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General Discussion / Re: Win 8

« on: March 09, 2012, 02:31:18 pm »

Your normal use of a trackpad must be super derpy if you trigger gestures with normal use. ;p

The rotate gesture in particular is quite intuitive. It's quite a bit like the motion you'd make to rotate a photo if it was sitting in front of you. I didn't say any of the other gestures were intuitive, if you'll notice. They're easy to remember and use after forcing yourself to use them for two minutes, though, which is why I like them.

Other than rotating a photo... what's the point of the rotating mechanism?

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General Discussion / Re: Win 8

« on: March 09, 2012, 01:26:58 am »

What do you mean "new"?

Apple has had the magic mouse for quite a while. I have one, and love it. Other designs seem gauche in comparison.

I'm sure there are applications for which a physical scroll wheel is desirable, but none that I'm currently interested in.

I have a Magic Mouse that came with my iMac and I hate it.  On Mac, the only useful thing IMO that it really does is backwards/forwards navigation (and of course scrolling).  Four fingers is too many to coordinate simultaneously for me on a mouse surface (which is why I have stayed away from the "Magic Trackpad").  On Windows, it's entirely useless.

On the other hand, I have a variable-DPI mouse that has four primary buttons, a mouse wheel that acts as a fifth button, and the mouse wheel supports both horizontal and vertical scrolling.  While that mouse is extraordinarily amazing in Windows (it supports backward and forward navigation, and I don't need to hope that the computer correctly processes an analog hand gesture), it's completely useless in Mac because Mac only has the concept of a two-button mouse, something that realistically has been obsolete since probably 1995.

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General Discussion / Re: Win 8

« on: March 06, 2012, 02:19:14 am »

No, he just left. I've conversed with him on AIM a few times since then but haven't really kept in touch with him. :/

He left because everyone agreed that he was being a constant dillhole and trolling forever has to no longer be fun at some point.

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General Discussion / Re: Win 8

« on: March 06, 2012, 12:16:07 am »

I posted in the other thread how to get me off Firefox in quite literally the time it takes to upgrade IE. Get it done and I will be there.

I'll see.  The employment agreement I got indicated that I was on the other team... but it might have just been a placeholder.  We'll see!

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General Discussion / Re: Win 8

« on: March 05, 2012, 08:51:17 pm »

I will be passing on this since Win7 does literally everything I want right now.

NO! You must fund my salary!

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General Discussion / Re: Win 8

« on: March 04, 2012, 05:53:09 pm »

I've been trying to figure out what's up with the fish.

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General Discussion / Re: Hi

« on: January 02, 2012, 08:25:38 pm »

In The Old New Thing, Raymond Chen outlined a lot of problems that Microsoft had with DOS game publishers offering bad support for games because they typically last only about 3 months, and since a lot of companies didn't follow the DPMI spec very well, then when things like memory protection were introduced with Windows 95, it caused a problem.

I also wrote about similar requirements for updates to Vista that impacted WoW's ability to update itself.

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General Discussion / Re: GoDaddy Reaps What it Sows

« on: December 26, 2011, 06:10:25 pm »

Regarding my 'blah blah' attitude, yes, it's just a job.  I'm working on a few side projects, and building up a consulting business in my off hours.  Go Daddy is a great career place to work, but frankly it's the wal-mart of the internet... things are relatively inexpensive, but still more expensive in general, and a lot of the things that we sell are completely worthless.  My product, for example - Search Engine Visibility - is a waste of $3/month.  The 'premium' version might be worthwhile - it's managed PPC advertising, I think - but the cheap version is stupid (we'll see if it stays like that; I'm supposed to work on an R&D component over the next six months or so).  Also, when I tried to transfer to a very cool position inside the company, my boss's boss blocked my transfer (apparently).

Either way, I'm glad they changed their position on SOPA - I was very much against it in the first place.  Mostly my attitude on Friday was a result of the fact that we were coming up on Christmas weekend.

They didn't say "as employees, you will no longer support SOPA" - it was this press release.  It may have had something to do with the publicity, or it may have had something to do with the company's leadership and ownership changes that occurred just a week prior.  IDK.

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General Discussion / Re: GoDaddy Reaps What it Sows

« on: December 26, 2011, 04:10:11 pm »

There are plenty of reasons to hate godaddy (sorry Myndfyre ).

LoL; np.  I bash them all the time at the office.

They put out a big email about withdrawing our support of SOPA on Friday.  I wondered what that was about, but I was too uninterested to pay much attention.

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General Discussion / Re: RIP hitchens

« on: December 20, 2011, 12:16:34 pm »

After 4.5 billions years, you'd think whatever we have to show is pretty great, but we're mostly scumbag idiots. Hitchens makes me feel better about being an h. sapien.

Here's the thing: this statement is ambiguous at best and self-contradictory at worst.

I guess what I'm trying to figure out is:
* Do you think people shouldn't behave like "scumbag idiots"?
* Do you think that 4.5 billion years of evolution should or shouldn't cause people to behave like scumbag idiots?
* Do you think that Hitchens, then, was or was not an outlier?

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General Discussion / Re: RIP hitchens

« on: December 20, 2011, 03:43:39 am »

The message is complimentary in that he acted as a product of natural selection, not a missionary, carrying out the dirty deeds of natural selection, as you're seeming to suggest.

I'm not saying anything about Hitchens.  As I stated, until today, I'd never even heard of him.

I'm following this chain of thought:
* Sidoh posted that he liked Hitchens
* Sidoh then posted an image that was not disparaging to Hitchens, that described him as a product as natural selection.
* Therefore, Sidoh must like people who behave as products of natural selection and, by extension, products of natural selection.

I have no ulterior motive other than to find out if Sidoh is or is not a fan of products of natural selection.

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General Discussion / Re: RIP hitchens

« on: December 19, 2011, 04:23:15 pm »

No... and I don't really think that was supposed to be the message.

No?  You posted a picture of him that I was supposing was intended to be complimentary. 

What do you think was the intent of the message, if not to be complimentary?

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General Discussion / Re: RIP hitchens

« on: December 19, 2011, 02:51:56 pm »

I think I'm the only one in the world who has never read or heard of Hitchens.

Nope.  I haven't, either.

@Sidoh: You posted a picture of "Product of 4.5 billion years of natural selection.  Acted like it."  Do you think that people should behave according to natural selection?

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General Discussion / Re: I didnt eat meat for a week - weird. I have Qs.

« on: December 05, 2011, 10:53:17 pm »

Hell, my wife and I experienced "home-cooked food withdrawal" and "American food withdrawal" while we were in Australia for 2 weeks...  It's not THAT crazy.

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General Discussion / Re: Hi

« on: November 06, 2011, 03:54:49 pm »

These forums are the only place I keep in contact with most people.

Sidoh and I are currently fighting over Boolean algebra on Facebook.