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Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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rotor posted:

we have dell workstations at work and they're super burly and I have no problems with em

don't sign ur posts rawr

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Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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pram posted:

time to get a watch!!

:unsmigghh:

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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i unironically wish i could put my dvd rips on my time capsule and watch them from my apple tv but i can't so i just keep that poo poo on my gaming pc

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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qirex posted:

there's ways to approximate it but it involves a lot of itunes and nobody really wants that

my poo poo is in itunes on my gaming pc so i just open itunes when we want to watch stuff i ripped

which is basically never so i guess i'm inventing a need here

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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even the few things i download b/c i can't buy on itunes and stream directly i put on my macbook air, now that i think about it

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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yeah that all sounds like a lot of work, i literally only did this for two shows i was watching

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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pram posted:

because thats what happens in acquisitions

sometimes the acquired employees keep their jobs and the acquiring company lays people off instead i.e. my life right now lol

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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PleasureKevin posted:

Microsoft under investigation for anti trust, china edition

http://bit.ly/1lOYklg

quote:


Microsoft China offices visited in apparent antitrust probe
Though it's not currently clear what the regulators are looking for.

uhm, they're called bribes, duh

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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duTrieux. posted:

from the comments:


iphone uses don't use apps. you heard if here first

lol

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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The Management posted:

Surface IntelliKin XBrowse One 8.1 update 1 with Active Bing.net

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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mods rename thread to "Microsoft Titanic Status: Rebranding the Deck Chairs" tia

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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turn left VLC nooooooooo

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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holy poo poo lmao

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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homo punching bag posted:

"I used to watch that show Dinosaurs all the time when I was a kid, so when I found out the baby grew up and wanted to buy a basketball team I considered the offer."

lol

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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i'm going to eat a cheese pizza and drink a bunch of wine tonight ftw

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
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oops for a second i thought i was in the cjs thread because of the posts about drinking i sometimes forget every yospos thread is also about drinking, we regret the error

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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qirex posted:

let's not forget the external hd-dvd drive [MS spent another billion on "goodwill" supporting the hd-dvd platform] which had its own power brick

i owned that

i'm glad i sold that piece of poo poo console

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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i sold mine before it had a chance to red ring lol

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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qirex posted:

do people actually work hard on posts?

not me lmbo

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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i hate those mojave ads because the main reasons non-technical people women and children hated vista were:

lovely driver support
underspecced pcs being sold with vista installed

which obviously means if you gave users a decent pc with good drivers of loving course they were going to like it

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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FMguru posted:

the other issue with vista was the initial use experience was abysmal. it was slow and annoying as poo poo for the first several days because the hard drive was busy indexing itself and you kept getting uac popups every three minutes whenever you tried to do something. eventually the hard drive got indexed and all the uac questions got answered but by then people had already their impression of the system (that it was chunky poop from a butt) and had told all their friends about it. giving someone a fully-tuned vista system resulted in a positive experience but that wasnt how most people encountered it irl

oh yeah true, i forgot about that stuff, uac was really bad with a lot of lovely coded apps at first iirc. also while indexing was still going desktop search obviously was poo poo because iirc it wouldn't even try to search non-indexed files

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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uac was only annoying because a lot of lovely apps did a lot of poo poo to trigger it unnecessarily

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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Wheany posted:

postgresql's installer and the program itself apparently still has problems with uac ityool 2014. it apparently tries to write the database inside program files and then shits itself when it can't.

sql server still does that without making GBS threads the bed but it grabs admin credentials during the install process so,

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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obviously you don't actually put your loving database in the default install location but still

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
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cool i was right for once even if i didn't phrase it in that way

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
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Cardboard Box A posted:

1024 x 600



drfisheye
But you can’t run Windows Store apps at 600px, the minimum requirement is 768px. I don’t get it.

blackNBUK
They removed that requirement with, I think, 8.1.

drfisheye
Nope, the requirement of 8.1 is 1024×768.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/system-requirements

drfisheye
I have 8.1 on a 1024×600 netbook and no Windows Store app starts.


holy poo poo

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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please don't doxx pleasurekevin

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:

ms market growth strategy


Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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Millstone posted:

It is an over the shoulder folder holder

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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Captain Foo posted:

I would like to know more

blackberry 'ids' were tied to device so for awhile if you got a new phone all your old bbm contacts couldn't message you

i think they fixed this though? but by then idk who cared lol

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
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one of my managers keeps using bbm to message me lol

lady i put that work phone on silent years ago, just text me on my iphone

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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oops i thought this was the bbry thread

we regret the error

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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yeah i'm sure that all those kids will suddenly be like 'oh my mining block lego game is now owned by microsoft let's all go by winpho and surfaces because i'm a 9 year old and i care about synergy!!'

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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eschaton posted:

friends on Facebook are talking about how their kids are in literal tears over Microsoft buying Minecraft

don't underestimate Microsoft's negative brand perception among young consumers

maybe i'm misreading your response but i was being sarcastic, at best kids won't care and at worst, yeah what you said lol

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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lol http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2014/09/minecraft-fans-worried-about-potential-microsoft-aquisition.html

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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it's digital legos combined with some neat circuit/automation stuff, what's not to understand?

adventure mode is dumb though and lol @ notch not really getting why his stuff was a success in the first place

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
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pseudorandom name posted:

And then when you get bored you can build a stack of TNT and go blow up your friends buildings because you are 39 years old and still a sociopath.

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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lol at them doing this while buying minecraft

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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"we need to realign our company and come up with a sensible operating strategy going forward"

*lays off qa people and buys minecraft*

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Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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Siljmonster posted:

minecraft doesnt have a QA team

now that's what i call synergies!!

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