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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. Hint : If usability engineer develops video games then it might have a single button to click and rescue the princes instead of playing long time taking video games. Via The Princess Rescuing Application: Slides If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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! 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. The F Word (old skool comedy piece) put to music - link to mp3 with info.

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-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. Friends With Benefits - Flickr. Sn4tchbuckl3r's Second Chance » Sn4tchbuckl3r's Second Chance #1: Arrival. Sn4tchbuckl3r's Second Chance » Sn4tchbuckl3r's Second Chance #2: Occupational Hazards.

FaceBook In Reality - from www.idiotsofants.com. WeeklyRadioAddress.com. Technology. The technology behind Google's great results As a Google user, you're familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search.

How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? 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. Why Google's patented PigeonRank™ works so well PigeonRank's success relies primarily on the superior trainability of the domestic pigeon (Columba livia) and its unique capacity to recognize objects regardless of spatial orientation. By collecting flocks of pigeons in dense clusters, Google is able to process search queries at speeds superior to traditional search engines, which typically rely on birds of prey, brooding hens or slow-moving waterfowl to do their relevance rankings. Integrity Data PigeonRank Frequently Asked Questions. 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)