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Pinterest Mom posted:the YoY decline in Japan is 44% PC-98 comeback is unstoppable
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oh i guess there was a sales tax hike a year ago in japan so a lot of companies and people moved up their purchase to before the hike
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Apr 13, 2015 04:05
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checking in on Paul-chan:Paul posted:Lynda.com acquired by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion and then the comments section: comments posted:Daniel D lmao
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Apr 13, 2015 10:30
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Scott Forstall posted:checking in on Paul-chan:
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Apr 13, 2015 10:37
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40% of laptops and desktops bought at retail by normal humans are macs Microsoft says it now has just 14% market share due to phones and tablets services like online multiplayer, chat, document editing, and soon the operating system itself, require a monthly subscription the Surface took a 1 billion dollar loss, joining the Kin, Zune and Xbox as massive failures
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Apr 13, 2015 11:00
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it's all hitting me at once
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Apr 13, 2015 11:00
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dont forget $2.5b for minecraft and $400m to the nfl for....? and they still own and run two erp companies and their absolutely moribund retail network and they made an ad mocking the apple watch on april fools, a watch they they are probably racing actually to make after apple sold 1m pre orders in a day and the $10,000+ models are all back ordered until at least june because the first watch they made was such a piece of poo poo that even they keep forgetting about in promotional material because they are busy making a hologram helmet that you'll wear with a huge battery pack on your chest, to fix a drain microsoft is far more hosed than any one mind can comprehend
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Apr 13, 2015 11:07
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Pinterest Mom posted:the YoY decline in Japan is 44% Japan is notoriously computer illiterate, to the point that iPhones or iPads would cover any conceivable use case that didn't require IE 6.
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Apr 13, 2015 11:42
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Stringent posted:Japan is notoriously computer illiterate, to the point that iPhones or iPads would cover any conceivable use case that didn't require IE 6. p sure this extends to at least s korea and possibly se asia entirely
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Apr 13, 2015 11:45
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Apr 13, 2015 12:36
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cthulhoo posted:
it's solitaire. what can possibly take enough time to work on, enough to have a preview release. are they trying to figure out how to put different ads on each card so how bad has the Xbox been for them. it kinda seemed like the 360 was doing ok, but then the xbone, and welp
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Apr 13, 2015 12:46
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Deacon of Delicious posted:it's solitaire. what can possibly take enough time to work on, enough to have a preview release. are they trying to figure out how to put different ads on each card "This preview build will not save any user data when the app is closed" what user data could they possibly be saving in loving solitaire?
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Apr 13, 2015 14:36
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game states, score history, that's about it
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Apr 13, 2015 14:41
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they serve different ads to people who prefer the robot cardback to the spoopy castle cardback
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Apr 13, 2015 14:43
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Main Paineframe posted:"This preview build will not save any user data when the app is closed" what user data could they possibly be saving in loving solitaire? lmao if your solitaire game doesnt have cheevo tracking ityool 2015
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Apr 13, 2015 14:47
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Pinterest Mom posted:they serve different ads to people who prefer the robot cardback to the spoopy castle cardback metagame metadata on how many times you noticed the card sliding out of the sleeve on the one card backing
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Apr 13, 2015 14:50
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Main Paineframe posted:"This preview build will not save any user data when the app is closed" what user data could they possibly be saving in loving solitaire? Kano transformations: 0
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Apr 13, 2015 14:58
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cthulhoo posted:lmao if your solitaire game doesnt have cheevo tracking ityool 2015 the gamification of solitaire
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Apr 13, 2015 14:59
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but it's already a
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Apr 13, 2015 15:06
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cthulhoo posted:
does it still have a mandatory splash screen that makes the stupid thing take 5+ seconds to load?
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Apr 13, 2015 15:51
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personally im hoping for a solitaire season pass
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Apr 13, 2015 15:57
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solitaire 365 subscription
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Apr 13, 2015 15:59
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cthulhoo posted:personally im hoping for a solitaire season pass Sniep posted:solitaire 365 subscription  That's not a photoshop. That's a real Windows 8 screenshot with the official Microsoft version of Solitaire.
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Apr 13, 2015 16:07
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univbee posted:
jesus gently caress
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Apr 13, 2015 16:09
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excepts from Paul-chan's 600 page book:   bear in mind this is ver 0.4 of the field guide - I have no idea if this is the latest version or not, I couldn't find a link anywhere on Thurott.com, the book has its own website and this is the first link, last updated on Aug 24 2014 I mean holy gently caress, whining about not getting 2$ for your completely-useless ebook is bad enough but of course he goes further: - not having any promotion for it on your own site - the site where it is actually promoted points to a version that hasn't been updated in 6+ months - it contains information that can be easily discovered by just turning the phone on and running through the get started process - presented in the style of an unfinished high school book report it's not just that the target market is nonexistent, it's just really poorly done - there would be no difference in uptake if he wrote one for iOS/Android tl/dr: paul is a bad writer and like WP serves no purpose
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Apr 13, 2015 16:09
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I re-wrote the manual and did a poo poo job of it two dollars please
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Apr 13, 2015 16:11
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aren't most windows phones running in latin america and brazil? why would anyone expect to sell huge amounts of english language manuals for the smartphone of choice for the developing world?
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Apr 13, 2015 16:14
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one of the best parts of unboxing a new phone is to meticulously page through a 600 page manual before you turn it on so there are no accidents
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Apr 13, 2015 16:17
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:one of the best parts of unboxing a new phone is to meticulously page through a 600 page manual before you turn it on so there are no accidents this is a winpho, so that's pretty accurate
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Apr 13, 2015 16:26
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:one of the best parts of unboxing a new phone is to meticulously page through a 600 page manual before you turn it on so there are no accidents you only need a strip of paper for that "TAKE IT BACK AND GET AN IPHONE"
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Apr 13, 2015 16:31
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satire is dead
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Apr 13, 2015 16:31
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:satire is dead that is indeed a HOT take can't even touch it it's so hot
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Apr 13, 2015 16:34
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:does it still have a mandatory splash screen that makes the stupid thing take 5+ seconds to load? lol win 3.1 on 486: 1. click solitaire 2. wait half a second while it loads 3. play solitaire win 8+ on a machine thousands of times more powerful than a 486: 1. click solitaire 2. wait several seconds for splash screen to load 3. wait several seconds more for the splash screen to go away 4. click no to some poo poo asking you to pay 5. pick what kind of solitaire you want to play 6. finally play solitaire in a full screen mode that makes it hard to transition between solitaire and anything else
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Apr 13, 2015 16:34
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:satire is dead 
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Apr 13, 2015 16:37
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microsoft is so loving desperate for home users to like them. or they are desperate to get home users to willingly install and use their services, at least.
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Apr 13, 2015 16:38
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at this point I don't know if they don't understand that attractive design is paramount to consumer adoption or they truly feel that they are designing attractive products
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Apr 13, 2015 16:41
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they forgot that computers are a tool and windows used to be an environment that mostly stayed out of your way and let you do whatever it was you were doing. now they are trying to make using your operating system ~*an experience*~ by gamifying everything and making users jump through hoops to do simple tasks (including actually launching a game).Happy_Misanthrope posted:at this point I don't know if they don't understand that attractive design is paramount to consumer adoption or they truly feel that they are designing attractive products i still hope that those title bars are placeholder programmer art because they are seriously linux-desktop-circa-y2k ugly
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Apr 13, 2015 17:08
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:at this point I don't know if they don't understand that attractive design is paramount to consumer adoption or they truly feel that they are designing attractive products from what I've heard, the latter I used to know 5 designers at MS and they've all quit in the last 4 years
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Apr 13, 2015 17:52
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qirex posted:from what I've heard, the latter did they say why?
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:satire is dead L M F A O
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