jones_supa - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Twitter is a powerful tool (Score 2) 101

by jones_supa on Saturday February 28, 2015 @09:30AM (#49153147) Attached to: Twitter Adds "Report Dox" Option

Much more websites offer Twitter feeds than RSS feeds these days.

Comment Re: Good, I'm tired of removing the crap. (Score 1) 210

by jones_supa on Saturday February 28, 2015 @08:37AM (#49152995) Attached to: Lenovo Saying Goodbye To Bloatware

Then what difference would there be between "Not Now" and "Ask Me Later"?

Comment Re: Bloatware?! (Score 1) 210

by jones_supa on Saturday February 28, 2015 @04:24AM (#49152577) Attached to: Lenovo Saying Goodbye To Bloatware

Agreed, trashy advertisements can ruin a website. But even then I personally do not turn on an ad blocker but I leave the site completely.

Comment Re:Twitter is a powerful tool (Score 1) 101

by jones_supa on Saturday February 28, 2015 @03:56AM (#49152531) Attached to: Twitter Adds "Report Dox" Option

Then don't follow such celebrities. You can use it to see @slashdot topics as well, for example.

Comment Re:Really (Score 1) 101

by jones_supa on Saturday February 28, 2015 @03:53AM (#49152527) Attached to: Twitter Adds "Report Dox" Option

Twitter is great for following the headlines. It's like an improved RSS reader.

Comment Re:Utilities (Score 1) 210

by jones_supa on Saturday February 28, 2015 @03:25AM (#49152489) Attached to: Lenovo Saying Goodbye To Bloatware

Yes, they do. An OEM wireless manager is mostly the same thing that ships with the OS. It is reinventing the wheel. However, applications, poems and fonts all serve different needs.

Comment Re:Good, I'm tired of removing the crap. (Score 1) 210

by jones_supa on Saturday February 28, 2015 @03:18AM (#49152487) Attached to: Lenovo Saying Goodbye To Bloatware

Maybe have a first boot installer that lets people choose which of the Lenovo and 3rd party programs to install defaulting to none.

I have wanted something like that for a long time. Create an image which contains just the OS and the manufacturer-specific drivers, and then put an option to install all the other crap.

On Windows startup, you would get: "Thanks for purchasing a Lenovo product! As an option, we offer you a free selection of additional software. This includes: blah blah blah. Would you like to install this software?" [Yes] [No] [Ask Me Later]

Comment Re:Bloatware?! (Score 1) 210

by jones_supa on Saturday February 28, 2015 @03:04AM (#49152467) Attached to: Lenovo Saying Goodbye To Bloatware

To the contrary, I love bloatware because it means other people are subsidizing my PC that I'm going to be installing a fresh OS upon receiving anyway.

Even the OEM recovery media (that comes on a DVD or that you have to recreate yourself with an included tool) contains the same crapware. So you would need to buy a separate Windows copy for that purpose, increasing the total cost.

Comment Re: Bloatware?! (Score 0) 210

by jones_supa on Saturday February 28, 2015 @02:25AM (#49152381) Attached to: Lenovo Saying Goodbye To Bloatware

Using an ad blocker is cheating. It is roughly the same thing as pirating: you deprive the author from profit.

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.

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