MahJongKong - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Except for when you need it (Score 1) 862

by MahJongKong on Tuesday October 04 2011, @08:12PM (#37606656) Attached to: Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It

The point is that an all graphical interface can be quite useful for a lot of people. The current start menu (post xp design) is barely usable, but it can be worked out, you don't seem to realize that the "one hand on the keyboard and one hand on the mouse" thing is just what we do to use a broken GUI. I do it too but I'm OP and I are just not happy with it. If you are good for you but let us point out the weaknesses.

Comment: Re:Baidu Sim-City like map (Score 1) 136

by MahJongKong on Tuesday October 04 2011, @06:14AM (#37597068) Attached to: Paris Launches World's First Electric Car Share Program

Wrong thread....

Comment: Baidu Sim-City like map (Score 1) 136

by MahJongKong on Tuesday October 04 2011, @06:12AM (#37597062) Attached to: Paris Launches World's First Electric Car Share Program

Check the chinese sim-city view, it's amazing to browse : - map.baidu.com - zoom in, then click on the top right corner on the second button ("3d view", with the number three as the first character, three horizontal strokes)

Comment: Re:The Slashdot system seems to work pretty well (Score 1) 393

by MahJongKong on Monday May 09 2011, @09:31PM (#36078372) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Going Beyond Comment Threads?

No it's not easier because the metric system was designed to avoid all these fractions. Just write the numbers then the comma. Beware one spot on the right and you're 10x shorter!

Comment: Re:The first confirmed kill by Wikileaks is Osama? (Score 2) 632

by MahJongKong on Tuesday May 03 2011, @07:09PM (#36017840) Attached to: Leaked Doc May Have Forced US To Speed Up Bin Laden Raid

It doesn't work like that.

So if the first kill from Wikileaks is OBL, shouldn't we be giving them a medal, rather than complaining about them? Apparently, the US knew where he was for the past 3 years and did nothing until Wikileaks pointed out

How could you know what was exactly going on these last three years?

Where's the line between cautious and negligent? Or have we been tracking him accurately for that long without his knowledge and using that knowledge to dismantle the organization? Though if we were doing that with any efficiency, we should have had much better results than we have had so far.

You sound like an expert at worldwide military and intelligence operations.

Comment: Re:Isn't WL supposed to redact.... (Score 1) 632

by MahJongKong on Tuesday May 03 2011, @07:05PM (#36017776) Attached to: Leaked Doc May Have Forced US To Speed Up Bin Laden Raid

Well that's a common criticism. However there will always be free speech zealots (and I'm not saying censorship is a good thing)

Comment: Re:You free speech defenders (Score 1) 411

by MahJongKong on Monday April 25 2011, @06:08AM (#35927660) Attached to: Japanese Government Will Censor Fukushima "Illegal Information"

You don't realize that the smarter people can snap off in case of emergency. In the same fashion you do realize that at any point a country can elect a new Constituent assembly and shove the former Constitution to the bin?

Comment: Re:Disturbing Trend? (Score 1) 388

by MahJongKong on Sunday April 17 2011, @09:11PM (#35851516) Attached to: How the Social Tech Bubble Is Different

Exactly! '...to combine this feeling for social responsibilities with a ruthless determination to prune away all excrescences which are incapable of being improved'. James Murphy' translation -

Comment: Re:The cloud. (Score 2) 131

by MahJongKong on Saturday April 16 2011, @12:38PM (#35840604) Attached to: Google Videos Going Offline; Time To Grab What You Want

You can't expect a free service to stay online forever.

Comment: Re:special treatment of politicians needs to end (Score 1) 243

by MahJongKong on Saturday April 09 2011, @03:19PM (#35769232) Attached to: Threatening YouTube Video Lands Man In Prison

Working for the government (whatever level) is different than being a regular engineer, accountant or furniture salesman, and it is supposed to be different. That may be why.