Android on the other hand... has a lot of developers that try many different things and continually experiment, they move in every direction, not just forward.
Actually, you'll run into this on the iOS side as well.
There's an RDP client that I use that went "gesture-crazy." For example, a three-fingered swipe across the screen will disconnect you from the server. Obviously. And, no, these aren't shortcuts.
So, no, there are third-party developers who are having fun with gestures.
Much harder to provide a complete example of an alternative that incorporates all the changes you are asking for, on a mobile platform.
Yeah! Why don't you improve our interface for free!
One of the authors, Bruce Tognazzini, does this for a living. But he should just sit down, come up with solutions, perform user testing, and everything else out of the kindness of his heart!
The scrollbar is discoverable and it provides visual feedback. Sounds good right? Well it turns out using a scrollbar on a mobile device is a miserable experience. Swipe to scroll turned out to be the vastly superior method, and as soon as you learn to swipe (my 1 year old figured it out watching me) it is trivially easy to operate without any additional visual clutter.
At the loss of discoverability.
While I agree--I wouldn't want to play with scrollbars on my phone--I'll add that you lose the ability to know if information is outside of your view. That's part of the "discoverability."
Here's a personal example: Back in iOS 7, I believe, the Weather app on the iPhone would show you the temperature. Tap on the temperature--how I knew to do that is lost to my memory--and it would show you other information--barometer, wind direction and speed, etc. When I upgraded to iOS 8, this functionality was removed. You could no longer get this information--which I occasionally found useful (when biking, it's nice to know if you're going to be fighting headwinds).
Then, one day, while swiping through my collection of locations in the Weather app, I inadvertently swiped more down than across and noticed that there was more information below! There was my wind speed and direction, as well as a few more days of weather forecasts as well as sunrise and sunset times (Apple: This is not weather, dammit!)
How was I supposed to know that this had changed? Where was my scrollbar to say, "Hey, there's more information down below this"? Is the technique that whenever you launch an app, you need to start swiping in all directions with as many fingers as you can in order to figure out how something works?
In short, discoverability sucks on iOS. Don't believe me? Apple has a "Hints" app on the iPhone so that you can learn all these crazy things.
Seriously, Dragon 2 can hold 7 passengers and get them there alive. But if it's carrying seven people, there's no space for cargo. NASA would rather send fewer astronauts and some cargo.
One interesting aside is the "emergency lifeboat" thing. Since Dragon can carry 7 people, does this mean that one Dragon could be used to rescue everybody? Will there be 7 seats stowed in the cargo hold in the event that they need to take everybody off?
Perhaps so it can also be used in environments that are not zero G?
I believe part of the concept here is to build the "go anywhere do anything" robot rather than build one kind of robot for exploring zero-G environments and another kind of robot for non-zero-G environments.
Maybe my math is off, but at $34,409/kg (which is the current price), they'll need 871kg or 1922 pounds to pay for a dredger/cutter robot.
Keep in mind, also, that once they figure out how to do the mining and can show that it works, other people will probably buy their equipment to exploit other finds. If you will, they'll make money from every underwater mine.
What sort of suspicious special attention have you received?
Back in '97, my roommate and I went over to Vietnam. She's from there and we went over to visit some friends--purely tourist stuff. While I was there, I visited the Cu Chi tunnels and picked up a Vietnamese Officer's cap from the gift shop--My "Commie Hat," as I call it. I brought it with me on the flight back and was wearing it when I got to the airport in the US.
So I get off the plane and I stop and look at the big sign they have discussing things you can bring in and can't bring in and the duty that needs to be paid and stuff like that. I didn't bring much back of particular value and wasn't too concerned. I mostly just wanted to rest for a minute. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a uniformed customs person staring at me. I glanced over and sure enough, there he was. Just standing there and staring at me. I continued my walk to baggage claim and he starts following me. When I get to baggage claim, I hang around and wait for my bag and the guy is still standing around and staring at me. My bag--a big ol' duffel bag--shows up and I sling it over my shoulder and trudge off to customs. Off he goes as well. While I'm waiting in line there, he's still standing off to the side and staring at me! I declare that I have a couple of knit caps and a half-naked woman ashtray in my bag. They didn't really search my bag or anything too severe and I think I might have paid a few bucks--I don't really remember. Then I left, with the customs guy still staring at me as I walked away.
The only thing I can think of was that I was wearing my "Commie Hat" and that stuck in his craw somehow.
Not a bad idea--you might consider opening one in the US instead, but that's your affair.
I remember IBM, way back when, used to put their engineering offices inconveniently close to big cities. For example, I know there used to be a development office in Essex Junction, Vermont (it might still be there). It's a day flight to New York or Boston, so you can go for a sales meeting or something if you have to, but it's far enough away from "where the action is" to keep employees from getting poached. IBM used to do things like offer employees low-interest housing loans and things like that so that they could buy a nice house in an area with good schools and the like, once again to keep employees happy and productive and interested in staying with Big Blue.
I agree with the employee who left you--personally, from everything I've seen and heard, I have no interest in moving to the Bay Area. But I'm also seeing some companies that are offering telecommuting and looking for employees that are "logistically close" (e.g., LA to SF/San Diego) so that they can hit meetings with a little notice but can also afford to have a life outside work.
I'm sure they will. Keep in mind, though, that the model 3 won't go into production until 2017—at the earliest. So I wouldn't expect to see a new roadster from Tesla until 2019 or 2020.
And if the price is still in the $100,000 range, which the new ones were, it's a bit out of my league...
"Whatever they are, they're definitely weird — 'volcanoes' is the least weird hypothesis at the moment"
Oh c'mon! What's the most weird hypothesis at the moment?
Since a new Star Wars movie is opening in a few weeks, I'll go with "Unshielded Thermal Exhaust Port." And add the obligatory, "That's no dwarf planet..."
I actually see quite a few electric cars out there, but I'll admit that it's still probably 500:1.
That said, I somewhat agree--I think the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine is on it's way out. I think it will take a generation or so to happen, so it won't be occurring anytime soon. For example, as much as I love the idea of an electric car, I insist on driving convertibles. The closest thing to an electric convertible is the Tesla roadster, which (a) they don't make anymore and have no plans to start making again and (b) used models are still going for over $100,000, which is more than I'd like to spend for a car. So, yeah, BMW may make an electric car like the i3, but you won't see a BMW 6-series convertible within the next 10 years.
You're 100% correct. If we took the time and effort to put an Earth-like dense atmosphere it would be gradually stripped away......in about 100 million years.
I think if we could manage to terraform Mars, I think we could probably do some even more interesting things with the terraformed planet in 100 million years.
That said, sometimes something catches my eye when I fast forward and I get curious and go back and see. So that's an interesting angle to look at--how to make you stop fast-forwarding.
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Android on the other hand ... has a lot of developers that try many different things and continually experiment, they move in every direction, not just forward.
Actually, you'll run into this on the iOS side as well.
There's an RDP client that I use that went "gesture-crazy." For example, a three-fingered swipe across the screen will disconnect you from the server. Obviously. And, no, these aren't shortcuts.
So, no, there are third-party developers who are having fun with gestures.
Much harder to provide a complete example of an alternative that incorporates all the changes you are asking for, on a mobile platform.
Yeah! Why don't you improve our interface for free!
One of the authors, Bruce Tognazzini, does this for a living. But he should just sit down, come up with solutions, perform user testing, and everything else out of the kindness of his heart!
The scrollbar is discoverable and it provides visual feedback. Sounds good right? Well it turns out using a scrollbar on a mobile device is a miserable experience. Swipe to scroll turned out to be the vastly superior method, and as soon as you learn to swipe (my 1 year old figured it out watching me) it is trivially easy to operate without any additional visual clutter.
At the loss of discoverability.
While I agree--I wouldn't want to play with scrollbars on my phone--I'll add that you lose the ability to know if information is outside of your view. That's part of the "discoverability."
Here's a personal example: Back in iOS 7, I believe, the Weather app on the iPhone would show you the temperature. Tap on the temperature--how I knew to do that is lost to my memory--and it would show you other information--barometer, wind direction and speed, etc. When I upgraded to iOS 8, this functionality was removed. You could no longer get this information--which I occasionally found useful (when biking, it's nice to know if you're going to be fighting headwinds).
Then, one day, while swiping through my collection of locations in the Weather app, I inadvertently swiped more down than across and noticed that there was more information below! There was my wind speed and direction, as well as a few more days of weather forecasts as well as sunrise and sunset times (Apple: This is not weather, dammit!)
How was I supposed to know that this had changed? Where was my scrollbar to say, "Hey, there's more information down below this"? Is the technique that whenever you launch an app, you need to start swiping in all directions with as many fingers as you can in order to figure out how something works?
In short, discoverability sucks on iOS. Don't believe me? Apple has a "Hints" app on the iPhone so that you can learn all these crazy things.
Depends on who they are.
Seriously, Dragon 2 can hold 7 passengers and get them there alive. But if it's carrying seven people, there's no space for cargo. NASA would rather send fewer astronauts and some cargo.
One interesting aside is the "emergency lifeboat" thing. Since Dragon can carry 7 people, does this mean that one Dragon could be used to rescue everybody? Will there be 7 seats stowed in the cargo hold in the event that they need to take everybody off?
No I'm not. I'm actually right next to the Pizzazium Infinionite.
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And I wish they would shut up--it keeps me awake at night.
And, yes, I resent that.
Perhaps so it can also be used in environments that are not zero G?
I believe part of the concept here is to build the "go anywhere do anything" robot rather than build one kind of robot for exploring zero-G environments and another kind of robot for non-zero-G environments.
Put camera's in washroom stalls just in case the terrorists find a way to use them.
So if I pee in public, not only am I a sex offender, now I'm a potential terrorist?
There are way too many FLAs in the naming of geopositioning services.
I think you mean FoLAs.
Maybe my math is off, but at $34,409/kg (which is the current price), they'll need 871kg or 1922 pounds to pay for a dredger/cutter robot.
Keep in mind, also, that once they figure out how to do the mining and can show that it works, other people will probably buy their equipment to exploit other finds. If you will, they'll make money from every underwater mine.
(For those who don't get it.)
Actually, and it's tough for me to say this, it's OS X. Apple has pretty much dropped the "Mac" from the name.
Though it is still "OS Ten"--not X.
Orange County Culture? Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
You're right about the other two, though. Especially the weather.
Back in '97, my roommate and I went over to Vietnam. She's from there and we went over to visit some friends--purely tourist stuff. While I was there, I visited the Cu Chi tunnels and picked up a Vietnamese Officer's cap from the gift shop--My "Commie Hat," as I call it. I brought it with me on the flight back and was wearing it when I got to the airport in the US.
So I get off the plane and I stop and look at the big sign they have discussing things you can bring in and can't bring in and the duty that needs to be paid and stuff like that. I didn't bring much back of particular value and wasn't too concerned. I mostly just wanted to rest for a minute. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a uniformed customs person staring at me. I glanced over and sure enough, there he was. Just standing there and staring at me. I continued my walk to baggage claim and he starts following me. When I get to baggage claim, I hang around and wait for my bag and the guy is still standing around and staring at me. My bag--a big ol' duffel bag--shows up and I sling it over my shoulder and trudge off to customs. Off he goes as well. While I'm waiting in line there, he's still standing off to the side and staring at me! I declare that I have a couple of knit caps and a half-naked woman ashtray in my bag. They didn't really search my bag or anything too severe and I think I might have paid a few bucks--I don't really remember. Then I left, with the customs guy still staring at me as I walked away.
The only thing I can think of was that I was wearing my "Commie Hat" and that stuck in his craw somehow.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Maybe we'll see Apple come up with a iPad Duo Dock at some point. "It's not the same thing, though..."
Not a bad idea--you might consider opening one in the US instead, but that's your affair.
I remember IBM, way back when, used to put their engineering offices inconveniently close to big cities. For example, I know there used to be a development office in Essex Junction, Vermont (it might still be there). It's a day flight to New York or Boston, so you can go for a sales meeting or something if you have to, but it's far enough away from "where the action is" to keep employees from getting poached. IBM used to do things like offer employees low-interest housing loans and things like that so that they could buy a nice house in an area with good schools and the like, once again to keep employees happy and productive and interested in staying with Big Blue.
I agree with the employee who left you--personally, from everything I've seen and heard, I have no interest in moving to the Bay Area. But I'm also seeing some companies that are offering telecommuting and looking for employees that are "logistically close" (e.g., LA to SF/San Diego) so that they can hit meetings with a little notice but can also afford to have a life outside work.
I'm sure they will. Keep in mind, though, that the model 3 won't go into production until 2017—at the earliest. So I wouldn't expect to see a new roadster from Tesla until 2019 or 2020.
And if the price is still in the $100,000 range, which the new ones were, it's a bit out of my league...
FTFA:
"Whatever they are, they're definitely weird — 'volcanoes' is the least weird hypothesis at the moment"
Oh c'mon! What's the most weird hypothesis at the moment?
Since a new Star Wars movie is opening in a few weeks, I'll go with "Unshielded Thermal Exhaust Port." And add the obligatory, "That's no dwarf planet..."
If no one in the US has a good job to earn money to buy things with, how is anyone in America going to "consume" anything?
One word: China.
The middle class is growing over there, so it seems like a good place to look for improved sales.
I actually see quite a few electric cars out there, but I'll admit that it's still probably 500:1.
That said, I somewhat agree--I think the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine is on it's way out. I think it will take a generation or so to happen, so it won't be occurring anytime soon. For example, as much as I love the idea of an electric car, I insist on driving convertibles. The closest thing to an electric convertible is the Tesla roadster, which (a) they don't make anymore and have no plans to start making again and (b) used models are still going for over $100,000, which is more than I'd like to spend for a car. So, yeah, BMW may make an electric car like the i3, but you won't see a BMW 6-series convertible within the next 10 years.
Ultimately we're going to have to have a bunch of different electric car manufacturers [...]
Ultimately, Toyota, GM, Ford, Honda, etc. will buy these different electric car manufacturers.
You're 100% correct. If we took the time and effort to put an Earth-like dense atmosphere it would be gradually stripped away... ...in about 100 million years.
I think if we could manage to terraform Mars, I think we could probably do some even more interesting things with the terraformed planet in 100 million years.
Don't forget the pipeline that has to be built. Fortunately, we won't have those pesky property rights to worry about...
I tend to do that, too.
That said, sometimes something catches my eye when I fast forward and I get curious and go back and see. So that's an interesting angle to look at--how to make you stop fast-forwarding.