Cool, and they just decided to allow you to keep chickens and stuff in your yard here ;)

Think I am gonna need more lumber....

Both perhaps.
HArd to believe the big boys would be that bad. Went to Kiss concert and I wanted to knock the guy off the soundboard for the warmup band...sooner or later I'd have found the volume control for lead vocals myself..he sure couldn't seem to find it. Kiss themselves sounded ok tho...no comment on the tech that effed up the video displays tho.

Can we assume these un-music people never get a song stuck in their head ?!?

lol, baby steps...

WinXP and Office 97 at home. One function in Excel 2003 added an extra keystroke to a command I use 100's of times. I stopped looking at new ones after that. Keeping an XP box just for this as I don't consider adding a few hundred keystrokes to a process to be an 'upgrade'! OK, actually I am not buying a new 2nd computer because it simply works fine for what it is for. My main at home is Win7 for gaming since there are some that require it and it was time.

I wonder if there is a more evil encouragement under the radar as more and more sites actually break XP/IE, usually for not apparent reason.

Sigh, In 30 years I've gone from cutting edge to near-luddite as any 'progress' seems to have stopped halfway here. Things rarely seem to get better now, just different. And it seems the newer the device the shorter the lifespan. I just replaced a DTV convertor box (4 yr?) before the TV (16 yr).

Since I spend half my time here this place is going to have to get a lot more exciting.
Punch the Capcha and Shoot the Trolls aren't enabled yet :/

A new way of working with 85% uptake in 6 years?!?
I'll have what he's having please......

I don't think that was the 'open' they were talking about.

How long have the editors been bots? ...as if we haven't suspected....

So was my laptop battery at one point ;)

Fused or not I assume it would still try and detect the pieces coming apart. One would hope it takes more than a Dremel wheel to defeat it.

So the next mining rig will require a litter box too?

notebooks

Once I got past the post-it level many years ago I put them all in a notebook but not too obvious or near computer. Afterall, the daily ones are memorized.

Actually 2 notebooks as I copied it all for a copy at home and work. The new passwords go on a page in the front and that gets copied to take and enter in the opposing book to keep them reasonably sync'd. If it is new enough that it is not in the other book I probably remember it still :)

Perhaps the problem is that poor people couldn't order it until they can spring for a new computer !!!

That pricing page locked up XP/IE8. Not even the usual reload and/or error, just stuck. Getting them to spring for a new computer AND new internet service might be too much. Exactly what new groundbreaking tech is required to display a price list?

Guess I'll have to find my login here so I can use chrome, tried as AC and um...no.

Good stuff, don't listen to the losers ;)

Just a random thought

Has anyone done a Kickstarter in Idaho? I wonder how you would get around the tax issues there.
"(One more tip: my accountant says that Washington State requires that I inform customers that sales tax will either be included or added to purchases. Kickstarter doesn’t let you automatically surcharge sales tax, which varies by delivery ZIP code, in any case. I chose to include it. Other states may also have this requirement.)"

You are not allowed to include the tax in ID! Retailers can't do 'we pay the sales tax" sales there either.

I had to kludge our accounting system to deal with ID and WA sales tax (plus lack of OR) at the same time in the medical field which has even more exemptions than normal. Some items are taxed depending on WHO (vet vs dr) you sell it to as well as where! Half the items are only taxed in one state but not the SAME state. Ended up with a 1000 line tax code file :( On top of that one of our big customers was the state of Wa who determines what tax to pay (not Olympia nor our rate!?!) on which items no matter what you bill. We survived an audit with a zero bill :)

oops, more than i planned. Was just supposed to be an attaboy ;)

I wasn't gonna hop in anymore bitch threads...but...

Would you guys saying it isn't too bad please expand on OS and browser choices when you say that.

Obviously, you not stuck on XP/IE8. I'd like to see what I can get by with and see if it is doable here at work.
I can't even read the 1st three articles, the others are 2 pages each just for a pic and summary and there are NO menu buttons.

It is faster however. Good thing if you have to scroll 4 times as much. Current one is a dog to scroll and type comments(quit refreshing in the middle of a sentence) on an underpowered XP rig. Pretty much the only site that is this slow. Something they did last? year really choked it.
It is however completely unuseable for me atm.

ROFL
Tried it myself after all the fuss here and it doesn't resemble what you descibe at all. To make it truely painful try XP and IE 8. The 1st 3 stories (i think) are all kind of on top of one another. There is a little helper box descibing and pointing to menu items I don't actually see. Some more odd menu? entries or buttons. Past the 1st screen it seems to settle down with less than ONE story per screen usually with a HUGE pic with little relevance. Oops, i mean no stories per page, took 2 pages to get something to read. Really? Someone replaced the little icons with a pic taking up 90% of the screen, wtf? BIG green header bar with a little tiny "slashdot, news for nerds" Why the hell does it need a HUGE header, half of which (which should be the whole thing, and certainly has room for the news for nerds tagline) follows me down the screen in case I forgot where I was.

Even if it worked as it appears to be attempting to, I have no desire to read news stories that take longer to scroll to than to read. Since I am not getting a new office computer to read slashdot I would be gone too. Feel free to paste this to feedback, with where I see this headed it isn't worth investing my time.

I am with the one that mentioned data density, everyone seems to be going content-free lately :(

Lots of new species are discovered.

Here is Time's top ten for 2013. I assume there where more than 10 to choose from last year. PLus prior years. For how ever long you are considering. Must make hundreds of 'new' species. Now convince us ALL of these have ALWAYS been here and noone noticed. Surely some of these new species may actually be NEW.

http://science.time.com/2013/1...

None of those count because you didn't see them arise, right? Just have faith :P

hmm, I'll have to ask about this if the surgery on my unicorn goes well.
My cat would probably like me to stop calling her a unicorn also :) She has a horn growing out of the side of her back leg the vet would really like to remove. She doesn't have a problem with it but the vet would like to remove it before it develops an absyss or something. Vet hasn't seen one so big or high up before...there really is an inch and a half long horn on her side.
She is getting old (16 minimum) and you can see she is slower getting up and down now :(

If only you were in charge of MS Office.

Is there 20% of the people using ANY of the features added since...say version 1 :O

Isn't 20% of Google map users a HUGE number of people? What is worth upsetting or at least annoying that many people?

Pretty sure it involves Google+ somehow tho. I wanted to watch a Dr Who episode only avail on Youtube or Amazon for $1.99 but Youtube wanted me to set up a Google+ account 1st that I am sure tracks alot more than 1 Dr Who episode :/ If it had asked for a paypal acct or something quick I was ready to pay but not jump thru 6 hoops to watch 45 min of TV on a screen half the size of my TV.

Why the hell does this chat box feel like it is on the other end of a 2400 baud modem?!?