What Commonwealth ISP are you using that gives you 2gb per month, and why are you still with them? Did you get suckered into Bell using their cell service for "home internet" in BC?
Either that, or everyone will get to see $200,000 worth of amateur porn or Blue's Clues, or a $200,000-value badly-acted drug-crime drama starring someone who looks rather like Rob Ford but obviously isn't.
I have no vested interest in whether or not it's true or not because I stopped bothering with Toronto long ago, but I'd find it very amusing if the money is handed over and the video turns out to be a crock.
Jabber, ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Chat, IRC, entire websites devoted to nothing but realtime chat... did I see more of a problem back in the 90's than there actually was and now it really is a soul-destroying issue in 2013? Or is this just rehashing 15-year-old+ news?
That's still learning a new pattern, not to mention a little silly. I'm watching myself type this post and notice not only are my pinkies never hitting keys, but they're actually pointing up and out, sorta like the stereotypical tea-drinking dangling pinky. But then, I am also one of those people who never bothered with the home row and proper finger positioning and somehow manage to blaze along at many wpm.
You may be on to something here. I'll bring in my hardware to Best Buy or somesuch, let the BIOS update fuck up on their watch and let them scramble trying to replace/repair it. =) Simplicity.
Don't go ruining another great Slashdot Win8-bashing thread so early. That's the only reason I can think of for the existence of this thread because it was over with the guy who said 'Wipe it and install Win7'. Really, is that so much of an ordeal over finding a new lappy retail without Win8?
It's the unspoken assumption that BB cannot possibly make any headway against iOS/Android. It has to be tanking... right? Because that's what it's expected to do.
I'm excited for my current contract to be up so I can renew and get my hands on a Q10. Still a year away though:(
And that's what all the 'I fucking hate Windows 8' talk seems to be centered around. Regardless of the fact that if you choose, with about zero extra work, you can use it as Win7, the fact it has Metro bolted on somehow makes it the worst OS ever.
I'm running it now on an HP dv5000 that Xubuntu ran alright on, and you know what? Somehow, with all that 'extra bloat', it feels snappier. I'm not sure how this is possible with this huge overworked bloated piece of shit Win8 is supposed to be. I must be doing something wrong.
That's what we need to be sending in ships for. 'We condemn the Gabon government's stance on the allocation of the me.ga domain. Sanctions are in place and US Navy ships will be patrolling your shoreline until this travesty is rectified.'
I still haven't seen the announcement yet where all Windows programs are now coming through the store. I know it's a pretty big fear though. Once the service pack comes that prevents me from seeing a desktop or getting to the command prompt and stops me from installing anything I've downloaded outside the store, then I'll ditch Windows.
They still are. There hasn't been a mystical iron wall that's come down telling me I can only install stuff through Metro now.
But hey, why kill a good scary story. It's Hallowe'en. '...and the people who bought Win8... were locked into the App Store... FOREVER! WOOOOOOOO! Boy, that was scary, kids!'
It's like a reality show, for crabs. 'Win, and you keep your shell. Lose, and you get the SMALLEST SHELL, and everyone else goes up a level. You all ready? OK, GO.'
You honestly think they're going to see the commercial for Assassin's Creed or whatever the new hot shit is and say 'Woah, that looks badass! But I can't play it on my iPad, so... oh well.'
Really? Of course not. You know they're going to be begging for the console and the game for Christmas, because that's what kids do. Or go out and buy the console and game themselves, because that's what teenagers who want to play new hot shit games do. Not ignore it completely because it's not on their portable device.
Good anti-shill there. Almost sounded legit, except nobody can be so stupid as to not be able to get anywhere for an entire hour in the UI. Before even deigning to click on a Metro tile, no less. But if you were exaggerating in order to make your experience seem so much worse, well, whatever you gotta do.
Therefore the whole UI is 'unusable' and 'has a steep learning curve'.
I'm starting to notice this is the main thing from people ragging on Win8, I installed the preview yesterday, though I had to do it on a different partition because the upgrade inexplicably choked, I like it, Metro is novel but it's not some crippling UI roadblock that prevents you from doing anything.
For 40 bones, I'll probably buy it. I think people just see all those Metro tiles and lose their minds.
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What Commonwealth ISP are you using that gives you 2gb per month, and why are you still with them? Did you get suckered into Bell using their cell service for "home internet" in BC?
Either that, or everyone will get to see $200,000 worth of amateur porn or Blue's Clues, or a $200,000-value badly-acted drug-crime drama starring someone who looks rather like Rob Ford but obviously isn't.
I have no vested interest in whether or not it's true or not because I stopped bothering with Toronto long ago, but I'd find it very amusing if the money is handed over and the video turns out to be a crock.
Jabber, ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Chat, IRC, entire websites devoted to nothing but realtime chat... did I see more of a problem back in the 90's than there actually was and now it really is a soul-destroying issue in 2013? Or is this just rehashing 15-year-old+ news?
And clothes. And the biochemical transformation of air into human-exhaust. Holy crap, crime has its devious fingers in EVERYTHING.
Police departments don't usually have a spare million euros to spend on one DNA test.
Telekinetically linked? How does that work? Can they move each other around with their minds?
That's still learning a new pattern, not to mention a little silly. I'm watching myself type this post and notice not only are my pinkies never hitting keys, but they're actually pointing up and out, sorta like the stereotypical tea-drinking dangling pinky. But then, I am also one of those people who never bothered with the home row and proper finger positioning and somehow manage to blaze along at many wpm.
You may be on to something here. I'll bring in my hardware to Best Buy or somesuch, let the BIOS update fuck up on their watch and let them scramble trying to replace/repair it. =) Simplicity.
Don't go ruining another great Slashdot Win8-bashing thread so early. That's the only reason I can think of for the existence of this thread because it was over with the guy who said 'Wipe it and install Win7'. Really, is that so much of an ordeal over finding a new lappy retail without Win8?
It's the unspoken assumption that BB cannot possibly make any headway against iOS/Android. It has to be tanking... right? Because that's what it's expected to do.
:(
I'm excited for my current contract to be up so I can renew and get my hands on a Q10. Still a year away though
And that's what all the 'I fucking hate Windows 8' talk seems to be centered around. Regardless of the fact that if you choose, with about zero extra work, you can use it as Win7, the fact it has Metro bolted on somehow makes it the worst OS ever.
I'm running it now on an HP dv5000 that Xubuntu ran alright on, and you know what? Somehow, with all that 'extra bloat', it feels snappier. I'm not sure how this is possible with this huge overworked bloated piece of shit Win8 is supposed to be. I must be doing something wrong.
Shit, I must be a shill too, all my games and software work without a hitch. But, hey, whatever makes you feel better.
That's what we need to be sending in ships for. 'We condemn the Gabon government's stance on the allocation of the me.ga domain. Sanctions are in place and US Navy ships will be patrolling your shoreline until this travesty is rectified.'
Stop presenting sensible alternatives!
I still haven't seen the announcement yet where all Windows programs are now coming through the store. I know it's a pretty big fear though. Once the service pack comes that prevents me from seeing a desktop or getting to the command prompt and stops me from installing anything I've downloaded outside the store, then I'll ditch Windows.
They still are. There hasn't been a mystical iron wall that's come down telling me I can only install stuff through Metro now.
But hey, why kill a good scary story. It's Hallowe'en. '...and the people who bought Win8... were locked into the App Store... FOREVER! WOOOOOOOO! Boy, that was scary, kids!'
It's like a reality show, for crabs. 'Win, and you keep your shell. Lose, and you get the SMALLEST SHELL, and everyone else goes up a level. You all ready? OK, GO.'
Especially when it has no relevance to the conversation and has popped up all over Slashdot. But, hey, if you like rereading it, cool.
Shh, this is a Windows-bashing article. There'll be an OSX one in a little while.
Pong played Pong best. Truth.
You honestly think they're going to see the commercial for Assassin's Creed or whatever the new hot shit is and say 'Woah, that looks badass! But I can't play it on my iPad, so... oh well.'
Really? Of course not. You know they're going to be begging for the console and the game for Christmas, because that's what kids do. Or go out and buy the console and game themselves, because that's what teenagers who want to play new hot shit games do. Not ignore it completely because it's not on their portable device.
Unless you have a gaming PC hooked up to your big screen. -looks guilty-
China doing this shouldn't come as a stunning surprise either.
Good anti-shill there. Almost sounded legit, except nobody can be so stupid as to not be able to get anywhere for an entire hour in the UI. Before even deigning to click on a Metro tile, no less. But if you were exaggerating in order to make your experience seem so much worse, well, whatever you gotta do.
Therefore the whole UI is 'unusable' and 'has a steep learning curve'.
I'm starting to notice this is the main thing from people ragging on Win8, I installed the preview yesterday, though I had to do it on a different partition because the upgrade inexplicably choked, I like it, Metro is novel but it's not some crippling UI roadblock that prevents you from doing anything.
For 40 bones, I'll probably buy it. I think people just see all those Metro tiles and lose their minds.