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I could see it like this:

Suppose you're a quiet technical introverted sort of chap (not a lot of those in the tech industry, I know) and you get the brilliant idea. If this works it could become a real thing, you say to yourself. So you put it out there with your name on it. After all, if it does become a thing, you at least want credit for it. And you work with others to get it going.

But you're still the same quiet technical introverted sort of chap. You'll talk to people via e-mail, but you're not big on talking on the phone, and you certainly don't want them dropping by to hang out.

Suddenly the idea does become a thing, a proper thing, a BIG THING, an oh, fuck me, what have I gotten myself into? kind of thing. much more than a quiet technical introverted sort of chap can properly handle.

So you pull up the drawbridge, retreat to your fortress of solitude, and hope the walls of Minas Tirith will hold.

But although in this technological age, you can deny people access by not replying to e-mails, not picking up the phone, and not answering letters, nothing short of armed guards can stop someone from working out where you live, walking up to the door, and ringing the doorbell.

(And if they do, a note slid under the door saying "PISS OFF" would have probably been the better response, rather than calling the cops and actually talking to that person, which was just grist for the mill.)

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Is it still a thing? I get Slashdot classic right now, and I thought they had given up on this thing. See how it looks for me - http://imgur.com/k8JEJsU

I work in a repair shop too. Here's an example of one machine we had in and a customers ability to install EVERYTHING. http://i.imgur.com/FrEpEPO.jpg

Yes, more toolbars than actual browsing area.

Again, this is the relevant graph when you're trying to understand why we don't have fusion yet. It's not an impossible 'holy grail,' it's an underfunded project that is doing surprisingly well.

Radio Shack used to be a pretty awesome place. Back in the 8 personal computer revolution, they were for sure a force to be reckoned with. Compared to the other guys at the time, they were the only ones who had their own retail distribution channel. They had a variety of models with different capabilities (and little cross-compatibility!), and was a great little shop to visit when you're a nerd kid in the 80s. Beyond computers, they had a "Battery Club" where you would get a free battery every month!

They also had walls of common electronics components... 555 timers, resistors in exactly the impedance you needed, prototype boards, power supplies, lcd numeric displays... Completed products were the exception, components were the rule. Not to mention educational materials and experiment kits! http://imgur.com/XZyJf

Talking about how things were better "back then" can be cliche, but sometimes it's true.

2.) To be rewarded in life, you have to have a spouse and join the ranks of the mindless breeders.

It's programmed to go off before you do.

http://i.imgur.com/1nODwBf.png

Maybe something like this: http://imgur.com/KVbrtIa

Nah you're giving them far too much credit for being clever.

Just look at this stupid shit.

Let me copy over most of my post(updated with more gameplay) from blues, and yeah if you don't know what bluesnews is, it's one of the first gaming review sites that existed. And we do have a stick up our asses over the quality and content of games.

So yeah guys, my first 3hrs of gameplay? Enjoying it quite a bit. It's more or less true to the game, and there's no shortage of lewts to grab but some of it's tricky. Only playing it on medium atm, do a true playthrough when I'm done the first run. Turning off contextual "help" and prompts makes it more challenging as well. Gameplay is fine, you don't have to use the new focus system if you don't want to. You can make the game even more challenging if you want.

To anyone who doesn't like the game? That's okay, I'm enjoying it. I'll get my $34 out of it without a doubt.

Oh and if you're looking for a x/10 rating? 3hrs in, I'd give it a solid 7.8-8.3/10 give or take. I don't mind the voice acting at all, and find the interaction so far decent.

First major map, the one that people were posting images about earlier? Not really holding true. I've so far found 4 alternate paths compared to the one taken in the video.

Oh and "non-exclusive fullscreen" listed as "exclusive fullscreen" works beautifully in win8.1x64 for alt-tabbing with zero issues, lag, slowdown/crashes or other issues. I'd be interested to hear if the same holds true in win7.

And if anyone wants to see the main map area in chapter 1 here it is.
http://imgur.com/1oN7zx5

And from NKD

I've been playing it a bit tonight and your experience mirrors my own. I just don't see what all the bitching was about. I truly don't. These horrible glaring flaws people talked about in the reviews are orders of magnitude less dire than they led us to believe. They are barely worthy of mention. Maybe if I put more hours in I'll understand, but so far so good. It doesn't even really feel like a franchise reboot, IMHO. It's just another Thief game. You'd have to set it on easiest difficulty and run around being a psycho to not get the Thief experience, and that'd be your own fault.

Looking at some of the reviews again, I feel like most of the reviewers didn't understand the point of a Thief game and they were expecting something more flashy like a Deus Ex.

On the other end of the spectrum you have the die-hard Thief "fans" who have been swearing up and down that the game was going to suck for YEARS. These guys are so invested in their own opinion that they are psychologically incapable of enjoying the game.

If I put a few more hours into the game and everything goes to hell, I'll have to change my view on the game, but like I said, so far so good.

Here is the graph, projecting how long it will take to create fusion.

If you are criticizing fusion predictions, and aren't aware of that graph, then you are basically criticizing things you don't understand. Stop it. Understand first, then criticize.

Despite all the regulation in place dealing with USD fiat currency $60,000,000,000 has been lost to various ponzi schemes even after Bernie Madoff. Which goes to show that no amount of regulation will compensate for human greed.

Anybody that was serious about bitcoin likely educated themselves on how they work or should have. They understood that transferring them to Mt. Gox was the same as transferring them to someone else's wallet. Regulation was not necessary to know that Mt.Gox was a horrible company. They've had a track record of incompetence since the very beginning.

"with grouped together services that vary not just in throughput or quality guarantees, but in what sites you can reach at each service level"

Someone came up with a nice prediction of things to come along those lines: http://i.imgur.com/5RrWm.png

http://imgur.com/XWTl1xy

Agreed, every time I look at any various looking glass to see why something is broken on the internet, it's Cogent dropping the ball... Remember this?

Every time I have to troubleshoot a broken internet problem, and it goes up to Tier 1 land, check the looking glass... It's Cogent being stupid. As soon as this story hit... check. Sure enough, Cogent-Level3 has ~3% packet loss the last 24 hours, with stupidly high latency. Screenshot .

If you switch the view to Classic using this dropdown menu, you should see full summaries rather than truncated ones.

I'm still arguing to get it changed/fixed for the default view.

http://i.imgur.com/KON0j7C.jpg

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When I grow up, I'm going to go to Bovine University.

So you're playing a video game version of Battlestar Galactica? I shall have to learn more....

There's more truth to this than you might think :)

But I agree with the OP; FTL is a lot of fun, especially if you enjoy space + rougelikes.

Some time ago, there was a satirical story about a homeless guy* falling asleep in the Apple store entry and a line forming behind him to buy whatever it was that he was waiting for. Now there are stories about homeless people actually waiting in Apple store lines.

*Indistinguishable from hipsters.

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"works for me"

Love them air quotes. Did it switch you back to Classic view to show you the comment? Because this is what the beta gives me when I go to http://beta.slashdot.org/comme...

8/10 made me reply, troll. Next time try faking up a screenshot so you can pretend beta actually works.

On a Delta airplane in the seat-back console. Link goes to image: http://i.imgur.com/aCWUi9V.jpg

Time stamp of these statements please??

I don't have an exact timestamp, but here are the full quotes: http://i.imgur.com/T7Zz0R2.jpg

anyway the first couple PicoSeconds of Time CAN NOT BE OBSERVED BY SCIENCE therefore are not within the realm of Science.

What are you even talking about? We can't observe what happened one second ago; we can only observe the present. We can extrapolate what happened in the past based on observations made in the present, though. Science is a mechanism for understanding the universe; there is nothing real that is outside of the realm of science.

And besides that, this discussion is about evolution as an explanation for the modern diversity of life, not the origin of the universe.

Now if you can show me a Tornado running through a car scrapyard and "evolving" a working airplane then maybe i might consider evolution as possible.

Or show me any Half This /Half that critters.

Saying those things only tells me that you have no idea what evolution actually is; you're just repeating arguments you've heard before in response to a strawman that exists in your head.

Pretty much any strawman argument you could prop up has already been debunked by http://www.talkorigins.org/, though.

All I want is the ability to have the OMG Ponies theme permanently.

You and me both, sister!
http://i.imgur.com/se56NGS.gif

User here on both desktop and Android tablet. Will write about the tablet experience, as that is the medium through which I browse Slashdot more often lately.

My stock 1st gen JB Nexus 7 and CM11 HTC Sensation choke when browsing the beta. I'm absolutely baffled by reports that the beta (and the current modern, non-classic site) run smoothly on moderately aged hardware. The experience is in no way seamless; it is utterly painful.

First, there is a delay between my trying to scroll down/up and the scroll actually occurring (said delay is completely nonexistent on the classic site on both devices).

Second, with the dynamic photo loading (why the hell are there photos now?) I hate having my webpage constantly bouncing around up and down when I'm trying to navigate (especially painful when I'm trying to click a link, only for the device to "catch up" and finish fully rendering the page after I have already made the move for my finger to click on the link but before the finger actually touches the screen, causing me to click a different link than intended). This, compounded with the first issue above, take Slashdot well outside the realm of usability. I don't know for sure, but from reading around, this second issue seems to be due to the Javascript, which seemingly almost as many users complaining about are claiming is NOT a problem. What???

My beta experience is characterized by my having to wait an entire 3 seconds (sometimes 4) inbetween EVERY INDIVIDUAL SWIPE to navigate (okay, I don't have to wait quite that long on my N7). Before, I could swipe as fast as my ninja fingers pleased; now, the site REGISTERS MY SWIPES AS CLICKS if I don't wait out the dynamic loading. Sure, the incremental render finishes a lot sooner than that, but then I'm just gambling on whether or not I'm going to run into the usability issues I've just mentioned above if I don't wait out those 3 seconds.

Lastly,

This is a goddamn beaut.
http://imgur.com/HF7H42v

I however understand that maybe in somebody's bizarro world, this would be acceptable (although that person would be absolutely nuts), but how the fuck does a development TEAM allow this to happen?
http://imgur.com/cXt2BQr

I was at an absolute loss for words thinking about this for a few minutes, until what many people here have been droning on about and parroting had finally clicked for me after having to sit through people bitching about the same thing for months. All this time I thought people had been beating a dead horse over a relatively insignificant complaint compared to everything else that was wrong.

It is NOT that they (devs & suits) think the comment system is a less-important, lower-priority aspect of Slashdot; it is that they are UTTERLY IGNORING it. A perception of its inconsequence by the developers sounds plausible, but it looks glaringly more likely that the comment system probably isn't even crossing their minds in the first place. Thus, they are hopelessly blind to the essence of Slashdot. I never realized this, because I couldn't even make it past tolerating the site navigation issues outlined in the first half of my post on my many attempts to test drive the beta until I decided now to actually try to force myself to use it amidst all this "overblown" Slashcott fuss. Maybe my experiences had something to do with this? But then again, people HAVE been bitching about the comments since day one. Skeptically and with a genuine dose of doubt, I had asked myself "it couldn't be THAT bad, much less UNUSABLE, could it?"

bUCKfETA.

User here on both desktop and Android tablet. Will write about the tablet experience, as that is the medium through which I browse Slashdot more often lately.

My stock 1st gen JB Nexus 7 and CM11 HTC Sensation choke when browsing the beta. I'm absolutely baffled by reports that the beta (and the current modern, non-classic site) run smoothly on moderately aged hardware. The experience is in no way seamless; it is utterly painful.

First, there is a delay between my trying to scroll down/up and the scroll actually occurring (said delay is completely nonexistent on the classic site on both devices).

Second, with the dynamic photo loading (why the hell are there photos now?) I hate having my webpage constantly bouncing around up and down when I'm trying to navigate (especially painful when I'm trying to click a link, only for the device to "catch up" and finish fully rendering the page after I have already made the move for my finger to click on the link but before the finger actually touches the screen, causing me to click a different link than intended). This, compounded with the first issue above, take Slashdot well outside the realm of usability. I don't know for sure, but from reading around, this second issue seems to be due to the Javascript, which seemingly almost as many users complaining about are claiming is NOT a problem. What???

My beta experience is characterized by my having to wait an entire 3 seconds (sometimes 4) inbetween EVERY INDIVIDUAL SWIPE to navigate (okay, I don't have to wait quite that long on my N7). Before, I could swipe as fast as my ninja fingers pleased; now, the site REGISTERS MY SWIPES AS CLICKS if I don't wait out the dynamic loading. Sure, the incremental render finishes a lot sooner than that, but then I'm just gambling on whether or not I'm going to run into the usability issues I've just mentioned above if I don't wait out those 3 seconds.

Lastly,

This is a goddamn beaut.
http://imgur.com/HF7H42v

I however understand that maybe in somebody's bizarro world, this would be acceptable (although that person would be absolutely nuts), but how the fuck does a development TEAM allow this to happen?
http://imgur.com/cXt2BQr

I was at an absolute loss for words thinking about this for a few minutes, until what many people here have been droning on about and parroting had finally clicked for me after having to sit through people bitching about the same thing for months. All this time I thought people had been beating a dead horse over a relatively insignificant complaint compared to everything else that was wrong.

It is NOT that they (devs & suits) think the comment system is a less-important, lower-priority aspect of Slashdot; it is that they are UTTERLY IGNORING it. A perception of its inconsequence by the developers sounds plausible, but it looks glaringly more likely that the comment system probably isn't even crossing their minds in the first place. Thus, they are hopelessly blind to the essence of Slashdot. I never realized this, because I couldn't even make it past tolerating the site navigation issues outlined in the first half of my post on my many attempts to test drive the beta until I decided now to actually try to force myself to use it amidst all this "overblown" Slashcott fuss. Maybe my experiences had something to do with this? But then again, people HAVE been bitching about the comments since day one. Skeptically and with a genuine dose of doubt, I had asked myself "it couldn't be THAT bad, much less UNUSABLE, could it?"

bUCKfETA.

The 0-100 degreen range of Farenheit better represents the range of temperatures that humans encounter. http://imgur.com/gallery/ucOQh

Yes, it's time to give up! http://imgur.com/3ZidINK and to use the metric system also : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

You have to log in to see the subscription page. Subscriptions were only for those who have an account. You got caught being a dumbass.

its the best OS evar!!! http://i.imgur.com/1uNNZSp.png

Have some comparison screenshots. First, between the first two pics, note that slashdot's solution to the problem that after you get three-four comments deep in a conversation it becomes unreadable is to just not show comments beyond that point unless you repeatedly mash the get more comments button (compare to Reddit's solution of having a link directly to the rest of the thread). Also note how little text fits on the screen in the beta version compared to the classic version.

For the third screenshot, note how the fonts for different comments are different for no reason, and how small the comment box is. It's also worth noting that they've removed the maxlength attribute on the comment subject box, so instead of the browser telling you when you've reached the limit, your subject is truncated.

I use something like this -> http://i.imgur.com/ciomNzs.jpg

Only nicotine - none of the tar or any other 500 chemicals which burn in a cigarette.

Yes. Ain't it funny that they wasted all that time and money adding those 499 chemicals, when all they really needed to keep you hopelessly addicted, was just one.

There are far healthier options to vaporize.

I use something like this -> http://i.imgur.com/ciomNzs.jpg

Only nicotine - none of the tar or any other 500 chemicals which burn in a cigarette.

all the comments about it that makes the actual comments hard to read.

Haha no, have some screenshots. The first two are in response to a guy claiming that he can see as much in Beta as he sees in Classic, which was 100% bullshit. The third one is an example of how fucked up everything is once you get a few replies into a thread. Note that slashdot appears to be picking random fonts for everyone's posts, that's always a plus for readability. I'm sure Pi/10 horses they asked for their UX research thought it was a great idea!

Milhouse: Did you see that yaw control?

Nevar Forget!

http://imgur.com/gallery/73IDM...

but when browsing topics I can practically fit the same amount of content into my window as before

O RLY?

BTW, in classic I can see your post, the AC before you, your parent's post, your previous post, and 11 one line abbreviated posts above that all in one 1280x1024 screen.

In beta, your reply here doesn't even show up. Bush is the last poster in the thread. You don't even exist.

8/10, made me reply. Enjoy a side-by-side comparison while you troll

but when browsing topics I can practically fit the same amount of content into my window as before

O RLY?

BTW, in classic I can see your post, the AC before you, your parent's post, your previous post, and 11 one line abbreviated posts above that all in one 1280x1024 screen.

In beta, your reply here doesn't even show up. Bush is the last poster in the thread. You don't even exist.

8/10, made me reply. Enjoy a side-by-side comparison while you troll

Hm, I actually hadn't noticed that as a problem

I exaggerated perhaps too much, but there is definitely a weird issue with the font going on. I captured this in a screenshot I had made for another thread: http://imgur.com/YvQjTIf Perhaps it's simply the natural spacing difference between the sans-serif font used on the top comment and the serif font used on the comment on the bottom of the screenshot, but it definitely feels like it takes up much more space either way.

2) White space and wasted space. Enough have made detailed complaints about this, so I'll just register my chagrin. I will say this: the people who come to this site are used to, indeed prefer, a denser presentation of information. This includes the text editor, which is absurdly restrictive on the x-axis.

I'd also like to fully concur on the white space problem. This (1920x1080 screen, standard zoom level) says it all in my opinion. The actual percentage of screen real estate containing the useful information that people want to see, on the front page, is about 22%.

Mind you, the "classic" front page is not that much better, but at least it weighs in at about 30% -- and the surrounding stuff (sidebar etc.) also uses its part of the screen real estate much better.

Canada, despite having a population of only 30 million, has the second most athletes competing, and by far the best coverage of any developed nation.

If you're Usian or from the UK i'd recommend getting an unblock subscription and setting your country to Canada.

just keep getting smaller and smaller?

Yep. I took screenshots for another discussion where I was arguing with someone about how it looked great and how I must be looking at some other screen:

http://imgur.com/YaOtcUk
http://imgur.com/YvQjTIf

just keep getting smaller and smaller?

Yep. I took screenshots for another discussion where I was arguing with someone about how it looked great and how I must be looking at some other screen:

http://imgur.com/YaOtcUk
http://imgur.com/YvQjTIf

Have a pic.

Also chrome on windows.

Have a picture of your post: http://imgur.com/YaOtcUk

And another of this post: http://imgur.com/YvQjTIf

Note khellendros's post at the bottom of the second pic. Maybe double-spaced is an exaggeration, but your text is (for some inexplicitly bizarre reason) sans-serif and line-and-a-half or so spaced compared to his (for some inexplicably bizaarre reason) serif font, normally spaced.

Have a picture of your post: http://imgur.com/YaOtcUk

And another of this post: http://imgur.com/YvQjTIf

Note khellendros's post at the bottom of the second pic. Maybe double-spaced is an exaggeration, but your text is (for some inexplicitly bizarre reason) sans-serif and line-and-a-half or so spaced compared to his (for some inexplicably bizaarre reason) serif font, normally spaced.

Beta looks pretty bad on Open Mini on my phone. Check out the whitespaces, here's a screenshot - http://imgur.com/bYvaNdo

60% of the screen width is whitespace, and that's when the phone is in landspace.

hmm, looks like something crappy is invading "classic". these "next/previous" things should not be there. we know how to view lists and use tabs in the browser.

http://i.imgur.com/Ncp5VR8.png