It's funny... in my graduation thesis, I used that as an example of bad design. Maybe Nielsen knows his stuff, but he does not bother to make his own site usable. It is flat, ugly, and fails to give any sense of hierarchy. On the other hand, Slashdot was the example of a well-designed site. Everything here is well organized and readable.
A quote that always comes to mind when I see a super-expensive turkey...
"If Coca-Cola accidentally created 100 million cans of faulty Coke, you know for sure the entire 100 million cans would be dropped in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, without a second thought and irrespective of what that did to the year's profits. What do we do with a crappy movie? We double its advertising budget and hope for a big opening weekend. What have we done for the audience as they walk out of the cinema? We've alienated them. We've sold audiences a piece of junk; we just took twelve dollars away from a couple and we think we've done ourselves no long-term damage." -- David Puttnam, GQ magazine, April 1987
Good thing Dark Knight was worth the money. Best movie I've seen in quite a while!
a lot of people browse on laptops which have terrible audio. Thinkpads are especially awful; when I play video on VLC without headphones, I set the volume at 1600% and suffer the clipping - at least I can hear it over, say, a room A/C.
That's a part of the loudness war... they make music more listenable with the most awful devices (cell phones, earbuds, car radios, laptop speakers), yet make it unbearably bad to anyone with a decent setup who expects quality.
If the game industry worked like the record one... every game would have GameBoy resolution, even if you ran it on a huge, hi-def TV set.
Nowadays, unless you are specifically told otherwise, you can usually safely assume that your car will take unleaded.
Well, that's not the case with computers. Not long ago, true, you'd just assume your PC would come with Windows. But now many sellers bundle Linux instead, and it's almost trivial to change the operating system. A PC is a complex machine, not an appliance. It's not really hard to use, but it still requires a bit of learning. Otherwise, you will keep needing someone to fix any screw-ups.
Besides, if the box for the machine says "windows" but the idiot nephew installs ubuntu without telling her, how would she know?
By the fact that it says "Ubuntu" every time it boots? See, that's a part of the learning I just mentioned: to know what an OS is.
Her own damn fault for not taking the time to find what she was getting. It's like she got a car without checking what kind of fuel it takes. "A car is a car! Every car runs with the same fuel! Diesel? Ethanol? NGV? What are you talking about, boy?!"
I'd have put xp on the laptop, however brand new hard = no xp drivers, typically nowadays.
Give Linux a try! I was amazed to get a laptop to simply work with Ubuntu, yet getting the damn thing to work with XP required hours of driver-hunting.
That won't work, as that blog is a compilation of dumb, poorly written comments from a news site. An automatic translator won't get the typos. But if you can read Portuguese, it is really funny!
If someone asked me that, my advice: go to a computer store and ask them to assemble one for you. That will probably get you better prices and better quality parts than most "big name" computers.
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They should concentrate their efforts on the other H*R game.
Prototype schmototype, people are still producing indie commercial games for the good old Sega Dreamcast!
So DON'T stretch it, dummy! There must be some option to center the image and put black borders on the sides.
What the hell? That article has a screenshot of Doom 3.
It's funny... in my graduation thesis, I used that as an example of bad design. Maybe Nielsen knows his stuff, but he does not bother to make his own site usable. It is flat, ugly, and fails to give any sense of hierarchy. On the other hand, Slashdot was the example of a well-designed site. Everything here is well organized and readable.
Definitely. I love French Erotic Film.
Urban legend. http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
Ever used one? It's incredibly fun to ride. And I have never learned to ride a bike, but getting the Segway was almost instant!
Don't forget Danica McKellar (The Wonder Years), who co-wrote a paper on mathematics.
Nah... looks much more like the intro of Out of this World.
Yes, they are -- if your search does not begin with a quotation mark, which means "look for this exact phrase".
NeXT bought Apple for minus $400 million.
A quote that always comes to mind when I see a super-expensive turkey...
"If Coca-Cola accidentally created 100 million cans of faulty Coke, you know for sure the entire 100 million cans would be dropped in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, without a second thought and irrespective of what that did to the year's profits. What do we do with a crappy movie? We double its advertising budget and hope for a big opening weekend. What have we done for the audience as they walk out of the cinema? We've alienated them. We've sold audiences a piece of junk; we just took twelve dollars away from a couple and we think we've done ourselves no long-term damage." -- David Puttnam, GQ magazine, April 1987
Good thing Dark Knight was worth the money. Best movie I've seen in quite a while!
That's a part of the loudness war... they make music more listenable with the most awful devices (cell phones, earbuds, car radios, laptop speakers), yet make it unbearably bad to anyone with a decent setup who expects quality.
If the game industry worked like the record one... every game would have GameBoy resolution, even if you ran it on a huge, hi-def TV set.
Give Linux a try, perhaps?
Well, that's not the case with computers. Not long ago, true, you'd just assume your PC would come with Windows. But now many sellers bundle Linux instead, and it's almost trivial to change the operating system. A PC is a complex machine, not an appliance. It's not really hard to use, but it still requires a bit of learning. Otherwise, you will keep needing someone to fix any screw-ups.
By the fact that it says "Ubuntu" every time it boots? See, that's a part of the learning I just mentioned: to know what an OS is.
Her own damn fault for not taking the time to find what she was getting. It's like she got a car without checking what kind of fuel it takes. "A car is a car! Every car runs with the same fuel! Diesel? Ethanol? NGV? What are you talking about, boy?!"
So he speaks in 5.1 stereo?
I used Vista for a while. I didn't experience any crash, as far as I recall.
But it also happens to be quite resource-hungry, and the interface is (still) terrible.
That won't work, as that blog is a compilation of dumb, poorly written comments from a news site. An automatic translator won't get the typos. But if you can read Portuguese, it is really funny!
If someone asked me that, my advice: go to a computer store and ask them to assemble one for you. That will probably get you better prices and better quality parts than most "big name" computers.
Oh, they do crash and burn sometimes anyway...
Because we can. Because we know what's good for you. Oh, and think of the children, or something.
Bullshit. No one buys CDs anymore.