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qirex posted:I guess the verge's advertorial contract with microsoft specifies use of terms like "transparent" *salesman walks in* "i have just the tool you need!!"
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:lol I had no idea you couldn't even use Netflix when live was down, holy poo poo Has it even been a year since they stopped requiring you to have a paid Xbox Live Gold membership for Netflix etc. and even loving Internet Explorer to even work? And yes, people were paying $60 a year just so their $8 a month for Netflix would be usable (not gaming online at all).
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qirex posted:I so wish they'd gone through with the original always-online plan what's the side effect of stockholm syndrome where you regret not being hit more?
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PleasureKevin posted:what's the side effect of stockholm syndrome where you regret not being hit more? blackened berry syndrome
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blue stymie was right, windows 10 is pretty awesome.
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Phoenixan posted:so is the verge the equivalent to that guy in ads who purposely does a thing badly and then says "how am i going to fix this!!" Verge "whoa what refreshing honesty, this looks like just the kind of brand that males age 16-34 would like to hang out with" PleasureKevin posted:what's the side effect of stockholm syndrome where you regret not being hit more?
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theultimo posted:Oh and I get like 2 of these a week. it gets not fun afer the 3rd time or so.
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Oct 2, 2015 02:41
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once you tell them you have to disclose that you are recording all calls per state of california consent laws they stop for a few weeks but eventually they creep back up.
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yeah it's at the point where i don't even respond. i just hear the "your pc is reporting intermittent errors" form someone with an indian accent and hang up
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Oct 2, 2015 02:50
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tell them to hold on and put the phone down every second wasted is another second they can't spend on a grandparent
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Oct 2, 2015 03:08
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:lol I had no idea you couldn't even use Netflix when live was down, holy poo poo at this point its purely for their parental controls and is still completely idiotic
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Oct 2, 2015 03:24
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i asked one of those dudes what company makes windows and he responded "windows"
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Oct 2, 2015 03:31
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Sudo Echo posted:i asked one of those dudes what company makes windows and he responded "windows" explains why RIM rebranded themselves
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:adblock plus has had "acceptable ads" for several years now. they've been taking money from advertisers for just slightly less time than that theultimo posted:In the fine print is the best, he's selling it to the ad services
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Oct 2, 2015 03:58
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just found out that my former job still has ~$2000 in lenovo thinkpad tablets and accessories (fannypack printers, lol) gathering dust in the basement because no one in the company has figured out how to make the java-based POS/inventory system start up in under 20 minutes for as hard as the company sucks apple's dick, no one thought to use ipads and a square reader.
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Oct 2, 2015 18:51
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the dispensary i go to uses ipads with square. last time their wifi was hosed up and I had to resist the nerdly urge to grab the ipad and show the guy how to reconnect it to the network
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Oct 2, 2015 19:03
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this same business almost ordered a second netbook because they thought the wireless on the first one was broken. turns out the manager hit the keyboard toggle for the wireless and can't troubleshoot his way out of a wet paper bag 
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Tanith posted:this same business almost ordered a second netbook because they thought the wireless on the first one was broken. turns out the manager hit the keyboard toggle for the wireless and can't troubleshoot his way out of a wet paper bag hp's invention of 'tap on this part of the touchpad to disable the touchpad' is the tool of the devil, so many calls so many calls
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Oct 2, 2015 19:11
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Tanith posted:keyboard toggle for the wireless lmao theres a keyboard toggle for turning off wifi. thats ridiculous and its not the user's fault that something so idiotic and confusing exists
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Last Chance posted:lmao theres a keyboard toggle for turning off wifi. thats ridiculous and its not the user's fault that something so idiotic and confusing exists there's a LED right by the button that is blue when on, orange when off, and the dude's not colorblind
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Oct 2, 2015 19:33
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bad design decisions made by pc manufacturers? well I never!
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Thanks Ants posted:bad design decisions made by pc manufacturers? well I never! that's more like lenovo loving with their keyboard layout such that you can't change the volume one-handed.
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Oct 2, 2015 19:38
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The fn+fx keys are the worst thing ever created
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Fujitsu notebooks used to put the wifi switch on the back of the notebook by the AC port. it was quite common to accidentally flip this switch when plugging in the laptop and it was invisible when trying to troubleshoot the problem
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Tanith posted:there's a LED right by the button that is blue when on, orange when off
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theultimo posted:The fn+fx keys are the worst thing ever created As in things that are media keys but magically turn into function keys when you press the function button (or some other modifier, if the manufacturer is only mostly misanthropic)? Well, given the kind of computer learning we had, of course we're going to think that, and we're not far wrong to. On the other hand, imagine hundreds/thousands of millions of people, growing up with or who are just getting into what the year 2015 calls computers, who may never use a computer with function keys at all, even those kind you described. And maybe we shouldn't ask a LISP terminal user about keyboards.
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shadow puppet of a posted:hp's invention of 'tap on this part of the touchpad to disable the touchpad' is the tool of the devil, so many calls what ed : nvrmind, my brain swapped the second mention of "touchpad" for "wireless" this is HP after all, silly poo poo like thatis to be expected
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Oct 2, 2015 21:03
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trackpad disabling: because rejecting unwanted inputs is tough guys 
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Oct 2, 2015 22:05
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microsoft wasting money again http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/10/02/microsoft-buys-havok-from-intel (barely anyone uses havok now)
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so i guess "cloud physics" is something a manager responded positively to
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Siljmonster posted:microsoft wasting money again wouldn't you need it for amd cards w/out PhysX?
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lol physx still doesn't use directcompute?
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idk? PhysX is an NVidia thing
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altho I haven't seen a game w/out havok in the credits in a while.
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i will put money down that they'll changae it so you can only use havoc on windows or other MS platforms going forward
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they bought it for crackdown 3 since they cant figure out cloud computing
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theultimo posted:The fn+fx keys are the worst thing ever created
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its really cool and good when theres a bios setting for wifi, a keyboard setting for wifi, and a windows setting for wifi
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Oct 3, 2015 02:37
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Times I have actually needed to turn off wifi: 0
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Tanith posted:just found out that my former job still has ~$2000 in lenovo thinkpad tablets and accessories (fannypack printers, lol) gathering dust in the basement because no one in the company has figured out how to make the java-based POS/inventory system start up in under 20 minutes oh poo poo, the thinkpad tablet takes me back with android and a stylus and poo poo
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