That's below the belt, Apple
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https://i.imgur.com/HvwAN2d.png
Generic Windows PC icon.
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Oh, very subtle.
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Welcome to 2001, when this was new.
But yeah, that's a real lack of class. Whatever you think of Microsoft, they're a pretty classy company. (They send Mozilla a cake every Firefox release, for example.)
Apple's a horse of douchey barbarians by comparison. I'm surprised that icon hasn't been changed in so many years.
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I'm surprised that icon hasn't been changed in so many years.
Srsly, who has a monitor like that anymore?
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They send Mozilla a cake every Firefox release, for example
Oh, so that's why I'm being asked to upgrade to version 38.something something
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Still have a 21" ViewSonic "monster"...No longer on my desk, but it was such a fantastic monitor (back in it's day) that I can not bring myself to send it to the recycler....
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I'm surprised that icon hasn't been changed in so many years.
Considering Windows has some dusty UI corners that haven't been touched since Windows95 days, I'm not surprised.
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I wonder if it distinguishes between Windows and Linux or any other OS machines.
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a horse of douchey barbarians
i'd correct the horde typo, but a horse of douchey barbarians is a lot funnier to think about.
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Lot's of barbarians on a horse could surely use a bit of a douche.
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I'm surprised they didn't write "OS: Micro$$$$oft Windows" somewhere.
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I was thinking of the Trojan War, as in a wooden horse full of douchey barbarians.
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Is it still fetching more info?
Did it finish?I must know!
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Windows has some dusty UI corners
"Default computer icon" is not exactly a dusty UI corner.
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I'm surprised they didn't write "OS: Micro$$$$oft Windows" somewhere.
Well, considering the typical pricepoint of Apple hardware, that would have been just a mite hypocritical.
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It's not hypocritical to sell extremely high quality premium hardware for a reasonable price, and they wouldn't even think of charging for software.
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Yeah, I still have my 21" ViewSonic behemoth of a monitor. It was a damn good monitor for a long time, and it doubled as a free weight.
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I have a 24" samsung monster that supports up to 2048x1536.
It's burned out so bad that even at max brightness it's still way too dark, but it's such an amazing resolution for that screen size
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Srsly, who has a monitor like that anymore?
Plus that screen's been red for the last couple releases.
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Oh, so that's why I'm being asked to upgrade to version 38.something something
Haha actually I should qualify that: I think they stopped doing it after 4.
Still, the IE team always sent the Mozilla/Netscape developers a cake after a major release, and vice versa. It was really classy.
I'm guessing the guys at Apple who were working on Safari back in those days just burned Mozilla and Microsoft in effigy while smearing their naked torsos with goat blood. Or whatever Apple asshole developers do.
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I liked the one from Mr. Peabody and Sherman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXQpC-gDR4w
That bit where they use a tiny trojan horse to sneak into the trojan horse was hilarious.
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@loose said:
Oh, so that's why I'm being asked to upgrade to version 38.something something
Haha actually I should qualify that: I think they stopped doing it after 4.
Still, the IE team always sent the Mozilla/Netscape developers a cake after a major release, and vice versa. It was really classy.
I'm guessing the guys at Apple who were working on Safari back in those days just burned Mozilla and Microsoft in effigy while smearing their naked torsos with goat blood. Or whatever Apple asshole developers do.
So, you're telling me the cake is a lie?
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@rad131304 said:
So, you're telling me the cake is a lie?
Get out of the timepod.
But I don't want to do any more testing today!
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Or whatever Apple asshole developers do.
Probably contemplate their sandals, whilst complimenting each other of the length of their wispy beards, furrows per inch of their corduroy trousers and the state of disintegration of their home knitted home spun woollen cardigans. Only a really slow day, they might extend the compliments to the tie-die t-shirts.
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Damn autocorrect - again!
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It's not hypocritical to sell extremely high quality premium hardware for a reasonable price, and they wouldn't even think of charging for software.
While I realize that part of this is sarcasm (at least I'm assuming that you're not up to your ears in the Apple CoolAid), "made in China" does not automatically mean "low quality". When producing in China, you get the quality you let your supplier get away with.
A former pupil of my school figured that one out pretty quick - he made the error in judgment to pay a Chinese supplier in advance for an order of merchandise worth 100,000€.
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Well, that's the contract producers -- the Chinese aren't any less capable of producing quality gear when they put their minds to it (Rigol is turning into a rather solid test-equipment maker), its just that the contract producers are up to their ears in beans and don't have the time or proclivity to think about such things as a result ;)
(Not that it's entirely their fault -- I'm sure that the contract negotiators on this side of the pond have just as much to do with it as the contract negotiators on that side of the pond do..)
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Still have a 21" ViewSonic "monster"...No longer on my desk, but it was such a fantastic monitor (back in it's day) that I can not bring myself to send it to the recycler....
Same here, but 17". It still has a better resolution than the flat panel on my desk now. (1600x1200)
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Or is that a die-tie.
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@blakeyrat said:
I'm surprised that icon hasn't been changed in so many years.
Considering Windows has some dusty UI corners that haven't been touched since Windows95 days, I'm not surprised.
Which ones?
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"made in China" does not automatically mean "low quality".
Cool. But it also implies that it's made in the same place, using approximately the same methods, as everything else. So, equal quality, since they don't have their own unique parts.
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Or is that a die-tie
actually i had to GIS "death tie" because so many morons on the internet label their pictures as tie-die that even searching for "tie-die" just shows tie-dye pics.
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So you're telling me that verbal precision really does make a difference?
Filed under: who would have thought it would have such an affect?, I haven't grammer trolled in a while
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No <==== 100% imprecise
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Which ones?
Oh man I was going to dig up the Windows 3.1-esque "Add Font" dialog, but it looks like Windows 7 finally kiboshed it.
That thing hung around for a LONG time.
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Cool. But it also implies that it's made in the same place, using approximately the same methods, as everything else. So, equal quality, since they don't have their own unique parts.
You do realize that China is hell of a big "place"? You seem to mistake it for something like Luxembourg which, as I understand it, the Swiss army invaded once by accident.
And you know about those acronyms QA and QC?
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the Swiss army invaded once by accident
Got me curious! The Googles tell me it was actually Liechtenstein:
Your point is still valid...
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Same here, but 17". It still has a better resolution than the flat panel on my desk now. (1600x1200)
I have a 19" flat screen CRT I picked up for free in 2006 that my then-employer was throwing out (they were used for CAD and replaced with LCDs) that can do that resolution at 75Hz. So pretty.
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Damn, I always confuse those two specks on the map... :(
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I have the same problem with Nottingham and Northhampton
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Don't feel bad, 63.27% of all Americans can't find Europe on a map1.
1: All numbers completely made up.
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That's cos any world map published in the USA is 99.99% USA and 0.01% the rest of the world.
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Yeah, but it don't have no sub-text :)
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The same parts as Samsung. The same parts. The same parts.
But no, they're probably made in the Extreme High Quality Extra Advanced Samsung Part Factory in a different part of China than the one that makes the parts Samsung gets.