Dinner for Geeks only? For once it pays to be in that population.
The real problem is Click Fraud. One of these days their advertising program is going to have to cut out click fraud, and their profits will drop by 75%.
- If you can't solder integrated components onto a motherboard, you shouldn't be allowed to program
- If you can't fix a piston engine, you shouldn't be allowed to drive
- If you can't write your own movie scripts, you shouldn't be allowed to act
- If you can't build your own lunar rover, you shouldn't be allowed to drive one around the moon
- If you don't develop your own film, you shouldn't be allowed to shoot photography
- If you can't build a brick wall, you shouldn't be allowed to pour design buildings
- If you can't sing, you shouldn't be allowed to play drums
Design is a set of skills, just as programming is, and it can lend a lot to the process, and is noticeable when absent. The fact many programmers think coding skill makes up for their lack of design and human factors knowledge is ridiculous.
The best design tool in the world is a blank piece of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Learn to use it.
Don't those jerks from FSF have anything better to do? Here are a couple suggestions:
1) Write better documentation for your open source apps. 2) Create better installers that don't require me to re-complie your software to get it to work right. 3) Spend some time trying to explain what your apps do to people who DIDN'T write them. 4) Get that "Mac killer" desktop you keep talking about done. 5) Take a shower and get a girlfriend.
AT&T bills you an amount to collect the state and federal taxes. They add in whatever they want at whatever point and claim it's related to collecting the taxes.
More people should ask the questions you're asking. Make them sweat.
Have been saying this for years. For 120 AC power there's a standard plug. Why do I have to have a dozen different transformer bricks underneath my desk to power all of my computer, network, and phone stuff?
We all know a dozen languages here, and we all know they have overlapping roots, but are focused on different things.
Each new language tries to take what's good about the past, but re-focuses on the new type of problem. At the same time, it creates or opens itself up to new issues, which take some time to resolve. I find the third generation of a programming language usually hits the mark.
* Generation 1 - Hot, New, and Filled with Hype for what it does, but kind of buggy
* Generation 2 - Less hype, but better adept at filling the holes in Generation 1.
* Generation 3 - Almost no hype, but solid language. Very useful features added that weren't predicted in Generation 1
When in high school (1985-1988) I started a mailorder company to distribute books from Delta Press and Loompanics.
I sold them all over the U.S. and made much more money than my friends with summer jobs.
Can you imagine the firestorm if some 16-17 year old did that in a post-columbine, post-911 world?
OK, let's say LCD monitor, medium ambient light, 1 hour of reading, 30 year old office worker. Give me your formula for calculating the correct font colors....
Um. Are you really saying that there's a different color scheme for each of these factors? That's a bit arrogant.
Human Factors study is really, and the answer to the proposed question does exist.
I go with the following, based on several different studies:
Dark Blue on White scores the highest, but Black on White comes in close second.
A San-Serif font is easiest to read on screen.
A Serif font is easier to read in print.
Anyone else find it funny that the biggest names on the identity fraud list are the same large financial institutions found on Lou Dobb's "Exporting America" list?
Are we simply getting our financial information ripped off from our cheapo call centers in India?
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I agree, it's much handier to carry 6 devices around than one, single, device. FAIL.
Dinner for Geeks only? For once it pays to be in that population.
The real problem is Click Fraud. One of these days their advertising program is going to have to cut out click fraud, and their profits will drop by 75%.
Reading the article, it sounds like he took code the airforce owned, modded it, then tried to sell it back to the airforce.
That's not good.
I agree.
Some other things that get stuck in my crawl:
- If you can't solder integrated components onto a motherboard, you shouldn't be allowed to program
- If you can't fix a piston engine, you shouldn't be allowed to drive
- If you can't write your own movie scripts, you shouldn't be allowed to act
- If you can't build your own lunar rover, you shouldn't be allowed to drive one around the moon
- If you don't develop your own film, you shouldn't be allowed to shoot photography
- If you can't build a brick wall, you shouldn't be allowed to pour design buildings
- If you can't sing, you shouldn't be allowed to play drums
Design is a set of skills, just as programming is, and it can lend a lot to the process, and is noticeable when absent. The fact many programmers think coding skill makes up for their lack of design and human factors knowledge is ridiculous.
The best design tool in the world is a blank piece of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Learn to use it.
Don't those jerks from FSF have anything better to do? Here are a couple suggestions:
1) Write better documentation for your open source apps.
2) Create better installers that don't require me to re-complie your software to get it to work right.
3) Spend some time trying to explain what your apps do to people who DIDN'T write them.
4) Get that "Mac killer" desktop you keep talking about done.
5) Take a shower and get a girlfriend.
AT&T bills you an amount to collect the state and federal taxes. They add in whatever they want at whatever point and claim it's related to collecting the taxes.
More people should ask the questions you're asking. Make them sweat.
OK, Kurt
I love the armchair philosophers here.
Research says that on screen readability is best with dark blue on white, followed closely by black on white.
1) Apple doesn't want to be in the RAM upgrade business.
2) George Bush doesn't care about black people.
We all know these things are true. Why are we still arguing?
Privacy Act of 1974
1) Understand the business problem
2) Solve the business problem
3) Profit
Have been saying this for years. For 120 AC power there's a standard plug. Why do I have to have a dozen different transformer bricks underneath my desk to power all of my computer, network, and phone stuff?
Journalism Degree,
No Math or Science,
Classes Needed
We all know a dozen languages here, and we all know they have overlapping roots, but are focused on different things.
Each new language tries to take what's good about the past, but re-focuses on the new type of problem. At the same time, it creates or opens itself up to new issues, which take some time to resolve. I find the third generation of a programming language usually hits the mark.
* Generation 1 - Hot, New, and Filled with Hype for what it does, but kind of buggy
* Generation 2 - Less hype, but better adept at filling the holes in Generation 1.
* Generation 3 - Almost no hype, but solid language. Very useful features added that weren't predicted in Generation 1
I have to agree. You're worried about outgrowning Notepad? Just use WordPad. Problem solved.
When in high school (1985-1988) I started a mailorder company to distribute books from Delta Press and Loompanics. I sold them all over the U.S. and made much more money than my friends with summer jobs. Can you imagine the firestorm if some 16-17 year old did that in a post-columbine, post-911 world?
At Least it's not Silverlight...
OK, let's say LCD monitor, medium ambient light, 1 hour of reading, 30 year old office worker. Give me your formula for calculating the correct font colors....
Um. Are you really saying that there's a different color scheme for each of these factors? That's a bit arrogant. Human Factors study is really, and the answer to the proposed question does exist. I go with the following, based on several different studies: Dark Blue on White scores the highest, but Black on White comes in close second. A San-Serif font is easiest to read on screen. A Serif font is easier to read in print.
Psych was HARD to major in. The easy classes were the business classes I took to fill out the minor.
I was the only student who asked questions.
I have studied AI, and think we're a long way off.
I got the MASTERS in technology.
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/popups/exporting.america/content.html
Anyone else find it funny that the biggest names on the identity fraud list are the same large financial institutions found on Lou Dobb's "Exporting America" list?
Are we simply getting our financial information ripped off from our cheapo call centers in India?
How do large companies get away with selling then delivering crap? I always have to make my stuff work before I get paid.
I only work for companies that are referred to me by other companies I trust.
Working for people you don't know is a pain in the ass.
There's always TestTrack LMS. www.ttlms.com
Course development and deployment all online.
It's more focused on corporations, not academia, however.
It lacks the chat rooms you might find in similar tools.