Windows 7 Extended Support date announced
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I run Windows 8 at home... I don't think I've looked at the shitty tile screen more than 5 times in the last month.
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That's exactly what my start menu looks like when I click the equivalent of the "all programs" button. It's not even new in 8.1. It was exactly like that in 8 as well. @abarker is talking out of his
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So if I can get into someone's MS account, I can effectively break their computer remotely? Fuckin' neato!
You can already fuck their office up. I you have a corpo or personal Office365 thingy you can revoke the license for certain machines.
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True, there are two sides to the GUI -- the desktop and the Modern/Metro interface, but they play ok side-by-side, and even better in 8.1.
Metro is practically unusable on large monitors. And the whole reason I have large monitors is to be able to comfortably fit multiple programs on screen.It is possible they will update IE for Windows 7 beyond IE 11.
They did provide .NET 4.5 (and 4.5.1) for Vista, even though .NET was taken over by the OS team in Microsoft.My point was that it's possible to use a fullscreen menu on a desktop, with proper scaling depending on resolution and/or user preference.
I really dislike full-screen Start Screen, because I often hit Windows key, type something and press Enter while looking at something else. With regular Start Menu that isn't a problem, but Start Screen covers whatever I was looking at, and that's just rude.
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That's exactly what my start menu looks like
whenafter I click the equivalent of the "all programs" button.As in, not the default when you hit the Super, oh, sorry, Start button. By the same account you can say that people who don't like the ribbon that they are talking out of their ass since you can get to the menus with extra clicking. It doesn't change the fact that it's not a default and requires additional effort.
I really dislike full-screen Start Screen, because I often hit Windows key, type something and press Enter while looking at something else. With regular Start Menu that isn't a problem, but Start Screen covers whatever I was looking at, and that's just rude.
Matter of personal preference I guess. Though "formerly-known-as-Metro" is genuinely annoying since it has all the extra animations and shit, not just a quick popup like the menu I posted or Unity's launcher.
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What gets me about 8 is that I keep accidentally triggering drastic changes by moving my mouse in the wrong way. Then I panic, close everything, and start over.
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What gets me about 8 is that I keep accidentally triggering drastic changes by moving my mouse in the wrong way. Then I panic, close everything, and start over.
I tried to use my mouse on my touch screen monitor for maximum control, but if anything, it made it worse.
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I run Windows 8 at home... I don't think I've looked at the shitty tile screen more than 5 times in the last month.
I cannot escape the tile screen. I am better in GNOME like environment, but Windows 8 is where the money is coming from.
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I cannot escape the tile screen. I am better in GNOME like environment, but Windows 8 is where the money is coming from.
I make money on systems that have no graphics other than some white letters on a black background. You can go wild and change the color(s) though.
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"I will not text in clbutt"
surely?
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No, because the original is "clas," not "class." It would not match the RE.
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Wait, the original used a regex?
Also, I swear it had formatting when I wrote it to start with.
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I swear it had formatting when I wrote it to start with.
Hurrah for Markdown. Formatting doesn't work in blockquotes.
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I am formatted in blockquote
<blockquote> <b>I am formatted in blockquote</b> </blockquote>
What are you saying?
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Markdown formatting doesn't work in Markdown blockquotes:
"Text *format* more text" doesn't work.
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Retardedness is legion.
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Ireadthatasretardnessisreligion.
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Ireadthatasretardnessisreligion.
Run out of spaces? I've got some spare, you can use these:
From here -> <- To here
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Now my space bar key was stuck due to spilling Mangola on it. I need cold-drinks to stay awake.
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Markdown formatting doesn't work in Markdown blockquotes:
What are you talking about?
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There are Markdown blockquotes, the other kind of Markdown blockquotes, bbcode blockquotes and HTML blockquotes. Formatting is not consistent.
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The kind where you put "" around text isn't Markdown. It's Discourse's own creation.
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OK, so in that case we have Markdown's quotes, Discourse's quotes, bbcode quotes and HTML quotes. And they all operate slightly differently. Awesome.
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The kind where you put "" around text isn't Markdown. It's Discourse's own creation.
I stand corrected*. Thank you.
* Not really. Technically, I'm sitting corrected, but incorrectly, at the moment. I'm slouching comfortably, but very unergonomically.
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"this is a quote"
"this is a quote""this is a quote"
Don't forget, everything in dicsourse works different depending on whether it is or is not preceded by an empty line as well. To make it better, even that isn't consistent, some things fail after empty lines and some fail when there is no empty line.
this won't need the empty line
"this method needs an empty before it if it wasn't preceded by a bbcode""both of these will fail"
"despite using the same quote method as the line about bbcode""this will fail"
because it needs an empty line after it too.
even smilies suffer without empty lines or spaces to precede them
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Most of the problems with Discourse seem to be in one of two categories:
- Quirks in the markdown implementation
- The design of the markdown implementation
If only there were a single component we could replace to make Discourse better...
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Most of the problems with Discourse seem to be in one of two categories:
1. Quirks in the markdown implementation
2. The design of the markdown implementation- Infinite scrolling implementation
1.5 Lack of alternative to infinite scrolling
1.75 Markdown's inconsistency - Lack of usability on mobile devices
FTFY
- Infinite scrolling implementation
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Discourse gives you ampol opportunity to do it wrong so you can be called on it.
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Highlight quote reply an emojii. I dare you.
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True, you should FTFM and add
1.85 quotes half work
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I'd be more tolerant of it if it didn't try to second guess all the time. Even quirky behaviour is fine if it's consistently quirky and has some actual divinable reason to it.
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what about this type of
<q>
uote?
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You mean there's more? That's awesome design to allow every fucking option under the sun.
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That's awesome design to allow every fucking option under the sun.
.. at the same time...
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There's nothing subtle about some of it.
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On the IE thing: Launch IE from the Start Screen, you get a dumbed down version with no plugins
No repro. I've been on Win8 for some time now and I've never seen this fabled Metro IE.
I would like to see and experience it at least once, but I don't know how to get to it.
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I've never found a way to easily launch a desktop app from the start screen.
You mean aside from clicking the tile for the application?
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What gets me about 8 is that I keep accidentally triggering drastic changes by moving my mouse in the wrong way.
Like what?
I sometimes do accidentally drag the top pixel of the dwktop which causes some kind of... UI... but other than that *shrug*
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That's "dooktop" for you Welsh.
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Somehow I end up with my windows tiled in some odd fashion where I can no longer see what I was reading and other times I end up with programs mysteriously closed.
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I do not even.
Have you accidentally enabled gestures or something?
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I didn't intentionally enable anything. Maybe it decided arbitrarily that I'm a tablet?
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Are you small, flat and shiny?
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I suppose if you're half-blind and squint I could be vaguely mistaken for a diamond shape?