DidYaWipe

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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
"MCP?" The "master control program," from Tron? I had no idea it survived.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Yeah, that's a good one too. I remember reading that China was allegedly trying to curtail this by limiting money movement out of the country for large transactions, but we all know that the people with that kind of money will find a w
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Good point, and surely a valid concern... one that Apple has forgotten in some places today. Look at the utterly useless icon/thumbnail view in Finder: Contents don't wrap within the window. There could be dozens or hundreds of fi
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Ah, OK! Thanks.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
"Spoon-feeding?" Saying WTF the product is isn't spoon-feeding. Expecting people to run around and do Web searches (or even roam around other pages at the domain) because posters are too lazy to add three descriptive words is
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Because it doesn't provide insightful guidelines on how to avoid pitfalls or how to work around this or that impediment or, or, or. Whatever, man. I guess we have different standards for what constitutes "informative."
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Wow, that whole thing was completely devoid of useful content. Does it even say what the product or service is? "We’ve also added a few contractors to the team. And these guys are legends. They come straight from the ProjectionLab use
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Thanks for the info! Never heard of "harding" though.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
What is "MCP?"
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Bummer about the reported Mac issues. Anybody have experience with it there? I have Logic, so I will probably never devote the time to trying to fix this. But maybe if I understood the "tracker" interface it would be more appealin
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
I'm not really exploring the origin of the problem; I'm just saying it's dumb and a pain in the ass.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Huh. I wonder why they thought this was such a big deal. I mean... the user caused the problem, and could easily fix it by enlarging the window. Other windowing GUIs handle this just fine.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
"More things" than what? And novelty has nothing to do with it. This is about validity.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
I don't know. Was it?
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Except of course when it's not obvious at all.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
I've been on Mac for 20 years and it's still annoying as hell. Another side effect is the uselessness of the Help menu. What help am I looking at? The application owns the menu, so where's the OS help? Oh right, it's jus
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Ah yes, this old argument. Except nobody slams his cursor against the top of the screen in real life, assuming that the menu bar is "infinitely tall." Watch real users interact with a Mac's menu, and you simply won't see
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Exactly. The single menu causes quite a few problems, both obvious and subtle. But yeah... now I'm relieved when I go home from work and get back on my Mac. I waste so much time hunting for stuff on Windows now... it's just incred
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
That assertion is absurd.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Thanks very much. But it doesn't sound like that would help. First, I doubt a giant network path would fit in the title of a thumbnail. Second, I want to give focus to the entire application at once. ALL of its windows need to be broug
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
How does turning that off help? Does it let you bring an entire application to the foreground (all of its windows) at once?
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Amen. And then there's the idiotic peek-a-boo UI that hides controls until you accidentally roll over them with the cursor... not saving any space at all.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
I've always considered the Mac's shared menu bar a GUI 1.0 mistake that should have been fixed in the transition to OS X. Forcing all applications to share a single menu that's glued to the top of the screen, and doesn't
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Microsoft pulls the same BS. Look at Edge. Absolute mess. No menu. No title bar. What application am I even using? This stupidity seems to have spread across Windows. No title bars or menus... now you can't tell what application a Wind
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Amen. Good riddance to Jony Ive and his embarrassing emoji bar.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Meanwhile, I can't convince my dad that he doesn't need to pay for AOL anymore...
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Gotta love the derelict USPTO.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Totally valid gripe. I agree.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
"The first iPhone technically wasn't a smartphone (unlike its competitors at the time) because it did not have a way to install third-party programs" What a laughably wrong assertion. The iPhone handled all kinds of PIM data
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
You have confused "Web functionality" with gatekeeping. You can use WebKit to visit any site you want; whether it supports every technical feature you might encounter on a site is irrelevant. I'm not arguing that it's a

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