Google's all about not re-inventing the wheel - and that's where they contribute to open source. But when they reinvent the car, they will charge for that. What's your problem?
You can still use the iPhone version on your iPad while they rework the UI for the iPad version. I'm sure they didn't want to burden their rushed development by doing two UI's at the same time.
To a dumb user who doesn't understand the concept of "manually" installing software from setup.exe, the app store is a "feature." Other than that, it isn't much.
Backup and restore has been improved - does make a nice system image backup.
And when I press power on my laptop, I get a dialog box that offers the choice of log out, restart, sleep, hibernate, or shut down, and it defaults to something sane after 30 seconds. If your operating system goes straight to shutdown without an option to cancel, then the operating system has a design problem.
Not sure if that's always true. If pressing Power on a Windows 8 computer goes directly to hybrid sleep, it accomplishes 4 of the 5 at once. You're taken to the lock screen and it's put into an S3 wake-able hibernate. If you wanted to log in as a different user when you wake it up, you can do that from the lock screen.
Log off and restart are both really conceptually different than "power" except to the long-time PC user who is just used to the convention. Power users might want more options and override the default, but I think that it seems like a perfectly reasonable default.
Windows 98 SE defaulted to single click and it was just terrible. First off, the desktop was a web site, so all the "links" had to be underlined. Just mousing over an item selected it. And I think the mouse icon turned into a pointing hand.
The other problem with the Office orb was its location. It's in the spot where most programs had an application icon with the options of Restore, Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize, and Close. I never tried it for quite a while after starting to use it, because I didn't expect to find new options nor did I want to accidentally double-click the orb and close the application.
Correction: There is no discoverability within Windows 8 for devices where touch isn't the primary input. It's relatively intuitive for touch, and mimics a lot of conventions that other touch interfaces use. Completely failure for mouse and keyboard, of course.
cookies enable some pretty good behavior on web sites
Right. If you don't block cookies using browser settings, the web site needs to store a cookie on your computer to remember that you don't want to store cookies!
I'm using 120GB for OS X on a Hackintosh and it does quite well. Alongside that I have a 2TB internal drive that also serves as a backup drive for other computers on the network, and a 500GB external drive for video editing.
Yeah....RAM is empty on boot. People like fast-booting machines. And waiting on the first time read to generate that cache on every boot is not as good as having it read from SSD at a much faster speed.
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There's a lot more nuts on Facebook than will fit in a tin.
How long did what last?
If the tether is attached to this ring, then couldn't it just reel them in?
Maybe not all of China:
Hong Kong seems to be missing all sorts of information.
Oh, and part of China has made an appearance in Poland.
Even right in the middle of a major area like St. Louis, it did pretty poorly for me.
But if you need more convincing, See this blog full of terrible screenshots!
Google's all about not re-inventing the wheel - and that's where they contribute to open source. But when they reinvent the car, they will charge for that. What's your problem?
You can still use the iPhone version on your iPad while they rework the UI for the iPad version. I'm sure they didn't want to burden their rushed development by doing two UI's at the same time.
I think it was a 16-bit app that never got converted to 32-bit. If that's true, it won't run in 64-bit Windows 8.
The first time they move their mouse there, an image pops up over the cursor.
To a dumb user who doesn't understand the concept of "manually" installing software from setup.exe, the app store is a "feature." Other than that, it isn't much.
Backup and restore has been improved - does make a nice system image backup.
And when I press power on my laptop, I get a dialog box that offers the choice of log out, restart, sleep, hibernate, or shut down, and it defaults to something sane after 30 seconds. If your operating system goes straight to shutdown without an option to cancel, then the operating system has a design problem.
Not sure if that's always true. If pressing Power on a Windows 8 computer goes directly to hybrid sleep, it accomplishes 4 of the 5 at once. You're taken to the lock screen and it's put into an S3 wake-able hibernate. If you wanted to log in as a different user when you wake it up, you can do that from the lock screen.
Log off and restart are both really conceptually different than "power" except to the long-time PC user who is just used to the convention. Power users might want more options and override the default, but I think that it seems like a perfectly reasonable default.
Windows 98 SE defaulted to single click and it was just terrible. First off, the desktop was a web site, so all the "links" had to be underlined. Just mousing over an item selected it. And I think the mouse icon turned into a pointing hand.
The other problem with the Office orb was its location. It's in the spot where most programs had an application icon with the options of Restore, Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize, and Close. I never tried it for quite a while after starting to use it, because I didn't expect to find new options nor did I want to accidentally double-click the orb and close the application.
Correction: There is no discoverability within Windows 8 for devices where touch isn't the primary input. It's relatively intuitive for touch, and mimics a lot of conventions that other touch interfaces use. Completely failure for mouse and keyboard, of course.
This is so you have to buy multiple Window 8 computers to run side-by-side to get anything done! Profit!
cookies enable some pretty good behavior on web sites
Right. If you don't block cookies using browser settings, the web site needs to store a cookie on your computer to remember that you don't want to store cookies!
Multiple equations graphed together are easier to differentiate when seen in separate colors.
I thought ancient product lines still produced by their original manufacturer was exactly what we were talking about?
I thought the 8086 through 80386 just went out of production in 2007.
Translation: "We can still charge a fortune for old technology as long as nobody asks for anything better"
Really?
The web sure is...interesting..without HTTP/1.1
How can you read that train of logic and not laugh?
I'm using 120GB for OS X on a Hackintosh and it does quite well. Alongside that I have a 2TB internal drive that also serves as a backup drive for other computers on the network, and a 500GB external drive for video editing.
Yeah....RAM is empty on boot. People like fast-booting machines. And waiting on the first time read to generate that cache on every boot is not as good as having it read from SSD at a much faster speed.