🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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And? Is my assessment correct?
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By making it impossible to know which tab is which. I know I've seen more information in that column before, but regardless: The whole point of the task manager is to see and manage current tasks. If you make it useless for that, you are tr , even if you add your own.
You must be thinking of a different tab in the Windows Task Manager, such as the Applications tab:
And you only see each Chrome window there, not every tab. Plus: Oh nos! IE behaves the same way!
Looks like a fault in the task manager, not with the way Chrome interacts with the manager.
Upgrade to Windows 8.
That does allow you to see what tabs are in each window, but you can't manage them separately. And it still doesn't help link them to their processes.
Again, I ask @Magus: how does Chrome break the Windows Task Manager? So far it looks like the issue you are complaining about is a problem with Windows Task Manager, not with Chrome.
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How is Discourse using 1 byte per second?
Well, you dropped Milwaukee PC, someone had to pick it up.
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My friend worked there for a number of years and was always complaining about the stupid tourists doing this, or wanting pictures with a bear cub.
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the even-toed ungulate took umbrage.
Christ on a crutch, WaPo's hired El Reg copywriters.
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as long as "but I need the latest OS to make sure [our application] is compatible with it" even though nobody else in the company seems to realize there's no reason it wouldn't be.
This is why I have a laptop with a 4k touch screen.
Downside: I'll get all the hi-dpi rendering bugs.
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This is why I have a laptop with a 4k touch screen.
I couldn't quite convince them to pay for that, I don't think. But probably mainly since I don't travel.
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I couldn't quite convince them to pay for that, I don't think
It was cheaper (about 1500US) than the standard issue Macbooks they do here. (Since Windows machines aren't kept in stock, we get to custom order what we what)
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@FrostCat said:
I couldn't quite convince them to pay for that, I don't think
It was cheaper (about 1500US) than the standard issue Macbooks they do here. (Since Windows machines aren't kept in stock, we get to custom order what we what)
i was going to say "lucky bastard", up until you mentioned that macbooks were the standard issue computer.
I think "my commiserations" may be more appropriate.
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macbooks were the standard issue computer.
I hear they make pretty good machines once you put Windows on 'em.
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sure, but at three times the price of an equivalent hardware PC, and an incorrect keyboard layout.
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sure, but at three times the price of an equivalent hardware PC, and an incorrect keyboard layout.
I didn't say it was sensible choice. I'd rather have a Falcon NW or Alienware or something if I were going to spend stupid money on a laptop.
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Also, you get a task manager for individual tabs, so you can kill a specific tab
Until you have enough tabs that it starts grouping 2 – 4 of them together.
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how does Chrome break the Windows Task Manager?
It seems to have made the second colomn unreadable ...
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@FrostCat said:
Do we have a dumb ideas thread yet?
Yes, it's called "Recognising [sic] Microaggressions"Or the more general
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So... It seems something fishy happened to my main Firefox profile yesterday, because on launch it was quickly reaching a Not Responding state.
It wasn't Firefox's fault per se as it was plugin-container.exe which was immediately being launched and quickly growing in CPU usage and memory working set. Disabling addons and plugins didn't help
I don't have much time to troubleshoot this at this time, so I just created a new profile and it seems unaffected. (INB4 "I hope your new profile is a Chrome profile")
I've lost (temporarily at least) my precious tabs, but I've already copied history, cookies and bookmarks over.
Filed under: no one cares
As I'm typing this and doing other stuff and the same time, it's happened again. Further experimentation revealed the culprit was the new tab page with site suggestions. I've set the page to be just blank and now it's not happening.Also, why isn't the in the previous line showing in the preview or the baked post? Discourse.
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was the new tab page with site suggestions
Looks like Mozilla really messed up with that!
There's an add-on to get a sane new tab experience, though. One without sponsored tiles.
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I've lost (temporarily at least) my precious tabs, but I've already copied history, cookies and bookmarks over.
Check your Firefox profile folder. Your tabs are stored in a file called
sessionstore.js
(which only exists when FF isn't running).Firefox occasionally takes a backup in the
sessionstore-backups
subdirectory. If you have found a suitable backup there, you can close FF, copy the backup tosessionstore.js
in your profile folder and open FF again.
Your previous tabs are restored.
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Bad idea: hire a stretch limo and try to drive it across a level crossing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss8RdZLPCvs&t=20s
Music to my ears, obviously, what with hating rich people and all.
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Music to my ears, obviously, what with hating rich people and all.
The driver probably works a minimum wage job, if that.
And the guys in the back? Likely poor newlyweds who are heavily in debt after they wanted to feel the elusive taste of luxury, just this once, on such a special day. It's not like they could afford the limo, they had to hire it, possibly with the last of their money.
HOW DO YOU FEEL NOW, HUH? HUH?
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Bad idea: headbutting a bus. The video's awesome (32 seconds).
http://wfla.com/2015/07/21/video-man-becomes-angry-about-bus-fare-in-winter-haven-head-butts-glass/
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HOW DO YOU FEEL NOW, HUH? HUH?
Very glad that nobody was hurt in the crash, and full of happy schadenfreude about the likelihood of increased insurance premiums for that stupid car's stupid owner :-)
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and full of happy schadenfreude about the likelihood of increased insurance premiums for that stupid car's stupid owner
Oh, now you're against small business owners?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ha6Mb5_YQ
Someone at Ouya once thought this commercial was a good idea.
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Bad idea: try to flag down a train right before it hits whatever is on the tracks. It takes >1 mile to stop a train. Do people really not know this?
The correct procedure is to send someone down the track in both directions about 2 miles. And try to call the railroad, because there's supposed to be a placard at every crossing and it should have their number. They can reroute trains or contact the crew and have them stop.
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The best part about THIS fiasco is the gigantic park or whatever it is that they could've probably built the road into to go around the apartments.
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now you're against small business owners?
If the small business concerned involves stretching perfectly good passenger cars to ridiculous, roadhogging, accident-promoting lengths to make them function as status markers for fools with more money than sense: yes.
Stretch limos deserve an entry in this thread all by themselves.
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Did you edit the URL in your post? Because I just saw the text inside the onebox change.
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Rich people don't ride in limos like that. Middle schoolers going to prom do.
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This is your periodic reminder that Ouya is (somehow) still a thing!
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Rich people don't ride in limos like that. Middle schoolers going to prom do.
That's OK, the kind of kid whose parents can scrape together enough money for their kids to get a limo ride once in their lifetimes are rich enough to earn his oppobrium.
Unless that was some kind of troll, which I can't imagine would ever happen here, of all places.
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That's OK, the kind of kid whose parents can scrape together enough money for their kids to get a limo ride once in their lifetimes are rich enough to earn his oppobrium.
Really? My wife and I got a limo for our wedding night. It cost us about $300, and that covered a thirty mile drive and about 2 hours (there was some waiting time involved).
Also, I believe you meant opprobrium, seeing as how oppobrium isn't a word. So close!
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sure, but at three times the price of an equivalent hardware PC, and an incorrect keyboard layout.
THAT!! (especially the keyboard)
Some of my co-workers prefer the Windows-on-Mac thing. Me, I prefer picking what I want and getting IT to order it. (We're allowed a new machine every 2 years) After they do what they want with it, I fix it - no domain issues here!
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It takes >1 mile to stop a train.
Depends on the train and how fast it's moving, but yeah, it can take that far. 10000 tons has just a bit of momentum, and that's a rather small train. People just don't realize how big and heavy trains are.
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As I'm typing this and doing other stuff and the same time, it's happened again.
I had something happen where everything was just slowing down / dieing. Gave up and closed FF. Looked in taskmgr - hey, it's still running. KILLKILLKILL. FF is all better now.
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@abarker said:
My wife and I got a limo for our wedding night.
Really? We got a hotel room.
Just one room? The limo took us to an entire suite. :P
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Well, it was a charming little Victorian bed-and-breakfast, so no suites. Besides, I'm not sure why we might have wanted a suite; you could even have eliminated the -and-breakfast and we'd have hardly noticed.
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Well, it was a charming little Victorian bed-and-breakfast, so no suites. Besides, I'm not sure why we might have wanted a suite; you could even have eliminated the -and-breakfast and we'd have hardly noticed.
Well, there was the bedroom, the soaking jacuzzi tub, the walk-in-shower big enough for two, the spacious front room with a fireplace, …
Plus, the room service wasn't bad.
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/me is really tempted to yell at @abarker and @HardwareGeek to "Get a room you two!"
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In a startling exchange, the 61-year-old told Clem – who he sued for invasion of privacy after their XXX tape was leaked to a website – about his frustrations with blonde bombshell Brooke, 27.
Bad idea: a racist rant to a woman who previously released recordings.
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That's OK, the kind of kid whose parents can scrape together enough money for their kids to get a limo ride once in their lifetimes are rich enough to earn his oppobrium.
So pretty much everyone here (including flabby)?
Filed under: ironic, isn't it?
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...but resisted, because someone would point out that rooms were already obtained.