If you are such an expert on interface design, one of the principles you may have read about would be not just arbitrarily changing things for the sake of change.
Millions upon millions of people have used Windows Media Player. They have had the transport controls in the lower left for at least a couple of versions now (read several years). Why should they arbitrarily move it around now?
Plus, you seem to be assuming that the primary way that people get a song to play is to click the "Play" button, but since this is running on a Windows PC the user has presumably been conditioned to launching things by double clicking. In this case that is a heck of a lot more convenient than single-clicking a song/movie/whatever, then *moving the mouse* (regardless of whether it's up, down, left, or right), and click on a Play button.
The rest of the interface looks pretty similar to previous versions to me. The main change seems to be the move of the section navigation from left tabs to top tabs. I'm not sure why they made that change, but it doesn't seem all that drastic.
people seem to forget that 'reduced instruction set' means blazingly fast computation compared to 'complex instruction set.'
Maybe it's not that people forget, but it's just that they are a little more well-informed than you. It is hardly as cut and dried as you make it sound. Those terms are pretty much meaningless in modern processors, since they are all pretty much insanely complex (violating one of the primary tenets of RISC design).
RISC vs CISC was an interesting argument in 1994. In 2004, it's mostly irrelevant (except to the fanboys of particular platforms).
Please feel free to demonstrate how FireFox can seamlessly (and securely) used a user's workstation credentials to authenticate to a web server without requiring a username/password as IE does with Windows Integrated Authentication.
That is one of the larger issues that cannot be solved by just tweaking some HTML to make it more compliant. It's also a big deal from a user experience standpoint in the corporate intranet world.
At the core they are both UDP-based networking protocols that take advantage of broadcast/multicast (although with TIBCO you are not limited to that obviously). Granted they has slapped the Rendezvous label on a lot of the stuff higher up the stack, but you still see "RV" all over the place in the lower level docs and API for a reason.
Yeah that's the same. TIBCO has had a patented networking protocol called Rendezvous for years that is the core of their whole business. It runs a few small systems you may have heard of like, oh, NASDAQ.
It's not too hard to see why they might be upset at another company coming out and promoting a completely different and unrelated networking protocol with the same name.
Yeah, but... How many people actually have pagers that run directly off of a satellite, as opposed to a terrestrial relay system that the network try to make you think is satellite-based (e.g. Skytel)?
Yeah, but surely *you* with all your years of special ops training and military-oriented strategic genius could have done it much better. Why you've probably even beat Rainbox Six *and* Ghost Recon.
We took over a freakin country with it's own (substantial) army in like 2 months. Whether you think it was a good idea or not, but Army/Marines/Navy/Air Force were pretty dang impressive in doing their job.
If you want a some sense of perspective, look at how long the USSR was mired in Afghanistan before finally bailing out with their collective tail between their legs.
How is that going to hurt your credit rating? I'm not sure I see the "credit" involved here (i.e. revolving account, installment account, otherwise). Also, they would probably need your SSN to report something to a credit agency.
Hmm, let's see you want to move your system to a different workgroup on your network, I guess that would be in the Control Panel (yes, really) and under the "System" icon if mastering the right-click is too much for you.
Shortcuts are pretty mysterious alright. Right-dragging a file and selecting "Create a shortcut" is almost as mysterious as typing "ln -s/some/crazy/long/path/that/I/want/to/link/to/some/other/not/as/long/path". Oh wait, no, it's way, way easier (and yes, I know they are not the exact same thing).
Not sure what you mean by "go to get" stderr and stdout, but if you want to redirect to them it's pretty trivial. In fact it's awfully similar to many Unix shells. See here for details.
Drive letters? Well, yeah they are pretty much a butt ugly hack.
Don't assume just because you don't know how to do something doesn't mean it can't be done (or even done easily) though.
Have your family decided that doors are too hard to use if you have to unlock them, and moved to a house with no locks? Well, as long as we're running with bad analogies... If you go in/out of said door 200 times a day, do you lock it every time? If so, you may want to see a mental health professional about that OCD.
Dude, how do you pay for Photshop and Dreamweaver, if it is going to take a "long, long time" before you can afford a Mac? That's hundreds of dollars of software wrapped up in just those two - more than any difference between Mac and PC desktop prices (for equivalent machines).
They did pretty good considering the *huge* funding disadvantage vs Red Team. The "truggy" they used for the their second team entry is a pretty impressive vehicle. Soaks up bumps very well.
My computer vision prof (one of the team members) showed us some demo video of the vehicle test, and it would be pretty fun to drive it around out in the desert. Good platform to start from.
Well, why not enter it yourself and collect a cool million if it's so damn easy? Better yet, go out in the desert tie your steering wheel in place, put a brick on the gas and see how far you get.
The mars rover can only move inches at a time over surfaces that aren't necessarily any more difficult to navigate. So I would say it's not too bad to get 7 miles, although I'm sure some of the teams are a little disappointed.
There is a great Penn and Teller Bulls**t episode on environmental hysteria, that makes basically this same point (albeit with a little more humor injected).
The only rational environmentalist in the show is a GreenPeace founder who actually quit because the organization got overrun by politically motivated sleazebags.
It's a hilarious way to kill an hour if you get Showtime.
And you don't "know well grammar", which is just as relevant as your ad hominem attacks on the parent poster.
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Some people will shell out a subscription fee for satellite radio. Think of the 9.95 fee for Napster as "satellite" radio, where you get to pick all the songs in the playlist on demand.
In those terms it doesn't seem quite as unreasonable.
I used to be a Napster subscriber, but since I bought an iPod I cancelled (can't use the.wma's on the iPod). The ability to just listen to songs on a whim whenever I felt like it is something that I definitely miss with iTunes. In fact, Napster is pretty much a superset of the iTMS. You can still do non-subscription $0.99 downloads if youwant.
That's because they they're jealous their starting salaries aren't as people are getting for a 1.5 year program:) Just kidding.
Seriously though, at least half the INI curriculum is business-focused, so if you are looking to work in the "real world" it might be good. If you want to focus on more academic pursuits a pure technical degree would probably be better.
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If you are such an expert on interface design, one of the principles you may have read about would be not just arbitrarily changing things for the sake of change.
Millions upon millions of people have used Windows Media Player. They have had the transport controls in the lower left for at least a couple of versions now (read several years). Why should they arbitrarily move it around now?
Plus, you seem to be assuming that the primary way that people get a song to play is to click the "Play" button, but since this is running on a Windows PC the user has presumably been conditioned to launching things by double clicking. In this case that is a heck of a lot more convenient than single-clicking a song/movie/whatever, then *moving the mouse* (regardless of whether it's up, down, left, or right), and click on a Play button.
The rest of the interface looks pretty similar to previous versions to me. The main change seems to be the move of the section navigation from left tabs to top tabs. I'm not sure why they made that change, but it doesn't seem all that drastic.
people seem to forget that 'reduced instruction set' means blazingly fast computation compared to 'complex instruction set.'
Maybe it's not that people forget, but it's just that they are a little more well-informed than you. It is hardly as cut and dried as you make it sound. Those terms are pretty much meaningless in modern processors, since they are all pretty much insanely complex (violating one of the primary tenets of RISC design).
RISC vs CISC was an interesting argument in 1994. In 2004, it's mostly irrelevant (except to the fanboys of particular platforms).
Please feel free to demonstrate how FireFox can seamlessly (and securely) used a user's workstation credentials to authenticate to a web server without requiring a username/password as IE does with Windows Integrated Authentication.
That is one of the larger issues that cannot be solved by just tweaking some HTML to make it more compliant. It's also a big deal from a user experience standpoint in the corporate intranet world.
At the core they are both UDP-based networking protocols that take advantage of broadcast/multicast (although with TIBCO you are not limited to that obviously).
Granted they has slapped the Rendezvous label on a lot of the stuff higher up the stack, but you still see "RV" all over the place in the lower level docs and API for a reason.
Yeah that's the same.
TIBCO has had a patented networking protocol called Rendezvous for years that is the core of their whole business. It runs a few small systems you may have heard of like, oh, NASDAQ.
It's not too hard to see why they might be upset at another company coming out and promoting a completely different and unrelated networking protocol with the same name.
Yes, but the best silly song ever was actually a Love Song by Mr. Lunt. :)
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You can't beat lyrics like "Wipe that dirty cheese off just for you".
For those of you who have never seen or heard it, picture a 1970's Air Supply ballad sung by an animated gourd about a drive through restaurant.
http://www.ultimateveggie.com/silly/silly10.htm
Good stuff if you have to sit through many repeat hours of children's videos and want something that's at least kind of entertaining.
You mean "Sesquipedalianism" not "Sesequepedalianism " right? Because misspelling that could be confusing. :)
Windows CE - After many years and many many Palm still dominates PDA's, not to mention Linux in the embedded market!
Or not
Yeah, but...
How many people actually have pagers that run directly off of a satellite, as opposed to a terrestrial relay system that the network try to make you think is satellite-based (e.g. Skytel)?
Yeah, but surely *you* with all your years of special ops training and military-oriented strategic genius could have done it much better. Why you've probably even beat Rainbox Six *and* Ghost Recon.
We took over a freakin country with it's own (substantial) army in like 2 months. Whether you think it was a good idea or not, but Army/Marines/Navy/Air Force were pretty dang impressive in doing their job.
If you want a some sense of perspective, look at how long the USSR was mired in Afghanistan before finally bailing out with their collective tail between their legs.
How is that going to hurt your credit rating? I'm not sure I see the "credit" involved here (i.e. revolving account, installment account, otherwise).
Also, they would probably need your SSN to report something to a credit agency.
Sweet, thanks.
Out of curiosity, how are you installing many versions of IE? Do you use VMWare or something to have several OS instances installed at once?
It would be very convenient to have several IE versions to view web content in at once.
Hmm, let's see you want to move your system to a different workgroup on your network, I guess that would be in the Control Panel (yes, really) and under the "System" icon if mastering the right-click is too much for you.
/some/crazy/long/path/that/I/want/to/link/to /some/other/not/as/long/path". Oh wait, no, it's way, way easier (and yes, I know they are not the exact same thing).
Shortcuts are pretty mysterious alright. Right-dragging a file and selecting "Create a shortcut" is almost as mysterious as typing "ln -s
Not sure what you mean by "go to get" stderr and stdout, but if you want to redirect to them it's pretty trivial. In fact it's awfully similar to many Unix shells. See here for details.
Drive letters? Well, yeah they are pretty much a butt ugly hack.
Don't assume just because you don't know how to do something doesn't mean it can't be done (or even done easily) though.
Have your family decided that doors are too hard to use if you have to unlock them, and moved to a house with no locks?
Well, as long as we're running with bad analogies...
If you go in/out of said door 200 times a day, do you lock it every time? If so, you may want to see a mental health professional about that OCD.
Yeah, that's what they're charging for, because all the R&D, customer service, etc doesn't cost them anything.
Dude, how do you pay for Photshop and Dreamweaver, if it is going to take a "long, long time" before you can afford a Mac? That's hundreds of dollars of software wrapped up in just those two - more than any difference between Mac and PC desktop prices (for equivalent machines).
They did pretty good considering the *huge* funding disadvantage vs Red Team. The "truggy" they used for the their second team entry is a pretty impressive vehicle. Soaks up bumps very well.
My computer vision prof (one of the team members) showed us some demo video of the vehicle test, and it would be pretty fun to drive it around out in the desert. Good platform to start from.
Well, why not enter it yourself and collect a cool million if it's so damn easy? Better yet, go out in the desert tie your steering wheel in place, put a brick on the gas and see how far you get.
The mars rover can only move inches at a time over surfaces that aren't necessarily any more difficult to navigate. So I would say it's not too bad to get 7 miles, although I'm sure some of the teams are a little disappointed.
There is a great Penn and Teller Bulls**t episode on environmental hysteria, that makes basically this same point (albeit with a little more humor injected).
The only rational environmentalist in the show is a GreenPeace founder who actually quit because the organization got overrun by politically motivated sleazebags.
It's a hilarious way to kill an hour if you get Showtime.
"We had a pretty good idea what was going on with the Jews in Europe"
Prove it. Many Europeans (even Germans) claim they didn't know what was going on. How would people in the US know?
And you don't "know well grammar", which is just as relevant as your ad hominem attacks on the parent poster.
Some people will shell out a subscription fee for satellite radio. Think of the 9.95 fee for Napster as "satellite" radio, where you get to pick all the songs in the playlist on demand.
.wma's on the iPod). The ability to just listen to songs on a whim whenever I felt like it is something that I definitely miss with iTunes. In fact, Napster is pretty much a superset of the iTMS. You can still do non-subscription $0.99 downloads if youwant.
In those terms it doesn't seem quite as unreasonable.
I used to be a Napster subscriber, but since I bought an iPod I cancelled (can't use the
Can anyone point to a study or two that backs up the common assertion that using computers for long periods of time damages eyesight?
I know that you can get fatigued eyes, especially with flickery monitors, etc, but I'm am talking about actual damage to long-term eyesight.
It seems like if there was hard evidence of this, then we would be seeing *thousands* of workers' compensation and other legal claims.
That's because they they're jealous their starting salaries aren't as people are getting for a 1.5 year program :) Just kidding.
Seriously though, at least half the INI curriculum is business-focused, so if you are looking to work in the "real world" it might be good. If you want to focus on more academic pursuits a pure technical degree would probably be better.