It's the first thing I teach secretaries when I train them. They're notoriously afraid of software, and I tell them this is the easiest way to get to know software. Even if they don't understand what the options do, what the words mean, or if they care to do something other than what they're used to doing, exposure to the vocabulary is important. It eventually sinks in, like any language.
But why options are all grouped together and not accessible on the surface GUI level attached to the appropriate section is beyond me.
First, he didn't invent the Internet (capital 'i' please), he is credited with inventing the World Wide Web. Repeat after me: The World Wide Web is NOT the Internet. Well, while we're being technical, early documents will show that putting "the" in front of the word Internet is just as incorrect as not capitalizing it. Particularly since we're talking about a network of networks, there isn't really any such thing as "the" Internet.
It's only slightly less irritating than the phrase "the" Social Graph.
What happened to editorial integrity, with it's provider staking it's credibility on the accuracy it's content?
I was going to mod you up, but damn, three in one sentence. I can't tell if you're serious or if you just wanted to slip that amusing little grammernazism in. But don't be fooled by this ignorant argument -- this is the same *cult of the amateur* argument debunked over and over 'round these parts.
Nothing about participatory news implies everyone's voice is equal. Except for the fact that as it is currently structured, everyone's voice *is* equal. Reputation is a highly complex social structure, and the way most social reputations are calculated online are either 1) so subjective (personal) as to be valuable only to the person doing the ranking or 2) so objective (mutual) as to make everyone a miasmic shade of grey indiscernible to anyone with a "normal sense of vision"
Until online reputation encompasses *both* the subjective and objective (and everything in between), it will continue to be worthless. And that includes slashdot's system!
Context, a separate issue, is also important, and again is ignored in current systems.
As a non-programmer, I've been wondering for years why there isn't an editable "xml layer" in anything and everything non-textual - before Flickr and similar sites, I used ThumbsPlus to catalog my graphics, but was always frustrated that the metadata didn't "stick" to the file. Music has a layer that's editable; why haven't graphics?
"A picture is worth a thousand words" isn't an either/or proposition, is it?
I was lucky enough to rescue two barstool height office chairs from the trash and had the seats redone. I then raised my entire home office to "standing height" and my energy level has increased wonderfully. I really recommend it.
I'd suggest a U shaped desk at bar height, with one leg of the U open to both sides with bar height stools on the visitors' side (not office chairs, stools). You kinda create a bartender feel that way, and a bartender's space is sacred;-). The other two sides of the U are great against corner walls. A great location for the monitor on the bottom part of the desk at eye height on an articulated arm so that you can face and extend the monitor towards your visitors.
At the open top of the U leave a lot of space to move about in and out of the U zone, and place either a sitting height desk, or better yet, a round cafe table with chairs. The desk/table should be no wider than the open space of the U or it will feel like the fourth wall of a box. This gives you two energy levels in the room and also provides a handicapped access/wheelchair height level. A chaise lounge on the far side of the table near the corner provides a comfy nook for naps and reading and additional seating for meetings. If you have enough room a reading chair is nice too.
I cannot tell you how tons of horizontal sorting trays help a naturally unorganized person like me stay organized. I have 16;-)
State's rights are critically important, likewise it is important that we stop the feds from illegitimately taking over everything they put their nasty little fingers on. Take a look at what they've done with the commerce clause if you want to see just how out of their tiny little minds they are.
Hence, why the constitutional amendment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment _to_the_United_States_Constitution that changed the election of senators to directly by the public (as opposed to being elected by the states' legislative branches) effectively destroyed the (con)federalist model and created a nationalist model. Without the check and balance of the state voice of government in the fed, *unfunded mandates* are now possible (like no child left behind). The change also negates the role of the states in our ability to declare war - for example, the domino effect that without the state governments behind it, their respective national guard units couldn't be so easily deployed in the role of a undeclared war.
There's a great online journal (before the blogosphere) at http://www.mariesworldtour.com/ that I suggest you read. It's a great story with lot's of helpful hints as well.
I'm an audio buff, so if you take anything like an ipod, get a microphone attachment, so you can record sounds you here, voices, directions in other languages to replay to people and just audio journaling notes. Go over the top and get a really nice mic if you want.
I second the disposable camera idea - digital cameras can fail (or just be full) at the most inopportune moments.
I'd go with a power PDA over a laptop.
Slashdot Mirror
It's the first thing I teach secretaries when I train them. They're notoriously afraid of software, and I tell them this is the easiest way to get to know software. Even if they don't understand what the options do, what the words mean, or if they care to do something other than what they're used to doing, exposure to the vocabulary is important. It eventually sinks in, like any language. But why options are all grouped together and not accessible on the surface GUI level attached to the appropriate section is beyond me.
IIRC, that's actually 2.5d, since the tabs act as layers.
As a non-programmer, I've been wondering for years why there isn't an editable "xml layer" in anything and everything non-textual - before Flickr and similar sites, I used ThumbsPlus to catalog my graphics, but was always frustrated that the metadata didn't "stick" to the file. Music has a layer that's editable; why haven't graphics? "A picture is worth a thousand words" isn't an either/or proposition, is it?
Google buys its success too
This sounds like Google is creating a ManyEyes site for the scientist set. http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/app it's a lot of fun, but I don't see the Google version making neat things like word trees of the Grimm Fairy Tales like I did here: http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SmAgULsOtha65G-s4kxXL2-
This will be so important to my SimCity urban destruction scenarios. Those little animations of running and screaming people are just so unconvincing!
I was lucky enough to rescue two barstool height office chairs from the trash and had the seats redone. I then raised my entire home office to "standing height" and my energy level has increased wonderfully. I really recommend it. I'd suggest a U shaped desk at bar height, with one leg of the U open to both sides with bar height stools on the visitors' side (not office chairs, stools). You kinda create a bartender feel that way, and a bartender's space is sacred ;-). The other two sides of the U are great against corner walls. A great location for the monitor on the bottom part of the desk at eye height on an articulated arm so that you can face and extend the monitor towards your visitors.
At the open top of the U leave a lot of space to move about in and out of the U zone, and place either a sitting height desk, or better yet, a round cafe table with chairs. The desk/table should be no wider than the open space of the U or it will feel like the fourth wall of a box. This gives you two energy levels in the room and also provides a handicapped access/wheelchair height level. A chaise lounge on the far side of the table near the corner provides a comfy nook for naps and reading and additional seating for meetings. If you have enough room a reading chair is nice too.
I cannot tell you how tons of horizontal sorting trays help a naturally unorganized person like me stay organized. I have 16 ;-)
State's rights are critically important, likewise it is important that we stop the feds from illegitimately taking over everything they put their nasty little fingers on. Take a look at what they've done with the commerce clause if you want to see just how out of their tiny little minds they are.
Hence, why the constitutional amendment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_AmendmenThere's a great online journal (before the blogosphere) at http://www.mariesworldtour.com/ that I suggest you read. It's a great story with lot's of helpful hints as well. I'm an audio buff, so if you take anything like an ipod, get a microphone attachment, so you can record sounds you here, voices, directions in other languages to replay to people and just audio journaling notes. Go over the top and get a really nice mic if you want. I second the disposable camera idea - digital cameras can fail (or just be full) at the most inopportune moments. I'd go with a power PDA over a laptop.