Luigi Thirty posted:

we had to use numbers and keynote in high school because the county didn't want to spring for an office for Mac site license

Last Chance posted:

this reminds me of when my high school bought emacs in 2005 for one lab and the new media senior blowoff class i took where we edited videos in imovie, learned chroma keying and made websites and things with them was the best fuckin class ever.

Ocrassus posted:

The surface 2 has the fancy Wacom digitiser in it though. surely it can be a decent graphics tablet?

edit actually nevermind, read some anandtech and it turns out the latency is awful.

The Management posted:

i can't even imagine working at a place that doesn't provide me with a Mac. like how would that even work? you'd show up on the first day and they take you to your office and you'd say "looks like the previous tenant forgot to take his piece of poo poo dell with him" and your new boss would smile nervously and say "we asked our computer janitors for the Mac we promised you and they said no". so now what? do you stick around for lunch or just quit right there?

Luigi Thirty posted:

the computers were a grant but they couldn't afford software.

rjmccall posted:

command-up

api call girl posted:

in os x there's a hidden setting that puts the full path clickable on the bottom of the finder window which is probably as close as you can get

hobbesmaster posted:

"fine" is the nicest thing anyone has ever said about williamette p4s

did you prefer the rdram version that was horrendously expensive and worse than a high end pentium 3 or the sdram version that was worse than a mid range pentium 3?

rear end cobra posted:

my first computer was a pos as all computers are

FMguru posted:

maybe its just the os

rear end cobra posted:

yeah i guess maybe the computer is just funny and its the os thats a pos

cremnob posted:

graph posted:

i like how that too

qirex posted:

strangely the 20 levels of managers including ballmer who pinned their whole company's future on it seem to still be around

mod sassinator posted:

oh man it would be sweet, sweet irony if they canned that documentary about finding the buried ET cartridges. you might say they 'buried' that documentary, lol

Phoenixan posted:

just let the customers test a continuous open beta

duTrieux. posted:

e: deleted

echinopsis posted:

e: deleted mean stuff

mod sassinator posted:

they didn't lay off any contractors apparently, they just will stop allowing them access to buildings and the corporate network after 18 months. loving lol, it's seriously office space levels of insanity.

qirex posted:

rename this thread to Microsoft is Bad Enterprise Edition and the other one to Microsoft is Bad Home Premium

cremnob posted:

I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up

I’ve been using a Windows Phone since Windows Phone 7 shipped, and for many years before that (with the exception on 1 year on the iPhone 3GS) I used Windows Mobile. Indeed my history with Microsoft’s mobile offerings goes back to the original Handheld PC followed by a number of Pocket PCs. So for the last few years, with the occasional complaint , I’ve worked around Windows Phone’s so-called App Gap. It hasn’t been pleasant. And now I have hit an app requirement that doesn’t appear to have a workaround. One that might drive me to Android, if not back to an iPhone.

There is no Windows Phone application for the Honeywell Total Connect 2.0 security system. There is one for the iPhone, Android, and (get this) Blackberry. The website requires Apple QuickTime, so that isn’t an answer. In fact if you go to the website with WP8.1 it thinks you are on a Blackberry and tells you to download the Blackberry app!

There is a third party app. Many users report trouble getting it to work, and even those who rate it highly say it has very limited function. Basically you can arm or disarm. But that isn’t the only reason I need to access my system, so the app (even if it works) is inadequate. Further, it costs $2.99 and there is no trial. Ordinarily I wouldn’t have bothered downloading it, but I wanted to see for myself. So now I’m down $2.99. The app works, but won’t do what I need. So I’m S O L.

Of course moving off Windows Phone would bring other benefits, like being able to control my SONOS (another case of inadequate third-party apps not really filling the gap) or sync my Fitbit without using my wife’s iPhone. Or actually get a smartwatch. Or run a dozen or more other apps where I’ve resigned myself to struggling with a website for the last few years.

Of course some of these things are coming to Windows Phone. Eventually. Maybe. I mean, Uber finally made it this week. Finally. Are the other things imminent? Who knows. They could appear next month, or I could get someone pregnant and see my child graduate high school first. Someone said that to me recently and I thought they were joking, now I’m not so sure.

So I’ve finally fallen into the app gap. And as long as I stay on Windows Phone it seems I can’t get up. I’m done fighting, tomorrow I’ll probably get a Samsung Galaxy S 5. Lemming seems like a fine label to wear right now.

echinopsis posted:

or libre office will suit 99% of your needs

Cocoa Crispies posted:

lol and each coach is swapping through that many tablets too because windows is such a terrible os on battery

hobbesmaster posted:

it's a specific simple embedded application, they'd be foolish not to use RTs

i bet they're top of the line surface 3s

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

im not into console shames so maybe this is an old observation but every time i hear "xbox one" i think they're talking about the original xbox and wonder why anyone is talking about a machine over a decade old

just seems like a terrible branding choice, from a company with nothing but terrible branding choices

univbee posted:

probably. i don't know if they still do, but japan at one point had a game show where the prize was on-air time to pitch your product, the number of seconds you got based on how well you did

it was great if you wanted to practice listening to people speaking really, really fast due to only having 3 seconds of time at the end

Scott Forstall posted:

lmao good luck

Sniep posted:

and then they downsized from an apple store size to a kart in the walkway like the dudes trying to sell those little helecopters, or all the shiny tin foil things you hang from a ceiling, or shirts that have meme faces on them and bold punchlines like "step back bro!" and "For the lose!"

FMguru posted:

i think you mean hot dog stand model

duTrieux. posted:

microsoft stores would do much better if they stocked some bsaic components (hard drives, memory, etc) as well as a better variety of common accessories (headphones, speakers, flash drives, etc) and also pc software via custom flahs drive (no discs, pick what you want at a kiosk thingy, it's loaded onto a verified Microsoft flash thingy and then you can install on your machine).

they could also rotate branded shirts/merch in a small space in the back corner, that'd net a not insignificant number of ironic sales (

flakeloaf posted:

lol if you go into someone else's cube and touch their crusty mouse

i'll just write down your username, find you in AD and rdp in tyvm

Shaggar posted:

I ordered some replacement batteries and also some replacement mouse feet so I will let you all know how my mouse repairs go

Origin posted:

pffff, enter the pro zone!