If you want to tell someone to do something to an object, do you just silently point at the object? No. You point at the object and say, "do something to this." The saying part is the context menu. It's entirely intuitive.
Context menus are one of the coolest UI paradigms in the universe. You only have to learn it once, and then you have tons of features at your disposal. Every UI has features which have to learnt.
I think if you were to ask most people who know how to change the desktop in Windows, (although this is based on the highly informal sample size of myself) they would say that they change it by right clicking on the desktop and selecting properties. If you want to copy text on a webpage, how do you do it? Select text and right click, select copy.
When I loaded up Fluxbox Knoppix for the first time, I thought it intensely awesome how they put so much into context menus. Don't clutter the screen with menus, but put features in a reasonably easy to find location.
For reference, this seems to be a quote from Rodney Caston, also known as "Largo" from Megatokyo, although he hasn't actually worked on the comic in ages. He said it in his rant for Episode 33.
Well, you're looking at it from the wrong angle. Because they are so many weiners writing viruses, it makes it harder for a real jerk to make a really bad worm.
You can't. That's from the wild and crazy days of pre-axiomatic (or naive) set theory. Nowadays they say that set doesn't exist, and you just have to deal with it. (Well, I think it's probably more complicated than that.) Wikipedia has a decent article on the paradox.
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Language is... eh, very very flawed for these sorts of philosophical stuff. I'd say you don't see blue, you only think you do, but whether "blue" reffers to the wavelength of light or the feeling that the brain feels in response is not a particularly answerable question in English. This is because English, like most natural languages, only defines things to the degree that they have to be defined, and for most situations the two definitions are just as valid.
I personally think, however, that the definition leans towards the "wavelength of light" definition rather than the emotional definition.
You think you had it easy? In my day, we had to make electromagnetic relay switches by hand before we could even think about logical gates. We could only use vacuum tubes on Christmas, and even then we had to share the three vacuum tubes with the rest of the town!
It was prounounced that way in an ad for some sort of text messaging device. A group of workers send sarcastic notes to each other while a motitivational-speaker looking guy shot off those sorts of buzzwords.
Or maybe the Coward doesn't know how to spell. They're both good answers.
I think these new features are great, but I think it's kind of stupid to add them to a Cel Phone. It's like starting out with a remote control, and adding a small monitor on it to make it easier to use, and then putting games on it, and then allowing you to watch TV on the remote control itself.
Some things are meant to be specialized, and some things are meant to be general-purpose. Cel-phones are specialized. If you want something general-purpose, stop calling it a cel phone and make it a PDA.
I've actually been dreaming of what the ultimate PDA would be like. First off, pen interface, although a clamshell keyboard would not be at all objectionable. Then a reasonably sized hard drive. Then the ability to connect to a Cellular Network and/or Wifi. And a camera, although that should probably be a detachable feature, what with all the security concerns people have voiced with camera phones. (Also, it would probably jack up the price to build it in.) And generally extendable, with some sort of public standard for adding hardware.
You should have gone to the user first. And anyway, if it turns out to be copyright infringement, it's no big deal. It's Wikipedia. The copyright holder can remove it himself.
Fear is not a clarifying emotion. In fact, it does the exact opposite. Thusly, having lived through such events only allows you to properly appreciate the reasoning behind the actions undertaken, not the events themselves.
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Well maybe, but he won the popular vote, (even though that doesn't actually matter) so clearly he was doing something right.
And... in order to read or go online... you need eyes. So... if we want people to not be isolated... we need to gouge out their eyes?
It's spelt weird. :)
If you want to tell someone to do something to an object, do you just silently point at the object? No. You point at the object and say, "do something to this." The saying part is the context menu. It's entirely intuitive.
Context menus are one of the coolest UI paradigms in the universe. You only have to learn it once, and then you have tons of features at your disposal. Every UI has features which have to learnt.
I think if you were to ask most people who know how to change the desktop in Windows, (although this is based on the highly informal sample size of myself) they would say that they change it by right clicking on the desktop and selecting properties. If you want to copy text on a webpage, how do you do it? Select text and right click, select copy.
When I loaded up Fluxbox Knoppix for the first time, I thought it intensely awesome how they put so much into context menus. Don't clutter the screen with menus, but put features in a reasonably easy to find location.
I, for one, welcome our memetic overlords.
For reference, this seems to be a quote from Rodney Caston, also known as "Largo" from Megatokyo, although he hasn't actually worked on the comic in ages. He said it in his rant for Episode 33.
Well, you're looking at it from the wrong angle. Because they are so many weiners writing viruses, it makes it harder for a real jerk to make a really bad worm.
You can't. That's from the wild and crazy days of pre-axiomatic (or naive) set theory. Nowadays they say that set doesn't exist, and you just have to deal with it. (Well, I think it's probably more complicated than that.) Wikipedia has a decent article on the paradox.
Language is... eh, very very flawed for these sorts of philosophical stuff. I'd say you don't see blue, you only think you do, but whether "blue" reffers to the wavelength of light or the feeling that the brain feels in response is not a particularly answerable question in English. This is because English, like most natural languages, only defines things to the degree that they have to be defined, and for most situations the two definitions are just as valid.
I personally think, however, that the definition leans towards the "wavelength of light" definition rather than the emotional definition.
You think you had it easy? In my day, we had to make electromagnetic relay switches by hand before we could even think about logical gates. We could only use vacuum tubes on Christmas, and even then we had to share the three vacuum tubes with the rest of the town!
It was prounounced that way in an ad for some sort of text messaging device. A group of workers send sarcastic notes to each other while a motitivational-speaker looking guy shot off those sorts of buzzwords.
Or maybe the Coward doesn't know how to spell. They're both good answers.
Wuss. I got Linux running on a 4004. No RAM, though. Too poor. Had to store everything in the internal registers. You kids today have it easy.
Well, if you could get it to read SD cards, (which would be very hard) it might have a point.
But yeah, it's mostly the geek factor. And they already did the Xbox.
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Same amount of keystrokes, but eight less syllables.
Perhaps, but wouldn't Courier New have been easier to OCR? Monospaced fonts probably make that sort of thing much easier.
They should make a TV show targetted at people who own Nielson Boxes.
I think these new features are great, but I think it's kind of stupid to add them to a Cel Phone. It's like starting out with a remote control, and adding a small monitor on it to make it easier to use, and then putting games on it, and then allowing you to watch TV on the remote control itself.
Some things are meant to be specialized, and some things are meant to be general-purpose. Cel-phones are specialized. If you want something general-purpose, stop calling it a cel phone and make it a PDA.
I've actually been dreaming of what the ultimate PDA would be like. First off, pen interface, although a clamshell keyboard would not be at all objectionable. Then a reasonably sized hard drive. Then the ability to connect to a Cellular Network and/or Wifi. And a camera, although that should probably be a detachable feature, what with all the security concerns people have voiced with camera phones. (Also, it would probably jack up the price to build it in.) And generally extendable, with some sort of public standard for adding hardware.
No, Orc is an old word that's been in English for a while. Uruk is his attempt at giving "Orc" a proper elvish etymology.
Invite may be used as a noun, YOU FOOL!
But yeah, he misspelled held, and that's funny. Although it's not ignorance. It's laziness, if anything.
You should have gone to the user first. And anyway, if it turns out to be copyright infringement, it's no big deal. It's Wikipedia. The copyright holder can remove it himself.
Fear is not a clarifying emotion. In fact, it does the exact opposite. Thusly, having lived through such events only allows you to properly appreciate the reasoning behind the actions undertaken, not the events themselves.
Well yeah. That's why the world needs Tivo, and/or Video On Demand.
So it's come to this: A Simpsons Clip Show