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Cojawfee posted:I wonder what it's like to program your own app that talks to god. Even if you're crazy, you have to think "I wrote all these responses, what am I doing here?" I think the justification is more like god is using you to write the responses. Like, controlling your hand and poo poo like that. Psychics call it automatic writing.
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Cojawfee posted:I wonder what it's like to program your own app that talks to god. Even if you're crazy, you have to think "I wrote all these responses, what am I doing here?" IIRC it basically picks random words from a corpus, or it may at best have some Markov capability. He has a habit of adding some output at the end of his posts online, and it's just word salad.
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Regular Nintendo posted:This guy's visit to yospos is easily one of my favorite SA History type things Oh my god, I have to read that. Happen to have a link to the thread(s)?
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Casimir Radon posted:Competent integrated audio is something I could easily forget about if I was putting together a computer. Hopefully my brainfart would end before I ended up with an expensive card. Even if you do get a crap integrated card, you might be fine with a USB soundcard as a replacement; even the small cheap ones are quite decent. I use one at work since the workstation there has a lot of annoying background noise if I load the graphics card by, say, scrolling a web page. Another more exotic alternative is to use TOSLINK to connect to your amplifier, completely sidestepping the audio hardware on the card. I do this, mostly to get rid of a ground loop problem with the headphone amp. Kind of overkill, but eh - the DAC was just $20.
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Regular Nintendo posted:This guy's visit to yospos is easily one of my favorite SA History type things Can you link the thread? That sounds like it'd be an amazing trainwreck 
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Three-Phase posted:TempleOS has no networking capability. At all. check the web site. One can use a USB or ungodly floppy to install MegaMan, I guess
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A Pinball Wizard posted:Seriously, tell me what you consider to be "bloat" in a modern OS. Metro/Modern UI, plus a second set of applications which work in it, so for example I have two calculator applications. Whatever code is downloading advertisements and inserting them into the Start Menu. Drivers which allow software to do whatever the hell it wants to my PC in the name of enforcing copy protection. The bit that uses 100% CPU to "optimize" .NET assemblies (or something) occasionally. Internet Explorer. I realize that ReactOS is going to get a lot bigger if they add a reasonable number of necessary features to it, but I don't think many people think the stuff listed above is actually necessary.
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Powered Descent posted:Oh my god, I have to read that. Happen to have a link to the thread(s)? mobby_6kl posted:Can you link the thread? That sounds like it'd be an amazing trainwreck I'll try to remember to dig it up tonight, its gotta be archived. The highlight of it was a poster who worked for intel owning the guy's rear end with actual ECE knowledge.
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A Pinball Wizard posted:Neither Windows nor Linux is a tech relic, much as we might wish. "I need a right-click shortcut to create a 'Briefcase'"! -Some Genius at Microsoft
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Buttcoin purse posted:Metro/Modern UI, plus a second set of applications which work in it, so for example I have two calculator applications. All of these things except the driver thing are fixable in about 5 minutes on Win10. Edge (IE10) isn't even that bad, it's actually replaced Waterfox as my backup browser when a site doesn't like Chrome.
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axolotl farmer posted:"I need a right-click shortcut to create a 'Briefcase'"! What even were those Iirc it was like a designated folder that was supposed to aitomatically sync to removable media or something? Which lol at the idea of that in 1998 E: yup https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briefcase_(Microsoft_Windows) stuffed crust punk has a new favorite as of 16:03 on Feb 27, 2017 |
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Regular Nintendo posted:What even were those Iomega must have paid Microsoft to include the feature so they would sell more Zip drives.
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Regular Nintendo posted:What even were those A 'briefcase' was used as part of a roaming profile so you could take your files with you, it was always a bit poo poo & why you wouldn't just use a network share I have no idea.
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axolotl farmer posted:"I need a right-click shortcut to create a 'Briefcase'"! Wasn't there like one insane dude who was singlehandedly responsible for the "Send image over email" shortcut persisting in Firefox or IE?
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Trainee PornStar posted:A 'briefcase' was used as part of a roaming profile so you could take your files with you, it was always a bit poo poo & why you wouldn't just use a network share I have no idea. Because in 1995, most people didn't have a network share, VPN access, or some other form of online connectivity between 2 machines.
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Then they should be normal and just use standard business practice: SalesReport25 - Copy (3) FINAL UPDATE2.xls
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Regular Nintendo posted:What even were those Sentient Data posted:Then they should be normal and just use standard business practice:
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These mentions of Briefcase made me think of the old Yahoo! Briefcase feature. It was a really early cloud-storage system and I think I was one of the few people to actually use it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Briefcase
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CaptainSarcastic posted:These mentions of Briefcase made me think of the old Yahoo! Briefcase feature. It was a really early cloud-storage system and I think I was one of the few people to actually use it.
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Kelp Me! posted:All of these things except the driver thing are fixable in about 5 minutes on Win10. I gather that installing the Anniversary Update un-fixes these things, so I can only assume Microsoft intends to keep un-fixing things and it's too much effort to fight them.
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When I was thinking about bloat, I came up with something that I don't think ever came with Windows itself - for me it was part of Windows Live - but it was crap that Microsoft installed that I didn't want on my PC anyway: Microsoft Choice Guard. I'm saddened that when you Google for that,  Microsoft Choice Guard can choose to suck my cock is no longer in the first page of results. I mark that as NWS as the author's livejournal avatar is uhh, well I'm pretty sure it's merely some disney cartoons edited together to look a bit like furry porn, but better to be safe than sorry I guess. Personally I find it mesmerizing.
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I like (Not really) the little pop-up bubble they have to lecture you about why you should be using Edge once in a while.
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I am really glad I have MSDN access, and thus have access to Win10 LTSB N [AKA Windows 10 without stupid media feature garbage / feature addition updates, and with the ability to control other updates / prevent it from loving rebooting itself when it feels like] That version of windows should be sold to the public as an enthusiast version or something
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The Claptain posted:Oh God, what have I done?
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The Claptain posted:Oh God, what have I done? Wasted 5 minutes of your life, I imagine, no big deal. I'd understand you saying "what have I done?" if you installed it on bare metal, dual-booting or something  Or is "Oh God, what have I done?" actually how you communicate with this OS?
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Regular thread viewers may remember my nostalgia for the Psion pocket computers and my sadness that that form factor is no more: Good News Everyone!  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/27/the_psions_is_back_meet_gemini/ Downside: $399 is only the backer price and full retail is going to be $650, which is too much. The Indiegogo price is much more tempting, but no way would I buy hardware version 1.0 of anything
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spog posted:Regular thread viewers may remember my nostalgia for the Psion pocket computers and my sadness that that form factor is no more: Wanted one of these so bad when I was a kid but it wouldn't make sense these days. Phones are powerful enough and I can travel with my Surface if I need an actual computer. Still craving one though.
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spog posted:Regular thread viewers may remember my nostalgia for the Psion pocket computers and my sadness that that form factor is no more: As someone that just got hosed out of $250 via kickstarter, gently caress crowdfunding things that actually look complicated and hard to achieve. Never again will I back anything of any value.
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The Claptain posted:Oh God, what have I done? Well, now that you HAVE done it, we're going to need a trip report. Fire up "After Egypt" and communicate with God already!
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Frozen Pizza Party posted:As someone that just got hosed out of $250 via kickstarter, gently caress crowdfunding things that actually look complicated and hard to achieve. What did you back?
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Frozen Pizza Party posted:As someone that just got hosed out of $250 via kickstarter, gently caress crowdfunding things that actually look complicated and hard to achieve. Are you that guy who backed an erotic novel for >$200 and didn't get a refund when it failed, even after the creator explicitly told people he lost interest in the project and would gladly be providing refunds? (I swear this happened in the Thermidor Kickstarter thread in Games very recently)
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Powered Descent posted:
God said he wanted to "compact" the Jews. God said Jews were guilty because they did not warn their brother sinners, so suffered their sin. Reputation is worth more than gold. Niggers have a reputation -- no fathers. Irish have a reputation. Germans have a reputation. Attacker has the advantage. Jews have a reputation. God said the French once stood for character. (Code of Chivalry) Ironic. I guess Jews did, too. Woah! God is boss. Too bad the Jews were cowards and didn't assassinate NAZI's. CIA must surrender to the IRA. They started a war on God. You die, CIA niggers. The CIA picked a fight with the IRA and God, a War on Terror to humiliate the Irish and attack the concept of God as represented by pathetic loser sand niggers. Surrender, silly CIA niggers. Yer hosed. You started a war with God. He talks. Saying the word, "pedophile", is an attack on Catholics and God, by those who hate children. We're not stupid. You are. God exists. Yer hosed, CIA niggers. Saying the word, "homophobe", is an attack on God.
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jojoinnit posted:Wanted one of these so bad when I was a kid but it wouldn't make sense these days. Phones are powerful enough and I can travel with my Surface if I need an actual computer. Still craving one though.
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Kelp Me! posted:Are you that guy who backed an erotic novel for >$200 and didn't get a refund when it failed, even after the creator explicitly told people he lost interest in the project and would gladly be providing refunds? I wish it was a story worth telling  Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:What did you back? Tiko 3d Printer, had high hopes, they shipped 3000/13000 and just basically said sorry we spent all the money trying to make a working product, sorry the first 3k suck, we're looking for investors to invest in a lovely product and failed company.
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Frozen Pizza Party posted:I wish it was a story worth telling Wasn't familiar with this but holy crap they promised a lot for that price point. Wonder what they could've produced for a more realistic price.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Wasn't familiar with this but holy crap they promised a lot for that price point. Wonder what they could've produced for a more realistic price. No idea, but once they realized poo poo hit the fan they started taking "preorders" for after campaign printers, which was revealed that they did that to bolster funds to keep the development up which they failed at as well. Those have been refunded, but the $3m that they took via kickstarter is gone. Kinda sucks, I'm pissed about it, but I'm really just glad it wasn't more than it was because it's way too late for a chargeback or anything like that.
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Just get a gpd win. Same specs as a surface pro 3, size of a 3ds, and it's got gaming controls built into it for when you realize that it's absolutely useless for anything other than clumsily playing skyrim at an obnoxiously loud volume in the hopes that somebody on the bus notices and mistakes your owning something interesting for being someone interesting.
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