It appears from various news reports that one of the vehicle occupants was only slightly injured... "pulled them from the wreckage" might not have been accurate, just a reporter looking for drama.
He agonizes about the possibility that someone might get sued for using a CC-licensed photo.
He is curiously unaware, or oblivious to the possibility, that the New York Times' lawyers may want to chat with him about his copy-and-paste of an article from last year's NYT Valentine's day drivel.
Dan, just because it's on the net doesn't mean you have the right to use it!
I talked to Kayembi (the Scrivener guy) about a linux port using GNUStep. Currently, GNUStep doesn't have all the features Scrivener needs. He gave me a list (not complete, but it's a start) and I've been working on getting them added to GNUStep. So hopefully, we will have a linux version sometime:)
4. Don't get cute. Use standard controls that people recognize.
Same goes for icons... make sure the icons are easy to distinguish among themselves, and if possible use ones wiht meanings that are already well-known. I remember one disastrous Linux app that had two identical-looking icons on one user dialog box, and no pop-up text to explain what they did. One closed out the whole app, losing all my work.
Tips are all over the internet. I'd start with the Alertbox by Jakob Nielson (ex-Sun employee, now a usability consultant) and anything his group has published on user interfaces. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/
My pet peeves in GUIs... the designers ignore that people actually have to read the GUI, and treat it like it's supposed to be admired for artistic. For a GUI, bland and boring is good, functional is the goal.
Gaudy color schemes: High-contrast is good, but that means high tonal contrast, not screaming red on puke green. Dark text on a pale background is the best for most users, and the colorblind. To test your design, print it out on a black and white printer. If you can't read it, you have the wrong colors
Too-subtle color schemes: Pale shades of blue with gentle grey text, unreadably misty and soothing.
Reversed tones: pale shades on dark, for optical reasons need special spacing if you don't want the verticals to blur together.
Bizarre fonts and font sizes. I remember one supposedly great CD player software that had a jagged "lightning bolt" font for its control labels... couldn't read them at all, so I deleted it.
Odd names for things that have well-known common names. Don't call the mute button the "audio whiffer", even if the developers call it that.
Multiple names for the same control, on different menus. Pick a name and use it all over the GUI.
The danger is not that your children will fail, and have permanently damaged egos-- the danger is that your child will never experience failure, and thus learn the important skill of picking up the pieces and moving on.
Excellent point. If you are scoring 100% of your shots, the game is too easy.
It doesn't help those who are fast learners to sail through anything, yet the American educational system ignores the so-called "gifted", or just piles on more homework instead of making things challenging.
The result, children like the Jonathan of the article. They crumple at the first difficulty and never recover.
I don't think the bulldozer parents, those who shove all obstacles out of their children's way, help either.
"I wonder how long it takes to defrag the entire warehouse. Heaven help them if it's a bubble sort. B-Tree perhaps? Oh -- and what about lost clusters?"
I worked on the docs for something similar - a robot fetch to conveyer packing - and there are periodic "defrags" where humans with barcode scanners check each bin and inventory the contents, then adjust inventory to match what is REALLY in the bins. Robots are powered down for this:)
The packers could also send a bin off to the Orwellian-sounding "readjustment station" if the bin they were sent by the robots didn't have what it was supposed to have.
"Have one important drawback - they tend to apply only within the host country. Some of these scam^h^h^h^h telesales-marketing companies operate from oversees (ie. from Canada calling EU countries).."
In the USA, the company that stands to benefit from breaking the law is liable for the actions of their agents, the marketers, no matter where the call center might be located. Ameriquest Mortgage, for example, had a horde of "resellers" making the calls for them, but that didn't keep them from getting fined.
Low weight is a symptom seen in many people with diseases that will kill them: Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancers... and the loss of weight happens after the disease is well under way. It's a common symptom, not the cause or even contributing factor.
"I'd say that the medical industry has been feeding on the community for way too long. Medical procedures are insanely expensive and the equipment and medicine costs are through the roof.
If malpractice suits were not possible, and if the insanely expensive last-ditch heroics to delay death were banned, medical expenses would be a lot lower. But, with lawyers filing suit whenever a medical outcome is less than perfect, and people insisting that doctors do everything possible to keep a dying person "alive"... it's going to be expensive.
Two real examples: 1 - An 85-year old man was brought in after a massive stroke: his children refused to accept the inevitable and as a result, we had him in ICU for about a week on life support before his brain finally gave up. 2 - An acquaintance wanted a "better" childbirth experience, so she use dhome birth and a midwife. Things went wrong - badly wrong - and the midwife did the right thing and called an ambulance. The acquaintance was quickly transported to the county hospital and her baby was delivered by c-sectoin. She sued the midwife and tried to sue the hospital because of the "mental anguish" of ending up unexpectedly in a maternity ward at County (ewwww, low-class patients!).
HIPAA doesn't bar release of information about management of a hospital, finances of a hospital, etc. It's merely the INSURANCE records that are to be kept secret. (other statutes cover patient privacy, but if Nurse Smith hands over records, the publisher of the records is not the one who should be in trouble, it's the nurse)
In fact, HIPAA doesn't prevent a relative or friend of a patient from telling all they know about a patient.
50-70 hour weeks are the norm for many companies for salaried employees that have almost NO control over what they are doing... they have no control over the project's goals (weren't even asked for input), the tools (edict from corporate tells you what to use), the release schedule (set by marketing and your job is on the line if you can't make it) or anything, but you are considered "salaried" and do not get compensated for all the hours you spend working on the chain gang called a "project team".
The thrifty students are not damaging the economy. Money not spent on books can and will be spent on other necessities. Beer, rent, beer, food, beer, clothes, and beer. And money scammed from Google likewise is put into circulation somewhere.
The campus monopoly bookstore's loss is the local pub's gain.
The resident geek's daughter bought most of her books online, from Amazon, Powells, etc. and she saved HUNDREDS of dollars for one semester. Multiply that by the htousands of students on campus... that's a lucrative monopoly the campus bookstores are defending.
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It appears from various news reports that one of the vehicle occupants was only slightly injured ... "pulled them from the wreckage" might not have been accurate, just a reporter looking for drama.
He is curiously unaware, or oblivious to the possibility, that the New York Times' lawyers may want to chat with him about his copy-and-paste of an article from last year's NYT Valentine's day drivel.
Dan, just because it's on the net doesn't mean you have the right to use it!
I talked to Kayembi (the Scrivener guy) about a linux port using GNUStep. Currently, GNUStep doesn't have all the features Scrivener needs. He gave me a list (not complete, but it's a start) and I've been working on getting them added to GNUStep. So hopefully, we will have a linux version sometime :)
That's good news. Thanks for the information.
Damn ... Scrivener looks like something really neat for a freelancer writer. But it doesn't run on Linux!
I have a copy too, and it's still useful to me.
4. Don't get cute. Use standard controls that people recognize.
Same goes for icons ... make sure the icons are easy to distinguish among themselves, and if possible use ones wiht meanings that are already well-known. I remember one disastrous Linux app that had two identical-looking icons on one user dialog box, and no pop-up text to explain what they did. One closed out the whole app, losing all my work.
Tips are all over the internet. I'd start with the Alertbox by Jakob Nielson (ex-Sun employee, now a usability consultant) and anything his group has published on user interfaces. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/
My pet peeves in GUIs ... the designers ignore that people actually have to read the GUI, and treat it like it's supposed to be admired for artistic. For a GUI, bland and boring is good, functional is the goal.
I'm afraid that there is no lower limit to the depths to which /.ers can or will go.
He leads a very sheltered life?
The danger is not that your children will fail, and have permanently damaged egos-- the danger is that your child will never experience failure, and thus learn the important skill of picking up the pieces and moving on.
Excellent point. If you are scoring 100% of your shots, the game is too easy.
It doesn't help those who are fast learners to sail through anything, yet the American educational system ignores the so-called "gifted", or just piles on more homework instead of making things challenging.
The result, children like the Jonathan of the article. They crumple at the first difficulty and never recover.
I don't think the bulldozer parents, those who shove all obstacles out of their children's way, help either.
It could be scuba diving, or building a house, making cookies, or solving fractal matthematics, but the answer was always "I've never tried it."
And slow service will make me want to be a repeat customer?
I worked on the docs for something similar - a robot fetch to conveyer packing - and there are periodic "defrags" where humans with barcode scanners check each bin and inventory the contents, then adjust inventory to match what is REALLY in the bins. Robots are powered down for this :)
The packers could also send a bin off to the Orwellian-sounding "readjustment station" if the bin they were sent by the robots didn't have what it was supposed to have.
So my addiction to good cured olives (not those nasty canned ones) is going to have the FBI on my doorstep?
In the USA, the company that stands to benefit from breaking the law is liable for the actions of their agents, the marketers, no matter where the call center might be located. Ameriquest Mortgage, for example, had a horde of "resellers" making the calls for them, but that didn't keep them from getting fined.
Low weight is a symptom seen in many people with diseases that will kill them: Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancers ... and the loss of weight happens after the disease is well under way. It's a common symptom, not the cause or even contributing factor.
"I'd say that the medical industry has been feeding on the community for way too long. Medical procedures are insanely expensive and the equipment and medicine costs are through the roof.
If malpractice suits were not possible, and if the insanely expensive last-ditch heroics to delay death were banned, medical expenses would be a lot lower. But, with lawyers filing suit whenever a medical outcome is less than perfect, and people insisting that doctors do everything possible to keep a dying person "alive" ... it's going to be expensive.
Two real examples: 1 - An 85-year old man was brought in after a massive stroke: his children refused to accept the inevitable and as a result, we had him in ICU for about a week on life support before his brain finally gave up. 2 - An acquaintance wanted a "better" childbirth experience, so she use dhome birth and a midwife. Things went wrong - badly wrong - and the midwife did the right thing and called an ambulance. The acquaintance was quickly transported to the county hospital and her baby was delivered by c-sectoin. She sued the midwife and tried to sue the hospital because of the "mental anguish" of ending up unexpectedly in a maternity ward at County (ewwww, low-class patients!).
No more emergency repairs! Tell the customer that you'll be there in three days, and to call the DHS if they have a problem with waiting for you.
I'm trying to remember when I registered ... and my account profile doesn't show it.
In fact, HIPAA doesn't prevent a relative or friend of a patient from telling all they know about a patient.
Throw in an election to put up a REAL government, and we'd be home by Christmas.
They had an election, and the junta ignored the results and put the newly elected government under house arrest or killed them.
The campus monopoly bookstore's loss is the local pub's gain.
The resident geek's daughter bought most of her books online, from Amazon, Powells, etc. and she saved HUNDREDS of dollars for one semester. Multiply that by the htousands of students on campus ... that's a lucrative monopoly the campus bookstores are defending.