Just the most obvious angle where competition is exposing flaws in the Microsoft model. It's pretty devastating to think that in many ways you get much less out of your hardware than you would otherwise - even if you're plugged into a wall socket that platform is simply using more juice than it should.
Yah, Windows really isn't as nicely optimized as one would think after all these years. That said, I still want to get a Surface Pro at some point. Sure - it's expensive for what you get but once you start looking at it like a Wacom tablet that also is a computer - the price seems more reasonable. Especially used.
Someone in the comments of that post said a new OS, from the ground up etc, would be nice. At this time I'm inclined to agree. Even though I'm very pleased with Windows 7
SHIFT_JIS. I'm not even sure why exactly, I've never had to deal with it personally, but it does leave a bad taste in my mouth whenever I realize some document/page uses it.
Eno wrote:SHIFT_JIS. I'm not even sure why exactly, I've never had to deal with it personally, but it does leave a bad taste in my mouth whenever I realize some document/page uses it.
Shift_JIS pages that don't actually mention that in their header are the worst, so you end up with mojibake everywhere and then you need to dig through the encodings menu and manually select it.
Also, Shift_JIS .txt files, since there is no way to actually specify encoding there.
At this point, text not encoded in UTF-8 bothers me a bit.
and apparently the url= syntax for this board was removed?
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Just the most obvious angle where competition is exposing flaws in the Microsoft model. It's pretty devastating to think that in many ways you get much less out of your hardware than you would otherwise - even if you're plugged into a wall socket that platform is simply using more juice than it should.
Yah, Windows really isn't as nicely optimized as one would think after all these years.
That's putting it nicely!
What makes me madder about Windows than power draw is all the level of unintuitive crap MS has layered on top of everything over the years. I was quite excited at the move file dialog (for quickly deciding what to do when moving a file into a directory with a folder of the same name) but that's...what they should have been doing a long time ago. They also added logical file number progression so it didn't open 999.jpg after 99.jpg - sad that this was a compelling reason to upgrade in retrospect (Irfanview lets you choose six sorting options, and with the option of ascending or descending order for all). Windows' handling of special folders (shortcuts) is execrable and makes manually migrating files a nightmare.
Finally, Windows still doesn't allow files to be dragged onto the Desktop while retaining their order (and the sorting options are useless anyway) - they tend to split off into an unholy highlighted checkerboard pattern when you try. Even changing desktop resolution will definitively destroy careful folder ordering, as it just resorts to fit a small resolution but doesn't bother filling a larger resolution again on the switch back.
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Eno wrote:SHIFT_JIS. I'm not even sure why exactly, I've never had to deal with it personally, but it does leave a bad taste in my mouth whenever I realize some document/page uses it.
Shift_JIS pages that don't actually mention that in their header are the worst, so you end up with mojibake everywhere and then you need to dig through the encodings menu and manually select it.
Also, Shift_JIS .txt files, since there is no way to actually specify encoding there.
Ugh, the worst is the lack of tools to re-encode text strings that ended up as mojibake
Certain Tom and Jerry cartoons bug me for some reason. Such as the one where Tom winds up dressing up like a bird to woo the other bird into handing Jerry over. But then he spend the rest of the frickin cartoon running and eventually playing mom instead of just TAKING THE DAMNED THING OFF! Also that "angry tongue hanging out of his mouth" look he gets alot bugs me, as well.
When Tweety bird uses the word "hypocrite" wrong.
I can never think of the good ones when I'm browsing this thread.
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Lord Satori wrote:Certain Tom and Jerry cartoons bug me for some reason. Such as the one where Tom winds up dressing up like a bird to woo the other bird into handing Jerry over. But then he spend the rest of the frickin cartoon running and eventually playing mom instead of just TAKING THE DAMNED THING OFF!
Hell I know which pisode this is! Goes to show I watched too much of Tom and Jerry during my kiddo years. Try animaniacs for some subtle adult jokes.
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Lord Satori wrote:Certain Tom and Jerry cartoons bug me for some reason. Such as the one where Tom winds up dressing up like a bird to woo the other bird into handing Jerry over. But then he spend the rest of the frickin cartoon running and eventually playing mom instead of just TAKING THE DAMNED THING OFF! Also that "angry tongue hanging out of his mouth" look he gets alot bugs me, as well.
When Tweety bird uses the word "hypocrite" wrong.
I can never think of the good ones when I'm browsing this thread.
I think you're missing the element of humor in both of those situations.
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Lord Satori wrote:Certain Tom and Jerry cartoons bug me for some reason. Such as the one where Tom winds up dressing up like a bird to woo the other bird into handing Jerry over. But then he spend the rest of the frickin cartoon running and eventually playing mom instead of just TAKING THE DAMNED THING OFF!
Hell I know which pisode this is! Goes to show I watched too much of Tom and Jerry during my kiddo years. Try animaniacs for some subtle adult jokes.
Ugh, Animaniacs. I used to love it as a kid, but I caught it again on the Hub, and now I'm like... "Why did I like this? Worse, why does everyone keep saying its so funny?"
Seriously most of the humor is formulaic, cliched, and utterly predictable, and over-relies on "Ha ha that guy got hurt in an over-the-top fashion that's so funny!"
... Although I'm probably biased. Never really was a fan of classic cartoon humor. When Bugs Bunny can dodge a gunshot just because "LOL that's funny" I don't laugh, I get annoyed. It's sort of the reason I hate Pinkie Pie.
Out of the Spielberg produced Warner Brothers cartoons, Animaniacs always annoyed me the most, but I enjoy some of the shorts like Pinky & The Brain and the Marc Antony and Pussyfoot inspired bits. Freakazoid is okay in spurts, but still relies on a lot of the same humor. Tiny Tunes Adventures is probably the best produced cartoon in my opinion. Lots of great references.
BIL wrote:
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Tiny Toons at least had some likable characters, but the humor is still cringe-worthy.
Really overall my problem with both (I never really watched the later Steven Spielburg toons) was that... they felt like comedies written by people who were more comfortable with adventure stories. This was just coming off the eighties, where most of the big-name cartoons were G.I. Joe, Transformers, He-Man, Defenders of the Earth, Thundercats etc.... stuff that was more about action and suspense with little if any humor to be found, and whatever jokes were present were more for flavor rather than being the whole point.
So you'd tune in and you'd have Buster and Babs breaking into a factory in order to save a pair of whales, or raiding some corporate office to save a forest, or going on adventures as Not-Indiana Jones... Animaniacs too went the same way within a few episodes, and I recall a particularly depressing episode later on about Slappy Squirrel being declared an unfit guardian and Skippy being taken away by CPS. The writers clearly weren't into comedy, despite the show constantly telling us how "funny" it was. Seriously their intro talks about how the Warner Bros (and their sister) were so out-there that they had to be covered up because they "made absolutely no sense," but then when you see their humor its... terribly prosaic. In fact its a pastiche of the Marx Bros, who were quite popular at the time. So either they mellowed out in that water tower, or... well, no, the writers just weren't comedians, they didn't have the necessary funnybones (or pounds of crystal meth) needed to make the characters live up to their backstory.
....
Okay, on another note:
That there's no way to use a mouse/keyboard combo with a Playstation 1 or 2. It would make playing Medal of Honor (PSX exclusive) or Rainbow Six 3 (console version isn't like the PC version) a hell of a lot more natural... that's not to say those games control badly, they actually control quite well, but for FPSes nothing is ever as good as mouse/keyboard.
Edmond Dantes wrote:That there's no way to use a mouse/keyboard combo with a Playstation 1 or 2.
Actually, some PS2 games had built-in support for keyboard and mouse play. It's rare, though, and they were generally badly implemented (using mouse would cause framerate issues, wouldn't scroll smoothly, etc).
Edmond Dantes wrote:Tiny Toons at least had some likable characters, but the humor is still cringe-worthy.
Really overall my problem with both (I never really watched the later Steven Spielburg toons) was that... they felt like comedies written by people who were more comfortable with adventure stories. This was just coming off the eighties, where most of the big-name cartoons were G.I. Joe, Transformers, He-Man, Defenders of the Earth, Thundercats etc.... stuff that was more about action and suspense with little if any humor to be found, and whatever jokes were present were more for flavor rather than being the whole point.
So you'd tune in and you'd have Buster and Babs breaking into a factory in order to save a pair of whales, or raiding some corporate office to save a forest, or going on adventures as Not-Indiana Jones... Animaniacs too went the same way within a few episodes, and I recall a particularly depressing episode later on about Slappy Squirrel being declared an unfit guardian and Skippy being taken away by CPS. The writers clearly weren't into comedy, despite the show constantly telling us how "funny" it was. Seriously their intro talks about how the Warner Bros (and their sister) were so out-there that they had to be covered up because they "made absolutely no sense," but then when you see their humor its... terribly prosaic. In fact its a pastiche of the Marx Bros, who were quite popular at the time. So either they mellowed out in that water tower, or... well, no, the writers just weren't comedians, they didn't have the necessary funnybones (or pounds of crystal meth) needed to make the characters live up to their backstory.
What in the hell are you talking about.
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NeoGAF not allowing unregistered lurkers to view user profiles so I can see how at least four posters in this thread met their delicious fates. What a cruel day
Pages 66-78: what the hell: "Wii/GC isn't fixed function, it can do normal mapping; NDS Mario 64 has moar polys than N64 Mario, etc."
79-82: "The GPU being bumped to 800mhz is reasonably possible." (direct quote)
Page 83: "Really it sad to see this ruined a good thread." (direct quote)
drauch wrote:What in the hell are you talking about.
My fingers slipped out of my control and I went on a rant about a pair of cartoons I watched as a kid but that I find to be dull now.
I think I was saying that "they were supposed to be comedy, but often they (Tiny Toons especially) felt like they leaned more towards being action-adventure shows." But then, I'm not sure if that's true or if just those episodes stand out to me.
I actually kinda dig the Summer Vacation movie tho.
Ed Oscuro wrote:Even changing desktop resolution will definitively destroy careful folder ordering, as it just resorts to fit a small resolution but doesn't bother filling a larger resolution again on the switch back.
I haven't seen this problem on Windows actually! I've seen it in Gnome, XFCE, and MATE under Linux whenever a program feels like changing the display resolution. It's just a good thing that far fewer Linux programs seem to want to do that [case in point, Kega Fusion for Linux will always stretch to fit instead of switching to 640x480 for fullscreen like in Windows].
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This has been a thing in every Windows installation I've ever seen, aside maybe from Windows 95 where I think it handled switching into DOS mode more "intelligently" (i.e., not treating it as a change of the desktop resolution).
Since we've got many more years into this Win32/x86-64 thing, switching resolutions to both larger and smaller is more common, and unfortunately this is one of the downsides (along with all that Aero crap) of trying to smash it all into one model so that changes to one thing affect the desktop, and vice versa. It seems that they still haven't really gotten anything like a unified, consistent model, and they certainly have to keep playing catch-up with their own new intentional breakages and new models with their own unique feature sets; the desktop is the last place to get innovation and it's one of the most obvious areas where you can see the inconsistencies of their various models.
I haven't used Win8 yet but apparently it is more of the same, except amplified. This will especially be true if they bring back a Start menu. That's explicitly a smashup of two different designs.
Toilet paper that fragments upon application, leaving little rat-turd sized pieces glued to the sides & center of the anus, to be dislodged and (practically) ignored during normal straight hetero-sexual/-social cleaning in the morning shower.
Cleanliness is close to Godliness, and God has an impeccable anus.
Edit: The term "heterosexual" was vastly predated by "homosexual." Ditto "white" & "black." Are you Irish (as I partly am)? Then you were considered the same race as Africans (of which I am not), Native Americans (of which many pretend to be), and Italians (of which I partly am), in the 19th Century.
A veritable cornucopia of flummoxeries, my good sir! Statistically speaking, the most prominent source of mistaken claims of Native American heritage is likely amongst those personages of a darker complexion, whose ancestors out of America hail most recently from the African continent. Such people probably overstate the rates of Native American heritage by ten times (the actual rate is around 5% - i.e., a rare occurrence), which is surprising because many people assumed that as African and Injun were both on the outs in Pinko-Grey society, they naturally found a way forward together.
What's also endlessly amusing to myself is the assumption that if a person has fair skin that they obviously aren't Native American. Who is, then? Have you seen some of the goofs with Dutch names running tribes? Many of political powers have been quite successful knocking people out of enrollment in a native Nation who obviously should be there...but that's another topic, comprising unintentional and joyless mirth!
"African American" might be hated by white people because "they're not Africans, they're just Americans." It's probably just tolerated by the people it purports to describe because it's better than "blacks, coloreds, and something else." "American Indian is like [that something else]," one First Nations person has stated recently. The reasoning might be different here, and it might be different if it were "Native American" instead, but these terms aren't exactly as beautiful as the originals. (Dine for Apache, Haudenosaunee for members of the Iroquis League, etc.) All the "correct modern" names here are pretty clunky and there's probably a different sense of the appropriateness of having a non-First Nations language term being used to describe those people. "Indigenous" seems less political than "Native American" (if you remember your history lesson), even if only unintentionally so - of course there was no doubt a political angle to calling people "indigenous." At least it's not as politicized as naming a whole continent after an obscure explorer, about whom Waldseemuller wrote: "I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling this part, after Americus who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence, Amerige, that is, the Land of Americus, or America: since both Europa and Asia got their names from women" (teh Wikipedia). At least he's now tied to the more positive aspect of popularizing the continents through letters, rather than the brutal day-in-and-out politics and outright butchery and slavery that typified explorer relations from Columbus on.
At this point, being called by a name that was originated by your enemies (i.e. enemies, cannibals) might be preferable if it at least has a "native-sounding" kind of ring to it.
( <- this guy also claims some Irish ancestry way back, through Sir William Johnson, along with everything else.)
People walking around too absorbed in their smartphones to look where they are going. We seriously need legislation simmilar to driving-while-using-phones to walking(and perhaps cycling too, never saw it happen, but god knows) .
Eno wrote:People walking around too absorbed in their smartphones to look where they are going. We seriously need legislation simmilar to driving-while-using-phones to walking(and perhaps cycling too, never saw it happen, but god knows) .
I have! I already hate the bike riders enough [even the people on skateboards [that often fly out from underneath them] aren't as bothersome, but bike riders just barrel through like a rhino].
It's a real nuisance on campus, texting while moving. Especially when you see people walking in the middle of the road around the campus parking lots doing it.
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I went to an outdoors art show a while back and some retard, shitty rapper was recording a horrible video in front of the art installation (which involved lighting and ambient music) and he acted like a little bitch when the artist rightfully complained that he was interfering with the art installation. "OH HEY LOOK A COOL BACKDROP FOR MAH RAPPIN'" no you fuckwad that's called stealing art and ruining the experience.
It was one of the better art pieces, shame it was a bit ruined by that experience. I couldn't stick around long after because I was with some friends who were lame and were basically hopping from one place to another so fast that we barely stayed any time at any of the art installations.
I'm sat here with several doors closed in the house and most of the lights out, so the little bastards don't disturb me every 15 minutes and resulting in having to walk through the house to give them freebies. Fortunately my girlfriend will be home in 30 minutes, and we're going out for dinner, then to do some shopping until it's safe to come home again.
I've only experienced one Trick or Treat event in my house. So far the lights out have convinved the little bastards to piss off. This year I've even got a "No Soliciting" sticker to further my deranged hermitery. Better keep those bastards away.
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Annoyed by trick-or-treaters? Damn. If you're going to be a miserly burnout, go all the way I guess. Pushers in the rye.
I was annoyed there weren't MORE trick-or-treaters in my neighborhood last night! Then I had to remember that new families can't afford to live in this neighborhood anymore, and the ones that can are probably the over-protective types afraid of all those "strangers" out there. Can't have those rotten kids in the street, gotta keep that property value up. Mmmm, the smell of property value in the morning.
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