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gently caress
nail fucked around with this message at Jun 7, 2012 around 14:41 |
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DaveNull posted:Are you a robot or something? I'm not, and there's really nothing rectangular about my field of vision. It's not even squarish or oblong.
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| # ¿ Apr 25, 2008 20:07 |
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Yeah, and most new TVs don't even use CRTs at all now.
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| # ¿ Apr 25, 2008 22:48 |
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The Remote Viewer posted:It's easier to get distracted with windows that aren't maximized.
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| # ¿ Apr 25, 2008 23:09 |
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The Remote Viewer posted:Why do you NOT maximize? Accessing files is easier when they are not spread across a huge area. "multitasking" - If something else requires my attention, it's simpler to shift my eyebones than to alt-tab or move the mouse. I also find it easier to change focus by clicking on the window instead of the taskbar button.
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| # ¿ Apr 25, 2008 23:45 |
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poop
nail fucked around with this message at Jun 7, 2012 around 14:42 |
| # ¿ Apr 26, 2008 21:19 |
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Zorilla posted:I think the gripe stems from laptop manufacturers whose widescreen implementations effectively chop off the top of the screen instead of widening it HPL posted:Also, for a gripe thread, I'm sure learning a heck of a lot.  Also looking ahead, it really seems like I can see the same amount of lower stuff as higher stuff.FOV is still more rectangular than square or circular. I just tested with a tape measure. Holding it so the tape touches my nose, I can perceive my hands at the edges about 17" apart horizontally, and 13" apart vertically. And vertically, yes, my lower hand was further from my eyes than my higher hand. I tried it diagonally at an angle of about 35 degrees horizontally, and came out with about 16". God this is dorky. I don't know how to plot this in software to define the actual shape, so I stopped there. No, it's not a perfect rectangle, but it's much closer to that than any other shape without curves. [edited because I realized if I'm not seeing both hands at the same time, it doesn't count, duh.] nail fucked around with this message at Apr 26, 2008 around 22:24 |
| # ¿ Apr 26, 2008 22:08 |
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The Remote Viewer posted:Counter jockey: You won't be able to remove all the spyware and stuff yourself.
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| # ¿ Apr 27, 2008 00:54 |
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| # ¿ Apr 27, 2008 09:47 |
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I actually like Notepad the way it is. It is what it says. It's a loving piece of scrap paper and that's it. DevastatorIIC posted:Dell desktops that have no PS2 ports. Guess what always works, really works well, and doesn't require drivers: PS2 ports. thebruce posted:There's ample space:
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| # ¿ Apr 27, 2008 22:27 |
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Trackballs are  Anyway, I just had a window steal focus by closing. I was downloading something, and when it finished, the text field I was typing in disappeared. wth?
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| # ¿ Apr 28, 2008 07:23 |
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You Am I posted:Most Mac "Save As" windows have "Add New Folder" or the gear icon which allows you to create a new folder from its drop down menu. Sweevo posted:But it's also the default reader for text files, and when it can't handle them because of stupidly minor differences in encoding that would take 5 minutes to fix then it means the program is not doing it's job. It's not like LF-only format is rare. It's true it's not doing its job, but I've never encountered a plain text file that was too big for Notepad to open. Except for ASCII garbage files I made myself. (I don't program, unless you count writing the most basic batch files) If it's the default program...well let's just say most of the little programs included with Windows don't really live up to expectations.
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| # ¿ Apr 28, 2008 17:54 |
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albedoa posted:So because the other tasks are less common, the user should be inconvenienced? It's not as if those tasks are uncommon. That's a pretty lame excuse to not allow them. It happens on Windows so it's normal, just like hot web-browsing-from-the-file-manager action
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| # ¿ Apr 29, 2008 13:41 |
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albedoa posted:there's a reason why people want to rename or delete a folder they just created using that same dialogue.  v
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| # ¿ Apr 29, 2008 15:44 |
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I get to use Citrix every day and it's wonky as hell. I remember locally saving files from a web page was "fun" to figure out. It doesn't seem to be able to differentiate between C$ and C: And yes good god is it slow, but I always assumed that was partially because of the hardware on the other end.
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| # ¿ Apr 29, 2008 20:48 |
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albedoa posted:I can't believe you invoked the CD burning analogy again. The "Save As..." dialogue does not for one moment pretend to be a CD burner. But anyway, from within the "save as" dialog you can right click and "send to CD." from there it is an equal leap to adding "Write these files to CD" in somewhere as it is to delete, rename, etc. You can already burn a CD completely from the file manager without ever opening a dedicated CD burning program. If Save As is a file manager then let's manage some poo poo, huh? hahaha Now if everybody doesn't mind, we could get off of this topic. Some people want it, and some people don't see the need. Understood all around, OK? (dorkanoid, I'm not a Mac person, so I don't know what to tell you about your observation.) Otherwise we'll have strwrsxprt in here telling us about poo poo that he comes across daily that pisses him off, like stupid retarded arguments that go back and forth unproductively and incessantly 
nail fucked around with this message at Apr 30, 2008 around 15:59 |
| # ¿ Apr 30, 2008 15:51 |
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liquidXenon posted:Also, the CD example is retarded 
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| # ¿ May 1, 2008 00:56 |
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albedoa posted:What the gently caress? You're the one who originally used it for your slippery slope argument! Obviously, people are going to give you poo poo for it. You can't retroactively go back and say, "Haha it was supposed to be stupid. Look at you with the egg on your face." Lum posted:when I retire some time in the middle of the next century  \/ ah. Now I understand. You are correct, I have no pension. I make up for it by telling people who are overjoyed every Friday morning, just because "it's Friday!" "Yes, we are one week closer to dying, congratulations" nail fucked around with this message at May 1, 2008 around 15:45 |
| # ¿ May 1, 2008 15:01 |
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albedoa posted:And your lame comparison is what everyone is criticizing. We've gone over it and told you why repeatedly. I didn't mean that the comparison was stupid, I meant that the example itself was stupid, on purpose, to illustrate that I think the thing you want is stupid, or rather that it's stupid to be bothered if it's not there. But you know what, it's in Windows already, it's not in OS X and never will be, and we've spent way too much time talking about it. Drama drama drama, fun. albedoa posted:And your lame comparison is what everyone is criticizing for being retarded. We've gone over it and told you why repeatedly. Get over it. quote:Now if everybody doesn't mind, we could get off of this topic. Some people want it, and some people don't see the need. Understood all around, OK? I started to reply to what you originally wrote, then decided against it, then went back and saw you had changed your post... and now I am through with this conversation, because it's a massive pointless derail that's gone on way too long and I have already given up, saying fine whatever, have your thing.
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| # ¿ May 1, 2008 16:03 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Honestly your argument sounds less like it's based on "most efficient interface" and more on "most ideologically pure interface". Is this accurate? I haven't been thinking about this consciously, but now that you mention it, I do appreciate ideological purity in GUIs. See the "Description" section of the Wikipedia article on Worse is Better -- I have always been enchanted with this philosophy. As I understand it few people share this sentiment, but it is the only set of guidelines that makes sense to me. Note that practically, it can certainly be harder to fully adhere, but it is what I would strive for.
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| # ¿ May 1, 2008 18:23 |
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I'm really tired of this guy: What do I want Windows to do? How about shut the gently caress up and let me get to it all by myself? I remember with a particular hard drive I had, there was a checkbox that said "Always perform the selected action." Yet no matter how many times I checked it and selected "Take no action," there it was again every time I connected the drive. Also why is this non-resizeable dialog the wrong size, requiring the presence of a scrollbar with about a quarter-inch to move?
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| # ¿ May 2, 2008 16:26 |
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Along with Flash and Java, mouseover menus in webpages. God is that poo poo annoying when it makes up the entire left quarter of the page. And also those...those links that they make out of generic words and are green with two underlines that pop up a small window on mouseover. What are those called again?
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| # ¿ May 5, 2008 06:25 |
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Knobjockey posted:I must stop anthropomorphising my computer. quote:Because hackers accept that a human machine can have intentions, it is therefore easy for them to ascribe consciousness and intention to other complex patterned systems such as computers. If consciousness is mechanical, it is neither more or less absurd to say that “The program wants to go into an infinite loop” than it is to say that “I want to go eat some chocolate” — and even defensible to say that “The stone, once dropped, wants to move towards the center of the earth”. 
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| # ¿ May 7, 2008 13:39 |
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Mr_Person posted:You can turn this bullshit off with a setting buried in the group policy editor. It doesn't do it at home with my flash drive, can't remember if it does for the external hard drive. \/ I will check this out later when I have this stuff on me, thanks for the advice. nail fucked around with this message at May 7, 2008 around 16:31 |
| # ¿ May 7, 2008 15:34 |
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I thought tab was sometimes discouraged for programming because it might be equivalent to 2, 4, 5, or 10 spaces, but 5 spaces is always 5 spaces.
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| # ¿ May 8, 2008 01:13 |
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vanjalolz posted:I pity the person coding trying to indent by pressing space (I've seen it before :|).
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| # ¿ May 8, 2008 05:30 |
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kotau posted:NVIDIA control panel and its lack of a 'you've changed your resolution, click yes in 15s to keep this resolution or it will revert' ATi's software doesn't do this to me, but its stupid Catalyst poo poo makes my context menu too big
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| # ¿ May 10, 2008 02:38 |
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Factor Mystic posted:Just search for it. And if it bugs you that much switch to classic view. Arsten posted:Actually, it's not that bad if you use the search features. If you go to the new control panel layout and start typing in what you want (like "Power") it'll isolate those. Thank god MS decides to keep classic view for everything, and maintain backwards compatibility to the point of crippling other things. It's 'almost' as if they're admitting the new way isn't very good. On that note, their implementation of backwards compatibility is really lovely. "Classic environment" and Rosetta are things that Apple did get right. I'd like to see a new version of Windows in which everything really is new, and the OS only has a 64-bit version, and old apps, whether 16 or 32-bit, will automatically turn on an emulation layer to provide old libraries or system calls or whatever they need. nail fucked around with this message at May 12, 2008 around 18:20 |
| # ¿ May 12, 2008 18:14 |
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Arsten posted:...simply tap <WIN> and type in the program I want in the way I want to remember it. From here, the only way to go is voice recognition that doesn't blow.  You may notice I also don't have wallpaper, I like things austere. Start is a total mess if you let go the way it does by default, of course. But the way I set it up, I can navigate with arrow keys or the mouse and very quickly find what I want. And I really like the way it looks. My issue with search is that it's, as you said, for dummies. Not knowing how to find things shouldn't be enabled even further. People should learn how to use the tools at their disposal, learn to remember where they saved that file, to not clutter up the desktop/dock with innumerable icons which they then can't parse to see the thing they need. I was saying at work the other day, if people used cars the way they use computers you couldn't walk down the street anywhere :iica: Maybe I'm just a codger. Anyway for an intelligent user the search paradigm is fine (and I don't think search is an accurate term for the way you open programs--it's more like a pretty or graphical, and modern, CLI), but for people who already "don't know how to use a computer," especially those who are willfully "computer illiterate," it doesn't help and I believe it does hurt. And while it doesn't really apply in this case, what do you do if you can't remember the name of the thing you want? Where this tangent began is with Control Panel and searching instead of the classic view. "Users" instead of "Documents and Settings" is great, but some of the cpanel stuff seems like change just for the sake of change. I admit I haven't looked at it anything more than cursorily, but my question is still, if the new structure is actually good, why bother to leave classic view in? quote:And 64bit Vista uses wowexec for 16bits and wow32 for 32 bit applications, automagically porting 16 and 32 bit calls to those APIs in as large a way as possible. This does it all in the background without hassle.
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| # ¿ May 13, 2008 04:57 |
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Casao posted:Why would it hurt? If the interface has search, how does using it hurt at all? Maybe on the theory that one day search would disappear and you'd be left in a barren desert world without it you could justify that statement, but I really don't see how you can say it hurts. No, you and Arsten are right. Discussions like this are why I love SHSC, thanks for explaining. But I've still looked at Launchy and didn't really like it, I imagine the Startsearch thing would be the same. Just set in my ways maybe.c0burn posted:What's the latest and greatest in dual pane file managers? nail fucked around with this message at May 13, 2008 around 15:45 |
| # ¿ May 13, 2008 15:35 |
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Ryouga Inverse posted:Also, ten thousand kilobytes is 10M. This web page was far less than that. But I worked at MS, too, and guess what? There were some email threads that measured in multiple megabytes per message and had many people in the audience. What a great plan, I'm sure the Exchange server loves having multiple copies of a 2M message hanging around, and loves shipping replies to that 2M message around. When somebody sends an email to everybody in the office of FUNNY PICTURES LOL and a discussion starts. Everybody hits reply all and doesn't delete the 4MB of pictures. I don't mind funny pictures occasionally, and we're a small office and everybody's friendly with each other and we like to laugh and whatever. But poo poo GUYS DELETE THE INLINE IMAGES WHEN YOU REPLY. Our mailboxes are only 40MB you know. And every reply takes 20 seconds to load. Another thing, and I can't pin down what causes this, is when I open an email from Outlook's little popup notifier, and click the "delete" button at the top, sometimes the window closes but it doesn't get deleted.
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| # ¿ May 14, 2008 03:12 |
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PowerLlama posted:That's just it. Why that color? It doesn't go with anything. But seriously, is that not something that can be changed as it could in XP? 
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| # ¿ May 14, 2008 07:55 |
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Mr_Person posted:I'm all for minimalism, but the Windows Classic theme wastes a lot of space and always looked terrible in my opinion. Have you seen these themes? quote:Opus OS - It doesn't get much less obtrusive than this. Has a really nice taskbar and menu that goes at the top of the screen. Skip this one if you have an irrational hate for colored window borders.
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| # ¿ May 14, 2008 16:18 |
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Casao posted:Can you tell from my posts that I absolutely despise apps that use non-native widgets for no good reason? I hate when apps that don't let you highlight part of a word. It snaps to the full word. Microsoft seems to like this, it happens to me in IE and Word, maybe in Outlook but I can't remember. I understand why it's made that way, (I'm assuming) to be easier for people who don't have the fine motor control required to operate a mouse competently, and wouldn't want to highlight part of a word, but come on. And loving god drat useless web search results that only show up because a site is big. Looking for x product, and get a page titled x product review, or buy x product, which only says "be the first to review x product!" Or "no information found for x product." No picture, information, price, or anything. Thanks assholes. This is on par with referral pages you get by making a typo. nail fucked around with this message at May 15, 2008 around 07:40 |
| # ¿ May 15, 2008 07:19 |
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Cerv posted:It's departmental policy that we have to always include the full history in every reply so that the entire conversation chain is always readable at once. Some people just shouldn't be allowed to make rules. quote:We also keep getting reminders that the company's spending too much on email and we need to reduce our mailbox usage. Regarding copying in Excel: Why can't I cut if I'm pasting into another application? And if I cut, then delete before pasting, the clipboard is empty. I know the technical reason for the clipboard becoming empty, but this design makes no sense. Either delete it from the cell when I paste into another application, or remove it from the cell as soon as I cut it. If I wanted to copy and paste and leave the text in the original cell, I would loving copy. *somebody was complaining about pluralizing this word... nail fucked around with this message at May 15, 2008 around 20:09 |
| # ¿ May 15, 2008 20:05 |
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Xenomorph posted:"Well, AT&T's technical support said it was the firewall, so just turn it off." Awesome Axe posted:Can't an administrator change other accounts passwords anyway? By the way, earlier today I went to save a file, and double-clicked not-quite-fast-enough on the folder it should go in, and it wanted me to rename the folder. After this thread made me think about it, I've noticed this actually happens to me on an infrequent but regular basis.  Thanks for the help everybody, but this last bit is really not a problem, more to say that either way of doing things can be annoying! nail fucked around with this message at May 20, 2008 around 02:03 |
| # ¿ May 19, 2008 18:25 |
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Factor Mystic posted:Decrease your double click speed in mouse settings.
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| # ¿ May 19, 2008 19:46 |
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Athas posted:I don't get it. Is this clever slang or something? It just appears totally illiterate.
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| # ¿ May 20, 2008 16:17 |
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Jetsetlemming posted:I wasn't aware there were any security or permission controls missing from Home. On that note, different versions of the same release of Windows is really retarded. They went the wrong direction with this in Vista iyam.
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PC=Windows. As in, Mac vs PC. "Are you using a Mac?" "No, it's a PC." PC stands for personal computer! A Mac is a PC. Any computer that's not a server, mainframe, or embedded device is a PC. (Don't nitpick if I missed a class of devices, you know what I mean) My annoyance at this semantic quibble has caused me to cease using the term "PC" altogether. Not that I used it frequently before, but I go out of my way now to say or type "computer" instead. "Windows computer" or "Linux computer" if it's necessary to differentiate.
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