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- Nov 07, 2020
Desktop Quotes
A desktop can be a literal object, a chaotic surface for ideas, or the icon-filled screen where modern work happens. These desktop quotes move across all three senses, from a dramatic prop swept clean in a thriller to the hierarchical files that structure how computers organize information. One line even captures the honest disorder of a real creative desktop, cluttered with half-formed ideas waiting to be sorted, which is a feeling most desk workers will recognize immediately.
From film sets to software design, the desktop shows up as both a physical surface and a digital metaphor. These quotes capture how technology has reshaped a word that once meant nothing more than the top of a desk.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For those still outside the cult of Slack, it's a service - available as a desktop or mobile app, or a website - which is essentially a series of public chat rooms (called channels) on topics relevant to a company or to teams within a company.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When something effective takes hold, it can change the world. Whether through a mobile device or a desktop computer, connectivity and creativity make it all possible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g., much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early 1990s, Americans used their home phone lines to connect their desktop computers to the Internet via ISPs like AOL, Earthlink, or Netzero. Back then, the ISPs didn't have cost-effective technology to select particular sites for blocking or privileging.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the modern desktop environment, with multitasking and alerts and constant activity, there are always more distractions. When you're at a computer, your hands are always on the controls.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My desktop is really chaotic, and I'm always trying to work out where I am going to put all these ideas.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.
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- Nov 07, 2020
With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can't have both a rich desktop and a light, cloud-based application framework. Why is it always either/or for people?
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- Nov 07, 2020