But regarding looks, have anyone else noticed how they seemingly have removed the titlebar of all the windows? Where there should be (in my books) a titlebar, there is now a combined info/task-bar and a very IE-like back button.
Yeah, I noticed that. That sucks. How can you orient yourself if you don't have a title? And what shows up on the taskbar button, (if they still have taskbar buttons)?
I notice they kind-of got rid of menus, too. You just have a toolbar with drop-downs.
I'm guessing--well, hoping--that these are custom Explorer windows, and that other apps have a more traditional window structure.
Actually, I think that the final interface won't resemble this much. The usability is too bad. For example, look at the stack view window. See how the scrollbar, the source list (on the left), the property list (on top), and the main content all run together? That's crap!
I dunno. The font looks kind of condensed to me. Not enough inter-letter spacing. Of course, this may well be leaps above XP, but I am accustomed to my Mac's Lucida Grande.
If the EU is so sovereign, why don't they just take one seat in the UN? Oh wait, they want to pretend they're just one giant nation in the economic and political arena but they want to keep all their votes in the UN.
Come on, don't be pissy. It is just like the United States. The States never gave up their sovereignty when they joined up, it's just that, for convenience and efficiency, the States decided to present a united face to the world. The Feds take care of international relations and a common currency, the States were supposed to take care of everything else.
Of course, back in the day, they didn't really have international bodies like the U.N., AFAIK. If there were such bodies, the States might well have kept their votes there, too. Except that voting wasn't really a big thing back then, either. So, I dunno.
I bet the ERS-31s sell better in Japan, the ERS-210s sell better here, and the ERS-220 sells as a niche product.
I'm not saying Americans won't use advanced humanoid robots (which, as you say, are likely to be Japanese). I'm just saying that Americans have different criteria for acceptibility, and different purposes in mind. The Japanese are more likely to buy "your plastic pal who's fun to be with," than we are.
And I figure the reason we have different purposes, the reason Americans won't buy robot companions, but will buy robot toys/pets, is because we can't handle something who will serve us without getting anything out of it.
Of course, I am a cat person, because dogs don't seem to have any dignity and self-respect like I think they should. So maybe a dog person wouldn't have a problem with robots? I dunno...
Actually, the japanese are more concerned about having the robots as companions then as servents.... Look at some of the commercials for sony's humanoid. It is being marketed as a companion for the elderly and lonely. Westerners are more concerned with having the robotic domestic slave.
I think there are actually three categories of robots: child-like, adult, and non-humanoid. Real robots are either child-like and Japanese, or non-humanoid and American. I do not know if it was intentional, but your comment seems to be saying that Americans want slavery and the Japanese want companionship. This is not the case. Based on what is out there now, Americans want tools and the Japanese want companions.
If an American company did really come out with an interactive adult humanoid robot, like the NS-1 from the "I, Robot" movie, I think it would not sell too well. Americans, at least me and my friends, are uncomfortable with servants. If someone is getting paid to do a job, that is one thing, but a servant class is bad. We would be compelled to treat an interactive adult humanoid robot like one of a) an equal, b) a friend who helps you out, or c) a tool. And if we treat it as a tool, it had better not look too human or be too personable. Nothing else would be comfortable. Look at the relationship between Luke and C-3PO, or between Picard and Data.
The Japanese seem to be pushing child-like humanoid robots for companionship. I can see this; child-like humanoids are not expected to be equals of anybody. It is okay if they are limited. But these robots will never do well in the States, because they rely on being cute to offset their simplicity, and in the States, cute things are creepy.
Look at the Hitachi robot from the article. Anybody else find the styling a little off-putting? I know I did. It looked like a kid, but wasn't. In Japan, cute or child-like things with special powers, such as Pikachu, Astroboy, or magical children, are okay. But the closest equivalents in the U.S. are things like Gremlins, Children of the Corn, Chuckie, or Barney. Cute things with special powers are creepy over here. It would be difficult to market such a thing for home companionship.
It seems to me, that in Japanese culture, a general-purpose humanoid robot must be harmlessly cute to be accepted, whereas in American culture, a general-purpose humanoid robot must be seen to be satisfied with its duties and treatment.
I've noticed some de-facto standards cropping up. The Cmd-Option combinations often show/hide windows, drawers, rulers, and the like.
Also, Cmd-Opt is sometimes used to expand the scope of a command. Option-Close on a window, for example, will close all windows, not just the one. And Safari uses Cmd-W to close a tab, and Cmd-Opt-W to close other tabs.
Meanwhile, Cmd-Shift is used for when the normal 26 letters aren't enough, or to do related commands, like Cmd-P Print vs. Cmd-Shift-P Page Setup.
Cmd-Option-Shift means there are too many keyboard shortcuts.
I've heard of Control being mostly reserved for user macros, and full keyboard access (controlling menus, windows, and controls with the keyboard instead of the mouse).
It is a rumor site that has broken the law by soliciting confidential information and compensating those who choose to divulge confidential proprietary information.
Wait...is that not what investigative journalism is all about? People offer bounties on information all the time!
Why not have the option to suspsend the OS kernel in a seperate space in your RAM (or seperate RAM dedicated to such tasks) and then dedicate all your resources to the game and nothing else.
Thus preventing you from playing your own music or doing any downloading in the background?
Yeah, midichlorians were an unnecessary addition. And they way they were presented in the movie seems to say that they are the source of the Force ("I'm a poet, but I don't know it").
But I always figured that midichlorians were not the source, but rather an indicator. Like, how can you tell if something is cold? Well, you can touch it. But you can also see the frost that formed on the outside. Midichlorians are like frost; they hang around beings with Force potential.
I think the only really innovative game I've played recently is Katamari Damacy. And they released it here as a low cost title, I guess because they didn't think any Americans would want to play something so unusual.
It might have been more popular if either of the words "katmari" or "damacy" actually meant anything.
Sure, you'd rather have the OS wars conducted peacefully via Blogs, one user at a time. But someone just took a shot at you from the iPod-controlled building across the street. And that nice bald guy in suspenders just handed you a loaded missile launcher. Screw logic. This thang is ON!
Lock a programmer in a cubicle with a VB project to do. He may or may not hang himself on the fluorescent light fixture in frustration at any given moment...until you look in on him.
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But regarding looks, have anyone else noticed how they seemingly have removed the titlebar of all the windows? Where there should be (in my books) a titlebar, there is now a combined info/task-bar and a very IE-like back button.
Yeah, I noticed that. That sucks. How can you orient yourself if you don't have a title? And what shows up on the taskbar button, (if they still have taskbar buttons)?
I notice they kind-of got rid of menus, too. You just have a toolbar with drop-downs.
I'm guessing--well, hoping--that these are custom Explorer windows, and that other apps have a more traditional window structure.
Actually, I think that the final interface won't resemble this much. The usability is too bad. For example, look at the stack view window. See how the scrollbar, the source list (on the left), the property list (on top), and the main content all run together? That's crap!
I dunno. The font looks kind of condensed to me. Not enough inter-letter spacing. Of course, this may well be leaps above XP, but I am accustomed to my Mac's Lucida Grande.
"Stuff that matters." Mmm-hmm.
On the other hand...black holes do have matter...and spackling one would be stuffing stuff in one...
Nah.
I too disagree that Microsoft would ever pay a $5m/day fine. Politicians are far cheaper than that.
"Never blackmail for more than what it costs to have you killed."
If the EU is so sovereign, why don't they just take one seat in the UN? Oh wait, they want to pretend they're just one giant nation in the economic and political arena but they want to keep all their votes in the UN.
Come on, don't be pissy. It is just like the United States. The States never gave up their sovereignty when they joined up, it's just that, for convenience and efficiency, the States decided to present a united face to the world. The Feds take care of international relations and a common currency, the States were supposed to take care of everything else.
Of course, back in the day, they didn't really have international bodies like the U.N., AFAIK. If there were such bodies, the States might well have kept their votes there, too. Except that voting wasn't really a big thing back then, either. So, I dunno.
I bet the ERS-31s sell better in Japan, the ERS-210s sell better here, and the ERS-220 sells as a niche product.
I'm not saying Americans won't use advanced humanoid robots (which, as you say, are likely to be Japanese). I'm just saying that Americans have different criteria for acceptibility, and different purposes in mind. The Japanese are more likely to buy "your plastic pal who's fun to be with," than we are.
And I figure the reason we have different purposes, the reason Americans won't buy robot companions, but will buy robot toys/pets, is because we can't handle something who will serve us without getting anything out of it.
Of course, I am a cat person, because dogs don't seem to have any dignity and self-respect like I think they should. So maybe a dog person wouldn't have a problem with robots? I dunno...
Actually, the japanese are more concerned about having the robots as companions then as servents. ... Look at some of the commercials for sony's humanoid. It is being marketed as a companion for the elderly and lonely. Westerners are more concerned with having the robotic domestic slave.
I think there are actually three categories of robots: child-like, adult, and non-humanoid. Real robots are either child-like and Japanese, or non-humanoid and American. I do not know if it was intentional, but your comment seems to be saying that Americans want slavery and the Japanese want companionship. This is not the case. Based on what is out there now, Americans want tools and the Japanese want companions.
If an American company did really come out with an interactive adult humanoid robot, like the NS-1 from the "I, Robot" movie, I think it would not sell too well. Americans, at least me and my friends, are uncomfortable with servants. If someone is getting paid to do a job, that is one thing, but a servant class is bad. We would be compelled to treat an interactive adult humanoid robot like one of a) an equal, b) a friend who helps you out, or c) a tool. And if we treat it as a tool, it had better not look too human or be too personable. Nothing else would be comfortable. Look at the relationship between Luke and C-3PO, or between Picard and Data.
The Japanese seem to be pushing child-like humanoid robots for companionship. I can see this; child-like humanoids are not expected to be equals of anybody. It is okay if they are limited. But these robots will never do well in the States, because they rely on being cute to offset their simplicity, and in the States, cute things are creepy.
Look at the Hitachi robot from the article. Anybody else find the styling a little off-putting? I know I did. It looked like a kid, but wasn't. In Japan, cute or child-like things with special powers, such as Pikachu, Astroboy, or magical children, are okay. But the closest equivalents in the U.S. are things like Gremlins, Children of the Corn, Chuckie, or Barney. Cute things with special powers are creepy over here. It would be difficult to market such a thing for home companionship.
It seems to me, that in Japanese culture, a general-purpose humanoid robot must be harmlessly cute to be accepted, whereas in American culture, a general-purpose humanoid robot must be seen to be satisfied with its duties and treatment.
But maybe I'm biased.
I've noticed some de-facto standards cropping up. The Cmd-Option combinations often show/hide windows, drawers, rulers, and the like.
Also, Cmd-Opt is sometimes used to expand the scope of a command. Option-Close on a window, for example, will close all windows, not just the one. And Safari uses Cmd-W to close a tab, and Cmd-Opt-W to close other tabs.
Meanwhile, Cmd-Shift is used for when the normal 26 letters aren't enough, or to do related commands, like Cmd-P Print vs. Cmd-Shift-P Page Setup.
Cmd-Option-Shift means there are too many keyboard shortcuts.
I've heard of Control being mostly reserved for user macros, and full keyboard access (controlling menus, windows, and controls with the keyboard instead of the mouse).
You know what, why even bother with a mouse at all? I have used the keyboard for 30 years and I never thought that a mouse of any kind was good.
Well, then, you ought to be pleased by Apple's new keyboard navigation features coming in April.
How better to take over the world?
Apple's iChat apparently makes use of the AOL network, but it is not AIM. I don't know if iChatters fall under this new license agreement.
It is a rumor site that has broken the law by soliciting confidential information and compensating those who choose to divulge confidential proprietary information.
Wait...is that not what investigative journalism is all about? People offer bounties on information all the time!
Why not have the option to suspsend the OS kernel in a seperate space in your RAM (or seperate RAM dedicated to such tasks) and then dedicate all your resources to the game and nothing else.
Thus preventing you from playing your own music or doing any downloading in the background?
Brilliant.
eeeewww
Find the shortcuts, the tricks your competitors don't know.
If you fail, try again, rethinking your solution.
Make your money ASAP and move on to better things.
Don't work at a job you don't like.
Don't be afraid to fire a bad employee.
Develop a social network that you can rely on to find new jobs and partnerships.
See? "Everything I ever needed to know, I learned while gaming."
Yeah, midichlorians were an unnecessary addition. And they way they were presented in the movie seems to say that they are the source of the Force ("I'm a poet, but I don't know it").
But I always figured that midichlorians were not the source, but rather an indicator. Like, how can you tell if something is cold? Well, you can touch it. But you can also see the frost that formed on the outside. Midichlorians are like frost; they hang around beings with Force potential.
The SF dictionary includes "geas". Therefore, it is an SF/Fantasy dictionary. QED. :)
I think the only really innovative game I've played recently is Katamari Damacy. And they released it here as a low cost title, I guess because they didn't think any Americans would want to play something so unusual.
It might have been more popular if either of the words "katmari" or "damacy" actually meant anything.
...was the SOURCE of these donated kidneys - they were from executed Chinese prisoners.
Organs for everybody!
See? Communism has its up-side, after all!
Hmm. Not bad, but I would rather play Grand Theft Auto: Linux:
None of these are names are as bad as "Kiddy Grade."
You all know what that sounds like, but it's a perfectly normal superpower-police-conspiracy-in-space anime series. Really!
Lock a programmer in a cubicle with a VB project to do. He may or may not hang himself on the fluorescent light fixture in frustration at any given moment...until you look in on him.
Mr. Goatse has achieved an opening of galactic proportions!!!
PDA's do it.
iRiver's do it.
iPod's running linux seem to be able to do it.
"Let's do it, let's fall in love!"