How does this get modded as Informative???? It has 0 information and a bunch of FUD. Why don't you try reading a bit before you open your mouth. Here's a link to what Dtrace can do. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5160
I did read the article. The problem in my opinion is that the difference between the methods of selection that confuse the users. I want to be able to do the following:
1) Highlight Text (possibly a URL) in Gaim
2) Copy it with Ctrl-C, like most people would, not Edit->Copy, that's 2 more mouse clicks and a lot more movement
3) Highlight my web browser's Current URL
4) Paste it into my web browser with Cntrl-V
For whatever reason (mainly Cntrl-C brings up the Color Dialog and then Highlighting my URL overwrites the selection) This does not work like I expect it to. This will be REALLY frustrating to new users and is probably the reason why most people complain that copy/paste is broken.
After reading your article, I'm now aware that Edit->Copy should put the text on the clipboard.
But that's my Point, I should have to read the article to be able to copy/paste intuatively.
I shouldn't have to read a huge article to copy/paste. I just want it to work everywhere the same, single way. But it doesn't. Sure some people like it one way and others like it a different way. That's what options are for. But every damn app should just work the same way! (Well I'll settle for just KDE, openoffice, mozilla and Gnome).
While I agree that User Interface designers should work *WITH* GUI programmers, Your average manager and especially new programmers have no idea what an HCI expert does or why you would even need one. This book is probably for those people. I'm a GUI programmer and we have almost 0 user interaction (although I beg for it) and No HCI expert on the project. The fact is that people like me are stuck on projects where noone wants to spend the time or the money on an HCI or to spend time with the users. I believe that after reading Jeff Johnson's GUI Bloopers that my GUI's have improved significantly. This is a book that I would def be interested in reading.
Oh and to this an interface is too complicated for most programmers to handle obviously you've never tried writing embedded software in a critical realtime system.
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Toaster - no way its just plane toasted! Well mine did by lightning 2 weeks ago.
I'm also a PSU alum (1996-2000) and still here in State College. Its really hard to leave those college girls behind, isn't it?
Now he wants to charge for using music? The students already pay a rather substantial "computer lab" fee and they're reward? Having on campus bandwidth throttled at 56K in the dorms.
That 56K is result of a bandwith restriction, which are placed on students if they download too much stuff in a certain period of time. Anyone using the internet for research, like they should be, will not be going over their bandwith restriction. Of I probably only used my computer for research 10% of the time.
I'd have to agree with you about Graham Spanier and his insane goal of stopping drinking, its really not going to work, all it does is push people off campus to drink, where most of it happens already. After all 30% of Penn Staters party stupid. I would proudly classify myself in that 30%.
start listening to those taht actually know and finding out what they want and are willing to pay for
Yeah, maybe he should take a poll of students to find that out. Depending on how much it was, I would pay for that.
I think this is a gutsy but good move by Grahamn Spanier. He is thinking either his University and its students are either 1 - going to have to work with the RIAA or 2 - going to continue to ignore the RIAA and possibly end up in court for a huge lawsuit. Obviously, if you can have happy students and happy RIAA, that is the goal. If PSU just tries to block all P2P applications its not going to be that easy, as we know there's always a way around things. Students will not be happy. Also, sending RIAA letters to students is not ideal either.
I think that most students would embrace this idea, its legal, nearly free, and provides high quality songs. Perhaps students can "choose" to pay for the service instead of charging all students, just provide access based on User name/password.
The real problem I see is Movies. DVD rips are becoming increasingly common on P2P. Noone is doing anything to address this issue. I believe soon it will become just a bad a problem as pirating music.
Look for the 6'4" 280
I also frequent the Skeller on Fridays, I must have confused you with all the bouncers there.
Microsoft to SCO: We'll pay you if you can interrupt linux development.
SCO to Microsoft: OK, We know a pretty good way to spread FUD Newsflash: SCO to sue Redhat/IBM...
Micrsoft to SCO: Good Job, here you go Newsflash: Micrsoft licenses SCO's UNIX
SCO to Microsoft: Now what?
Microsoft to SCO: HA! Now only you and I can distribute linux if the suite is actually true...uhmm I guess IBM too
Microsoft and SCO: PROFIT!!
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I thought I had somehow segfaulted both Mozilla and IE until I was able to capture the page using Lynx and look at the content...
Couldn't you just have looked in your web-browser's cache for the most recently modified files?
Good thing they didn't post a link to their web site (www.sco.com) in the slashdot headline, it might cause another DDOS .
Or her crabs!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
How does this get modded as Informative???? It has 0 information and a bunch of FUD. Why don't you try reading a bit before you open your mouth. Here's a link to what Dtrace can do.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5160
maybe I'll actually get Modded as informative.
I did read the article. The problem in my opinion is that the difference between the methods of selection that confuse the users. I want to be able to do the following:
1) Highlight Text (possibly a URL) in Gaim
2) Copy it with Ctrl-C, like most people would, not Edit->Copy, that's 2 more mouse clicks and a lot more movement
3) Highlight my web browser's Current URL
4) Paste it into my web browser with Cntrl-V
For whatever reason (mainly Cntrl-C brings up the Color Dialog and then Highlighting my URL overwrites the selection) This does not work like I expect it to. This will be REALLY frustrating to new users and is probably the reason why most people complain that copy/paste is broken.
After reading your article, I'm now aware that Edit->Copy should put the text on the clipboard.
But that's my Point, I should have to read the article to be able to copy/paste intuatively.
I shouldn't have to read a huge article to copy/paste. I just want it to work everywhere the same, single way. But it doesn't. Sure some people like it one way and others like it a different way. That's what options are for. But every damn app should just work the same way! (Well I'll settle for just KDE, openoffice, mozilla and Gnome).
While I agree that User Interface designers should work *WITH* GUI programmers, Your average manager and especially new programmers have no idea what an HCI expert does or why you would even need one. This book is probably for those people. I'm a GUI programmer and we have almost 0 user interaction (although I beg for it) and No HCI expert on the project. The fact is that people like me are stuck on projects where noone wants to spend the time or the money on an HCI or to spend time with the users. I believe that after reading Jeff Johnson's GUI Bloopers that my GUI's have improved significantly. This is a book that I would def be interested in reading.
Oh and to this an interface is too complicated for most programmers to handle obviously you've never tried writing embedded software in a critical realtime system.
Toaster - no way its just plane toasted! Well mine did by lightning 2 weeks ago.
I'm also a PSU alum (1996-2000) and still here in State College. Its really hard to leave those college girls behind, isn't it?
Now he wants to charge for using music? The students already pay a rather substantial "computer lab" fee and they're reward? Having on campus bandwidth throttled at 56K in the dorms.
That 56K is result of a bandwith restriction, which are placed on students if they download too much stuff in a certain period of time. Anyone using the internet for research, like they should be, will not be going over their bandwith restriction. Of I probably only used my computer for research 10% of the time.
I'd have to agree with you about Graham Spanier and his insane goal of stopping drinking, its really not going to work, all it does is push people off campus to drink, where most of it happens already. After all 30% of Penn Staters party stupid. I would proudly classify myself in that 30%.
start listening to those taht actually know and finding out what they want and are willing to pay for
Yeah, maybe he should take a poll of students to find that out. Depending on how much it was, I would pay for that.
I think this is a gutsy but good move by Grahamn Spanier. He is thinking either his University and its students are either 1 - going to have to work with the RIAA or 2 - going to continue to ignore the RIAA and possibly end up in court for a huge lawsuit. Obviously, if you can have happy students and happy RIAA, that is the goal. If PSU just tries to block all P2P applications its not going to be that easy, as we know there's always a way around things. Students will not be happy. Also, sending RIAA letters to students is not ideal either.
I think that most students would embrace this idea, its legal, nearly free, and provides high quality songs. Perhaps students can "choose" to pay for the service instead of charging all students, just provide access based on User name/password.
The real problem I see is Movies. DVD rips are becoming increasingly common on P2P. Noone is doing anything to address this issue. I believe soon it will become just a bad a problem as pirating music.
Look for the 6'4" 280
I also frequent the Skeller on Fridays, I must have confused you with all the bouncers there.
Microsoft to SCO: We'll pay you if you can interrupt linux development.
SCO to Microsoft: OK, We know a pretty good way to spread FUD
Newsflash: SCO to sue Redhat/IBM...
Micrsoft to SCO: Good Job, here you go
Newsflash: Micrsoft licenses SCO's UNIX
SCO to Microsoft: Now what?
Microsoft to SCO: HA! Now only you and I can distribute linux if the suite is actually true...uhmm I guess IBM too
Microsoft and SCO: PROFIT!!
First Slashdot Post, I had to do it
Step 1: You surf the web and gather info about The Matrix, then write a story on it.
Step 2: I'll submit it to slashdot
Step 3: Profit!!