Back in university, I tried playing Pinball after two or three beers. I quickly realized that there was no point. No matter what pinball game I played, I was very much worse in my reaction time and coordination.
And fitting more information on the screen. Many of the dialogues and even spawned program windows I work with are of fixed size. And sometimes I have dozens of them on the screen. If they could occupy a smaller percentage of my screen, that would be a very good thing.
Good to know. Maybe I am tending to grab from the first 5 responses, much like the average searchers.
Also, maybe this reflects that Google is actually doing a perfect job. The Slashdot results are there, but don't happen to be the most relevant for the searches in question.
I realize you can ask Google to search a particular web site, but it might be nice to be able to add a list of "preferred sites". Google would preferentially bubble up results from those sites, possibly formatted a little differently (like the ads are now).
I agree. I also research extensively with Google and have never seen Slashdot articles. But I disagree with Google's choice on this.
Maybe it is more a matter of Google drowning in information and have no practical way of filtering it all out.
To that end, Google seems to love Expert Exchange. I don't understand that. Seems like they make choices, and stick to them, at least for a while.
Search is a truly large space. I doubt I could manage it any better. I never tire of hitting enter and having a page of results before I have time to reach for the mouse. I'll cut them some slack on this one.
I wonder if the purpose of being there first with a product like this is to register some patents & copyrights. Microsoft seems to introduce plenty of lame products...but I wonder if the patent royalty stream is the most profitable of a new product line. Much like their P.O. Box approach to DOS licensees -- just send me the money.
You make good points. I mostly agree. I do return to down modded posts, and look at them objectively. I've learned. I've changed how I write, and what I comment about. But I've also learned to avoid comment minefields.
There are certain subjects where reasonable posts will be bombed. But not nearly as much when those same posts are made anonymously.
I agree about ranters. Mr. hosts is obviously a good example of this. It was/is kind of humorous to see his several dozen posts in a row, on this thread. This guy must have many computers lined up to post from, given the daily limits on AC posts. He has issues, indeed. But no more than goats link posters.
But in, for example, an Apple thread, one had best be very careful what one says. To the point where I no longer even read Apple threads. This is mass mod trolling in action. Mac fanatics with mod points.
I should point out that, as much as I'm saying mod stalkers are a problem on Slashdot, forum/comment deficiencies are much more of a problem anywhere else you go. Slashdot comments, mods & meta-mods are the worst system ever invented...except for all the others.
Here's to Slashdot. May it remain free from the promised Beta/Downgrade, and may it stop linking to Medium.com
There is one situation that doesn't follow your fairly elegant theory: when someone posts a minority view as an AC.
To avoid mod-stalker trolls, I've resorted to this on a considerable number of occasions.
What happens to the minority AC comments I've posted? 99% of the time absolutely nothing happens.
To me this shows that mod stalkers are the problem on slashdot. They won't want to waste a mod point on an AC, as it has no long term consequence. Put your user ID to something ten times more tame, and let the buzz bombing begin.
Hence my suggestion 6 years ago that down-mods take 3 mod points. This would use up troller mod points faster, so that reasonable modders could reverse "-1, disagree" mods, yet still have points left over for other up mods.
But how many of those places don't have meta-moderation? Without it, mods are meaningless. Even with it, minority opinions struggle (since the majority of meta-moderators also disagree with the down-modded minority post).
Even worse are sites that lack meta-mod, but will ban you once you are down-modded to a certain level. Ars Technica comes to mind -- Ars forums are rapidly becoming a complete waste of time to read. If this isn't a gestapo-approach to a comment system, I don't know what is.
17% to idling? -- Modern hybrid turns itself off
6% in braking -- Modern hybrid regenerates energy from braking
That leaves 31% for the ICE hybrid (40% - 9%).
Somebody out there wants to see new things, tiles, ribbons, etc, everything re-designed every 2 years.
After the Y2K codeathon, hirings went down and the industry slumped. Why can't it do that again, now. Instead of putting us all through these crappy redesigns.
The SAR is for when it is stuck to a simulated (adult) head, attempting to simulate a person being "on a call".
When you are thumbing around the web on a phone, at arm's length, a reading at your ear is irrelevant. My "citation" is that these were the actual readings I recorded with my $450 Acoustimeter.
Honestly, I wanted to have a Nexus 5. I had ordered one for myself -- purchased from Google Play, max memory, and hooked up with Ting.com -- that was to arrive a few days after I worked on my wife's phone. After the readings I recorded, I sent it back and decided to cut back on cell phone use even more than I had.
Also, the readings I measured (that "pegged" my meter, by the way, with readings of 99,999 microwatts per meter squared -- the highest of anything I have ever measured, including the front of three different working microwave ovens) were for when I was setting up the phone. By contrast, when my wife has been using her phone, readings have been much lower. I've not wanted to be near the phone to exactly quantify how much better, but I would say the readings have been "totally different" once the phone was setup, with SIM & working phone number & all setup prompts answered.
Based on these two sets of data points, I would suggest there is no "HLT" command during setup, but things seem to be much better once it is configured. Pity those who do nothing but set up smartphones...
I bought a Nexus 5, but after seeing how much radiation my wife's Nexus 5 put out -- more than a working microwave oven -- I sent it back and stuck with my old dumb phone. Excessive across-the-Internet-so-you-get-dosed "chatter" is the new spam.
Why don't they show a head-to-head comparison. Take a round, split it once. Then two guys with old & new school axes proceed to split the half rounds. A lot easier to perceive a better way.
Slashdot Mirror
How about Surface Pro 3 Update 1?
Back in university, I tried playing Pinball after two or three beers. I quickly realized that there was no point. No matter what pinball game I played, I was very much worse in my reaction time and coordination.
And fitting more information on the screen. Many of the dialogues and even spawned program windows I work with are of fixed size. And sometimes I have dozens of them on the screen. If they could occupy a smaller percentage of my screen, that would be a very good thing.
Good to know. Maybe I am tending to grab from the first 5 responses, much like the average searchers.
Also, maybe this reflects that Google is actually doing a perfect job. The Slashdot results are there, but don't happen to be the most relevant for the searches in question.
I realize you can ask Google to search a particular web site, but it might be nice to be able to add a list of "preferred sites". Google would preferentially bubble up results from those sites, possibly formatted a little differently (like the ads are now).
I agree. I also research extensively with Google and have never seen Slashdot articles. But I disagree with Google's choice on this.
Maybe it is more a matter of Google drowning in information and have no practical way of filtering it all out.
To that end, Google seems to love Expert Exchange. I don't understand that. Seems like they make choices, and stick to them, at least for a while.
Search is a truly large space. I doubt I could manage it any better. I never tire of hitting enter and having a page of results before I have time to reach for the mouse. I'll cut them some slack on this one.
Even more obscure: ESC, Transfer, Save.
Still using it. Thanks, Charles.
Liberian oils don't want even 1 drop of it removed from the ground.
People demand free.
Ads pay for free.
I wonder if the purpose of being there first with a product like this is to register some patents & copyrights. Microsoft seems to introduce plenty of lame products...but I wonder if the patent royalty stream is the most profitable of a new product line. Much like their P.O. Box approach to DOS licensees -- just send me the money.
You make good points. I mostly agree. I do return to down modded posts, and look at them objectively. I've learned. I've changed how I write, and what I comment about. But I've also learned to avoid comment minefields.
There are certain subjects where reasonable posts will be bombed. But not nearly as much when those same posts are made anonymously.
I agree about ranters. Mr. hosts is obviously a good example of this. It was/is kind of humorous to see his several dozen posts in a row, on this thread. This guy must have many computers lined up to post from, given the daily limits on AC posts. He has issues, indeed. But no more than goats link posters.
But in, for example, an Apple thread, one had best be very careful what one says. To the point where I no longer even read Apple threads. This is mass mod trolling in action. Mac fanatics with mod points.
I should point out that, as much as I'm saying mod stalkers are a problem on Slashdot, forum/comment deficiencies are much more of a problem anywhere else you go. Slashdot comments, mods & meta-mods are the worst system ever invented...except for all the others.
Here's to Slashdot. May it remain free from the promised Beta/Downgrade, and may it stop linking to Medium.com
There is one situation that doesn't follow your fairly elegant theory: when someone posts a minority view as an AC.
To avoid mod-stalker trolls, I've resorted to this on a considerable number of occasions.
What happens to the minority AC comments I've posted? 99% of the time absolutely nothing happens.
To me this shows that mod stalkers are the problem on slashdot. They won't want to waste a mod point on an AC, as it has no long term consequence. Put your user ID to something ten times more tame, and let the buzz bombing begin.
Hence my suggestion 6 years ago that down-mods take 3 mod points. This would use up troller mod points faster, so that reasonable modders could reverse "-1, disagree" mods, yet still have points left over for other up mods.
But how many of those places don't have meta-moderation? Without it, mods are meaningless. Even with it, minority opinions struggle (since the majority of meta-moderators also disagree with the down-modded minority post).
Even worse are sites that lack meta-mod, but will ban you once you are down-modded to a certain level. Ars Technica comes to mind -- Ars forums are rapidly becoming a complete waste of time to read. If this isn't a gestapo-approach to a comment system, I don't know what is.
6 years ago I suggested that any negative mod should cost you 3 mod points.
/. should increase the maximum points a post can accumulate. Giving more "upside" to the discussion.
2 years ago I said On political threads, all comments should have the same rating.
Today I would add that maybe
17% to idling? -- Modern hybrid turns itself off
6% in braking -- Modern hybrid regenerates energy from braking
That leaves 31% for the ICE hybrid (40% - 9%).
That RFC 3339 link didn't load. I googled, and got this one to work. I think it needed to be https...
I'm curious. After you get your test results, what do you do next?
There is no "cure" for the flu. Antibiotics have major downsides.
Isn't this just a rest & fluids & patience situation? Does that really need tests?
After the Y2K codeathon, hirings went down and the industry slumped. Why can't it do that again, now. Instead of putting us all through these crappy redesigns.
The SAR is for when it is stuck to a simulated (adult) head, attempting to simulate a person being "on a call".
When you are thumbing around the web on a phone, at arm's length, a reading at your ear is irrelevant. My "citation" is that these were the actual readings I recorded with my $450 Acoustimeter.
Honestly, I wanted to have a Nexus 5. I had ordered one for myself -- purchased from Google Play, max memory, and hooked up with Ting.com -- that was to arrive a few days after I worked on my wife's phone. After the readings I recorded, I sent it back and decided to cut back on cell phone use even more than I had.
Also, the readings I measured (that "pegged" my meter, by the way, with readings of 99,999 microwatts per meter squared -- the highest of anything I have ever measured, including the front of three different working microwave ovens) were for when I was setting up the phone. By contrast, when my wife has been using her phone, readings have been much lower. I've not wanted to be near the phone to exactly quantify how much better, but I would say the readings have been "totally different" once the phone was setup, with SIM & working phone number & all setup prompts answered.
Based on these two sets of data points, I would suggest there is no "HLT" command during setup, but things seem to be much better once it is configured. Pity those who do nothing but set up smartphones...
YMMV
I bought a Nexus 5, but after seeing how much radiation my wife's Nexus 5 put out -- more than a working microwave oven -- I sent it back and stuck with my old dumb phone. Excessive across-the-Internet-so-you-get-dosed "chatter" is the new spam.
Well, well, well. What have we here?
Look here, at our "less fishy" interface.
While we ensure you will never go to Bob'sTinyDomain.com ever again.
The 1%
Android phones have been successful by being the cheap option. Which comes from being the open option.
FTFY
I block:
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.net
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.org
127.0.0.1 connect.facebook.net
127.0.0.1 static.ak.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 s-static.ak.facebook.com
Suggestions?
And don't forgot maple -- seriously warped wood.
Why don't they show a head-to-head comparison. Take a round, split it once. Then two guys with old & new school axes proceed to split the half rounds. A lot easier to perceive a better way.
True. And true of many western things. Does chipboard really make a more cost-effective house? I think I prefer Islamic banking to Western as well.