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Sad to say I get morsels of Wisdom only twice a week.
:)
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LinkedIn has a news aggregation you can customize to your profession. I get these morsels of wisdom bi-weekly, I think.
Sad to say I get morsels of Wisdom only twice a week.
:)
-g
be happy
thats twice more than many ;-)
Really? I love it. It takes the emphasis away from the OS and puts it onto the things you use the OS for. Actually, I should clarify, Windows 8 looks OK but Windows Phone is where it works even better. The screen you get while you are in a call is my all-time favourite piece of UI design. It looks like the best from big budget sci-fi films, as is befitting of a smartphone. And in WinPhone, most of the tiles are the same colour (I'd make them all the same colour if I could) and things are differentiated by size and position instead. It's an absolutely brilliant minimalist aesthetic that should be exactly what you want from your UI. In 3DS Max, for example, they use coloured icons on all the toolbars, similar to what we get in Xara, but since Autodesk bought Discreet Logic and handed Max over to them, there has been the option of simplified, monochrome icons that have the effect of pushing the UI into the background, allowing you to focus on the viewports where you are working. It's the first thing I do whenever I install Max.
I like it! Really nice work. It is very easy to pile on the detail, much harder to do only what works, nothing more.
Ooh! Cutlery is the perfect analogy because it's design should be about usability first but within that there is infinite room to go crazy with design. Sometimes though, usability goes out the window and you get beautiful cutlery that is uncomfortable to hold. Mostly this seems ot occur in Thai restuarants where the cutlery can have absurdly heavy handles that ruin the natural balance in your hand. The secret is enhancing the look without destroying usability and too many UIs go too far the other way. Windows 8 pulls this back wonderfully, I reckon.
Welcome to my world. The last 3 or 4 versions have been one step forward, two steps back for me. OTOH, X9 has some great new tools, like Background Erase, that I would use every day at work if I could. Sadly, I don't get to choose the software or hardware we use so I'm stuck with Adobe CS 5.5 on stupid MacPros. X9 is the first time in several upgrades that I haven't had to think about whether the upgrade is worth $99 or not.
I don't hate those. I think I'd have loved them in 2008 but they are quite dated now.
Anyway, I got bored on Page 6 so here's my take - the only thing I don't like about the new splash screen is the progression of colours in the tiles from left to right. It might work better if the third one was first but I think the problem is that they have changed the brightness of three of them and the saturation on the other, which makes the progression inconsistent.
Other than that, I like the design. It includes drop-shadows so any similarity to Windows 8 is pretty minor.
frankly i'd hate to eat at ms' redmond canteen
their cutlery is probably die cast from blue plastic hospital bed undersheets
but i guess the ms staff are used to rolling them into straws and sucking their raspberry pi through them
give me the ferking great gobs of steel you get in a thai restairant any day
you know why?
because at a thai restaurant i always use chopsticks
even for the soup
because its about choice
the people in this world i despise the most are the ones who tell me what i should be using because its this or that
pauland is absolutely right about his cutlery because he likes it
sod the rest of the world
i have no idea what that outburst has to do with the xdpxxpdwdx9 splash screen but what the hell
i have a smurf and a teddy bear hugging each other on my pc and my dog has fleas
life is too short
Why would you use chopsticks at a Thai restaurant? Thais don't, they use spoons and forks.
The people I despise the most are those who are in it for themselves. When I go to a Thai restaurant I embrace Thai culture for an hour or two and use their unbalanced forks and spoons because it's not about me, it's about the experience. Just as when I listen to music, I listen to entire albums, not just the songs I like. When others go to a lot of effort to create an experience, I think it would be rude and selfish in the extreme to do my own thing. If you don't want to buy into the experience, go somewhere else.
i dont go there to watch thais eat
i go there to eat
and i eat noddles and rice and veggies and soup with chopsticks
and ive never yet had a thai throw me out of his restaurant for not buying into the experience
i want choice
he gives me choice
i'm a happy punter
hes a happy businessman
ok maybe thats another nail in the coffin of thai culture but thats market forces for you and there goes the neighbourhood
god bless the freedom to choose
oh dear that doesnt bode well for me then
i make a point of copying an album onto my hard drive and then deleting the stuff i dont like
why the heck would i listen to a song thats rubbish more than once?
your parties must be really groovy
if somebody says come round for free and get your head round this thai experience thats cool, ill play
if somebody says come round and buy my thai grub and drink in nice thai surroundings you think thats the same thing?
i dont want to buy into the experience
i want to buy their grub
i want to eat it in peace without somebody preaching to me
i want to pay the bill
and i want to go back to the same place again because i enjoyed it last time
and i want to recommend it to my friends for all of the above
if you want to buy into the experience im all for you being allowed to do that
i may think its a pointless waste of time and money
but i'd defend your right do what you want with your time and money
but you say if i dont want to buy into the experience, go somewhere else
i certainly hope you're not thinking of going into politics
at least they have thai food and chopsticks in hell
@ Big Frank, Gare, Bones & Pauland: you all should start a site and chat away like this about whatever takes your fancy.
I'm sure it would be most entertaining. ;)
Bob.
don't need to
got plenty of accounts on here where i can do that ;)
(jic...................................... joking!!!!!!!)
Thanks for that Bob.