This question appears to be off-topic because it is about Dora the Explorer. Questions regarding children's programs where the fantasy elements primarily consist of anthropomorphic talking animals have been deemed off topic in the past. — TGnatOct 27 '14 at 15:33
I like that it has 27 upvotes, yet the question is open
i used to play an old RTS when i was a kid it was set futuristic settings i can remember that there was like a flying base and something like mortars. and you could control factories.
Thank you guys.
So, I'm watching YouTube with my daughter. Some Dora the Explorer kinder egg videos. And before it starts, they put up a 15 second unskippable trailer for a horror movie
GOOD JOB TARGETING THE DORA EGG VIDEO DEMOGRAPHIC WITH THAT, YOUTUBE
I am an avid reader of eBooks and I do that mostly on an iPad. But there are many people who warn of deterioration of eyesight due to continuous exposure to the screen of an iPad. But I can't give up this habit. So what are the best settings I can use on an iPad to ensure my eye sight is saved in...
@Sterno Oh I know. I found it by looking through his activity. He reviewed it earlier, and took the action of leaving it open. He has two close reviews on the front page of his history, both of which resulted in "leave open", and him answering the question.
I don't know what effects the window will cause, but in every inch of space outside your cone of vision is filled with cats blinking in and out of existence.
He's busy doing mod stuff. He doesn't have time to reply to questions about why he's taking the actions he takes.
Yes, people, keep telling me that the overlords chose who were most qualified to run the site, and didn't just go by the 3 top votes on the nomination post.
Okay, here's the weird part. He clearly read that meta post. He posted an answer that he "agrees with it very much"
I agree with this very much. However, I don't think that something is off-topic just because it is on-topic on another SE site, inclusive of computer issues.
For example, if I'm looking for a hack to keep a child from deleting my files, it could be on-topic at either of the following:
Super Us...
I guess maybe I see where you came from? You approached it from a non-software standpoint. He was asking specifically for iPad settings which reduce eye strain, but your answer had nothing to do with settings. I still believe this is off-topic as currently written, though. — Sterno6 secs ago
i.e., you suck at answering questions too
@Wipqozn Well, he's reading the question. He just added the tag comfort
I see the other point of view. It can be turned into a question that isn't about settings (even though the title and body both say he cares about iPad settings)
And if the question is edited to that, it's fine
But that isn't its current form.
If I asked for a Chrome extension that made viewing Bridge chat easier on my eyes, it wouldn't be on-topic because someone could say "just look away every once in a while, that should help" #lifehack
@Sterno At some point you need to ask yourself, do we really need that many tags on a single question? like eyesight. Really? How many lifehacks are there about your eyesight?
@Arperum You are probably right, but I just ignore the tags there since they're meaningless anyway. Unless we suspect there will be eyesight experts and the like
We had snow at our door up to my chest and I just shoveled it all. Wife took pics before I started shoveling and I even asked her if the memory card is in the camera and she said yes. Turns out there wasn't.
@djsmiley2k The project will be finished (hopefully) by the late summer/early fall. I'm more than willing to not work through almost the entirety of November and December.
that picture was taken after most of the snow was shoveled and wife had realized that her countless photos were not on the memory card, as it was not in the camera
What is the best setting on iPad for reading eBooks
This question, in its current form, asks in both the title and the body what the best iPad settings are to reduce vision strain.
Note: I'm keeping this question purposefully minimal so that my own bias is contained only within my answer, to h...
I've experienced this sometimes when I go for hours without water or little food and suddenly I experience a headache that gradually gets worse as time goes on. Until now I used to just pop a pill and get it over with, but I've always looked for alternatives and frankly the internet is filled wit...
@OrigamiRobot Canadians are weird anyway, they want to be like their big brother America, but they also want to please Queen of Britain. Canada is confused.
> A scout's staff, a walking-stick, or even a handkerchief or hat may be held before you as shown. The dog invariably endeavours to paw down your defense before biting, thus giving you the opportunity of disabling him by a kick.
I'm pretending Sterno is in the tree, full camo/ghillie suit, watching over the perimeter wall of Lifehacks, watching the mods commit atrocities against the denizens(posts).
@Sterno Something else that bothers me is it would make more sense to suggest checking out ASk Different, if our primary concern is with helping the user, which it should be.
@Mooseman That would be a case of us assuming that the information the user is after is not the information he specifically asked for. Compare the answers he's going to get after we change his question here to the answers he might get on AskDifferent. It's drastically different. We're changing the intent of the question. And I'll concede, maybe that's okay, if that's what we want to do. But we can't pretend it's actually still the same question as originally asked. — Sterno12 mins ago
Sorta said that there, but badly
Or to put it another way, our first priority should be helping people get answers to their questions, not growing the list of questions on our site. The user may be best served by being pointed at AskDifferent so they can get the specific settings they're after. If they're really just after general eye-strain reduction advice, then we're a good fit. But we don't know if we just make the assumption and change the question on them. — Sterno20 secs ago
@Sterno Are you saying it's better to run around closing questions instead of helping users understand what is or isn't on-topic? I'm trying to help build a community here. — Mooseman ♦45 mins ago
@Wipqozn I resisted the urge to point out that before I even brought it to meta, he wasn't trying to help a user understand anything. He was just leaving an obviously off-topic post open
@OrigamiRobot The change from "what settings" - which makes it a Ask Different question to "how do I not burn out my tender eyemeats" - which apparently makes it a LH question
@OrigamiRobot I don't know what you're looking at, but the original version was "What iPad settings can I change to make it less hard on my eyes?" and the new version is "How can I reduce eye strain when using an iPad?"
@OrigamiRobot One restricts the scope of answers to iPad settings, and is basically "How do I configure this particular iPad software?" The other is a more general "How do I keep my eyes from hurting when using a bright screen"
Seriously? All of these conversion functions are in the global namespace? Even after someone created the logical namespace in the very header file!? Fucking legacy code.
@OrigamiRobot It doesn't really change intent. It changes the scope of desired answers. If I want to know what settings to change, I want to know what settings to change. I don't want to know how to fashion a tinfoil hat that might reflect light in such a way that it lowers eye stress
> Posts should generally only be locked in cases where something seriously bad is happening. In particular, where the ongoing updates and edits are actively detrimental to the system.
I'm looking for an Android game that uses the gyroscope to fly starfighters, analogous to the old X-Wing or TIE Fighter MS-DOS games. I found one game (Assembly of Worlds) that's very much like X-Wing, but uses on-screen controls for steering.
Anyone find a game like this?
@OrigamiRobot The edit was a very minor disagreement. I can definitely see your viewpoint on it and am not terribly bothered by it. The initial issue wasn't about the edit. It was about the lack of an edit but rejection of close votes