Thank you, I can't wait to install the Morse code package into my Nokia 3650 -- the round keypad is impossible to type with, as the buttons are not in the standard T9 layout. This makes typing while driving very difficult.
Now I can send messages using two buttons, and I don't even have to look at the keypad or screen anymore -- Thank you!!! I made mention of stuff like this in yesterday's post about blind/deaf UIs.
It must not be so obvious to other people, but this is quite obvious to me. Computers don't necessarily need screens, we don't need to be hand-eye-coordinating little pointers on screens anymore. FOr those of us that have (most of) our sense intact, doesn't it make sense to not shunt them into a little tiny box?
So I'm talking about UI.
Does it make sense to use a mouse to click the start button while you're in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and driving a manual transmission? I can't imagine why this is still the case. Hay you UI and interface designers -- take a lesson from those of us who can't hear, or can't see, and imagine how they'd get things done. Same concepts can and should apply to handhelds, phones, PDAs, remote controls, etc. There are far more attractive (women) things to look at than little blinkety gadgets. Also, lots of user-wishes can be infered from small sensors (photodiode, accelerometers, available Wi-Fi networks), and the laptop doesn't really have to be open all the time in order for us to be connected and informed.
Please take a lesson from the needs of our blind and deaf brothers -- and enlighten the UIs for everyone.
Count me in, I'd be happy to help build a fusion power plant, or even a testing facility. While I'm not such a great physicist, I am an excellent systems administrator!
In the early nineties, I had an email address, and wanted to put it on my resume. I had a long screaming argument with my father over it. Now, if I don't have an email address -- I don't work!
I spent quite a bit of time unemployed. I applied to thousands of jobs (yes, really!), I rewrote and rewrote my resume, and called everyone I knew, and lots of people that I didn't. I spent two years searching for any job at all with a paycheck as my fulltime job -- and to no avail. I am a GNU/UNIX systems administrator, with 8 years (at the time) of contracting experience.
Here's what I learned:
[] Bad market - Boston (and especially Pittsburgh) was a bad market. No more startups, no more small companies hiring. Financial institutions will go through the motions, but won't touch me with a 10-foot pole (unix, not Microsoft).
[] HR Sucks - Fucking asswipe useless overweight blobs of shit, with absolutely no purpose on this planet except breeding and wasting other people's time - Total waste of an otherwise perfectly fine cubicle. If I didn't have 10 years of experience with Windows XP, they didn't want to talk to me, even for a unix-only job. Fucking sacks of shit.
[] Recruiters Suck - All recruiters suck. One or two out of a thousand are worth 10 times their weight in gold. Most recruiters call me for a gig, get my (really long, just the way they like it) resume, and then I never hear from them again, until they have another position to ask me about. Fuckers.
So, I gave up, took another toke from the bong, and put some of my skills to work on a few public projects. I learned not to waste my time kowtowing to other people's demands, when it wouldn't get me anywhere.
When you say that "uccessful people look for what they are doing right, rather then what they are doing wrong," that makes me mad -- when you have a second interview at a company, and never hear from them again (after repeated phone calls and emails to differnt people), how can you get any feedback to know what you did wrong? How do you know what you did right?
This is why I started Recruiter-Rater, where you can find and rate technical recruiters, and poke fun at them. At least I started to feel better about the jobsearch, and it earns enough to cover my pot habit!
Good call, TMM, but I think that for optimum results, youd need to grow the organic tissue with this kinda stuff. Unless you can modify the system to incorporate the new design (adding other wires of whatever sort), it's gonna be a hack -- and I mean a real hack, with drilling, or surgery. Ick!
Kudos to the crew at Amherst, stuff like this (indirectly) helps get us off this crazy rock. I partied at Amherst once, this neat grrrl made me a smartdrink, and told me about mobile PA-type systems.
Hell, I am Sci-Fi -- anything Sci-Fi for me! There's so little science fiction shows and movies, that I've seen everything already. I say there isn't much out there, and I'll watch whatever netflix has. I think I've queued-up a signifigant portion of the really bad movies and tv shows I haven't seen.
Wouldn't it be nice, if we as humans could focus on creating farming bubbles like this. They should be mass-produced, and sent to a variety of places. By the time people get to Mars, there would be enough food. Might be a full-time job or worse, just checking on each bubble, and grabbing enough O2 and food just to survive.
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I squirted coffee through my nose reading that link!
4: Profit!!!
The religous wackos are present in Texas but they don't dominate as much as the media would have everyone believe.
Tell that to Al Gore.
Thank you, I can't wait to install the Morse code package into my Nokia 3650 -- the round keypad is impossible to type with, as the buttons are not in the standard T9 layout. This makes typing while driving very difficult.
Now I can send messages using two buttons, and I don't even have to look at the keypad or screen anymore -- Thank you!!! I made mention of stuff like this in yesterday's post about blind/deaf UIs.
It must not be so obvious to other people, but this is quite obvious to me. Computers don't necessarily need screens, we don't need to be hand-eye-coordinating little pointers on screens anymore. FOr those of us that have (most of) our sense intact, doesn't it make sense to not shunt them into a little tiny box?
So I'm talking about UI.
Does it make sense to use a mouse to click the start button while you're in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and driving a manual transmission? I can't imagine why this is still the case. Hay you UI and interface designers -- take a lesson from those of us who can't hear, or can't see, and imagine how they'd get things done. Same concepts can and should apply to handhelds, phones, PDAs, remote controls, etc. There are far more attractive (women) things to look at than little blinkety gadgets. Also, lots of user-wishes can be infered from small sensors (photodiode, accelerometers, available Wi-Fi networks), and the laptop doesn't really have to be open all the time in order for us to be connected and informed.
Please take a lesson from the needs of our blind and deaf brothers -- and enlighten the UIs for everyone.
Count me in, I'd be happy to help build a fusion power plant, or even a testing facility. While I'm not such a great physicist, I am an excellent systems administrator!
Looks like we need to take advantage of this to plot Wi-Fi Everywhere. Rock on, guys, see you at the next interview interval.
I guess a little -- he works for Monster.com!
In the early nineties, I had an email address, and wanted to put it on my resume. I had a long screaming argument with my father over it. Now, if I don't have an email address -- I don't work!
Is this boring, or did I really get first post?
In soviet russia, the Internet subscribes YOU!
Hello, this is the Internet calling, this is not a fad. The future is waiting for you to realize that it's here.
Note to self. Check facts before submitting anything I write. Gotcha.
I spent quite a bit of time unemployed. I applied to thousands of jobs (yes, really!), I rewrote and rewrote my resume, and called everyone I knew, and lots of people that I didn't. I spent two years searching for any job at all with a paycheck as my fulltime job -- and to no avail. I am a GNU/UNIX systems administrator, with 8 years (at the time) of contracting experience.
Here's what I learned:
[] Bad market - Boston (and especially Pittsburgh) was a bad market. No more startups, no more small companies hiring. Financial institutions will go through the motions, but won't touch me with a 10-foot pole (unix, not Microsoft).
[] HR Sucks - Fucking asswipe useless overweight blobs of shit, with absolutely no purpose on this planet except breeding and wasting other people's time - Total waste of an otherwise perfectly fine cubicle. If I didn't have 10 years of experience with Windows XP, they didn't want to talk to me, even for a unix-only job. Fucking sacks of shit.
[] Recruiters Suck - All recruiters suck. One or two out of a thousand are worth 10 times their weight in gold. Most recruiters call me for a gig, get my (really long, just the way they like it) resume, and then I never hear from them again, until they have another position to ask me about. Fuckers.
So, I gave up, took another toke from the bong, and put some of my skills to work on a few public projects. I learned not to waste my time kowtowing to other people's demands, when it wouldn't get me anywhere.
When you say that "uccessful people look for what they are doing right, rather then what they are doing wrong," that makes me mad -- when you have a second interview at a company, and never hear from them again (after repeated phone calls and emails to differnt people), how can you get any feedback to know what you did wrong? How do you know what you did right?
This is why I started Recruiter-Rater, where you can find and rate technical recruiters, and poke fun at them. At least I started to feel better about the jobsearch, and it earns enough to cover my pot habit!
This means that I will stop using Hotmail -- go figure!
Good call, TMM, but I think that for optimum results, youd need to grow the organic tissue with this kinda stuff. Unless you can modify the system to incorporate the new design (adding other wires of whatever sort), it's gonna be a hack -- and I mean a real hack, with drilling, or surgery. Ick!
Kudos to the crew at Amherst, stuff like this (indirectly) helps get us off this crazy rock. I partied at Amherst once, this neat grrrl made me a smartdrink, and told me about mobile PA-type systems.
In Soviet Russia, the potheads smoke YOU!
How many space vehicles could be put into orbit with $87 Billion? How 'bout $1 billion? How 'bout half a billion?
Here, pass me some microwave popcorn.
Hi, guys, remember me? 'Course you do! Funny to see you guys lambasted in a public forum. Thanks for the lesson!
Make Rob Zombie proud, and insert a "Yeah!" in between each line, and at the end of each stanza.
We should publish a list of the wackiest names. GO and check out your area from a wardriver's point of view at this public repository.
I wonder how long it will take humans to use this technology to build a better bong. Think about it -- bongs made in space...
Hell, I am Sci-Fi -- anything Sci-Fi for me! There's so little science fiction shows and movies, that I've seen everything already. I say there isn't much out there, and I'll watch whatever netflix has. I think I've queued-up a signifigant portion of the really bad movies and tv shows I haven't seen.
Has Google proved themselves to be untrustworthy yet? Have they performed actions considered evil?
Which other company can say the same -- I mean, really?
Like I've been telling people since Bush was elected -- it's not his second term I'm worried about, it's his third term!
Wouldn't it be nice, if we as humans could focus on creating farming bubbles like this. They should be mass-produced, and sent to a variety of places. By the time people get to Mars, there would be enough food. Might be a full-time job or worse, just checking on each bubble, and grabbing enough O2 and food just to survive.
I'd like to see massive fields of marijuana, tho.