Perhaps you haven't noticed, but practically everything has a single on/off button. Infact, I cannot think of anything with separate buttons, certainly there is a case for rocker switches and toggles, but not two distinct buttons.
Additional to this, if the 'nice' language features give the user an error message and bails, what happens to the intermediate steps you were performing? Not everything fits inside a nice transaction and sometimes things need cleaning up. It might be the final step in a long list of sequential actions, or it might just be a few easy steps but you can be sure of one thing:
If your program keeps kicking them totally out of the system (no matter how 'nice' the message) for a stupid simple handleable errors they will be pissed off.
Relying on the environment to do all cleanup leads to bad code. Every time you create something, destroy it afterwards. Assume every action will fail and handle it appropriately.
I have seen 'developers' assume everything will be taken care of, then when the software gets into the users system their usage patterns make it explode.
Simple management needn't make a development time longer or harder and allows you to migrate things to other applications/systems with ease.
I'm sorry, but I cannot get the image of Stallman bashing a tambourine singing 'Kum by Yar' whilst crossing the battlefield. Linux is many things, but its not a cyber weapon.
I would like to see autroun available in all operating systems. However, it should be the neutered version XP displays for flash drives. The supplier of the software can add a new item to a short menu of available options, thought no software is automatically run.
Asking users to browse the file system and know to run programs is a little too much, but giving them a choice of "Install XYZ to computer" with a familiar software icon is a nice simple way of handling things.
Insert CD. Phone relative because the CD does nothing. Find Install and click it. Cancel the dialog and click the other install. Phone relative again and ask them why its going to take 3 hours. Make coffee. Return to computer and switch it off (thinking they were switching it on because the screen was blank) Ring relative and ask why its not worked.
Actually, I would say advertising wise, this campaign will be a success. Consider that Heinz haven't been discussed in years and suddenly its here on slash and on digg and in loads of other places..
I do quite a bit of development for my PDA and whilst I have an emulator environment for it whilst developing, nothing says "usability test" better than putting it on the device and going sitting away from a real pc with a mouse.
How can a normal fraudster use a credit card number to his personal gain? Does he get goods delivered to his house?
Anything purchased with it has an audit trail. It's not like you can turn up in a shop and swipe the printout or screenshot, and making up blank cards isn't yet in the hands of the common criminal.
I will go out on a limb and say most credit card fraud occurs in the real owners home town right about the time of alcohol consumption.
Regret buying that 'funky' leopard skin jacket? "OMG I haz been haxx0red!!"
If there is a market for games of this type then they will take off. I know Nintendo have opened up whole new genres recently and some work, others don't. That's just like life.
What happens when the second node goes down? If you automatically broadcast the knowledge of the message across all available channels, if it gets to the other end its won.
This is the not putting all your eggs in one basket scenario which attempts to address bandwidth limitation issues.
It was only recently I was thinking about global communications on a wireless mesh without ISP involvement (reroute the backbone across home networks), I wonder if this could be the kickstart it needs?
That's the problem, they spend 30 seconds texting or calling to simply grunt "im coming out now" and then put the phone away.
The problem is they do this several times an hour.
My son gets credit once a month for his phone, the first few times it was gone within a day. After a few times of this hes thinking ahead, now it lasts him a couple of weeks.
On the plus(ish) side of this, newer phones are gaining bluetooth text messages and sending things - it saves them texting and calling each other from opposite ends of the street corner.
I have always thought email should be sent via a FPS game. If you manage to deliver the message to the recipients' office, they see the message. If you are eaten by a grue, well your stuffed basically. Best hope you can work as a team, your boss needs covering while he posts the wageslips.
The phantom was just another games console. People actually want to do this, but the only thing stopping them is technology.
I guess at some point or other we have cursed keyboards for having fixed symbols and wished for something better, I remember the cards you used to place above your Fn keys for word processing and graphics programs, we all get freaked out remembering the keys to games and I would love to see my keys change fonts to match what I am typing.
This keyboard will give you all that, its not just another console - its new.
Having said all that, you can probably currently just keep a few customised boards and switch as needed for less than the current expected price.
Slashdot Mirror
Eh?
Perhaps you haven't noticed, but practically everything has a single on/off button.
Infact, I cannot think of anything with separate buttons, certainly there is a case for rocker switches and toggles, but not two distinct buttons.
Additional to this, if the 'nice' language features give the user an error message and bails, what happens to the intermediate steps you were performing?
Not everything fits inside a nice transaction and sometimes things need cleaning up.
It might be the final step in a long list of sequential actions, or it might just be a few easy steps but you can be sure of one thing:
If your program keeps kicking them totally out of the system (no matter how 'nice' the message) for a stupid simple handleable errors they will be pissed off.
Relying on the environment to do all cleanup leads to bad code.
Every time you create something, destroy it afterwards.
Assume every action will fail and handle it appropriately.
I have seen 'developers' assume everything will be taken care of, then when the software gets into the users system their usage patterns make it explode.
Simple management needn't make a development time longer or harder and allows you to migrate things to other applications/systems with ease.
aren't they getting together later on today to have a public meeting?
Maybe Steve could settle this the manly way.
CAGE FIGHT!
Just hope Ballm er doesn't come running out with a chair.
Harry Kim: "Borg Attack!"
Janeway: "Raise shields"
Paris: "Its no good, they have adapted, they are firing sunloungers"
I'm sorry, but I cannot get the image of Stallman bashing a tambourine singing 'Kum by Yar' whilst crossing the battlefield.
Linux is many things, but its not a cyber weapon.
I would like to see autroun available in all operating systems.
However, it should be the neutered version XP displays for flash drives.
The supplier of the software can add a new item to a short menu of available options, thought no software is automatically run.
Asking users to browse the file system and know to run programs is a little too much, but giving them a choice of "Install XYZ to computer" with a familiar software icon is a nice simple way of handling things.
Insert CD.
Phone relative because the CD does nothing.
Find Install and click it.
Cancel the dialog and click the other install.
Phone relative again and ask them why its going to take 3 hours.
Make coffee.
Return to computer and switch it off (thinking they were switching it on because the screen was blank)
Ring relative and ask why its not worked.
Actually, I would say advertising wise, this campaign will be a success.
Consider that Heinz haven't been discussed in years and suddenly its here on slash and on digg and in loads of other places..
Hell, you could break a leg turning over in bed.
When I was a PFY I dislocated my hip in this very way.
I rolled over in my sleep when my leg was wrapped in duvet.
Its a very strange feeling to see the back of your own leg.
I do quite a bit of development for my PDA and whilst I have an emulator environment for it whilst developing, nothing says "usability test" better than putting it on the device and going sitting away from a real pc with a mouse.
Does it really cost that much energy to listen to radio signals?
There is a difference between always on and always busy.
My phone has 3g always on but it doesn't drain my battery much until I start connecting and actually using it.
What does it matter?
How can a normal fraudster use a credit card number to his personal gain?
Does he get goods delivered to his house?
Anything purchased with it has an audit trail.
It's not like you can turn up in a shop and swipe the printout or screenshot, and making up blank cards isn't yet in the hands of the common criminal.
I will go out on a limb and say most credit card fraud occurs in the real owners home town right about the time of alcohol consumption.
Regret buying that 'funky' leopard skin jacket? "OMG I haz been haxx0red!!"
Have you seen Wario wares for the Wii?
It makes your eyes bleed whilst you play, then as a double insult you get the tune in your head.
Its torture.
At least Sony rooted your computer, Nintendo manage to root your brainstem.
If there is a market for games of this type then they will take off.
I know Nintendo have opened up whole new genres recently and some work, others don't.
That's just like life.
Actually, a wireless base station broadcasts its SSID information saying "Wireless network, get your wireless network here".
r mation
Otherwise the guy would not have known it was there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi#Technical_info
Don't open email attachments of an unknown sender
Many people get viruses (appearing to come) from well known trusted sources, so this advice is wrong.
The correct thing to say is:
Don't open unsolicited attachments or files, ever .
If in doubt, speak to the sender and confirm its validity.
I would say its a trap, but it appears as though our tags are being censored/hidden.
It was amusing seeing the tags, seems bare now.
What happens when the second node goes down?
If you automatically broadcast the knowledge of the message across all available channels, if it gets to the other end its won.
This is the not putting all your eggs in one basket scenario which attempts to address bandwidth limitation issues.
It was only recently I was thinking about global communications on a wireless mesh without ISP involvement (reroute the backbone across home networks), I wonder if this could be the kickstart it needs?
That sounds like the superconducting array embedded within the scrith of the RingWorld ;)
I wonder if you could make use of the EM field which that will give off or if it will effect us in some way?
The year of Linux on the racetrack is upon us!
I just wonder how the pitstop will go
apt-get new-tyres
That's the problem, they spend 30 seconds texting or calling to simply grunt "im coming out now" and then put the phone away.
The problem is they do this several times an hour.
My son gets credit once a month for his phone, the first few times it was gone within a day.
After a few times of this hes thinking ahead, now it lasts him a couple of weeks.
On the plus(ish) side of this, newer phones are gaining bluetooth text messages and sending things - it saves them texting and calling each other from opposite ends of the street corner.
I have always thought email should be sent via a FPS game.
If you manage to deliver the message to the recipients' office, they see the message.
If you are eaten by a grue, well your stuffed basically.
Best hope you can work as a team, your boss needs covering while he posts the wageslips.
And the English have neither.
*Damn my country*
The phantom was just another games console.
People actually want to do this, but the only thing stopping them is technology.
I guess at some point or other we have cursed keyboards for having fixed symbols and wished for something better, I remember the cards you used to place above your Fn keys for word processing and graphics programs, we all get freaked out remembering the keys to games and I would love to see my keys change fonts to match what I am typing.
This keyboard will give you all that, its not just another console - its new.
Having said all that, you can probably currently just keep a few customised boards and switch as needed for less than the current expected price.