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Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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i'm the 4% who said "i don't know" as to why you're supporting mac

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Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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lol if your school didn't just have some idiot pirate things and cause windows xp genuine advantage check failures at one point

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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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.
if you don't want to shell out for a cintiq you could get one of those monoprice tablets

just make sure you leave your wacom driver installed if you use photoshop

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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gotta love those, 'dad, you're hosed' situations

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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pram posted:

ie6 is literally a crime against humanity
didn't help it was around for so many years and actively held back a lot of poo poo

png transparencies? yeah we don't need that poo poo
proper css? pfff, have fun writing a lot of special rules
you want actual security? lol go gently caress yourself

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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microsoft: just keep the same poo poo rolling for 10+ years

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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i'm using time.nist.gov

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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used amd before core 2 & it suited my needs at the time

(as a dumb kid who did nothing but played bideo games)

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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my dad was telling me that his work just barely finished a migration from 2000 to xp lol

will post again when they finish w7 migration in 2016

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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yeah, the windows vista/7 icons can last until 2017 or so

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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i'm the

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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infernal machines posted:

actually, odds are there's some hardcoded resource link in something important that will break if the icon it points to isn't at an exact object location and byte offset in the file
bring back dll hell

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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I legit think that this version of the start menu is worse looking than the start screen

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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qirex posted:

glance info only works if the data is glanceable and most isn't

weather: sure
missed call: maybe
text: only if it's short
your next meeting: only if the name is short
email: a loving joke every time I've seen it used IRL it's like 3 lines of RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:project status

so it's really good for weather and bad for literally everything else
and the weather app's live tile status still breaks and freezes on an old status until you open the app again. sometimes it breaks and only displays the icon.

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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EMILY BLUNTS posted:

Rename thread to "employment.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close" and sticky

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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raruler posted:

startup culture

ship fast, test never
just let the customers test a continuous open beta

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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duTrieux. posted:

e: deleted
something sexist and horrible was written here

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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univbee posted:

-phones support hotline, waits 2 minutes while voice drones on in english and french, enters 54 random numbers, answers '0' to "how many other forums have you posted this thread in?" waits for "verified!" voice to chime in, clicks back and "i want to activate by internet", hangs up-

thursday afternoon cj'ing, motherfuckers
the yospos genuine advantage

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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Thanks Ants posted:

probably some bullshit in-fighting from the windows department that thinks "if we make office for mac poo poo then we can sell more os licenses!"
same bullshit probably goes for itunes on windows

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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:yayclod:

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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duTrieux. posted:

Windows Phone 8.1 with Update 1.
seriously why are they doing this

"hmm 8.1.1 or 8.2 would make too much sense"

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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Happy_Misanthrope posted:

sry interrupting outlook chat



edit: pop-up title added in screencap for emphasis

whenever i see charts like this does saying "windows 8" also include 8.1?

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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sorry we need to also include windows 8.1 update 1 on the chart too

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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probably running some lovely app that requires internet explorer 6 in a vm too

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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everyone i knew who was excited about the surface got their hands on it and progressed from "yeah this is awesome" to "wow what a pos" after about 2 weeks

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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please don't post suicide pics

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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sports posted:

I curate an exact replica of the workstation in cs_office.



(microsoft intellimouse explorer 3.0)
does your workstation have the fart button?

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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i'm actually p happy for ballmer right now with his recent purchase of the clippys

he seems like he'd be a p good sprots man

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

actually I remember back in 2000 or so adding ram to a new laptop required a call to a live MS rep to get windows unfucked. at the end I told him what I thought of the process and he typed it in and promised me that billg himself would read that I thought it was "really stupid and a waste of time"
he must have listened

gj

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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bring back the mac clones

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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ie is actually decent enough right now, but the thing is, a windows pc is the only microsoft device i have, so it's not like i can actually have anything sync from it to other devices

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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mod sassinator posted:

there is still a ranking, it's just not called 'stack ranking' anymore.
i love that even stack ranking had a rebranding process

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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yeah apple uses camera angles to their advantage to make things look as big or as thick or as thin as they want it

microsoft just kinda takes photos and let's that "pictures ad 10 pounds" thing ring true

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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LastInLine posted:

they want so badly to have an apple-like top to bottom ecosystem but simply cannot internalize that its only possible for apple because apples customers actually like apple whereas people need to be paid to use windows and wont use their phones at all no matter what
even if you own some weird hodgepodge of devices like a windows & a mac & an android & an ipad you can still have all your stuff sync via safari, chrome, or firefox just fine and relaly using any browser but ie makes your life way easy

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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it also seems to me that they could integrate some kind of syncing between ie & safari or some poo poo using skydriveonedrive, but i dunno, it's not like any of these teams within microsoft talk to one another

i actually use onedrive on my devices and it works pretty well

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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duTrieux. posted:

microsoft has always had everything they need to crush absolutely everybody but the problem is that they don't know how to fit them together.
sounds like something we need more managers for :v:

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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bought a rmbp and i wasn't aware it even needed to index anything?

(solid state, bitch)

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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it's like seeing a chain smoking marathon runner

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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so here we have state of the art work stations...

... and they all communicate with this 20 year old ibm

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Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

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surprised they haven't gone to calling it windows one yet

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