Mental notes to myself

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All in US dollars.

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I was reading this article about “Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its Stone Age” and one of the arguments was about the screen corners:

The irony is that we argue about whether systems should be application-centered or document-centered, probably the two most important entities in a computer. Have you ever seen a system which lets you, out-of-the-box, hit a corner in order to do anything at all even remotely related to anything having anything at all to do with a document or application? So maybe documents aren’t the most important entity in a computer. Browse the internet by hitting the screen corner? Check mail in the screen corner? Get Info in the screen corner? System preferences in the screen corner? Switching applications in the screen corner?

And this argument makes more sense after seeing SymphonyOS: a Desktop computer operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux and Knoppix GNU/Linux.

I seems some people out there is really working on human computer interfaces…
Great job. I’m impressed.

It’s really not so much that the authorities (the Dutch police in this case) sent out 17,000 text messages to the cellphones of fans who rioted at a Rotterdam footie game as it is the fact that the cell providers operating the airwaves on premises both tracked and divulged the numbers and names of the accounts of all fans present with an active mobile phone. Believe it or not, though, four suspects contacted the popo after getting the texts, and a fifth just turned himself in. Suppose if you’re dense enough to riot over a sports match you’re probably dense enough to turn yourself in over a text message.

from Engadget