They only tested for dark colors on light background and not light colors on dark background so I wonder if it really is the case that green on black is the best or if other color combinations are actually better.
I know this doesn't have anything to bear on the aesthetic appearance of a website, but I thought it was interesting. I mean look at Jacob Nielson's site and how ugly a supposed usability expert's site is.
Copying someone's site design is bad policy in general.
I think the many people who either give the advice to copy or copy another site themselves risk ending up on this site: http://pirated-sites.com/
I graduated with a BFA and took my share of communication design courses. I worked hard the past 7 years learning to be a competent developer so I've been on both sides of the boat. It's just bad to have some douchebag steal the site design it actually took a design degree and years of experience to create. Geek translation: It's like someone putting GPL code in closed source software. You 're familiar with the geek outrage when that happens. Well that's the same outrage that designers feel when you steal a site design.
You're lucky that you don't have to take out a student loan and that your parents are paying for your whole education to NYU no less. It's good that it seems like you have a passion in programming. I wonder if it's really necessary for you to be attending such an overpriced school as NYU though. For an undergrad education I think there are probably state schools or other private schools that can offer you a comparable schooling in learning how to program for a much lower price. I think the only advantage you gain going to NYU for undergrad is having the NYC experience, but working here and having grown up here, I'm getting pretty sick of it. Given the cost of your education you have to figure in the amount of time you will have to work to recoup the cost. You should also calculate the cost with compound interest and inflation. I think a better route would be to do some research and transfer to a cheaper school that offers a comparable education and then dish out the big bucks when you feel like you need to go back to grad school.
What a sad cynical viewpoint you have.
Who are you to say what the educational needs of "these people" are?
Should they only be taught the skills they need to stay poor as another poster put it?
The goal of the OLPC and any good education program should not be to somehow inject students with information in the hope that they learn something but to enable them to discover the joys of learning on their own.
I think this is a great program because it mirrors my own early interest in computers. We were using the Commodore Pet computers in the computer lab in elementary school. Even with the primitive cassette tape drives and monochrome green monitors of the day it was enough to inspire me to want to have a computer of my own more than anything else in the world. Now did I NEED to have a computer? I don't think so. But as someone reading a site proclaiming "News for nerds, stuff that matters" the need to worship technology goes hand in hand with knowledge. Without a computer at that age I probably wouldn't have had the exposure to the immense amount of knowledge that pushed me in the direction that led me to become a professional developer.
With the OLPC which you called a "little toy," students can shoot photos, make movies, draw, create music and even learn to program. Given these opportunities that they wouldn't normally have I think there is a much better chance of the students growing beyond where they would be with only being taught the bare minimum basic education.
As of September 2007, Nintendo has sold over 13 million Wii game consoles. This significatnly exceeds the number of Tablet PCs in use today according to even the most generous estimates of Tablet PC sales. This makes the Wii Remote one of the most common computer input devices in the world. It also happens to be one of the most sophisticated. It contains a 1024x768 infrared camera with built-in hardware blob tracking of up to 4 points at 100Hz. This significantly out performs any PC "webcam" available today. It also contains a +/-3g 8-bit 3-axis accelerometer also operating at 100Hz and an expandsion port for even more capability.
Yes, because Adobe has such a great history of making speedy Flash applications. Kuler takes forever to load, and Adobe Bridge for CS3 takes even longer, and that's working with local files.
Talking about the Flash being slow in the past is not relevant anymore. The Flash 9 player is many times faster than the older players. I haven't really used Kuler, but I found that it loads up fine on my end. I admit Adobe Bridge is not that great. I personally don't know anybody in the industry who uses that or Version Cue, but you're using the worst examples to put down all their software.
Complaining about cost of their products is a great reason why I could see using one of their online products being a better investment if they went with a la carte pricing per feature so you only get charged for the features you use. I'm not sure if they'll end up doing this, but I have no problems with any other company who can produce a product that can replace Photoshop feature-wise and interface-wise, but there are no contenders on the market right now. I don't consider GIMP to have nearly as good of an interface as Photoshop even though the features are there.
I think when people think web applications they're thinking something created using AJAX. I know how the slashdot crowd loves to hate flash, but if you're building it in flash the performance is actually pretty decent. Check out the flash based online wordprocessor, Buzzword. It's the best online wordprocessor I've used. It's still in beta so you have to sign up to preview it, but here's a video of it in action.
Disclaimer: I don't work for Adobe, but I make a living using their products.
Actually a just punishment for a spammer would be to have them manually delete a number of emails equal to the number of spams they have sent out. They would have to sort through a certain number of inboxes in a day. If they accidentally delete a relevant message from an inbox they would have to start over with that inbox. It would mean life imprisonment spent deleting spam messages, but the punishment would at least fit the crime.
I really hope you're not a project manager or salesperson, though you sure sound like some that I've worked with before.
I would feel so sorry for the developers and engineers who would have to handle your projects.
"Why don't we create this project and give it a... I don't know... 2 week deadline, because summing it up in a sentence seemed easy enough"
The parent made no mention of black people as slaves, you just equated slavery with referring to black people.
Slavery is still occurring all over the world and even in parts of the US. It's just not government sanctioned like the way it was in the past.
What if some super-advanced alien race or alien races already thought of us in the way that we think of mice? There are plenty of people claiming to have been abducted. Those people who claimed to have been abducted already object.
The idea of advanced aliens races is plausible given Drake's equation and the idea of aliens abducting us for experimentation is not that far-fetched of an idea considering how many animals we tag and track or breed in captivity. I wonder if there are PETA type groups among aliens that object to humans being abducted or experimented on or if the groups doing abducting are actually just alien conservationists who realize that humans have the potential to destroy ourselves and want to preserve our species.
Though this wouldn't make sense for the average home user because they could ruin their printer from the inks drying out when they are letting their printer sit unused for weeks.
I got my lcd 5 years ago and it has a 75Hz refresh rate.
Both lcds at work also have 75Hz refresh rates.
A more likely reason is that people don't realize they can switch to 75Hz.
Thanks for your clarification.
I admit I misinterpreted your remarks and made an inflammatory reply.
After thinking about this whole affair some more I realize that much of the flare-up on both sides of this issue has to do with how everything is portrayed in the media. The mayor has to show that he has a tough stance on terrorism, unfortunately he chose to make an example out of a harmless prank. The guys who put up the ads should have been arrested for vandalism and nothing more. Nobody needed to see the ridiculous "70s hairstyle" press conference. This all would have been a mere inconvenience had it not been for the media wanting a scoop and pushing everybody's buttons in order to get it.
Second for placing the shit on highway supports. I don't care how harmless it looks, if it's a box and you lash it to one of those green steel beams, it's an issue here.
In this post 9/11 world doing anything that scares the paranoid can be considered a crime.
Thirdly for acting like complete and utter unrepentent assholes throughout the whole affiar.
Are you talking about the officials in Boston and people like yourself who call a litebrite box a "hoax" bomb?
Fourthly, they're still facing charges and going to take a hit, and it's their own damn fault.
If I swing my arms like this and you happen to get in my way then it's your fault if you get hit.
Yes, I'm from Boston. No, the traffic didn't affect me. Doesn't make them any less assholes than they've acted like so far.
I'm from New York City and saw the WTC fall with my own eyes. Doesn't mean I'm going to jump at every single shadow I see.
There is a lack of distinction between cs, software engineering and web design, but I don't think it's an issue with just younger generations. Most people who aren't in any of those professions and unfortunately even some who are, have a hard time telling them apart. One of the issues is even distinguishing web design from web development and even then the lines between web and traditional application development are blurring. I'm a Flash programmer and there is a huge difference between a designer and developer. Like you mentioned I'm one of the people who went into programming with an art degree, but as time goes on, I realize how helpful it would have been for me to have a degree in software engineering. I don't think a cs degree would have been as helpful, but I've been learning discrete math in my own time because I know some of it is still useful.
You were just saying what came to your mind.
I'm sure most people think of the same things when they see a painting.
I think it was more like an art version of Family Feud than them agreeing just because they thought you knew any better.
At the time I had long fuzzy hair, was only halfway bald, and wore fairly eccentric collegey clothes. A denim jacket, ripped jeans, loud shirts, etc. In short, I looked moderately freaky.
So we go to the met. Oh yeah, did I mention we had been drinking?
That's not imitation pompous - that's genuine wannabe New Yorker from out of town who ends up moving to Williamsburg, Brooklyn and pisses off people who grew up in NYC like me with their "New York City is the OMG greatest city in the world just because I live here and I know this sort of famous guy in like an indie band back before every other hipster had heard of them and oh did I mention that I'm in a band AND I'm a web designer?" attitude.
It's always more impressive when it comes from an amateur. It's kind of like praising people for trying to speak a few phrases of a foreign language, but once they can speak it fluently it's not that big of a deal anymore.
I am an amateur when it comes to musicians and music theory, but if this discussion were applied to visual art, you seem like the kind of person who would walk into an art gallery and look at the little plaque next to the piece and disregard the actual artwork because you see the name of the artist and recall that from some art review that their work was mostly derivative of a genre of art originated by someone who is mostly unknown in modern main stream culture. You would then proceed to go home and research this artist and convince yourself that because this artist was the first they are better than the artist whose work you completely overlooked in the gallery. I'm not saying that's what you do, but that's certainly how you represent yourself.
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I found this study that found that green text on a yellow background is the easiest to read:
http://hubel.sfasu.edu/research/AHNCUR.html
They only tested for dark colors on light background and not light colors on dark background so I wonder if it really is the case that green on black is the best or if other color combinations are actually better. I know this doesn't have anything to bear on the aesthetic appearance of a website, but I thought it was interesting. I mean look at Jacob Nielson's site and how ugly a supposed usability expert's site is.
Copying someone's site design is bad policy in general.
I think the many people who either give the advice to copy or copy another site themselves risk ending up on this site:
http://pirated-sites.com/
I graduated with a BFA and took my share of communication design courses.
I worked hard the past 7 years learning to be a competent developer so I've been on both sides of the boat.
It's just bad to have some douchebag steal the site design it actually took a design degree and years of experience to create.
Geek translation: It's like someone putting GPL code in closed source software.
You 're familiar with the geek outrage when that happens.
Well that's the same outrage that designers feel when you steal a site design.
You're lucky that you don't have to take out a student loan and that your parents are paying for your whole education to NYU no less. It's good that it seems like you have a passion in programming. I wonder if it's really necessary for you to be attending such an overpriced school as NYU though. For an undergrad education I think there are probably state schools or other private schools that can offer you a comparable schooling in learning how to program for a much lower price. I think the only advantage you gain going to NYU for undergrad is having the NYC experience, but working here and having grown up here, I'm getting pretty sick of it. Given the cost of your education you have to figure in the amount of time you will have to work to recoup the cost. You should also calculate the cost with compound interest and inflation. I think a better route would be to do some research and transfer to a cheaper school that offers a comparable education and then dish out the big bucks when you feel like you need to go back to grad school.
What a sad cynical viewpoint you have.
Who are you to say what the educational needs of "these people" are?
Should they only be taught the skills they need to stay poor as another poster put it?
The goal of the OLPC and any good education program should not be to somehow inject students with information in the hope that they learn something but to enable them to discover the joys of learning on their own.
I think this is a great program because it mirrors my own early interest in computers. We were using the Commodore Pet computers in the computer lab in elementary school. Even with the primitive cassette tape drives and monochrome green monitors of the day it was enough to inspire me to want to have a computer of my own more than anything else in the world. Now did I NEED to have a computer? I don't think so. But as someone reading a site proclaiming "News for nerds, stuff that matters" the need to worship technology goes hand in hand with knowledge. Without a computer at that age I probably wouldn't have had the exposure to the immense amount of knowledge that pushed me in the direction that led me to become a professional developer.
With the OLPC which you called a "little toy," students can shoot photos, make movies, draw, create music and even learn to program. Given these opportunities that they wouldn't normally have I think there is a much better chance of the students growing beyond where they would be with only being taught the bare minimum basic education.
Yes, because Adobe has such a great history of making speedy Flash applications. Kuler takes forever to load, and Adobe Bridge for CS3 takes even longer, and that's working with local files.
Talking about the Flash being slow in the past is not relevant anymore. The Flash 9 player is many times faster than the older players. I haven't really used Kuler, but I found that it loads up fine on my end. I admit Adobe Bridge is not that great. I personally don't know anybody in the industry who uses that or Version Cue, but you're using the worst examples to put down all their software.
Complaining about cost of their products is a great reason why I could see using one of their online products being a better investment if they went with a la carte pricing per feature so you only get charged for the features you use. I'm not sure if they'll end up doing this, but I have no problems with any other company who can produce a product that can replace Photoshop feature-wise and interface-wise, but there are no contenders on the market right now. I don't consider GIMP to have nearly as good of an interface as Photoshop even though the features are there.
I have trouble envisioning Adobe's bloated applications running satisfactorily in a Web environment
Adobe is already working on a web based version of Photoshop and there's a video of it in action here: http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9790168-2.html
I think when people think web applications they're thinking something created using AJAX. I know how the slashdot crowd loves to hate flash, but if you're building it in flash the performance is actually pretty decent. Check out the flash based online wordprocessor, Buzzword. It's the best online wordprocessor I've used. It's still in beta so you have to sign up to preview it, but here's a video of it in action.
Disclaimer: I don't work for Adobe, but I make a living using their products.
Actually a just punishment for a spammer would be to have them manually delete a number of emails equal to the number of spams they have sent out. They would have to sort through a certain number of inboxes in a day. If they accidentally delete a relevant message from an inbox they would have to start over with that inbox. It would mean life imprisonment spent deleting spam messages, but the punishment would at least fit the crime.
I really hope you're not a project manager or salesperson, though you sure sound like some that I've worked with before.
I would feel so sorry for the developers and engineers who would have to handle your projects.
"Why don't we create this project and give it a... I don't know... 2 week deadline, because summing it up in a sentence seemed easy enough"
The parent made no mention of black people as slaves, you just equated slavery with referring to black people.
Slavery is still occurring all over the world and even in parts of the US. It's just not government sanctioned like the way it was in the past.
What if some super-advanced alien race or alien races already thought of us in the way that we think of mice? There are plenty of people claiming to have been abducted. Those people who claimed to have been abducted already object.
The idea of advanced aliens races is plausible given Drake's equation and the idea of aliens abducting us for experimentation is not that far-fetched of an idea considering how many animals we tag and track or breed in captivity. I wonder if there are PETA type groups among aliens that object to humans being abducted or experimented on or if the groups doing abducting are actually just alien conservationists who realize that humans have the potential to destroy ourselves and want to preserve our species.
I print about 20 pages a minute for the full 8 hours I'm at work and the 12 hours between the hours of 6pm and 6am.
i nk/0706output/
For how much you print, you might want to consider looking into a continuous ink feed system.
http://www.shutterbug.net/equipmentreviews/paper_
Though this wouldn't make sense for the average home user because they could ruin their printer from the inks drying out when they are letting their printer sit unused for weeks.
About all LCD's have a 60Hz refresh rate....
I got my lcd 5 years ago and it has a 75Hz refresh rate.
Both lcds at work also have 75Hz refresh rates.
A more likely reason is that people don't realize they can switch to 75Hz.
Even better with PlugY mod - Infinite sized shared stash./ dload.php?action=file&file_id=1335
http://phrozenkeep.planetdiablo.gamespy.com/forum
I would have stopped playing a long time ago without this mod.
Clearly he considers himself a thinker, but he didn't clearly think it through.
Thanks for your clarification.
I admit I misinterpreted your remarks and made an inflammatory reply.
After thinking about this whole affair some more I realize that much of the flare-up on both sides of this issue has to do with how everything is portrayed in the media. The mayor has to show that he has a tough stance on terrorism, unfortunately he chose to make an example out of a harmless prank. The guys who put up the ads should have been arrested for vandalism and nothing more. Nobody needed to see the ridiculous "70s hairstyle" press conference. This all would have been a mere inconvenience had it not been for the media wanting a scoop and pushing everybody's buttons in order to get it.
Which makes them quadruply stupid.
First for getting paid to do the stunt.
Getting paid was smart.
Second for placing the shit on highway supports. I don't care how harmless it looks, if it's a box and you lash it to one of those green steel beams, it's an issue here.
In this post 9/11 world doing anything that scares the paranoid can be considered a crime.
Thirdly for acting like complete and utter unrepentent assholes throughout the whole affiar.
Are you talking about the officials in Boston and people like yourself who call a litebrite box a "hoax" bomb?
Fourthly, they're still facing charges and going to take a hit, and it's their own damn fault.
If I swing my arms like this and you happen to get in my way then it's your fault if you get hit.
Yes, I'm from Boston. No, the traffic didn't affect me. Doesn't make them any less assholes than they've acted like so far.
I'm from New York City and saw the WTC fall with my own eyes. Doesn't mean I'm going to jump at every single shadow I see.
There is a lack of distinction between cs, software engineering and web design, but I don't think it's an issue with just younger generations. Most people who aren't in any of those professions and unfortunately even some who are, have a hard time telling them apart. One of the issues is even distinguishing web design from web development and even then the lines between web and traditional application development are blurring. I'm a Flash programmer and there is a huge difference between a designer and developer. Like you mentioned I'm one of the people who went into programming with an art degree, but as time goes on, I realize how helpful it would have been for me to have a degree in software engineering. I don't think a cs degree would have been as helpful, but I've been learning discrete math in my own time because I know some of it is still useful.
1)Noone is using any of those 3 languages, anywhere.
If a tree falls in a forest and you're not there to hear it fall, doesn't mean it doesn't make a sound.
a few people in some places != no one anywhere
Some of my favorite games are programmed in D.
Check out: Kenta Cho's abstract shootemup games for an example.
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html
The best part of the videos were the comments
You were just saying what came to your mind.
I'm sure most people think of the same things when they see a painting.
I think it was more like an art version of Family Feud than them agreeing just because they thought you knew any better.
At the time I had long fuzzy hair, was only halfway bald, and wore fairly eccentric collegey clothes. A denim jacket, ripped jeans, loud shirts, etc. In short, I looked moderately freaky.
So we go to the met. Oh yeah, did I mention we had been drinking?
That's not imitation pompous - that's genuine wannabe New Yorker from out of town who ends up moving to Williamsburg, Brooklyn and pisses off people who grew up in NYC like me with their "New York City is the OMG greatest city in the world just because I live here and I know this sort of famous guy in like an indie band back before every other hipster had heard of them and oh did I mention that I'm in a band AND I'm a web designer?" attitude.
It's always more impressive when it comes from an amateur.
It's kind of like praising people for trying to speak a few phrases of a foreign language, but once they can speak it fluently it's not that big of a deal anymore.
The genre isn't pretentious, just the people who listen to it and this is coming from someone who listens to it.
I am an amateur when it comes to musicians and music theory, but if this discussion were applied to visual art, you seem like the kind of person who would walk into an art gallery and look at the little plaque next to the piece and disregard the actual artwork because you see the name of the artist and recall that from some art review that their work was mostly derivative of a genre of art originated by someone who is mostly unknown in modern main stream culture. You would then proceed to go home and research this artist and convince yourself that because this artist was the first they are better than the artist whose work you completely overlooked in the gallery. I'm not saying that's what you do, but that's certainly how you represent yourself.
"I don't even have any good skills."
"What do you mean?"
"You know, like...
nunchaku skills,
bow hunting skills...
computer hacking skills.
Girls only want boyfriends
who have great skills."