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Mr. Apollo: Nov 8, 2000

Cold on a Cob posted:

blackberry 'ids' were tied to device so for awhile if you got a new phone all your old bbm contacts couldn't message you

i think they fixed this though? but by then idk who cared lol

graph posted:

ah, yeah, it sure was fixed because ur blackberry playbook had to be tethered to ur bbry phone to get email

l o l

its still not fully fixed because you can only sign into BBM from one device at a time and your chat history isn't synced across devices.

# ? Sep 11, 2014 23:08

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# ? May 18, 2024 06:56

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

what a clownshow

# ? Sep 11, 2014 23:13

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

Phoenixan posted:

the pen hooks to the spot for your power adapter but good luck having that spot free when you own a microsoft product

p sure they got rid of that on the surface pro 3

# ? Sep 11, 2014 23:31

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

Sniep posted:

wait why did they put a mouse next to the macbook air

they come with the built in trackpad, not a mouse

u cant touch the screen man!!!

# ? Sep 11, 2014 23:59

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

using photoshop with a good trackpad and no mouse is kind of annoying but I don't think it's more annoying than using it with a terrible trackpad and my finger

qirex fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Sep 12, 2014

# ? Sep 12, 2014 00:12

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

well idk about you but i know when i'm trying to line something up perfectly in photoshop i want my hand covering half the screen

# ? Sep 12, 2014 00:46

Happy_Misanthrope: Aug 3, 2007; "I wanted to kill you, go to your funeral, and anyone who showed up to mourn you, I wanted to kill them too."

Actually managed to be the worst poster in a games thread posted:

You're an idiot, return to your lovely subforum.

# ? Sep 12, 2014 01:01

z0rlandi viSSer: Nov 5, 2013

32MB OF ESRAM posted:

IDIOT!!! TRASH GARBAGE MAN!! GET THE gently caress OUT GEt THE gently caress OUTTTTT AHAFHKGAKJFJSDGNLMSDNG<SMFNGHKLDNFH>DGH

agreed

# ? Sep 12, 2014 01:03

Miley Virus: Apr 9, 2010

32MB OF ESRAM posted:

ftfy

not sure why anyone would use this

# ? Sep 12, 2014 02:23

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

Mr. Apollo posted:

its still not fully fixed

# ? Sep 12, 2014 02:31

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

metro is bad because giant purple/green/blue/orange voids with barely-differentiable monochrome icons floating in the middle combine the space efficiency of atm menu touch targets (atms are literally the only other place where you'll find huge dumbass touch targets like that) with the readability of loving geos

and those colors are horrible to look at for more than a few seconds

# ? Sep 12, 2014 02:45

pagancow: Jan 15, 2001; Video Stymie

Beeftweeter posted:

well idk about you but i know when i'm trying to line something up perfectly in photoshop i want my hand covering half the screen

isn't that what ctrl+ arrow keys is for ?

# ? Sep 12, 2014 04:24

Assepoester: Jul 18, 2004; Can't post for 10 years!; Melman v2

New start menu that they punted to Win 9 is looking alright

http://winfuture.de/videos/Software/Windows-9-Das-neue-Startmenue-in-Aktion-12906.html

Fill it up with more and more TILESSSSSSSSSS

And don't worry, the Win 8 start screen is still there, unchanged. It's almost like this is the Win 8.2 they showed off at BUILD

# ? Sep 12, 2014 09:45

Wheany: Mar 17, 2006; Spinya^{ha^{ha^haha}ha}ha_{ha_{ha_haha}ha}ha!; Doctor Rope

carry on then posted:

drop shadows even larger than os x lol

getting rid of drop shadows in 8 was idiotic in the first place.

# ? Sep 12, 2014 14:39

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

those aren't drop shadows, they're drop fogs

# ? Sep 12, 2014 14:41

Joe 30330: Dec 20, 2007; "We have this notion that if you're poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."

As the audience reluctantly began to applaud during the silence, Biden tried to fix his remarks.

"Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids -- no, I really mean it." Biden said.

Cardboard Box A posted:

New start menu that they punted to Win 9 is looking alright

http://winfuture.de/videos/Software/Windows-9-Das-neue-Startmenue-in-Aktion-12906.html

Fill it up with more and more TILESSSSSSSSSS

And don't worry, the Win 8 start screen is still there, unchanged. It's almost like this is the Win 8.2 they showed off at BUILD

That's looking alright? it's like they stripped out 75% of the functionality of the start menu, by windows 13 we'll have it all back. now buy our products

# ? Sep 12, 2014 14:49

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

Sham bam bamina! posted:

metro is bad because giant purple/green/blue/orange voids with barely-differentiable monochrome icons floating in the middle combine the space efficiency of atm menu touch targets (atms are literally the only other place where you'll find huge dumbass touch targets like that) with the readability of loving geos

and those colors are horrible to look at for more than a few seconds

the recent design trend of FLATFLATFLATFLATFLAT no gradients no shadows no textures is awful and makes everything look like lifeless loving dogshit. low contrast, everything is low contrast as well and really bright, its terrible

im not sure if it started with google or MS though, and i still think iOS 7 looks like trash

# ? Sep 12, 2014 15:23

Fame Douglas: Nov 20, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

And it's goddamn ugly, looks like some 15 year old's hacked "Metro" start menu.

# ? Sep 12, 2014 15:23

BangersInMyKnickers: Nov 3, 2004; I have a thing for courageous dongles

gotta get that XP Halloween Editio

# ? Sep 12, 2014 18:25

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

hot dog stand pls

# ? Sep 12, 2014 18:35

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

http://www.h3m3.com/hot-dog-stand

# ? Sep 12, 2014 18:35

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

gotta get that XP Halloween Editio

This owns

# ? Sep 12, 2014 18:37

mod sassinator: Dec 13, 2006; I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

gotta get that XP Halloween Editio

the sad thing is they just need to add a search bar to that start menu and its absolutely perfect.

# ? Sep 12, 2014 18:40

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

gotta get that XP Halloween Editio

wasn't that the special zune theme

# ? Sep 12, 2014 18:48

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Sham bam bamina! posted:

wasn't that the special zune theme

yeah the other royale one was way better though

# ? Sep 12, 2014 19:47

HAIL eSATA-n: Apr 7, 2007

the start menu is stupid and should be a spotlight clone

only ms would actually have to show the results you want rather than a bunch of terrible bullshit

# ? Sep 12, 2014 19:49

Joe 30330: Dec 20, 2007; "We have this notion that if you're poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."

As the audience reluctantly began to applaud during the silence, Biden tried to fix his remarks.

"Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids -- no, I really mean it." Biden said.

nvm

# ? Sep 12, 2014 19:50

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

one of the windows search updates from windows update put a searchbar on the taskbar in the bottom right next to the systray icons

# ? Sep 12, 2014 19:52

Joe 30330: Dec 20, 2007; "We have this notion that if you're poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."

As the audience reluctantly began to applaud during the silence, Biden tried to fix his remarks.

"Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids -- no, I really mean it." Biden said.

anthonypants posted:

one of the windows search updates from windows update put a searchbar on the taskbar in the bottom right next to the systray icons

is what i originally posted but he's talking about the one vista/7 has in the start menu that does local search

# ? Sep 12, 2014 19:52

BangersInMyKnickers: Nov 3, 2004; I have a thing for courageous dongles

anthonypants posted:

one of the windows search updates from windows update put a searchbar on the taskbar in the bottom right next to the systray icons

yeah and the indexing was so terrible that it made your computer absolute unusable crap

# ? Sep 12, 2014 19:55

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

Millstone posted:

is what i originally posted but he's talking about the one vista/7 has in the start menu that does local search

yeah that's what the bar was, it was called windows desktop search or something and it was put out because spotlight came out over a year before vista

# ? Sep 12, 2014 19:58

Perplx: Jun 26, 2004; Best viewed on Orgasma Plasma; Lipstick Apathy

carry on then posted:

yeah that's what the bar was, it was called windows desktop search or something and it was put out because spotlight came out over a year before vista

windows desktop search is a half assed addon product, meanwhile the "Media Center" video player requires such deep integration it gets its own sku in Windows XP media center edition

# ? Sep 12, 2014 20:03

Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

actually it doesn't require deep integration, they just wanted to sell it as a separate product which means a separate sku for wmc and for windows that comes w/ wmc. they also had to create skus for the 3rd world that didn't come with any windows media products.

# ? Sep 12, 2014 20:05

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

Shaggar posted:

actually it doesn't require deep integration, they just wanted to sell it as a separate product which means a separate sku for wmc and for windows that comes w/ wmc. they also had to create skus for the 3rd world that didn't come with any windows media products.

they also had to come up wth skus that beep boop faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart

# ? Sep 12, 2014 20:09

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Perplx posted:

windows desktop search is a half assed addon product, meanwhile the "Media Center" video player requires such deep integration it gets its own sku in Windows XP media center edition

there were packs to convert xp pro to media center edition

also i still have tweaknt somewhere, it let you change the sku of xp/win2k3 (and remove the trial/beta timebombs :ssh:

)

funnily enough if you changed xp pro to server 2k3 it still referred to itself as "windows .net"

# ? Sep 12, 2014 20:19

bring back old gbs: Feb 28, 2007; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

if microsoft treated metro the same way they treated MCE i bet more people would have liked it

# ? Sep 12, 2014 20:22

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

yeah and the indexing was so terrible that it made your computer absolute unusable crap

and then google desktop came out and it wasn't garbage but then google killed it rip

# ? Sep 12, 2014 20:32

MrMoo: Sep 14, 2000

Google even open sourced their Linux version of Google Desktop because it was so half baked. I think Ubuntu Warty Warthog introduced Beagle which died over 5 years ago, now we have the Gnome 3 thingy.

What is interesting is that all three had a design for file server side search but it's all a bit crap today.

MrMoo fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Sep 12, 2014

# ? Sep 12, 2014 20:48

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

so apparently you can turn all of the live tile bullshit off in the windows 9 start menu?

http://winfuture.de/videos/Software/Windows-9-Startmenue-geht-auch-ganz-ohne-Live-Tiles-12912.html

of course you still have to buy a whole new os for this lmao

also you have to unpin them all one by one :allears:

# ? Sep 13, 2014 01:19

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# ? May 18, 2024 06:56

Lysidas: Jul 26, 2002; John Diefenbaker is a madman who thinks he's John Diefenbaker.; Pillbug

KDE 4.13 ships with a new file indexer called baloo, and a lot of people were pissed that there initially wasn't a way to turn the loving thing off

http://vhanda.in/blog/2014/04/desktop-search-configuration/

i like the comments, such as

Phil posted:

"I think the more important question for me is - Why would you want to disable temporary indexing?"
Because it's a pain, hammers my HDD, grinds my machine to a halt and (here's the give away) IT'S MY MACHINE NOT YOURS.

"Please trust the developers to keep sensible defaults."
I did - but it seems they didn't. They removed the "disable" option.

"There is no explicit �Enable/Disable� button any more. We would like to promote the use of searching" How supremely arrogant.

I have no problem with you chaps putting an index engine in there - but give the user the right to disable it if they choose to. Even Windows gives the user that option.

# ? Sep 13, 2014 01:25

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