While many people think that Apple has an Intel version of Mac OS X ready to roll out, should it ever be deemed good for Apple, there has never been any official word on any other version than the PPC one.
It is GOOD that XML files can be validated while you edit them. You should only edit them using a real XML editor of course, like the one Apple is apparently supplying in MacOS X. Then at least you'll know that you have a file with valid data in it, if not the data you'd want.
Letting people edit important files using a plain text editor always struck me as insane. Any simple misspelling can completely kill the application.
-- You can't break the skin barrier without real serious infection problems -- Skin is not see-thruogh -- Wristbands are uncool, oldfashioned, and in the way
This leaves us with the option of placing this under a fingernail, over the skin. You can see quite well thruogh a nail. The only problem I see is how you secure it so it doesn't get pushed out with the nail as it grows?
Think for a moment who wins when you take down Yahoo, and shudder. Because there is a winner, and in the long run, it ain't you. You're helping someone. Guess who.
Who are these people you think get helped, and how do you know they weren't in fact responsible for the attack?
I wouldn't worry too much. In the end, the customer is always right, and an industry that tried to make money by suing people whose only crime was they wanted to buy and use their product, will end up being the laughing stock of history.
Thw simple approach would be to use the Windows standard. That should be right for 80% of the users, and not any more alien than this "java standard" on Mac or Motif desktops.
The ambitious way would be the "when in Rome..." approach, so that the applets somehow could switch at least some of their behaviour to fit in with the desktop environment where they run at the moment. I don't know how feasible that is.
The problem with this book is that there already *are* UI standards, and they decide to *not* follow them, and create their own instead.
Lets remember why a UI standard is good: It makes the behaviour of different programs consistent and predictable. The user does not have to learn a whole new way of working for each application, and when switching between program, the user does not have to remember a lot of special rules, but can focus on getting things done.
Unless these java programs are run in a java only environment, which I believe does not exist in the real world anytime soon, software written according to this "standard" will in fact be different, non-standard, and expose the poor user to the exact problems that a UI standard is supposed to solve.
There is no "right" way to design UI controls. HCI experts are just like art critics, and UI preferences are like sphincters (everybody has one). What seems to obviously right to you may seem equally wrong to others.
Not true. Usability can be measured. It is a hard science. You let people do operations and measure how fast they do them, and how many errors they do.
The goal of a GUI system should be to make the appearance and placement of controls as configurable as possible, so everybody can use the system in the most efficient manner they can.
I think that is just an abandonment of responsibility. The designer refuses to design the product, and lets the poor user finish his design work for him. Guess what, the user is even less of a UI designer, and will end up with some incoherent crap most of the time, plus waste a lot of effort experimenting.
It's not something everybody goes through, but something they offer as an alternative to the full body search. It is certainly less intrusive than that. So relax!
I just traveled California - Sweden and back, and went through plenty metal detectors everywhere. I have a belt buckle that always triggers the alarm...
I must say the american detector staff are much more rude and incompetent that the europeans. The Europeans don't boss you around and treat you like a criminal.
There. That feels better. I'm sure the/. effect will fix this now.
> And they even call themselves "the Americans", like if there wasn't >other countries on the continent. Bah. Hey mom! Brazil is in America >and I am not an American? How could it be?
It could be because the country is actually named "America", as opposed to all the other countries on the continent. Brazil is named "Brazil" so the people from there are called "Brazilians". The naming of the country in 1776 hardly implied any sense of superiority at the time. It's really nothing to make a big fuss about.
And I hear that people from the US are called "americanos" or something similar by the vast majority of latin americans. Is that not true?
I'm amazed how the whole/. rises as one man against this, ready to fight the oppression, and forever walking to their cars in an odd manner to save the world. Did they really read the article?
It's just some technology to save manpower. Instead of 5 people watching the screens you can have 2 people watching what the system flags as potential trouble. That's all it is. People still make the decisions.
It does not change the constitution, the laws, or the judicial system. You do not have to prove your innocence. It is just a goddam piece of software, for mallocs sake!!
It sounds like a retelling of the stories that fly around the battle scene to me. Never does she say "I saw...", and there little specific details.
I don't know what happened there, but I *know* that in any such situation the place will be boiling with rumors about what awful things the enemy side did. Just like urban legends, stories will not get retold and spread based on how thruthful they are (since that is unknown to everyone except the few real witnesses) but according to how well they play into peoples fears and expectations. No doubt this happens on the police side as well (though they are more trained for it).
You sound like somebody with a healthy amount of sceptical thinking. Thats great. We despearately need more such people. But don't throw out that attitude when evaluating what the enemys enemy tells you. The world is just not that simple!
And if you think this is like Nazi Germany, even if all the worst accusations are true, you've lived a very sheltered life.
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While many people think that Apple has an Intel version of Mac OS X ready to roll out, should it ever be deemed good for Apple, there has never been any official word on any other version than the PPC one.
You don't think these stories plant themselves, do you?
You'll be fine. The 17 years are way over. Besides, there was prior art.
Just kidding. Really. Look --> :-)
I stopped reading when I came to this description of the winner, she "is the third youngest woman in the last seven years to win the top prize".
In other words, she is a pretty average winner of the prize. Maybe a sports writer was temping in the science section that day...
It is GOOD that XML files can be validated while you edit them. You should only edit them using a real XML editor of course, like the one Apple is apparently supplying in MacOS X. Then at least you'll know that you have a file with valid data in it, if not the data you'd want.
Letting people edit important files using a plain text editor always struck me as insane. Any simple misspelling can completely kill the application.
-- You can't break the skin barrier without real serious infection problems
-- Skin is not see-thruogh
-- Wristbands are uncool, oldfashioned, and in the way
This leaves us with the option of placing this under a fingernail, over the skin. You can see quite well thruogh a nail. The only problem I see is how you secure it so it doesn't get pushed out with the nail as it grows?
Apparently the /. crowd is not the most humor aware in the world, so for the benefit of some of the posters:
The article is a joke. It is made up. None of this really happened. There is even a Point to it that you may be able to figure out.
Think for a moment who wins when you take down Yahoo, and shudder. Because there is a winner, and in the long run, it ain't you. You're helping someone. Guess who.
Who are these people you think get helped, and how do you know they weren't in fact responsible for the attack?
I wouldn't worry too much. In the end, the customer is always right, and an industry that tried to make money by suing people whose only crime was they wanted to buy and use their product, will end up being the laughing stock of history.
Marketing is good and needed.
Still, if a product is unusable, it is real hard to market.
Thw simple approach would be to use the Windows standard. That should be right for 80% of the users, and not any more alien than this "java standard" on Mac or Motif desktops.
The ambitious way would be the "when in Rome..." approach, so that the applets somehow could switch at least some of their behaviour to fit in with the desktop environment where they run at the moment. I don't know how feasible that is.
UI standards are great.
The problem with this book is that there already *are* UI standards, and they decide to *not* follow them, and create their own instead.
Lets remember why a UI standard is good: It makes the behaviour of different programs consistent and predictable. The user does not have to learn a whole new way of working for each application, and when switching between program, the user does not have to remember a lot of special rules, but can focus on getting things done.
Unless these java programs are run in a java only environment, which I believe does not exist in the real world anytime soon, software written according to this "standard" will in fact be different, non-standard, and expose the poor user to the exact problems that a UI standard is supposed to solve.
They say that Hubble is "better than new" now, but they don't explain in what way!
Does it take better pictures now, or will the better gyroscopes just make it last longer?
At least not any that work all the time.
Americans can be called *anything*, since they come from every country and culture on the planet. And they don't hesitate to invent either.
It's a spelling error joke, people!
Call me lazy, but can anyone tell me when there will be a Robot War somewhere in the San Francisco area?
There is no "right" way to design UI controls. HCI experts are just like art critics, and UI preferences are like sphincters
(everybody has one). What seems to obviously right to you may seem equally wrong to others.
Not true. Usability can be measured. It is a hard science. You let people do operations and measure how fast they do them, and how many errors they do.
The goal of a GUI system should be to make the appearance and placement of controls as configurable as possible, so everybody can use the system in the most efficient manner they can.
I think that is just an abandonment of responsibility. The designer refuses to design the product, and lets the poor user finish his design work for him. Guess what, the user is even less of a UI designer, and will end up with some incoherent crap most of the time, plus waste a lot of effort experimenting.
The GPS satellites only transmit radio waves that the receivers interpret. They don't know nor care how many are listening.
My source in the movie industry, while not having seen it herself, says it's been made very clear to her that it's a brand new trailer.
It's not something everybody goes through, but something they offer as an alternative to the full body search. It is certainly less intrusive than that. So relax!
/. effect will fix this now.
I just traveled California - Sweden and back, and went through plenty metal detectors everywhere. I have a belt buckle that always triggers the alarm...
I must say the american detector staff are much more rude and incompetent that the europeans. The Europeans don't boss you around and treat you like a criminal.
There. That feels better. I'm sure the
> And they even call themselves "the Americans", like if there wasn't
:-)
>other countries on the continent. Bah. Hey mom! Brazil is in America
>and I am not an American? How could it be?
It could be because the country is actually named "America", as opposed to all the other countries on the continent. Brazil is named "Brazil" so the people from there are called "Brazilians". The naming of the country in 1776 hardly implied any sense of superiority at the time. It's really nothing to make a big fuss about.
And I hear that people from the US are called "americanos" or something similar by the vast majority of latin americans. Is that not true?
Anyway, that is my 2 cents on software patents
I'm amazed how the whole /. rises as one man against this, ready to fight the oppression, and forever walking to their cars in an odd manner to save the world. Did they really read the article?
It's just some technology to save manpower. Instead of 5 people watching the screens you can have 2 people watching what the system flags as potential trouble. That's all it is. People still make the decisions.
It does not change the constitution, the laws, or the judicial system. You do not have to prove your innocence. It is just a goddam piece of software, for mallocs sake!!
It sounds like a retelling of the stories that fly around the battle scene to me. Never does she say "I saw...", and there little specific details.
I don't know what happened there, but I *know* that in any such situation the place will be boiling with rumors about what awful things the enemy side did. Just like urban legends, stories will not get retold and spread based on how thruthful they are (since that is unknown to everyone except the few real witnesses) but according to how well they play into peoples fears and expectations. No doubt this happens on the police side as well (though they are more trained for it).
You sound like somebody with a healthy amount of sceptical thinking. Thats great. We despearately need more such people. But don't throw out that attitude when evaluating what the enemys enemy tells you. The world is just not that simple!
And if you think this is like Nazi Germany, even if all the worst accusations are true, you've lived a very sheltered life.
The only first hand account I see is that she says "I didn't get anything worse than tear gas".
She does not claim to have seen any of the other things she talks about. I'm sure the rumor mill is spinning at top frenzy out on the streets.