don't you know anything about the Science of User Interface Design?
build your product, and then define "good UI" as "what was made by the people who paid us to test their UI"
And I think OS X disproves that Apple believed the usability test. There are already UI engineers describing how ergonomic and intuitive really big buttons in the middle of the screen with wasted space on both sides makes users work faster and that pseudo-translucent graphic rounded borders are intuitive on some computers but not on others
It isn't tunnelling or port forwarding or anything technical. This just wastes more bandwidth or cpu cycles.
Call your ISP, tell them that you want internet access, and explain what their proxy is preventing you from doing. Ask them how much it would cost for the service. If they are unwilling to supply the requested service, or charge to much for it, cancel your service and use another provider. Be sure to tell them why you changed.
Alot of small local ISPs were started because users wanted more features than AOL or the other providers. This is America, if you build a better product, customers will beat a path to your door to pay for it...until it is outlawed or you are put out of business by illegal (or recently legalized) tactics by the competition.
Interviewer:Slashdot, as you know, is a citadel of Linux True Believers...However, to date, as a desktop OS and competitor to Windows, it's been a bust.
The interview prefaces with a description about the last time their site was mentioned on Slashdot:
Visits to www.softwaremarketsolution.com shot to 40K page views in a single day and in turn generated a lively new thread on Slashdot about the ideas and viewpoints expressed in the interview.
And they're arguing against Linux on the desktop?!?
The success of Slashdot is directly related to the success of Linux on the desktop. Yes, there are Windows using readers, and god knows even I've tried reading it with Lynx, but by and large, Slashdot is the end users of Linux.
The carbon monoxide is what kills you from your car. Its very different from carbon dioxide. I can't quote the exact ratio of the top of my head, but you're breathing millions of times as much CO2 as the CO that will kill you. The difference is that your blood can't distinguish between CO and O2 and so it inhibits normal pulminary activities.
*MOST* environmentalists confuse the two chemicals, probably because they rhyme.
You could substitute "had" for "involved" but then you run into the problem with "had" being a form of "to be", and then it depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.
If you want to know something, look it up for yourself. Don't rely on your religious leaders for every thought you think. If you want to refute something, come up with your own damn evidence, don't whine about it. And if you're too willfully ignorant to believe anything that contradicts what you were told, don't lie about wanting proof.
no, all you have to do is supply the source to your improved gnucompress. Now, technically, if you statically link it all into one binary, you do have to give the whole source. But this is against the spirit of the GPL. The GPL asks you to do a little work (that will usually make your project more robust anyway) and separate the functionality you "borrowed" out. For an extremely small project, or one where a library call is too much overhead, you may be out of luck, but that is a sacrifice the GPL makes for clarity's sake, not out of malevolence.
I think the epithet "anonymous sales droid" implies a disdain for said employees intellect and abilities. The fact is any stuffed shirt or ex frat boy could fill the position, within certain limitations (does not stutter, washes self, licks ass). While sales may be completed by the droid, they are initiated by the engineer/architect/entrepeneur, enabled by the developer/assembly line worker/big red button on shiny machine, generated by the advertising contractor, and profits are accumulated by the reclusive accountant with green billed visor/backroom cigar smoke deal/hidden deep within the recesses of shiny machine.
The salesman has less to do with the sale than the cashier at McDonalds.
12 blades weighs twice as much as six. That requires *more than* double the energy to spin. Unless you make them smaller. Or reduce the angle. Both will decrease the proportionate airflow.
While the case of one particular airplane engine may have benefitted from an increase in propeller blades -- notice they didn't up it to 12 blades. Also notice that most engines still use two or three. There is always a mean. That's why they invented calculus.
As was posted by others, the center of the fan doesn't push that much air, so reducing the spindle size, or moving the turbine to the outer edge doesn't help.
isn't who was more productive, Fred or Danny, in the situation above, but who was more productive if Fred wrote his 5000 lines in 5 days and got it done, and Danny wrote his 2500 lines, took him 10 days to get it done.
That's the dilemma facing project managers-- is it better to "get it working now" or "ease extensibility/maintenance later." There is no hard and fast solution. It's different for every project, and often misjudged, in part because you can't see into the future to determine its lifespan. Of course everyone wants two Dannys who get done in 5 days, but that's not the real world scenario.
what that list doesn't tell you is that all those stupid stock market analysts were doubling their money every month or less, because the rest of us suckers bought their hype and false predictions. Payne Webber, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Oppenheimer & co. consolidated the largest percentage of the world's money since the London Bay Company & East India Company. And they haven't lost a penny of it. (WTC offices were insured)
I don't see where we disagree, I said the "myth" that there are only 43 musicians -- perpetuated by the recording industry. There may be more music out there, but I won't hear it. Unless I expend great effort (and possibly break the law) -- I'm stuck with a rotating diet of 40 songs approved by the Department of HP&D&MC.
I do think that overall the population's degree of musical skill has gone down, and that is primarily caused by reducing the opportunity for outlet, not wholly the responsibility of the RIAA, but strongly influenced by it.
A weak enonomy makes the rich richer. The relative value of a dollar goes up. Not to mention, they get to take back everything that the poor were buying (houses, cars, etc) on credit when then can't make the payments (after having already paid for it twice over in interest). Not to mention, the ability to buy power is easier for the "haves" compared to the "have nots" vs the "have a little bits"
if you put $3000 a year (the amount I paid in social security this year at $40,000) into a savings account for 40 years, you'll have three hells and a handshake more money in the bank at age 60 than you'll get from social security.
You don't have a right to retire on the government. And if you do, even as it is, you'll live in poverty.
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don't you know anything about the Science of User Interface Design?
build your product, and then define "good UI" as "what was made by the people who paid us to test their UI"
And I think OS X disproves that Apple believed the usability test. There are already UI engineers describing how ergonomic and intuitive really big buttons in the middle of the screen with wasted space on both sides makes users work faster and that pseudo-translucent graphic rounded borders are intuitive on some computers but not on others
It isn't tunnelling or port forwarding or anything technical. This just wastes more bandwidth or cpu cycles.
Call your ISP, tell them that you want internet access, and explain what their proxy is preventing you from doing. Ask them how much it would cost for the service. If they are unwilling to supply the requested service, or charge to much for it, cancel your service and use another provider. Be sure to tell them why you changed.
Alot of small local ISPs were started because users wanted more features than AOL or the other providers. This is America, if you build a better product, customers will beat a path to your door to pay for it...until it is outlawed or you are put out of business by illegal (or recently legalized) tactics by the competition.
the probability of godwin's law being invoked has exceeded that of Hitler or Nazi's being mentioned.
We need a new law.
does redhat have a dozen people all reading slashdot and answering questions with the same login
the real bero is probably still busy defending the choice to include gcc-2.96 on usenet
could be yellow and have a "3M" watermark.
There's no difference between a smartcard and a password, except the input device (keyboard or mag reader) -- both of which can be bypassed.
Does anyone know if 7.3 has the patched zlib -- and more especially, any packages that include a static zlib recompiled with the patch?
Interviewer: Slashdot, as you know, is a citadel of Linux True Believers...However, to date, as a desktop OS and competitor to Windows, it's been a bust.
The interview prefaces with a description about the last time their site was mentioned on Slashdot:
Visits to www.softwaremarketsolution.com shot to 40K page views in a single day and in turn generated a lively new thread on Slashdot about the ideas and viewpoints expressed in the interview.
And they're arguing against Linux on the desktop?!?
The success of Slashdot is directly related to the success of Linux on the desktop. Yes, there are Windows using readers, and god knows even I've tried reading it with Lynx, but by and large, Slashdot is the end users of Linux.
The carbon monoxide is what kills you from your car. Its very different from carbon dioxide. I can't quote the exact ratio of the top of my head, but you're breathing millions of times as much CO2 as the CO that will kill you. The difference is that your blood can't distinguish between CO and O2 and so it inhibits normal pulminary activities.
*MOST* environmentalists confuse the two chemicals, probably because they rhyme.
You sound like someone besmirched the coolness of your favorite movie or comic book character or operating system.
1 + 1 = 2, only for certain values of 1 and 2.
You take your astrology with a grain of salt and that means you're a skeptic?
You could substitute "had" for "involved" but then you run into the problem with "had" being a form of "to be", and then it depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.
If you want to know something, look it up for yourself. Don't rely on your religious leaders for every thought you think. If you want to refute something, come up with your own damn evidence, don't whine about it. And if you're too willfully ignorant to believe anything that contradicts what you were told, don't lie about wanting proof.
uh, no that year would be 1898, Rio de Janero.
no, all you have to do is supply the source to your improved gnucompress. Now, technically, if you statically link it all into one binary, you do have to give the whole source. But this is against the spirit of the GPL. The GPL asks you to do a little work (that will usually make your project more robust anyway) and separate the functionality you "borrowed" out. For an extremely small project, or one where a library call is too much overhead, you may be out of luck, but that is a sacrifice the GPL makes for clarity's sake, not out of malevolence.
I think the epithet "anonymous sales droid" implies a disdain for said employees intellect and abilities. The fact is any stuffed shirt or ex frat boy could fill the position, within certain limitations (does not stutter, washes self, licks ass). While sales may be completed by the droid, they are initiated by the engineer/architect/entrepeneur, enabled by the developer/assembly line worker/big red button on shiny machine, generated by the advertising contractor, and profits are accumulated by the reclusive accountant with green billed visor/backroom cigar smoke deal/hidden deep within the recesses of shiny machine.
The salesman has less to do with the sale than the cashier at McDonalds.
12 blades weighs twice as much as six. That requires *more than* double the energy to spin. Unless you make them smaller. Or reduce the angle. Both will decrease the proportionate airflow.
While the case of one particular airplane engine may have benefitted from an increase in propeller blades -- notice they didn't up it to 12 blades. Also notice that most engines still use two or three. There is always a mean. That's why they invented calculus.
As was posted by others, the center of the fan doesn't push that much air, so reducing the spindle size, or moving the turbine to the outer edge doesn't help.
So yes, I am confused.
if my programmers aren't slavic, they must be indian or chinese.
It's bad form to use an analogy that refutes your argument, but it shows guts!
that would mean forcing the business/marketing people to have a measureable quantity of work (meaningful use cases)
isn't who was more productive, Fred or Danny, in the situation above, but who was more productive if Fred wrote his 5000 lines in 5 days and got it done, and Danny wrote his 2500 lines, took him 10 days to get it done.
That's the dilemma facing project managers-- is it better to "get it working now" or "ease extensibility/maintenance later." There is no hard and fast solution. It's different for every project, and often misjudged, in part because you can't see into the future to determine its lifespan. Of course everyone wants two Dannys who get done in 5 days, but that's not the real world scenario.
I don't think JonKatz wrote this review, or else there's a new JonKatz.
what that list doesn't tell you is that all those stupid stock market analysts were doubling their money every month or less, because the rest of us suckers bought their hype and false predictions. Payne Webber, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Oppenheimer & co. consolidated the largest percentage of the world's money since the London Bay Company & East India Company. And they haven't lost a penny of it. (WTC offices were insured)
I don't see where we disagree, I said the "myth" that there are only 43 musicians -- perpetuated by the recording industry. There may be more music out there, but I won't hear it. Unless I expend great effort (and possibly break the law) -- I'm stuck with a rotating diet of 40 songs approved by the Department of HP&D&MC.
I do think that overall the population's degree of musical skill has gone down, and that is primarily caused by reducing the opportunity for outlet, not wholly the responsibility of the RIAA, but strongly influenced by it.
that is an issue, but its a different issue.
A weak enonomy makes the rich richer. The relative value of a dollar goes up. Not to mention, they get to take back everything that the poor were buying (houses, cars, etc) on credit when then can't make the payments (after having already paid for it twice over in interest). Not to mention, the ability to buy power is easier for the "haves" compared to the "have nots" vs the "have a little bits"
if you put $3000 a year (the amount I paid in social security this year at $40,000) into a savings account for 40 years, you'll have three hells and a handshake more money in the bank at age 60 than you'll get from social security.
You don't have a right to retire on the government. And if you do, even as it is, you'll live in poverty.