On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 17:23, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 03:38:10PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > I think this is a lot of the reason European (especially Dutch) design
> > is so much more advanced than American. In the States, a fire exit sign
> > says 'EXIT'. In the Netherla
At Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:28:35 +0200,
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>
> > so that I can compare it against the mouth-breathing crow-magnon
> > music created with shiny-quarter interfaces. I'm sure the results
> > will speak for themselves.
>
> They do, but maybe not in the direction you imagined. And cro
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:29:44PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:00:42PM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:54:20PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> >
> > > Requiring the user to read documentation to learn about functionality
> > > he would not
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 03:38:10PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 12:00, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:54:20PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> >
> > > Requiring the user to read documentation to learn about functionality
> > > he would not even expect is n
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:15:24PM -0400, Pete Bessman wrote:
> I have a very simple request for everybody who loathes
> "plug-and-drool" usability: show me the tunes. That's all. Lemme
> hear the avant garde music enabled by avant garde interfaces
The most avant-garde music is enabled by very
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 13:49, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> > I have a denormal fix without a branch but you probably don't want to
> > see it ;-)
> > It's pretty simple, just OR the bits of the exponent together which
> > gives either
> > 0 (denormal) or 1, typecast that to float, and then multiply the
At Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:00:42 +0200,
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:54:20PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
>
> > Requiring the user to read documentation to learn about
> > functionality he would not even expect is not an option.
>
> Have education levels gone down *that* far
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 07:09, Dave Griffiths wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 19:29, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> > Besides, we were talking about widgets. When even single
> > widgets would require to RTFM, what would that mean
> > for a full app?
>
> I think there is a danger here of being too conserv
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 12:00, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:54:20PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
>
> > Requiring the user to read documentation to learn about functionality
> > he would not even expect is not an option.
>
> Have education levels gone down *that* far ?
It is
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:09:24PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 19:29, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> > Besides, we were talking about widgets. When even single
> > widgets would require to RTFM, what would that mean
> > for a full app?
>
> I think there is a danger here of bein
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 19:29, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> Besides, we were talking about widgets. When even single
> widgets would require to RTFM, what would that mean
> for a full app?
I think there is a danger here of being too conservative - something I
think existing commercial software does (in
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:00:42PM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:54:20PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
>
> > Requiring the user to read documentation to learn about functionality
> > he would not even expect is not an option.
>
> Have education levels gone down *that*
> I have a denormal fix without a branch but you probably don't want to
> see it ;-)
> It's pretty simple, just OR the bits of the exponent together which
> gives either
> 0 (denormal) or 1, typecast that to float, and then multiply the
> original float by that (0.0 or 1.0). Voila, no branch, bu
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:54:20PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> Requiring the user to read documentation to learn about functionality
> he would not even expect is not an option.
Have education levels gone down *that* far ?
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:54:20 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:22:55PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote:
> >
> > I like your fan idea Thorsten, but I also think it could work invisibly - ie
> > no need for the transparent overlay. This would take a bit of learning that it
> > wa
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:22:55PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote:
>
> I like your fan idea Thorsten, but I also think it could work invisibly - ie
> no need for the transparent overlay. This would take a bit of learning that it
> was there to begin with - but transparent graphics like that are expe
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:28:09 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 09:46:36AM +0200, Burkhard Woelfel wrote:
> >
> > Radial movement on control elements often confuses me.
...
> Well, the scaling issue was not obvious to me, I needed to
> read about it somewhere, but afterwards
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 09:46:36AM +0200, Burkhard Woelfel wrote:
>
> Radial movement on control elements often confuses me.
>
> If there was a line drawn from the center of the knob to the mouse pointer,
> maybe sporting arrows in the directions to move the mouse would make two
> things obviou
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On Thursday 10 June 2004 03:03, Tim Hockin wrote:
> Radial is confusing to people.
Radial movement on control elements often confuses me.
If there was a line drawn from the center of the knob to the mouse pointer,
maybe sporting arrows in the direc
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