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Amethyst posted:
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 04:09 |
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# ? Jun 12, 2024 13:32 |
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i used one of those at an at&t office and it sucked a lot, we ended up just using it to watch sports
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 04:17 |
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Amethyst posted:it's gate's fault. he's still the "visionary" behind all of the microsoft blunders. balmer and elop follow his orders. billy g is looking a lil' pear shaped
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 04:44 |
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fuuuck failed my microsoft cert exam today it turns out they mislabeled the exam as "installing and configuring server 2012 r2" when it should have been called "unfucking the worst server admin ever's clusterfuck by only using powershell without internet access" it's really weird to simultaneously see "terrible server decisions" juxtaposed with "but they have zero old stuff, it's all server 2012 and windows 8", not to mention "oh but you can't use any actually good software solutions because microsoft doesn't have those"
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 04:49 |
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Cardboard Box A posted:http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/3/6100741/toshiba-encore-mini-windows-tablet still mad at this because i spent quite a bit of time helping someone on a pos acer ultrabook thing that had a 11" or something screen running 1080p, but the display itself is so poo poo that everything look washed out anyway with really terrible viewing angle in the first place the ui element in the apps they commonly use doesn't work correctly so you have to turn off the scaling to get those buttons back, but now everything is tiny and unreadable, and oh yeah that loving app is outlook then you turn down the res but now it just throws an error every time you try to open a photo or something and finally you set the default photo app to the old 'windows photo viewer' or something and it will actually open photos fine just like w7 oh wait you forgot to do the same thing with videos so now when they try to open the holiday videos they shot alongside those photos, they just get an error message and dumped back into desktop DaNzA fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Sep 4, 2014 |
# ? Sep 4, 2014 06:40 |
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you're wrong fujitsu is the ancient japanese art of loving up producing electronics
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 08:01 |
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a touchscreen whiteboard would be pretty cool; i have a lot of whiteboard conversations where it would be nice to push things aside for a second, focus on one thing, and then move what we had before back into place, and especially to have the whole thing recorded i'm having a hard time imagining a plausible price point for this that a company might actually spring for, though. like, it doesn't have to have anywhere near the same pixel density as an ipad, and the touch sensor doesn't need to be quite as good, but you have to scale it up to cover like 12 square feet. "oh, once a week or so, this $2000 device would come in really, really handy"
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 08:04 |
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rjmccall posted:i'm having a hard time imagining a plausible price point for this that a company might actually spring for, though. like, it doesn't have to have anywhere near the same pixel density as an ipad, and the touch sensor doesn't need to be quite as good, but you have to scale it up to cover like 12 square feet. "oh, once a week or so, this $2000 device would come in really, really handy" that's why such things go in a conference room as a departmental resource, if each of a few dozen people find it useful every week or so back in the 90s a client in SV actually used "printing whiteboards" a lot. they were a division of a Japanese electronics firm and I guess got the hardware cheap via the parent company. it was actually pretty useful like this. of course you couldn't go back, but at least it was easy to get a record of what had come before to reference later
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 08:21 |
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$2000 for a highly specialized, niche device catering to business? oh man
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 08:22 |
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That makes it still cheaper than Polycomm ...
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 08:23 |
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weve got sarnsung multitouch screens in our conference rooms and they are pretty decent heck. scrolling with your finger feels way smooth i cant believe i was using win7 only "problem" was that when you swipe left to right in chrome it goes to previous page [the page slides like in tablets]. pretty sure this is googles fault
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 09:01 |
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:I was picking a bologna sandwich out of the floppy drive say more about this
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 10:16 |
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mod sassinator posted:i seriously think execs like balmer and elop live in this fantasy world where they use stuff like that and think it is perfectly viable consumer technology. meanwhile they have an army of aids and staff that make poo poo work behind the scenes to make the illusion work. i remember bunches of articles about how bill gates's house was all automated and computerized. i bet that's what they think everyone wants/needs
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 14:16 |
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theadder posted:say more about this Children don't think about "why" or "why not"
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 14:22 |
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prefect posted:i remember bunches of articles about how bill gates's house was all automated and computerized. i bet that's what they think everyone wants/needs "Hang on let me show you all this cool poo poo my house can do; close blinds!" *4/5ths of the mechanical blinds close, the rest are stuck* "Well yeah that kinda happens sometimes but my fridge has a voice activated drink dispenser; fridge, water please!" *A glass flops out of the drink dispenser and shatters on the floor because it had shifted slightly overnight in the loader, water sprays onto the floor*
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 14:25 |
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mod sassinator posted:i seriously think execs like balmer and elop live in this fantasy world where they use stuff like that and think it is perfectly viable consumer technology. meanwhile they have an army of aids and staff that make poo poo work behind the scenes to make the illusion work. wish you had an army of aids
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 14:27 |
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ugh someone goatsed my house
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 14:27 |
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reminder: "Steve Ballmer has an 80-inch Windows 8 tablet in his office. He's got rid of his phone, he's got rid of his note paper. It's touch-enabled and it's hung on his wall." "It's his whiteboard, his email machine," Shaw said, "and it's a device we're going to sell."
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 14:34 |
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Pinterest Mom posted:reminder: "L@@K 80-inch whiteboard originally belonged to Clippers owner!!!! AMAZING DEAL $50 obo"
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 14:40 |
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Pinterest Mom posted:reminder: when was this, 2 years ago now?
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 14:43 |
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what the gently caress is an email machine and why do top-level microsoft execs keep mentioning it
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 15:06 |
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because their job is to send and receive emails
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 15:16 |
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posted this is the android thread out of habit lol: voice of cortana
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 15:48 |
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the xbone is out in japan! Microsoft had a big launch party and the xbox faithful were camped out in anticipat- [biggest electronics store in tokyo] bic camera: wait, here's some happy customers! that guy on the right looks kind of familiar... well it's not the most popular thing in japan these let's go back in the morning when the stores open "According to Inside, the man in the background, playing a PS Vita, said he wasn't waiting for the Xbox One. " quote:Tokyo (AFP) - The Japanese launch of Microsoft's Xbox One fell flat on Thursday, with journalists covering the debut far outnumbering buyers. qirex fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Sep 4, 2014 |
# ? Sep 4, 2014 17:11 |
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loaded with graphics
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 17:19 |
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eschaton posted:that's why such things go in a conference room as a departmental resource, if each of a few dozen people find it useful every week or so sure, but then it needs to be more like thirty square feet because people will want to use it for ten-person meetings. also it's probably useless to me because the conference rooms are permanently booked regardless of whether anybody is using the magic whiteboards in them. our current space is the only place i've ever worked where conference rooms regularly sit empty, and that's because it's literally a conference center but yes, if you're not putting one in every office, it's a negligible expense compared to e.g. the voice/video conferencing solution
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 17:29 |
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theadder posted:say more about this nobody used floppies at that point so it only gets reported when the meat starts to stink but the heat and dry air sorta turns it in to a jerky sandwich so you have to break it up with a flathead and then pick it out with tweezers
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 18:34 |
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:nobody used floppies at that point so it only gets reported when the meat starts to stink but the heat and dry air sorta turns it in to a jerky sandwich so you have to break it up with a flathead and then pick it out with tweezers lol but so gross
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 18:39 |
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nobody ever makes balogna jerky makes u think
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 18:52 |
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listen I have a closet of bitcoin rigs pumping out heat over here
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 18:59 |
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we used imacs in grad school and people would shove their SD cards in the CD slot about once a week
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 19:01 |
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:listen I have a closet of bitcoin rigs pumping out heat over here sell the jerky. start a gang to fight louisgod when he eventually tracks u down(he WILL track u down)
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 19:05 |
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A new Microsoft product that allows website publishers to embed digital photographs on their sites is a “massive infringement” of copyrighted images, Getty Images claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York on Thursday. The Bing Image Widget, released on Aug. 22, gives publishers the ability to create a panel on their websites that displays digital images supplied by Microsoft’s Bing search engine, according to the lawsuit. Rather than draw from a pool of licensed images, the lawsuit claimed, the product grants access to the billions of images that can be found online, without regard to whether the photos are copyrighted. “In effect, defendant has turned the entirety of the world’s online images into little more than a vast, unlicensed ‘clip art’ collection for the benefit of those website publishers who implement the Bing Image Widget, all without seeking permission from the owners of copyrights in those images,” the lawsuit said.
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 19:05 |
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didn't getty recently change their online strategy to make embedding possible anyway?
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 19:06 |
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my extra fatty recipe will involve smearing the meat with mayo first
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 19:06 |
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Blackula69 posted:A new Microsoft product that allows website publishers to embed digital photographs on their sites is a “massive infringement” of copyrighted images, Getty Images claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York on Thursday. thanks, imagewidget!
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 19:11 |
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Blackula69 posted:A new Microsoft product that allows website publishers to embed digital photographs on their sites is a “massive infringement” of copyrighted images, Getty Images claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York on Thursday. microsoft has lawyers. shame that they're incompetent
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 22:04 |
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once i wrote a sentence about how with windows live messenger the customer can video chat in full hd. the ms lawyers had me add a footnote to that sentence clarifying that to chat in full hd, you needed windows live messenger. the text of the footnote was effectively the same as the sentence it was footnoting
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 22:06 |
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duTrieux. posted:once i wrote a sentence about how with windows live messenger the customer can video chat in full hd. the ms lawyers had me add a footnote to that sentence clarifying that to chat in full hd, you needed windows live messenger. the text of the footnote was effectively the same as the sentence it was footnoting lol that owns in a terrible way
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 23:59 |