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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8.1 update

« on: January 13, 2014, 12:32:15 AM »

Better cameras

No one uses a tablet as their camcorder. Moot point.

, cellular

Lolwut? What does this even mean? Are you high?

better screen resolution

A shitty screen resolution that no standards actually support. It's just Apple being retarded, like when they decided they weren't going to put HDMI in their laptops anymore.

, lighter

My phone is lighter than your iPad. It must be better.

, costs less

Because it does less.

, longer battery life

Also because it does less.

, no crappy keypad mat

No keyboard at all, you mean.

, better screen dimensions

What does this even mean?

, OS made for touch ...

Yeah, it's called Windows 8. The OS on the iPad is, funny enough, not an OS at all. It's a glorified iPhone interface.

I still don't know why you'd pick the inferior machine just because it runs windows? If you want laptop capability, get a laptop. this does not work as a tablet and doesn't compete with laptops anywhere near the price. Its a monstrosity.

Look at the price of Ultrabooks, Thork. The Surface Pro is a much better deal than any of them. I'm not trying to argue that the Surface Pro is "better" than the iPad because they're not even remotely the same thing. The iPad is just a really big iPhone without the phone. Like Blanko said, there is no reason to have an iPad. Ever.

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8.1 update

« on: January 12, 2014, 11:22:03 PM »

Not a single rebuttal. I guess this is almost done and dusted.

You were making an argument to rebut? I didn't see one. I just saw bawwing that it's too heavy for you. Come back when you make a real reason to have a shitty tablet versus a portable ultrabook with a detachable keyboard.

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8.1 update

« on: January 12, 2014, 11:10:40 PM »

An iPad Air is 463g. A surface pro is 903g. It feels like a tablet from 2002.

Oh, so you do use an iPad? Good to know you really are this stupid.

I'm 5' 10" and 11 stone. 
How about you, porkchop?

Oh, so you're not fat, you're short, tiny, and weak.

In one arm? What, like a baby? So you just agreed that its too heavy to hold and comfortably read etc in one hand for any length of time. Nice contradiction.

As the first person in the argument to resort to semantics, you must be losing, no?

I don't need to cradle my iPad in my arm. Do you use your wanking arm?

Semantics again. And no, I don't use my wanking arm.

I don't pay for any of my tablets or phones. Work does. My iPad cost me nothing. I could take home the google nexus, surface pro, Samsung galaxy or iPad mini. But I took the iPad as my day to day tablet because its the best of the lot. There is an endorsement. I can have any of those for free, and I took home the iPad. In fact the others just sit in the office mosly unused because all the developers at work opted for either iPads or Google Nexus machines.

You paid $800 for the surface Pro? The iPad Air 128gb version is $799. Its half the weight. Has a 2048x1536 pixel screen. Takes 5MP photos. Records at 1080dp. Works in any orientation. Has 10 hours of battery time. Works on cellular as well as wifi. Has a store of 750,000 apps. And it looks nice!

The Surface Pro has a pathetic 5 hours of battery. 720 video, 720 cameras. The screen is long and skinny.  Its dreadful.

The iPad is also... surprise... a fucking tablet. I needed a computer, because my job is actually important and requires a processor that is a bit more powerful than a glorified cell phone. Why are you comparing tablets to the Surface Pro, anyway? The Surface Pro is an ultrabook, not a tablet.

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8.1 update

« on: January 12, 2014, 10:26:57 PM »

The point is it fails at both. Its too heavy and badly designed to use as a tablet. It doesn't portrait and windows itself doesn't work as a touch screen interface. Its awful as a laptop. The keypad gives no feedback because its flat, the screen is tiny and its not very powerful compared with proper laptops.

Seriously? You really, truly think its too heavy? That's just sad.

Unless your fingers are the width of a stylus you are going to struggle to pick a document from a folder out of a 1920x1080 10 inch display.

Uhh, no. I think you're fat.

Its likely you don't use it. I'll bet you put the surface on a desk like a laptop and use it like that. Why? Because its not designed to be held in your hand. Ergo, its crap.

It's completely balanced on both sides. You could hold it anywhere and it won't be lopsided. I.e. it is designed to be held in one arm quite easily.

I have an iPad. On the subject of knowing what I am doing, you know that I write professional apps for both?

You do all sorts of things, Thork, and you're not particularly good at any of them.

You should post a picture of your massive guns. Its pretty easy to be Arnie from behind your keyboard.

It's not heavy, Thork, you're just weak. Get over it.

Neither works. My point is that Microsoft have got it massively wrong and ended up with a dreadful machine. Actually you have ended up with a dreadful machine. They have ended up with $1000 of your dollars. You idiot.

I paid $800 for both the tablet and keyboard combo off E-bay. Sounds like you suffer from a bad case of stupid.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Daily Contact Prayers in the 3 Major Faiths

« on: January 12, 2014, 10:19:22 PM »

Are you fucking kidding me?

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8.1 update

« on: January 12, 2014, 10:01:47 PM »

Its so hideous to use. Its neither a laptop nor a tablet. Its the bastardised child of both. So many of its features are incredibly dumb.

Vague nonsense, personally insulting an inanimate object instead of relaying an actual negative aspect.

everything is too small to touch with your finger so you end up trying to use the mousepad, which is also shit, so you have to plug a mouse in.

Not a problem, I don't have fat fingers.

And then there is the tablet style keyboard. Designed by a complete idiot.

Never had issue with it.

Tablets are designed to be held in one hand and used in the other. Putting a split keyboard on it is an act of madness. Your free hand is dotting all over the place.

If you wanted a tablet maybe you should have bought an iPad. It fits your "I have no idea what I'm doing" personality more.

Then there is its weight. I think it has a depleted uranium battery.

Maybe go to the gym once a decade or something.

Couple that with windows 8's awesome concept of making everything at least 5 clicks away and you have the electronic equivalent of tramps vomit.

I'm not a big fan of windows 8, but I honestly don't think Windows 7 would work better with a touchscreen interface.

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8.1 update

« on: January 12, 2014, 09:52:27 PM »

Horrible at what, exactly? It does precisely what I need from a mobile computer.

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8.1 update

« on: January 12, 2014, 09:15:02 PM »

I am sceptical about your 10 minute claim on a surface pro.

Read PP's post again you dolt, I'm not talking about download speeds.

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8.1 update

« on: January 12, 2014, 08:52:51 PM »

I bought a new laptop yesterday, and decided to give Windows 8.1 a try (the machine came with Windows 8). I did not encounter Thork's problem, but fuck, that was the most ridiculous upgrade procedure I've seen in my life.

First of all, the upgrade file is 3.6GB. Just... what. Seriously, what. If the upgrade fails for whatever reason (not like it'll tell you the reason anyway), the temp files are deleted. Super helpful, thanks Windows.

Oh, and it failed 3 times. Because why not?

Anyway, eventually it didn't fail, or rather it failed less massively. It then proceeded to show me unmoving progress bars with helpful descriptions of what's currently going on. Examples include:

• Preparing upgrade
• Making changes
• Getting info
• Finishing up a few things
• Taking care of a few things

Oh, and the successful upgrade itself took 2 hours and a half, not including download times.

Took my Surface Pro ten minutes to upgrade. Your laptop is double plus retarded.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: You are selfish.

« on: January 12, 2014, 08:51:34 PM »

This thread has been Bishop'd.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Daily Contact Prayers in the 3 Major Faiths

« on: January 12, 2014, 08:48:20 PM »

I think religion is simply an early form of government, and prayer is so that the governed are reminding themselves who their governor is. If you remind yourself multiple times a day your all-seeing overlord is watching and judging you, you're less likely to deviate from their guidance, rather than a weekly or monthly sort of thing.

It's similar to why children overall tend to behave a bit better as Christmas approaches. Santa, being a gift-giving all-seeing overlord, will withhold his reward if you are naughty. Of course kids only really think about that during Christmas vacation, so it has no impact on their behavior during the other 51 weeks of the year. Imagine if kids had to pray/confess to Santa multiple times a day, always reminding themselves Santa is making his list and checking it twice.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Sleep Cycles

« on: January 11, 2014, 09:45:19 PM »

Don't use any electronics after 8 pm or so, or use f.lux for your computer.

http://justgetflux.com/

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Atheism vs. religion

« on: January 08, 2014, 01:33:18 AM »

We need more Jewish-like religions that keep to themselves and tell you "even if you join this religion you're still not a chosen one and receive no benefits whatsoever."

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: My Simulation Hypothesis

« on: January 07, 2014, 02:20:32 AM »

Can we please not make this thread about Thork? He is almost better at shitting up threads than Markjo is.


Followers of the simulation hypothesis have to accept that if one simulation exists then the universe is likely to be stuck in an infinite chain of simulations, as each universe contains a simulation of itself.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: My Simulation Hypothesis

« on: January 05, 2014, 09:37:48 PM »

It appears to be on topic.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?

« on: January 05, 2014, 05:01:50 PM »

Why do you keep arguing with this guy? There are two options:

1. He is trolling you because he gets some strange sort of amusement out of this.

or

2. He really is a Jewish nutjob, in which case your words are meaningless anyway.

And you better not give me some bullshit Lorddave answer "I have nothing better to do" you know damn well there is something better you could be doing than arguing with a troll or a nutter.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: My Simulation Hypothesis

« on: January 05, 2014, 04:35:15 PM »

I just hate the "God is fact" bit.

That isn't part of religion, since you can be an agnostic religious person, they're just a lot more rare than gnostic folk.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: My Simulation Hypothesis

« on: January 05, 2014, 12:52:14 AM »

Thork is devolving into an awful EJ troll that doesn't bother purposefully misspelling words.

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Announcements / Re: Parsifal will be less active for a while

« on: January 04, 2014, 05:31:19 PM »

This is an outrage. I will start a new fes with hookers and booze, free from this oppressive regime.

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Technology & Information / Re: Error Code Purple

« on: January 04, 2014, 05:05:36 PM »

Wait, let me get this straight....

HP's version of windows has its own error codes?  What the fuck?  I knew they put on their own programs but I never thought they could alter windows error messages.

Ok so if the above doesn't help, tell us what happens if you try to boot into safe mode.

It's their own BIOS in the motherboard which throws the error, not Windows. All computer/hardware manufacturers shove their own flavor of BIOS onto the mobo. It's just an example of HP getting in the way of the user fixing their own problem.