{"id":99045,"date":"2018-06-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=99045"},"modified":"2019-03-13T00:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T07:42:24","slug":"20180619-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20180619-00\/?p=99045","title":{"rendered":"Microspeak: knobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recall that Microspeak is not merely for jargon exclusive to Microsoft, but also for jargon that you need to know because nobody will explain it to you. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some citations. <\/p>\n<blockquote CLASS=\"q\"><p>This class has a lot of <u>knobs<\/u> and controls to support many scenarios, but are they all necessary? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote CLASS=\"q\"><p>The controls have a number of events and <u>knobs<\/u> to allow you to customize the animations. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote CLASS=\"q\"><p>The <a HREF=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-hardware\/customize\/desktop\/customize-power-slider\">performance power slider<\/a> controls <u>knobs<\/u> such as CPU performance, and GPU scheduling. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In informal discussion, <i>knobs<\/i> are things that allow you to configure something. <\/p>\n<p>The term is a throwback to old-timey control panels with lots of dials and things to play with. <\/p>\n<blockquote CLASS=\"q\"><p>Many teams are building custom solutions because our website fails to provide the <u>knobs and levers<\/u> necessary to present the data in manner they require. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes you&#8217;ll see <i>knobs<\/i> paired with <i>levers<\/i> for <a HREF=\"http:\/\/tardis.wikia.com\/wiki\/TARDIS_control_console\">extra old-timey goodness<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Configuration settings, basically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,26],"class_list":["post-99045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Configuration settings, basically.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}