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didn't paul allen pay a million bucks for that
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Jul 3, 2015 08:24
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that building has to be worth more than a million
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Jul 3, 2015 08:32
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My YOSPOS confession is I've been following this thread the entire time I've been using Windows 10 for the last 3-4 months and I've been enjoying Win10 and this thread.
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Jul 3, 2015 09:06
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NyetscapeNavigator posted:My YOSPOS confession is I've been following this thread the entire time I've been using Windows 10 for the last 3-4 months and I've been enjoying Win10 and this thread. have you removed your own common sense particle, so you can hold two contradictory ideas simultaneously?
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Jul 3, 2015 09:17
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he's enjoying it ironically
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Jul 3, 2015 09:37
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i hate to endorse windows 10 as well but as a universal launcher for chrome it does an ok job and is free, yes its spying on me but so is chrome which is also free its the 2015 of computing i always expected from when i spent 1999 reading slashdot
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Jul 3, 2015 09:49
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does slashdot lower everyone's expectations? sounds like your main praise comes from it being free ( but spying on you ), but Mac OS has been free and not spied on you for years.
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Jul 3, 2015 10:12
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theultimo posted:Wow 10162 made themes even worse. It feels like a stupid Gnome theme
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Jul 3, 2015 10:53
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PleasureKevin posted:does slashdot lower everyone's expectations? sounds like your main praise comes from it being free ( but spying on you ), but Mac OS has been free and not spied on you for years. my only praise is that its free and that its funny that most businesses around the world will be getting updates about nelly the rapper's drug charges trial pushed right onto their start menus, and that ms will tune those news placement algorithms for maximum user distraction which will ultimately paul bunyan their tco figures once you factor in nelly-related reading time
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Jul 3, 2015 11:49
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well they already replaced the water coolers with xbox ones
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Jul 3, 2015 12:27
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theultimo posted:Wow 10162 made themes even worse. It feels like a stupid Gnome theme that looks like the default vs2012 white-on-slightly-off-white theme that gave people headaches and those system tray icons are awful. no symmetry at all and one is just an unlabeled, misaligned number. The_Franz fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Jul 3, 2015 |
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Jul 3, 2015 13:18
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oh fun! looks like there'll be a distinct french (canada) iso for windows 10, as well as two english (us and uk) and spanish (europe and latin america) versions. hopefully the only difference is the defaults EDIT their default French keyboard is "Canadian Multilingual Standard" Microsoft you stupid fucks univbee fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Jul 3, 2015 |
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Jul 3, 2015 13:29
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theultimo posted:Wow 10162 made themes even worse. It feels like a stupid Gnome theme
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Jul 3, 2015 13:32
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:GCCX #200
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Jul 3, 2015 14:04
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theultimo posted:Wow 10162 made themes even worse. It feels like a stupid Gnome theme am I looking at this wrong or did they get rid of colored title bars? is everything just white now? 
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Jul 3, 2015 14:30
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SO DEMANDING posted:am I looking at this wrong or did they get rid of colored title bars? is everything just white now?
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Jul 3, 2015 14:35
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SO DEMANDING posted:am I looking at this wrong or did they get rid of colored title bars? is everything just white now? separate but equal (2:20)
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Jul 3, 2015 15:46
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:i'm surprised they've kept shadows at this point, given they've flattened everything to modernise it Flattening everything is garbage and bad and I'm glad a forward thinking company like Microsoft gets it
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Jul 3, 2015 16:10
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another Ballmer decision that led to ruin quote:He said that the situation was so bad, he felt he had to schedule a meeting with Ballmer and then Xbox head Robbie Bach to let them know how much money it would take to fix things: "This is a disaster - I may have to schedule a meeting" - MS disaster response in action
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Jul 3, 2015 16:22
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:"This is a disaster - I may have to schedule a meeting" - MS disaster response in action to be fair, my disaster response is, "This is a disaster - Who can I blame this on?"
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Jul 3, 2015 16:53
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TerminalRaptor posted:to be fair, my disaster response is, "This is a disaster - Who can I blame this on?" microsoft so i can see why this would be a problem within microsoft
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Jul 3, 2015 16:55
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Millstone posted:Flattening everything is garbage and bad and I'm glad a forward thinking company like Microsoft gets it lol as if MS has any reasoning behind it's design decisions beyond "gently caress it"
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Jul 3, 2015 17:56
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:lol as if MS has any reasoning behind it's design decisions beyond "gently caress it" which is why nothing in windows 10 visually meshes with anything else
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Jul 3, 2015 18:15
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univbee posted:oh fun! looks like there'll be a distinct french (canada) iso for windows 10, as well as two english (us and uk) and spanish (europe and latin america) versions. hopefully the only difference is the defaults why are there different SKUs of the operating system for different languages and regions? have they still not figured out how to ship one OS for all customers yet? next you'll say there are still separate 32-bit and 64-bit releases instead of one that runs on all supported hardware.
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Jul 3, 2015 18:31
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shadow puppet of a posted:i hate to endorse windows 10 as well but as a universal launcher for chrome it does an ok job and is free, yes its spying on me but so is chrome which is also free chromeos is a better chrome launcher. at least it doesn't nag you to update all the time, it just does it in the background automatically. also it boots insanely fast
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Jul 3, 2015 18:37
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mod sassinator posted:chromeos is a better chrome launcher. at least it doesn't nag you to update all the time, it just does it in the background automatically. also it boots insanely fast and its far cheaper i set up an older friend with an asus chromebox upgraded to 8gb of ram and for $200 all inclusive its p. sweet
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Jul 3, 2015 18:46
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yeah i actually just got one of those asus chromeboxes too for $119 from frys. only has 2 gb of ram and 16gb SSD, but that's perfect for installing openelec and getting a little media player with a good intel CPU and hardware video decoding that just works which reminds me, LMAO windows 7 media center users are going to have a very bad day on July 29th when they upgrade to win 10...
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Jul 3, 2015 18:52
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mod sassinator posted:which reminds me, LMAO windows 7 media center users are going to have a very bad day on July 29th when they upgrade to win 10... man, both of them are going to be so mad
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Jul 3, 2015 18:53
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gently caress it, installed this on my main system (have an updated Win7 partition so I'm not completely hosed) - going to ride this bitch into the abyss while I whip my 10gallon hat back and forth screaming "yeeehawwww" so need to change the region settings, find this happens for most control panel items when you search - always reveals the old-style CP item as the first hit, but the individual settings within the 'modern' control panel show below that, so people are invariably going to be confused as gently caress as w10 basically promotes the deprecated control panel when you're searching for how to do something, but will shove the new one in your face when changing the settings invoked through other methods (apps, right-click on the desktop, etc) it basically guarantees that despite maybe 70%+ of the settings existing in the new CP, you'll be jerked back and forth between each UI for no loving reason  so I choose the second option to get into the modern CP:  ...and get the drop-down menu which of course is on US, so as usual with these styles of menus I start to type C-A so it can jump to Canada without having to scroll scroll scroll  ...the 'moderm' menu cannot respond to text input, so the CP suddenly takes my text input and puts it in the CP search field, despite the search field not being highlighted in any way and thus dumps a bunch of search results for CA, replacing the region selection screen I was just in
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Jul 3, 2015 19:40
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:but the individual settings within the 'modern' control panel show below that, so people are invariably going to be confused as gently caress as w10 basically promotes the deprecated control panel when you're searching for how to do something, but will shove the new one in your face when changing the settings invoked through other methods (apps, right-click on the desktop, etc) perfect example right-click desktop, select "Personalize"  you get the modern CP  search for personalize...  first hit is the old CP, so of course you get a completely different UI for the same function  if any win8/win10 user criticizes a linux distro for its UI, punch them in the face
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Jul 3, 2015 19:47
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Jul 3, 2015 19:48
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so file history does not recognize my internal HDD's as viable backup options, only wants to use external you can't rename the quick access folders - so they're like favourites, but just more restrictive I seriously may not be able to handle a weekend of this, I thought with W10, even with the tiles it was at least more desktop-focused and could only be an improvement over win8, but using it now extensively for the better part of a day there's actually more UI disconnect forced on you - with win8, install a start menu replacement and you could basically avoid the metro poo poo entirely, but the sloppiness and general inadequacy of trying to be an OS to all platforms is unavoidable with Win10 oh search still sucks as well it's actually worse than win8 
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Jul 3, 2015 21:02
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the only reason I bothered upgrading from win xp to 7 was because most everything I used xp for started getting some really awful support, lots of games needing janitoring to run and even steam was getting buggy on xp. I hope this time around this takes longer to happen, forever would be ideal.
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Jul 3, 2015 21:09
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goddamit crapple just release a decent headless mac - you know, like a mac mini, just not lovely
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Jul 3, 2015 21:28
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qirex posted:windows still has sound themes my error sound is a gunshot
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Jul 3, 2015 21:46
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:goddamit crapple just release a decent headless mac - you know, like a mac mini, just not lovely mac pro still exists
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Jul 3, 2015 22:17
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is this the new obamatar
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Jul 3, 2015 22:18
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goddamn integrating web search results in the start menu is so loving dumb. except i have no problem when spotlight does it for some reason 
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