TSA. Quirky-stuff. Does Australia Have a Government Yet? (Find the answer) Why Usability Engineers Don't Design Video Games (Proof) By AN Jay on August 24, 2010 Why Usability Engineers Don’t Design Video Games (Proof) Don't Forget to participate in a contest where you can win an amazing e-Commerce template from TemplateMonster. Usability engineering is a field that is concerned generally with human-computer interaction and specifically with making human-computer interfaces that have high usability or user friendliness. In effect, a user-friendly interface is one that allows users to effectively and efficiently accomplish the tasks for which it was designed. The picture below is a most humorous example of user interface usability that any usability engineer would propose.
I am sure there will be nothing to explain when you see the picture yourself because a picture is worth a 1000 words. Now it makes sense to me that why usability engineers don’t design video games. Via The Princess Rescuing Application: Slides. TEXTp saves YouTube bandwidth, money. It’s great news that there are 24 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, we support 1080p and HD uploads are rising quickly, but that’s also meant increasing bandwidth costs cutting into our bottom line. And so, in our drive to keep expenses under control, we’ve decided that April 1 is the perfect day to take the important step of offering a new way to experience YouTube: text-only mode, or TEXTp. TEXTp is the result of months of intense transcoding efforts by our engineers, who toiled for weeks to ensure that a large chunk of videos on the platform could be reduced to their most basic elements.
By replacing the images in the video with a series of letters and numbers, the videos are far less taxing on our system -- and have the added benefit of promoting literacy! To give it a whirl, make sure you have the latest Flash player (10.0) and click here. Or you can select “TEXTp” from the pulldown menu on most videos, as so: Patrick Pichette, SVP and Chief Financial Officer, Google. Duty Calls. How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet - by Douglas Adams [DNA] This piece first appeared in the News Review section of The Sunday Times on August 29th 1999. A couple of years or so ago I was a guest on Start The Week, and I was authoritatively informed by a very distinguished journalist that the whole Internet thing was just a silly fad like ham radio in the fifties, and that if I thought any different I was really a bit naïve.
It is a very British trait – natural, perhaps, for a country which has lost an empire and found Mr Blobby – to be so suspicious of change. But the change is real. I don’t think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn’t becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it’s very new to us. Then there’s the peculiar way in which certain BBC presenters and journalists (yes, Humphrys Snr., I’m looking at you) pronounce internet addresses. 1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; Apply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are.
Interactivity. The F Word (old skool comedy piece) put to music - link to mp3 with info. 1938 Dating Guide For Single Women - PBH3. Glitterati. Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life. Gary: Landlord of the Flies. IT’S OVER!!! -ish. Gary showed up both sober and composed, and the case was finally heard. This whole time I had been hoping it would all play out like an epic courtroom drama, where Gary had come up with some sinister web of lies and in the end he calls his surprise witness; James (the tenant he stole from), Dan (the other tenant he evicted) or Mat (the Indian friend he called a ‘spic’) to the stand and unravels my entire case.
Sadly this is not how it played out. Whoever Gary’s surprise witness was going to be, they will forever remain a surprise. And amazingly, Gary’s case really was centered around me not giving him two weeks notice of his drunken eviction. A quick run through: If he got to $5000 with just the police reports and notes, I wonder what I could have gotten with the emails and voicemail? The whole trial reminded me of when you get in trouble as a little kid, and an adult asks, “What were you thinking?
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The heart of Google's search technology is PigeonRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. Building upon the breakthrough work of B. F. Skinner, Page and Brin reasoned that low cost pigeon clusters (PCs) could be used to compute the relative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms. And while Google has dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of our service on a daily basis, PigeonRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools. Why Google's patented PigeonRank™ works so well When a search query is submitted to Google, it is routed to a data coop where monitors flash result pages at blazing speeds. Integrity Data. The Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator. Satire for Smart People; The Truth for You. Russell Peters. ... having a bad day? Anger management (the wrong number story)