Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
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Possibly a little too late.
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@SpectateSwamp said:
How can you explain to the clueless that having Tens of thousands (oodles) of files in various formats is easier that 8 or 10 Large text ones.
How can you explain to the clueless that having a house with tens of thousands (oodles) of objects of various shapes is easier than welding them together into 8 or 10 huge balls of stuff?
People don't merge their files. People don't want to merge their files. You can stand on your
street cornerforum and shout about it from now until the end of Creation, and people still won't want to merge their files.Your argument for merging files makes exactly as much sense as "if you welded everything in your house together into 8 or 10 huge balls of stuff, then you could count the balls more easily": namely, none whatsoever.
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@emurphy said:
How can you explain to the clueless that having a house with tens of thousands (oodles) of objects of various shapes is easier than welding them together into 8 or 10 huge balls of stuff?
Do you think it's possible that Swamp has just played waaaay too much Katamari Damacy?
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Learning & Learning is over rated. Fun and Play is #1 with SSDS
@DrPhil said:
That ranking must be skewed because of the Truth and Knowledge Factor of my posts. Has to be.Something I find disturbing is that SpecateSwamp is a 'Top 25' contibutor to TheDailyWTF forums (hover over the boxes below your avatar) , AND has only posted in this one thread! That is quite a WTF in itself!
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Channel9'er Video Message - I LOVE Video
A channel9'er message
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=53809c29-f054-47ee-9ff8-c04613a51790
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@SpectateSwamp said:
A channel9'er message
And how much of that will you actually listen to and think about and accept? Lemme guess:
"Spectate <noise noise noise noise> we're right there with you <noise noise noise>"
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@SpectateSwamp said:
A channel9'er message
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=53809c29-f054-47ee-9ff8-c04613a51790
Thanks for sharing that, did you actually get the message he was trying to put across?
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@spenk said:
@SpectateSwamp said:
A channel9'er message
Thanks for sharing that, did you actually get the message he was trying to put across?http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=53809c29-f054-47ee-9ff8-c04613a51790
Of course not. He was just interested in the attention. Besides, he's probably only heard it in random 2 or 3 second clips.
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oh joy! is this thread finally dying?
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@WWWWolf said:
I'd like to see other pointers to famous works of fan art (um) produced by readers, too. I think I missed the desktop backgrounds etc.
That was back on page 14 and 15:
Wallpaper1 | Wallpaper2 | Sticker
And then, of course, who could ever forget it: The friendly laughing TDEMSYR guy
This has been nominated for post of the year (or something) multiple times: SSDS on Linux
Did I forget anything? Didn't mention the two songs as they have been mentioned earlier.
Btw, I like this Google images result...
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thread finally dying
@Tatiano said:
oh joy! is this thread finally dying?
I am feeling the same way. Not much for new questions and I get roasted for answering anything twice. The subject Desktop Search will always needs more discussion. My next posting will be to announce a new training video or to answer questions by Swampies. So It may be a while. You all helped clue people in on DS.Later SS
P.S. I went to a political forum last night. Without a Camcorder. (power cord problem) They didn't even try to rig the Questions.
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To put an end to this most pathetic episode of the TDWTF forums, this thread is officially declared dead and buried now.
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I reckon he'd love the changing titles in Dischorse then!
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And general Discourse randomness seems like a natural fit, too!
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Man, I've got no clue what the hell half of what this guy says even means.
That said, some kind of desktop search program is totally useless to me. I've got over a terabyte of files, and letting some program waste hours searching through all of that seems a hell of a lot less convenient than just, I dunno, keeping shit organized and knowing where I put things?
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It's a lot to read
I've stopped at post 150ish for now. Fixed a few broken quotes along the way.
Fucking hell CS loved HTML.
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You do realize that pretty much 99% of people won't ever use their cellphones for more than (woah, what a concept) telephone calls, and if young enough, obsessive text messaging?
2008 calling...
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If he'd said "don't" instead of "won't", it wouldn't look quite so bad. It'd just be old data then.
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Fucking hell CS loved HTML.
As a Chrome user, can I tell you how much I prefer discomarkdown compared to raw html? The answer is, a lot.
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As a Chrome user, can I tell you how much I prefer discomarkdown compared to raw html? The answer is, a lot.
Ab-so-lutely. CS was virtually unusable on anything but Firefox, IIRC.
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You do realize that pretty much 99% of people won't ever use their cellphones for more than (woah, what a concept) telephone calls, and if young enough, obsessive text messaging?
I was on a flight last week. It is spring break, tons of college students..Looking around , I was actually shocked. Not a single person (who appeared to be) under 25 was on their phone, over 90% of the people (who appeared to be) 40 and over were on their phone, given it was not "to their ear" and I heard nothing, and saw their fingers moving...they seemed to be texting...
The exact opposite of "conventional wisdom".
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I was on a flight last week. It is spring break, tons of college students..Looking around , I was actually shocked. Not a single person (who appeared to be) under 25 was on their phone, over 90% of the people (who appeared to be) 40 and over were on their phone, given it was not "to their ear" and I heard nothing, and saw their fingers moving...they seemed to be texting...
The exact opposite of "conventional wisdom".
Do you think that college kids can afford service while in-flight? ;-)
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given it was not "to their ear" and I heard nothing, and saw their fingers moving
Candy Crush.
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WAT.
I mean... congrats, SpectateSwamp, your markhov chain generator is really impressive, the output is almost as good as when Nagesh writes something!wait... a zombie thread?
nevermind, still impressive, and I'm too lazy to scroll to the bottom to see why it got resurrected, when I have to wait about 2 seconds after scrolling each 20 comments until the next 20 loads...Edit: oh, hello, posting actually scrolls me to the bottom, nice!
Still no clue,
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It's a famous thread from the old forums (which we're vacuuming into Discourse's black hole) that we've revived to commemorate the occasion, and reminisce about those dear posters who have sadly departed... and
ZoidbergMasterPlanSoftware.
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and I'm too lazy to scroll to the bottom to see why it got resurrected
You can just click the green bar of horror in the corner and then click "bottom".
Or, as you found, post if that's how your preferences are set.
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You can just click the green bar of horror in the corner and then click "bottom"
Or just hit 'End'
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Or that, which is how I do it anyway
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Did you know:
Using End key actually works in Discourse!
Close// TODO: Add a button that turns tips off here
EDIT: DAMN! Hanzo'd because I was trying to be fancy. And steal @tar's shtick.
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Stop trying to steal my shtick. --\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-OKYes
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Stop trying to steal my shtick.
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OKYes
ERROR: OPTION_NOT_FOUND
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oh, that thing's a real... menupagerthing? never ocurred to me to click it, thought it's just a gamifying progressbar trying to manipulate me into reading everything and the up/down arrows were a (useless) hint meaning "hey, i do (useless) stuff when you scroll up and down". also, first time in my life that i've seen Home and End buttons scroll beyond the start and end of actually loaded page/document.
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I was actually surprised that this thread was only about 420 posts. It seemed a lot longer than that when I went through it on CS...
(Although actually, it's possible that the import hasn't finished yet and we're missing some posts... wk?)
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also, first time in my life that i've seen Home and End buttons scroll beyond the start and end of actually loaded page/document.
Home and end didn't even work properly when we first got this thing. Consider yourself lucky.
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In a way, End is still broken-ish; if you hit it when at the end of the topic, it should go to the end of the page, but it doesn't. Though sometimes it does…
Edit: Just tested it, and it's more consistent than I recalled; it always goes to the end of the page if you hit it at the end of the topic. Hit it again though, and you go up to the end of the topic
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Can't do it consistently, but sometimes i can get it to jump to the end of the page and then it immediately flick back to the last post instead of end of the page. Maybe that bit breaks on some browsers?
Version information Version: 28.0.1750.48 - Opera is up to date Update stream: Stable System: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (x86_64; X-Cinnamon)
If UA is to be trusted, this is equivalent to
Chrome/41.0.2272.89
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NOREPRO.
May be a Firefox thing…
*retests*
Hmm…
@Onyx said:Can't do it consistently, but sometimes i can get it to jump to the end of the page and then it immediately flick back to the last post instead of end of the page.
I just got that a couple of times too.
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I was actually surprised that this thread was only about 420 posts. It seemed a lot longer than that when I went through it on CS...
You gotta admit, though 420 is appropriate for this thread.
He had a couple of long threads. At least one got locked, and then he agreed to stay in one or the other. I can't remember which this is. Though we'll probably get more posts here when the import picks back up this weekend.
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I was on a flight last week. It is spring break, tons of college students..Looking around , I was actually shocked. Not a single person (who appeared to be) under 25 was on their phone, over 90% of the people (who appeared to be) 40 and over were on their phone, given it was not "to their ear" and I heard nothing, and saw their fingers moving...they seemed to be texting...
The exact opposite of "conventional wisdom".
Perhaps the youngsters hadn't gone through the frequent-traveler inoculations against flight attendant safety briefings yet?
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first time in my life that i've seen [something that's been standardized since the 70s] [suddenly do something completely unexpected].
Welcome to Discourse!
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I knew there was more of this thread! Our conversation from last week is stuck somewhere in the middle! Have a look around 400-420...
@ben_lubar!
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Honestly, this was a wasted opportunity. You should have drip-fed this thread in, one post every hour or so; let people relive the wtf at leisure, with real-time commenting.
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All those broken [quote]s hurt my eyes.
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Our conversation from last week is stuck somewhere in the middle! Have a look around 400-420...
Ah, that would explain why Discurse said I have 1.5k unread posts here...
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Indeed.
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Presumably there's still more of this, as the posts only go to 2008?
Can't check CS as it's down.
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We're also missing all the pictures. :(
Time to go see if archive.org captured any of them...