>Honestly if you're using the phone for significant amounts of typing anyway you're doing it wrong.
Care to explain in more detail why you think that? Only a phone has the form factor to fit in my pants pocket. Sometimes when I only have my phone with me, I need to compose a several paragraph email for work.
It's not that there is "no market", it is that the "power user" slice of the pie (people who compose a lot of emails) has a tiny percentage now that smartphones are in every single household.
One of the sad consequences of technology going mainstream. The power users can be ignored.
We slide out keyboard users are a desperate bunch. Do some googling.. there's even a petition begging verizon to sell one after the demise of the Droid series.
But the reality is likely that only a small subset of professionals need to write long emails with their phones. The vast majority of cell phone users send simple text messages and not much else.
It's the sad consequence of technology going extremely mainstream - we power users are but a drop in the bucket $$ wise.
I knew some people would call out the Economist, and I used to subscribe to it some years back - but unfortunately they dumbed it down quite a bit several years ago in a push to increase their subscription base... and it looks like they succeeded.
I remember being blown away by this game... basically a Donkey Kong style game but on the original IBM PC hardware. I read the review in PC Magazine and asked for it for my 14th birthday... I couldn't believe that things like swinging and jumping from swinging ropes while 4 other AI sprites chased me around was even possible on that original PC.
He even showed off a little by full screen scrolling in between levels.
I have a license for office, but I barely use it because I can't find most advanced features.
Why?
They destroyed the menu and replaced it with the ribbon. If you don't know the name of the feature you are looking for, then you are SOL (actually you can google a description of the feature you want to find out where it is, but that is ridiculous).
Menu UI is a long standing feature of mouse driven user interfaces, and if you think throwing it away is in any way acceptable, and you are in the business of UI design then you should be fired from your job.
You and I are like brothers in this regard. Most "funny" posts are anything but funny.
But then all of these clowns started moderating obvious attempts at being "funny" as "insightful". For every article, at least one more lame Monty Python quote manages to be a +5 insightful.
...and decide that what old guys want doesn't matter and then just trash all the old features and replace it with feature poor but millenial friendly white space and image filled bubble gum that uses responsive design and infinite scrolling even though I don't want that.
Rather than do what she did, let those of us who prefer, stay behind with the old interface.
I have to move off of my.yahoo and yahoo mail now, don't make me do that with Slashdot please.
In a huge amount of these cases, the issue of whether the members should be sued individually comes up again and again.
Seemingly, each judge seems to make their own decision on this. In the cases where the judge rules that they should be split up, the case is dropped. Then rinse and repeat with a new judge and new set of defendants.
After 3-4 years of this, hasn't there been a precedent or something or higher level court getting involved so that all these judges don't have to reconsider the same argument over and over again? Seems wasteful, and it keeps these idiots in business.
I occasionally get nostalgic for those days back in 1994 but I have a big problem reliving them due to the sophistication of the audio in this game. You see, it was designed to play high quality MIDI if you happened to have a $1000 sound card. Of course I nor most of my friends did not have that... I had the standard soundblaster chip on my 486.
So when I play it in DosBox or whichever emulator, the sound is just too good! It is not the same as when I played it before!
Any tips on how to recreate that standard 1994-1995 486 experience aside from finding an old pc and installing win95?
Nope. Go to little drop down list at the very top and choose "More commands". Then in the dropdown for "Choose commands from" select "commands not in ribbon".
And there you have it, and alphabetized single list of several HUNDRED commands that don't show up ANYWHERE in the ribbon...NOT organized by function so that you can find them even if you unsure what exactly you are looking for.
The whole point of nested menus is it helps you explore to even know what you are looking for.
Now get me my menus back in Chrome and I will consider using that too,
I have crappy memory. I'm not one to remember arcane macros or shortcuts. Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V is as far as I go.
Never fear - nested menus always helped me find things.
Now with the Ribbon in Office, first I have to search each of 5 or 6 ribbon views. They aren't grouped very meaningfully so it's basically a linear search. Then if I don't find what I am looking for I am basically stuck, since I can't remember how to find items that aren't on the ribbon, and I can't really search on them, because I am not exactly sure what they are called. So I end up using Word like a glorified notepad.
The design team that killed the menus on Word (and those kids who are doing the same on browsers) don't realize the damage they are causing end users.
Exactly. Despite being a regular Firefox user, on websites where I have to fill out a complicated form with lots of data required, I usually use IE out of fear that otherwise I will go to submit the form and it will puke and force me to reenter everything.
I don't think I EVER studied in my dorm room. It was next to impossible.
If the library is crowded and loud, go find a empty classroom. If you really get desperate, tell your dean you have ADD and ask them if there is a room you can use for studying.
Chances are though - you are like I was when I tried to "study" in distracting places.... you secretly don't want to be studying at all. The noise is just an excuse to screw around.
Anyone still using My Yahoo? I've been using that since the late 90s (when it was the best aggregator by far). I have never had any reason to leave.
I love the layout... very customizable and lots of info jammed into a compact space (especially if you customize it to remove summaries and icons and use four columns). They have good stock portfolio and calendar widgets.
What am I missing out on? Why should I leave my yahoo?
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As an owner of each one of the Droid sliders, I will say that the only parts that went bad were the on off buttons and the batteries.
Never had a single problem with the keyboards. Awesome devices. (Still on a Droid 4 and about to buy a backup from eBay)
>Honestly if you're using the phone for significant amounts of typing anyway you're doing it wrong.
Care to explain in more detail why you think that? Only a phone has the form factor to fit in my pants pocket. Sometimes when I only have my phone with me, I need to compose a several paragraph email for work.
It's not that there is "no market", it is that the "power user" slice of the pie (people who compose a lot of emails) has a tiny percentage now that smartphones are in every single household.
One of the sad consequences of technology going mainstream. The power users can be ignored.
We slide out keyboard users are a desperate bunch. Do some googling.. there's even a petition begging verizon to sell one after the demise of the Droid series.
But the reality is likely that only a small subset of professionals need to write long emails with their phones. The vast majority of cell phone users send simple text messages and not much else.
It's the sad consequence of technology going extremely mainstream - we power users are but a drop in the bucket $$ wise.
Wifi hotspots are not really needed anymore. Most everyone has (nearly) unlimited cell data.
All of those are a pleasure to read.
I knew some people would call out the Economist, and I used to subscribe to it some years back - but unfortunately they dumbed it down quite a bit several years ago in a push to increase their subscription base... and it looks like they succeeded.
I remember being blown away by this game... basically a Donkey Kong style game but on the original IBM PC hardware. I read the review in PC Magazine and asked for it for my 14th birthday... I couldn't believe that things like swinging and jumping from swinging ropes while 4 other AI sprites chased me around was even possible on that original PC.
He even showed off a little by full screen scrolling in between levels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
I have a license for office, but I barely use it because I can't find most advanced features.
Why?
They destroyed the menu and replaced it with the ribbon. If you don't know the name of the feature you are looking for, then you are SOL (actually you can google a description of the feature you want to find out where it is, but that is ridiculous).
Menu UI is a long standing feature of mouse driven user interfaces, and if you think throwing it away is in any way acceptable, and you are in the business of UI design then you should be fired from your job.
You and I are like brothers in this regard. Most "funny" posts are anything but funny.
But then all of these clowns started moderating obvious attempts at being "funny" as "insightful". For every article, at least one more lame Monty Python quote manages to be a +5 insightful.
How do you deal with that?
Thanks. That was fun. I still miss OpenStep.
...and decide that what old guys want doesn't matter and then just trash all the old features and replace it with feature poor but millenial friendly white space and image filled bubble gum that uses responsive design and infinite scrolling even though I don't want that.
Rather than do what she did, let those of us who prefer, stay behind with the old interface.
I have to move off of my.yahoo and yahoo mail now, don't make me do that with Slashdot please.
For those of old enough to remember, "Big Top" made the OG IBM-PC do things that would have never thought possible.
In a huge amount of these cases, the issue of whether the members should be sued individually comes up again and again.
Seemingly, each judge seems to make their own decision on this. In the cases where the judge rules that they should be split up, the case is dropped. Then rinse and repeat with a new judge and new set of defendants.
After 3-4 years of this, hasn't there been a precedent or something or higher level court getting involved so that all these judges don't have to reconsider the same argument over and over again? Seems wasteful, and it keeps these idiots in business.
From what I have read, the American flags are completely white now due to the intense UV.
Disingenious example. Those phones are $5 a minute.
That can't be compared to a situation where everyone can Skype for free.
I occasionally get nostalgic for those days back in 1994 but I have a big problem reliving them due to the sophistication of the audio in this game. You see, it was designed to play high quality MIDI if you happened to have a $1000 sound card. Of course I nor most of my friends did not have that... I had the standard soundblaster chip on my 486.
So when I play it in DosBox or whichever emulator, the sound is just too good! It is not the same as when I played it before!
Any tips on how to recreate that standard 1994-1995 486 experience aside from finding an old pc and installing win95?
People were just sitting still while the camera eye circled them.
To maximize the effect, you should jump in the air to make it obvious you are frozen while the camera circles you.
Huh? Click the "Reader's Picks" tab. I don't see any "good Germans" there.
Nope. Go to little drop down list at the very top and choose "More commands". Then in the dropdown for "Choose commands from" select "commands not in ribbon".
And there you have it, and alphabetized single list of several HUNDRED commands that don't show up ANYWHERE in the ribbon...NOT organized by function so that you can find them even if you unsure what exactly you are looking for.
The whole point of nested menus is it helps you explore to even know what you are looking for.
Now get me my menus back in Chrome and I will consider using that too,
I have crappy memory. I'm not one to remember arcane macros or shortcuts. Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V is as far as I go.
Never fear - nested menus always helped me find things.
Now with the Ribbon in Office, first I have to search each of 5 or 6 ribbon views. They aren't grouped very meaningfully so it's basically a linear search. Then if I don't find what I am looking for I am basically stuck, since I can't remember how to find items that aren't on the ribbon, and I can't really search on them, because I am not exactly sure what they are called. So I end up using Word like a glorified notepad.
The design team that killed the menus on Word (and those kids who are doing the same on browsers) don't realize the damage they are causing end users.
I'm as confused as the next guy with all the conflicting news reports about this:
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SFFD-backtracks-may-allow-helmet-cameras-4744090.php
Exactly. Despite being a regular Firefox user, on websites where I have to fill out a complicated form with lots of data required, I usually use IE out of fear that otherwise I will go to submit the form and it will puke and force me to reenter everything.
I have been a long time my.yahoo user. When iGoogle came out, I tried it, but liked my.yahoo.com better.
I haven't heard people mentioning them here as a replacement for iGoogle. Why is that?
Mod this up!
I don't think I EVER studied in my dorm room. It was next to impossible.
If the library is crowded and loud, go find a empty classroom. If you really get desperate, tell your dean you have ADD and ask them if there is a room you can use for studying.
Chances are though - you are like I was when I tried to "study" in distracting places.... you secretly don't want to be studying at all. The noise is just an excuse to screw around.
Anyone still using My Yahoo? I've been using that since the late 90s (when it was the best aggregator by far). I have never had any reason to leave.
I love the layout... very customizable and lots of info jammed into a compact space (especially if you customize it to remove summaries and icons and use four columns). They have good stock portfolio and calendar widgets.
What am I missing out on? Why should I leave my yahoo?