They aren't scared, this is a corporation - its a question of risk evaluation. There is less risk and lower probable cost in not breaking EULAs, and not advising people to use software that Dell cannot promise won't trash your machine (e.g. Adaware vs. New.net), and which Dell don't even offer support for, than the other option.
What it says is Dell are for some reason now very aware that they're at risk of getting sued if they advise people to do thinks that violate somebody's EULA.
Graphics are part of the generally accepted HCI guidelines - it is a Bad Thing, to use distracting animations.
There's also a general convention that says "Don't do things just because you can". (Do only what is needful - I'm sure there's a Yoda-ism for this).
And PDFs are a preferred medium for transferring information which is going to be printed in a lot of places, although generally you should still provide information in HTML and PDF format (more HCI, multiple routes to any single goal).
Three-click doesn't apply if the clicks on the way are easy enough, obvious enough, or if there is other relevant or interesting material on the way.
Most people would click three links to get to something, even if it was just three next links one after the other, but they'll click a lot more if they feel it is worthwile, and if it's very obvious that they're heading for what they actually want.
In this context they aren't 'rules', exactly. Not rules of the net at least, they're HCI guidelines, around half of which are always wrong, and a quarter of which are painfully obvious (case in point being HCI guidelines on colours, i.e. don't use colours that clash and make it difficult to even look at the page)
And naturally, there are always exceptions to the rule - sometimes there is asthetic value in making a flagrantly difficult to use website, even if there is only usability value in it if your target audience are painfully pretentious and will only use pages that are asthetically interesting..
So they aren't rules, they're more like, guidelines;)
In fact, while I remember - in case you want to go looking they are generally referred to as 'speech surrogates', although that covers a very broad range including things like drum communication and so forth.
I'd suggest it would be more profitable for him to learn ASL, since that's a relatively widely used language - plus, he'll be able to communicate with deaf people.
To repeat what everybody else has said - I use OSS because it's better...
But I also use OSS software because somewhere, there is ALWAYS a bit of the stuff that does what I need at the time. If there isn't, there soon will be, and if not? Then I can always write some of my own, so that next time somebody needs to do whatever I did, they can benefit from my experience.
I'm funny like that.
But then I also use and write OSS because I think it's a better way of doing things, and (to use a woolly turn of phrase) a nicer one.
The comment is directed at the devices which allow people to detect a camera, then cut speed in order to not get a ticket, before zooming off again right after.
I already refuse to drive because cars are so dangerous, what we need a is yet another tool to assist people in driving dangerously. I was pissed off enough about those bastard speed camera detectors.
I got the latest stable debian installed on a thinkpad 560e, with no cd drive, using only a screwsdriver, a second computer, and an unsupported PCMCIA network card.
But it was pretty easy.. So go figure. The bitch was configuring X..
Sure. So buy a SPARC laptop. Given the target market of this one, 512Mb of ram is more than enough.
Hell, I've got 80Mb and that's plenty to run Gnome 2.0 even.. I built a PC for my mum that happily runs even XP on a 933Mhz VIA CPU, with only 128Mb of RAM..
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You bastard! Now somebody will see this and start marketing GM fish which have leather instead of scales and a teeny whip...
Think of the children! (Who will all want them for Christmas)
The quote on the wall of my highschool computer lab was the IBM one...
Never did figure if it was meant to motivate us, or keep us out...
Yes, you do realise now if I ever see that show I'll be thinking "Tarding spaces? What the hell kindof program is that??".
Punk.
Soooo...
Some people can figure out the overall shape, and the other two can deal with the wrinkles?
I like this metaphor..
They aren't scared, this is a corporation - its a question of risk evaluation. There is less risk and lower probable cost in not breaking EULAs, and not advising people to use software that Dell cannot promise won't trash your machine (e.g. Adaware vs. New.net), and which Dell don't even offer support for, than the other option.
That excerpt from the memo says no such thing.
What it says is Dell are for some reason now very aware that they're at risk of getting sued if they advise people to do thinks that violate somebody's EULA.
Obviously, intense security and so forth...
But what happens if(when) somebody hacks it and posts the info of somebody they dislike? Bad mojo if you ask me..
Wouldn't that just make it into something more like ed2k?
Not up on my p2p protocols really.
Mind you, isn't it a chicken-and-egg problem rather like Public Key Crytography?
One imagines you'd need a tracker for the trackers...
Graphics are part of the generally accepted HCI guidelines - it is a Bad Thing, to use distracting animations.
There's also a general convention that says "Don't do things just because you can". (Do only what is needful - I'm sure there's a Yoda-ism for this).
And PDFs are a preferred medium for transferring information which is going to be printed in a lot of places, although generally you should still provide information in HTML and PDF format (more HCI, multiple routes to any single goal).
Not exactly. (When is this stuff ever exact?)
Three-click doesn't apply if the clicks on the way are easy enough, obvious enough, or if there is other relevant or interesting material on the way.
Most people would click three links to get to something, even if it was just three next links one after the other, but they'll click a lot more if they feel it is worthwile, and if it's very obvious that they're heading for what they actually want.
In this context they aren't 'rules', exactly. Not rules of the net at least, they're HCI guidelines, around half of which are always wrong, and a quarter of which are painfully obvious (case in point being HCI guidelines on colours, i.e. don't use colours that clash and make it difficult to even look at the page)
;)
And naturally, there are always exceptions to the rule - sometimes there is asthetic value in making a flagrantly difficult to use website, even if there is only usability value in it if your target audience are painfully pretentious and will only use pages that are asthetically interesting..
So they aren't rules, they're more like, guidelines
It's pretty hard to whistle over the phone too.
;)
Anyway. Talking on the phone is so passe that's why we invented SMS - so we wouldn't need to speak to each other
In fact, while I remember - in case you want to go looking they are generally referred to as 'speech surrogates', although that covers a very broad range including things like drum communication and so forth.
Ahh, in which case the whistling language or something similar would be a much better option!
:)
Might be worth looking into what the most widely used similar things are given that
I'd suggest it would be more profitable for him to learn ASL, since that's a relatively widely used language - plus, he'll be able to communicate with deaf people.
To repeat what everybody else has said - I use OSS because it's better...
But I also use OSS software because somewhere, there is ALWAYS a bit of the stuff that does what I need at the time. If there isn't, there soon will be, and if not? Then I can always write some of my own, so that next time somebody needs to do whatever I did, they can benefit from my experience.
I'm funny like that.
But then I also use and write OSS because I think it's a better way of doing things, and (to use a woolly turn of phrase) a nicer one.
The comment is directed at the devices which allow people to detect a camera, then cut speed in order to not get a ticket, before zooming off again right after.
I'm all for speed cameras.
I already refuse to drive because cars are so dangerous, what we need a is yet another tool to assist people in driving dangerously. I was pissed off enough about those bastard speed camera detectors.
I'm a fucking commie. Long live public transport.
That sounds like a fair minded, well reasoned and educated comment entirely lacking in FUD...
Did we not do FX about a decade ago?
Still, can't run with the crowd and call it WinMX can we...
Of course it is!
Exactly like ActiveX was before it and, presumably, like WinFX will be once Microsoft get tired of that.
My, java is doing well against the evil empire..
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, would be my first impression here *sigh*
Can I have the job then?
I got the latest stable debian installed on a thinkpad 560e, with no cd drive, using only a screwsdriver, a second computer, and an unsupported PCMCIA network card.
But it was pretty easy.. So go figure. The bitch was configuring X..
ok, done.
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Should be avaikale on ed2k, g1 & g2.
Sure. So buy a SPARC laptop. Given the target market of this one, 512Mb of ram is more than enough.
Hell, I've got 80Mb and that's plenty to run Gnome 2.0 even.. I built a PC for my mum that happily runs even XP on a 933Mhz VIA CPU, with only 128Mb of RAM..
My laptop is a p150 thinkpad 560e, happily running the latest debian at an acceptable speed.
Seriously, in a portable machine, what do you need serious power for?
Surely how effective the ruggedizing methods are is just a touch more significant than having enough ram to play the newer pc games?