdot's "yesterday's news today" and week-old repeats I'm sure the blog average would be higher.
Indeed it is more affordable, but this is a car that easily competes with the most luxurious of cars in terms of features and workmanship. If they wanted to make something cheaper, they could, but that's not their market. I think the GP is right about those more affordable pure electrics will be made under a different brand, possible a different company.
This Model S includes a built-in touch screen with 3g internet access for Pandora and Google maps, very high performance, and other luxuries that make go a long way to justify the price (even without the electric motor).
Iowa's plan only activates if enough states do it to total 270 votes. RTFA
Google doesn't commission the images to be made, they pay to license already existing images. Then google patches them together. For example, my city commissioned some satellite images a while back for a certain stretch of town for highway construction purposes. A couple years later, some higher resolution images showed up on Google Earth. I guess no one has taken an interest in your area enough to have recent pictures taken.
I took the quiz and got that too, especially that question about why free markets result in a better economy than planned economies. Any moron should be able to recognize the giant assumption in that question.
But remember, the decline in pirates is directly responsible for global warming, so increasing the pirate population is a good thing.
Ohh! That's really good.
Props to a funny joke.
Thanks for this post.
*quietly unchecks a certain checkbox*
Unfortunately, many people have user settings from when opening safe files WAS enabled by default (like me). All apple upgrades preserve user settings, so many people still have that little box checked.
The poor today have more options than any wealthy person in 1940 except in...
Heath care (this one's a biggie)
Travel
Education
Where to live
Hired help
Legal representation
If your sink is plugged and flooding your kitchen do you turn off the faucet or do you calculate how much it will cost to replace your floor if the sink is left on for another hour? Any sane person will turn off his sink immediately.
If human activity is putting massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and causing overall levels to rise more quickly than could possibly happen otherwise do you reduce carbon emissions as much as possible as quickly as possible or do you wait until you figure out exactly how long it will take until the damage is irreparable and humanity begins a quick decline? I would think any sane person would do the former, but you and many others seem to want wait around while our planet gets a little hotter and the oceans get a little deeper so that scientists can tell us exactly how fucked we will be if our carbon emissions remain at current levels.
I know computers are capable of doing the job, but what was wrong with paper? Paper doesn't crash, get deleted, or require technology training. Further, if someone loses a paper copy of the census, it doesn't cost that much to replace.
It doesn't even have to be nice paper, just as long as it can be written on.
You're assuming that the people around you nodding were "art people". Most people who go to museums have no clue, and these were those people.
There really are amazing things that happen with a solid wall of green if it's done right. It has nothing to do with a "conversation".