Done! Gentleman, I present to you Kim jong ii, dictator of Korea. You will observe how clean shaven and youthful his face is.

It still has a bad name. Please, some experiments are not worth trying again, bigota or no bigota.

Dear Mother of the First Transistor and all that's holy, would it be too much to write a summary that actually summarizes -- "Remember the IPv4 crisis? It's still a problem, and we're going to run into trouble sometime this year." It's only a matter of time before tabloid-grade link baiting pervades every area of writing -- imagine the joy of reading summaries of scientific articles that conclude with, "Is there a statistically significant likelihood that your wife secretly prefers canoodling with carpenters rather than network engineers? Click HERE to find out."

Back in the 90's, I had single digit internet quake pings, with an ISDN, hooked up to a CRT (so actual single digit pings). Now I have about 3 times that latency just between me and my monitor.

Perhaps we should start looking into using CRT technology for VR glasses to reduce the pings further ;)

As a child, I spent agonizing hours fighting to do long division and multiplication by hand. More often than not, I ended up with the wrong answer and came to believe that I "wasn't good at math" simply because of mild dyscalculia. It wasn't until I was older -- and allowed to use a calculator or PC -- that I discovered that my failures were simple mental processing errors ttjat could be overcome with help from technology. So, yes, on one hand I still stumble when performing elementary calculations by hand. On the other, I spend my days optimizing DSP algorithms. Thank goodness I have a computer to do the menial tasks.

I'm not sure what decade you're from, but my washer and dryer both have digital countdown timers and chime when they need attention. Same goes for the oven. I most certainly don't need an appliance that's designed to last 20 years to be infested with a wireless communication standard that will be hopelessly outdated in five years.

The best thing about buying an iPhone 4S a couple of years ago is that you can sell it today for 60% of its original price. That's enough to pay for a brand new Nexus 5. Ip

The beta design simply doesn't have the information density of the production version. Instead of scanning for interesting comments, I scroll until I get sick of scrolling and then back out to the next thread. This isn't a situation in which users are grumbling because they don't like change; it's an instance where the redesign has a dramatic negative effect on the UX. That's a potential site killer.

NBC affiliates broadcast free-to-air across the United States, so why should they limit online streaming? Geolocation technology is good enough that it is possible to figure out where I am in the country so that the appropriate local video stream could be sent to my computer of tablet, providing exactly the same experience as if I were watching on a TV using rabbit ears.

Okay, mod parent troll. I had my fun. Yes, I suspect astroturfing no, I don't know it's true.

Yes, I cannot use the betas or the mobile site with my phone.

No, I loathe JS.

Yes, it appears dice is going to take a massive hit because no, they won't back down, and no, they don't understand the concepts in the book "the tipping point".

No, I suspect nothing can replace it, but it appears slashdot is dead. No, there's really nothing else I want to see discussed here, which means soon I'll get tired of this and leave.

Bye.

Wow! He really is right! His user iD --actually is no UID. My hat's off to you. I had thought that someday I might see a three-digit UID, but never suspected that I'd see the one who can take credit for more of what slashdot is, than anyone else.

Okay, trolling done.

That said, I like classic, and especially NO JAVASCRIPT. Let me tell you what thingr I'm thinking about buying when I first log in, and then serve up the best related ads you can --but put the work on your servers' programming, not on my bandwidth.

Horizontal space is a trickier question. Some readers demand words that go from one side of their 1920px-wide monitor to the other. Usability studies have shown that doing so actually decreases readability [baymard.com]. Given that we can't set a different width for every user, we've got to try to figure something out. We also have to take into account comment indenting.

The source that link cites is a book from the Sixties. That is not especially relevant on a web forum, especially when we can now choose how many characters are per line ourselves by zooming in or not.