WTF happened to Windows 95?
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That's an entirely separate group. I'm talking about those who refuse to do things such as flag or like posts :cough:@blakeyrat*:cough:*.
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I wasn't qualifying the manner in which you would be denied, be it by those vehemently and vocally opposed to gamification or those who are simply lazy dickweeds. Merely that you would be denied by insufficient flaggings.
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Pay me enough money and I'll do anything.
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Here's a virtual dollar, now DANCE, DANCE FOR ME
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You did so qualify the manner in which we are denied. To whit:
And then still be denied by the dickweeds around here who have higher standards.
You stated that we would be denied that we are being denied the badge by those who think we aren't pedantic enough. I expanded that group by adding in those who refuse to participate in such gamifaction. And @boomzilla threw in the lazy shits to round things out.
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Yes, but I didn't specify in what manner their standards were higher. Merely that their standards were higher than flagging posts for dickweedery - either because they refuse to participate in gamification or because it's beneath their time to do so (because lazy), or simply because it's insufficiently dickweedy for their standards.
I know precisely what I meant. It's not my fault you buttumed a specificity that was not implied by it...
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Bartender! Pedantic dickweed badges all around!
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You stated that we would be denied that we are being denied the badge by those who think we aren't pedantic enough.
I've often not flagged sufficiently pedantic posts that lacked the je ne sais quoi of dickweedery.
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Yes, but I didn't specify in what manner their standards were higher. Merely that their standards were higher than flagging posts for dickweedery - either because they refuse to participate in gamification or because it's beneath their time to do so (because lazy), or simply because it's insufficiently dickweedy for their standards.
I know precisely what I meant. It's not my fault you buttumed a specificity that was not implied by it...
I feel that the specificity which I inferred from your post was warranted. The context of the post helped to reinforce the specific meaning which I gleaned. If you meant something more, you should have been more specific in your post. The fact that you were too lazy to fully write out what you meant and relied on the readers to, essentially, read your mind to determine what you meant is not my fault. It is your failing as the writer of that post.
Also, did you really mean all that at the time you wrote the post? Or are you merely adding the additional meaning now, in an effort to try and boost your post count and prove how pedantic you can be?
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The dickweedery is often forgotten, but I sometimes overlook that when a post is sufficiently pedantic.
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My source is mostly conference and tutorial videos.
Dude, that is hardly a source. That is the same as Blakey claiming that Ms is the best because it is used by all his favorit games. That is a self fulfilling prophecy. You walk around and work in a *nix oriented branches. Fine, but don't claim it is the whole field.
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Of course I meant it at the time, I just had a higher standard of meaning to which I was holding you and expecting you to understand without flat out telling you.
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Dude, that is hardly a source. That is the same as Blakey claiming that Ms is the best because it is used by all his favorit games. That is a self fulfilling prophecy. You walk around and work in a *nix oriented branches. Fine, but don't claim it is the whole field.
I'm not claiming it's the whole field. Just the spearhead.
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What good is a spearhead for knitting?
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So that takes us back to:
The fact that you were too lazy to fully write out what you meant and relied on the readers to, essentially, read your mind to determine what you meant is not my fault. It is your failing as the writer of that post.
Would this be the right time to remind you of an old long name of yours?
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the only servers getting unscheduled reboots have fucking terrible, broken assed software running on it. The only servers getting hard reboots are physically broken.
Yeah our mainframe has a stellar up time too
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No pulling our legs. If you mean it, flag!
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Firstly, Shakespeare reminds us that brevity is the soul of wit. Keeping things terse is a skill I am endeavouring to practice, and I thought sufficiently highly of you that I could simply say it briefly without having to explain it in detail.
The only WTF here is being kind to my fellow mankind.
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You can have the head.
Just the tip, I promise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uEw514JWmM
Sorry, the only video I could find was the equivalent of a picture on a wooden table.
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She doesn't look that impressed with your spearhead
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That's because of where Archer was putting "just the tip".
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Or the asshats who refuse to flag your post because they are opposed the gamifaction.
I will go on record as saying I flag posts I consider sufficiently pedantic, except
Some of us are just lazy fucks.
sometimes this.
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Ditto.
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Sometimes it feels like the update takes a whole week.
And the rest of the time, it feels really slow.
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I've often not flagged sufficiently pedantic posts that lacked the je ne sais quoi of dickweedery.
You, sir, are the dickweed who denied me my badge for so long. Fie on thee! I have triumphed at last, in spite of your obstructionism.
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Firstly, Shakespeare reminds us that brevity is the soul of wit. Keeping things terse is a skill I am endeavouring to practice, and I thought sufficiently highly of you that I could simply say it briefly without having to explain it in detail.
The only WTF here is being kind to my fellow mankind.
First, I see your "firstly", but where is your "secondly"? Sloppy, sloppy.
Second, if brevity truly is the soul of wit, then why is the full quote from whence that line comes 83 words long?
This business is well ended.
My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief: your noble son is mad:
Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
But let that go.That seems awfully wordy for someone concerned with brevity, doesn't it?
Finally, Edwin Herbert Lewis wrote:
Brevity is a great virtue ... yet it may be overestimated. The reader's mind must be permitted to eddy around the subject.
He also said:
Brevity is a virtue even in the sentence. But we must not make a fetish of it.
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There's a fetish thread now?
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The questions thread, blatantly. Where only the brave can ask questions.
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@Terry Myerson said:
and because we're not building an incremental product
I think insufficient focus has been given to this, surely the best indicator that Windows 10 will be a real clusterfuck.
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Worse than Win8?
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But they're not building an incremental product. They're building the same product.
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Worse than Win8?
Why not?
They're building the same product.
I guess it depends on how much of the truth has leaked into the hype.
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The questions thread, blatantly. Where only the brave can ask questions.
I had been ignoring it because I don't have time to get involved with yet another long-running thread of silliness, but somebody said it was amusing, so last night I started reading somewhere in the middle (wherever it had been after I had marked all unread topics as read a few days ago). That topic now has the honor of being the first I have ever muted.
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And if you only read that far, you clearly haven't read far enough but I seem to recall warning you to avoid the topic because of PDAs anyway a few days ago...
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The questions thread is very out there.
Very much so.
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It is not for the faint of heart or stomach. This site is about playing hard - but that thread is even harder.
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OK, so I finally made the jump to Windows 8/8.1 last night and I still fucking hate it. If that stupid metro screen is supposed to be the new desktop, then fuck MS for cluttering it up with a bunch of shit that I do not want. I just had to spend a few minutes right-clicking and removing all that cruft from my metrosexual Start screen.
I demoed this turd of a UI when it came out and I did not like it then and I do not like it now. What is the big deal about 8.1? The best I can tell is that now you just have a button on your standard desktop that takes you to the same stupid metrosexual screen that you got to before. I want a Start button. I am going to give it a few days but I may nuke this POS and go back to 7, where grumpy old codgers like me belong.
Also, fuck you MS, I do not want your stupid MS sign in and you suck for making me look for the way to get around that particular bit of crap. They hide it behind the link to setup a new MS account. Cheeky bastards.
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@Intercourse said:
If that stupid metro screen is supposed to be the new desktop
@Intercourse said:
metrosexual Start screen
@Intercourse said:
What is the big deal about 8.1? The best I can tell is that now you just have a button on your standard desktop that takes you to the same stupid metrosexual screen that you got to before.
I can answer all your problems by just quoting you but whatever:
Treat the Metro-Screen like a Start-Menu → first Problem solved
8.1 Added support for "Start up on Desktop"-mode, a button in the lower left corner of your Screen (within the boundaries of your taskbar) and an ↓ within the start-metro-menu to show you all installed programs or something. → other problems solved@Intercourse said:
Also, fuck you MS, I do not want your stupid MS sign in and you suck for making me look for the way to get around that particular bit of crap.
The way to go around that is clicking the "I don't want to use an MS-account" when you are creating your account. I know it's not easy to find (I overlooked it, too, the first time I installed it) but it's there and it never asks you again ever (unless you need it for some kind of store-procedure.
Filed Under: Not defending Windows here.... just pointing things out and being a jerk about it :D
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And this is why ClassicShell is even a thing.
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As I said, I am not really defending Windows decision to go ahead with Metro here. I don't like it as much as the next of you. And I am not even that big of a developer.
I am just trying to make @Intercourse time with Windows a bit easier while simultaniously being a little bit of a jerk.I actually preferred the Gnome-Menu (that Ubuntu used to ship) over the Windows-Start-menu as it seemed more sorted. That's not saying it could not get clustered and unusuable but it made more sense to me.
Filed Under: Don't pin this MS-stuff on me. I am just using it (for the games ;P)
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I think they're doing the exact same thing with naming that others like USB and Infiniband have done.
USB modes:
- 1.5Mbps (for compatibility with serial devices): Low-Bandwidth
- 12Mbps (1.0): Full-Bandwidth
- 280Mbps (2.0): Hi-Speed
- 4Gbps (3.0): SuperSpeed
- 10Gbps (3.1): SuperSpeed+
Infiniband modes:
- Single Data Rate, Double Data Rate, Quad Data Rate (all good until here)
- Fourteen Data Rate
- Enhanced Data Rate
- High Data Rate
- Next Data Rate
Notice how all three follow the same pattern: they want their product to be named "SuperUltimateMegaHyperUltraEnhancedPlus Edition", because it's going to be the bestest thing ever, but then it turns out they have to release an even better version (who would have thought?!) and suddenly the name turns confusing and awkward. Just like will happen with the next Xbox, Windows or Surface.
In technology, you can never call ANYTHING "ultimate" or "Hi-Speed" or "The One", because in 10 years it will be laughably obsolete. Period. Deal with it and stop being idiots.
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So what happens with infiniscroll? Will we see more stupid names for that too?
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- I said no such thing.
- I was reiterating the points that Terry Myerson had said in the video. That's why my post begain with mentioning Terry Myerson.
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