An important hole in the phishing protection is that there will quickly be domains like ebaysecurity.com, paypalinfo.org, or paypalfraudunit.com ad nauseam
Yeah, but those sites will have to register with a DNS Registrar, which will remove the anonymity that spammers currently enjoy.
Currently, the main problem is that spammers have to use a real domain in their send address and they use someone else's so they can't be traced. If they had to register ebaysecurity.com or whatever, they could be traced and prosecuted (or at least the domain shut down - expensive for the spammer).
The AR Toolkit is written by a dude from the Washington HITLab - of which the NZ hitlab is a spinoff and where Mark was formerly based - so not as misleading as you suggest.
They are primarily researching interesting HCI applications of the tool-kit rather than pushing the expansion of the libraries themselves, except where necessary.
Example 4 - You can't fly very far over open water in a single engine aircraft.
I'm not sure how true this is for modern two engine planes, but I have heard that some of those little two engine prop planes are twice as dangerous as one engine planes because they need both engines for safe flight, and they are therefore twice as likely to have an engine failure and crash.
I don't really care if it is true, it makes a good story anyway:P
You are quite right - the meaning of the word gay has taken on a new additional meaning in society of something stupid or contemptful.
But if this word's new meaning stems originally from usage by homophobic males who used their negative connotations with gay people to give power to a new insult, than it is clear that using this word is an insult to gay people (regardless if it is intended to be by any particular speaker). Every time the word is used in a negative way, it reinforces the idea that there is something bad or contemptible about "gayness".
But for you to just say "blame society" is an ignorant avoidance of the fact that each of us can and should be responsible for our own vocabularies - and be mindful of the affects of various word choices on those around us.
People often use the word "girl" in a negative way - "don't be a girl". This is another example of word usage that creates and reinforces both a negative stereotype and negative connotations of being a certain type of person. What subtle (or not so subtle) affects does this have on girls images of themselves, and on women as they grow up?
Our word choices can often show our deep prejudices, as well as foster these prejudices in those around us and those growing up under us.
I actually find surround sound pulls me out of the movie experience. When I'm watching a movie and I hear a sound from behind me it pulls my awareness out of the film, back into the room in which I'm sitting and makes me thing, "Oh, they're using surround sound...". Is this the typical experience?
1) It is a small icon if you have a lot in the Dock 2) It is in the same place, so if you are under pressure and unmounting a lot of stuff you probably wont even look at it 3) If enough users make this mistake than this is evidence of bad UI design.
NAME
sticky - sticky text and append-only directories
DESCRIPTION
A special file mode, called the sticky bit (mode S_ISVTX), is used to
indicate special treatment for shareable executable files and directo-
ries. See chmod(2) or the file/usr/include/sys/stat.h for an explana-
tion of file modes.
STICKY DIRECTORIES
A directory whose `sticky bit' is set becomes an append-only directory,
or, more accurately, a directory in which the deletion of files is
restricted. A file in a sticky directory may only be removed or renamed
by a user if the user has write permission for the directory and the user
is the owner of the file, the owner of the directory, or the super-user.
This feature is usefully applied to directories such as/tmp which must
be publicly writable but should deny users the license to arbitrarily
delete or rename each others' files.
Any user may create a sticky directory. See chmod(1) for details about
modifying file modes.
They claim that the developer tools are touch screen based... yeah - you code for the product USING THE TOUCH SCREEN!
But there is also a BASIC language interpreter... can you imagine coding BASIC with a touch screen?
"We have supplied this built-in BASIC interpreter, as it lets you code programs directly on Jackito, without having to use a PC.
We chose not to include a Java interpreter, as you cannot code Java programs directly on Jackito - you need a PC for this."
The whole point of this is that a live video feed of the person you are working with is super-imposed on the screen while you work on the shared desktop.
Sounds like what you were working on was just a shared workspace?
I agree, it is interesting to create a conceptual difference between these sorts of apps. I guess there would be some apps where it isn't clear if they fit into the widget or application category - but I think for a lot of apps and usage scenarios it makes a lot of sense.
But regardless of how well that distinction works - I think that the answer to your question (to how is it better then virtual desktops) is that the average user will probably be far less confused by the dashboard metaphor than by multiple virtual desktops. Conceptually it is much simpler (I think) apart from the addition of the widget/app distinction.
If you want behaviour like windows' Alt-Tab, go to System Preferences, Keyboard and Mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts, and create a short cut for:
"Focus window (active) or next window" to something. This gives you the iterate through windows, rather then iterate through apps functionality you are probably after.
I have it set to "Option ~"
Pretty much like Alt Tab on windows. I use it all the time.
Jabber is also much more complicated to configure.
The average user will probably be completely stumped by selecting servers, how that affects their jabber ID, and configuring "transports", not to mention installing the client (which they don't have to do with MSN Msg.)
Not sure if you're just joking, but they are refering to the spacial positioning of your files in a GUI file browser, not their metaphorical location in your directory tree.
This is such a bad argument. The author seems to be arguing that the spacial file browser makes a better user interface because it is a closer match to how we think of files and folders...
They explicitly argue that the spacial metaphor is somehow intuitively more appropriate:
Think of your hard drive contents as of a desk full of drawers. Every time you put something into a drawer, you may be sure that the next time you open the same drawer it will be in the same place (and the drawer itself will remain in the same place). So, when you open a folder and try to locate a particular icon, it should be where you put it before. Simple?
But so what!? There are other viewing metaphors (such as the browser) that are just as coherent to the user, but don't have such negative usability impacts (such as hundreds of open windows, new windows opening in seemingly random locations, and seemingly random changes in view).
Arguments for usability need to be based on usability testing or proven heuristics - not on "this metaphor is the most conceptually pure, but who cares about its usability impact". The only real advantage of a strong UI metaphor is to increase peoples speed at learning the interface due to their familiarity with the metaphorical concept, but the choice of metaphor needs to be carefully weighed up against how usable that product will be once it is learnt.
I find it a confusing and jarring experience when OS X finder switches view mode based on the previous way I was viewing some folder, because I don't remember how I last viewed a folder, I'm thinking in a browser/viewer type framework (but I realise my experience may not be typical of the average user). How usable is this for the average person?
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QED.
Gaining Credence? Probably only this sort of Credence:
credence
n.
4. A small table or shelf for holding the bread, wine, and vessels of the Eucharist when they are not in use at the altar.
I always thought the creationist challenge was how did the focus and lens system + nerve system evolve.
There is a quite cool video here that shows how the lens could have evolved...
Yeah, but those sites will have to register with a DNS Registrar, which will remove the anonymity that spammers currently enjoy.
Currently, the main problem is that spammers have to use a real domain in their send address and they use someone else's so they can't be traced. If they had to register ebaysecurity.com or whatever, they could be traced and prosecuted (or at least the domain shut down - expensive for the spammer).
What do you mean by unusable as an "embedding language" because of a lack of sandboxing?
I realise there could be some applications where you want to sandbox embedded python - e.g. in webbrowsers, but surely not for most applications...
The AR Toolkit is written by a dude from the Washington HITLab - of which the NZ hitlab is a spinoff and where Mark was formerly based - so not as misleading as you suggest.
They are primarily researching interesting HCI applications of the tool-kit rather than pushing the expansion of the libraries themselves, except where necessary.
It's a fricken metaphor
Or should you put them in the folder named "grandma"?
I'm not sure how true this is for modern two engine planes, but I have heard that some of those little two engine prop planes are twice as dangerous as one engine planes because they need both engines for safe flight, and they are therefore twice as likely to have an engine failure and crash.
I don't really care if it is true, it makes a good story anyway :P
You are quite right - the meaning of the word gay has taken on a new additional meaning in society of something stupid or contemptful.
But if this word's new meaning stems originally from usage by homophobic males who used their negative connotations with gay people to give power to a new insult, than it is clear that using this word is an insult to gay people (regardless if it is intended to be by any particular speaker). Every time the word is used in a negative way, it reinforces the idea that there is something bad or contemptible about "gayness".
But for you to just say "blame society" is an ignorant avoidance of the fact that each of us can and should be responsible for our own vocabularies - and be mindful of the affects of various word choices on those around us.
People often use the word "girl" in a negative way - "don't be a girl". This is another example of word usage that creates and reinforces both a negative stereotype and negative connotations of being a certain type of person. What subtle (or not so subtle) affects does this have on girls images of themselves, and on women as they grow up?
Our word choices can often show our deep prejudices, as well as foster these prejudices in those around us and those growing up under us.
I'd go one further -
I actually find surround sound pulls me out of the movie experience. When I'm watching a movie and I hear a sound from behind me it pulls my awareness out of the film, back into the room in which I'm sitting and makes me thing, "Oh, they're using surround sound...". Is this the typical experience?
1) It is a small icon if you have a lot in the Dock
2) It is in the same place, so if you are under pressure and unmounting a lot of stuff you probably wont even look at it
3) If enough users make this mistake than this is evidence of bad UI design.
From the OS X man page for "sticky (8)":
/usr/include/sys/stat.h for an explana-
/tmp which must
NAME
sticky - sticky text and append-only directories
DESCRIPTION
A special file mode, called the sticky bit (mode S_ISVTX), is used to
indicate special treatment for shareable executable files and directo-
ries. See chmod(2) or the file
tion of file modes.
STICKY DIRECTORIES
A directory whose `sticky bit' is set becomes an append-only directory,
or, more accurately, a directory in which the deletion of files is
restricted. A file in a sticky directory may only be removed or renamed
by a user if the user has write permission for the directory and the user
is the owner of the file, the owner of the directory, or the super-user.
This feature is usefully applied to directories such as
be publicly writable but should deny users the license to arbitrarily
delete or rename each others' files.
Any user may create a sticky directory. See chmod(1) for details about
modifying file modes.
They claim that the developer tools are touch screen based... yeah - you code for the product USING THE TOUCH SCREEN!
But there is also a BASIC language interpreter... can you imagine coding BASIC with a touch screen?
"We have supplied this built-in BASIC interpreter, as it lets you code programs directly on Jackito, without having to use a PC. We chose not to include a Java interpreter, as you cannot code Java programs directly on Jackito - you need a PC for this."
What a dumb ass hoax
The whole point of this is that a live video feed of the person you are working with is super-imposed on the screen while you work on the shared desktop.
Sounds like what you were working on was just a shared workspace?
But regardless of how well that distinction works - I think that the answer to your question (to how is it better then virtual desktops) is that the average user will probably be far less confused by the dashboard metaphor than by multiple virtual desktops. Conceptually it is much simpler (I think) apart from the addition of the widget/app distinction.
If you want behaviour like windows' Alt-Tab, go to System Preferences, Keyboard and Mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts, and create a short cut for:
"Focus window (active) or next window" to something. This gives you the iterate through windows, rather then iterate through apps functionality you are probably after.
I have it set to "Option ~"
Pretty much like Alt Tab on windows. I use it all the time.
He said "Java is 'incredibly heavily used' in the Linux community", not that it is the "most heavily used language".
A subtle but important difference.
Jabber is also much more complicated to configure.
The average user will probably be completely stumped by selecting servers, how that affects their jabber ID, and configuring "transports", not to mention installing the client (which they don't have to do with MSN Msg.)
No way... Netscape 7.1 is Mozilla seamonkey.
As far as I know, they don't add that much more to it to make it crash more or be a hell of a lot slower. Mainly just some advertising and branding.
Not sure if you're just joking, but they are refering to the spacial positioning of your files in a GUI file browser, not their metaphorical location in your directory tree.
They explicitly argue that the spacial metaphor is somehow intuitively more appropriate:
Think of your hard drive contents as of a desk full of drawers. Every time you put something into a drawer, you may be sure that the next time you open the same drawer it will be in the same place (and the drawer itself will remain in the same place). So, when you open a folder and try to locate a particular icon, it should be where you put it before. Simple?
But so what!? There are other viewing metaphors (such as the browser) that are just as coherent to the user, but don't have such negative usability impacts (such as hundreds of open windows, new windows opening in seemingly random locations, and seemingly random changes in view).
Arguments for usability need to be based on usability testing or proven heuristics - not on "this metaphor is the most conceptually pure, but who cares about its usability impact". The only real advantage of a strong UI metaphor is to increase peoples speed at learning the interface due to their familiarity with the metaphorical concept, but the choice of metaphor needs to be carefully weighed up against how usable that product will be once it is learnt.
I find it a confusing and jarring experience when OS X finder switches view mode based on the previous way I was viewing some folder, because I don't remember how I last viewed a folder, I'm thinking in a browser/viewer type framework (but I realise my experience may not be typical of the average user). How usable is this for the average person?
Apple don't support KDE except to release changes to KHTML back to the community as required by the GPL.
There is presumably no good business case for building an iTunes for Linux.
They are a company, not a charity.
An older version is already online (legally).