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  1. Re:It's improductive on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 1

    I'm only saying your experience isn't universal. It has worked well for me, and I no longer click All Programs except for rare occasions. It goes by the shortcut's filename and/or the target's filename, so whether it's fake or real, a shortcut with that filename should react the same.

  2. Re:It's improductive on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 1

    And I also just tested typing 'calc.exe' and it brought up calculator. It does seem to require the beginning of whatever word you're searching for. It doesn't search within words. But other than that, it's mostly what you describe wanting.

  3. Re:It's improductive on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 1

    The search only searches for items in your start menu. I added a fake menu entry titled "Quicken Premier Test 2011" to Windows 7 and then went back and clicked on start. Typing the letter 'q' brought it up for me. It happened to be at the top of my results list. I repeated my test with "prem" and 2011 and it came right up.

    Is it possible your start menu has a lot of entries or is slow? What you're describing wanting is exactly my experience using it.

  4. Re:It's improductive on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 1

    It's not Microsoft's fault that somebody decided to start their app with a greek letter. I'm sure if you had a greek keyboard, you'd have no problem. The fact that even the author pronounces it "you torrent" and not microtorrent (SI prefix usage) baffles me. That's not even how you pronounce a mu.

  5. Re:Like he said on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 1

    Not in Office 2010.

  6. Re:Better than the unix command line? Seriously? on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 1

    For example, I bet every Linux admin here can tell me a dozen ways they can set arbitrary values in configuration files across 10,000 machines, but not one of them can give me a good solution for undoing various random subsets of those settings years later! For example, you may want a site-specific setting to revert to defaults when the computer is moved out of the site, without undoing other settings in the same file that are relevant to all sites.

    sed?

  7. Re:It's improductive on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 1

    It does have the search, anyway. Just hit the Win key or click the bottom left corner of your screen and start typing (exactly the same as Windows 7 in that regard). Not sure of a recent area, but that's variable and I find it harder than search anyway.

  8. Re:Like he said on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 4, Informative

    For the benefit of those who haven't got a copy of Outlook in front of you or aren't familiar, here are the steps actually needed:
    1) Double-click the message to open it in its own window.
    2) Click File
    3) Choose Info
    4) Choose Properties

    And for all that effort you get a 1-inch scrollbox that you can't resize

  9. Re:the message is clear: MAKE IT !!! on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    I've always wanted to ban "times less" as a comparison that makes no sense whatsoever. But that made it a one word edit so I did forget the stupid grammar/math rules behind that phrase.

  10. Re:Printing Money on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    The real problem is that it prints your copier's serial number in yellow ink right on the counterfeit bills:
    http://www.pcworld.com/article/118664/article.html

  11. Re:the message is clear: MAKE IT !!! on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    French people have about 2.5 times less guns per capita compared with the US

    FTFY...For a second, I was terrified that we in the US actually had more than 2.5 guns per person! Thankfully, you provided a link.

  12. Re:This is real on US Agricultural Economists Say Bacon Shortage Is Hogwash · · Score: 1

    Less pork available later. There's more pork now as the market is about to be flooded with cheaper pork before corn prices get too high.

  13. Re:Here is more from John Gruber of Daring Firebal on Why Apple Replaced iOS Maps · · Score: 1

    Maybe not, but if they're a contact, you could probably pull them up from within the Google maps app when it comes out. That's almost as easy as going via the address book itself.

  14. Re:Not quite sky-high on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 1

    Ethanol is made from cellulose, not corn oil.

  15. Re:And prices are throught the roof for beef on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 1

    Where I'm at, prices are falling for the moment. Lots of extra beef being dumped on the market right now because it's too expensive to keep those cows alive another year. I don't like to freeze steak, but I've been stocking up on 80% lean ground beef for as little as $2.39/lb. where I'm at, and I've seen fattier ground beef under $2. It had been over $3 even for sale prices.

  16. Re:Cows eat Grass on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 1

    Where can I find grass-fed ground beef online for $2.39/lb. with free shipping? I'll admit I live in the midwest where prices are lower in general, and we're in the middle of a beef glut as cows are being dumped on the market in anticipation of an extended corn shortage.

  17. Re:Cows eat Grass on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 1

    It's that short term memory loss. It affects the perception of time.

  18. Re:Cows eat Grass on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 1

    Why are you calling LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol dense? It's because it's NOT dense that it has such a bad effect.

  19. Re:I'd rather have a first post T-shirt. on Get Your 15 Years of Slashdot Shirt (For free, Depending) · · Score: 2

    But only +5 first posts, not trolls.

  20. Re:Fox News on Your Moral Compass Is Reversible · · Score: 1

    More or less. I mean, it's technically the future generation's money, and pyramid-shaped - counting on continual population growth to be sustainable. It's worked for us so far, but there's likely to be a limit to it soon at the current pay-in rates.

  21. Re:reading comprehension? on Your Moral Compass Is Reversible · · Score: 1

    I can't believe this didn't immediately spring to mind! Thanks for posting.

  22. Re:Reread copyright law... on Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art · · Score: 1

    I pulled that up myself earlier. I still think the restoration of an out-of-copyright movie would count as an original work in the sense that artistic direction exists and it filling in scratches can never recreate the original perfectly.

    You know, like this painting restoration:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9491391/Elderly-woman-destroys-19th-century-fresco-with-DIY-restoration.html

  23. Re:Image Hacking on No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission · · Score: 2

    Too bad they're taking a picture of your license plate and don't care what your face looks like.

  24. Want to steal? Just smile! on No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission · · Score: 1

    Cue the grinning criminal outbreak!

    Obviously the facial recognition software won't recognize you committing your crime if you do it with a smile.

  25. Re:Our software got hit by this too on Sophos Anti-Virus Update Identifies Sophos Code As Malware · · Score: 1

    Yep. I got hit by it, and it took down Google Updater, Java Updater, and its own auto-update. Worst part is that it kept trying to relaunch the Sophos updater over and over again, prompting even more pop-up notices.

    Weird thing here is that only 2 people I know were affected including me. Nobody else in this office was affected. My wife works on another campus (state university), and nobody in her office was hit.