Nintendo should have pushed indie game developing a lot more
Yeah. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but XNA and XBLA were fantastic ideas that have led to some great games. Same with Apple and iPhone apps. You pay $100 and off you go. But Nintendo...$2000 for the SDK? Ick.
This has always been Nintendo's biggest weakness. While their in-house development is good, they have an abysmal track record when it comes to third-party support. With the reinvention of the one-man "indie" developer this problem is exacerbated.
Six months later, the Demon Internet CEO is replaced with the Fluffy Bunny CEO, after a sexual harassment lawsuit is filed by half of the board of directors. Fluffy Bunny commits to network neutrality, and cheap, high speed internet access for all. Demon Internet CEO seen a short while after the trial on the corner wearing black boy shorts and a bow tie as the newest strawberry in the unemployment line. Fluffy Bunny calls Sally into the office, makes her the new head network administrator, and she installs linux on everything, saving the company a fortune. And since this wouldn't be slashdot without some kind of sexual commentary -- Sally also sets up her own dungeon between several racks of blade servers, a webcam, and begins posting her payback sessions to fund some much-needed hardware upgrades.:P
The stories are funnier when they are fictitious, Sally.
Bottom line is that I hate having tools move around when I use them
In fact when I develop applications now I disable contextually useless items but not hide them so the user does not waste time looking for a tool they shouldn't be using.
The contextual ribbons are always in the same place, to the right of the functional ribbons. In what way are things constantly moving around?
I know the argument, but with people going with wide-screen laptops and the like, screen real-estate is at a premium, especially at the top of the screen. The menu-bar is small and compact, The ribbon is not. Even if the ribbon goes on the left or the right, it still eats up pixels. I much prefer right clicking for context, but that's just me.
You can minimize the ribbons, to only show the heads if real estate is at a premium. While minimized they take up no more space than the traditional menu.
I know I probably hold a minority opinion here, but I disagree with your points on usability compared to the traditional menu. The ribbon system allows for the logical grouping of actions by function. This allows for a more intuitive interface for the standard user. They also have context-aware ribbons, such as picture and table editing which appear and hide themselves only when you are working on that specific object. In addition, every common action can be performed in two mouse clicks or less: one to select the ribbon governing what you would like, and one more to select the specific action. The ribbons also make certain actions, such as style sets and themes much easier through the use of previews. Gone are the menus that go halfway down the screen. Gone are the submenus nested three layers deep.
It seems logical that older security issues are more well-known and documented than newer ones. Is it possible that the results do not point to an improvement in coding quality so much as an inability to detect newer flaws as accurately older flaws?
Also, I wonder how well these systems will handle contextual clues that people pick up on automatically? Is that person moving in a suspicious manner because they are a terrorist, or because they are just carrying some heavy bags? Are they going to blow the place up, or are they just rushing to catch up with someone?
I clicked the link to FreedomSite.Org, but they block it here at the office. (Yes, I know, that isn't censorship since it isn't the government - I'm lucky they let me browse Slashdot at all)
Censorship is censorship, regardless of whose doing it. Legality is a different matter.
It is in the FCC's interest to keep lowering the speed required for something to be classified as "broadband". This allows a greater percentage of the country to have "broadband saturation" and thus, it makes the FCC look like they are doing a great job.
These distortions of statistics are already used by the government to great effect in other areas, such as unemployment and GDP, and the public eat it up.
Getting their way is something Microsoft excels at. It is easy when you have access to their resources and the outlook to dominate any market they enter.
This seems silly. Why wouldn't you just zero out the drive once and be done with it? Does anyone here have a documented case of someone being able to recover data from a drive like that?
Banks and corporations are working hand in hand to make sure as many people are underwater as possible. Why else would your credit score go down when you cancel a credit card, and also go down when you get a new credit card?
There are several factors involved in credit scores. Among them are the total utilization of your revolving credit and the average age of credit.
Canceling an old card would lower your average age of credit, and it will also lower your total credit and thus raise your utilization. This is why it negatively impacts your score. Starting a new card helps some in that it will raise your total credit and thus your utilization goes down. This is outweighed by the fact that it is bringing down your average age of credit.
While there is a lot of bullshit involved in credit reporting and scoring, this is not part of it. These factors are all in place to gauge how reliable and credit worthy a potential borrower is.
I mean really. We can get a page telling us the site doesn't exist, or we can be re-directed to a search engine which can help us find what we were looking for.
Yeah it helps pimp Microsoft, but I figure if you are using their browser, it is fair game.
Standards exist for a reason. If vendors behaves in a non-uniform manner then it makes the development of protocols and software much more challenging. More importantly, it stifles the entire industry.
Speaking of standards, the summary should be using example.com for their domain.
I'm not that familiar with the process, but don't these registrars require accreditation from ICANN to operate? If so, then ICANN has full control here. Why don't they take disciplinary action against offenders?
Slashdot Mirror
Alliterate people annoy me.
Agreed. Alliterate assholes.
Google's googol garnering a gaggle of generous gentlemen.
You have a quote directly attributed to Ballmer, and your source is some dude's tweet. Sounds legit to me.
The interesting question is NOT why Idaho state spams the most, but WHY usa spams so much
This is a list of the most spammed states, meaning the ones which receive the most spam. Not the ones which send the most.
Yeah. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but XNA and XBLA were fantastic ideas that have led to some great games. Same with Apple and iPhone apps. You pay $100 and off you go. But Nintendo...$2000 for the SDK? Ick.
This has always been Nintendo's biggest weakness. While their in-house development is good, they have an abysmal track record when it comes to third-party support. With the reinvention of the one-man "indie" developer this problem is exacerbated.
Great, I just got an diabetes and an erection from reading your post.
Sounds like you need an insulin erection.
Six months later, the Demon Internet CEO is replaced with the Fluffy Bunny CEO, after a sexual harassment lawsuit is filed by half of the board of directors. Fluffy Bunny commits to network neutrality, and cheap, high speed internet access for all. Demon Internet CEO seen a short while after the trial on the corner wearing black boy shorts and a bow tie as the newest strawberry in the unemployment line. Fluffy Bunny calls Sally into the office, makes her the new head network administrator, and she installs linux on everything, saving the company a fortune. And since this wouldn't be slashdot without some kind of sexual commentary -- Sally also sets up her own dungeon between several racks of blade servers, a webcam, and begins posting her payback sessions to fund some much-needed hardware upgrades. :P
The stories are funnier when they are fictitious, Sally.
Demon's going to have hell to pay.
Bottom line is that I hate having tools move around when I use them
In fact when I develop applications now I disable contextually useless items but not hide them so the user does not waste time looking for a tool they shouldn't be using.
The contextual ribbons are always in the same place, to the right of the functional ribbons. In what way are things constantly moving around?
I know the argument, but with people going with wide-screen laptops and the like, screen real-estate is at a premium, especially at the top of the screen. The menu-bar is small and compact, The ribbon is not. Even if the ribbon goes on the left or the right, it still eats up pixels. I much prefer right clicking for context, but that's just me.
You can minimize the ribbons, to only show the heads if real estate is at a premium. While minimized they take up no more space than the traditional menu.
I know I probably hold a minority opinion here, but I disagree with your points on usability compared to the traditional menu. The ribbon system allows for the logical grouping of actions by function. This allows for a more intuitive interface for the standard user. They also have context-aware ribbons, such as picture and table editing which appear and hide themselves only when you are working on that specific object. In addition, every common action can be performed in two mouse clicks or less: one to select the ribbon governing what you would like, and one more to select the specific action. The ribbons also make certain actions, such as style sets and themes much easier through the use of previews. Gone are the menus that go halfway down the screen. Gone are the submenus nested three layers deep.
It seems logical that older security issues are more well-known and documented than newer ones. Is it possible that the results do not point to an improvement in coding quality so much as an inability to detect newer flaws as accurately older flaws?
Activision Blizzard and Marvel Disney, what's next? Googlesoft?
I prefer Microogle.
Also, I wonder how well these systems will handle contextual clues that people pick up on automatically? Is that person moving in a suspicious manner because they are a terrorist, or because they are just carrying some heavy bags? Are they going to blow the place up, or are they just rushing to catch up with someone?
What a great way to absolve any personal responsibility. Detained wrongfully? Not our fault, the machine said you were moving like a terrorist.
On Monday, a white South Africa was granted asylum - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8233004.stm
TWO things in one week?! Give those people a raise!
I clicked the link to FreedomSite.Org, but they block it here at the office. (Yes, I know, that isn't censorship since it isn't the government - I'm lucky they let me browse Slashdot at all)
Censorship is censorship, regardless of whose doing it. Legality is a different matter.
I'm in the "open source world".
Should I stop caring about Burger King because I can't run Linux on a Whopper?
It is in the FCC's interest to keep lowering the speed required for something to be classified as "broadband". This allows a greater percentage of the country to have "broadband saturation" and thus, it makes the FCC look like they are doing a great job.
These distortions of statistics are already used by the government to great effect in other areas, such as unemployment and GDP, and the public eat it up.
Getting their way is something Microsoft excels at. It is easy when you have access to their resources and the outlook to dominate any market they enter.
Powerpoint.
In this case it appears that the courts will not have the last word.
This seems silly. Why wouldn't you just zero out the drive once and be done with it? Does anyone here have a documented case of someone being able to recover data from a drive like that?
Banks and corporations are working hand in hand to make sure as many people are underwater as possible. Why else would your credit score go down when you cancel a credit card, and also go down when you get a new credit card?
There are several factors involved in credit scores. Among them are the total utilization of your revolving credit and the average age of credit.
Canceling an old card would lower your average age of credit, and it will also lower your total credit and thus raise your utilization. This is why it negatively impacts your score. Starting a new card helps some in that it will raise your total credit and thus your utilization goes down. This is outweighed by the fact that it is bringing down your average age of credit.
While there is a lot of bullshit involved in credit reporting and scoring, this is not part of it. These factors are all in place to gauge how reliable and credit worthy a potential borrower is.
I mean really. We can get a page telling us the site doesn't exist, or we can be re-directed to a search engine which can help us find what we were looking for. Yeah it helps pimp Microsoft, but I figure if you are using their browser, it is fair game.
Standards exist for a reason. If vendors behaves in a non-uniform manner then it makes the development of protocols and software much more challenging. More importantly, it stifles the entire industry.
Speaking of standards, the summary should be using example.com for their domain.
I'm not that familiar with the process, but don't these registrars require accreditation from ICANN to operate? If so, then ICANN has full control here. Why don't they take disciplinary action against offenders?