You're going to have all kinds of mistakes, and the user will SWEAR that it was the machine's fault, rather than admit they don't know what they are doing. Nobody wants to look stupid.
Donald Norman would say that it is the machine's fault and I think I'd agree. In my limited experience with computerized voting machines, they're horribly designed and I'm sure the UI is less important to the vendor than their Accounts Receivable.
Two Thousand Eighty-One : A Hopeful View of the Human Future by Gerard K. O'Neil predicted TiVo/DVR and several other things including this, if I recall correctly. Sounds good, though.
Superstar programmers are hired like CEOs and other unique positions: word of mouth. Ask your programmers, "Who did you used to work with elsewhere who would be great here?" Ask your opposite number at a comparable company, "Who did you almost hire last time? Can I have their resume?"
It looks from the photos as if the Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black inks are in separate cartridges. That's a GREAT improvement over throwing out a half-full color cartridge because you used up one of the colors!
While I am frustrated by Microsoft's buggy products one of my biggest peeves is that they have a terminal case of Not Invented Here. Even when implementing industry standards, they have to make their implementation just enough different that it's extremely painful to use. Remote Access Services (RAS) is PPP. Well, it's PPP-based. There's a funky handshake at the start that makes scripting a Linux box to talk to RAS really hard and unreliable. PPP is out there, just compile the thing for your platform and sell it!
I'm a geek. I've got an MS in computer science and a fetish for good UI and I hate every cell phone I've had. I want one of these and predict Verizon won't let me have one.
Someone at police headquarters had expected that. Twice the
usual number of copseyes floated overhead, waiting. Gold dots
ageist blue, basketball-sized, twelve feet up. Each a television
eye and a sonic stunner, each a hookup to police headquarters,
they were there to enforce the law of the Park.
No violence.
From Cloak of Anarchy, by Larry Niven. Published by Analog in 1972
Aside from the Kapor tie-in? Agenda's key feature was that you could just take notes and it'd see, "Meet with Dave next Tuesday about project x" and it'd know which Dave based on the Project X team and when next Tuesday was based on today's date, etc. Then it'd categorize all your notes so you could ask it, "Show me Project X stuff" or "What appointments do I have today?" If this is just an alternative to Outlook - that is, calendar-oriented or whatever -- how is it Agenda-like?
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Actually, the materials used in the fast reactors described in the SciAm article never produce weapons-grade materials. If I recall correctly, they can even consume weapons-grade materials so they make disarmament easier. See http://tinyurl.com/c9ahj.
I thought this was about fast reactors
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I just read an article in from a few months ago in Scientific American about fast reactors that can use the "spent" fuel from thermal reactors. Their waste is 95% smaller than thermal reactors and dangerous for only 10s of years, not 10s of thousands of years. _That_ technology has proven in prototype reactors.
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You're going to have all kinds of mistakes, and the user will SWEAR that it was the machine's fault, rather than admit they don't know what they are doing. Nobody wants to look stupid.
Donald Norman would say that it is the machine's fault and I think I'd agree. In my limited experience with computerized voting machines, they're horribly designed and I'm sure the UI is less important to the vendor than their Accounts Receivable.
Two Thousand Eighty-One : A Hopeful View of the Human Future by Gerard K. O'Neil predicted TiVo/DVR and several other things including this, if I recall correctly. Sounds good, though.
Superstar programmers are hired like CEOs and other unique positions: word of mouth. Ask your programmers, "Who did you used to work with elsewhere who would be great here?" Ask your opposite number at a comparable company, "Who did you almost hire last time? Can I have their resume?"
It looks from the photos as if the Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black inks are in separate cartridges. That's a GREAT improvement over throwing out a half-full color cartridge because you used up one of the colors!
We have 4 laptops and, I think, 7 types of laptop chargers in our household. Wouldn't it be nice if the laptop chargers were all the same?
While I am frustrated by Microsoft's buggy products one of my biggest peeves is that they have a terminal case of Not Invented Here. Even when implementing industry standards, they have to make their implementation just enough different that it's extremely painful to use. Remote Access Services (RAS) is PPP. Well, it's PPP-based. There's a funky handshake at the start that makes scripting a Linux box to talk to RAS really hard and unreliable. PPP is out there, just compile the thing for your platform and sell it!
I'm a geek. I've got an MS in computer science and a fetish for good UI and I hate every cell phone I've had. I want one of these and predict Verizon won't let me have one.
This sounds rather like Larry Niven's "copseye" ( http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=309 ):
Someone at police headquarters had expected that. Twice the
usual number of copseyes floated overhead, waiting. Gold dots
ageist blue, basketball-sized, twelve feet up. Each a television
eye and a sonic stunner, each a hookup to police headquarters,
they were there to enforce the law of the Park.
No violence.
From Cloak of Anarchy, by Larry Niven.
Published by Analog in 1972
Aside from the Kapor tie-in? Agenda's key feature was that you could just take notes and it'd see, "Meet with Dave next Tuesday about project x" and it'd know which Dave based on the Project X team and when next Tuesday was based on today's date, etc. Then it'd categorize all your notes so you could ask it, "Show me Project X stuff" or "What appointments do I have today?" If this is just an alternative to Outlook - that is, calendar-oriented or whatever -- how is it Agenda-like?
Actually, the materials used in the fast reactors described in the SciAm article never produce weapons-grade materials. If I recall correctly, they can even consume weapons-grade materials so they make disarmament easier. See http://tinyurl.com/c9ahj.
I just read an article in from a few months ago in Scientific American about fast reactors that can use the "spent" fuel from thermal reactors. Their waste is 95% smaller than thermal reactors and dangerous for only 10s of years, not 10s of thousands of years. _That_ technology has proven in prototype reactors.