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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #76365, posted by Phlamethrower at 11:08, 12/6/2006 |
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Why does Visual Studio blow?
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- Phlamey |
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Mike |
Message #76366, posted by MikeCarter at 11:33, 12/6/2006, in reply to message #76365 |
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Why does Visual Studio blow?
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- Phlamey Blow what  |
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Phil Mellor |
Message #76367, posted by monkeyson2 at 11:34, 12/6/2006, in reply to message #76365 |
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Dear Phlamey,
I thought I saw you
coming toward me through
the fog. Then I realized
was just a rock.
No offense, sweetie. Mom |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #76372, posted by Phlamethrower at 12:12, 12/6/2006, in reply to message #76367 |
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Message #76396, posted by VincceH at 17:43, 12/6/2006, in reply to message #76365 |
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Why does Visual Studio blow?
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- Phlamey Is this a trick question? |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #76424, posted by Phlamethrower at 12:13, 13/6/2006, in reply to message #76396 |
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Dear Microsoft,
What's the point of having a multimedia keyboard if the media player program still needs to have input focus for the buttons to work?
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- Phlamey |
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Andrew Poole |
Message #76430, posted by andypoole at 13:46, 13/6/2006, in reply to message #76424 |
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Dear Mr Jobs,
Why, when copying a directory over a directory with the same name, does MacOS X irreversably delete the contents of the original directory before replacing it with the new, instead of merging the directories?
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #76432, posted by Phlamethrower at 14:25, 13/6/2006, in reply to message #76430 |
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Hey! This is a microsoft bashing thread. If you want to bash macs, start your own thread  |
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Andrew Poole |
Message #76434, posted by andypoole at 14:39, 13/6/2006, in reply to message #76432 |
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Hey! This is a microsoft bashing thread. If you want to bash macs, start your own thread Meh, couldn't be arsed |
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richard cheng |
Message #76435, posted by richcheng at 15:49, 13/6/2006, in reply to message #76434 |
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Hey! This is a microsoft bashing thread. If you want to bash macs, start your own thread Meh, couldn't be arsed
Tut. Didn't I already tell you you should be reading Daring Fireball? That includes the archives!
I think the answer is that they're aiming for intuitivity, rather than functionality. |
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Neil Spellings |
Message #76436, posted by spellinn at 15:52, 13/6/2006, in reply to message #76424 |
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What's the point of having a multimedia keyboard if the media player program still needs to have input focus for the buttons to work?
Sounds like you dont have the correct keyboard drivers loaded - my multimedia keyboard controls whatever multimedia app I have loaded(VLC, iTunes, WinAmp etc) even if it doesnt have the input focus.
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Peter Howkins |
Message #76441, posted by flibble at 17:13, 13/6/2006, in reply to message #76430 |
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Dear Mr Middleton,
anything?
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Flibs OM DFC FRS. |
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Andrew Poole |
Message #76442, posted by andypoole at 17:28, 13/6/2006, in reply to message #76436 |
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What's the point of having a multimedia keyboard if the media player program still needs to have input focus for the buttons to work?
Sounds like you dont have the correct keyboard drivers loaded - my multimedia keyboard controls whatever multimedia app I have loaded(VLC, iTunes, WinAmp etc) even if it doesnt have the input focus.
So if you load all three, then press Play, do all three start playing? |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #76443, posted by Phlamethrower at 17:52, 13/6/2006, in reply to message #76436 |
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What's the point of having a multimedia keyboard if the media player program still needs to have input focus for the buttons to work?
Sounds like you dont have the correct keyboard drivers loaded - my multimedia keyboard controls whatever multimedia app I have loaded(VLC, iTunes, WinAmp etc) even if it doesnt have the input focus.
Cheers,
Neil
In that case....
Dear Microsoft,
Why do the multimedia keys on a multimedia keyboard (sometimes) work even if windows thinks the keyboard is a standard one? |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #76444, posted by Phlamethrower at 17:54, 13/6/2006, in reply to message #76435 |
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I think the answer is that they're aiming for intuitivity, rather than functionality. Intuitive like, how you have to drag the icon for a USB mass storage device TO THE TRASH CAN in order to dismount it? (According to the instructions for my pen drive, at least). |
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Phil Mellor |
Message #76445, posted by monkeyson2 at 18:09, 13/6/2006, in reply to message #76444 |
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I think the answer is that they're aiming for intuitivity, rather than functionality. Intuitive like, how you have to drag the icon for a USB mass storage device TO THE TRASH CAN in order to dismount it? (According to the instructions for my pen drive, at least).
Old hat. You can do that if you want, or you can right-click and choose Eject, or you can click the eject button next to it in a Finder window.
Anyway, when you drag it to the trash, the trash icon changes into an eject symbol. |
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VinceH |
Message #76446, posted by VincceH at 18:23, 13/6/2006, in reply to message #76445 |
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I think the answer is that they're aiming for intuitivity, rather than functionality. Intuitive like, how you have to drag the icon for a USB mass storage device TO THE TRASH CAN in order to dismount it? (According to the instructions for my pen drive, at least).
Old hat. You can do that if you want, or you can right-click and choose Eject, or you can click the eject button next to it in a Finder window.
Anyway, when you drag it to the trash, the trash icon changes into an eject symbol.
That's so intuitive, it made me try a real life equivalent. I finished watching a DVD and I wanted to eject it, so I threw the remote in the bin.
It didn't work, though.  |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #76447, posted by Phlamethrower at 18:46, 13/6/2006, in reply to message #76445 |
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Old hat. You can do that if you want, or you can right-click and choose Eject, or you can click the eject button next to it in a Finder window.
Anyway, when you drag it to the trash, the trash icon changes into an eject symbol. OMG! You people have right mouse buttons now? |
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Andrew Poole |
Message #76451, posted by andypoole at 20:15, 13/6/2006, in reply to message #76447 |
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Old hat. You can do that if you want, or you can right-click and choose Eject, or you can click the eject button next to it in a Finder window.
Anyway, when you drag it to the trash, the trash icon changes into an eject symbol. OMG! You people have right mouse buttons now?
I've got a middle one, too
Although I haven't configured it to do anything
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richard cheng |
Message #76480, posted by richcheng at 10:00, 14/6/2006, in reply to message #76444 |
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I think the answer is that they're aiming for intuitivity, rather than functionality. Intuitive like, how you have to drag the icon for a USB mass storage device TO THE TRASH CAN in order to dismount it? (According to the instructions for my pen drive, at least).
I said, "aiming for".
And, as Monkeyson pointed out, that's a bit of strawman. You don't drag it to the trash can. You drag it to the eject icon. |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #76481, posted by Phlamethrower at 10:02, 14/6/2006, in reply to message #76480 |
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And, as Monkeyson pointed out, that's a bit of strawman. You don't drag it to the trash can. You drag it to the eject icon. It's still stupid. |
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richard cheng |
Message #76482, posted by richcheng at 10:06, 14/6/2006, in reply to message #76481 |
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And, as Monkeyson pointed out, that's a bit of strawman. You don't drag it to the trash can. You drag it to the eject icon. It's still stupid.
Stupidly intuitive  |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #76483, posted by Phlamethrower at 10:06, 14/6/2006, in reply to message #76482 |
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And, as Monkeyson pointed out, that's a bit of strawman. You don't drag it to the trash can. You drag it to the eject icon. It's still stupid.
Stupidly intuitive
Perfect for you then |
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richard cheng |
Message #76484, posted by richcheng at 10:10, 14/6/2006, in reply to message #76447 |
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Old hat. You can do that if you want, or you can right-click and choose Eject, or you can click the eject button next to it in a Finder window.
Anyway, when you drag it to the trash, the trash icon changes into an eject symbol. OMG! You people have right mouse buttons now?
My girlfriend's "mighty" mouse doesn't. It has no buttons; you just press down on it and it tells via magic if you wanted to left-click or right-click. (Or doesn't, more often.)
A triumph of industrial design.
Also, it has (almost) no way of holding down the button if you want to pick the mouse up, so it's basically impossible to drag anything anywhere. (Like, for example, the USB icon to the trash can.) 
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #105864, posted by Phlamethrower at 12:43, 4/1/2008, in reply to message #76365 |
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Why does Visual Studio blow?
Regards,
- Phlamey Handy hint of the day: Don't try using visual studio to find out that there are 76,000 occurences of a search term in a 14MB file. grep -c is much faster. |
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Adam Lloyd |
Message #105972, posted by adamlloyd at 10:17, 12/1/2008, in reply to message #76365 |
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Dear Microsoft,
Why do popups interupt fullscreen games?
I play games like World of Warcraft, now and I notice it interupts my game.
Also, I play Frets on Fire (Guitar Hero Clone) and the popups stop that while I'm playing, |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #106416, posted by Phlamethrower at 15:17, 12/2/2008, in reply to message #105972 |
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When running scandisk:
Windows was unable to complete the disk check. Um, mind telling me why? |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #106417, posted by Phlamethrower at 16:30, 12/2/2008, in reply to message #106416 |
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And why, when scandisk does work, does it fail to find problems that chkdsk then finds at boot? |
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Andrew Poole |
Message #106418, posted by andypoole at 16:49, 12/2/2008, in reply to message #105972 |
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Dear Microsoft,
Why do popups interupt fullscreen games?
I play games like World of Warcraft, now and I notice it interupts my game.
Also, I play Frets on Fire (Guitar Hero Clone) and the popups stop that while I'm playing, Surely that's just the sign of a badly configured installation. Or something nasty that's running. I've never had popups in my games under windows... Windows' messages all appear behind the game thus not interrupting. |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #106419, posted by Phlamethrower at 18:20, 12/2/2008, in reply to message #106418 |
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Dear Microsoft,
Why do popups interupt fullscreen games?
I play games like World of Warcraft, now and I notice it interupts my game.
Also, I play Frets on Fire (Guitar Hero Clone) and the popups stop that while I'm playing, Surely that's just the sign of a badly configured installation. Or something nasty that's running. I've never had popups in my games under windows... Windows' messages all appear behind the game thus not interrupting.
Popups interrupt games for me as well. Just not in World of Warcraft, because I don't play that |
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