... Do the designs, rather than the products they hawk, contribute to the feelings of haste? What would happen if one tested with a logo design with these types of elements, but for a fictional brand?
As much as I enjoy the usual/. digressions, I'd love to get an analysis from anyone who designs logos for a living. I'm not a designer, but I do notice few things that the logos have in common: Most of them have either text or design elements that rise to the upper-right of the logo. Most have some sort of pointer, either arrows (Subway), a slashing underline (Pizza Hut), meteor (Burger King), italics(KFC, Pizza Hut, Subway). Most use primary colors exclusively. Are these elements standard idioms in logo design? Are they universal, or are they specific to North American branding?
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Regarding your first point "When our government *starts* taking away our liberties...", are you new to the party? Federal, State and Local governments long forced people to buy this or that, and eminent domain has been exercised since the days of the railroad barons. You may have some valid points, but you taint them when you pretend that this administration is doing anything to us that past administrations did not.
Trans fats *were* banned in NYC a few years ago, and the world did not end. After all, trans fats were a misguided and dangerous invention of the food industry, akin to toxic food dies and carcinogenic sweeteners. Very different though from banning salt, a natural and essential part of the human diet.
No flame. Just a sad shake of the head for your sneering attitude. Read up on Mennonites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonite). They are not the Amish, and most of their sects don't prohibit modern conveniences such as TVs. Blame the parent posts for leaving you with that impression if you must, but ultimately the responsibility was yours.
I loved my first Pre, until it went into speaker mode and would not come out. My second Pre ran fine, until about 3 PM each day when the battery would be empty. My third Pre, I coddle, because it tried to go the same way as the first. I resurrected it by swirling a denuded Q-tip in the headphone jack. Yes sir, only bluetooth headphones for my baby now. Seriously, the OS *is* brilliant compared to the others (quasi-informed, I have an iPod Touch), but come on Palm, get your hardware QA fixed.
I read this item immediately after reading the A Genetic Fountain of Youth article in Technology Review. There on page two:
The new study also implicated the protein AMPK, a component of the TOR pathway even further downstream than S6K1, as a key potential drug target. The role of AMPK is especially intriguing because it is activated by metformin, a widely prescribed drug for treating type 2 diabetes. Withers says this means it may be possible in the next few years to design clinical trials that would test metformin's ability to prevent or treat age-related diseases.
I can definitely relate. In the summer of 1974 I was a 17 year old violist at the Aspen Music Festival. Pinchas Zukerman would sometimes drop in on my teacher (Lillian Fuchs) during lessons (and made me nervous as shit). One time, he had his Guarneri viola with him, I think it was called the "King David". I didn't know what to expect when he let me try it.
The sound was huge and deeply resonant across all registers, and somewhat forgiving of imperfect attacks in bowing. Granted, my own instrument was not the pinnacle of modern instruments, but it was no inexpensive knock-off either. There was absolutely no comparison, the Guarneri suffered none of the nasal highs, weak mid-range, or dull lows of any other viola that I had ever played.
I don't know what made it a better viola, the varnish, the wood, subtleties of construction, naked virgins dancing around it to the light of the full moon. All I know is that the sound was fantastic!
So enough people here have beaten to death the bogus notion that your smartphone should be used to control [insert part of your world here]. The problem is that the legacy interface for home entertainment devices are line-of-sight, vendor specific, battery powered, easily lost, IR remote controls. Additionally, the problem with the smart universal remote is the lack of screen real-estate to help my 87 y/o mother-in-law (some Harmony remotes are the exception.) So how about:
A wii type of interface; A wand brings up a menu onscreen. Shake it once to generate power, then point at your selection.
Hand gestures; A darkened room would be no problem for the receiver if it is using an IR camera (and you are neither dead, nor wearing mittens.)
It would be the usual hack to put the smart receiver right above the screen, with IR LEDs stuck in front of the devices to control, until Sony, etc. build it in.
If considering the XO, check the specs. It looks like you can't use it at Everest base, but it won't kill it to be there.
Temperature: UL certification planned to 45C in Q32007, pending 50C certification in mid-2008;
Humidity: UL certification planned to IP42 (perhaps higher) when closed, the unit should seal well enough that children walking to and from school need not fear rainstorms and dust;
Maximum altitude: -15m to 3048m (14.7 to 10.1 PSIA) (operating), -15m to 12192m (14.7 to 4.4 PSIA) (non-operating);
You don't know me, but you attack me. I don't owe you any explanation for a post that was merely pointing out how much Understand for C++ accelerated what would have been a far more painstaking task, but you seem intent on your own preconceived notions of what a software consultant does when called in to speed up a large systems and remove unsupported products.
It isn't about making loops faster, it's not about looking at each line of code, it's about quickly finding the use of slow, obsolete libraries (in this case NetClasses from defunct CORBA pioneer Postmodern Computing), tracing the dependencies, then picking and integrating the replacement products that best fit the need. You only need the code graphing software for the first parts of the effort. It's entirely reasonable to find the bottlenecks and the dependencies in two weeks.
The point is, with the right tools, you don't have to look at 98% of the code.
Oh sad, sad noob. Don't you know: "I'm Yertle the Turtle! Oh, marvelous me! For I am the ruler of all that I see!"
Next time, RTFComment "...marking out the refactoring...". Understand for C++ is not a code editor, it's a reverse engineering, documentation and metrics tool, what the poster was looking for. With this tool any competent developer could identify the bottlenecks in 600,000 lines of legacy code. Oh, and I could change all tabs into 8 spaces and Camelclass class names with Perl in that same half-hour.
Amen! I tackled a consulting gig with this one for marking out the refactoring for a 600,000 line legacy C++ line code base. Managed it in the 15 day evaluation period too.;-)
In fact, it alludes the increasing pervasiveness of open source in businesses as causing developer shortages, and the increasing role of the big players in open source projects. These are signs of the success of the open source model, folks.
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Yes, a lifetime as far as tech stuff goes, but as far as legal action, it's the blink of an eye.
... Do the designs, rather than the products they hawk, contribute to the feelings of haste? What would happen if one tested with a logo design with these types of elements, but for a fictional brand?
As much as I enjoy the usual /. digressions, I'd love to get an analysis from anyone who designs logos for a living. I'm not a designer, but I do notice few things that the logos have in common: Most of them have either text or design elements that rise to the upper-right of the logo. Most have some sort of pointer, either arrows (Subway), a slashing underline (Pizza Hut), meteor (Burger King), italics(KFC, Pizza Hut, Subway). Most use primary colors exclusively. Are these elements standard idioms in logo design? Are they universal, or are they specific to North American branding?
Regarding your first point "When our government *starts* taking away our liberties...", are you new to the party? Federal, State and Local governments long forced people to buy this or that, and eminent domain has been exercised since the days of the railroad barons. You may have some valid points, but you taint them when you pretend that this administration is doing anything to us that past administrations did not.
Doh, dyes, not dies. Dam spiel czech.
Trans fats *were* banned in NYC a few years ago, and the world did not end. After all, trans fats were a misguided and dangerous invention of the food industry, akin to toxic food dies and carcinogenic sweeteners. Very different though from banning salt, a natural and essential part of the human diet.
Fuck you, you fuckin' fuck.
You are a true gentleman (or gentlewoman; just playing the odds, considering that this is Slashdot).
No flame. Just a sad shake of the head for your sneering attitude. Read up on Mennonites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonite). They are not the Amish, and most of their sects don't prohibit modern conveniences such as TVs. Blame the parent posts for leaving you with that impression if you must, but ultimately the responsibility was yours.
Egads! You are right! Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers.
Wow, that puts a whole new spin on June saying "Ward, I'm worried about the Beaver."
I loved my first Pre, until it went into speaker mode and would not come out. My second Pre ran fine, until about 3 PM each day when the battery would be empty. My third Pre, I coddle, because it tried to go the same way as the first. I resurrected it by swirling a denuded Q-tip in the headphone jack. Yes sir, only bluetooth headphones for my baby now. Seriously, the OS *is* brilliant compared to the others (quasi-informed, I have an iPod Touch), but come on Palm, get your hardware QA fixed.
I read this item immediately after reading the A Genetic Fountain of Youth article in Technology Review. There on page two:
The new study also implicated the protein AMPK, a component of the TOR pathway even further downstream than S6K1, as a key potential drug target. The role of AMPK is especially intriguing because it is activated by metformin, a widely prescribed drug for treating type 2 diabetes. Withers says this means it may be possible in the next few years to design clinical trials that would test metformin's ability to prevent or treat age-related diseases.
I can definitely relate. In the summer of 1974 I was a 17 year old violist at the Aspen Music Festival. Pinchas Zukerman would sometimes drop in on my teacher (Lillian Fuchs) during lessons (and made me nervous as shit). One time, he had his Guarneri viola with him, I think it was called the "King David". I didn't know what to expect when he let me try it. The sound was huge and deeply resonant across all registers, and somewhat forgiving of imperfect attacks in bowing. Granted, my own instrument was not the pinnacle of modern instruments, but it was no inexpensive knock-off either. There was absolutely no comparison, the Guarneri suffered none of the nasal highs, weak mid-range, or dull lows of any other viola that I had ever played. I don't know what made it a better viola, the varnish, the wood, subtleties of construction, naked virgins dancing around it to the light of the full moon. All I know is that the sound was fantastic!
Done. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_tower Several 10-20MW plants up and running.
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Only if you mastered time travel.
It would be the usual hack to put the smart receiver right above the screen, with IR LEDs stuck in front of the devices to control, until Sony, etc. build it in.
You don't know me, but you attack me. I don't owe you any explanation for a post that was merely pointing out how much Understand for C++ accelerated what would have been a far more painstaking task, but you seem intent on your own preconceived notions of what a software consultant does when called in to speed up a large systems and remove unsupported products.
It isn't about making loops faster, it's not about looking at each line of code, it's about quickly finding the use of slow, obsolete libraries (in this case NetClasses from defunct CORBA pioneer Postmodern Computing), tracing the dependencies, then picking and integrating the replacement products that best fit the need. You only need the code graphing software for the first parts of the effort. It's entirely reasonable to find the bottlenecks and the dependencies in two weeks.
The point is, with the right tools, you don't have to look at 98% of the code.
Oh sad, sad noob. Don't you know: "I'm Yertle the Turtle! Oh, marvelous me! For I am the ruler of all that I see!" Next time, RTFComment "...marking out the refactoring...". Understand for C++ is not a code editor, it's a reverse engineering, documentation and metrics tool, what the poster was looking for. With this tool any competent developer could identify the bottlenecks in 600,000 lines of legacy code. Oh, and I could change all tabs into 8 spaces and Camelclass class names with Perl in that same half-hour.
Amen! I tackled a consulting gig with this one for marking out the refactoring for a 600,000 line legacy C++ line code base. Managed it in the 15 day evaluation period too. ;-)
Um, 1023 actually (unless you are also crossing them.)
In fact, it alludes the increasing pervasiveness of open source in businesses as causing developer shortages, and the increasing role of the big players in open source projects. These are signs of the success of the open source model, folks.
So, what year did you wire the cave, Calibanos?
Well, well, the honorable Judge Eiler does not like it when litigants represent themselves. See http://www.soundpolitics.com/archives/003709.html