rueger - Slashdot User

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Once Slashdot beta has been foisted on me, what site should I use? 10

Submitted by rueger on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:34PM

rueger writes: A fair question that is on many people's minds. Given that the beta site is proving incredibly unpopular, what Slash-replacements are out there?

Submission + - Slashdot BETA caused my penis to hide in walls of flesh 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:25PM

An anonymous reader writes: no disassemble number 5!

Submission + - Slashdot creates beta site users express theirs dislike (slashdot.org) 4

Submitted by who_stole_my_kidneys on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:23PM

who_stole_my_kidneys writes: Slashdot started redirecting users in February to its newly revamped webpage and received a huge backlash from users. The majority of comments dislike the new site while some do offer solutions to make it better. The question is will Slashdot force the unwanted change on its users that clearly do not want change?

Submission + - Once Slashdot beta has been foisted upon me, what site should I use instead? 2

Submitted by somenickname on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:06PM

somenickname writes: As a long time Slashdot reader, I'm wondering what website to transition to once the beta goes live. The new beta interface seems very well suited to tablets/phones but, it ignores the fact that the user base is, as one would expect, nerds sitting in front of very large LCD monitors and wasting their employers time. It's entirely possible that the browser ID information gathered by the site has indicated that they get far more hits on mobile devices where the new interface is reasonable but, I feel that no one has analyzed the browser ID (and screen resolution) against comments modded +5. I think you will find that most +5 comments are coming from devices (real fucking computers) that the new interface does not support well. Without an interface that invites the kind of users that post +5 comments, Slashdot is just a ho-hum news aggregation site that allows comments. So, my question is, once the beta is the default, where should Slashdot users go to?

Submission + - Slashdot beta sucks 9

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @08:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: Maybe some of the slashdot team should start listening to its users, most of which hate the new user interface. Thanks for ruining something that wasn't broken.

Submission + - Once Slashdot beta has been foisted on me, what site should I use? 3

Submitted by buswolley on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @07:45PM

buswolley writes: Just asking. Because we do not want the Beta site.

Submission + - The nmber of users that SLASHDOT will lose with new interface? (slashdot.org) 3

Submitted by jackb_guppy on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @07:37PM

jackb_guppy writes: SLASHDOT today started to push users from the old interface to the ugly, slow, new interface. Any guess on the number of users that will be leaving SLASHDOT. So much for market share.

Comment OB: Oh yeah, but... (Score -1, Flamebait) 253

by rueger on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @12:02AM (#46158789) Attached to: India To Build World's Largest Solar Plant

Just to save time, let's all agree that solar power could never, ever, ever work in North America. Or wind. Obviously the blah blah blah mumble mumble obfuscate is so different here that it would be impossible.

Also, the North American sun is like TOTALLY different from the Indian sun.

Comment AdBlock (Score 1) 347

by rueger on Sunday February 02, 2014 @09:51PM (#46137077) Attached to: Super Bowl Ads: Worth the Price Or Waste of Time?

Until they get AdBlock for TV I'll continue to download the Superbowl from Pirate Bay so that I don't have to watch the ads.

Submission + - Something Better Than Alphabetical Sort 1

Submitted by rueger on Sunday February 02, 2014 @04:09AM

rueger writes: We're putting together a small website for a fairly narrow industry. One of the goals is to drive business to our members.

The first instinct is to list all 60+ member companies in alphabetical order, but that obviously will tend to favour the companies with names starting with A, B, or C.

A quick google turned up this and this, but so far I haven't seen a really useful idea for presenting our member list in a way that helps everyone to have an equal profile.

I'm sure there's some actual design and technology ideas that will help us solve this dilemma.

Comment "Classic?" Or Just Uniform (Score 1) 503

by rueger on Saturday February 01, 2014 @07:32PM (#46130785) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are Linux Desktop Users More Pragmatic Now Or Is It Inertia?

When I look at all of the major variants mentioned - Gnome, KDE, Windows, Apple - I honestly don't see any great difference.

All of them offer:
- A desktop
- some kind of task bar (top, bottom, left, right - doesn't really matter)
- some form of menus for getting to stuff
- some kind of file manager application

There may be some things that are very different from one to the other (Lord knows that when I switched to a Mac I found some of their choices thoroughly obscure) but in the big picture most desktop systems are similar enough that Joe User can go to one or the other and figure out how to check his Yahoo mail account without problems.

As for why the GNOME variations seem to be prevalent? It's because some form of GNOME desktop was included as the default for the first widely popular "works out of the box" distros - Ubuntu, and Mint. the Son of Ubuntu.

People didn't install Ubuntu/Mint because of GNOME; they installed GNOME because it came along with Ubuntu/Mint. And 95% of those Linux users won't muck about and try different desktop systems because what they have just works.

Comment Some Of Us Already Know What Happened! (Score 3, Interesting) 110

by rueger on Saturday February 01, 2014 @06:16PM (#46130401) Attached to: Russia's Dyatlov Pass Incident May Have Been Explained By Modern Science

Highly recommenced a pretty cool movie based on the same story: Devil's Pass. Netflix has it, plus the other usual places.

Comment Re:Saving face? (Score 1) 237

by rueger on Saturday February 01, 2014 @01:18PM (#46128771) Attached to: Now On Video: GCHQ Destroying Laptop Full of Snowden Disclosures

Then again, the US is unique is having thousands of over the air radio and television stations living in mortal fear of anyone, anywhere saying "fuck" on the air for fear of massive fines from the FCC.

You do realize that the rest of the western world kind of snickers whenever you do some dumb-ass thing like freak out over the Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction?"

Comment There's an App For That (Score 1) 267

by rueger on Friday January 31, 2014 @09:04PM (#46125257) Attached to: When Cars Go Driverless, What Happens To the Honking?

Seriously. Use the on board radar to spot idiotic behaviour and let 'er blast!

Comment Possibly a Good idea (Score 0, Troll) 150

by rueger on Friday January 31, 2014 @07:37PM (#46124693) Attached to: Israeli Group To Attempt Moon Landing

If they can send all of the "settlers" there, instead of into Palestine.

(Why am I imagine a mash up between Gil Scott Heron and Mel Brooks?

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