Sure, it's pretty expensive, but compare it to the cost of, say, hardwood flooring and it probably isn't that much more. The disco floor is 128 square feet, and the total material cost was $2500, which works out to about $20 per square foot, whereas a (good quality) solid wood floor can be around $7-$10 per square foot and it doesn't even do anything. Do flashing lights justify doubling the price of flooring? Also, installation of a wood floor will bring up the cost somewhat. The disco floor is just a matter of putting it down and plugging it in, but there's an extra cost for labor of building a disco floor.
I suppose it all comes down to whether or not it'd be worth the extra money to have a floor that blinks.
Apparently they didn't Google their own name, or else they would've noticed the name was already in use for a fairly popular music composition program.
"Go to 'carribbean dot travel'..."
"Dot com?" "No, just dot travel." "Oh, okay, so it's dot travel dot com?"
Hmm. Maybe not.
This seems every bit as useful as.museum, and look how popular those are. Except, of course, practically every.museum is also registered as a.com or.net or something else, because no one knows what.museum is.
I can only think of these for Windows: Explorer (that's what the default is called, right?) and LiteStep. There's more than that.
The fact that there are a ton of programs that do one thing isn't necessarily an advantage, though. It's harder for newbies to find their way when there are fifty different programs to do the same thing, but all do it differently.
There's no way to just plug an LCD panel into a video card because it works on a lower level than a vga/dvi signal; there has to be something in between the two to adapt the signal to the LCD's resolution and generally do some black magic. In short, yes, you do need to get a controller, but it's still a bit cheaper than buying a whole new LCD, and on top of that it's a learning experience, and something fun to do in your spare time.
<pedantic> The hamburger got its name because it originated in Hamburg, Germany. Unless time was invented in some town called Midnight, your analogy falls on its face.:) </pedantic>
Okay, then how about the parts of Indiana that don't observe DST? It's up north, and their school zone limit is 20. In Arizona, btw, it's 15 mph, the same as several other states (e.g. Maine).
Anywhere I've ever been, the school bus stops are either at the corner of the street where there's a street light, or more commonly, right at the end of the kid's driveway. I really don't see how someone could get run over while walking fifty feet down a driveway, at least under plausible circumstances.
In that case why don't we always use DST? Arizona, Puerto Rico, some of Indiana, etc. all seem to be doing just fine without seasonal time changes. It is quite pleasant not to have to arbitrarily change the clocks twice a year.
I wonder if there's any studies on how much money is lost around the switch to daylight saving time due to people oversleeping and coming in late.
Domain names in the.com and.net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/ for detailed information.
Let me get this straight... You're breaking CSS stylesheets with rules that you wrote because some websites do annoying things with them. These rules screw up Google's site, and you expect Google to rewrite their site? It's not going to happen.
I have a rule in my userContent.css that sets display: none for embedded iframes, because some websites use them in obnoxious ways, but if a legitimate site has one, I'm not going to tell them that they need to change everything just because my user stylesheet is interfering with their site. I'd try to hack around it, and if I couldn't do that, I could either take the rule out and stop browsing annoying websites, or deal with it like anyone else who doesn't have a user stylesheet. Telling other sites not to use something because you don't like it is like telling everyone you know to talk louder because you're going deaf and don't want a hearing aid.
You bring up valid points, and I will certainly agree that Flash has some serious usability issues that make Jakob Nielsen scream. However, most of these points aren't easily addressable by the designers, as they are inherent problems with Flash itself. Until Macromedia actively addresses these problems instead of playing with ridiculous stuff like webcams and flying text, yes, Flash sites will be inherently less accessible. That's not to say that it's not useful, though.
Try thinking of designing a Flash-based site in the same light as designing a pure XML site. With XML the problem is browser support; with Flash it is usability. Either way, the ultimate question to ask is whether or not the added features and benefits are enough to outweigh the current problems -- will the target audience be adversely affected? Until MSIE (correctly) supports XML, the likelihood that it will catch on as a preferred content type is fairly weak despite the obvious advantages of fully semantic markup. Likewise, until Macromedia fully addresses Flash's usability concerns, its chances of widespread success as a web design format are equally weak.
One really neat feature of Flash is its ability to stream an MP3 file within the browser, and do so portably and easily. Take the Xploding Plastix site -- this is an excellent demonstration of Flash done right. (It also helps that their music's great.) Pure Volume and My Space have Flash-based players as well, though the S/N ratio there is pretty weak.
It's a double-edged sword, though, and for every site that uses Flash in a decent manner like this, there's a Flash ad with sound effects, and two more with graphics that slide, blink, spin, change colors, and suck up a lot of CPU for no good reason. On top of that, now we have Flash-based click tracking. This seems to happen with a lot of promising technologies; it has an obvious benefit, but the wrong people started using it for the wrong things. Fortunately, at least there's Flash click-to-play.
You can get BeOS 5 Max free. It's moderately recent, and it's a nice way to take a look at what BeOS is all about if you aren't in the loop. It even boots as a Live CD if you're so inclined, although you can't do much besides click on stuff if you boot it that way.
The asx file is here, and it eventually points to mms://a36.v9890f.c9890.g.vm.akamaistream.net/ 7/36/9890/v0001/abcvod.download.akamai.com/9890/ media/Primetime/lost_117_recap_joi8_high.asf (get rid of the spaces)
Now, I've ThinkGeek found some cool stuff on ThinkGeek now and then, but it ThinkGeekis getting a bit ridiculous ThinkGeek to have an article about ThinkGeek every couple of hours. I don't ThinkGeekknow about anyone else, but ThinkGeek I'll be glad when I can ThinkGeek click on my Slashdot bookmark knowing ThinkGeek I won't see a page ThinkGeek full of ads for ThinkGeek.:P
In all seriousness, though (*gasp* BLASPHEMER!)... have a look at the comment counts in today's articles: a lot of them haven't even broken 50 comments, and except for this article and the one with no content at all, none of them have even broken 100. It's probably not the best way to judge how many people are reading Slashdot, but I'd be willing to bet that they're not making much from the ads today. How many of the people who looked at Slashdot, clicked on one of the, um, articles, and decided to buy something on ThinkGeek might be a different matter entirely, but I doubt it'd be enough to make up for their lost ad revenue.
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You can do that with vi too, and in fewer keystrokes.
i Emacs^H^H^H^H^Hvi is great! ESC1000.
Sure, it's pretty expensive, but compare it to the cost of, say, hardwood flooring and it probably isn't that much more. The disco floor is 128 square feet, and the total material cost was $2500, which works out to about $20 per square foot, whereas a (good quality) solid wood floor can be around $7-$10 per square foot and it doesn't even do anything. Do flashing lights justify doubling the price of flooring? Also, installation of a wood floor will bring up the cost somewhat. The disco floor is just a matter of putting it down and plugging it in, but there's an extra cost for labor of building a disco floor.
I suppose it all comes down to whether or not it'd be worth the extra money to have a floor that blinks.
Apparently they didn't Google their own name, or else they would've noticed the name was already in use for a fairly popular music composition program.
Hmm. Maybe not.
This seems every bit as useful as
I can only think of these for Windows: Explorer (that's what the default is called, right?) and LiteStep.
There's more than that.
The fact that there are a ton of programs that do one thing isn't necessarily an advantage, though. It's harder for newbies to find their way when there are fifty different programs to do the same thing, but all do it differently.
There's no way to just plug an LCD panel into a video card because it works on a lower level than a vga/dvi signal; there has to be something in between the two to adapt the signal to the LCD's resolution and generally do some black magic. In short, yes, you do need to get a controller, but it's still a bit cheaper than buying a whole new LCD, and on top of that it's a learning experience, and something fun to do in your spare time.
This page might be useful reading.
I live in Arizona. ;)
Another post somewhere in this discussion suggested the idea of diagonal timezones. This could solve both problems, though I don't see it happening.
The same way that a Hamburger is made of ham...
:) </pedantic>
<pedantic> The hamburger got its name because it originated in Hamburg, Germany. Unless time was invented in some town called Midnight, your analogy falls on its face.
Okay, then how about the parts of Indiana that don't observe DST? It's up north, and their school zone limit is 20. In Arizona, btw, it's 15 mph, the same as several other states (e.g. Maine).
Anywhere I've ever been, the school bus stops are either at the corner of the street where there's a street light, or more commonly, right at the end of the kid's driveway. I really don't see how someone could get run over while walking fifty feet down a driveway, at least under plausible circumstances.
Hmm... I'm no expert in this field, but isn't "midnight" the middle of the night?
In that case why don't we always use DST? Arizona, Puerto Rico, some of Indiana, etc. all seem to be doing just fine without seasonal time changes. It is quite pleasant not to have to arbitrarily change the clocks twice a year.
I wonder if there's any studies on how much money is lost around the switch to daylight saving time due to people oversleeping and coming in late.
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No match for "MANSPIRE.COM".
It's your lucky day!
You're just mad because you have a small "PEN|S" and your Nigerian friend never sent you that check.
Ever notice how pretty much every KFC is in close proximity to an oil-change place?
(Or, for that matter, how a lot of Chinese take-out restaurants are adjacent to a pet store or veterinarian.)
Let me get this straight... You're breaking CSS stylesheets with rules that you wrote because some websites do annoying things with them. These rules screw up Google's site, and you expect Google to rewrite their site? It's not going to happen.
I have a rule in my userContent.css that sets display: none for embedded iframes, because some websites use them in obnoxious ways, but if a legitimate site has one, I'm not going to tell them that they need to change everything just because my user stylesheet is interfering with their site. I'd try to hack around it, and if I couldn't do that, I could either take the rule out and stop browsing annoying websites, or deal with it like anyone else who doesn't have a user stylesheet. Telling other sites not to use something because you don't like it is like telling everyone you know to talk louder because you're going deaf and don't want a hearing aid.
You bring up valid points, and I will certainly agree that Flash has some serious usability issues that make Jakob Nielsen scream. However, most of these points aren't easily addressable by the designers, as they are inherent problems with Flash itself. Until Macromedia actively addresses these problems instead of playing with ridiculous stuff like webcams and flying text, yes, Flash sites will be inherently less accessible. That's not to say that it's not useful, though.
Try thinking of designing a Flash-based site in the same light as designing a pure XML site. With XML the problem is browser support; with Flash it is usability. Either way, the ultimate question to ask is whether or not the added features and benefits are enough to outweigh the current problems -- will the target audience be adversely affected? Until MSIE (correctly) supports XML, the likelihood that it will catch on as a preferred content type is fairly weak despite the obvious advantages of fully semantic markup. Likewise, until Macromedia fully addresses Flash's usability concerns, its chances of widespread success as a web design format are equally weak.
One really neat feature of Flash is its ability to stream an MP3 file within the browser, and do so portably and easily. Take the Xploding Plastix site -- this is an excellent demonstration of Flash done right. (It also helps that their music's great.) Pure Volume and My Space have Flash-based players as well, though the S/N ratio there is pretty weak.
It's a double-edged sword, though, and for every site that uses Flash in a decent manner like this, there's a Flash ad with sound effects, and two more with graphics that slide, blink, spin, change colors, and suck up a lot of CPU for no good reason. On top of that, now we have Flash-based click tracking. This seems to happen with a lot of promising technologies; it has an obvious benefit, but the wrong people started using it for the wrong things. Fortunately, at least there's Flash click-to-play.
The BlueEyedOS link brought me to a webmail login, and strangely enough, when I reloaded the page it gave me an error message.
Cosmoe looks promising, but it still has quite a long way to go.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't BeOS only made freely available after Be went out of business?
You can get BeOS 5 Max free. It's moderately recent, and it's a nice way to take a look at what BeOS is all about if you aren't in the loop. It even boots as a Live CD if you're so inclined, although you can't do much besides click on stuff if you boot it that way.
No, he's asking FidelCatsro a question about a market based economy.
The asx file is here, and it eventually points to mms://a36.v9890f.c9890.g.vm.akamaistream.net/ 7/36/9890/v0001/abcvod.download.akamai.com/9890/ media/Primetime/lost_117_recap_joi8_high.asf (get rid of the spaces)
Now, I've ThinkGeek found some cool stuff on ThinkGeek now and then, but it ThinkGeekis getting a bit ridiculous ThinkGeek to have an article about ThinkGeek every couple of hours. I don't ThinkGeekknow about anyone else, but ThinkGeek I'll be glad when I can ThinkGeek click on my Slashdot bookmark knowing ThinkGeek I won't see a page ThinkGeek full of ads for ThinkGeek. :P
In all seriousness, though (*gasp* BLASPHEMER!)... have a look at the comment counts in today's articles: a lot of them haven't even broken 50 comments, and except for this article and the one with no content at all, none of them have even broken 100. It's probably not the best way to judge how many people are reading Slashdot, but I'd be willing to bet that they're not making much from the ads today. How many of the people who looked at Slashdot, clicked on one of the, um, articles, and decided to buy something on ThinkGeek might be a different matter entirely, but I doubt it'd be enough to make up for their lost ad revenue.
It's not just a dupe, it's a double dupe.