Clearly that's all cops do. They only stop big-time druglords and save America from terrorists, as that's not a job for the CIA or the FBI.
Oh, by the way, I've never watched an episode of Alias. For some reason I don't see why people watch it because there's an attractive woman as the main character. Isn't that sort of.. y'know. Shallow?
Just for the record guys, this entire thread is offtopic. Slashdot is giving news about a hi-tech courtroom which enables trials to take palce faster. Slashdot is concerned with technology, and the big-wigs of Microsoft, Apple, Linux, etc. Not humans and their decisions.
I used to watch Adult Swim on cartoon network (the australian one) a year ago, and there was this anime show called Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040. Most events in that show revolved around robots or the people living a giant tower which extended into the sky.
Perhaps these guys are just mimicking some dodgy old anime which never got off the ground? Look it up on google some time.
Last year I went to a law firm for work experience, and I got to go to criminal and family court a couple of times. It was a pretty low-tech town I was in for that, but the courtroom still had a video-witness plasma screen mounted on either side of the room and rather encompassing mics so the lawyers could talk to the witness.
This was just a local trouble but they were still using the interactive/plasma screens for witness protection, so I wouldn't be surprised at all that these guys are being video-trialled.
Wonder if I could get the link to this trial, though...
Yeah, true. Plus in Australia there's little 3G network coverage relative to other networks around (One reason why 3 hasn't taken off too well in Aus).
I might just add the question that who's going to use it? People who carry laptops around in the city usually have pretty good access to Internet in offices anyway.
I wasn't asking whether it was a superior product, I was asking whether there is any evidence that the scroll wheel on the iPod is an efficient user interface element. The article claimed so. I am just asking whether there is some evidence for that claim. Apparently not.
The only evidence I'd recommend you look for would be its sheer popularity: something hard to use (thus making it somewhat inefficient, or at least the people in using it) would probably lead to fewer 'cooler' people using it, as they wouldn't figure out how (no disrespect you you smart cool people out there) On that level, I'd say it's a very efficient user interface element.
It took forever and a day to scroll from the top to the bottom of a large list, during which I had to keep rotataing my thumb, over and over and over....
If you move your finger faster it tends to get down the list faster.. Funny how that works.
The scroll wheel's what's made iPod such a big hit; yeah, it's got the huge hard drive in such small space and is relatively expensive, however it doesn't require all this fiddly crap about pressing a button each time you want to move one space down a menu.
iPod's ridiculously simple and intuitive, and that's what's making it superior to other products such as the iRiver and the Sonys (haha, the Sony issue still makes me laugh).
I like it how Google's picked up and become a company rather than just a search engine. Google browser? I'd sign up for that. Oh, and by the by, I've got six invites for those of you who are Gmail-deprived. Nothing better to do with them than give them to the truly needy.
Upon reading the eProvisia webpage I noticed firstly that the two peoples' headsets didn't remotely match, and looked horribly generic.
Then I saw a picture of an office with cubicles. I was vaguely intrigued by this; how long would it takle me to find this picture elsewhere? So I timed myself getting into google image search, and looking up the words "cube", "cubicle", "office", and finally "cubicles." All in all I took about one minute nineteen seconds to find the same picture eProvisia's used on their website, the first page of results for google's image search "cubicles":
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www. seat-1.com/IntarS_000001_Ressources/tables/homepag e/cubicles.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.seat-1.com/Int arS_000001_Ressources/tables/homepage/page_0000000 072.html&h=200&w=216&sz=19&tbnid=XxXwAVmEWnEJ:&tbn h=93&tbnw=100&start=16&prev=/images%3Fq%3DCubicles %26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8
It makes me feel good to know there's legitimate, original companies out there which are willing to help as much as eProvisia is:)
These people seem to be forgetting that they are storing computers - if they need a method of filing them I suggest they use the most recent computer in their archives. This would be making effective use of the resources until better funding could be arranged.
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Clearly that's all cops do. They only stop big-time druglords and save America from terrorists, as that's not a job for the CIA or the FBI. Oh, by the way, I've never watched an episode of Alias. For some reason I don't see why people watch it because there's an attractive woman as the main character. Isn't that sort of.. y'know. Shallow?
Just for the record guys, this entire thread is offtopic. Slashdot is giving news about a hi-tech courtroom which enables trials to take palce faster. Slashdot is concerned with technology, and the big-wigs of Microsoft, Apple, Linux, etc. Not humans and their decisions.
Perhaps these guys are just mimicking some dodgy old anime which never got off the ground? Look it up on google some time.
This was just a local trouble but they were still using the interactive/plasma screens for witness protection, so I wouldn't be surprised at all that these guys are being video-trialled.
Wonder if I could get the link to this trial, though...
I might just add the question that who's going to use it? People who carry laptops around in the city usually have pretty good access to Internet in offices anyway.
The only evidence I'd recommend you look for would be its sheer popularity: something hard to use (thus making it somewhat inefficient, or at least the people in using it) would probably lead to fewer 'cooler' people using it, as they wouldn't figure out how (no disrespect you you smart cool people out there) On that level, I'd say it's a very efficient user interface element.
If you move your finger faster it tends to get down the list faster.. Funny how that works.
iPod's ridiculously simple and intuitive, and that's what's making it superior to other products such as the iRiver and the Sonys (haha, the Sony issue still makes me laugh).
I like it how Google's picked up and become a company rather than just a search engine. Google browser? I'd sign up for that. Oh, and by the by, I've got six invites for those of you who are Gmail-deprived. Nothing better to do with them than give them to the truly needy.
Upon reading the eProvisia webpage I noticed firstly that the two peoples' headsets didn't remotely match, and looked horribly generic. Then I saw a picture of an office with cubicles. I was vaguely intrigued by this; how long would it takle me to find this picture elsewhere? So I timed myself getting into google image search, and looking up the words "cube", "cubicle", "office", and finally "cubicles." All in all I took about one minute nineteen seconds to find the same picture eProvisia's used on their website, the first page of results for google's image search "cubicles": http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www. seat-1.com/IntarS_000001_Ressources/tables/homepag e/cubicles.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.seat-1.com/Int arS_000001_Ressources/tables/homepage/page_0000000 072.html&h=200&w=216&sz=19&tbnid=XxXwAVmEWnEJ:&tbn h=93&tbnw=100&start=16&prev=/images%3Fq%3DCubicles %26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8
It makes me feel good to know there's legitimate, original companies out there which are willing to help as much as eProvisia is :)
These people seem to be forgetting that they are storing computers - if they need a method of filing them I suggest they use the most recent computer in their archives. This would be making effective use of the resources until better funding could be arranged.