I dislike it on my nexus 7. The new gmail interface is horrible. You are now forced to use gmail app because it unifies the gmail and the integrated email app into one. I am not a big fan of it.
Slashdot (not the beta) as it is will live (or die) by the evolution of its community of users. However decisions by Business Analysts of a company that happens to own the framework assets (hardware, software) who have the singular goal of profit through advertisements can very easily make the community of users go elsewhere (they will scatter to other forums and some of the talented souls will create forums of their own as a replacement).
Slashdot is a discussion forum which happens to be driven by a loose direction/range of topics and interests where any so called 'content' is created wholly by the interests and activity of the users in response to each other and in response to the topics. The whole value of Slashdot is an incidental emergent property of this interaction of the user base made possible due to its simple, low key, non interfering design that encourages a high bandwidth of user to user communication and networking of arguments (quality or not).
The fastest way to kill Slashdot will be to introduce a design that is loud, noisy, distracting, click happy with visual _exercises_ with dynamic pop ups and other toys that are just cognitively distracting (because in truth people cannot multitask, they can only task swap quickly) and energy sapping. These features basically kill the fundamental characteristics that made it the place that it is.
Maybe that is the goal! If your goal is to run the community off then by all means go ahead as you are on track. I do not think that you will get replacements.:) People will just go elsewhere/build an elsewhere. I for one will just spend more time on Reddit until one of the new alternatives becomes the new old Slashdot.
Now if you are trying to preserve the community here...well if you think market speak and tricks are going to work then you had better do some analysis of the community here. Seriously. You appear to be hilariously out of touch with the demographic. This is not a demographic that you can expand by making the place pretty or appealing to the everyone. You will just run off everyone and that will be the end of it.
The historical footnote is likely to be: Slashdot -- the interesting discussion forum that DICE ended in the mid 2010s.
They used to do this in the late 19th and early 20th century. You can still find old newspapers with advertisements for weight loss pills that contained various parasites including tapeworms. Mind that during this period of time Coca Cola was being marketed as a universal medicinal cure all too.
Maybe the Gut bacteria found the soylent concoction particularly tasty and were eating more of it than the human, hence the weight loss.
You actually just gave me a great idea for a weight loss pill that's simply a capsule filled with tapeworm eggs.
For the hardware out there now, outside of the niche group of high end PC Gamers, there are no killer apps to drive motivation to buy innovative hardware (or new utility software like over bloated operating sytems).
Maybe that will change when/if a new generation of high end/spec game producers figure out that focusing on anti-piracy instead of content is a losing game because in the long run you kill your entire market demographic. They poured all their energy and innovation into DRM and anti piracy tactics instead of producing entertaining games that make use of the hardware power available and now they are reaping the rewards. No market.
It should be faster than that. My win 7 box is done booting and loading the os in about 12 seconds. Granted that is with 2 SSDs, 1 velociraptor and a slower 2 tb drive for mass storage.
This applies to kitchens as an analogy. Do you want to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner in a kitchen with a little 3x3 counter in it or do you want a kitchen lined with a lot of counter space? With more space you can actively work on more things faster. Period.
Nah office monitors work like real life desk real estate.
If you don't have the extra space you adjust by flip flopping through windows/piles of papers/folders and basically micromanaging the layout. It has a time and cognitive cost to do all that paging through crap to find what you want.
If you do have the extra space you make use of it more or less unconsciously/automatically. You will notice when it is gone however when you want it or notice you are spending more time fudging around flipping between things when you try to get work done.
If you do have the extra desk space/extra desktop monitors then you are able to spread things out more, support more stacks or smaller stacks and buffer information you want to be visible longer. It cuts down on visual search time and cognitive cost of searching because things are split (think sorting algorithms, same idea in a binary or similar search in that you already have multiple buckets when you start your search cutting down how much initial work you have to do to find something). 2d desktop spread allow you to your mapping memory more naturally.
It is not just pile X on monitor A and pile Y on monitor B but upper right corner of A has pile X but pile Y is in lower right corner of monitor B. All this is made easy because the human brain automates it without you having to think it through. It is leveraging the human brain ability to buffer information spatially.
This will be even greater with 3D desktops whenever that happens. The future for high bandwidth computer use is not even more restrictive 2d layouts (or in the case with metro 2d mapped to 1d -- ugh), but 3d desktops layouts. Currently we just do a 3d mapped/flattened into 2d but I would like to see a full 3d environment some day for desktop/tier 1 object organization.
According to an interview with a Lucasfilm source the new movies will be components of a completely new story so yes they are tossing out the whole expanded universe for these.
Yep. Putting election day on a weekend would be very good.
But look closer, and it is not so easy anymore. For example, too few bother to vote. The politicians could easily fix this, by moving election day on a long weekend and making it mandatory, yet they don't.
Exactly. The world of electronic devices added users, it did not shift users from PC to mobile.
The only losers here are the legacy media platforms: print media, visual arts entertainment and to a lesser degree (because it lost out years ago to visual entertainment) radio.
As long as we live in a society based on competition (games, companies, not just keeping up with the Jones's but exceeding them) there will be a large portion of the population, a market demographic if you will, who will want to leverage to their advantage desktop computers for the advantages they proffer (in business, in recreation, in government) .
It is not as if magically portable devices have technology advances and desktops do not. They both advance simultaneously. So while portable device advance so do desktops. The more we can pack into a small device means the more we can pack into a big (less mobile) device. There is no catching up in real time here. Specific uses to which one device or another are applied may evolve over time but that is just one facet of a bigger Venn Diagram.
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks, I will check it out.
I dislike it on my nexus 7. The new gmail interface is horrible. You are now forced to use gmail app because it unifies the gmail and the integrated email app into one. I am not a big fan of it.
Slashdot (not the beta) as it is will live (or die) by the evolution of its community of users. However decisions by Business Analysts of a company that happens to own the framework assets (hardware, software) who have the singular goal of profit through advertisements can very easily make the community of users go elsewhere (they will scatter to other forums and some of the talented souls will create forums of their own as a replacement).
Slashdot is a discussion forum which happens to be driven by a loose direction/range of topics and interests where any so called 'content' is created wholly by the interests and activity of the users in response to each other and in response to the topics. The whole value of Slashdot is an incidental emergent property of this interaction of the user base made possible due to its simple, low key, non interfering design that encourages a high bandwidth of user to user communication and networking of arguments (quality or not).
The fastest way to kill Slashdot will be to introduce a design that is loud, noisy, distracting, click happy with visual _exercises_ with dynamic pop ups and other toys that are just cognitively distracting (because in truth people cannot multitask, they can only task swap quickly) and energy sapping. These features basically kill the fundamental characteristics that made it the place that it is.
Maybe that is the goal! If your goal is to run the community off then by all means go ahead as you are on track. I do not think that you will get replacements. :) People will just go elsewhere/build an elsewhere. I for one will just spend more time on Reddit until one of the new alternatives becomes the new old Slashdot.
Now if you are trying to preserve the community here...well if you think market speak and tricks are going to work then you had better do some analysis of the community here. Seriously. You appear to be hilariously out of touch with the demographic. This is not a demographic that you can expand by making the place pretty or appealing to the everyone. You will just run off everyone and that will be the end of it.
The historical footnote is likely to be: Slashdot -- the interesting discussion forum that DICE ended in the mid 2010s.
They used to do this in the late 19th and early 20th century. You can still find old newspapers with advertisements for weight loss pills that contained various parasites including tapeworms. Mind that during this period of time Coca Cola was being marketed as a universal medicinal cure all too.
Maybe the Gut bacteria found the soylent concoction particularly tasty and were eating more of it than the human, hence the weight loss.
You actually just gave me a great idea for a weight loss pill that's simply a capsule filled with tapeworm eggs.
That is by design. The holes are a temporal testament to the access of His noodly appendages.
Then that makes me...multireligious! woot!
Maybe a kind of meh remote virtual ram/swap/cache but I would hate to do that on my connection.
For the hardware out there now, outside of the niche group of high end PC Gamers, there are no killer apps to drive motivation to buy innovative hardware (or new utility software like over bloated operating sytems).
Maybe that will change when/if a new generation of high end/spec game producers figure out that focusing on anti-piracy instead of content is a losing game because in the long run you kill your entire market demographic. They poured all their energy and innovation into DRM and anti piracy tactics instead of producing entertaining games that make use of the hardware power available and now they are reaping the rewards. No market.
Mounds of Venuvian Blue Ray, DVD and CD discs.
Acting classes.
Hampster wheel.
It should be faster than that. My win 7 box is done booting and loading the os in about 12 seconds. Granted that is with 2 SSDs, 1 velociraptor and a slower 2 tb drive for mass storage.
This applies to kitchens as an analogy. Do you want to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner in a kitchen with a little 3x3 counter in it or do you want a kitchen lined with a lot of counter space? With more space you can actively work on more things faster. Period.
Nah office monitors work like real life desk real estate.
If you don't have the extra space you adjust by flip flopping through windows/piles of papers/folders and basically micromanaging the layout. It has a time and cognitive cost to do all that paging through crap to find what you want.
If you do have the extra space you make use of it more or less unconsciously/automatically. You will notice when it is gone however when you want it or notice you are spending more time fudging around flipping between things when you try to get work done.
If you do have the extra desk space/extra desktop monitors then you are able to spread things out more, support more stacks or smaller stacks and buffer information you want to be visible longer. It cuts down on visual search time and cognitive cost of searching because things are split (think sorting algorithms, same idea in a binary or similar search in that you already have multiple buckets when you start your search cutting down how much initial work you have to do to find something). 2d desktop spread allow you to your mapping memory more naturally.
It is not just pile X on monitor A and pile Y on monitor B but upper right corner of A has pile X but pile Y is in lower right corner of monitor B. All this is made easy because the human brain automates it without you having to think it through. It is leveraging the human brain ability to buffer information spatially.
This will be even greater with 3D desktops whenever that happens. The future for high bandwidth computer use is not even more restrictive 2d layouts (or in the case with metro 2d mapped to 1d -- ugh), but 3d desktops layouts. Currently we just do a 3d mapped/flattened into 2d but I would like to see a full 3d environment some day for desktop/tier 1 object organization.
Exactly. This will be starwars for 'new generations'.
I can feel the hate growing within you.
They already tabled the extended/expanded universe. They apparently want to work with a blank slate going forward from episode 6 with a _new_ story.
According to an interview with a Lucasfilm source the new movies will be components of a completely new story so yes they are tossing out the whole expanded universe for these.
New systems can end up this way. It has to do how good the person is at organizing abstracted objects.
Yep. Putting election day on a weekend would be very good.
But look closer, and it is not so easy anymore. For example, too few bother to vote. The politicians could easily fix this, by moving election day on a long weekend and making it mandatory, yet they don't.
I use velcro ties.
Some. Not all.
Touch is great for accessing and consuming content.
Touch is currently horrendous for producing or modifying content.
These are not yet 'unified' avenues of usage as yet.
This kind of cultural change takes time and gradually, it isn't done yet and the on life support phase takes years.
Exactly. The world of electronic devices added users, it did not shift users from PC to mobile.
The only losers here are the legacy media platforms: print media, visual arts entertainment and to a lesser degree (because it lost out years ago to visual entertainment) radio.
As long as we live in a society based on competition (games, companies, not just keeping up with the Jones's but exceeding them) there will be a large portion of the population, a market demographic if you will, who will want to leverage to their advantage desktop computers for the advantages they proffer (in business, in recreation, in government) .
It is not as if magically portable devices have technology advances and desktops do not. They both advance simultaneously. So while portable device advance so do desktops. The more we can pack into a small device means the more we can pack into a big (less mobile) device. There is no catching up in real time here. Specific uses to which one device or another are applied may evolve over time but that is just one facet of a bigger Venn Diagram.