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Comment Re:Who knows (Score 1) 218

Huh?

-Line spacing (and spacing in general) is controlled by the cozy/comfortable/compact options in the settings drop-down (the gear in the top right).

- Line spacing - run both versions in different tabs on the same browser and count the lines if you can and find the difference.

-Ctrl+clicking opens emails in a new tab just fine. As a Slashdot grumpy old man, I'd hope you know your shortcut-fu!

- Ctrl+clicking is more effort than mouse-over and right click, no other movement is needed on keyboard. As you may notice, to Ctrl+click you need both hands. Mouse-over right-click only one, therefore quicker. Any extra movement on a computer is repeated zillion times and one movement less is a zillion time less repetive movement.
Many people working on computers have neck/shoulder/upper back issues from repeated unnatural use of their bodies. Mouse-shoulder higher, trapezius assymmetric, tighter on mouse-side etc.

-"Mailboxes"? I assume you mean labels? You can select which ones show without having to click on "More" by going in the "Labels" settings page. There are a lot of controls there, even.

With label selections on html, there is one scrollbar, on the current, there is a 2nd, the process to select a label is more complex and jumpy - second scrollbar, new orientation, point mouse on 2. scrollbar, then reorient. The interface is in control, the user has to follow. With one scrollbar, the user controls more.

I feel like people, when presented with a new interface, never try to even look at it before balking off. Just a bit of actually using the interface and trying its various features can be extremely beneficial and takes only a few minutes.

Yawn....

Comment Who knows (Score 2) 218

what they're up to again...

The current Gmail interface was a step back in usability (for me).
- wider line spacing, less emails to see
- cannot click on emails to open in another tab
- mailboxes are not visible - have to be clicked on to expand

I always have a tab open with the "old" html version and get notified that I am missing out on something...
The only thing on the current version I find better is the autorefresh to show new messages.
One of my low priority projects is to get completely off Gmail - the NSL calamity...

Comment Re:And the choice is... (Score 1) 293

XP-64? Egads! WHY?

Just for the sarcastic fun of it.

Today, I loaded the W8.1 disk again, just to try if it works any better.
- did all the upgrades
- tested (VPN to work through a VMware image) and failed hopelessly

The same test and necessity works fine under with the identical VMware image under W8 and I just don't have the mutherfucking time to sort this out to get it going under W8.1.

The W8.1 was a install/upgrade from a functional W8 and so it is after May 8:

W8 unpatched
W8.1 dysfuctional

  I really could kick somebodies butt for this!

Comment Ah, (Score 2) 69

one can see those effects on freeways.
Round truck tire carcasses on the roadside.

Mysterious reason:

Rotational forces overcome structural integrity and thing goes bust.

Maybe use Hubble to zoom in on one of those smoking tires and document the event?

Comment US Patriotism (Score 1) 288

Totally missing on those $-addicts.
Seems to come with their genetics.
Not even sure if the word "patriotism" is the right term here. Maybe patriotism is including to cheat in taxes.
Nevertheless, people hate the taxman because they distrust the receivers - government.
So, it's an ingrained fad to reduce tax payments as much as possible.
Stash it away in Grand Cayman, Switzerland and hope you don't get caught. That's the smaller guys.
The larger whales in this game are doing it legally by feeding part of their stash to "friends" who implement "good rules" for them and don't touch their undertakings.
And there we have it... maximize $$ at any price to the top of the pyramid.

Is the school/university system with all the financial burdens on the future of participants and inequality a consequence of this? Maybe, who knows...

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