'Cuz man, like regular expressions expect the best. 'specially them posix character classes.
and then every once and a while i gotta get down and crawl my ass under some desk, find some damn cable or somethin. you gotta look good for that shit.
The use of My and of the terms Favorites, and Start, were always feeble and awkward attempts to put some sort of (grinning, goofy, half-witted) face on the slap-up bunch of functions and metaphors that Windows is. And I have always resented the presumptuous and ham-fisted way those terms co-opted me personally when I used a computer, as I had to say "My Computer" or "My Documents" which are not only stupid things to say, but also often literally incorrect: "OK, Dad, now click on 'My Computer.'"
Further, the sites I choose to remember on the web are not always favorites -- if I'm doing research on racism, I don't have any particular desire to mark some bigot's soapbox a ``Favorite.'' And the Start menu wants to suggest some kind of damn computing adventure I'm gonna have -- which is sorta true in that every new release of Windows re-orders crap according to some schizophrenic scheme. But, really, they ought to call it the "Unwieldy, Confusing, Labrynthine, Mystery Way to Get to Your Programs and God Knows What Else That May or May Not Accessible Through the (My) Computer Icon" menu.
And so, now, they're gonna call it "Computer" which is less cloying, but really doesn't improve on the fact that the Mac metaphors Windows is based offer a reasonable pleasant working environment and Windows is, at its core, a screwed mess.
This is even more extreme: developers tying themselves to what is not only a proprietary platform, but one that will almost certainly break their app as soon as MS releases the next version.
Honestly, this sounds like bitching in a vacuum to me. Maybe the client has made a bad choice, but when someone comes to you and says, "We're half way into this project, we're committed, and this is what we're using," and you bite the bullet and say, "Okay, you got me. I'll take your money"; even if it is excruciating (and I do find developing in VBA excruciating), you/I still have to find a way to get the work done. And if Microsoft breaks my work, then they'll hire me again; and I'll do more VBA programming or convince the client to use another technology.
Would've been great if I had this book as a resource a year and a half ago, and if I ever come across another Excel project, I will buy this.
Noting that 27% of the Info-tech surveyed businesses were currently using Linux, Groklaw suggest that instead of
Linux fails in small business market
VNunet could just as easily have used the headline
Nearly One-Third of All Small and Medium Sized Businesses Have Already Switched to Linux
But using isn't the same as switching. According to the referenced Joe Barr piece, the questions Info-tech asked aren't even available; and none of these articles explains what constitutes use.
I know what it is to have an hourly job. I spent years working in a cafeteria. Between college and graduate school I spent a year working in a textile mill pushing carts, cutting blankets and breathing cotton dust.
I would choose an IT management job over that life any day, but I program now, and have done IT management, and I would rather have a $50K job programming than an $80K job doing IT management. I'll live longer that way.
Without the possiblity of remuneration all human creativity will cease.
It is little known that this is the latest mutation in human evolution: the profit gene. The modern human is completely unable to function in the absence of capital (or its evil twin, debt).
But as it happens you have underestimated the gmail guys. By approaching the problem from the point of view of user goals [cooper.com], they have started from first principles and built a new way of looking at one's mailbox...
I agree, and I think that's in line with Nielsen's point about Microsoft Office: ``it is an office product based on paper. It comes out of research about how to do office automation.'' There's this presumption that we know what the functions are: to create memos, letters, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations, and that the traditional way these things have been done in the office suites is a given.
These types of tools need to be redesigned. Nielsen isn't recommending sticking a new UI on a wordprocessor backend, but designing a way of creating documents that works in a web-based world. After you design a user interface you can build a component-based system that allows for different types of interfaces (web, desktop, wireless, etc.), but the design of the interface should drive implementation of functions.
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'Cuz man, like regular expressions expect the best. 'specially them posix character classes.
and then every once and a while i gotta get down and crawl my ass under some desk, find some damn cable or somethin. you gotta look good for that shit.
Further, the sites I choose to remember on the web are not always favorites -- if I'm doing research on racism, I don't have any particular desire to mark some bigot's soapbox a ``Favorite.'' And the Start menu wants to suggest some kind of damn computing adventure I'm gonna have -- which is sorta true in that every new release of Windows re-orders crap according to some schizophrenic scheme. But, really, they ought to call it the "Unwieldy, Confusing, Labrynthine, Mystery Way to Get to Your Programs and God Knows What Else That May or May Not Accessible Through the (My) Computer Icon" menu.
And so, now, they're gonna call it "Computer" which is less cloying, but really doesn't improve on the fact that the Mac metaphors Windows is based offer a reasonable pleasant working environment and Windows is, at its core, a screwed mess.
Stick a cell phone and PDA in the thing, sell it with a belt clip, and then you've got a device you can use.
Would've been great if I had this book as a resource a year and a half ago, and if I ever come across another Excel project, I will buy this.
or you'll get stuck for the shipping costs of sending that used exercise bike to one of the moons of Saturn.
I know what it is to have an hourly job. I spent years working in a cafeteria. Between college and graduate school I spent a year working in a textile mill pushing carts, cutting blankets and breathing cotton dust.
I would choose an IT management job over that life any day, but I program now, and have done IT management, and I would rather have a $50K job programming than an $80K job doing IT management. I'll live longer that way.
Without the possiblity of remuneration all human creativity will cease. It is little known that this is the latest mutation in human evolution: the profit gene. The modern human is completely unable to function in the absence of capital (or its evil twin, debt).
... to see pure malice adulterated by greed.
I agree, and I think that's in line with Nielsen's point about Microsoft Office: ``it is an office product based on paper. It comes out of research about how to do office automation.'' There's this presumption that we know what the functions are: to create memos, letters, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations, and that the traditional way these things have been done in the office suites is a given.
These types of tools need to be redesigned. Nielsen isn't recommending sticking a new UI on a wordprocessor backend, but designing a way of creating documents that works in a web-based world. After you design a user interface you can build a component-based system that allows for different types of interfaces (web, desktop, wireless, etc.), but the design of the interface should drive implementation of functions.