I really don't understand how that post relates to the question. I didn't click the links, but we discussed the Zimbardo experiment ad nauseum in college. (Once again: psych major.)
I've been a member of SO for little over a month and lately I've noticing that people are asking questions that are:
Easily searchable;
Copy and pasted homework questions;
Verifiable by testing it themselves;
OP has a sense of entitlement
...
And of course are also poorly formatted, poorly wo...
@PopularDemand there aren't any, or at least, no obvious ones and none that he bothered to draw. So again, he could have just posted, "You lotta brown-shirts!" and been done with it.
New user joins, new user believes they can influence change on SO, new user gets beaten to a pulp on Meta, new user either submits and stays, or leaves.
@Shog9 My personal grammar and spelling wizard. Who needs built in spell checking. Which I still can't believe isn't standard in IE when every other browser does have it. Also, English is not actually my first language. Or wasn't.
The politician's syllogism, also known as the politician's fallacy is a logical fallacy of the form:
#We must do something
#This is something
#Therefore, we must do this.
It is a logical fallacy in the form of Equivocation, which is using one word ("something") in two different senses.
The politician's fallacy was identified in the "Party Games" episode of the BBC television show "Yes Minister", and has taken added life on the internet. The syllogism (invented by fictional British civil servants) has been quoted in the (real) British Parliament.
See also
*Logical fallacies
*List of f...
Based on the feedback from this post, we have now implemented a form of screening during the question ask period.
Questions from IP addresses or accounts with a history of extremely poor questions will no longer be accepted. This is intended to weed out the worst quality questions.
(hint hint, ...
(Something needed to be done. Jeff did something. status-complete)
@Shog9 At work yes. At home I use Safari. (I only use Mac's at home, Windows only in VM). The reader option is Safari is the sole reason using it over Chrome. For now.
Microsoft loves me when I do Tech-Talks for them. Since I do them from my Mac.
I am concerned that with the advent of many domain specific sites (webmasters, user interface, etc, etc) that StackOverflow will decrease in quality. By splitting things up this way we are decentralizing the brain-power over multiple sites. What will then happen is that someone that could easily ...
While it's fair to not make an own answer the most prominent one after self-acceptance, in questions with many answers it is still difficult to find if it is not also the most up-voted one, e.g. here. So a small jump to the OP's self-accepted answer link (or maybe a show the (self-!)-accepted ans...
Just for fun....
I downloaded windows 3.11 and virtual pc 2007 from my MSDN subscription. I've never actually installed this before.
A few ideas come to mind
Create an iso with the win3.11 files on it. However, when I capture the iso from vpc it doesn't do anything.
Create a floppy disk ima...
I'd have to be honest about it though. A SU question I'd ask would be something like, "How do I reset the network stack after wretched AV programs have fouled it up?" or "How do I get GIMP script windows to pop above other windows on Windows 7?" - not exactly broad, populist questions
(incidentally, just logged into SU and got to experience the new "autologin" thing. SNazzY!)
Many months ago, I started the Stack Exchange 1.0 site www.panoverflow.com as a kind of companion site to my main startup, www.360cities.net, which is a commmunity website where photographers publish their — technically perfect — 360 panoramic photos. The purpose of panoverflow is to ...
I would think that if they'd paid some money for their SE1.0 site that there would still be some support. I thought the admins on the site could set rep limits.
I think there is a valid concern about fragmentation.
Will the Unix gurus go to ServerFault at all now?
@LanceRoberts Nice one!
I have really lost touch in my time away. Subjective on SU is no longer subjective, spam is no longer spam, and the damn youngster are doing too good a job of moderating.
Until those sites come out of Beta, the option is really open at this point. Right now we still welcome Ubuntu/Linux questions, and since the sites may get merged before they are out of beta, SU will still be the most visible point since it is actively indexed and open.
Please try avoiding cross...
I thought I'd do better on SU since I used to have a computer business troubleshooting all kinds of things, but I found that I haven't really kept up. I get most of my points answering Excel questions.
I HATE VISTA. I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT!
I wonder if they could pass down some phones...like iPhones or Droids, and an access point/eth. Then these poor guys could at least connect with the outside world for the next 4 months
Win7 managed to not break most of my stuff while improving performance (over XP even) and finally adding a proper dock (yay, only took you 20 years to rip off NeXTStep)
7 did a wonderful job by hiding the system tray by default. However, it then decided it should be the application list that should be cluttered by hidden windows like MSN or Skype.
or flick down, bounce up, click the window I'm after without having to alt-tab
@badp yeah, MS has lousy internal communication / standards. The ISO-burning tool that (finally...) shipped doesn't use it, and it really, really should
I've been a member of SO for little over a month and lately I've noticing that people are asking questions that are:
Easily searchable;
Copy and pasted homework questions;
Verifiable by testing it themselves;
OP has a sense of entitlement
...
And of course are also poorly formatted, poorly wo...
Just for fun....
I downloaded windows 3.11 and virtual pc 2007 from my MSDN subscription. I've never actually installed this before.
A few ideas come to mind
Create an iso with the win3.11 files on it. However, when I capture the iso from vpc it doesn't do anything.
Create a floppy disk ima...
Many months ago, I started the Stack Exchange 1.0 site www.panoverflow.com as a kind of companion site to my main startup, www.360cities.net, which is a commmunity website where photographers publish their — technically perfect — 360 panoramic photos. The purpose of panoverflow is to ...
I think there is a valid concern about fragmentation.
Will the Unix gurus go to ServerFault at all now?
