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@TimeBandit Replacing uxtheme.dll was where it was at.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
The original Fisher-Price UI was Windows
XPME
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
The original Fisher-Price UI was Windows
XPMENobody used that.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
The original Fisher-Price UI was Windows
XPMEWinME looked like Win9x with a few jazzy icons, not like the major UI refit that was WinXP.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
The original Fisher-Price UI was Windows
XPMEWinME looked like Win9x with a few jazzy icons, not like the major UI
refithorror show that was WinXP.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Using unauthorised accessories compromises your gaming experience. For this reason, the unauthorised accessory will be blocked from use on 12/11/2023.
Amazing how they manage to spin that.
Well, to be fair MS has gotten blamed for a lot of shitty stuff done by other people over the years. Citation: most Raymond Chen posts.
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@boomzilla not quite the same.
Raymond Chen's posts: "this 3rd party software is doing something unsupported. It works now, but don't blame us if it happens to break in a future Windows version."
This would be: "This 3rd party software you paid for isn't supported because they didn't pay us. Even though it works, we have uninstalled it for you.Tough luck.For your convenience."
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
not quite the same.
Sure, different stuff. Still, same thing where they get blamed (in theory, I have no idea about how shitty 3rd party xbox stuff is).
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
In Polish the fruit is named exactly like a granade (granat).
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@MrL German:
Granatapfel
=grenade apple
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And since we were already talking about grenades, some news from Frankfurt. A hand grenade was found in a metro station this morning. A real grenade (not a mistaken pineapple, or whatever).
Source in moon language:
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
In Polish the fruit is named exactly like a granade (granat).
In Russian, which the azeri tourist spoke: grenade = граната, pomegranate = гранат. Pretty close.
In Portuguese: grenade = grenada, pomegrenate = romã. Completely different. Which might explain why the employees didn't think of an easier explanation for what was happening.
Also, we're talking about a restaurant which sells meat dishes, none of which use fruit. So asking for a pomegranate made no sense to anyone who knew that.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla not quite the same.
Raymond Chen's posts: "this 3rd party software is doing something unsupported. It works now, but don't blame us if it happens to break in a future Windows version."
This would be: "This 3rd party software you paid for isn't supported because they didn't pay us. Even though it works, we have uninstalled it for you.Tough luck.For your convenience."That's actually true on firestick devices. I can't remember what its called but there is software to allow you to change the launcher from the main ad screen. Amazon uninstalls it every update.
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NYPost wrote:
It’s likely that the app translated the word to “grenada” — “grenade” in Portuguese — rather than “poma,” the local word for pomegranate.
WRONG! The word is "romã". I don't think the word "poma" even exists.
checks dictionary
- Ball or sphere
- [poetic language] Female breast.
Great.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
a restaurant which sells meat dishes, none of which use fruit. So asking for a pomegranate
Pomegranate goes well with meat dishes. Try Turkish or Persian cuisine, and you'll find out!
And of course, it is could also be a fine desert,
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@BernieTheBernie it has also been used in a film as a stand-in for monkey brains.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
The original Fisher-Price UI was Windows
XPMENobody used that.
I did. And I might have gone on using it, except that I had too many peripherals plugged in that I used up all the available IRQs.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Pomegranate goes well with meat dishes. Try Turkish or Persian cuisine, and you'll find out!
And of course, it is could also be a fine desert,
I very much doubt that restaurant, Portugália, will ever serve Turkish or Persian cuisine.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
NYPost wrote:
It’s likely that the app translated the word to “grenada” — “grenade” in Portuguese — rather than “poma,” the local word for pomegranate.
WRONG! The word is "romã". I don't think the word "poma" even exists.
checks dictionary
- Ball or sphere
- [poetic language] Female breast.
Great.
"Orbs"
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Catching the real criminals
The real crime was the choice of beer
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Google giving up something which would have helped provide lock-in after everyone else pushes back? No wei!
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
And since we were already talking about grenades, some news from Frankfurt. A hand grenade was found in a metro station this morning. A real grenade (not a mistaken pineapple, or whatever).
Source in moon language:
Oi! Stop appropriating our culture!
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Oi! Stop appropriating our culture!
On a slightly- Random Thought of the Day relating to current German News Today: If we manage to get a Chancellor governing from jail, would that count as appropriating US culture or can we claim prior art?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla not quite the same.
Raymond Chen's posts: "this 3rd party software is doing something unsupported. It works now, but don't blame us if it happens to break in a future Windows version."
This would be: "This 3rd party software you paid for isn't supported because they didn't pay us. Even though it works, we have uninstalled it for you.Tough luck.For your convenience."That's actually true on firestick devices. I can't remember what its called but there is software to allow you to change the launcher from the main ad screen. Amazon uninstalls it every update.
Latest update doesn't allow it to install
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla not quite the same.
Raymond Chen's posts: "this 3rd party software is doing something unsupported. It works now, but don't blame us if it happens to break in a future Windows version."
This would be: "This 3rd party software you paid for isn't supported because they didn't pay us. Even though it works, we have uninstalled it for you.Tough luck.For your convenience."That's actually true on firestick devices. I can't remember what its called but there is software to allow you to change the launcher from the main ad screen. Amazon uninstalls it every update.
Latest update doesn't allow it to install
Time to go full CFW!
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Well, good luck, The Escapist. Y’all decided your editor wasn’t making you enough profit, pushed him out the company and your entire video editing team quits near enough on the spot, and all of them do it.
Yes, including Zero Punctuation’s Yahtzee Croshaw. We can infer from this that ZP will be no more.
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@Arantor You seem to a word or two.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Arantor You seem to a word or two.
Yeah I fixed the one I spotted. I think my iPad is acting up more than usual over typing.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Well, good luck, The Escapist. Y’all decided your editor wasn’t making you enough profit, pushed him out the company and your entire video editing team quits near enough on the spot, and all of them do it.
Yes, including Zero Punctuation’s Yahtzee Croshaw. We can infer from this that ZP will be no more.
Oooooooohhhh what's happened?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Well, good luck, The Escapist. Y’all decided your editor wasn’t making you enough profit, pushed him out the company and your entire video editing team quits near enough on the spot, and all of them do it.
Yes, including Zero Punctuation’s Yahtzee Croshaw. We can infer from this that ZP will be no more.
Oooooooohhhh what's happened?
The company that owns The Escapist figured it wasn’t making enough money so they fired the editor-in-chief because he wasn’t making them infinite videos a week for infinite moneys.
The entire video team quit in solidarity. So, ZP, Design Delve, Cold Take, Adventure is Nigh, etc. all quit in protest. They’re trying to arrange for the rights to the names back but who knows. Meantime they’re all working together on a new project.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Well, good luck, The Escapist. Y’all decided your editor wasn’t making you enough profit, pushed him out the company and your entire video editing team quits near enough on the spot, and all of them do it.
Yes, including Zero Punctuation’s Yahtzee Croshaw. We can infer from this that ZP will be no more.
Oooooooohhhh what's happened?
The company that owns The Escapist figured it wasn’t making enough money so they fired the editor-in-chief because he wasn’t making them infinite videos a week for infinite moneys.
The entire video team quit in solidarity. So, ZP, Design Delve, Cold Take, Adventure is Nigh, etc. all quit in protest. They’re trying to arrange for the rights to the names back but who knows. Meantime they’re all working together on a new project.
I thought they were covering costs and actually paying people a wage. You can't really ask for more from a media company anymore. By in large most media companies dug their own graves in the late naughties when they traded editorial standards for advertising clicks.
The only people making money are small operations for niche content. The rest are in constant boom and bust cycles or mouth peices for billionaires.
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@DogsB I’m also hearing rumours that the owners think the draw are the brands (like ZP) rather than the person(s) behind them, and that they can replace people with AI.
More interestingly there is a rumour they’re going to try to make ZP with AI writing and voice work.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@DogsB I’m also hearing rumours that the owners think the draw are the brands (like ZP) rather than the person(s) behind them, and that they can replace people with AI.
More interestingly there is a rumour they’re going to try to make ZP with AI writing and voice work.
Good luck with that one. Part of Yathzee's charm is new and interesting ways to bend the English language.
Been a while since I looked in but half their success after their last bust cycle, let's spend money on brands and put them front and centre, was they stopped chasing market trends for advertiser clicks and actually had an editorial direction that was we'll have our opinions. This is going to be a fantastic tire fire.
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@DogsB yup, and all of their last few years of turnaround was led by the editor in chief they just fired.
Dumpster fire doesn’t begin to cover the reaction on Twitter and their new Discord.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Well, good luck, The Escapist. Y’all decided your editor wasn’t making you enough profit, pushed him out the company and your entire video editing team quits near enough on the spot, and all of them do it.
Yes, including Zero Punctuation’s Yahtzee Croshaw. We can infer from this that ZP will be no more.
I'm out of the loop. someone tells me what is (was?) the escapist
I remember ZP as someone that review games talking funny like there is literally no pontuation in the text
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@sockpuppet7 The Escapist is a magazine/YT channel that talks about gaming (it might talk about other things but I don’t know or care about those)
ZP was the biggest draw for The Escapist and had been for some time, but it was growing month by month, both in terms of viewers and Patreon subscribers, not just for ZP but Extra Punctuation (Yahtzee talks about games in genre on a specific line of thought rather than a specific game) as well as other series such as Design Delve, Cold Take, and others.
They fired the editor who was turning it all around, and all their video creators left in solidarity. So, uh, going to be interesting what comes next. The plan seems to be to keep the husk of ZP going with someone new maybe including some AI help…
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
they fired the editor-in-chief ...
The entire video team quit in solidarity.I do not think I've ever had that kind of loyalty towards any one in my chain of command. I cannot even imagine it. I could imagine quitting if the new one turned out to be insufferable, but that's a different question.
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@jinpa there’s a certain amount of loyalty borne out of “this guy gave me my chance to go big” (for several of the other creators, not so much Yahtzee) and that he’s genuinely a decent guy by all accounts. (Which would go a long way with Yahtzee)
They tried to make him sign an NDA to get his severance pay upon termination, he told them where to stick it, such that he’d rather take no money than keep their secrets for them.
And I think he did a lot to shield them from the corporate overseers too.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
there’s a certain amount of loyalty borne out of “this guy gave me my chance to go big”
I would assume that any one who hired me would have done so because they thought that I was the best person for the job among the candidates, and thus I had the best chance of making them look good, so did it for themselves, not for me. But I guess people are different.
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@jinpa I don’t think it’s quite like that in the media world. There’s very definite “taking a chance on unproven names” territory.
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Meanwhile I submit quality evidence to the overall state of human intelligence (we don’t need no artificial ones when we have this quality of the real thing)
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@Arantor Welcome to the internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the hit-men are FBI agents.
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@Arantor Welcome to the internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the hit-men are FBI agents.
And no one knows you're a dog.
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@Arantor Welcome to the internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the hit-men are FBI agents.
I mean there’s that, but I used to think people were less dumb than seeing a domain like that and it never occurring to them that it might be anything less than legit
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@Arantor She got a relatively light sentence for attempted murder. Maybe the judge felt sorry for her.
If 1% of the population is literally mentally retarded, then there's another 1% that's almost.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
She got a relatively light sentence for attempted murder.
[She] pleaded guilty to transmitting threatening communications in interstate commerce