Comment Re:Yes (Score 1, Funny) 289
But I have level 80, purple gear you insensitive clod!
Comment Re:10% of 1% (Score 1) 294
Those of you with functioning brains prefer larger downloads,
Why should anyone care about downloading a few extra kilobytes? It's not like anyone with a decent connection is going to notice the difference.
and waiting for full page loads before replying and after moderating?
Oh noes! Not a full page load! My god that takes almost a full second! Golly gee whiz, those extra 3 milliseconds I'm going to save by going with the crappier web 2.0 interface is totally worth it!
Ah, right, and having to refresh the page every time you change your threshold?
You actually change that on a regular basis? I thought most people just set it once and forgot it. But even still, that's a whopping one second to refresh.
Phew. Sure am glad my brain is broken then. Among other advantages, those of us with non-functional brains realize that just because a technology happens to have a buzzword attached to it doesn't mean that the technology itself is a bad thing.
The funny thing is that most of the "advantages" you talk about are either ones that no one is going to care about or no one is going to notice. Most of these optimizations really only benefit the site on the server-side end.
Comment Re:But does it improve story quality? (Score 1) 294
One of my submissions, the "editor" changed an accurate link to an inaccurate one
kdawson?
Comment Re:re-read the section you quote (Score 1) 324
You mean except for the fact that they are co-opting copyrights on orphan books that would prevent others from doing this?
Comment Re:IE at 14%? (Score 2, Interesting) 294
And yet despite your claim of it not working at all in any version of IE, I was able to post this comment in IE6. Strange, eh?
Comment Re:Backwards text (2:erocS) (Score 3, Interesting) 294
But fixing things requires actually doing hard work rather than cheap hacks.
Submission + - Coke dispenser runs Windows (windowsfordevices.com)
jangel writes: "Coca-Cola is testing a beverage dispenser that incorporates a touchscreen computer running Windows CE. The "Jet" can dispense up to 120 different types of soda, and tracks sales according to the time of day. What we want to know is, if beverage dispensing becomes this scientific, what happens to our old practice of livening up a Diet Coke with a last minute dollop of Dr. Pepper?"
Comment Re:In other words (Score 1) 84
I think you're both missing the point that it isn't free because of anti-trust law.I didn't realize I was going to have to spell it out.
No, I'm not missing any point at all. You're just making something up without any evidence your statement up with. This is an enterprise-level tool and they aren't going to make such a thing and give it away for free. This is no different than for any other enterprise tool that they sell.
Comment Re:But does it improve story quality? (Score 1) 294
So i fail to see the complaint.
The lack of quality standards of editors?
Comment Re:In other words (Score 1) 84
I think he's pointing out the fact that Microsoft Forefront isn't free it's something you have to buy.
Comment Re:But does it improve story quality? (Score 1) 294
Yeah, but that's just pretending the problem doesn't exist anymore.
Comment Re:But does it improve story quality? (Score 0, Redundant) 294
Or when certain editors *cough*kdawson*cough* insert their own crappily written text into the original submission.
Comment Re:But does it improve story quality? (Score 4, Insightful) 294
To improve story quality they just need to get rid of kdawson and ScuttleMonkey. That'll improve quality at least 5000%.
Comment Re:wow (Score 2, Insightful) 319
Exactly. Why is Obama once again getting blamed for something Congress is trying to do?
Because it's naive to think that the president has zero influence on the proposing of bills in Congress? Secondly, do you think that he's actually going to veto this? HAHAHAHAHA, yeah right.
