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Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Dr. Quarex posted:

I actually had some big utility program download fail on me earlier this year on a day when I was having connection issues and really needed to get it downloaded, and I thought for the first time since like 1999 that it would be nice to have a download manager. Thank goodness it still exists, I guess!

I've been using jdownloader for quite some time now. It works well in those situations.

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Cat Hassler: Feb 7, 2006; Slippery Tilde

In the early to mid 90s when I was working on Outlook, Word, and Excel, desktop productivity applications were called "apps".

At least among people I worked with :shrug:

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jojoinnit: Dec 13, 2010; Strength and speed, that's why you're a special agent.

Keith Atherton posted:

In the early to mid 90s when I was working on Outlook, Word, and Excel, desktop productivity applications were called "apps".

At least among people I worked with

I've used them interchangeably but I called them programs generally. Now I say app to distinguish apps on your mobile device versus a program on your computer.

Btw I've just caught up with the thread and I'd like to thank you for your posts about your days doing UX and stuff at Microsoft. That was pretty dope to read.

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Data Graham: Dec 28, 2009; 📈📊🍪😋

Fwiw, "application" or "app" has always been the preferred term in Apple land, at least back to the beginning of the Mac. I think "program" was fairly common in the Apple II era, but they standardized it for the Mac as it was less ambiguous.

See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacApp

E: when they first appeared, I thought "Java applets" had something to do with Apple

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EVIL NOONER: Oct 8, 2016; by exmarx

java applet sounds like a small breakfast item mmmm

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a star war betamax: Sep 17, 2011; by Lowtax; Gary’s Answer

Data Graham posted:

E: when they first appeared, I thought "Java applets" had something to do with Apple

Same here.

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Dr. Quarex: Apr 18, 2003; I'M A BIG DORK WHO POSTS TOO MUCH ABOUT CONVENTIONS LOOK AT THIS

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Trunko posted:

The first time I ever heard people talking about apps was with their iPhone when those first came out. I just assumed it was some cutsie apple specific term, especially since app... Apple.

And those stupid commercials. "THERE IS AN APP, FOR THAT!"

Little did I know that before long it would be the standard word for computer program. The nightmare has become reality.

Even though I agree with you and it is awful and stupid, ... oh, Keith Atherton beat me to it, but a guy I know who was at Microsoft in the 1980s said they called programs "apps" then too, which made me feel a little better about the seeming-buzzclickpow-intentionality awfulness of the term. I am not sure where I got the idea that programs were called "utilities" though, but I definitely called them that in the 1990s.

EVIL NOONER posted:

java applet sounds like a small breakfast item mmmm

Freshly frosted java applets.

# ? Nov 3, 2016 18:39

Last Chance: Dec 31, 2004

Why's "app" so terrible again?

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EVIL NOONER: Oct 8, 2016; by exmarx

Last Chance posted:

Why's "app" so terrible again?

its not, its just that goons are terrible about some things.

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Grand Prize Winner: Feb 19, 2007

Last Chance posted:

Why's "app" so terrible again?

not terrible, just kinda weird how the nomenclature has seasawed. kinda like the emoticon>smiley>emote>emoji thing.

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Light Gun Man: Oct 17, 2009; toEjaM iS oN
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Yeah App is good because it's quick to say but nowadays can be sort of ambiguous or misleading. Clearly we need to bring back? progz.

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Grassy Knowles: Apr 4, 2003; "The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Light Gun Man posted:

Yeah App is good because it's quick to say but nowadays can be sort of ambiguous or misleading. Clearly we need to bring back? progz.

Like Yes?

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Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; "From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.; Buglord

Last Chance posted:

Why's "app" so terrible again?

It's short for application, which is a type of vomputer program and computers are homo satan machines

# ? Nov 3, 2016 19:56

EVIL NOONER: Oct 8, 2016; by exmarx

Improbable Lobster posted:

It's short for application, which is a type of vomputer program and computers are homo satan machines

thats racist

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a star war betamax: Sep 17, 2011; by Lowtax; Gary’s Answer

Last Chance posted:

Why's "app" so terrible again?

Because it sounds like something a mommy blogger would write down as baby's first word

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EVIL NOONER: Oct 8, 2016; by exmarx

Trunko posted:

Because it sounds like something a mommy blogger would write down as baby's first word

nope

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Last Chance: Dec 31, 2004

Trunko posted:

Because it sounds like something a mommy blogger would write down as baby's first word

What?

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Tiny Timbs: Sep 6, 2008

Last Chance posted:

What?

Makes sense to me

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Chillbro Baggins: Oct 8, 2004; Bad Angus! Bad!

EVIL NOONER posted:

java applet sounds like a small breakfast item mmmm

Now I want (somebody else) to breed a bite-sized apple -- hey, they did it with tomatoes -- and call it an applet. And then it could be the fruit serving of a balanced breakfast for those of us who prefer coffee over orange juice.

Java applet would also be a good drink name for Irishing your coffee* with one of the various apple-flavored whiskies that are trendy now.

*Edit: a proper Irish Coffee is an actual mixed drink with cream and sugar, but around here we take it black and half whisky.

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a star war betamax: Sep 17, 2011; by Lowtax; Gary’s Answer

Last Chance posted:

What?

It also sounds like something a casual dining chain would call their appetizers

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Gonz: Dec 22, 2009; "Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"

A quick followup from a while back:

Got to the Arizona Mills mall about an hour early for IMAX 3D Doctor Strange, with the intention of killing time playing those pinball tables and retro cabinets. Much fun was had.

And here's something i've never seen before: A claw machine that dispensed frozen ice cream bars.

Gonz has a new favorite as of 08:59 on Nov 4, 2016

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Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Grand Prize Winner posted:

emoticon>smiley>emote>emoji thing.

The 'emoji' name really irks me for some reason. And I have no idea why.

Edit: :corsair:

Humphreys has a new favorite as of 11:30 on Nov 4, 2016

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EVIL Gibson: Mar 23, 2001; Internet of Things is just someone else's computer that people can't help attaching cameras and door locks to!; Switchblade Switcharoo

EVIL NOONER posted:

its not, its just that goons are terrible about some things.

Humphreys posted:

The 'emoji' name really irks me for some reason. And I have no idea why.

Edit:

Welcome, you are a goon!

Now have nitpicks about every little thing and you'll be good

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azurite: Jul 25, 2010; Strange, isn't it?!

Gonz posted:

Congratulation! NICE GET!

Very cool post! Thank you!

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Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Gonz posted:

Too bad they had to retrofit the digital readouts over the old mechanical ones. One of the joys of pre-digital pinball machines is the visceral experience or feeling the mechanisms working, all the clicking and banging and ringing... :allears:

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jojoinnit: Dec 13, 2010; Strength and speed, that's why you're a special agent.

The fabled Canafederate Battle Flag

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Code Jockey: Jan 24, 2006; 69420 basic bytes free

Dick Trauma posted:

Too bad they had to retrofit the digital readouts over the old mechanical ones. One of the joys of pre-digital pinball machines is the visceral experience or feeling the mechanisms working, all the clicking and banging and ringing...

There was an old... baseball? themed pinball machine at Ground Kontrol I used to play, and I mean old, and man that thing sounded awesome. The clunks, the thumps, the mechanical buzzing, it was great.

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KozmoNaut: Apr 23, 2008; Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle

I just got my Retro Gaming Cables PS2 SCART RGB cable and hooked everything up. Holy hell, why didn't I upgrade from lovely composite video back in the day? :aaa:

I can actually read signs and poo poo across the street in San Andreas now, it's amazing. And the colors, so much more detail in dark areas. I know I'm gushing, but goddamn.

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Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Code Jockey posted:

There was an old... baseball? themed pinball machine at Ground Kontrol I used to play, and I mean old, and man that thing sounded awesome. The clunks, the thumps, the mechanical buzzing, it was great.

If it was one of the Grand Slam generation of games we can be friends...

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Neito: Feb 18, 2009; 😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

Gonz posted:

And here's something i've never seen before: A claw machine that dispensed frozen ice cream bars.

My high school had something like this, only with a vacuum nozzle.

(also posting this made me realize I graduated high school 13 years ago :cry:

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my turn in the barrel: Dec 31, 2007

Dick Trauma posted:

Too bad they had to retrofit the digital readouts over the old mechanical ones. One of the joys of pre-digital pinball machines is the visceral experience or feeling the mechanisms working, all the clicking and banging and ringing...

Those are the stock readouts for that game. It came out in 1978. It just looks old because pinball cabinet design didn't really change much from the 1940s-1980.

I want to play that Ghostbusters Table. That must be new.

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Mak0rz: Aug 2, 2008; 😎🐗🚬

Y'all making me nostalgic for the arcade that used to be in my bumfuck nowhere town that had TMNT, Double Dragon, and (I think) Contra.

Goddammit i sunk so many quarters into that Turtles machine.

A few years after it closed down a new one opened with a lesser selection of games, but it had a Qix clone and a weird anime superhero Olympics game that were pretty good. If anyone has any leads on that latter one I'd like to hear it because the game owned

Mak0rz has a new favorite as of 19:04 on Nov 4, 2016

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Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

my turn in the barrel posted:

Those are the stock readouts for that game. It came out in 1978.

When I think of that period instead of that Crime Against Pinballity I'd choose the oddly named "SPACE INVADERS" pinball game with its trippy infinity light background and next gen table surface. Please enjoy the ferocious Not Alien graphics.

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a star war betamax: Sep 17, 2011; by Lowtax; Gary’s Answer

Dick Trauma posted:

When I think of that period instead of that Crime Against Pinballity I'd choose the oddly named "SPACE INVADERS" pinball game with its trippy infinity light background and next gen table surface. Please enjoy the ferocious Not Alien graphics.

There was a truck stop my family would stop at about once a year in outside of Sonora Texas that had one of these. My parents never would give me a quarter to play it though.

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3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Trunko posted:

There was a truck stop my family would stop at about once a year in outside of Sonora Texas that had one of these. My parents never would give me a quarter to play it though.

Good; pinball is the worst :mrgw:

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Code Jockey: Jan 24, 2006; 69420 basic bytes free

Dick Trauma posted:

If it was one of the Grand Slam generation of games we can be friends...

I think that's it yeah! :respek:

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Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; "From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.; Buglord

jojoinnit posted:

The fabled Canafederate Battle Flag

Hell yeah

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Frozen Pizza Party: Dec 13, 2005

Neito posted:

My high school had something like this, only with a vacuum nozzle.

(also posting this made me realize I graduated high school 13 years ago

Class of '03 :respek:

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Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry