This video left me with a strong impression of future general computing usage patterns. It has also been my personal gold standard of a superb video demo.
Interestingly enough, they abandoned it right after iPad's release:
That was a nice read, though I wonder if there are legal issues with mining the web for content. For reddit they were just submitting links, so they probably wouldn't have gotten into much trouble.
>China did not permit women to own land until 1950.
After 1950 men were not permitted to own land either. :P
edit: In some ways China should really be looked at as two distinct demographics, urban and rural. They have vast different values that makes the country completely bipolar. The gender attitude among the urbanites are much more progressive, in some ways even more so than the west, while in the countryside they still practice infanticide.
It may have to do with the fact that the communist ideology campaigns mostly targeted the cities, because Mao feared a bourgeoisie counter-revolution, while he already had grass root support from the countryside, so he took it for granted.
This view on maoism and the infanticide allegation seem ungrounded to me. I know some alpha-males in China and they don't buy bags, they climb montains or sing in a punk band, like their mates in the West
I'm not sure which part about Maoism you are referring to.
No, the infanticide is not well-grounded, just reports.
I'm Chinese btw. I actually don't know anyone who buys these bags, I only see them on the streets occasionally. Giant wallets/strapless hand bags seem to be much more common among the middle-aged men. Most young people wear regular messenger bags.
Prefab has a bunch of hurdles and it's kind of a chicken and egg problem right now.
A friend of mine used to work at Michelle Kaufmann's firm in East Bay, and what would happen is that there is such a low volume of prefab orders that they can't get the costs down enough to justify building prefab. Plus it's not standard "from scratch" construction, etc. It's really sad, and the firm shut down for a while in 2009 (I think they're back now though).
Sorry, yes most houses are built from cookie-cutter plans. I guess I meant from scratch in that they're mostly built up with wood framing (simple to do), vs a lot of prefab which may require welding and more specialized skills to assemble the panels (harder to do, or at the very least less conventional).
In the US yes. In Europe most new houses use a concrete inner structure with a brick facade if they're family sized houses.
That makes them particularly well suited for prefab, a whole wall segment can be constructed including isolation, ducts, windows / doors etc and hoisted in to place by a crane in one movement. Because the brick is laid in the mould a bricklayer can work on a gantry under a roof instead of in the open air which means year round bricklaying instead of only when it's not freezing or raining (you can't lay brick in pouring rain).
Because the wall segments are made on a guaranteed flat surface a section is always going to be perfectly straight without any measurement at all.
Note that these are full bricks, not the typical 'slices' of brick used to give US houses a brick-like appearance over a wooden interior ('brick siding').
Ah that's great. I'm definitely slanted because of my experience in California, where earthquake regulations basically mean no masonry construction ever, and very rarely anything other than wood framing for residential houses.
I wonder how designers fit into this development process. Most open source projects lack UI polish, yet GitHub looks like it's crafted by a professional.
Someone should make an alternative discussion site for videos, with a good comment system (eg. HN, reddit). I'm not sure if there are legal issues though.
yea that was something we struggled with due to the massively negative connotations of 黑客 (heike) lit. "Dark Guest" or "Black Guest". We toyed with 白客 but found 网客 was the general term we found on Baidupedia （百度百科）.
I think you are perhaps dimming the texts to make the highlights more skimmable? It's a good idea, but when I read it I spent about 1 or 2 seconds on the highlights and started skimming the rest on my own.
Perhaps you can make the main text colour static, but highlight with a bigger, bolder font, or a different colour. Maybe a significantly different-looking font face, or highlight the text background instead.
I really like your barber's web site btw. Very straight-forward, and the aesthetic choice seems to be sending the right message. I had a chuckle at the first-aid photo. :)
I actually know a few "100% Han Chinese" people who have slightly brown/reddish hair. At first I thought they were dyed, but eventually I was convinced that they were not.
In retrospect, I'm not really that surprised, considering China being continental, and the amount of trade/migration over the centuries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmIgNfp-MdI
This video left me with a strong impression of future general computing usage patterns. It has also been my personal gold standard of a superb video demo.
Interestingly enough, they abandoned it right after iPad's release:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Courier#End_of_Courie...