So, in other words, the code is incompatible with text-only browsers that understand javascript, as the form element get replaced with pictures on display, making this solution pretty nice but not really very correct.
I don't feel the bugreporter is the right way to go: Currently, ADC Membership is required, limiting its appeal to developers (even if it's free). Additionaly, everybody that hates a bug has to enter it again, because the bug lands in a black hole, massively undercutting user efficiency. It would be much better if Apple listed every incoming bug and would let users vote on them. But no, tiny Apple is afraid of its own bugs and won't share with the world:-(
There is no way to step back (at least I found none), to get an overview, to jump to a certain frame (like the mentioned security architecture diagram) - why do people make presentations in flash, instead of pdf or css (example)?
Why would they have flat screens in those pictures? It's not like space comes at a premium in china, so CRT monitors would be fitting the bill better. Frankly, the pictures look like taken in a typical chinese internet café at a moment when nobody was looking happy.
Plus the story is so full of holes... $60,000? C'mon, for that money, I would do it!
That's some great momentum coming from skandinavia. It could have happened already 10 years ago, there were always small steps, but actually the ball never started to roll. Now that we have a rolling ball, we've got to *feed the momentum*, or it will die off.
Rethink how your personal way of dealing with proprietary formats. Incite discussion with your peers and in your company. If you're in a leadership position, come up with a plan and make it public.
If there are big news about this topic every week or so, the ball keeps rolling and might even break the ms-stranglehold on file formats in three years or so. Add your own momentum, and do it now!
On page 19, the author actually says: In my view, you should design Web pages for Internet Explorer (IE) version 6 running on a typical 17'' monitor. Why? Here are the reasons: -more than 95 percent of the people visiting your Web site use IE 6. -You can take advantage of lots of cool effects that work only in IE or IE 6. Your job is much easier if you're designing for a predictable, stable canvas.
It's extremely stupid to give such an advice. I suggest that people email either the author, Richard Mansfield or the publisher, Wiley.
What's currently important is not the question of "will it be defaced?", but "will it help removing some of the trenches that are in the US public opinion? Will it add positively to a constructive dialogue between the people?"
I think that it will not, because the predominant circles active on the internet today fall pretty nicely in line with the LA Times readership, so there are not that many dialogues between the rivaling parties. But add a editorial wiki to a bible belt newspaper, and there will surely be dialogue going on indeed.
In a time where Xbox, PS3 and Nintendo Revolution actually move *towards* PowerPC processors because they are apparently more efficient in the highly competitive video gaming field, and the PPC finally looked like a good idea, Apple is moving out?
I don't understand this - does Apple try to shun good processors at any cost or what?
Yeah I did an "upgrade" install. Maybe I'll try again with "Archive & Install" to get better results. It's pretty bad that this upgrade business is not absolutely foolproof, imho.
I updated to Tiger and Spotlight didn't stop indexing. I mean, after an hour, it said "ok I'm done now", but then one started typing in a query and it restarted with indexing, forgetting your query.
Then after a few more hours, it sometimes didn't immediately started re-indexing, so results apeared. But they took 30 seconds to appear:-( And if you clicked on "results in a separate window", it started to search again, taking another 20-30 seconds. The separate window allowed to limit results, like "only from last week". I clicked it - and lo and behold, it took another 30 seconds to just limit the result. Of course I downgraded to 10.3 again.
Quote: I'm not breaking an NDA here as I'm not actually on the dev team.
Well, but MS still hates you: modded xboxes will presumably also play warez games, so the game design houses now won't be convinced that easily that the plattform already has a hole in it...
So when are we getting the same functionality with Google? You type a bit - "oh, 5 Million hits and the top 3 are not what am looking for" - so you type a bit more until you reach your goal. Sounds fantastic, currently I'm refining my queries a lot and it takes a lot of time...
Does anybody knows if there is something similar planned by the big G?
...when you use them to be seen directly be the human eye, like for displays, or car brake lights. As soon as you use them to "light something", like a room, a book with a reading light, or a film set, their property of irregular spectrum makes them only second choice, because the LED light changes the colors in ways ranging from subtle to irritating. Give me flat-spectrum LEDs and I'll use them any day!
I've tried out all of the dashboard sites (dashboardexchange, dashboardwidgets and dashboardlineup), but none of them really seemed done "right" when compared with the konfabulator page:
All we want is a big fat button to the widgets-gallery download-page, and no other distractions. Because all 95% of the visitors want is to download widgets. The best thing would be to actually make the widgets page the front page
Show all widgets in a similar way: Title, a few words, a screenshot that is always the same size. Let users rate widgets and display the result here, too.
Allocate the same space for each widget. Show 5 or 10 of them on a page.
Have a detail page with further comments by the author and feedback by the users.
Make everything stylish. Widgets are, in a way, both about substance and style.
Now, let's compare those pages, and you'll hopefully see what I mean:
Konfabulator The original. Nice, clean, efficient. And beautiful.
Dashboard Exchange Inconsitent design, varying preview sizes, too much stuff shown at once, no ratings.
Dasboard Widgets Tiny preview pictures that don't convey any information. Some don't even have a preview, this should be mandatory. Compare it with Konfabulator and will likely agree that the page is pretty ugly. No ratings.
Dashboard Lineup The newest contender, has more proudness than value. It's not even a dedicated widget-database, just a plain ol' blog. No short description. Only 2 widgets. No ratings, only comments.
Funny that there aren't any entries that are more professional, because with Konfabulator already being there, one had only to copy the concept.
In 2 weeks Apple releases tiger, and thousands of people will eagerly search the web for widgets. There's a huge opportunity here, too bad all current contenders didn't realize this.
very poorly suited to broadcasting. Every listener requires that the transmitter sends a new stream across their Internet connection.
Wrong. In a multi-person conference, one computer is elected as the "central hub", that relies all communication to the other parties. If you're not the central hub, you only have to send your stuff once and receive it once. Interestingly, the central hub is always determined by comparing the upload and download bandwiths of all parties.
So, in a way, Skype is indeed a broadcasting system more efficient than pure P2P connections.
Re:List of devices that will work with iSync?
on
10.4 on Display at FOSE
·
· Score: 5, Informative
List of compatible iSync devices. Currently addresses version 10.3, but wait until 10.4 is out and the list will prolly be updated immeditately.
Bad idea. The TLD system adds some form of order to the internet. With "any TLD goes", pepsi will want.pepsi, toyota will want.toyota etc, and we're back at square one with one big difference: the multinational big companies don't only dominate the.com TLD, but any TLD. Currently same-named entities in different fields (different countries, or commerical vs. noncomercial) have ways to coexist. Without that, all hell breaks loose. The current TLD system is a way to bring a little bit of order into the internet, and with your suggestion, this order is all taken away with nothing gained in exchange.
Well boy, I've got a mac too, and you're quite inaccurate in many things:
Unlike Windows, the MacOS uses filesystem embedded filetype and resource fork information to determine what kind of file a file is. You can't just change the filename into photo.jpg or letter.doc to make the attachment look like a photo or a word document. If it is an executable, the Mac will show it as such.
Wrong. An app can have any icon it wishes, including the icon of a word file, or whatever.
Even then, MacOS X will open a dialog that explains to the user that this is the first time this application is about to be launched, that it might be dangerous and then ask if the user wants to proceed.
This message only appears if the app is opened from a remote way, like through a web-call or you double-clicked a document that can be openen with the app. When you double-click the app directly, there is no warning.
But even if they proceed to launch the application, then the application still won't be able to install anything on the user's machine. If it tries to do that, the user will again be notified that some software is about to be installed and that an administrator password is required to do so..
Wrong again. As soon as an application is running, it can wreak havoc inside the users directory, including deleting everything the user has created. The app won't be able to change system files unless a password is proviced, but your personal date can be gone very quickly.
We know quarks, but not this...
on
Bang But No Splash
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
Isn't it amazing that we're investigating quarks but haven't yet fully understood the properties of athmosphere and vacuum? We could have found those phenomena 400 years ago, but no...
Makes one wonder what else the laws of physics are hiding from us yet... and whether we have really tried to analyse physics systematically enough.
Libraries are online for a long time now, but one cannot read the text online. When libraries could lend whole books digitally, we could all have an incredibly big chunk of knowledge available instantly, and mostly for free or a very small price.
Libraries don't do this because they are reluctant, but - in general law terms - because they are allowed to lend exactly 1 bought book to 1 person at a time, and when they would lend you a digital copy of a book, they could lend a book to 100 people at a time while only having bought 1 piece.
Now with DRM, one could devise a system where you had to "bring back your copy" before anybody else could check it out, therefore combining the digital advantage (speed, ease of use) with the library advantage (big selection, near-zero-price).
So, at least in this case, DRM can actually bring value to the people.
When placing 2 buttons left-right, it is extremely likely that people mix them up. However, when placing a big button on the front and a little button more to the back (for example), all those problems are gone. I really hope that Apple doesn't come out with just another me-too two-button mouse, but understands that button placement in a new way can make it a lot easier for computing newcomers.
Slashdot Mirror
So, in other words, the code is incompatible with text-only browsers that understand javascript, as the form element get replaced with pictures on display, making this solution pretty nice but not really very correct.
I don't feel the bugreporter is the right way to go: Currently, ADC Membership is required, limiting its appeal to developers (even if it's free). Additionaly, everybody that hates a bug has to enter it again, because the bug lands in a black hole, massively undercutting user efficiency. It would be much better if Apple listed every incoming bug and would let users vote on them. But no, tiny Apple is afraid of its own bugs and won't share with the world :-(
Bummer :-(
There is no way to step back (at least I found none), to get an overview, to jump to a certain frame (like the mentioned security architecture diagram) - why do people make presentations in flash, instead of pdf or css (example)?
Why would they have flat screens in those pictures? It's not like space comes at a premium in china, so CRT monitors would be fitting the bill better. Frankly, the pictures look like taken in a typical chinese internet café at a moment when nobody was looking happy.
Plus the story is so full of holes... $60,000? C'mon, for that money, I would do it!
That's some great momentum coming from skandinavia. It could have happened already 10 years ago, there were always small steps, but actually the ball never started to roll. Now that we have a rolling ball, we've got to *feed the momentum*, or it will die off.
Rethink how your personal way of dealing with proprietary formats. Incite discussion with your peers and in your company. If you're in a leadership position, come up with a plan and make it public.
If there are big news about this topic every week or so, the ball keeps rolling and might even break the ms-stranglehold on file formats in three years or so. Add your own momentum, and do it now!
I couldn't believe that, but look at this exerpt of the book (pdf).
On page 19, the author actually says:
In my view, you should design Web pages for Internet
Explorer (IE) version 6 running on a typical 17'' monitor. Why? Here are the reasons:
-more than 95 percent of the people visiting your Web site use IE 6.
-You can take advantage of lots of cool effects that work only in IE or IE 6. Your job is much easier if you're designing for a predictable, stable canvas.
It's extremely stupid to give such an advice. I suggest that people email either the author, Richard Mansfield or the publisher, Wiley.
What's currently important is not the question of "will it be defaced?", but "will it help removing some of the trenches that are in the US public opinion? Will it add positively to a constructive dialogue between the people?"
I think that it will not, because the predominant circles active on the internet today fall pretty nicely in line with the LA Times readership, so there are not that many dialogues between the rivaling parties. But add a editorial wiki to a bible belt newspaper, and there will surely be dialogue going on indeed.
In a time where Xbox, PS3 and Nintendo Revolution actually move *towards* PowerPC processors because they are apparently more efficient in the highly competitive video gaming field, and the PPC finally looked like a good idea, Apple is moving out?
I don't understand this - does Apple try to shun good processors at any cost or what?
Nah, sorry buddy, I'm for real. Nothing made up, all true.
Yeah I did an "upgrade" install. Maybe I'll try again with "Archive & Install" to get better results. It's pretty bad that this upgrade business is not absolutely foolproof, imho.
I updated to Tiger and Spotlight didn't stop indexing. I mean, after an hour, it said "ok I'm done now", but then one started typing in a query and it restarted with indexing, forgetting your query.
:-( And if you clicked on "results in a separate window", it started to search again, taking another 20-30 seconds. The separate window allowed to limit results, like "only from last week". I clicked it - and lo and behold, it took another 30 seconds to just limit the result. Of course I downgraded to 10.3 again.
:-(
Then after a few more hours, it sometimes didn't immediately started re-indexing, so results apeared. But they took 30 seconds to appear
Just my 2 cents
Quote:
I'm not breaking an NDA here as I'm not actually on the dev team.
Well, but MS still hates you: modded xboxes will presumably also play warez games, so the game design houses now won't be convinced that easily that the plattform already has a hole in it...
So when are we getting the same functionality with Google? You type a bit - "oh, 5 Million hits and the top 3 are not what am looking for" - so you type a bit more until you reach your goal. Sounds fantastic, currently I'm refining my queries a lot and it takes a lot of time...
Does anybody knows if there is something similar planned by the big G?
...when you use them to be seen directly be the human eye, like for displays, or car brake lights. As soon as you use them to "light something", like a room, a book with a reading light, or a film set, their property of irregular spectrum makes them only second choice, because the LED light changes the colors in ways ranging from subtle to irritating. Give me flat-spectrum LEDs and I'll use them any day!
- All we want is a big fat button to the widgets-gallery download-page, and no other distractions. Because all 95% of the visitors want is to download widgets. The best thing would be to actually make the widgets page the front page
- Show all widgets in a similar way: Title, a few words, a screenshot that is always the same size. Let users rate widgets and display the result here, too.
- Allocate the same space for each widget. Show 5 or 10 of them on a page.
- Have a detail page with further comments by the author and feedback by the users.
- Make everything stylish. Widgets are, in a way, both about substance and style.
Now, let's compare those pages, and you'll hopefully see what I mean:- Konfabulator The original. Nice, clean, efficient. And beautiful.
- Dashboard Exchange Inconsitent design, varying preview sizes, too much stuff shown at once, no ratings.
- Dasboard Widgets Tiny preview pictures that don't convey any information. Some don't even have a preview, this should be mandatory. Compare it with Konfabulator and will likely agree that the page is pretty ugly. No ratings.
- Dashboard Lineup The newest contender, has more proudness than value. It's not even a dedicated widget-database, just a plain ol' blog. No short description. Only 2 widgets. No ratings, only comments.
Funny that there aren't any entries that are more professional, because with Konfabulator already being there, one had only to copy the concept.In 2 weeks Apple releases tiger, and thousands of people will eagerly search the web for widgets. There's a huge opportunity here, too bad all current contenders didn't realize this.
very poorly suited to broadcasting. Every listener requires that the transmitter sends a new stream across their Internet connection.
Wrong. In a multi-person conference, one computer is elected as the "central hub", that relies all communication to the other parties. If you're not the central hub, you only have to send your stuff once and receive it once. Interestingly, the central hub is always determined by comparing the upload and download bandwiths of all parties.
So, in a way, Skype is indeed a broadcasting system more efficient than pure P2P connections.
List of compatible iSync devices. Currently addresses version 10.3, but wait until 10.4 is out and the list will prolly be updated immeditately.
Cheers!
Bad idea. The TLD system adds some form of order to the internet. With "any TLD goes", pepsi will want .pepsi, toyota will want .toyota etc, and we're back at square one with one big difference: the multinational big companies don't only dominate the .com TLD, but any TLD. Currently same-named entities in different fields (different countries, or commerical vs. noncomercial) have ways to coexist. Without that, all hell breaks loose. The current TLD system is a way to bring a little bit of order into the internet, and with your suggestion, this order is all taken away with nothing gained in exchange.
Well boy, I've got a mac too, and you're quite inaccurate in many things:
Unlike Windows, the MacOS uses filesystem embedded filetype and resource fork information to determine what kind of file a file is. You can't just change the filename into photo.jpg or letter.doc to make the attachment look like a photo or a word document. If it is an executable, the Mac will show it as such.
Wrong. An app can have any icon it wishes, including the icon of a word file, or whatever.
Even then, MacOS X will open a dialog that explains to the user that this is the first time this application is about to be launched, that it might be dangerous and then ask if the user wants to proceed.
This message only appears if the app is opened from a remote way, like through a web-call or you double-clicked a document that can be openen with the app. When you double-click the app directly, there is no warning.
But even if they proceed to launch the application, then the application still won't be able to install anything on the user's machine. If it tries to do that, the user will again be notified that some software is about to be installed and that an administrator password is required to do so..
Wrong again. As soon as an application is running, it can wreak havoc inside the users directory, including deleting everything the user has created. The app won't be able to change system files unless a password is proviced, but your personal date can be gone very quickly.
Isn't it amazing that we're investigating quarks but haven't yet fully understood the properties of athmosphere and vacuum? We could have found those phenomena 400 years ago, but no...
Makes one wonder what else the laws of physics are hiding from us yet... and whether we have really tried to analyse physics systematically enough.
Libraries are online for a long time now, but one cannot read the text online. When libraries could lend whole books digitally, we could all have an incredibly big chunk of knowledge available instantly, and mostly for free or a very small price.
Libraries don't do this because they are reluctant, but - in general law terms - because they are allowed to lend exactly 1 bought book to 1 person at a time, and when they would lend you a digital copy of a book, they could lend a book to 100 people at a time while only having bought 1 piece.
Now with DRM, one could devise a system where you had to "bring back your copy" before anybody else could check it out, therefore combining the digital advantage (speed, ease of use) with the library advantage (big selection, near-zero-price).
So, at least in this case, DRM can actually bring value to the people.
When placing 2 buttons left-right, it is extremely likely that people mix them up. However, when placing a big button on the front and a little button more to the back (for example), all those problems are gone. I really hope that Apple doesn't come out with just another me-too two-button mouse, but understands that button placement in a new way can make it a lot easier for computing newcomers.