Not always, by any means--things often change at the last minute. Just an example: Yo-Yo Ma played with some students at Patrick Deval's inaugral gala last week (http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.b g?articleid=174458). One song they played he finished arranging at 2:00PM the afternoon of the performance, faxed it over to where the students were waiting, and rehearsed with them at 3:30 PM. They performed it a few hours later. Oh, they knew what they were playing in a vague sense before then--they knew the song--but they didn't know the details of what notes they were expected to play (the arrangement). It's not so different from software development after all--in fact, that was the third arrangement of the same song they had been given. Changing requirements, anyone?
Stars think that because of the fact that they are famous and are seen by millions of people, they have the right to have an opinion about anything.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
So do you, apparently;-)
They do have the right to have an opinion on anything. What are you, the thought police? "No, you aren't allowed to think about that! STOP! Double-plus-ungood!"
They might not always be right... but they certainly have the right to think and say what they want.
What is an "alert box"? The name doesn't describe anything to me.
"Alertbox" is the name of the column. Usability doesn't mean that everything has to have purely descriptive unoriginal names.
Where's the site map link? If this is Jacob Nielsen's page, why is it called useit.com?
At the very top of the page there is a heirarchy allowing you to go back to the useit.com main page, or to the list of all Alertbox articles. This is more usefal than most sitemaps, IMO. As for the name of the site, this is the same as your complaint about "Alertbox." Do you want every personal website on the internet to be titled "Firstname Lastname's Site," at www.firstnameLastname.com, or something? useit.com suggests (correctly) that the site is something about usability, and is shorter and more memorable than JakobNielsen.com. That sounds like a good usability decision to me.
Does anyone else question why we are taking user interface advice from a guy whose website looks like it was designed in notepad?
No. Do you find it hard to read, or something?
Your UID is even higher than mine, which betrays that you're new here. This is Jakob Nielsen we're talking about. He's not just some random dude with a website written in Notepad. He's a well-known UI expert with a (simple and) easy to read website which looks like it could very well have been written in Notepad. There's a big difference. He may not always be right, but he does have significant credentials.
And I've looked at the IHT at my hotel room desk, and had RSS feeds that had already scrolled past every single major piece in the IHT. It was neither newsworthy, nor bereft of US propaganda. It seemed constantly sanitized, trying to put on some weird patina of neutrality.
You're obviously a fan and not eager to look at it critically. It's moldy by the time it reaches a hotel in say, Singapore, and worse, smells of Lysol.
I'm not sure what you mean by "sanitized," but I guess I like it. Maybe the Atlantic edition, which is what I've spent my years reading, is better than the Asia edition.
And I've never been to Singapore, but the IHT is printed in a few dozen cities around the world, so I severely doubt it takes long enough to get to Singapore that it is actually moldy (in fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised it is printed in Singapore).
As an American having lived more than half my life abroad, I can tell you that the IHT is anything but "silly." It's published by the NYT corporation, and I personally prefer it to the NYT and every other major US paper I've read.
If you want good English news abroad, the IHT is almost always the way to go.
What's more, no national aviation authority in the world will allow civil UAVs without a system for avoiding other aircraft. And no firm has even started development of one.
These two sentences contain a good deal of less-than-true content. First, I happen to have an acquaintance who works on civil UAVs, and has flown them, unmanned and autonomous, doing urban mapping in Mexico--with the permission of the government, of course. Second, there is a good deal of work being done on aircraft-avoidance systems for UAVs. I have another acquaintance who is working on just that at MIT--not a firm, certainly, but I'm sure if the team comes up with anything good it will be applied in industry.
No. Many people still don't vote because they are lazy, and a direct democracy likely won't change that. In addition, take a look at popular culture--most Americans are at least as uninformed about the important issues as they were decades or even centuries or so. The philosopher Mortimer Adler argued that Americans today are nowhere near as informed or knowledgable as the colonists at the time of the American Revolution.
"Hacking Democracy" refers to that being the case in Ohio, IIRC. It certainly doesn't make any claim that the same violation of state law of going on in Minnesota.
At least 32 polling places in Utah were having problems with their Diebold machines this morning--the press were reporting 32, but some people I talked to who should know suspect the number was actually higher. The one I voted at this afternoon was having problems in the morning, but they were fixed by the time I got there around 1PM.
`Our ability to process voters accurately and at a faster rate really has improved.''
Interesting. Here in Utah, where we are using e-voting machines for the first time this election, there's a great deal of concern over them being _slower_ than the old machines--and since they are more expensive, many polling places only have half as many machines as they used to. I wonder why Florida is having the opposite experience?
There are three letters that keep me buying CDs: DRM
Well, if that's the case, there's a simple solution: just rename the technology to something else, say, Purchased Privilage Enforcement (PPE). Not only does it more accurately reflect the manner in which the technology is protected by law bought and paid for in Congress, but if you deemphasize the final E when you say the acronym it's so fun to say people that people will start laughing.
Part of the scenario is that there are strong currents around the island which make sailing impractical (this is why they were shipwrecked there in the first place). I should have stated that in the first place, as otherwise a ship would obviously be preferable...
My university has a class something like this--the premise is that a group of people are shipwrecked on an island with abundant natural resources and have to build an aircraft of some sort to get back to the mainland, meanwhile organizing a society to help things run smoothly and so forth. Your only resources are what is found on the island, what you would be carrying with you, and an extensive library (i.e., the university library, which is consistently ranked in the top 10 in the USA...)
I haven't taken it, but several of my friends have and enjoyed it.
500 kids using adobe photoshop = 500 new graphic artists that will want adobe photoshop at their job.
Actually, it's probably more like 500 kids using adobe photoshop = 1 new graphic artist that will want adobe photoshop at their job.
Honestly. None of the people I've known with pirated versions of Photoshop (and I've known a lot) are on the path to being graphic designers or anything.
You've been in the wrong places, or you haven't been there long enough. I've lived in Western and Eastern Europe and Latin America for all but 3 of the last 18 years, and I've seen plenty of anti-Americanism. Sometimes being mistaken for Canadian (in part because of lived overseas for so long, my accent isn't "typical American") can be very useful.
I found various fragments of what the blogger cites in news articles from Nov. 1996, including e.g. a couple articles in the NYT. Apparently an auction of some of his personal papers was held at that time.
One of the best parts of being a uni. student is free access ot Lexis Nexis et al....
Open source programmers scratch their own itch. Do you expect them to find and scratch yours, too?
Honestly--you could at least pin down what was bothering you and tell them so they could fix it, rather than just dropping it and then coming and complaining on/.
I know it may seem that way, but most OSS/FS programmers can't actually read minds.
even when I was running WinXP I had no problems. Of course, I also somehow avoided getting spyware or viruses, too (probably due to the fact that I was a devotee of Mozilla/Firefox)
I'll second this. I still use WinXP on a regular basis, and I've never had any form of spyware, adware, viruses, etc. My family is not so lucky, perhaps due to my younger siblings' addiction to P2P and the like. The myth that it is impossible to run Windows without picking up dozens of baddies is widespread, but my personal experience doesn't bear it out.
There are numerous problems with the analysis, including that there's no randomization, which makes any statistical inference to a broader population invalid anyway. Of course, journalists and such ignore this all the time. Even introductory college statistics textbooks sometimes make it seem OK to do inference when there's no randomization.
It may be, also, that this guy's site is ranked higher on Google than on MSN or Yahoo, which would make the proportion of MS employees coming from Google higher than the proportion which actually use Google regularly. This is called a lurking variable, and I'm too lazy to test it right now.
Slashdot Mirror
Not always, by any means--things often change at the last minute. Just an example: Yo-Yo Ma played with some students at Patrick Deval's inaugral gala last week (http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.b g?articleid=174458). One song they played he finished arranging at 2:00PM the afternoon of the performance, faxed it over to where the students were waiting, and rehearsed with them at 3:30 PM. They performed it a few hours later. Oh, they knew what they were playing in a vague sense before then--they knew the song--but they didn't know the details of what notes they were expected to play (the arrangement). It's not so different from software development after all--in fact, that was the third arrangement of the same song they had been given. Changing requirements, anyone?
So do you, apparently
They do have the right to have an opinion on anything. What are you, the thought police? "No, you aren't allowed to think about that! STOP! Double-plus-ungood!"
They might not always be right... but they certainly have the right to think and say what they want.
"Alertbox" is the name of the column. Usability doesn't mean that everything has to have purely descriptive unoriginal names.
At the very top of the page there is a heirarchy allowing you to go back to the useit.com main page, or to the list of all Alertbox articles. This is more usefal than most sitemaps, IMO. As for the name of the site, this is the same as your complaint about "Alertbox." Do you want every personal website on the internet to be titled "Firstname Lastname's Site," at www.firstnameLastname.com, or something? useit.com suggests (correctly) that the site is something about usability, and is shorter and more memorable than JakobNielsen.com. That sounds like a good usability decision to me.
No. Do you find it hard to read, or something?
Your UID is even higher than mine, which betrays that you're new here. This is Jakob Nielsen we're talking about. He's not just some random dude with a website written in Notepad. He's a well-known UI expert with a (simple and) easy to read website which looks like it could very well have been written in Notepad. There's a big difference. He may not always be right, but he does have significant credentials.
And I've looked at the IHT at my hotel room desk, and had RSS feeds that had already scrolled past every single major piece in the IHT. It was neither newsworthy, nor bereft of US propaganda. It seemed constantly sanitized, trying to put on some weird patina of neutrality.
You're obviously a fan and not eager to look at it critically. It's moldy by the time it reaches a hotel in say, Singapore, and worse, smells of Lysol.
I'm not sure what you mean by "sanitized," but I guess I like it. Maybe the Atlantic edition, which is what I've spent my years reading, is better than the Asia edition.
And I've never been to Singapore, but the IHT is printed in a few dozen cities around the world, so I severely doubt it takes long enough to get to Singapore that it is actually moldy (in fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised it is printed in Singapore).
As an American having lived more than half my life abroad, I can tell you that the IHT is anything but "silly." It's published by the NYT corporation, and I personally prefer it to the NYT and every other major US paper I've read.
If you want good English news abroad, the IHT is almost always the way to go.
You've obviously been embedded in VR for too long. No Slashdotter has a real wife. False memories, indeed.
What's more, no national aviation authority in the world will allow civil UAVs without a system for avoiding other aircraft. And no firm has even started development of one.
These two sentences contain a good deal of less-than-true content. First, I happen to have an acquaintance who works on civil UAVs, and has flown them, unmanned and autonomous, doing urban mapping in Mexico--with the permission of the government, of course. Second, there is a good deal of work being done on aircraft-avoidance systems for UAVs. I have another acquaintance who is working on just that at MIT--not a firm, certainly, but I'm sure if the team comes up with anything good it will be applied in industry.
No. Many people still don't vote because they are lazy, and a direct democracy likely won't change that. In addition, take a look at popular culture--most Americans are at least as uninformed about the important issues as they were decades or even centuries or so. The philosopher Mortimer Adler argued that Americans today are nowhere near as informed or knowledgable as the colonists at the time of the American Revolution.
"Hacking Democracy" refers to that being the case in Ohio, IIRC. It certainly doesn't make any claim that the same violation of state law of going on in Minnesota.
At least 32 polling places in Utah were having problems with their Diebold machines this morning--the press were reporting 32, but some people I talked to who should know suspect the number was actually higher. The one I voted at this afternoon was having problems in the morning, but they were fixed by the time I got there around 1PM.
`Our ability to process voters accurately and at a faster rate really has improved.''
Interesting. Here in Utah, where we are using e-voting machines for the first time this election, there's a great deal of concern over them being _slower_ than the old machines--and since they are more expensive, many polling places only have half as many machines as they used to. I wonder why Florida is having the opposite experience?
There are three letters that keep me buying CDs: DRM
Well, if that's the case, there's a simple solution: just rename the technology to something else, say, Purchased Privilage Enforcement (PPE). Not only does it more accurately reflect the manner in which the technology is protected by law bought and paid for in Congress, but if you deemphasize the final E when you say the acronym it's so fun to say people that people will start laughing.
Part of the scenario is that there are strong currents around the island which make sailing impractical (this is why they were shipwrecked there in the first place). I should have stated that in the first place, as otherwise a ship would obviously be preferable...
The university is Brigham Young University.
My university has a class something like this--the premise is that a group of people are shipwrecked on an island with abundant natural resources and have to build an aircraft of some sort to get back to the mainland, meanwhile organizing a society to help things run smoothly and so forth. Your only resources are what is found on the island, what you would be carrying with you, and an extensive library (i.e., the university library, which is consistently ranked in the top 10 in the USA...)
I haven't taken it, but several of my friends have and enjoyed it.
500 kids using adobe photoshop = 500 new graphic artists that will want adobe photoshop at their job.
Actually, it's probably more like 500 kids using adobe photoshop = 1 new graphic artist that will want adobe photoshop at their job.
Honestly. None of the people I've known with pirated versions of Photoshop (and I've known a lot) are on the path to being graphic designers or anything.
"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
One of my favorite Mark Twain quotes...
In either system, you can find corner cases that result in "unfair" outcomes or where the winning candidate "lost" the "real vote".
Of course. Look up Arrow's Paradox, which says that there is no perfect voting system. Every voting system has such "corner cases."
You've been in the wrong places, or you haven't been there long enough. I've lived in Western and Eastern Europe and Latin America for all but 3 of the last 18 years, and I've seen plenty of anti-Americanism. Sometimes being mistaken for Canadian (in part because of lived overseas for so long, my accent isn't "typical American") can be very useful.
I found various fragments of what the blogger cites in news articles from Nov. 1996, including e.g. a couple articles in the NYT. Apparently an auction of some of his personal papers was held at that time.
One of the best parts of being a uni. student is free access ot Lexis Nexis et al....
Open source programmers scratch their own itch. Do you expect them to find and scratch yours, too?
/.
Honestly--you could at least pin down what was bothering you and tell them so they could fix it, rather than just dropping it and then coming and complaining on
I know it may seem that way, but most OSS/FS programmers can't actually read minds.
even when I was running WinXP I had no problems. Of course, I also somehow avoided getting spyware or viruses, too (probably due to the fact that I was a devotee of Mozilla/Firefox)
I'll second this. I still use WinXP on a regular basis, and I've never had any form of spyware, adware, viruses, etc. My family is not so lucky, perhaps due to my younger siblings' addiction to P2P and the like. The myth that it is impossible to run Windows without picking up dozens of baddies is widespread, but my personal experience doesn't bear it out.
The issue is creative content. Copyright protects CNN broadcasts because creativity goes into making them. The same can't be said of GPS signals.
Michael Kronyak
His job description includes executing all laws and ordinances of the borough and state, which surely includes something about seperation of powers.
There are numerous problems with the analysis, including that there's no randomization, which makes any statistical inference to a broader population invalid anyway. Of course, journalists and such ignore this all the time. Even introductory college statistics textbooks sometimes make it seem OK to do inference when there's no randomization.
It may be, also, that this guy's site is ranked higher on Google than on MSN or Yahoo, which would make the proportion of MS employees coming from Google higher than the proportion which actually use Google regularly. This is called a lurking variable, and I'm too lazy to test it right now.
IAASM (I Am A Statistics Major)