Mess‐, Steuer‐, Regeltechnik‐Automation‐Antriebstechnik

The modernity mess

When we had the good fortune to study the Klasies River Mouth Cave remains at the South African Museum in 1989, the isolated partial zygomatic KRM 16651 presented us with a morphometric challenge. The face of the bone appeared quite large, but only a small portion of the inferior border was preserved, and that mostly under the temporal process. No measuring points allowed standard comparisons t...

The Big Mess Construction

There is a construction in English, exemplified by how long a bridge, which is so irregular that it has been named the Big Mess Construction, see Berman (1974). This paper first sketches its main characteristics (section 1) and a treatment of the internal structure of the noun phrase which serves as a background for the analysis (section 2). It then presents three ways in which the Big Mess Con...

The Independent Counsel Mess

The Confirmation Mess

User Interfaces : Mess them up !

Today's graphical user interfaces simulate a perfect world. Windows have always the same look and buttons have identical shapes and colors and are aligned to regular grids. The only distinction between graphical elements is their label. The current visual design of user interfaces ignores the capabilities of modern displays for an e ective visual coding and the resulting uniformness makes it ve...