I'm pretty sure WU's costs are much higher than PayPal's. WU has physical offices around the world, and that's not cheap. WU's only mistake was not taking their business model online before PayPal did. Now that they've missed the boat, they're probably not interested in even trying.
No Master's degreee will earn a programmer's respect.
Speak for yourself. Having advanced degrees will earn more respect from me. Obviously, that's not the only factor, but it is a factor. I value MS and PhD degrees quite a bit.
In my opinion, #9 clearly demonstrates the difference between professional UI designers and programmers who think they are designers. And the reason I say that is because I'm a programmers who thinks he's a designer, and I would never have figured out #9 on my own.
The Windows dialog box in #9 looks perfectly normal to me. It asks a question and lets you enter a response. But in the back of my mind, something always bugged me about it, and not just because it gives you three ways to answer a Yes/No question. Now that I see the comparison with the Mac version, I realize what's wrong with it. The Mac version makes more sense and is guininely easier to use. It's not a coincidence that these are also two phrases that describe a Mac (compared to a PC).
One of the things the Mac dialog box does that the Windows box doesn't is converge everything about the action into the dialog box itself. In other words, it gives you enough information so that you can focus on the immediate issue (saving the file) without having to think how you got there.
As the text says, dialog boxes interrupt the user. When the user is interrupted, his train of thought is interrupted, and that usually forces him to think unnecessarily harder about what he's doing.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this book already, because it's exactly what you're looking for. The only problem is that it's dated - it considers the 80386 to be a new processor. There was a time when no self-respecting assembly programmer would be caught dead without it. Alas, I sold mine a couple years ago, since I already learned everything I could from it.
The only problem is that it (like all of Abrash's books) has been out of print for a long time, and so it will be very hard to find.
You can find a copy for cheap on eBay. It will run great on that machine, give you full networking, and it can run tons of Windows apps, as well as Mozilla, XFree86, and Star Office.
In my experiencing, Warp 4 runs better in low memory systems (less than 64MB) than Linux + X does. I have a 40MB laptop that runs OS/2 great but Linux won't install on it.
It is migration. Of all the new Linux systems purchased, 31% of them are being used to replace a Windows system. So the Windows system gets thrown out, and a shiny new Linux system replaces it. That's a migration combined with an upgrade.
First off, full resolution on a 4Mp camera is a big picture, so most people won't be shooting at that res all the time anyway. Second, if they can implement a local cache for the images, so that they are transferred in the background, then it really shouldn't be a problem.
Come on, admit it - this is cool technology. So what if it has some kinks that need to be ironed out?
After all, that's 10,989 campaign settings for gamers to play with. Since WOTC has already rejected them, why should they care if other people use them?
Heck, they could combine them into one giant 10,000+ page PDF and charge a few bucks to download it.
Well, since it's written in C++, Linus will refuse to accept it in the kernel. I guess since he's not smart enough to figure out how to write kernel-friendly C++ code, no one else is allowed to figure it out either.
Well, not in my opinion at least. The graphic design industry already has something that covers this type of work: royalty-free stock images. A graphic artist can by a book or a CD full of images and/or photographs. The cost of the book/CD covers unlimited royalty-free usage of the images in any way (with the exception of mass re-duplication and sale of the book/CD, of course).
What MIT has done is classic non-fair-use of design work. A professional graphic designer would never have done what MIT did, and based on the article, MIT didn't use a professional:
MIT Professor Ned Thomas, head of the ISN, claimed his daughter created "an interpretive drawing" of the futuristic solider "in a couple of days" for use in the application.
I seriously doubt Prof. Thomas' daughter is a professional graphic designer. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if she's a high-school kid who just knows how to use Photoshop.
"It's really neat that you can communicate just through the air," Trueblood said in an interview over his cell phone. "Without wires you aren't limited to one specific area. Wherever I go, people can call me. There are a lot of advantages to that."
With such insightful commentary from Auburn's engineering students, it's no wonder that Alabama is such a hotbed of intellectualism.
what value does the patent serve other than to prevent others from trying to patent it?
You'd be surprised how many companies file patents for just this purpose. The larger your "patent portfolio", the easier it is to get cross-licensing contracts with other companies that have patents you want.
Telling jokes is a very poor measure of one's sense of humor. When you watch a funny movie or laugh at something you saw, 9 times out of 10 it's not a joke, but rather something else that happens to be funny.
if I met a programmer who didn't do any programming outside of work, I'd assume he *didn't* like coding, he just liked the salary.
That's bullshit. What if after spending 8+ hours straight in front of a computer, he wants to spend his free time with his wife and kids? Perhaps he has lots of other hobbies, and he gets enough programming in his day job. I've been programming for 25 years, and I do not write code at home or anywhere outside the office. Do you think a doctor likes examining sick people after work?
If Apple were to switch to x86 (which I don't think they ever will), they would not support standard PCs. They would switch to Intel CPUs, but they would write their own BIOS and it would not be compatible with standard PCs. The PC BIOS is the root cause of everything that is crappy in PCs - I know, because I used to be a BIOS developer.
Unfortunately, this wouldn't help Apple much. They would need to write a PPC emulator to run all the current PPC apps, but all the altivec-enhanced applications would run slower, even on a 2.5GHZ Pentium IV. In the end, Apple would not come out ahead.
I agree, this is a stupid Ask Slashdot. Your situation is not new or unique to the tech world, as there are plenty of individuals (mostly in marketing or sales) who work in one state at home while their employer is in another. I know two personally, and neither of them are tech people.
You need to speak to an accountant familiar with the laws in your state.
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Anyone who's willing to see a movie as crappy as AOTC twice has already figured out how to point his eyeballs in two different directions.
I'm pretty sure WU's costs are much higher than PayPal's. WU has physical offices around the world, and that's not cheap. WU's only mistake was not taking their business model online before PayPal did. Now that they've missed the boat, they're probably not interested in even trying.
Speak for yourself. Having advanced degrees will earn more respect from me. Obviously, that's not the only factor, but it is a factor. I value MS and PhD degrees quite a bit.
The Windows dialog box in #9 looks perfectly normal to me. It asks a question and lets you enter a response. But in the back of my mind, something always bugged me about it, and not just because it gives you three ways to answer a Yes/No question. Now that I see the comparison with the Mac version, I realize what's wrong with it. The Mac version makes more sense and is guininely easier to use. It's not a coincidence that these are also two phrases that describe a Mac (compared to a PC).
One of the things the Mac dialog box does that the Windows box doesn't is converge everything about the action into the dialog box itself. In other words, it gives you enough information so that you can focus on the immediate issue (saving the file) without having to think how you got there.
As the text says, dialog boxes interrupt the user. When the user is interrupted, his train of thought is interrupted, and that usually forces him to think unnecessarily harder about what he's doing.
The University of Texas has a similar policy, so I don't think it's a Washington law either.
It was Coolio, not Ice T. David Duchovny was excellent in that episode. It was one of my favorites, and I loved the entire series.
Red Hat 7.3. Anything older than that, and my PCMCIA network card wouldn't have been supported.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this book already, because it's exactly what you're looking for. The only problem is that it's dated - it considers the 80386 to be a new processor. There was a time when no self-respecting assembly programmer would be caught dead without it. Alas, I sold mine a couple years ago, since I already learned everything I could from it.
The only problem is that it (like all of Abrash's books) has been out of print for a long time, and so it will be very hard to find.
In my experiencing, Warp 4 runs better in low memory systems (less than 64MB) than Linux + X does. I have a 40MB laptop that runs OS/2 great but Linux won't install on it.
It is migration. Of all the new Linux systems purchased, 31% of them are being used to replace a Windows system. So the Windows system gets thrown out, and a shiny new Linux system replaces it. That's a migration combined with an upgrade.
I'd get my Ph.D. in Comp Sci and then become a professor. In my spare time, I'd write whatever software came to mind and release it under the GPL.
Come on, admit it - this is cool technology. So what if it has some kinks that need to be ironed out?
Heck, they could combine them into one giant 10,000+ page PDF and charge a few bucks to download it.
Well, since it's written in C++, Linus will refuse to accept it in the kernel. I guess since he's not smart enough to figure out how to write kernel-friendly C++ code, no one else is allowed to figure it out either.
What MIT has done is classic non-fair-use of design work. A professional graphic designer would never have done what MIT did, and based on the article, MIT didn't use a professional:
I seriously doubt Prof. Thomas' daughter is a professional graphic designer. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if she's a high-school kid who just knows how to use Photoshop.With such insightful commentary from Auburn's engineering students, it's no wonder that Alabama is such a hotbed of intellectualism.
You'd be surprised how many companies file patents for just this purpose. The larger your "patent portfolio", the easier it is to get cross-licensing contracts with other companies that have patents you want.
Your name wouldn't happen to be Dan Quayle, would it?
Don't you mean "sq km", or square kilometers? "sq/km" sounds like "squares per kilometer".
It doesn't work for me either. I just installed 1.1 on Windows 2000, and I don't see any way to turn it on.
The problem with American society is that the Soccer Moms are never going to believe this.
Telling jokes is a very poor measure of one's sense of humor. When you watch a funny movie or laugh at something you saw, 9 times out of 10 it's not a joke, but rather something else that happens to be funny.
That's bullshit. What if after spending 8+ hours straight in front of a computer, he wants to spend his free time with his wife and kids? Perhaps he has lots of other hobbies, and he gets enough programming in his day job. I've been programming for 25 years, and I do not write code at home or anywhere outside the office. Do you think a doctor likes examining sick people after work?
Unfortunately, this wouldn't help Apple much. They would need to write a PPC emulator to run all the current PPC apps, but all the altivec-enhanced applications would run slower, even on a 2.5GHZ Pentium IV. In the end, Apple would not come out ahead.
You need to speak to an accountant familiar with the laws in your state.