I have to admit, aside from the powerful perception issue, how does share price after the initial issuance of shares really affect a company? It's not like they're actually losing money as far as I can tell.
I actually tried to play NOVA, a FPS game that came on my Droid 3. It's impossible to play via touchscreen for me - but part of that I think is the screen is too small for the UI elements to be far enough apart for me to consistently hit the one I want. Maybe on a 24" I'd have enough room.
That said, I can't see how it would work well with me jabbing at it. I'd have to have it bolted to something more sturdy than the general monitor stands we use here. Even the continued force of keyboard typing if near the top of the monitor would cause it to sway alarmingly. And it's certainly not amenable to being held like the phone. . .
Weird 3rd party hardware. Like some National Instruments cards. . . Labview itself - some of it runs on Linux, but not all of it.
Or special Matlab plugins that only run on Windows (why? I have no idea, Matlab itself runs fine on Linux).
Or people who call the shots who "can't use" anything but Windows.
Or custom internal code that only runs on Windows. Built by a consultant who just refuses to make it a web app - and the powers that be aren't going to dump a large project over some Windows boxes to run the front end.
I suppose it depends on your goal. I've basically moved gaming to consoles. Why? Because I've accepted I have different general purpose goals for my general purpose PC than the game companies.
But my Console is special purpose - it does (well, for me anyway) one thing - plays games. And the games *always* work. I've yet to experience a game that is technically unplayable (sadly, there are games where the content is unplayable, but there are books the same etc...) on my PS3. So my goals are actually aligned here - I buy the games, I play the games.
This way, the OS breaking **** from many DRMed games doesn't actually break my "get stuff done" PC. I also don't have to upgrade as often - I can still get "new to me" games for the PS2, and expect my PS3 to last for years longer than my average gaming graphics card or even entire PC.
One other thing on Dragon Age is the maze like outdoors areas also, or at least the early "wilds". For me, it's like a continual mystery how to get from here to there, I feel pretty lost much of the time. Contrasted to, say, White Knight (which was admittedly a mediocre game at best), where I never felt at all as lost.
I don't know if it's because the mini map covers such a small area or the particular level design, but I do find it unusually hard to navigate for a game level.
That's sort of necessary I think. One of the things that works for games as a puzzle but really screws up disbelief I found in Dragon Age (and I just started playing, so hey, I like the discount price for Ultimate Edition) is the maze like level design.
I mean, in the magi tower in the beginning (if you play a mage anyway), who designs a building like that (unless maybe you're a college campus)? Pretty much every building I've ever been in has the up/down stairs in the same vertical space - you're not going up one level, going through a maze to go up another level. RPG games do this a lot though, it's like, ok first run through is cool - what a nice awesome building etc... but then you're like, geeze it's a pain to traverse this place from day to day.
I'm pretty sure if you don't have one image per OS version, i.e. one XP x32 and one Win7 x64 that you deploy to all hardware, you're doing it wrong now adays. You shouldn't need a new image for each type of desktop, laptop etc you buy.
This actually seems to me like again expecting me to buy tools for my job for the company rather than having the company purchase the tools for me to use. Which I suppose could be ok (I think many mechanics etc work like this), but with the company likely wanting ownership over how *my* device works.
My property, my rules. Company property, company rules IMO. This is why my Droid 3 isn't connected to the central Exchange server, they don't get to wipe my personal property.
Hmmm, I'm an IT professional - not management, but not a hobbyist...
My main problem with the article is that it for some reason assumes that for IT the random end users should be setting business policy. This seems patently absurd to me - any business I've worked in doesn't let the individual employees actively set Legal, Financial, strategic, purchasing, etc policy so why does it make sense for IT?
That's not to say I wouldn't support an iPad, just that the mandate for it should come from management, not an end user who got a new birthday present.
The biggest problem for Macs that I can see is that Apple doesn't actually care about the enterprise, so no management platform I'm aware of, and that they randomly break stuff just as much as microsoft does - i.e. if you use Lion, you can't connect to a samba share unless you don't use the samba build Apple provides. I recall a version or two ago, they had done the same thing with Perl.
Not to mention that there's all sorts of fun with working with Exchange, though that may be MS as much as Apple (and the fact that users never listen to update their mail client)...
What really gets me is that many (newish) mobile devices are in the 800x600 range resolution wise. I remember getting by just fine with 640x480 and such with Windows 95... With all the now "bad" interface elements . . .
Especially on anyone running on a desktop OS, if you've got less than 1400x900ish, you're likely unusual. Now, if you're running Android or iOS, sure, you've probably got a small screen, but tablets at least are close to circa 1995 computer resolutions, so I'm still at a loss as to why the (amount of) interface elements worked then and don't now...
To head it off, I get that touch requires a different UI. I'm just not sure that it implies that every UI should be different, especially on classic non-touch devices.
First the obvious, you gain some vertical screen space, which is always handy on modern widescreen monitors.
Personally, I think this just points out the stupidity of widescreen monitors much more than any advantage of program design. In fact, if you do have to fix it in software (and I guess you do), how about we put the useful controls on the sides of the screen rather than getting rid of them?
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You know, considering that almost no one I know at any level of experience actually intuits much if anything from any UI, great to use seems like a good goal. Too many apps try and be easy to learn, but you only learn the app once (until they try and make it easier to learn, natch).
Then I often find that the things that are supposedly easy to learn are actually pretty difficult to use over and over again.
I'm thinking menus for instance. Great for discovering stuff, or figuring out what you can do. But how painful is it for you to watch a user who highlights some text, goes and clicks on "Edit", brings the mouse way back down, clicks, goes way back up to Edit, selects paste... This takes about 10 times as long in my experience than selecting text, ctrl-c move pointer ctrl-v. And that's just a really simple example.
Watch a master of vi (or I suppose Emacs, but I know vi users) work, and it's about 10 times faster total vs starting up, say, Kedit to do the same thing, and not just in saving X startup/rendering time.
Now, sure, for things you do once a year, or once a month even, simple to figure out is great, because you basically re-figure it out each time you do it. At least I do as I forget the specifics of things I do quite infrequently.
But for things you do multiple times a day, harder to learn is well worth it if it's easier to do.
You know who to ask for permission if you want to license the work... If the registered person is dead or declared legally dead - the work is now public domain.
If someone comes to me and says they want to spend $450-$550, I tell them I'd expect to replace it in 1-2 years. Maybe I've lost my builders touch, but I haven't seen any build at that price that's going to last.
$1500 for a Lenovo S20 4105O3U + 12GB RAM from crucial and Win 7 Pro... That will go for 3-5 years at a minimum. . .
Why do blogs need to be copyrighted? I mean, they're copied and pasted all over anyway. And I still think that it's fine to make it the burden of the person who wants special government protection rather than the burden of everyone else.
If you don't care (as I'll posit many don't), don't register. If you do care, register.
Maybe a blog post doesn't need the same level of protection a book or movie does?
And hey, the registration could be automatic - person lists their URL, copies their post, puts in the credit card for the cost / verification and done. Dumped in a database (save the CC details). Much of this could be done by the blog posting software itself...
Naw, encrypt it and post it to Usenet with appropriate PAR2 sets. Now you've got free geographical redundancies... Re-post the dataset every 700 days or so to keep it on spool...
It seems to me that if we went back to copyright requiring registration and donation of the copy of the work to the Library of Congress, and just added a rule that the only person you have to check with is the person named in the registration with the LoC - this would be solved. The person named in the LoC is dead? Public Domain.
Just have the executor of the will have the responsibility to update the registration at the LoC.
Specifically, make the onus on the copyright holder - the recipient of special social privileges rather than the current issue where everyone else has to jump through hoops.
I'm not sure how this works exactly, but if it's anything like the Freenet hashes you use as URIs, it's a big FAIL due to being slow and flaky as to whether you can resolve anything.
That's all right, Comodo and other security software already offer to set your DNS to a "secure" DNS server (I can't comment on how true that statement is, but it's a different DNS server anyway) - and I'll bet they'll be advertising DNSSEC or whatever on the DNS serves they're using as another feature pretty quick...
The problem with this entire answer is it's basically: Hire an enterprise network admin or become a wifi hobbyist. Neither is ever going to happen for the vast majority of users.
The thing that always gets me is - don't you need a specific sort of WiFi card that you can put in promiscuous mode for this to work? And one that works under the particular flavor of OS your tool is on... So you probably can't just drop a LiveCD into random laptop and go to town. . .
That makes more sense, though I would wonder indeed where he's getting incomplete archives regularly... Most any download program is going to support resuming, or the files ought to be small enough to just re-download. . .
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I have to admit, aside from the powerful perception issue, how does share price after the initial issuance of shares really affect a company? It's not like they're actually losing money as far as I can tell.
I actually tried to play NOVA, a FPS game that came on my Droid 3. It's impossible to play via touchscreen for me - but part of that I think is the screen is too small for the UI elements to be far enough apart for me to consistently hit the one I want. Maybe on a 24" I'd have enough room.
That said, I can't see how it would work well with me jabbing at it. I'd have to have it bolted to something more sturdy than the general monitor stands we use here. Even the continued force of keyboard typing if near the top of the monitor would cause it to sway alarmingly. And it's certainly not amenable to being held like the phone. . .
Weird 3rd party hardware. Like some National Instruments cards. . . Labview itself - some of it runs on Linux, but not all of it.
Or special Matlab plugins that only run on Windows (why? I have no idea, Matlab itself runs fine on Linux).
Or people who call the shots who "can't use" anything but Windows.
Or custom internal code that only runs on Windows. Built by a consultant who just refuses to make it a web app - and the powers that be aren't going to dump a large project over some Windows boxes to run the front end.
I suppose it depends on your goal. I've basically moved gaming to consoles. Why? Because I've accepted I have different general purpose goals for my general purpose PC than the game companies.
But my Console is special purpose - it does (well, for me anyway) one thing - plays games. And the games *always* work. I've yet to experience a game that is technically unplayable (sadly, there are games where the content is unplayable, but there are books the same etc...) on my PS3. So my goals are actually aligned here - I buy the games, I play the games.
This way, the OS breaking **** from many DRMed games doesn't actually break my "get stuff done" PC. I also don't have to upgrade as often - I can still get "new to me" games for the PS2, and expect my PS3 to last for years longer than my average gaming graphics card or even entire PC.
One other thing on Dragon Age is the maze like outdoors areas also, or at least the early "wilds". For me, it's like a continual mystery how to get from here to there, I feel pretty lost much of the time. Contrasted to, say, White Knight (which was admittedly a mediocre game at best), where I never felt at all as lost.
I don't know if it's because the mini map covers such a small area or the particular level design, but I do find it unusually hard to navigate for a game level.
That's sort of necessary I think. One of the things that works for games as a puzzle but really screws up disbelief I found in Dragon Age (and I just started playing, so hey, I like the discount price for Ultimate Edition) is the maze like level design.
I mean, in the magi tower in the beginning (if you play a mage anyway), who designs a building like that (unless maybe you're a college campus)? Pretty much every building I've ever been in has the up/down stairs in the same vertical space - you're not going up one level, going through a maze to go up another level. RPG games do this a lot though, it's like, ok first run through is cool - what a nice awesome building etc... but then you're like, geeze it's a pain to traverse this place from day to day.
I'm pretty sure if you don't have one image per OS version, i.e. one XP x32 and one Win7 x64 that you deploy to all hardware, you're doing it wrong now adays. You shouldn't need a new image for each type of desktop, laptop etc you buy.
That, was quite good. And I agree, the review works better as a sort of short story then the game.
I just wish there was an Android etc OpenVPN client without having to root the device.
This actually seems to me like again expecting me to buy tools for my job for the company rather than having the company purchase the tools for me to use. Which I suppose could be ok (I think many mechanics etc work like this), but with the company likely wanting ownership over how *my* device works.
My property, my rules. Company property, company rules IMO. This is why my Droid 3 isn't connected to the central Exchange server, they don't get to wipe my personal property.
Hmmm, I'm an IT professional - not management, but not a hobbyist...
My main problem with the article is that it for some reason assumes that for IT the random end users should be setting business policy. This seems patently absurd to me - any business I've worked in doesn't let the individual employees actively set Legal, Financial, strategic, purchasing, etc policy so why does it make sense for IT?
That's not to say I wouldn't support an iPad, just that the mandate for it should come from management, not an end user who got a new birthday present.
The biggest problem for Macs that I can see is that Apple doesn't actually care about the enterprise, so no management platform I'm aware of, and that they randomly break stuff just as much as microsoft does - i.e. if you use Lion, you can't connect to a samba share unless you don't use the samba build Apple provides. I recall a version or two ago, they had done the same thing with Perl.
Not to mention that there's all sorts of fun with working with Exchange, though that may be MS as much as Apple (and the fact that users never listen to update their mail client)...
What really gets me is that many (newish) mobile devices are in the 800x600 range resolution wise. I remember getting by just fine with 640x480 and such with Windows 95... With all the now "bad" interface elements . . .
Especially on anyone running on a desktop OS, if you've got less than 1400x900ish, you're likely unusual. Now, if you're running Android or iOS, sure, you've probably got a small screen, but tablets at least are close to circa 1995 computer resolutions, so I'm still at a loss as to why the (amount of) interface elements worked then and don't now...
To head it off, I get that touch requires a different UI. I'm just not sure that it implies that every UI should be different, especially on classic non-touch devices.
First the obvious, you gain some vertical screen space, which is always handy on modern widescreen monitors.
Personally, I think this just points out the stupidity of widescreen monitors much more than any advantage of program design. In fact, if you do have to fix it in software (and I guess you do), how about we put the useful controls on the sides of the screen rather than getting rid of them?
You know, considering that almost no one I know at any level of experience actually intuits much if anything from any UI, great to use seems like a good goal. Too many apps try and be easy to learn, but you only learn the app once (until they try and make it easier to learn, natch).
Then I often find that the things that are supposedly easy to learn are actually pretty difficult to use over and over again.
I'm thinking menus for instance. Great for discovering stuff, or figuring out what you can do. But how painful is it for you to watch a user who highlights some text, goes and clicks on "Edit", brings the mouse way back down, clicks, goes way back up to Edit, selects paste... This takes about 10 times as long in my experience than selecting text, ctrl-c move pointer ctrl-v. And that's just a really simple example.
Watch a master of vi (or I suppose Emacs, but I know vi users) work, and it's about 10 times faster total vs starting up, say, Kedit to do the same thing, and not just in saving X startup/rendering time.
Now, sure, for things you do once a year, or once a month even, simple to figure out is great, because you basically re-figure it out each time you do it. At least I do as I forget the specifics of things I do quite infrequently.
But for things you do multiple times a day, harder to learn is well worth it if it's easier to do.
You know who to ask for permission if you want to license the work... If the registered person is dead or declared legally dead - the work is now public domain.
If someone comes to me and says they want to spend $450-$550, I tell them I'd expect to replace it in 1-2 years. Maybe I've lost my builders touch, but I haven't seen any build at that price that's going to last.
$1500 for a Lenovo S20 4105O3U + 12GB RAM from crucial and Win 7 Pro... That will go for 3-5 years at a minimum. . .
Why do blogs need to be copyrighted? I mean, they're copied and pasted all over anyway. And I still think that it's fine to make it the burden of the person who wants special government protection rather than the burden of everyone else.
If you don't care (as I'll posit many don't), don't register. If you do care, register.
Maybe a blog post doesn't need the same level of protection a book or movie does?
And hey, the registration could be automatic - person lists their URL, copies their post, puts in the credit card for the cost / verification and done. Dumped in a database (save the CC details). Much of this could be done by the blog posting software itself...
Naw, encrypt it and post it to Usenet with appropriate PAR2 sets. Now you've got free geographical redundancies... Re-post the dataset every 700 days or so to keep it on spool...
It seems to me that if we went back to copyright requiring registration and donation of the copy of the work to the Library of Congress, and just added a rule that the only person you have to check with is the person named in the registration with the LoC - this would be solved. The person named in the LoC is dead? Public Domain.
Just have the executor of the will have the responsibility to update the registration at the LoC.
Specifically, make the onus on the copyright holder - the recipient of special social privileges rather than the current issue where everyone else has to jump through hoops.
I'm not sure how this works exactly, but if it's anything like the Freenet hashes you use as URIs, it's a big FAIL due to being slow and flaky as to whether you can resolve anything.
That's all right, Comodo and other security software already offer to set your DNS to a "secure" DNS server (I can't comment on how true that statement is, but it's a different DNS server anyway) - and I'll bet they'll be advertising DNSSEC or whatever on the DNS serves they're using as another feature pretty quick...
The problem with this entire answer is it's basically:
Hire an enterprise network admin or become a wifi hobbyist.
Neither is ever going to happen for the vast majority of users.
The thing that always gets me is - don't you need a specific sort of WiFi card that you can put in promiscuous mode for this to work? And one that works under the particular flavor of OS your tool is on... So you probably can't just drop a LiveCD into random laptop and go to town. . .
Or has it gotten so that any wifi card works now?
That makes more sense, though I would wonder indeed where he's getting incomplete archives regularly... Most any download program is going to support resuming, or the files ought to be small enough to just re-download. . .