It occurred to me yesterday, as I waited the usual three or four minutes for Word to open my document, that the basic tasks most people use PCs for (browsing file systems, opening documents and working on them, email) have barely improved or changed si...
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@Kels_316 @liamvhogan this is a digression, but were UNTAC and INTERFET considered to be successes, in the military's own terms of reference? Not that they were wars.
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@ben_hr @liamvhogan very much so. Huge PR wins.
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@Kels_316 @liamvhogan the only wins that exist any more I guess
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@liamvhogan Mac MS Word 5.1a was the pinnacle of word processing and I will fight in the parking lot about this
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@[email protected] said in It occurred to me yesterday, as I waited the usual three or four minutes for Word to open my document, that the basic tasks most people use PCs for (browsing file systems, opening documents and working on them, email) have barely improved or changed si...:
But the tech has been impactful largely in the device, not on PCs, where it’s about as productive to use Photoshop as it was two decades ago.
This could've been the time for GIMP to innovate (and probably revamp), but it's stagnated along with Photoshop
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@ben_hr @liamvhogan you might remember that Iraq '03 was celebrated as a win, including a parade in Sydney
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@Kels_316 @liamvhogan Lol, I forgot that. The early 2000s were just as crazy as now, we just didn't realise it at the time.
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@ben_hr @liamvhogan worse really because we (maybe just I) had no idea what was about to happen for the next 20yrs.
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@liamvhogan @ben_hr brutal
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@Kels_316 @liamvhogan @ben_hr There was once a perfect tweet like this that was something like
It’s the Summer of 2000, the Democratic VP is up in the polls, the economy is booming, and you’re watching Steely Dan on breakfast TV. Evening’s gonna be great forever https://youtu.be/c2I2SPRCEPo?si=pgGFbRpUUlv2EilF
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@liamvhogan @Kels_316 @ben_hr Coming back to this, has anyone made a “…and the French government has fallen, the 90s are back babbeyyey” joke?
