The research study required users to complete several different tasks, switch from one task to another, and remember data. None of the study participants had used multiple monitors before.
The first study revealed that the users' productivity increased by 9 percent. Further studies showed even greater increases - at times up to 50 percent for tasks such as cutting and pasting. Mary Czerwinski, the VIBE research manager, is excited about her group's discoveries, asking, "If you're able to squeeze 10 percent more productivity out, do you know how much money that will save?"
One of the user studies that the VIBE group did required users to navigate through a series of doors, and then back their way out. They wanted to test the user's ability to remember a series of actions on a small display versus a large display.
"The interesting thing is that they try to get it right. We found that memory capability is considerably improved on a big display over a small display. There's something about engaging the peripheral vision that improves your spatial memory of what has gone on," said Starkweather.
They've also found that additional monitors greatly help women in computing. See same article.
My own experience with this is that I perform better when I can get more pixels in my field of view, regardless of screen size, as long as I can read what's going on. An additional monitor improves both constraints. In contrast, when I have to work with a laptop and an 800x600 display, it's like sipping information through a straw. This is regardless of other factors like network bandwidth. Your mileage may vary.
....the photos have been republished in several places, which the Piggipedia author, @3arabawy, has seen fit to broadcast on his Twitter feed. The URLs for these are as follows:
So....where's the source code? Is it still running Slash? Because that git repository hasn't been updated since October 2009, judging by the logs. Please advise.
The main issue that I have with C# is the lack of vendor support outside of Microsoft and (to a very limited extent) Novell viz-a-vie the Mono project. If you want to run state-of-the-art C# right now, you pretty much have to run Windows, and that's a serious limitation for an enterprise-grade system. OTOH pretty much every heavy-hitting business logic platform right now runs Java and JEE.
That's the other thing you should learn: Oracle PL/SQL and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA these days means SOAP and message busses. At my place of work, we have a legacy COBOL application that needs to connect to the enterprise's Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). We are struggling to find anyone who can do it inside our company.
Depending on what platform your COBOL runs on, you can almost certainly find some way to wrap it in a Java stateless session bean. Turning that into web services is pretty easy these days -- most free IDEs have wizards that will do this for you for the free containers. If you're using IBM stack then WebSphere and Rational are a must.
Point being: Java and Java Enterprise Edition are also very useful here.
Maybe not -- most of those groups are also mirrored on Google. Verizon can of course try to limit what their users do with Google, but I'm not sure that any of the people who made this stupid decision are smart enough to realize that this "loophole" exists.
This story is based on someone's personal blog, who wrote this story based on a personal anecdote and a PDF that's hosted on some site I've never heard of.
Meanwhile, I checked Obama's site and found no mention of any plan to make this particular cut.
I think the author of the original story is making things up.
I know you're worried about the risks of sending people into outer space and all that, but please do consider the following.
(Holds up sack.)
England, do you know what these are? Perhaps not. It's been a while, hasn't it. Let me explain: these, dear friends, are your balls. You had them for a while once, back when you were a colonial power, you had big titanium steel ones while you fought the Nazis, and you had pretty good sized ones when you kicked the crap out of Argentina. But ever since you stopped sending humans into space, they've been sitting quietly in a burlap sack, growing old, gathering dust, completely unused while you drink beer and make funny movies and wonder what the hell happened to the England that was.
You know you want them back. You know you want to feel them again, along with the rush and thrill of going places where human beings just weren't designed to go. You know you want it, because that's where we've always gone as a species: where we're not supposed to.
Go on England. Explore space again. Get your balls back.
Until you do, I'll keep them in my lock box, along with the brains of the people who designed City of Heroes. They won't be needing those anytime soon, I assure you.
My understanding is that the USDA has a plan to combat this fungus. This involves planting highly resistant wheat in the south during the winter while the northern regions get too cold for the fungus to survive. With no place to take hold in the south and a death zone in the north, the fungus should go away. (source)
...Mark Shuttleworth is making it very clear that Ubuntu is a for profit venture. He could very well start charging money for something soon, and end up ticking off the Open Source world the same way the heroes of a decade ago (Red Hat) tick you off now.
If you want purity of purpose, you'd be best off with Debian, and good luck with it.
If MS's new approach works better, then it only makes sense that OOo -- KOffice, and Lotus -- will follow suit. These projects need to be useful to ma and pa kettle, and if they expect an MS clone, they'd better get one.
I get tons of enjoyment from buying (for example) cheap copper and making (for example) expensive copper boots out of it, which I can then sell for a profit on the Auction House. I can do that kind of thing by logging in once or twice a day for ten minutes during my busy week, then play like a pure addict on the weekends without worrying about how much gold it's going to cost for the next skill I want to learn.
Hell, I wish I could earn a living in real life that way. (Oh wait, I can -- it's called being an entrepreneur.)
I'm probably just exploiting the gold-farming phenomenon for my own ends here, but I doubt the situation would be qualitatively different without gold-farmers.
Really. Although I think it might have been faster when I was using Kubuntu instead of FC. However, Kubuntu had a nasty habit of freezing on me in such a way that the only means of recovery was to reboot, so I stopped using that.
The two desktop environments do basic tasks very differently. One of the main reasons why I no longer use Firefox on Linux is because I hate the GNOME file browser that Firefox uses by default. To me, all it does is make my job harder. For the sake of a more sensible file browsing interface, I am willing to tolerate Konqueror's relative slowness at loading web pages. Who's going to negotiate those differences?
The two desktop environments use very different core libraries with different licensing schemes (Qt is GPL, gtk is LGPL). These licensing schemes may carry big implications for those who use them (for example, you can base wxWindows on gtk without a problem, but can you do the same with wxWindows and Qt?)
There may also be major architectural differences that make a merging nontrivial.
Basically, what you're proposing is a huge project. The Portland Project has a much more limited scope, and I think it's much more achievable.
I wish I'd had your professor. It took me a while to figure out that, as technology people, our value comes down to two things: how well we can document business requirements, and how good we are in some domain. And if you can document business requirements, your competency in some domain becomes secondary.
So the question becomes, how do you get the experience if you don't have the experience? And the answer is: you find whatever the hell you can, fight your way into it, and then hold onto that job for dear life until you have five years and some certifications.
From what I've heard, Apple was going to shock the world by re-introducing their original Apple line of computers.
That's right: the Apple \/, the latest successor to the wildly successful Apple ][ line, is on its way. This state-of-the-art machine features an amazing 8 MHz processor with a shocking 512 KB of RAM and built-in double floppy drives, to handle the computing needs of the 21st Century. This machine comes with an updated version of Apple DOS that gives you the power to create directories on your double-sided floppy disks (although I understand that NetBSD will also run on this machine). Order now and get a free 14" monochrome monitor and printer (your choice of dot-matrix or pinwheel).
Slashdot Mirror
So, apparently, says the research to come out of Microsoft's User Interface group. Quoting:
They've also found that additional monitors greatly help women in computing. See same article.
My own experience with this is that I perform better when I can get more pixels in my field of view, regardless of screen size, as long as I can read what's going on. An additional monitor improves both constraints. In contrast, when I have to work with a laptop and an 800x600 display, it's like sipping information through a straw. This is regardless of other factors like network bandwidth. Your mileage may vary.
Bad things really do happen in threes. I can prove it. Here's a list of 2011 famous deaths - pick any three.
Will fuel for commercial flights even be available then, let alone affordable?
....the photos have been republished in several places, which the Piggipedia author, @3arabawy, has seen fit to broadcast on his Twitter feed. The URLs for these are as follows:
http://anonymiss.imgur.com/
http://ge.tt/4LaxiU0
http://cryptome.org/info/eg-ss/eg-ss-01.htm
The dude behind this is one of the main voiced of the Egyptian revolution. History will not look kindly upon Flickr for their cowardice here.
Looks okay on a Blackberry with OS 5.0.*. Why is it 300KB to load? That strikes me as excessive. Remember, some of us have bandwidth plans.
The main issue that I have with C# is the lack of vendor support outside of Microsoft and (to a very limited extent) Novell viz-a-vie the Mono project. If you want to run state-of-the-art C# right now, you pretty much have to run Windows, and that's a serious limitation for an enterprise-grade system. OTOH pretty much every heavy-hitting business logic platform right now runs Java and JEE.
Depending on what platform your COBOL runs on, you can almost certainly find some way to wrap it in a Java stateless session bean. Turning that into web services is pretty easy these days -- most free IDEs have wizards that will do this for you for the free containers. If you're using IBM stack then WebSphere and Rational are a must.
Point being: Java and Java Enterprise Edition are also very useful here.
Maybe not -- most of those groups are also mirrored on Google. Verizon can of course try to limit what their users do with Google, but I'm not sure that any of the people who made this stupid decision are smart enough to realize that this "loophole" exists.
This story is based on someone's personal blog, who wrote this story based on a personal anecdote and a PDF that's hosted on some site I've never heard of. Meanwhile, I checked Obama's site and found no mention of any plan to make this particular cut. I think the author of the original story is making things up.
(Holds up sack.)
England, do you know what these are? Perhaps not. It's been a while, hasn't it. Let me explain: these, dear friends, are your balls. You had them for a while once, back when you were a colonial power, you had big titanium steel ones while you fought the Nazis, and you had pretty good sized ones when you kicked the crap out of Argentina. But ever since you stopped sending humans into space, they've been sitting quietly in a burlap sack, growing old, gathering dust, completely unused while you drink beer and make funny movies and wonder what the hell happened to the England that was.
You know you want them back. You know you want to feel them again, along with the rush and thrill of going places where human beings just weren't designed to go. You know you want it, because that's where we've always gone as a species: where we're not supposed to.
Go on England. Explore space again. Get your balls back.
Until you do, I'll keep them in my lock box, along with the brains of the people who designed City of Heroes. They won't be needing those anytime soon, I assure you.
Love, MAX.
My understanding is that the USDA has a plan to combat this fungus. This involves planting highly resistant wheat in the south during the winter while the northern regions get too cold for the fungus to survive. With no place to take hold in the south and a death zone in the north, the fungus should go away. (source)
...Mark Shuttleworth is making it very clear that Ubuntu is a for profit venture. He could very well start charging money for something soon, and end up ticking off the Open Source world the same way the heroes of a decade ago (Red Hat) tick you off now.
If you want purity of purpose, you'd be best off with Debian, and good luck with it.
What's the obvious thing to do?
If MS's new approach works better, then it only makes sense that OOo -- KOffice, and Lotus -- will follow suit. These projects need to be useful to ma and pa kettle, and if they expect an MS clone, they'd better get one.
Wait for Godot?
Work in another field?
Hope that two years of letting his valuable skills sit unused won't affect his marketability?
Eh?
At first I thought it was some Dungeons and Dragons story.
Hell, I wish I could earn a living in real life that way. (Oh wait, I can -- it's called being an entrepreneur.)
I'm probably just exploiting the gold-farming phenomenon for my own ends here, but I doubt the situation would be qualitatively different without gold-farmers.
...it sure makes me want to switch every computer I can to Linux in a hurry.
Maybe it's my network settings?
The two desktop environments do basic tasks very differently. One of the main reasons why I no longer use Firefox on Linux is because I hate the GNOME file browser that Firefox uses by default. To me, all it does is make my job harder. For the sake of a more sensible file browsing interface, I am willing to tolerate Konqueror's relative slowness at loading web pages. Who's going to negotiate those differences?
The two desktop environments use very different core libraries with different licensing schemes (Qt is GPL, gtk is LGPL). These licensing schemes may carry big implications for those who use them (for example, you can base wxWindows on gtk without a problem, but can you do the same with wxWindows and Qt?)
There may also be major architectural differences that make a merging nontrivial.
Basically, what you're proposing is a huge project. The Portland Project has a much more limited scope, and I think it's much more achievable.
I wish I'd had your professor. It took me a while to figure out that, as technology people, our value comes down to two things: how well we can document business requirements, and how good we are in some domain. And if you can document business requirements, your competency in some domain becomes secondary. So the question becomes, how do you get the experience if you don't have the experience? And the answer is: you find whatever the hell you can, fight your way into it, and then hold onto that job for dear life until you have five years and some certifications.
That's right: the Apple \/, the latest successor to the wildly successful Apple ][ line, is on its way. This state-of-the-art machine features an amazing 8 MHz processor with a shocking 512 KB of RAM and built-in double floppy drives, to handle the computing needs of the 21st Century. This machine comes with an updated version of Apple DOS that gives you the power to create directories on your double-sided floppy disks (although I understand that NetBSD will also run on this machine). Order now and get a free 14" monochrome monitor and printer (your choice of dot-matrix or pinwheel).
Wait, wait, don't tell me .... back to the RPG?
You forgot an important step in the death ritual: emailing all your gold to my character.