The Official Status Thread
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And he is doing whatever he wants!
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That comic portrays my ideal state as a bad thing?
Oh because there's no Xbox in the frame, I get it now.
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Would love to see how that handles Discourse.
I don't even know if you could put another browser on it. Not sure if it's a unit with a desktop or not--or if Microsoft stopped releasing that version of Windows.
I'd like a 7-10" tablet running Windows that had enough power for web browsing and facebook games (not that I'd play those, just that's about the level of power I'm talking about, as opposed to [insert new game here].)
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That comic portrays my ideal state as a bad thing?
Depends on your interpretation. If you like to watch TV, instead of taking your girlfriend out dancing or whatever, it's not a bad thing.
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instead of taking your girlfriend out dancing
You get too aggressive with that and then she springs a leak and you're up all night with the patch kit...
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ROFL. That's not a problem I've ever had. Nor have I been in a situation where it could happen.
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Speaking of that, Micro Center's offering a 7" Win 8 tablet for $60, but it's only got a gig of RAM. I have to wonder if that's even useful for web browsing.
How much does Win 8 itself use? I'm guessing you'd probably be able to manage a couple of Chrome tabs in the leftovers, as long as Discourse isn't one of them.
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Depends on your interpretation. If you like to watch TV, instead of taking your girlfriend out dancing or whatever, it's not a bad thing.
Whoooooooooooooooooooooa. I think that you're getting way ahead of yourself with that buttumption.
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How much does Win 8 itself use?
Surely it must use less on a 1GB machine. On the 4GB 64-bit ones I use, it shows about 1.6GB some time after startup. I'd have to reboot to see what this one settles in at, and I'm about to go home for the day so I can't tell until I go home and then only if I remember to check.
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Whoooooooooooooooooooooa. I think that you're getting way ahead of yourself with that buttumption.
The comic is ... oh no you don't. Let's try again. Buttumptions are likely to be the cause of needing to patch.
Edit: also, @smallshellscript did use the pronoun "she", so unless your relationship with said she is that she's a stranger, "girlfriend" is the least inappriate word.
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Current status: like @algorythmics, trying to find out where a random d is coming from
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I've got a Dell Venue 8 Pro from last year (Cost me 300 then, though these atoms seem to be drastically dropping in price lately) with 2gb ram, and it seems to idle around 45%. But you generally use apps on the thing, and those sleep very effectively when not in use.
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Great, now you've got me trying to come up with the most SJW'esque identifier for one's partner. Let's see, we can't differentiate by actual gender, identified gender, marital status, species...
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species
I have been having thoughts of what it'd be like to find out your significant other's a dragon...
As to the underlying question -- is "significant other" not a suitable term?
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Heh, it said 'partner' itself already...
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But that could be your business partner, as in the legal partnership of Dewey, Cheatham & Howe.
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Well, I think this explains a lot of my random 5 - 30 second freezes:
This is a new first for me, seeing a Western Digital hard drive fail (or start to fail). It is getting old though.
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Oh, they do. Just nowhere as often as a Seagate.
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Dang, hard drives are cheap again! Gonna be next to nothing to get a new 1 TB disk.
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is "significant other" not a suitable term?
It assumes there is only one. Haven't you heard of polyamorous relationships? You mononormative shitlord.
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What about those of us who prefer Zgxhzxgxs from the Seventh Plane!? Bro, do you even psychically traverse?
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We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell them stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I took the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe so I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. Give me five bees for a quarter you'd say. Now where were we, oh ya. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because if the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.
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Great, now you've got me trying to come up with the most SJW'esque identifier for one's partner.
I want to make clear that I in no way intended for you to do this, but now that you have started, I endorse it and hope you come up with something funny.
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I have been having thoughts of what it'd be like to find out your significant other's a dragon...
Some of the ideas from Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex probably apply.
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Status: this job might make me not entirely hate life. Hm. Have to find a new hobby.
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Haven't you heard of polyamorous relationships? You mononormative shitlord.
Weak.
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which was the style at the time.
"So this one time we were galumphing for Roys".
Edit: galumphing is in the spell-checker.
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"significant other"
Other implies that they are somehow lesser than you and thus subservient.
Significant is belittling as if they need your approval.
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Other implies that they are somehow lesser than you and thus subservient.
Significant is belittling as if they need your approval.
If you're going to nitpick like that I sure hope you come up with a real doozy when you get your result.
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I'll probably fail miserably since even the descriptive terms that they favour tend to exclude those of us that have more "traditional" relationships.
Plus something like "person(s) you're currently screwing" would get the asexual crowd on your lawn with torches...
Edit: then you have to account for something like one person with 2 sock puppets in Second Life who are in a relationship with each other...
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status: "Acquiring" Sharknado 2: The Second One for the IT department holiday party tomorrow.
this should be interesting....
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I haven't seen a memory constrained computer in years.
I have been memory constrained on a system with 128 GB of RAM.Though I did start sort of an irresponsible number of simultaneous jobs by accident...
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Here's that $60 tablet I mentioned, possibly in a different thread:
Amazon gives it a fairly high review, but I wonder about a 1GB machine.
Which reminds me--my 4GB Win 8.1 x64 box starts up and settles down with about 1.4GB of ram used, including crap like steam, Geforce experience, and the bluestacks launcher.
Edit: for another $40 they go up to an 8" table, and for $40 more you can get 2GB of ram and 32GB of storage, a doubling of each.
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Oh because there's no Xbox in the frame, I get it now.
I kept searching for the beer bottles. It's no wonder this guy doesn't have a girlfriend.
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it's an ATOM processor. give it a miss.
i3 is minimum if you want anything other than use IE to check your email once a week.
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Status: I feel like I did not even sleep. Also, it is 9:15AM and I am already looking forward to lunch.
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Status: Confused by the weather. The entire city is snow-and-ice-free, except for the parking lot at work.
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Excited: power company is replacing the street light in front of my house that hasn't really worked for (at least) 7 years and finally fell over a couple of months ago.
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status: why can't the barometer pick a pressure and stay there?
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status: why can't the barometer pick a pressure and stay there?
Get rid of the mercury and add some glue or something and I'm sure it would.
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status: why can't the barometer pick a pressure and stay there?
The barometer can't pick a pressure because it's not a sentient being capable of making decisions. Unless you're operating under a definition of "barometer" that I'm not aware of.
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Get rid of the mercury and add some glue or something and I'm sure it would.
we are a bunch of pedants aren't we?
regardless of the level of mercury the headache will remain until the air pressure stabilizes, or at least stops changing so quickly.
at least for me....
The barometer can't pick a pressure because it's not a sentient being capable of making decisions. Unless you're operating under a definition of "barometer" that I'm not aware of.
one can anthropomorphize an object in order to project intent onto it and therefore shoft blame from a concept to an object. that way one can take a Louisville Slugger to the object in a way that one cannot to a concept.
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we are a bunch of pedants aren't we?
anthropomorphize an object
At least I'm not trying to shoot the messenger.
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At least I'm not trying to shoot the messenger.
hmm.. this is true...
but we do have that vat of hot tar in the corner... and that giant bag of feathers in the other corner.
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regardless of the level of mercury the headache will remain until the air pressure stabilizes, or at least stops changing so quickly.
at least for me....
The glue that @boomzilla proposed might help with that. At least, once it dries. Assuming that a mercury-glue mixture could solidify sufficiently to no longer function correctly as a barometer.
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-sigh- fine... the parometer doesn't actually have anything to do with the cause of my issue. it's just an external symptom!
sheesh, y'all are angling for some honeybadgers today aren't you?
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sheesh, y'all are angling for some honeybadgers today aren't you?
I wouldn't mind getting a badge, but I don't know what I'd do with a honeybadger.
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status: this thread was long overdue for a title change.
not.
anymore.