Yeah, that's what I really want to do. Instead of click-click-walk away, I can type in something to find something to tell my PC to shut down. Cool. Can I also search for programs that might not have the name I think they do so I can run them also? That's much easier than click-click-running.
Christ, we may as well go back to DOS with a bespoke GUI for each & every program program!
You missed an input method... Now that Microsoft are working their way to their goal of remaking the PC as an Xbox with a subscription OS they'll likely be forcing the Kinect on everyone.
Next up furious up & down motions with a fist to open any program. If you don't do it hard, fast or long enough, Kinect won't do anything.
Hahahahahahaha - I got modded "5, funny" (my first ever that high) but yours was better than mine. Seriously though, the USA needs more people like him - and much of the rest of the world could do with similar.
But run a civilisation? I doubt we'll EVER do that, just look at our bloody history coupled with the increasing greed/litigation culture we live in. Civilisation... (snort)
I thought WW3 was supposed to be starting somewhere in the Middle East? If Dutch cops think they can hack around the globe - and announce they'll be doing so whenever the mood takes them - won't that upset any country who has already stated that incoming hacks will be treated as an act of war?
They must be smoking some good shit there these days!
A waste to you perhaps, but not to the people who do this hoping to show what can be done with the current technology - and hoping to inspire viewers to push boundaries and create things themselves. Maybe even pushing the technology onto better things - like creating medical nano-machines capable of removing tumours, or shrinking memory chip dies to allow you to cram more memory into your phone, etc.
What would get someone's attention faster - a stuffy presentation with ideas presented from a list, or something like this which could make you think for yourself? Instead of boilerplating a whine, why not tell us WHY it's a waste of time, huh?
Oh, I knew about that. I don't even count Windoze phone as a viable option (disclaimer: I had a WinMobile 6.5 semi-smart phone and it was okay, but getting old). I know a grand total of one person using a W7.something phone and, personally, I wouldn't sully a skeet mechanism using it in place of a clay pigeon.
You only have to look at WinPhone 7-8's market share to see that they're flogging the dead horse so much it's no wonder European beef seems to be full of it.
Bottom line from Microsoft seems to be "we want to sell you more stuff, so you WILL change how you do things". Bottom line from a large number of computer Users around the world seems to be "until you give us something usable, fuck off".
Simply by allowing Users the option to run the various newer UIs as an OPTION.
I'm still running XP Pro 32-bit, not because I'm one of those weird freaks of nature that loves running my 64-bit system in a 32-bit environment - it's because I fucking hate the way 7 wasted space and started the move towards turning Windows into a bad implementation tablet style OS. Now they've tried to turn 8 into a combination of tablet & Xbox, they can fuck right off.
Give the Users - you know, the paying customers (corporate or otherwise) and the people who pay your wages - the choice and you'll sell a lot more product. Christ - give me the XP/2K UI to work with and I'll happily use 7, or if it isn't too cut down, 8.
If they don't do something to sort this out soon, Steve B will be remembered for only 2 things - throwing chairs while making threats and fucking the PC industry so hard it died. And Steve - if you by the slightest chance happen to read this, is this really *all* you want to be remembered for?
... to any company or group that thinks it owns my genetic material.
You can patent what you like and pretend you have rights, but when it comes to me and what makes me *me* you can all fuck off. Don't like it? Tough. You can still fuck off.
I get enough bullshit about the invisible sky fairy that made everything without some overpaid prick in a lab coat trying to tell me I'm owned by some faceless twatcorp. Yes, I have strong feelings about this - how could you tell?
People seem to enjoy slating Win95 but for those of us who remember Windows 3/3.1/3.11 it was a breath of fresh air. It certainly pissed all over any version of DOS except 5 (and 4 got us a public apology from MS for the trouble)
Well that's dead easy to answer. You sell a game or games online, you are already connected to the Internet. "To complete the transaction, click this button to uninstall the software from your machine. The license will then be transferred to the buyer who may then install the software". Not hard, is it? Click or not click, sell or not sell.
As Steam knows every copy of every game and who owns it, I should think that even if you could cheat the system by installing a backup, the next time you were online and Steam is running it could politely tell you if you were being a dick. If you did it legit, you'd have payment (in lucre, Steam store credit or some other goods), the buyer would have the game. Everybody happy, I like that!
A girl/woman with orange-ish hair as opposed to red, and norks are what most guys to talk to when conversing with a femme. Tends to piss them off a lot.
I'd like to propose we swap the people of Gaza with the people of Cupertino. That way the Israelis can do some good, Apple can get what's coming to them and it would at least keep Israel and Gaza as far apart as possible.
Haven't a clue how we'd do it, but it would solve a few issues if we could.
Car analogies aside, I don't expect to pay MS to beta test their OS for a couple of years, still not get a fully functional product and then get told I need to beta test the next iteration because - oh look - ponies!
I would love the chance to use W7 as I paid enough for it, but please, at least could they make it usable for those who don't want it to emulate a bloody boutique storefront? Oh yeah, and take it out of damn beta before moving onto the next version?
BTW, why is it I keep reading about people using 7 (& now 8) where you type the first few letters of a program to find it to run it? WTF is a GUI supposed to be for? If I wanna type in program names to run them (assuming I can remember all those I have on my system right now) I'd be using DOS 5! GUI = point, click, done. What is all this crap with having the need for a sodding search engine on your PC to do simple stuff?
@SplashMyBandit: Agreed. I've got an old GeForce 256 card kicking around somewhere and it did bloody impressive 3D back in the day (I'm talking about playing depth cued Descent 1 among other games or watching video with a pretty good faked 3D effect) - I also have the LCD shutter glasses from that and a pair from a blown GF3 Ultra somewhere. I'm still running XP (with a customised 2K style desktop) as IMO it's the last desktop OS to feel like one rather than a PC/console/tablet crossover, doesn't waste vertical space like Vista & 7 do and it isn't a tablet front end cut down for the masses (and paid shills to crow over).
And yes, I have 7 Ultimate sitting in front of me JUST so I can play a single game - Battlefield 3 - but I detest the lazy-ass UI in 7 so much I still haven't played the damn game. Gimme a geek friendly/classic front end rather than something that makes XP's technicolour yawn (native UI) look good and I'll think slightly better of that mad chair chucker than I do now. Sorry for the rant but this continued push by Microsoft to upgrade where I don't need or want to (and spend money I don't have to spare) because they need more money in their coffers is way beyond an annoyance and this DX11.1 crap is just about the last straw. I've never been a Linux user, but if I can run *all* my software under it in the near future then I'll be quite happy to take all the (purchased) MS OS discs in the house and use them for target practice.
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Yeah, that's what I really want to do. Instead of click-click-walk away, I can type in something to find something to tell my PC to shut down. Cool. Can I also search for programs that might not have the name I think they do so I can run them also? That's much easier than click-click-running.
Christ, we may as well go back to DOS with a bespoke GUI for each & every program program!
You missed an input method... Now that Microsoft are working their way to their goal of remaking the PC as an Xbox with a subscription OS they'll likely be forcing the Kinect on everyone.
Next up furious up & down motions with a fist to open any program. If you don't do it hard, fast or long enough, Kinect won't do anything.
Hahahahahahaha - I got modded "5, funny" (my first ever that high) but yours was better than mine. Seriously though, the USA needs more people like him - and much of the rest of the world could do with similar.
But run a civilisation? I doubt we'll EVER do that, just look at our bloody history coupled with the increasing greed/litigation culture we live in. Civilisation... (snort)
After all it seems to be the cutting edge for simultaneously curing people of neck pain and clean underware.
Yeah, really! An honest judge with a liking for sci-fi and a sense of humour. America is done for, done for I tell you!!!
I thought WW3 was supposed to be starting somewhere in the Middle East? If Dutch cops think they can hack around the globe - and announce they'll be doing so whenever the mood takes them - won't that upset any country who has already stated that incoming hacks will be treated as an act of war?
They must be smoking some good shit there these days!
Heyoo!
A waste to you perhaps, but not to the people who do this hoping to show what can be done with the current technology - and hoping to inspire viewers to push boundaries and create things themselves. Maybe even pushing the technology onto better things - like creating medical nano-machines capable of removing tumours, or shrinking memory chip dies to allow you to cram more memory into your phone, etc.
What would get someone's attention faster - a stuffy presentation with ideas presented from a list, or something like this which could make you think for yourself? Instead of boilerplating a whine, why not tell us WHY it's a waste of time, huh?
Oh, I knew about that. I don't even count Windoze phone as a viable option (disclaimer: I had a WinMobile 6.5 semi-smart phone and it was okay, but getting old). I know a grand total of one person using a W7.something phone and, personally, I wouldn't sully a skeet mechanism using it in place of a clay pigeon. You only have to look at WinPhone 7-8's market share to see that they're flogging the dead horse so much it's no wonder European beef seems to be full of it. Bottom line from Microsoft seems to be "we want to sell you more stuff, so you WILL change how you do things". Bottom line from a large number of computer Users around the world seems to be "until you give us something usable, fuck off".
Simply by allowing Users the option to run the various newer UIs as an OPTION.
I'm still running XP Pro 32-bit, not because I'm one of those weird freaks of nature that loves running my 64-bit system in a 32-bit environment - it's because I fucking hate the way 7 wasted space and started the move towards turning Windows into a bad implementation tablet style OS. Now they've tried to turn 8 into a combination of tablet & Xbox, they can fuck right off.
Give the Users - you know, the paying customers (corporate or otherwise) and the people who pay your wages - the choice and you'll sell a lot more product. Christ - give me the XP/2K UI to work with and I'll happily use 7, or if it isn't too cut down, 8.
If they don't do something to sort this out soon, Steve B will be remembered for only 2 things - throwing chairs while making threats and fucking the PC industry so hard it died. And Steve - if you by the slightest chance happen to read this, is this really *all* you want to be remembered for?
Not if you've been spayed. My condolences to your reproductive capabilities ;)
Because...
1. They are mandated to.
2. They can.
Choose any 2 from the above list.
... to any company or group that thinks it owns my genetic material.
You can patent what you like and pretend you have rights, but when it comes to me and what makes me *me* you can all fuck off. Don't like it? Tough. You can still fuck off.
I get enough bullshit about the invisible sky fairy that made everything without some overpaid prick in a lab coat trying to tell me I'm owned by some faceless twatcorp. Yes, I have strong feelings about this - how could you tell?
People seem to enjoy slating Win95 but for those of us who remember Windows 3/3.1/3.11 it was a breath of fresh air. It certainly pissed all over any version of DOS except 5 (and 4 got us a public apology from MS for the trouble)
Well that's dead easy to answer. You sell a game or games online, you are already connected to the Internet. "To complete the transaction, click this button to uninstall the software from your machine. The license will then be transferred to the buyer who may then install the software". Not hard, is it? Click or not click, sell or not sell.
As Steam knows every copy of every game and who owns it, I should think that even if you could cheat the system by installing a backup, the next time you were online and Steam is running it could politely tell you if you were being a dick. If you did it legit, you'd have payment (in lucre, Steam store credit or some other goods), the buyer would have the game. Everybody happy, I like that!
A girl/woman with orange-ish hair as opposed to red, and norks are what most guys to talk to when conversing with a femme. Tends to piss them off a lot.
Wasn't he the miller's son? Friend of Robin for a while?
You are, of course, assuming that everyone wants an iPhone. Some people actually want something else, be it for better or worse.
I'd like to propose we swap the people of Gaza with the people of Cupertino. That way the Israelis can do some good, Apple can get what's coming to them and it would at least keep Israel and Gaza as far apart as possible.
Haven't a clue how we'd do it, but it would solve a few issues if we could.
Car analogies aside, I don't expect to pay MS to beta test their OS for a couple of years, still not get a fully functional product and then get told I need to beta test the next iteration because - oh look - ponies!
I would love the chance to use W7 as I paid enough for it, but please, at least could they make it usable for those who don't want it to emulate a bloody boutique storefront? Oh yeah, and take it out of damn beta before moving onto the next version?
BTW, why is it I keep reading about people using 7 (& now 8) where you type the first few letters of a program to find it to run it? WTF is a GUI supposed to be for? If I wanna type in program names to run them (assuming I can remember all those I have on my system right now) I'd be using DOS 5! GUI = point, click, done. What is all this crap with having the need for a sodding search engine on your PC to do simple stuff?
@SplashMyBandit: Agreed. I've got an old GeForce 256 card kicking around somewhere and it did bloody impressive 3D back in the day (I'm talking about playing depth cued Descent 1 among other games or watching video with a pretty good faked 3D effect) - I also have the LCD shutter glasses from that and a pair from a blown GF3 Ultra somewhere. I'm still running XP (with a customised 2K style desktop) as IMO it's the last desktop OS to feel like one rather than a PC/console/tablet crossover, doesn't waste vertical space like Vista & 7 do and it isn't a tablet front end cut down for the masses (and paid shills to crow over).
And yes, I have 7 Ultimate sitting in front of me JUST so I can play a single game - Battlefield 3 - but I detest the lazy-ass UI in 7 so much I still haven't played the damn game. Gimme a geek friendly/classic front end rather than something that makes XP's technicolour yawn (native UI) look good and I'll think slightly better of that mad chair chucker than I do now. Sorry for the rant but this continued push by Microsoft to upgrade where I don't need or want to (and spend money I don't have to spare) because they need more money in their coffers is way beyond an annoyance and this DX11.1 crap is just about the last straw. I've never been a Linux user, but if I can run *all* my software under it in the near future then I'll be quite happy to take all the (purchased) MS OS discs in the house and use them for target practice.
Depends on the temperature of the poker I spose.
I was thinking more the show stealing Alan Rickman in the Costner Robin Hood - but that, my friend, was bloody funny. Nice one :)
For the sake of the Rule 34 crowd, I'm trying to visualise that. I'm sorry, I can't. Pics or it couldn't happen :)
I bet they hurt more :)