Why don't you get another cellphone? Look at online reviews to find one with a more intense vibration, and if you want, you can set the notification tone to be something longer than a beep.
Of course since is/., I can alternatively be super obnoxious and say get the OpenMoko phone and then you can program it to behave however you want on the reception of a text message.
I almost never post on/. but seeing this I can NOT pass up.
Creating a good interface is about FAR more than just pretty pictures. An artist might make it look good, but looking good and being functional are not related in any way, shape or form. I've seen art houses produce UIs that were illogical and violated many basic UI principles but look nice. The worst part is your client will fall in love with the looks without thinking about the damage that is being done.
If you are going to bring in outside sources, there are art houses that have specific UI design experience. You should make sure you engage one of these. Or come up with a design, then have the art house make it look nice.
Real UI design is about user cases, apprentice-master relationships, and other things 99.9% of artists don't know anything about.
Yes, I have. It used to be Shift F5 in previous versions. The bottom line is clearing out the cache should ALWAYS force a clean fetch regardless of how borked up you've made things, and IE7 doesn't do this. How can you be using a local copy if its supposedly gone?
As a web developer, somehow they found a way to make IE7 even worse than IE6.
All that PR that they had with the IE developer interview here on/. has not convinced ANYONE. He spent the whole time about talking how they listened to developers to determined what they want. Last time I checked I was getting a paycheck and you've done nothing, NOTHING to help.
Want some examples? One person brought up CSS compliance (I don't care WHICH CSS standard you pick, but pick one for chrissakes) and he said, "oh developers don't want that." Well, I do! Do you have any idea how irritating it is that IE and FF treat margins and padding differently for making even the most simple layouts?
And as a warning, IE7 is even worse about page caching than IE6. I had IE7RC1 installed and I actually uninstalled it because it was taking me 4 times longer to do any development. More specifically, if you get a hard XML error (which you undoubtably will do if you do any AJAX for example) its near impossible to get it not to load a cached copy, even with clearing the cache. I'm not sure what causes this but IE7 doesn't seem to respect the clear cache command like IE6 does.
I can live without tabs in IE; if I want to browse the web for personal reading I'll use FF anyway.
On a large cluster, we considered OpsManager, Cacti, and Ganglia, and have run all 3.
OpsManager has some real nice features which made it easy to display and group results, especially to non-engineering people (good graphing tools built in, etc), but we found it didn't perform as well as the other 2. Addtionally, you have to pay for it.
Cacti was nice because of the built in hooks for apache and MySql, but it didn't have some features we wanted (auto host discovery, certain data summarization)
We use Ganglia now. Its open source and has a good track record on large clusters, and has proven speed and reliability. It will do auto discovery of hosts, but the downside was that there were no built in hooks for MySql and Apache, which we did want to monitor.
So consider the set of data that you're interested in monitoring, and how big you intend on scaling it.
He might not be but I wouldn't be surprised if they had a doctor on the development team in order to supply information about what type of response times are acceptable. I'm sure many design decisions were made on the basis of a certain amount of time a person can be underwater. I mean what's the point of a system that can detect someone not moving after 10 minutes if they're going to die in three?
At least I would have had contact with an M.D. and made design decisions with his input.
Nintendo always puts out the big information at Tokyo Game Show or some other usually Nintendo biased video game show in Japan. The fact they didn't supply anything at E3 is not a surprise. Why would you try to compete for press time when you can say something later and have the spotlight for yourself?
Google sets up a way of doing advertising business with them. You sign a contract that most likely links your rate with your clicks, provided they aren't fraudulent.
Now somebody got caught and they're gonna get sued. What's the problem? Its not like its a right to have an advertisement on their site. Google can tell you to shove it if they want.
Reading the summary makes me think the issue is that Google isn't disclosing how they caught this advertiser because its done by hand. Again, why should Google disclose more than necessary to prove to the court in their case? I'm not seeing the issue.
How is this really different to what a normal developer does with GDB?
When your program fails, how it fails usually is some sort of indicator of what's wrong. Programmers just map an associated failure type with a problem, doing a diagnosis type system like a doctor would. This software just seems to do the same thing only explicitly. For example, when I see a bus error on a *nix box I think of some sort of memory error, and then GDB, xamine the memory locations to make sure everything is being accessed appropriately. I map an behavior to the error in order to figure out what's wrong. Why do I need to have some program that says just prints out extra words around it?
Furthermore, if you really think about it, why "dumb down" the compiler if the programming language is still hard? If you know C++ its rather trivial to learn GDB isn't it?
All jokes aside I gotta say its cool that they didn't tell him to go f himself. I mean, with all the DMCA laws and stuff its really expected they would say they're coming after him.
I think you're misunderstanding me. I know that AMD provides best price/performance in a lot of cases. I know that there are multiple versions of the P4 core. I know that the P4 name is widely known, and that people probably recognize the Pentium name far better than Athlon.
I what I don't know is what the masses think. We're talking retail sales here. For all I know, people could just be buying an HP with a fast processor which happens to be AMD and they're completely ignorant of it. What I'm curious to know is what reasoning goes behind the purchase of an AMD processor for the average Joe. Does he want 64 bits for future expansion? Does he just see a new processor name and think, "Wow, P4s have been around for 4 years now, but this Athlon 64 thing is new"? Or, as mentioned before, is there complete processor ignorance for a lot of the retail sets bought and AMD just happens to have a stronger low end market with the XP line then the Celeron?
This isn't about what I think. I know all the reasons to buy one architecture or the other. But slashdot doesn't make up enough of the retail sales to probably influence this number. I want to know what everyone else thinks.
Do you think a lot of this is due to a new name? Lets face it, Pentium 4 has been around for years now. If people associate performance with a name, Athlon 64 is brand new, and not heard of so it must be a new and better thing as opposed to the perceived old Pentium 4. As a former computer salesman, I wouldn't be surprised if this would be a driving factor behind AMDs push.
Despite the restrictions of the softwared, I'd bet that a University for sure will pick this up. Eventually what will happen is some people on the network won't be able to download some voice recording or some file send to themselves or something and a big fuss is going to erupt. That or some privacy issue is going to kill it.
The university I attend has explicit privacy rules, available for everyone to read. If I recall correctly this sort of thing would violate those rights awarded by the school and as soon as someone brings it up it'll disappear.
Absolutely. If you're so concerned about your privacy, why would you want private data stored on a public, always on, always accessible database.
People's feeling of privacy is really subjective. If a person thinks their information is protected from ignorance, then it is. In this case, someone noticed GMail servers aren't guaranteeing your privacy, and now people are panicked because they think its something different from the norm when in reality it has just been something they weren't aware of.
Web based email isn't suited for anything that would be encryption worthy. It has nothing to do with GMail, all web based email is like this... if you need secure email don't you set up your own host?
Belew is a professor of CS/Cog Sci at the University of California, San Diego. He has a lot of research and expertise in interface and its design. You can look up his faculty profile at UCSD's CS dept page[cs.ucsd.edu].
Just a little background so you know who's talking to who and why he knows what's going on =)
Um... depends on what you're looking for/expect. This isn't intended for you to buy and use at home. This is more likely for smaller developers (big developers write their own usually... think Pixar). Professional grade equipment is all expensive. The first common digital nonlinear editor was the casablanca, and with an 8 gig scsi drive ran close to a grand when it was released. This was just a single unit.
I bet the type of people that buy this are like big time architects that have a few machines set up to do renders for clients, and want to perhaps do some additional effects for promo/confidence value, that likely already have people running that type of hardware.
Then again all those Quadro users could be CAD people and they've got no audience. =)
Seems like this would be a good way for developing nations to use more modern technology without having to have a lot of training, i.e. for this device use this arrangement, arrange this way for this device. That and easy to do repairs.. simply have extra blocks on hand to replace those that are bad/damaged.
Yeah seriously. All you need is a hawk or a plane or a guy with a gun or a __________ and there goes ALL your data, with no notice of failure. Funny but not realistic.
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Why don't you get another cellphone? Look at online reviews to find one with a more intense vibration, and if you want, you can set the notification tone to be something longer than a beep.
/., I can alternatively be super obnoxious and say get the OpenMoko phone and then you can program it to behave however you want on the reception of a text message.
Of course since is
Now that's flamebait if I ever saw it. They're both beautiful areas, and both very different. What compels you to make a statement like that?
I almost never post on /. but seeing this I can NOT pass up.
Creating a good interface is about FAR more than just pretty pictures. An artist might make it look good, but looking good and being functional are not related in any way, shape or form. I've seen art houses produce UIs that were illogical and violated many basic UI principles but look nice. The worst part is your client will fall in love with the looks without thinking about the damage that is being done.
If you are going to bring in outside sources, there are art houses that have specific UI design experience. You should make sure you engage one of these. Or come up with a design, then have the art house make it look nice.
Real UI design is about user cases, apprentice-master relationships, and other things 99.9% of artists don't know anything about.
That's a winning combo, Whedon and Fox. I'm sure this project will end up just as well as the last one!
But really, didn't he say he wouldn't work with Fox again?
No, it was targetted at racists and people who propogate stereotypes.
(I'm sure you've seen the squirrels and the dust bunnies commercials)
Congrats to MIT for discovering already in use technology!
Then again, maybe its new to them because Americans don't like LeMans?
Yes, I have. It used to be Shift F5 in previous versions. The bottom line is clearing out the cache should ALWAYS force a clean fetch regardless of how borked up you've made things, and IE7 doesn't do this. How can you be using a local copy if its supposedly gone?
As a web developer, somehow they found a way to make IE7 even worse than IE6.
/. has not convinced ANYONE. He spent the whole time about talking how they listened to developers to determined what they want. Last time I checked I was getting a paycheck and you've done nothing, NOTHING to help.
All that PR that they had with the IE developer interview here on
Want some examples? One person brought up CSS compliance (I don't care WHICH CSS standard you pick, but pick one for chrissakes) and he said, "oh developers don't want that." Well, I do! Do you have any idea how irritating it is that IE and FF treat margins and padding differently for making even the most simple layouts?
And as a warning, IE7 is even worse about page caching than IE6. I had IE7RC1 installed and I actually uninstalled it because it was taking me 4 times longer to do any development. More specifically, if you get a hard XML error (which you undoubtably will do if you do any AJAX for example) its near impossible to get it not to load a cached copy, even with clearing the cache. I'm not sure what causes this but IE7 doesn't seem to respect the clear cache command like IE6 does.
I can live without tabs in IE; if I want to browse the web for personal reading I'll use FF anyway.
On a large cluster, we considered OpsManager, Cacti, and Ganglia, and have run all 3.
OpsManager has some real nice features which made it easy to display and group results, especially to non-engineering people (good graphing tools built in, etc), but we found it didn't perform as well as the other 2. Addtionally, you have to pay for it.
Cacti was nice because of the built in hooks for apache and MySql, but it didn't have some features we wanted (auto host discovery, certain data summarization)
We use Ganglia now. Its open source and has a good track record on large clusters, and has proven speed and reliability. It will do auto discovery of hosts, but the downside was that there were no built in hooks for MySql and Apache, which we did want to monitor.
So consider the set of data that you're interested in monitoring, and how big you intend on scaling it.
At least I would have had contact with an M.D. and made design decisions with his input.
Nintendo always puts out the big information at Tokyo Game Show or some other usually Nintendo biased video game show in Japan. The fact they didn't supply anything at E3 is not a surprise. Why would you try to compete for press time when you can say something later and have the spotlight for yourself?
Google sets up a way of doing advertising business with them. You sign a contract that most likely links your rate with your clicks, provided they aren't fraudulent. Now somebody got caught and they're gonna get sued. What's the problem? Its not like its a right to have an advertisement on their site. Google can tell you to shove it if they want. Reading the summary makes me think the issue is that Google isn't disclosing how they caught this advertiser because its done by hand. Again, why should Google disclose more than necessary to prove to the court in their case? I'm not seeing the issue.
No worries. I'm sure it'll use the evil bit RFC added last year.
Those lines are supposed to be there. Its an Aperature mask... it prevents the phosphors from drifting on the screen and leads to a better picture.
When your program fails, how it fails usually is some sort of indicator of what's wrong. Programmers just map an associated failure type with a problem, doing a diagnosis type system like a doctor would. This software just seems to do the same thing only explicitly. For example, when I see a bus error on a *nix box I think of some sort of memory error, and then GDB, xamine the memory locations to make sure everything is being accessed appropriately. I map an behavior to the error in order to figure out what's wrong. Why do I need to have some program that says just prints out extra words around it?
Furthermore, if you really think about it, why "dumb down" the compiler if the programming language is still hard? If you know C++ its rather trivial to learn GDB isn't it?
All jokes aside I gotta say its cool that they didn't tell him to go f himself. I mean, with all the DMCA laws and stuff its really expected they would say they're coming after him.
I what I don't know is what the masses think. We're talking retail sales here. For all I know, people could just be buying an HP with a fast processor which happens to be AMD and they're completely ignorant of it. What I'm curious to know is what reasoning goes behind the purchase of an AMD processor for the average Joe. Does he want 64 bits for future expansion? Does he just see a new processor name and think, "Wow, P4s have been around for 4 years now, but this Athlon 64 thing is new"? Or, as mentioned before, is there complete processor ignorance for a lot of the retail sets bought and AMD just happens to have a stronger low end market with the XP line then the Celeron?
This isn't about what I think. I know all the reasons to buy one architecture or the other. But slashdot doesn't make up enough of the retail sales to probably influence this number. I want to know what everyone else thinks.
Do you think a lot of this is due to a new name? Lets face it, Pentium 4 has been around for years now. If people associate performance with a name, Athlon 64 is brand new, and not heard of so it must be a new and better thing as opposed to the perceived old Pentium 4. As a former computer salesman, I wouldn't be surprised if this would be a driving factor behind AMDs push.
The university I attend has explicit privacy rules, available for everyone to read. If I recall correctly this sort of thing would violate those rights awarded by the school and as soon as someone brings it up it'll disappear.
People's feeling of privacy is really subjective. If a person thinks their information is protected from ignorance, then it is. In this case, someone noticed GMail servers aren't guaranteeing your privacy, and now people are panicked because they think its something different from the norm when in reality it has just been something they weren't aware of.
Web based email isn't suited for anything that would be encryption worthy. It has nothing to do with GMail, all web based email is like this... if you need secure email don't you set up your own host?
Just a little background so you know who's talking to who and why he knows what's going on =)
I bet the type of people that buy this are like big time architects that have a few machines set up to do renders for clients, and want to perhaps do some additional effects for promo/confidence value, that likely already have people running that type of hardware.
Then again all those Quadro users could be CAD people and they've got no audience. =)
Seems like this would be a good way for developing nations to use more modern technology without having to have a lot of training, i.e. for this device use this arrangement, arrange this way for this device. That and easy to do repairs.. simply have extra blocks on hand to replace those that are bad/damaged.
Yeah seriously. All you need is a hawk or a plane or a guy with a gun or a __________ and there goes ALL your data, with no notice of failure. Funny but not realistic.
Your faulty assumption is that it has to refresh the screen at some type of rate. Not every new display technology is a screen as we know it.