This idiom baffles me.
What is an idiom?
The student identified the identical idiom on the identity CARDS.
What image or idiom will make it clearer?
The idiom is used to describe a secluded and peaceful utopia.
The idiom is a powerful one, and it still has many practical uses in interaction design.
But that still doesn't mean that you should use this idiom!
The familiar Python idiom for elem in LST: now actually asks LST to produce an iterator.
Under the new memory model, this "fix" to double-checked locking renders the idiom thread-safe.
And in Mexico, it's known by the idiom "subirseel muerto," or "the dead climb on top of you."
Idiosyncratically Modal Behavior Many times user testing indicates that a user population divides relatively equally on the effectiveness of an idiom. Half of the users clearly prefer one idiom, whereas the other half prefers another.
Tabs are successful because the idiom follows many users’ mental model of how things are normally stored.
That 'Nobody on his deathbed ever said, 'I wish I'd spent more time at the office, '' is a well-worn idiom.
In the remainder of this article, we'll examine the double-checked locking idiom in detail to understand just where it breaks down.
In fact, now dictionaries have the keys ,items , values to produce iterators; the first is what gets used in the new idiom for key in DCT:.
However, for a user who has at least a basic familiarity with the available tools, the idiom is instantly clear after it is discovered or demonstrated.
This idiom is not terribly easy to discover, so Microsoft designers had the foresight to provide a Tabs command in the format menu, as well, which gives more guidance to users (though it should be said that this dialog unfortunately does little to teach users how to use the ruler idiom).
Directly manipulating a steering wheel is not only a more appropriate idiom for communicating with your car, but it also puts you in the superior position, directing your car where it should go.
It’s similar to the English saying “Many a fine dishhas nothing on it” or the Chinese idiom “embroidered pillow,” whichboasts a beautiful cover, but with only worthless dried strawstuffed inside.
There, as elsewhere in the States, rock is currently in the midst of a huge syncretic surge toward a new idiom-and the Beatles' wildly eclectic spirit hovers over it all.
The second type of drag-and-drop idiom is little more indirect: A user drags the object to a specific area or onto another object in order to perform a function.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, Microsoft performs cursor hinting using the detestable circle with a bar sinister, the universal icon for Not Permitted. This symbol is an unpleasant idiom because it tells users what they can’t do.
