jones_supa - Slashdot User

Comment Text overlap (Score 1) 12

by jones_supa on Saturday February 28, 2015 @02:20AM (#49152377) Attached to: Engineering Update 2-27-2015

Thanks for the improvements so far.

A small glitch I still see is that if the browser window is narrow enough (about 1100px or less), the "You may like to read" headlines overlap the text in the column right to it. Here's a screenshot from Chrome.

Comment Re:Hard to believe (Score 1) 166

by jones_supa on Friday February 27, 2015 @12:47PM (#49147597) Attached to: Microsoft's Goals For Their New Web Rendering Engine

If they ported Visual Studio to Linux and OS/X

I actually suspect that that could happen sometime in the future.

Submission + - Research Suggests That Saunas Help You Live Longer

Submitted by jones_supa on Friday February 27, 2015 @12:28PM

jones_supa writes: A study of Finnish men suggests that frequent sauna baths may help you live longer. Previous research has suggested that saunas might improve blood vessel function and exercise capacity, or even lower blood pressure in patients with hypertension. The new study links long, hot sauna baths with more benefits, including fewer deaths from heart attacks, strokes, various heart-related conditions and other causes. The study tracked 2315 Finnish men for nearly 20 years on average. Most participants used saunas at least once weekly. Those who used them four to seven times weekly received the greatest benefits. The study published in JAMA Internal Medicine wraps up by saying that further studies are warranted to establish the potential mechanism that links sauna bathing and the aforementioned cardiovascular benefits.

Comment Re:Well, Dice finally did it (Score 1) 85

by jones_supa on Friday February 27, 2015 @11:54AM (#49147213) Attached to: Microsoft Closing Two Phone Factories In China

I noticed that too. It looks a bit wonky.

Comment Re:Feedback is welcome (Score 1) 86

by jones_supa on Friday February 27, 2015 @05:46AM (#49145361) Attached to: The Only Constant is Change

Yeah, it was kind of odd. For the record, the Beta was launched October 1, 2013. Slashdot took some feedback in the early times but then everything just went into complete hibernation. The Beta site just lingered there without the users having any idea what the direction was.

Comment Re:Really, really need to stop autoplaying videos (Score 1) 86

by jones_supa on Friday February 27, 2015 @05:39AM (#49145351) Attached to: The Only Constant is Change

Another thing: I cannot post new top-level comments to this topic. There is no button to do that. I can only reply.

Comment Re:Which icons? (Score 2) 516

by jones_supa on Thursday February 26, 2015 @09:32AM (#49136145) Attached to: Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10

OP here. There's a screenshot in the article. :)

Comment Re:Bugs in Win 7 UI (Score 1) 516

by jones_supa on Thursday February 26, 2015 @09:07AM (#49135999) Attached to: Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10

True. While I can confirm the Windows bug, Linux desktops are absolutely full of little glitches like that. Even while Windows is filled with all sorts of crusty crap, at least it works predictably for the most part.

Comment Re:Bugs in Win 7 UI (Score 3, Interesting) 516

by jones_supa on Thursday February 26, 2015 @09:03AM (#49135969) Attached to: Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10

No, I have seen it happen in normal folders.

Comment Re:Bugs in Win 7 UI (Score 3, Informative) 516

by jones_supa on Thursday February 26, 2015 @09:02AM (#49135967) Attached to: Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10

I can confirm that bug in Windows 7 and I have seen it in Windows 8 too. It has occasionally happened to me after deleting all files from a folder. One of the files remains in the folder view, even though it has been deleted already. The view seems to not be refreshed properly.

Comment Re:Silliness (Score 1) 516

by jones_supa on Thursday February 26, 2015 @08:32AM (#49135825) Attached to: Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10

They probably already went so far with the Modern UI strategy that they can't go back. They are now using that as the base to try to make something useful. At least things are more unified than in Windows 8, which featured a unelegant mix of classic Windows widgets and Modern stuff.

Comment Re:Do it like Linux (Score 5, Informative) 516

by jones_supa on Thursday February 26, 2015 @08:17AM (#49135753) Attached to: Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10

I'll throw some screenshots here so people can compare easily.

- Windows 3.1
- Windows 95
- Windows 7
- Windows 10 new icons from the article
- Windows 10 new Recycle Bin and Control Panel icons

Comment HiDPI (Score 5, Interesting) 516

by jones_supa on Thursday February 26, 2015 @07:20AM (#49135547) Attached to: Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10

I guess operating systems acquiring HiDPI support is one of the reasons going for the flat look. Vector graphics are easy to scale. But maybe some genius will eventually come up with a system that both scales well and looks cool. Some might also say that good appearance isn't the be-all and end-all, but we had quite nice thing going on with Aero, so why go backwards in evolution. The window zoom animations look really good in Windows 10 though.

Comment Re:Media streamer? (Score 1) 60

by jones_supa on Thursday February 26, 2015 @03:58AM (#49135011) Attached to: Intel Updates NUC Mini PC Line With Broadwell-U, Tested and Benchmarked

If you are into synchronized Christmas light displays on a budget, you can't beat a mix of Vixen, X Lights/Nutcracker for content creation and loaded on a Raspberry for scheduling and playback.

That sounds pretty cool. What are these softwares and what's the workflow?

Submission + - It's official: NSA spying is hurting the US tech economy (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @01:14PM

An anonymous reader writes: China is backing away from US tech brands for state purchases as NSA revelations, according to Reuters, which confirms what many US technology companies have been saying for the past year: the activities by the NSA are harming their businesses in crucial growth markets, including China.

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