iTunes' smart playlists are automatically synchronized with the iPod, and boast features that your "custom nested format" wouldn't ever dream of achieving
Whatever, smartass. Try that when your entire MP3 collection has no id3 tags. id3 is great, but I want choice. MP3's have been organized hierarchially on my filesystem since I started using MP3's and will always be that way.
As far as ID3 tags go, it's nobody's fault but your own that your mp3s don't have that information in them. Another strawman argument. All of my mp3s have up-to-date ID3 information, either from CDDB or me typing in the info when I import something. Just because huge amounts of pirated mp3s don't contain correct information isn't a valid argument against the use of a useful technology like ID3.
Even if I used iTMS for every song on my drive, it wouldn't be how I want it: If I let iTunes move the MP3's around based on id3 tags, I'd have folders each for [Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison] when IN MY MENTAL ORGANIZATION, it is just Hendrix, I should be able to organize it as just Hendrix for easy recall. Apple is usually all about how I want it which is why I love Macs.
I want to browse by folders on my iPod and that is why I will continue to try to fix my unstable Archos Jukebox until it goes kaput for good.
OSS lacks usability because it is principled around features and functionality that only superficially help the user get what they want done. This blanket statement applies to most of the Linux-founded OSS in the limelight, and what first comes to mind is the GIMP.
Most developers are also the designers of a product. So this problem roots down into the fact that software whose roots lie in UNIX have been completely developed in vim, XEmacs, maybe Eclipse. These environments cause the developer to think in this non user-centric point of view.
In sharp contrast, OS X's Interface Builder and Microsoft's Visual Studio affords the developer time and energy to think about the design of the program.
Plus, Apple and Microsoft have real, thought-out interface guideline documentation.
That's my evaluation of psychology of the developer-designer role.
In fact, UI is not hard anymore (since we don't have to use the Xt object model...)
Modded up junk (as the parent) bother me.
Are you a troll?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface: "The design of the user interface is relevant for the user's understanding (also called the mental model) of the system and thus for the system's usability or user-friendliness."
Is it anything like Pad++? These ideas aren't exactly new.
Pad++, MosaicG, and others were evaluated to an extent. The focus wasn't to make previous incarnations work in Mac OS X, but to create a solution.
It's most similar to MosaicG. There's a difference between the early '90's and 2004, though. Disk storage has increased immensely. As a result, we were able to make and store the thumbnails with much more useful quality. Also, searching is helpful.
Surprising to many, after real use, one of the biggest features of TrailBlazer is being notified that you've visited a webpage before. This can lead to the user deciding to jump right to the history and finding the destination page right away without trying to make their way clicking through links.
Further information (PDFs) on the early ideas and reasoning are available at our TrailBlazer papers page.
Yahoo! will have to be pretty careful about offering this service. IANAL, but I would imagine it unlawful for an organization to research non-public information on an individual by the following logic:
If, for example, I was ever on a church's payroll. Whether or not I have religious beliefs, this is baiting employers with insight into my personal life and an employer may religiously discriminate against me.
It's all perfectly fine when the hiring manager doesn't discriminate, but once a manager does and there's a lawsuit, companies are going to make sure the service is not used in the hiring process.
The non-discrimination acts protect against this. I get the general feeling that most/.'ers feel very weak about hiring; just be aware of your rights. Many companies have unlawful hiring processes and don't know it.
I'm surprised UIUC hasn't been mentioned for our present endeavors in HCI. There's a lot of money and work flying around here.
The huge building known as the Beckman institute houses AI and HCI research with primary intermingling occurring among the CS and Psychology departments. Human-Computer Intelligence Interaction ...and then there's my favorite baby project on campus, Active Spaces. Active Spaces is just a part of the CS department, separate from Beckman, and is researching ways to gadgetize the new CS building, aka the Siebel center (currently-under-construction).
I am an entering Freshman to UIUC for 2001 and my choice of UIUC over Georgia Tech was its appearance of being less commercialized. Plus Zych (a prof) looks very deserving of my faith. By less commercialized, I mean UIUC did not come off as buying into technology's market hype, but instead came off as purely focused on innovating technology.
When I visited Georgia Tech I saw job postings that bled Microsoft and heard all about their hailed graduate that made millions with a startup security company for MS products...the recogniition seemed to be on him making the millions and not on the unbelievable fact that he achieved to create a product for securing a Microsoft OS. I didn't get the feeling there would be real support for education and support for the GPL specifically.
Code that I write for College is meant solely for my own learning purposes; not to fulfill a project goal that will actually be applied by the University. Hence, I believe I should be able to do with it as I wish. I'm not "submitting" my program for their acquisition, I'm simply loaning it and asking for its review...and paying quite a great deal for that service to be performed, in fact.
I'm quite interested in the outcome of Mike's inquiry. I surely hope I am not dissapointed by my University of choice. And...if UIUC responds with a negative on the GPL, which I doubt it will...but if it does, then I'm going to be a lot more skeptical about continuing my enrollment here.
UIUC's reply will hopefully affect which University some of the class of 2002 decides to apply to. I hope their reply is positive and I hope this attracts more people that know what Computer Science really is all about.
If you live near a fairly large College, you will often find that professors there will be doing some kind of research to better humanity.
If you head over to the website of some nearby Universities (assuming there's one nearby) and go to their CS department, you can find out what they're working on and decide if you would be interseted in helping with that topic.
A great thing about volunteering there is you can really put your knowledge and talent to use, and learn an incredible amount at the same time.
True, there are high quality results produced by intense competition, but it uses up a disproportionate amount of human effort. Wonder if there is a system where all this hard work would pay off more than it is now.
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this is the biggest population I've ever known to be trolled on Slashdot!
iTunes' smart playlists are automatically synchronized with the iPod, and boast features that your "custom nested format" wouldn't ever dream of achieving
Whatever, smartass. Try that when your entire MP3 collection has no id3 tags. id3 is great, but I want choice. MP3's have been organized hierarchially on my filesystem since I started using MP3's and will always be that way.
As far as ID3 tags go, it's nobody's fault but your own that your mp3s don't have that information in them. Another strawman argument. All of my mp3s have up-to-date ID3 information, either from CDDB or me typing in the info when I import something. Just because huge amounts of pirated mp3s don't contain correct information isn't a valid argument against the use of a useful technology like ID3.
Even if I used iTMS for every song on my drive, it wouldn't be how I want it: If I let iTunes move the MP3's around based on id3 tags, I'd have folders each for [Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison] when IN MY MENTAL ORGANIZATION, it is just Hendrix, I should be able to organize it as just Hendrix for easy recall. Apple is usually all about how I want it which is why I love Macs.
I want to browse by folders on my iPod and that is why I will continue to try to fix my unstable Archos Jukebox until it goes kaput for good.
OSS lacks usability because it is principled around features and functionality that only superficially help the user get what they want done. This blanket statement applies to most of the Linux-founded OSS in the limelight, and what first comes to mind is the GIMP.
Most developers are also the designers of a product. So this problem roots down into the fact that software whose roots lie in UNIX have been completely developed in vim, XEmacs, maybe Eclipse. These environments cause the developer to think in this non user-centric point of view.
In sharp contrast, OS X's Interface Builder and Microsoft's Visual Studio affords the developer time and energy to think about the design of the program.
Plus, Apple and Microsoft have real, thought-out interface guideline documentation.
That's my evaluation of psychology of the developer-designer role.
In fact, UI is not hard anymore (since we don't have to use the Xt object model...)
Modded up junk (as the parent) bother me.
Are you a troll?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface:
"The design of the user interface is relevant for the user's understanding (also called the mental model) of the system and thus for the system's usability or user-friendliness."
Is it anything like Pad++? These ideas aren't exactly new.
Pad++, MosaicG, and others were evaluated to an extent. The focus wasn't to make previous incarnations work in Mac OS X, but to create a solution.
It's most similar to MosaicG. There's a difference between the early '90's and 2004, though. Disk storage has increased immensely. As a result, we were able to make and store the thumbnails with much more useful quality. Also, searching is helpful.
Surprising to many, after real use, one of the biggest features of TrailBlazer is being notified that you've visited a webpage before. This can lead to the user deciding to jump right to the history and finding the destination page right away without trying to make their way clicking through links.
Further information (PDFs) on the early ideas and reasoning are available at our TrailBlazer papers page.
- Josh (TB co-designer-developer)
If a project isn't popular, there won't be anyone to tell you it's cool.
At best, you'll have a bunch of solo project owners hoping to get some help. In which case, you may as well just browse through the SF.net directory.
Yahoo! will have to be pretty careful about offering this service. IANAL, but I would imagine it unlawful for an organization to research non-public information on an individual by the following logic:
/.'ers feel very weak about hiring; just be aware of your rights. Many companies have unlawful hiring processes and don't know it.
If, for example, I was ever on a church's payroll. Whether or not I have religious beliefs, this is baiting employers with insight into my personal life and an employer may religiously discriminate against me.
It's all perfectly fine when the hiring manager doesn't discriminate, but once a manager does and there's a lawsuit, companies are going to make sure the service is not used in the hiring process.
The non-discrimination acts protect against this. I get the general feeling that most
OmniOutliner made my notes an absolute legible pleasure to study from.
After I take my notes, I don't touch them until I study for exams. When cramming, there's nothing worse than notes that are difficult to understand.
I'm surprised UIUC hasn't been mentioned for our present endeavors in HCI. There's a lot of money and work flying around here.
...and then there's my favorite baby project on campus, Active Spaces. Active Spaces is just a part of the CS department, separate from Beckman, and is researching ways to gadgetize the new CS building, aka the Siebel center (currently-under-construction).
The huge building known as the Beckman institute houses AI and HCI research with primary intermingling occurring among the CS and Psychology departments. Human-Computer Intelligence Interaction
I am an entering Freshman to UIUC for 2001 and my choice of UIUC over Georgia Tech was its appearance of being less commercialized. Plus Zych (a prof) looks very deserving of my faith. By less commercialized, I mean UIUC did not come off as buying into technology's market hype, but instead came off as purely focused on innovating technology.
When I visited Georgia Tech I saw job postings that bled Microsoft and heard all about their hailed graduate that made millions with a startup security company for MS products...the recogniition seemed to be on him making the millions and not on the unbelievable fact that he achieved to create a product for securing a Microsoft OS. I didn't get the feeling there would be real support for education and support for the GPL specifically.
Code that I write for College is meant solely for my own learning purposes; not to fulfill a project goal that will actually be applied by the University. Hence, I believe I should be able to do with it as I wish. I'm not "submitting" my program for their acquisition, I'm simply loaning it and asking for its review...and paying quite a great deal for that service to be performed, in fact.
I'm quite interested in the outcome of Mike's inquiry. I surely hope I am not dissapointed by my University of choice. And...if UIUC responds with a negative on the GPL, which I doubt it will...but if it does, then I'm going to be a lot more skeptical about continuing my enrollment here.
UIUC's reply will hopefully affect which University some of the class of 2002 decides to apply to. I hope their reply is positive and I hope this attracts more people that know what Computer Science really is all about.
As long as he's got a couple more years in him I'm thrilled. Hail Zych! I'm not even going there yet and he gets hailed. Well, sat in for one class.
If you live near a fairly large College, you will often find that professors there will be doing some kind of research to better humanity.
If you head over to the website of some nearby Universities (assuming there's one nearby) and go to their CS department, you can find out what they're working on and decide if you would be interseted in helping with that topic.
A great thing about volunteering there is you can really put your knowledge and talent to use, and learn an incredible amount at the same time.
True, there are high quality results produced by intense competition, but it uses up a disproportionate amount of human effort. Wonder if there is a system where all this hard work would pay off more than it is now.