The conclusion of the article is that, except for variation mostly due to genetic drift, and despite 70,000 of divergence, we're all pretty much the same genetically. I don't know how that claim is going to 'scientifically support' bigotry.
Hang on I think I'm getting mixed up with terminology here.
For me the people that determine and write the spec are product management. Do a technical writers to you write the spec or the manual or both?
If you think all a graphic designer does is "make things look pretty" you might want to read that article.
and if you live in a world where you think people still read manuals, you might want to find out what a UI designer actually does.
Actually I'll tell you. A lot of it is helping a user discover, understand and use features and data without having to read a manual. And coincidentally guiding the way someone discovers and understands visually (like on a computer screen) is graphic design. The use part falls interaction design. Read the article.
I know many US Americans don't have maps, so I'll give you that one, but most airlines sites use calendars for picking departure and return dates so I think that's evidence calendars work in practice.
Actually come to think of it, pretty much all websites use fancy date pickers now for dates when you're thinking about time from the perspective of the present, that is, not things like your birthday.
Moderately contrived example aside, do you at least get what he's trying to say? That section is going for something similar to 'Natural Mappings' as described in The Design of Everyday Things.
Umm... the only way to know if one way of doing this is better or worse in UI is to try it.
Look up the term Guerilla User Testing
or read Don't Make Me Think and follow his approach. This is pretty standard practice on the web. Woe to rich client GUI if what you described is standard in that area.
To use the campus wireless at Dalhousie university in Halifax you have to run their special cisco VPN client for which there's no version for Vista. So Vista = no wireless at Dal. Does the internet count as a common college app?
I don't think the radio is good for finding music anymore. It's just the internet is so much easier and better for that.
One exception is CBC radio 3, which does a program on CBC radio 2 (yea, they really make is simple for us) on saturday nights from like, 7:30pm-12am or something (it's live, so where I'm from it starts at 4:30pm). I just record the stream using this guy (probably linux only) and listen to it at work during the week.
CBC3 also has a chart here with links to a site where you can listen to full sample tracks streaming. Then you can grab torrents from the usual places to see if you really want to get an album, or take your chances and order it from amazon.ca or cdplus.com (which is canadian)
Also last.fm is awesome for finding new music. Just find someone who listens to music you like, and grab torrents of other stuff they're listening to.
What's the point of replacing gasoline with ethanol when you have to use almost the same amount of fossil fuel energy, in the form of natural gas and coal, to make the stuff? Producing ethanol from corn produces little net energy, and the whole process produces nearly the same amount of CO2 as just burning straight gasoline.
The biggest one in Canada, Westgrid's Glacier, adds 600 nodes, and still slips from 54 to 83. This obviously calls for one up man ship. Oh Canada.
PubChem completes NCBI's databases.
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NCBI, the suborganization of NIH that hosts pubChem, has the goal of offering comprehensive biomedical research databases. Primarily this is protein/DNA sequences as well as structures and links to literature. But proteins interact with small molecules ('chemicals'), and every living organism contains hundreds of thousands of these different molecules (see metabolomics). PubChem provides information about these molecules in the context of biomedical research. So we see PubChem is essential for NCBI's objective.
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And here I thought this was going to be about Exxon backing Synthetic Genomics. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/business/energy-environment/14fuel.html Algae fuels are just so hot right now!
The conclusion of the article is that, except for variation mostly due to genetic drift, and despite 70,000 of divergence, we're all pretty much the same genetically. I don't know how that claim is going to 'scientifically support' bigotry.
Hang on I think I'm getting mixed up with terminology here. For me the people that determine and write the spec are product management. Do a technical writers to you write the spec or the manual or both?
If you think all a graphic designer does is "make things look pretty" you might want to read that article.
and if you live in a world where you think people still read manuals, you might want to find out what a UI designer actually does.
Actually I'll tell you. A lot of it is helping a user discover, understand and use features and data without having to read a manual. And coincidentally guiding the way someone discovers and understands visually (like on a computer screen) is graphic design. The use part falls interaction design. Read the article.
I know many US Americans don't have maps, so I'll give you that one, but most airlines sites use calendars for picking departure and return dates so I think that's evidence calendars work in practice.
Actually come to think of it, pretty much all websites use fancy date pickers now for dates when you're thinking about time from the perspective of the present, that is, not things like your birthday.
Moderately contrived example aside, do you at least get what he's trying to say? That section is going for something similar to 'Natural Mappings' as described in The Design of Everyday Things.
Also, for all your developers, do you have a designer? UI development = graphic design + industrial/interaction design. Read Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface
Umm... the only way to know if one way of doing this is better or worse in UI is to try it. Look up the term Guerilla User Testing or read Don't Make Me Think and follow his approach. This is pretty standard practice on the web. Woe to rich client GUI if what you described is standard in that area.
To use the campus wireless at Dalhousie university in Halifax you have to run their special cisco VPN client for which there's no version for Vista. So Vista = no wireless at Dal. Does the internet count as a common college app?
I don't think the radio is good for finding music anymore. It's just the internet is so much easier and better for that.
One exception is CBC radio 3, which does a program on CBC radio 2 (yea, they really make is simple for us) on saturday nights from like, 7:30pm-12am or something (it's live, so where I'm from it starts at 4:30pm). I just record the stream using this guy (probably linux only) and listen to it at work during the week.
CBC3 also has a chart here with links to a site where you can listen to full sample tracks streaming. Then you can grab torrents from the usual places to see if you really want to get an album, or take your chances and order it from amazon.ca or cdplus.com (which is canadian)
Also last.fm is awesome for finding new music. Just find someone who listens to music you like, and grab torrents of other stuff they're listening to.
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Metric, k-os, K'naan, Islands, Broken Social Scene, New Pornographers...
Just because your favourite old bands aren't producing their best stuff anymore doesn't mean there aren't new up and comers.
Try listening to CBC radio 3.
What's the point of replacing gasoline with ethanol when you have to use almost the same amount of fossil fuel energy, in the form of natural gas and coal, to make the stuff? Producing ethanol from corn produces little net energy, and the whole process produces nearly the same amount of CO2 as just burning straight gasoline.
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I don't know much about encryption, so I ask what's the practical difference between this and, say, Skype over SSL?
- Workers that have crossed the picket line are being targeted, having their pictures posted on the site.
- The workers have been cutting phone lines, and the site contains instructions on how to disrupt phone service.
Right now hundreds of people are without 911 service because of the workers' actions. Who is the bad guy? Discuss.The biggest one in Canada, Westgrid's Glacier, adds 600 nodes, and still slips from 54 to 83. This obviously calls for one up man ship. Oh Canada.
NCBI, the suborganization of NIH that hosts pubChem, has the goal of offering comprehensive biomedical research databases. Primarily this is protein/DNA sequences as well as structures and links to literature. But proteins interact with small molecules ('chemicals'), and every living organism contains hundreds of thousands of these different molecules (see metabolomics). PubChem provides information about these molecules in the context of biomedical research. So we see PubChem is essential for NCBI's objective.