> From: Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> > If you look at windows 8, it follows the interface that was on the > Zune. It's a collection of panels: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_8_start_screen.png > > Each panel has aspects of an icon and a small window. It's big > advantage may be that's it's different from iOs. Even before this > judgement, Samsung had comitted to building phones based on Win 8. >
I fail to see how that is any different in substance than any other icon-based GUI OS. They made the icons bigger with less space in between and called them panels instead. I find it visually confusing, There's not enough separation between the panels for me to see them as a discrete item, so I'm left to read eac one searching for what I'm looking for. I'm sure users will become accustomed or customize the panels to their liking. In Windows 3.1 one could set up big folders and have them tiled across the desktop in panel style. As some have said, these lawsuits are not as much about the details and veracity of the claims as they are about a struggle for dominance and revenue. Tom C. > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote: >>> From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> >>> >>> If they were so good, why did they abandon those designs and begin to >>> imitate the iPhone? >>> >>> I also like diversity. We can have it, if companies develop their >>> ideas and dare to be different. The problem is that, once the iPhone >>> came out, the competition found it easier and safer to follow what >>> Apple was doing, instead of developing innovative new products that >>> would be different from, and competitive with, the iPhone. >>> Dan Matyola >> >> There's only so many ways to make a hand-held computer/telephone that >> makes sense. Shape-wise, size-wise, all the ergonomics. >> >> Why don't you sit down and try to think of the way you would do it if >> you were dreaming it up from scratch? >> >> What shape would your screen be? Circle, square, rectangle? >> >> What approximate size would it be? Something that fits easily in the >> palm of your hand? >> >> What you want it to be fat and chunky or thin and slim? >> >> Would you want it to have sharp pointed corners that poked you in your >> pocket or is rounded corners better? >> >> How would you access applications on the phone? If not little pictures >> on the screen how would you do it? >> >> Apple didn't invent anything that was so special and unique. It was a >> nice invention, but largely the parameters regarding size, shape, >> usability were dictated to Apple by the human form, not Apple genius. >> >> iOs, Windows, Linux... all icon-based. All use rectangular screens, >> all have icons, mouse, keyboards for input. >> >> So think outside the box... what would you do differently that sets >> your product apart from your competitors in a major way? >> >> Tom C. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 11 > Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:39:51 -0400 > From: Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PESO: Dr. Zero > Message-ID: > <calqig0hpewtga909cfdmaaw5oe+euwxfbfze5oqwk0iygva...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I'm still mining the Philadelphia pictures. I did see a number of > "painted" windows like this, however, especially in the older > buildings. > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Daniel J. Matyola > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Quite interesting. Where did you find this building? >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/i-QWg37SR/0/XL/zero-XL.jpg >>> >>> -- >>> Steve Desjardins >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 12 > Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:43:55 -0400 > From: Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT: Eyes on Haiti > Message-ID: > <calqig0in0ffrdr1nn_-wygmp_qrwgvdb077l_kkoy_tjx1z...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > It's a very powerful set of images. The HDR stuff is trendy. I > suspect it's because so many folks are using small sensor cameras > (like cell phones) and HDR really fixes those images. That style of > image then becomes common and popular. Just a guess, of course. > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Daniel J. Matyola > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I agree with you totally. He has an excellent eye, and composes some >> riveting images. Often, however, he seems to go overboard on the HDR >> or the contrast or something. >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Walter Hamler <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Thanks for posting. Some very strong images there. My only nit is the >>> strong use of HDR, or whatever he did for the look. I find it so >>> overused and overdone that it has become a turnoff. These still got >>> the message across, however. >>> >>> Walt >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> We have invited this photographer to present his photo essay on Haiti >>>> to our local Rotary club. I though some here might enjoy these >>>> images: >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > End of PDML Digest, Vol 76, Issue 241 > ************************************* -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
