Fuck you Microsoft and your extremely narrow world-view
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You have to be fist-fucking me?
SkyNet is at the end of the road that emacs is headed down.
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alias skynet='emacs --intelligent --no-preserve-laws
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(Insert joke here about someone trying to set Vim into Skynet mode, but not being able to get the command syntax correct...)
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SkyNet is at the end of the road that emacs is headed down.
[url=http://www.skynet.be]It's already here[/url], and as an added bonus, it’s in Belgium.
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That still exists? It used to be the ISP part of the main Telco operator.
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But who doesn't like an editor that's also a newsreader, email client, IDE and command shell?
"Do one thing and do it well" in action
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"Do one thing at a time and do it
wellwhen the user manages to remember the keystrokes to activate it"
FTFY.Seriously, I used to use Emacs as my main text editor for several years, but discoverability in that thing is just about zero. Still, at least wasn't vi.
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WTF is up with deleting their posts lately?
I delete all my posts immediately after posting them. But then, as the author, I flag them.
You, ah, know that now you can just hit the Windows key and start typing mysql or maybe query and it'll find that program for you, right?
WINDOWS. EX. PEE.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
WINDOWS. EX. PEE.
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discoverability in that thing is just about zero.
Apropos search: Ctrl+h, a, type in something likely relevant, Return.
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You can rent office for under ten bucks a month. That might work out a bit worse long term than buying it, but if you're only using it for editing CVs (i.e. temporarily), it could be an option.
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Purchase is $399, rent is ~$12/mo. If you disregard as silly OneDrive, SharePoint, Lync, Yammer, and Hotmail like I do, then buying is 2.7 years' worth of renting for the same product. Since new versions historically have come out roughly every 3 years, buying is still cheaper, though that will definitely change if the release cycle tightens up.
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OneDrive
That's the only one I don't think is useless of that group. OneDrive could always be a useful addition. If you don't have your cloud storage eggs in another
castlebasket
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Depends where you are then, I guess.
UK pricing...
Office 365 Personal: £5.99/month for 1 computer.
Office 2016 Professional: £389.99 for 1 computer.That's 5.4 years paying monthly before buying it works out cheaper. Or 6.5 years if paying yearly. That's two versions of Office for the same price.
Office 365 Home: £7.99/month for 5 computers.
4 years paying monthly before buying a single copy works out cheaper than 'renting' 5 copies.
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Though those are different editions, making rather hard<giggity>er to compare them.
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"Open Windows Explorer" is a dupe of the default #1 pin - Explorer (which I have never ever ever seen anyone remove)
I do and use Win+E to open the file browser.
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In other news, I got the icon only thing to work in KDE. Installed 4 at work, it's still a bit "meh", IMHO. At home I'm using testing repos and KDE 5 installed, which I'm actually enjoying quite a lot right now.
Fluxbox 4 life!
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One of these doesn't belong.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
WINDOWS. EX. PEE.
TIL that Windows is divorced, and it's former spouse might be pregnant.
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They come with the same Office applications.
Yes, but they enable different features according to which license key you use.
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Which the Office website cleverly doesn't mention on the comparison page I found
For anyone who's only buying Office Professional to get the extra apps though, it still seems cheaper. Especially on multiple computers.
Not to mention that some people might just prefer to pay a small amount each month versus a big lump sum, which is the reason I have Office 365 at the moment.
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Which the Office website cleverly doesn't mention on the comparison page I found
Of course not. That would allow more accurate evaluation, and MS are keen on getting people onto the rental model as it will increase their profits. (I don't know if that will be a direct increase through greater income, or a more indirect one by lowering support costs. Or a little of both.)
FWIW, I just get whatever my work buys the site license for. For sure, I'm not using all the features…
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One of these doesn't belong.
I'm not sure if I've ever (intentionally) used Windows Media Player on this computer, but it was pinned by default (or copied over from my old computer, or something), and I've never bothered unpinning it.
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Not to mention that some people might just prefer to pay a small amount each month versus a big lump sum,
Or OpenOffice does everything I've needed so far (just about; one of my conditional formatting rules doesn't seem to work as well in Calc as in Excel, but that's not essential for me), and I don't have to pay either monthly or a lump sum. When I have a job again, presumably I'll have access to MS Office through work, but for personal stuff, OpenOffice seems to be good enough.
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For anyone who's only buying Office Professional to get the extra apps though, it still seems cheaper. Especially on multiple computers.
Yeah, this. For home use, I could buy one copy of Office Professional (we need Publisher on our office computer) and three copies of Office Home & Student, for a total of $599 + 3*$179 = $1136. Or I could get Office 365 Home for $119 per year and have one licence left over for when I eventually get around to upgrading the kids' oldest computer to the point where it can run modern Office versions. If I'm upgrading more often than every 9.5 years, the rental model is cheaper for me.
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You can also use it to browse reddit and play chess, among other things.
Yeah, as they say, a great OS, just missing a decent text editor.
Filed under is that one old enough already to be funny again?, I don't actually know emacs
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is that one old enough already to be funny again?
Since that joke was invented, Windows bypassed EMACS in every way imaginable, including number of features, effort needed to do the most basic stuff, and resource usage (remember the Vista Ready shitstorm?). And EMACS didn't try to catch up - not just with OSes, but neither with the text editors. It's still the same thing it was 20 years ago, without even a single major change. So no, it's not funny anymore - but not simply because it's an old joke.
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Obviously that would be the invisible icon. Who puts an invisible icon on the taskbar?
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without even a single major change
So you're a subscriber to the “change for the sake of change” worldview?
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If something sucks as hard as Emacs or European Union, then change for the sake of change has 95% chance of being huge success.
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He has big family.
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OK, what's your name supposed to be?
I've got Google hits for all of Gaską, Gąska and Gąską.
Edit: GASP, Discourse works with ą in a search.
It's Gąska! Will you ever learn!?
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is that one old enough already to be funny again?
I was making jokes about emacs before it was cool.
I don't actually know emacs
That doesn't stop anyone else from joking about it, why should it stop you?
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I've got Google hits for all of Gaską, Gąska and Gąską.
Because for Google, they're all the same. Just like "weird" is the same word as "strange".
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I was making jokes about emacs before it was cool.
I was making jokes about emacs when "eight megs and constantly swapping" was an exaggeration.
[code]
$ du -sh Emacs.app/
109M Emacs.app/
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Why would you get that when you can get this?
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Because for Google, they're all the same. Just like "weird" is the same word as "strange".
Don't know. They all returned different results. Which is to say, each time I only got results for the particular spelling I gave.
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Why would you get that when you can get this?
That's Office 365. @Scarlet_Manuka covered that, when he said
Or I could get Office 365 Home for $119 per year
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That's Office 365. @Scarlet_Manuka covered that, when he said
But he'd only need one copy, and not three. PLus you get more stuff.
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That was his point. 1 copy of Pro and 3 copies of Home & Student or just 1 license for 365 Home.
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Exactly. I'd be happier with the purchase option, but at that price differential it's too costly when you have four or five computers you want to run it on. Assuming you want to update more often than once a decade or so, anyway.
It was all so much easier when we only had one computer. Of course that was also before we had kids :)
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SkyNet is at the end of the road that emacs is headed down.
Perhaps it will visit emacs-phone-os along the way.
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It was all so much easier when we only had one computer.
Eww, did you share a toothbrush as well?
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I see nothing wrong with sharing either.