When a user wants a drop-down for every department in the hospital you could translate this into "I want to select a department as easy and quickly as possible".
When 90% of your end users are old people who rarely use a computer you have to ask them about there needs. You will collect the 'votes' and may discover you have to drop some functionalities. And maybe a slider UI will be better than a number ticker/spinner control.
I think this shows the market is changing. The OS will be unimportant.
It sounds almost if she became happy again. Scary stuff.
I don't complain about this system. But I can imagine sometimes it would be nice to have an explanation.
But my question is about the 'learn to live with this'. Wouldn't it be good to learn why you were downvoted?
When you don't like a comment on HN you just don't change the points of the comment. When you really think a comment is out of place you downvote a comment.This is a great system. It keeps HN clean from flamebates an other spam.Today my comment was downvoted. That's ok. I won't complain about that. Only this time I was very curious about the reason.I like to be curious because I like to learn....
But today I read a Wiki page about it and I understand it's much more than 'Facebook only'. It's a great app!
Am I the only one who thinks there homepage is very unclear?
By the way: the VPRO is very progressive. They have been serving great music for years: http://3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/ (Dutch)
Last week I saw a Ted Talk by Prof. dr. Wubbo J. Ockels telling me that space and time are not connected. http://www.tedxamsterdam.com/2009/video-wubbo-ockels-on-time...
The more I read and hear about space the more I get the feeling we don't know nothing about it...
If you don't like Facebook, just quit and get a drink with your friends.
Maybe this site needs an 'about'.
But maybe the news value is that there are a lot of people searching for methods to place the buttons right again...
edit By the way, you will be missing the maximize button...
It's more like an autorun CD with Wubi. Anyone else got the same problem?
(downloading it as torrent right now)
Remove Flash and notice you wont miss it. More and more websites are using HTML there day's. Removing Flash also improves browser speed and stability (just as removing Adobe Reader does).
I did a lot of Flex developing, but I think it's time to move on.
I thought that Sony never stated this was standard functionality. But it seems I was very wrong:
http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index.html
So I must agree this is not fair...
- HTC agrees to sell MS phones only
- They also agree to pay MS when they start selling other brands
- They start selling other brands
- They pay MS as agreed
The sensor will transmit the picture, but the iPhone is not ready to process all of it. So the next burst is processed later but is used for the same image.
If not: get a job, you will earn more in 2 weeks time...
Some time ago I also started with a 3d engine (path tracer). If anyone like to have some code: http://thuijzer.nl/jsrender/ (I never took time to optimize/bugfix the code).
And also question why you have 1000+ lines of CSS.
news.ycombinator uses only 31 selectors. And it looks.. well maybe not great , but very readable and very useable (I like it a lot).
And I think it's better to have more classes defined in your DOM-object than doing the same stuff multiple times. I mean, most of the time widths, margins and paddings are reusable. So why not create classes for them.
As said (ZeroGravitas), people want a desktop in another form: laptops, smart-phones, handhelds, gaming devices (PSP, DS), MP3/MP4 players...
Others did not fail. But Apple is very good at creating wannahaves. With the iPad they created another one. People will pay lots of money for this device because it's a hype. And that is what Apple does. Creating hypes.
The iPad is nothing new. But it's got this 'look at me' factor. But try using it in the sun.... The Adam does a better job there.
But we already did this 10 years ago with a cheap card reader/writer. So the news part is a bit missing here...