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Why is this a thing on windows mobile, I could just use my car stereo
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PleasureKevin posted:that reminds me. there used to be these IE toolbars you could install to either surf for free, or make money while surfing. they worked by showing you ads in your browser and probably tracking you for analytics reasons if that was a thing back then. i spent forever trying to figure out how to game them to little success. Those free internet providers didn't lock down their dialup access at all. It was easy enough to bypass their stupid malware DUN client and use Windows direct. Also I remember getting a cheque for $75 from GoToWorld, i spent a lot of time in chat rooms spamming that poo poo
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Aug 17, 2015 17:34
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Phoenixan posted:kinda tired of all this "oops! my bad!" wording been kinda tired for several years already
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Aug 17, 2015 17:51
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Aug 17, 2015 18:17
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Phoenixan posted:kinda tired of all this "oops! my bad!" wording I'm guilty of this. I made an error message that had an "oops" in it, and now all the tickets say "the UI is oopsing" I hate it.
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Aug 17, 2015 18:30
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at the same time i miss the casual air of the old file copy dialogs, putting 'this may take a while' up on your screen as a way to let you know they had no way of accurately computing what was going on when minting a fresh diskette of porny bitmaps and .bas games
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Aug 17, 2015 18:34
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the earliest thing like that i can remember was in 2006 or thereabouts when hosting company dreamhost had a glitch in their system that basically kept withdrawing the  monthly in an infinite loop from people's accounts, until the account in question was drained, resulting in things like people missing their mortgage payments and getting huge overdraft fees and the like. dreamhost's response, among other things, featured a picture of homer simpson at his nucler plant console, which people who were left destitute by the mistake didn't really appreciate
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Aug 17, 2015 18:42
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shadow puppet of a posted:at the same time i miss the casual air of the old file copy dialogs, putting 'this may take a while' up on your screen as a way to let you know they had no way of accurately computing what was going on when minting a fresh diskette of porny bitmaps and .bas games what we really need is a consistent tone between messages, then chummy in trivial things, terse when things go wrong and completely technical when poo poo starts exploding
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Aug 17, 2015 18:46
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akadajet posted:I'm guilty of this. I made an error message that had an "oops" in it, and now all the tickets say "the UI is oopsing"
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Aug 17, 2015 18:48
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an understandable "The website could not be reached." was too good for msft
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Aug 17, 2015 18:48
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i want simple, honest, and clear error messages, with nerd crap behind a button or drawer so normals dont have to see it, not some "aw shucks jethro" nonsense
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Aug 17, 2015 18:51
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yeah also whats the point of the error code when it has a corresponding human readable code (in this case connection timeout)
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Aug 17, 2015 18:51
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univbee posted:the earliest thing like that i can remember was in 2006 or thereabouts when hosting company dreamhost had a glitch in their system that basically kept withdrawing the holy lol
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Aug 17, 2015 18:58
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: ( lol! oops, your operating system is a piece of poo poo and this is a bsod. we're collecting a dump (0% completed) google this poo poo later: "BUY_A_MAC"
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Aug 17, 2015 19:09
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wow that is the most annoying and twitchy topbar ive seen (might only be on mobile site)
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Aug 17, 2015 19:15
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scamtank posted:what we really need is a consistent tone between messages, then What I want to know is who the hell is writing these messages. Around here we have our technical writers review all the messages for grammar and appropriateness because, surprise, you can't trust a bunch of Indian and Asian developers who speak English as their 3rd language to write coherent error messages. "Oops, our bad" wouldn't even make it past the first round of code review here.
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Aug 17, 2015 19:22
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Millstone posted:: ( i prefer that to a giant wall of text which may or may not be useful to the user. mac users cant give anyone poo poo because that KERNEL PANIC stuff is the loving worst.
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Aug 17, 2015 19:49
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Aug 17, 2015 19:50
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people in new zealand are getting $500 internet bills due to Windows 10 forced updates and consumer groups are mad haha
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Aug 17, 2015 19:52
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PleasureKevin posted:people in new zealand are getting $500 internet bills due to Windows 10 forced updates and consumer groups are mad haha lol
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Aug 17, 2015 19:53
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PleasureKevin posted:people in new zealand are getting $500 internet bills due to Windows 10 forced updates and consumer groups are mad haha And this is why Microsoft is cool again.
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Aug 17, 2015 19:54
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PleasureKevin posted:people in new zealand are getting $500 internet bills due to Windows 10 forced updates and consumer groups are mad haha someone needs to sort out those nz isps
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Aug 17, 2015 19:54
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its not microsofts fault your getting charged 10 bucks a megabyte over your 300mb limit or w/e, thats a much wider issue
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Aug 17, 2015 19:55
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NZ internet is somehow worse than aussie internet.
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Aug 17, 2015 20:00
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Dodoman posted:NZ internet is somehow worse than aussie internet. When I was there a few months back, the offerings from the big ISP's were super-weird. Your options were generally 40 gigs, 80 gigs, or unlimited, with a $5NZD difference between each.
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Aug 17, 2015 20:04
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http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-08/17/windows-10-pirated-games-microsoft Welp, lets actively scan for "pirated" apps now.
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Aug 17, 2015 20:05
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brb going to become facebook friends w/ every new zealander. then i'll visit and steal their wi-fi for torrenting on an NAS the resulting isp bills will destroy the country's middle class, leaving them destitute thanks microsoft
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Aug 17, 2015 20:06
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theultimo posted:http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-08/17/windows-10-pirated-games-microsoft only first party products
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Aug 17, 2015 20:07
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oh no not my pirated copy of uhhhh uhhhhhhhhh fable 1!
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Aug 17, 2015 20:09
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Space-Pope posted:oh no not my pirated copy of
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Aug 17, 2015 20:10
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lol microsoft has zero first party franchises that anyone's interested in halo is a distant like third or fourth fiddle in console shooters, and they hosed up the latest one so badly that people still can't play it online reliably fable's dead killer instinct was dead on arrival they hosed up microsoft flight simulator so hard that now a bunch of dudes working out of their basements are doing a far better job
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Aug 17, 2015 20:21
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akadajet posted:I'm guilty of this. I made an error message that had an "oops" in it, and now all the tickets say "the UI is oopsing" lol
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Aug 17, 2015 20:22
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Space-Pope posted:lol microsoft has zero first party franchises that anyone's interested in viva pinata 
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Aug 17, 2015 20:23
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oh, minecraft. duh.
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Aug 17, 2015 20:23
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Something something Rare Replay
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Aug 17, 2015 20:26
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gears is still somewhat popular
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Aug 17, 2015 20:27
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfaN267lI_Y
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Aug 17, 2015 20:27
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Yeah "whimsical" error messages are always a bad idea because you never know the context they will appear in I feel like a while back there was an example where Buzzfeed or something had a post about some tragedy and some of their embedded media was broken and it displayed an oh so wacky error message in their place and it was some tactless tonal whiplash
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they remade the original gears trailer for the gears 1 remaster, which is cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwbYhvlrQbc&hd=1
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