I am non American and have an American son. Unfortunately, we did not have the exemption. US citizenship costs us big: he can't participate in local education savings plans or tax mechanisms not explicitly covered in the US treaty. Worst of all are the FBAR requirements, which you no doubt know about, but the penalties can be crippling if filed wrong. I estimate my sons us citizenship costs us about 8k per year in lost tax savings and hiring a professional to get the tax returns right.
Maybe someone with more geek cred' than I has solved this, but the only reason I haven't upgraded to IE7 is that, when I do, *Outlook Express* stops working correctly: when I hold down CTRL and scroll the mouse wheel, it no longer changes the font size. I do this fairly often in the day, because of my bad eyes and wanting to minimize screen space. Anyone know how to fix this behaviour? (sorry, I know this isn't a tech support site:(
Right - but now we're discussing other countries (see thread to which I am replying). Are we to take from the fact that this made it to the front page of slashdot that American students don't get discounts offered just about everywhere else?
Appreciate the feedback.
As you saw in the video, we are defining new input paradigms. Although there is a great deal of ongoing WIMP related research, ours is not at all in the WIMP domain: we're using the language to build new tools.
It's fair to say that HCI research should start with the H, but it certainly can't end there. Implementation and verification of effectiveness is an essential component of any UI design work. Otherwise, it's not researching at all: it's pontificating.
Thanks for the thoughts. We have started talking about Python, although I fear it's failing to get traction up the ladder.
Just 'cause you mentioned it - here's my work with volumetric displays:
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/%7Eravin/videos/uist200 4_volumetric.avi
(linked from http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~dwigdor/)
Cheers,
Daniel
The discussion on "3d" interfaces seems to be focusing on all sorts of fake 3d on a 2-d systems. Why fake it, when the real thing is on its way? Here's the paper and video of work from the DGP Lab at the University of Toronto - real 3-d interaction with a *real* 3-d display (picture princess leah floating in front of r-2:
Vid:
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~ravin/videos/uist2004_ volumetric.avi
Paper:
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/papers/tgrossman_UIST20 04.pdf
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I am non American and have an American son. Unfortunately, we did not have the exemption. US citizenship costs us big: he can't participate in local education savings plans or tax mechanisms not explicitly covered in the US treaty. Worst of all are the FBAR requirements, which you no doubt know about, but the penalties can be crippling if filed wrong. I estimate my sons us citizenship costs us about 8k per year in lost tax savings and hiring a professional to get the tax returns right.
Maybe someone with more geek cred' than I has solved this, but the only reason I haven't upgraded to IE7 is that, when I do, *Outlook Express* stops working correctly: when I hold down CTRL and scroll the mouse wheel, it no longer changes the font size. I do this fairly often in the day, because of my bad eyes and wanting to minimize screen space. Anyone know how to fix this behaviour? (sorry, I know this isn't a tech support site :(
Right - but now we're discussing other countries (see thread to which I am replying). Are we to take from the fact that this made it to the front page of slashdot that American students don't get discounts offered just about everywhere else?
And in Canada: http://www.utoronto.ca/ic/software/detail/msselect .html
Don't American students get deals on software?
What does that mean? 1/100 the size?
Appreciate the feedback. As you saw in the video, we are defining new input paradigms. Although there is a great deal of ongoing WIMP related research, ours is not at all in the WIMP domain: we're using the language to build new tools. It's fair to say that HCI research should start with the H, but it certainly can't end there. Implementation and verification of effectiveness is an essential component of any UI design work. Otherwise, it's not researching at all: it's pontificating.
Thanks for the thoughts. We have started talking about Python, although I fear it's failing to get traction up the ladder. Just 'cause you mentioned it - here's my work with volumetric displays: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/%7Eravin/videos/uist200 4_volumetric.avi
(linked from http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~dwigdor/)
Cheers,
Daniel
The discussion on "3d" interfaces seems to be focusing on all sorts of fake 3d on a 2-d systems. Why fake it, when the real thing is on its way? Here's the paper and video of work from the DGP Lab at the University of Toronto - real 3-d interaction with a *real* 3-d display (picture princess leah floating in front of r-2: Vid: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~ravin/videos/uist2004_ volumetric.avi
Paper:
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/papers/tgrossman_UIST20 04.pdf