I love the Gmail interface. It simple, clean and easy to use. No flashy ads, no weird landing page when you first login, and easy to remember shortcut keys. I even love the nice whats-it-called-indicator for a mail where a '>>' is shown for a direct mail to you and a '>' for a mail you are one of the party.
Whats more, I like this interface better than thunderbird/outlook where they have 2 panes.. one for the list if mails, and one to read the mail. That never made sense UI wise.. a user will only be looking at one thing at a time, either selecting a mail or reading a mail.. and Gmail's ajax interface tops here. I cant imagine life without the conversation model.. Thunderbirds's treeview is simply no match (aside: is there a client that does has gmail like conversation view)
I'm no fanboi.. but I do like to recommend very well though out and user-friendly products, and Gmail is certainly one of them.
Very interesting technology.. but the article doesnt talk about how it can be used for artificial limbs (the 'muscle' in the name).
It would make for more flexible artificial arms than the current available robotic limbs, given the flexible nature of the nanotubes. Not to mention very powerful.
Its not a single patch.. there are hundreds, maybe thousands of such patches, only all the eyes watching GMaps found a few of these.
The one off Africa got a lot of publicity due to the "Atlantis" hype.. the interest in the particular area is simply the internet word of mouth effect.
With the background being a good distance away (> 10 or 15 feet) and the person within 2 feet, an object moving around a flat background is a good approximation of real 3D.
I've a very good hunch a blind test would make identifying a real 3D environment with this 2.5D would prove they look pretty much the same.
One thing I found was the the blackness around the edges was annoying.. it "gave" the impression of 2.5d-ness to someone who would otherwise have considered it 3D.. I'm talking Mr.LameO suddenly installing 3DChat-2009, and immediately recognizing it for a "parlor" trick.
One small thing that would go a long way in alleviating this would be cropping off edges on both sides (only in the viewing windows).. would make for a much more realistic experience.
Also, I disagree that its something you wouldn't want.. if it was included by default into a video chat, you'd be pleasantly surprised at the 3Dness of the other side. HCI works in these small unconscious way.
A good guess is that https takes a lot more resources than plain http. Given the popularity of that particular subdomain/domain, I'd guess they don't have enough hardware to support the massive amounts of CPU for the massive traffic.
Hi, I'm one of NCP (Nexenta Core Platform) developers. The Ubuntu part of Nexenta is the userland. So over 5000 apps that you see in our repository are ports of 8.04 counterparts.
Theres some more information for developers in an article I wrote over at OSnews.
Why would I catch a plane to a place that doesn't exist? Do you claim to have ever been to Delaware?
To verify that it in fact does. ..the most part these people seem credible
But not on the part of observability/ verifiability.
vitamin E
Verifiable.
I dont think that in any conversation that you can convince me that Delaware actually exists.
Then I don't think you can convince yourself that you're having a conversation with a human as opposed to a green blob on Mars with internet access. What do you choose to believe?
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I love the Gmail interface. It simple, clean and easy to use. No flashy ads, no weird landing page when you first login, and easy to remember shortcut keys. I even love the nice whats-it-called-indicator for a mail where a '>>' is shown for a direct mail to you and a '>' for a mail you are one of the party.
Whats more, I like this interface better than thunderbird/outlook where they have 2 panes.. one for the list if mails, and one to read the mail. That never made sense UI wise.. a user will only be looking at one thing at a time, either selecting a mail or reading a mail.. and Gmail's ajax interface tops here. I cant imagine life without the conversation model.. Thunderbirds's treeview is simply no match (aside: is there a client that does has gmail like conversation view)
I'm no fanboi.. but I do like to recommend very well though out and user-friendly products, and Gmail is certainly one of them.
Very interesting technology.. but the article doesnt talk about how it can be used for artificial limbs (the 'muscle' in the name).
It would make for more flexible artificial arms than the current available robotic limbs, given the flexible nature of the nanotubes. Not to mention very powerful.
Not so much antifanboism as much as a comment on the sad state of the industry. Too bad you didnt see my comment the way I meant it..
..a closed platform opening up brings news.. whereas other open (and closed) platforms have had this for a long time. The Apple RDF is strong..
Its not a single patch.. there are hundreds, maybe thousands of such patches, only all the eyes watching GMaps found a few of these.
The one off Africa got a lot of publicity due to the "Atlantis" hype.. the interest in the particular area is simply the internet word of mouth effect.
Reason for those lines: Ship tracks due to the way oceanographic equipment work.
Well, yes, but it's the "cold" stuff these guys like.
Heh.. but what if fire isn't a life threatening force to them as it is to us.. burning is probably how they reproduce.
With the background being a good distance away (> 10 or 15 feet) and the person within 2 feet, an object moving around a flat background is a good approximation of real 3D.
I've a very good hunch a blind test would make identifying a real 3D environment with this 2.5D would prove they look pretty much the same.
One thing I found was the the blackness around the edges was annoying.. it "gave" the impression of 2.5d-ness to someone who would otherwise have considered it 3D.. I'm talking Mr.LameO suddenly installing 3DChat-2009, and immediately recognizing it for a "parlor" trick.
One small thing that would go a long way in alleviating this would be cropping off edges on both sides (only in the viewing windows).. would make for a much more realistic experience.
Also, I disagree that its something you wouldn't want.. if it was included by default into a video chat, you'd be pleasantly surprised at the 3Dness of the other side. HCI works in these small unconscious way.
Thanks, I wonder why this wasn't slashdotted. The sports car version is something you'd want to buy.
#1 source of spam is the USA
More correctly, the number one source of Zombie machines is the USA. The controller can be (and very probably is) from a country with laxer laws.
A good guess is that https takes a lot more resources than plain http. Given the popularity of that particular subdomain/domain, I'd guess they don't have enough hardware to support the massive amounts of CPU for the massive traffic.
Its like a jury, but they really want the case to end quickly.
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Touché.
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It did used to be called gnusolaris. We now use it as our build machine.
Well it was called gnusolaris before being rechristened Nexenta :)
Hi, I'm one of NCP (Nexenta Core Platform) developers. The Ubuntu part of Nexenta is the userland. So over 5000 apps that you see in our repository are ports of 8.04 counterparts.
Theres some more information for developers in an article I wrote over at OSnews.
I actually like the simple flash based gallery.. is it produced inhouse.. or is there a place I can download it?
My firefox defaults to Scroogle, a google search proxy, without all of the IP logging hassles.
I agree. It was in bad taste.
Here you go:
http://audioo.com/t/chandrayaan-ogg/15e1a3a7bc075e7/
Why would I catch a plane to a place that doesn't exist? Do you claim to have ever been to Delaware?
To verify that it in fact does.
..the most part these people seem credible
But not on the part of observability/ verifiability.
vitamin E
Verifiable.
I dont think that in any conversation that you can convince me that Delaware actually exists.
Then I don't think you can convince yourself that you're having a conversation with a human as opposed to a green blob on Mars with internet access. What do you choose to believe?