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Maybe we, as an industry, should figure out how to develop software that doesn't require updates every 12 nanoseconds.
I'm sure we can figure out a way to update our software without needing a full reboot of the computer
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@topspin @ben_lubar has secret sauce in the background of the Lounge and certain Mafia areas. If you post a screenshot of them, NodeBbB detects it and warns you.
Like yellow printer dots?
Ohhh, I see:
IMPORTANT Stenography typing really fast in a courtroom Steinography taking pictures of beer-holders Stegonography dinosaur porn Steganography annoying people with @anotherusername's signature
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar has secret sauce in the background
It'd be nice if it was like my grandmother's special meatball gravy.
Unfortunately, it's more like Thousand Island dressing.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Monoprice got a very nice deal on a Dell Monitor
Just not sure about the look of that screen
I dunno, price is good, but will it come with Ubuntu installed?
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar has secret sauce in the background
It'd be nice if it was like my grandmother's special meatball gravy.
Unfortunately, it's more like Thousand Island dressing.
Meh. That's not a very secret secret sauce. My grandmother's special meatball gravy was something else, and the secret died with her (well over 20 years ago) so it's one of those things that's really secret now!
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
@gordonjcp said in WTF Bites:
@blakeyrat There were no warnings about updates. Just a dialogue box saying something along the lines of "Windows will restart in 15 minutes to apply updates" and a button for "Close" and a button for "Restart now".
I miss the good old days, when all you had to do was drag the 'reboot required' box under the task bar and then ignore it forever.
You are why the current system is the way that it is.
You mean because he uses his computer the way he wants to? Maybe even knows what he's doing?
Your attitude is why the current system sucks as bad as it does.
If you know what you're doing, then you set AUOptions in the registry.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Monoprice got a very nice deal on a Dell Monitor
Just not sure about the look of that screen
I'm sure "16:9 IPS" and "2560 x 1440" are just part of the name.
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@dkf Usually that means the recipe involves cocaine or something else like that.
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No it won't. It'll tie me to a microsoft account.
If it's free you do not need a Microsoft account to download it. Only paid apps need an account.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Monoprice got a very nice deal on a Dell Monitor
Just not sure about the look of that screen
Yeah, it looks more like it's only 1 pixel with a big-ass bezel...
Courageous!
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It'll tie me to a microsoft account.
Fortunately should you be desperate for Paint you can still use the Microsoft account just for the store without needing to use it to log into the OS.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Also known as "free".
A punch in the face is also free
Linux is free too
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How hard is it for a system to integrate/report to itself? Amazon keeps showing a jump in sales rank for my ebook this month if I look at the line graph. But nowhere else does it show that I've actually had any sales this month.
Why would an increasing sales rank necessarily indicate that there have been sales?
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Linux is free too
Win10 was not only free, they tricked a lot of people into upgrading to it
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How hard is it for a system to integrate/report to itself? Amazon keeps showing a jump in sales rank for my ebook this month if I look at the line graph. But nowhere else does it show that I've actually had any sales this month.
Why would an increasing sales rank necessarily indicate that there have been sales?
Well the alternative is that everyone else sold nothing more than I sold nothing?
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How hard is it for a system to integrate/report to itself? Amazon keeps showing a jump in sales rank for my ebook this month if I look at the line graph. But nowhere else does it show that I've actually had any sales this month.
Why would an increasing sales rank necessarily indicate that there have been sales?
If there were zero sales, why would the rank go up?
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@coderpatsy said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
It can always be worse. For example, they could get Oracle involved.
The filename extensions '.jpg', '.jpeg', '.jpe', '.jfif' and .'jif' are now trademarked by Oracle Corp. Additionally, the use of the following 'magic' hexadecimal strings at the beginning of a file are also trademarked by Oracle corporation:
- FF D8 FF DB
- FF D8 FF E0 00 10 4A 46 49 46 00 01
- FF D8 FF E1 ?? ?? 45 78 69 66 00 00 (where ?? is replaced by any pair of hexadecimal digits)
Furthermore, the words "JFIF", "JPEG" and "JPG" are now trademarked by Oracle Corp., as is the string "image/jpeg".
These trademarked strings may only be used in reference to the Oracle Photographics Experts Group image format formerly known as "JPEG", at a cost of $1000/use and subject to approval by Oracle Corp.
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@coderpatsy said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
It can always be worse. For example, they could get Oracle involved.
The filename extensions '.jpg', '.jpeg', '.jpe', '.jfif' and .'jif' are now trademarked by Oracle Corp. Additionally, the use of the following 'magic' hexadecimal strings at the beginning of a file are also trademarked by Oracle corporation:
- FF D8 FF DB
- FF D8 FF E0 00 10 4A 46 49 46 00 01
- FF D8 FF E1 ?? ?? 45 78 69 66 00 00 (where ?? is replaced by any pair of hexadecimal digits)
Furthermore, the words "JFIF", "JPEG" and "JPG" are now trademarked by Oracle Corp., as is the string "image/jpeg".
These trademarked strings may only be used in reference to the Oracle Photographics Experts Group image format formerly known as "JPEG", at a cost of $1000/use and subject to approval by Oracle Corp.I'm not 100% sure if you're joking.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
A punch in the face is also free
Linux is free too
He already said that.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
How hard is it for a system to integrate/report to itself? Amazon keeps showing a jump in sales rank for my ebook this month if I look at the line graph. But nowhere else does it show that I've actually had any sales this month.
Why would an increasing sales rank necessarily indicate that there have been sales?
If there were zero sales, why would the rank go up?
Other non-performing products were added to the market. Obs.
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Status: That's fine. This is fine.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
Usually that means the recipe involves cocaine or something else like that.
Or heart-stopping quantities of cream and a balance of pork and veal. Plus who knows what spices?
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Win10 was not only free, they tricked a lot of people into upgrading to it
It's better than Win8. (What a commendation!)
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Linux is free too
Win10 was not only free, they tricked a lot of people into upgrading to it
I didn't fall for it. Ha! (Except at work, where I didn't have a choice.)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
How hard is it for a system to integrate/report to itself? Amazon keeps showing a jump in sales rank for my ebook this month if I look at the line graph. But nowhere else does it show that I've actually had any sales this month.
Why would an increasing sales rank necessarily indicate that there have been sales?
If there were zero sales, why would the rank go up?
Other non-performing products were added to the market. Obs.
The rank would only go up if performing products were removed from the market.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@anotherusername I've got it blocked via CSS.
You're no fun. :(
How can that image trigger that popup? And how is that popup divining whether you're posting a screenshot of a mafia category?
It triggers the popup the same way that a screenshot of a mafia category would. And the popup is divining it by magic -- magic which involves looking at the lowest two bits of the red, green, and blue color values of each pixel in the image.
Ohhh, I see:
Yes... and in my sig, it's just opaque enough that it changes the lowest two bits of the color value underneath it.
It only works on a solid-colored background, though
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Ugh. Just lost a blog post because I accidentally dragged a PNG file across its composer while trying to upload it on a different browser window. Apparently the WordPress composer crashes everything if you drag a file across it, even if you don't drop it there.
Ugh.
See signature.
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@mott555 Huh, wow. It had autosaved it and I didn't lose any work.
I still hate computers.
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Oracle Photographics Experts Group
Just so y'all know, this could be worse. Imagine if Microsoft had done it. The Microsoft Photographic Research Experts Group, or MPREG for short.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: That's fine. This is fine.
why
Beats me. What is your Chrome doing that mine isn't?
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
How hard is it for a system to integrate/report to itself? Amazon keeps showing a jump in sales rank for my ebook this month if I look at the line graph. But nowhere else does it show that I've actually had any sales this month.
Why would an increasing sales rank necessarily indicate that there have been sales?
If there were zero sales, why would the rank go up?
Other non-performing products were added to the market. Obs.
The rank would only go up if performing products were removed from the market.
Not necessarily. Only is rather exclusive, don't you think?
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I always add a directory exclusion for my solutions. (Hmm. I think I forgot to set that up on the new work machine... First thing I'll when I get to work today then!)
Since they switched us to BitDefender¹ I have to ask the network admin to do that, because while I do have administrator permissions on my machine, BitDefender has its special admin password and probably some kind of central management.
¹ are names starting with Bit so popular – BitLocker, BitDefender, BitKeeper, BitMover …
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¹ :wft: are names starting with Bit so popular – BitLocker, BitDefender, BitKeeper, BitMover …
It started with Enlightenment,
BIT…COMPLAIN.
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This error code might help: (0x800704f7)
Severity: Error
Facility: Windows
Code: 1271 - ERROR_MACHINE_LOCKED
"The machine is locked and cannot be shut down without the force option."Thanks Windows!
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Beats me. What is your Chrome doing that mine isn't?
Visiting the site before the certificate it's presenting is valid? These certificates do have a notBefore, after all...
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:>
Win10 was not only free, they tricked a lot of people into upgrading to it
What was the business model on that? I always figured that selling major versions of Windows was a significant source of income for MS, not a loss leader.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
What was the business model on that?
I guess. Though in the article, the main example they use is OneDrive, which the message says is free.
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OneDrive
OneDrive is malware. I keep uninstalling it. It keeps returning. I don't notice until I boot my laptop up somewhere without WiFi and I get a bajillion OneDrive notifications complaining that I have no Internet access.
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@tharpa That was back when they didn't have any real competition in that market segment (I'm talking about Android btw, and HTML5 to a lesser extent).
Making a decent OS is not that hard (I'm not saying it's easy). I mean Linux distros are like >75% of the way there already, and they're free.
What makes money is owning a platform (i.e. a set of APIs that software uses to run). If enough software depends on your WinAPI, and you have the only decent implementation, you can sell that implementation for $$$ no matter how bad and stupid it is. And thanks to network effects, you will keep getting more software written for it.
Unfortunately (for Microsoft) Windows as a platform is starting to die. That's why they're stepping up their game. This means developing a better platform (UWP), and making their product cheaper.
Think of it as Facebook. You could charge money for people to use it, and they would pay if they had no choice because it's the only way to communicate with people. But when people start to leave then it's time to go "Hey, come back, it's free now! And we'll add new stuff!"
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Think of it as Facebook.
Like a mix of ebola, cancer, AIDS and dimethylmercury?
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mix of ebola, cancer, AIDS and dimethylmercury?
I'd rather have this than Facebook.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Unfortunately (for Microsoft) Windows as a platform is starting to die. That's why they're stepping up their game. This means developing a better platform (UWP), and making their product cheaper.
On the desktop, Windows is still the 600-lb gorilla. While there are a lot of people who use their smartphone instead of buying a desktop, I don't think that the cost of Windows is a big factor in anyone's decision whether or not to buy a desktop.
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On the desktop, Windows is still the 600-lb gorilla. While there are a lot of people who use their smartphone instead of buying a desktop, I don't think that the cost of Windows is a big factor in anyone's decision whether or not to buy a desktop.
Of course not. For most people, Windows is free since it came with the computer.
The desktop is becoming irrelevant. Most people are moving to smartphones and tablets.
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For personal use, yes. For professional use, not so much, even if the use of smartphones/tablet is growing there too.
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dimethylmercury
Had to google that. Kind of disappointed because I expected this:
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@TwelveBaud said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Beats me. What is your Chrome doing that mine isn't?
Visiting the site before the certificate it's presenting is valid? These certificates do have a notBefore, after all...
Maybe? But that shouldn't be usual, the valid start time is the time the certificate was issued, which is definitely not in the future.
Not to mention all those cookies (which, where did they come from? The mentioned URL doesn't even have trackers!)
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
On the desktop, Windows is still the 600-lb gorilla. While there are a lot of people who use their smartphone instead of buying a desktop, I don't think that the cost of Windows is a big factor in anyone's decision whether or not to buy a desktop.
Of course not. For most people, Windows is free since it came with the computer.
The desktop is becoming irrelevant. Most people are moving to smartphones and tablets.
Ha. No.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Ha. No.
You're right. More people are buying desktop computers now than ever