Looks awful. Glad I am not on Win10. (Win8.1, but I did fix most of what it wrong with the UI. Boot to desktop, disable touch, and thanks "Classic Shell"!)
I despised Aero. I see no useful reason to see through stuff, and found it distracting and pointless.
I set up my Start Menu (Classic Shell) like XP's (I don't like 7's, but to each their own). XP's could be a mess on its own, but I always customized it myself, as I do now. After clicking on the "Start" button, everything I use is 1 or 2 clicks away and easily found.
I find the search box a pain. I type a few letters, stuff pops up, I go to click on what I want, but it moves out from under my cursor as more stuff pops up and I click on the wrong thing.
Programmers can't seem to grasp the fact that a design can reach a pinnacle and anywhere else you go is down hill.
When your job is to make a UI, you keep working at it, making it better with each version. Eventually perhaps it is perfect. Do you quit your job? Or do you try to justify your job by continually changing it, even though it is not actually making it better? I think the latter is what is happening.
Yes, let's never make any progress and just keep things the same way forever...
Yes, and in cars make the brake and gas pedal opposite. Put the steering wheel on the ceiling, and the horn button in the headrest. And the wiper controls in the trunk/boot.
It's not progress, it is change for the sake of change.
Classic Shell is nice in theory, but our experience with a limited testbed roll out was that it was horribly unstable, with frequent lockups that either required restarting the shell or outright logging out and logging back in again. It's probably good enough for home users, but in an enterprise environment I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.
Anecdotally, as a home user, I have had it for about three years on my Win8.1 machine, and it works great.
Not sure if it's possible with blu-ray. I would like to see an all versions disc where one only has to select options in an options menu for what they want to see. Han shot first should be default but we can keep around the revisionist history for laughs.
I'll watch the Sentinel class shuttle seen, dewbacks not close up, Mos Eisley is busier, but no giant CGI ass walking across the screen blocking everything, Han shoots and Greedo doesn't he just dies, Falcon lifts off from docking bay, stormtrooper head clunk, Imps getting shot not censored, improved lightsaber effects, no matte boxes visible around ships, R2-D2 in color, no stupid ring explosion Death Star destruction, real people in ceremony not cardboard ones, and how about Chewie gets a medal version please.
requiring all new vehicles to have communication technology that allows them to "talk" to each another
To each "another"?
Here's what they might say:
Car 1: Lookout, I have an idiot controlling me.
Car 2: Yeah, steer clear of me too, the fool at the wheel is on their damned phone.
Car 3: My driver is drunk again.
Car 4: My driver is texting. I say F-it! Let's get them all together and let them all crash. Darwinism at its finest.
Kenny says that what Watson is not just being used to cure cancer, "but to just recommend what you should watch next" and even to recommend âoewhat ad you you should watch next."
That's what Watson is really being used for, fucking advertising. And it didn't "cure" cancer, either.
Yes, that woman should have quietly died waiting for a human doctor to figure out what was wrong with her.
For some reason on my phone, when I click on "older", when it goes to the next page, you see the top but jump along until it gets to the bottom, and it is pointless to try to read anything until it finishes, as it will keep going regardless of attempts to read something at the top. When it is done, then I need to scroll to the top to read the newest "older" posts. PITA.
In the beginning, as a web page loaded, stuff jumped around and moved about as more and more arrived over our painfully slow connections. Made it pretty hard to read anything until it was done.
Then things sped up, and using "WIDTH" and "HEIGHT" attributes in image tags, and probably all sort of other innovations, it stopped happening. You could read a page and it didn't jump all over the place while it finished loading. Yay!
Well, somehow we've traveled back to the 90's, because that shit is happening all over again. Very annoying trying to read text that keeps moving. Somebody broke something.
Unless it has bulletproof windows...you're going to be able to ball your shirt around your elbow and shatter it.
Shatter it? Your elbow? Quite possibly. The glass is very hard. Years ago I had to break a side window and was rather surprised at it not breaking after I struck it multiple times with a tire iron. Bounced off repeatedly. It broke eventually. (Technique is important. Spring loaded center punch apparently works great.)
Watch this reporter trying to break a car window with a hammer:
Seems like they are trying to make it sound like the TPP was a good thing, and Donald is ruining it for everyone.
Except the TPP was definitely a bad thing for anyone who isn't the head of a huge corporation.
Maybe this Trump thing could be a good thing.
FB (etc) is a "free" service that you pay for with your privacy. Most people should be aware of that. Many probably are not. I choose not to utilize them.
The "telco" is not a free service. We pay for it already. Many of us have little choice in which one to use as we are only served by one provider. Even where there are multiple providers, if they all do it, then there is still no choice.
The "entitlement" factor is at work. Why does everyone who can somehow get possession of any of your data feel entitled to sell it?
If I put documents into a safe deposit box, should I expect the bank to make copies and sell them?
Daylight Savings Time. Yes, get rid of that. Preferably by going forward this coming Spring and then leave it there permanently.
But that is not the topic.
Is It Time To Dump Time Zones In Favor of Coordinated Universal Time? When it's noon in Greenwich, Britain, let it be 12 everywhere. No more resetting the clocks. No more wondering what time it is in Peoria or Petropavlovsk.
This is a very stupid idea. Sure you would no longer wonder what time it was there, but you'd still have no idea if it was the middle of the night or lunch time, which is why you really wanted to know the time there in the first place. Now that time is meaningless and you still don't know what you want to know. I'm sure it would be quicker (the way it is now) to look up the time for where ever you were interested in, and then instantly know what to expect. If you change it, you now need to look up if 4am is lunch time or breakfast or bedtime or whatever.
Plain and simple, what you want to know about these far away places is not really "what time is it" as in the numerical time, but what time is it as in morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night, etc. This stupid idea does nothing to fix that.
Every place will learn a new relationship with the hours.
And anyone traveling there will have no idea what that relationship is, and will be confused for the duration of their stay, as the "time" is now meaningless.
The question has been posed before, but given the timeliness of Daylight Savings Time, we think the question may evoke some new, heartfelt attitudes and beliefs
It was a stupid question before, and it is a stupid question now. Also, Daylight Savings Time has nothing to do with it beyond having the word "time" in common. Much like those "In related news" links that were quite often not at all related.
apply it to seats on an airplane, which is a far better proxy for explaining the limits of network capacity, and you can see they're just as flawed as the original argument.
So your ISP/Airline has 100 seats on a flight, but sells 120 tickets, going on the assumption that not everyone will show up for the flight.
Maybe the folks that say the CO2 increase is not human caused are correct after all. Aliens are getting rid of us by pumping CO2 into our atmosphere.;p
The unit's security processor also monitors movement, and a user can select a setting that will wipe or lock down the PC's data if it is moved to another location...
Might want to set it to be fairly insensitive if you live in an area likely to have earthquakes.
But I have used the backsapce key to go back a lot. Indeed, it is present on Windows Firefox, but the Firefox that came with Debian has it disabled, and I find myself constantly hitting the backkspace key and watching nothing happen.
I agree with another comment, it should at least be configurable. That way, both you and I can be happy.:)
It may have been convenient for you, but that does not change the fact that it was a horrible idea. If you had never driven before, and built a custom car with the brake pedal and the accelerator reversed, it might work fine for you, but it would not be a good idea in general. Agree; configurability is king.
Wife got a new laptop, win10. Tried figuring how to do something in Win10 (was different than earlier versions). Couldn't. Did a search. Default was BING. No luck. Entered same search terms into Google, and as well as serving up relevant looking links, it gave me the answer outright. Google knows more about Win10 than BING does. WTF?!?
I have 8.1 on my machine, and out of the box it was a disastrous mess (8.0 when I started). But I have been able to fix it to my liking (uninstall all the Metro Apps, replace with real desktop software, boot to desktop, Classic Shell).
Wife's new machine came with 10. I don't like it. I don't know if I can fix it. Edge locks up her whole computer a lot. MSIE does to a certain extent too. She is always complaining about it. The first time I tried figuring something out, I did a search, and it defaulted to BING and it could not find answers. I copied the search terms and pasted it into Google, and it answered my question on the results page. I didn't have to go further. Google knows more about Windows 10 than BING does. It's pathetic. I know I would probably get used to it, but I don't want to. Every time I see the "start tile menu", I wonder why anyone would like the design.
She was trying to print something and the dialog box was too big, and the buttons were off the bottom of the screen. Not an insurmountable problem, but she didn't know what to do. The title bar was touching the top of the screen, so can't just move it up; had to resize down, then move up. It really should never have appeared that way. This is not the dawn of the GUI. A modern OS should not have issues like that. Every website can find out from your browser what your screen resolution is, so the bloody OS should damn well know. Worse yet, the damned task bar is transparent, so she could see the PRINT button, but couldn't understand why she couldn't click on it! I hate the transparent crap, and I see no reason to have it.
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Looks awful. Glad I am not on Win10. (Win8.1, but I did fix most of what it wrong with the UI. Boot to desktop, disable touch, and thanks "Classic Shell"!)
I despised Aero. I see no useful reason to see through stuff, and found it distracting and pointless.
I set up my Start Menu (Classic Shell) like XP's (I don't like 7's, but to each their own). XP's could be a mess on its own, but I always customized it myself, as I do now. After clicking on the "Start" button, everything I use is 1 or 2 clicks away and easily found.
I find the search box a pain. I type a few letters, stuff pops up, I go to click on what I want, but it moves out from under my cursor as more stuff pops up and I click on the wrong thing.
Wife has 10, and I despise using it.
Programmers can't seem to grasp the fact that a design can reach a pinnacle and anywhere else you go is down hill.
When your job is to make a UI, you keep working at it, making it better with each version. Eventually perhaps it is perfect. Do you quit your job? Or do you try to justify your job by continually changing it, even though it is not actually making it better? I think the latter is what is happening.
Yes, let's never make any progress and just keep things the same way forever...
Yes, and in cars make the brake and gas pedal opposite. Put the steering wheel on the ceiling, and the horn button in the headrest. And the wiper controls in the trunk/boot.
It's not progress, it is change for the sake of change.
Classic Shell is nice in theory, but our experience with a limited testbed roll out was that it was horribly unstable, with frequent lockups that either required restarting the shell or outright logging out and logging back in again. It's probably good enough for home users, but in an enterprise environment I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.
Anecdotally, as a home user, I have had it for about three years on my Win8.1 machine, and it works great.
Not sure if it's possible with blu-ray. I would like to see an all versions disc where one only has to select options in an options menu for what they want to see. Han shot first should be default but we can keep around the revisionist history for laughs.
I'll watch the Sentinel class shuttle seen, dewbacks not close up, Mos Eisley is busier, but no giant CGI ass walking across the screen blocking everything, Han shoots and Greedo doesn't he just dies, Falcon lifts off from docking bay, stormtrooper head clunk, Imps getting shot not censored, improved lightsaber effects, no matte boxes visible around ships, R2-D2 in color, no stupid ring explosion Death Star destruction, real people in ceremony not cardboard ones, and how about Chewie gets a medal version please.
requiring all new vehicles to have communication technology that allows them to "talk" to each another
To each "another"?
Here's what they might say:
Car 1: Lookout, I have an idiot controlling me.
Car 2: Yeah, steer clear of me too, the fool at the wheel is on their damned phone.
Car 3: My driver is drunk again.
Car 4: My driver is texting. I say F-it! Let's get them all together and let them all crash. Darwinism at its finest.
Kenny says that what Watson is not just being used to cure cancer, "but to just recommend what you should watch next" and even to recommend âoewhat ad you you should watch next."
That's what Watson is really being used for, fucking advertising. And it didn't "cure" cancer, either.
Yes, that woman should have quietly died waiting for a human doctor to figure out what was wrong with her.
For some reason on my phone, when I click on "older", when it goes to the next page, you see the top but jump along until it gets to the bottom, and it is pointless to try to read anything until it finishes, as it will keep going regardless of attempts to read something at the top. When it is done, then I need to scroll to the top to read the newest "older" posts. PITA.
In the beginning, as a web page loaded, stuff jumped around and moved about as more and more arrived over our painfully slow connections. Made it pretty hard to read anything until it was done.
Then things sped up, and using "WIDTH" and "HEIGHT" attributes in image tags, and probably all sort of other innovations, it stopped happening. You could read a page and it didn't jump all over the place while it finished loading. Yay!
Well, somehow we've traveled back to the 90's, because that shit is happening all over again. Very annoying trying to read text that keeps moving. Somebody broke something.
"'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy"
Really? Infinite energy? That sounds like more energy than there is in the entire universe, let alone on Earth.
The "fuel" used in a fusion reactor is simple hydrogen, which can be extracted from water.
And eventually we would have no water left, so still definitely not infinite.
No pesky neutrons to worry about, if the fuel is "simple hydrogen".
Erm... A century contains 36500 days... not 365. That's a year. And every 4th year has 366 days. So that's 25*366 +75*365 = 36575 days in a century.
You may want to correct the rest of your maths to account for there being more than 100 times more days in that period than you counted.
You might want to double check your math too. Just saying. (36525)
It's an anti-theft feature marketed as such.
I think the Trunk Monkey Theft Retrieval System is far better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Unless it has bulletproof windows...you're going to be able to ball your shirt around your elbow and shatter it.
Shatter it? Your elbow? Quite possibly. The glass is very hard. Years ago I had to break a side window and was rather surprised at it not breaking after I struck it multiple times with a tire iron. Bounced off repeatedly. It broke eventually. (Technique is important. Spring loaded center punch apparently works great.)
Watch this reporter trying to break a car window with a hammer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Still makes me laugh a little.
So can the TV be both on and off at the same time? Can we watch all channels at once?
Seems like they are trying to make it sound like the TPP was a good thing, and Donald is ruining it for everyone. Except the TPP was definitely a bad thing for anyone who isn't the head of a huge corporation. Maybe this Trump thing could be a good thing.
FB (etc) is a "free" service that you pay for with your privacy. Most people should be aware of that. Many probably are not. I choose not to utilize them.
The "telco" is not a free service. We pay for it already. Many of us have little choice in which one to use as we are only served by one provider. Even where there are multiple providers, if they all do it, then there is still no choice.
The "entitlement" factor is at work. Why does everyone who can somehow get possession of any of your data feel entitled to sell it?
If I put documents into a safe deposit box, should I expect the bank to make copies and sell them?
First off: Betteridge's law.
Daylight Savings Time. Yes, get rid of that. Preferably by going forward this coming Spring and then leave it there permanently. But that is not the topic.
Is It Time To Dump Time Zones In Favor of Coordinated Universal Time?
When it's noon in Greenwich, Britain, let it be 12 everywhere. No more resetting the clocks. No more wondering what time it is in Peoria or Petropavlovsk.
This is a very stupid idea. Sure you would no longer wonder what time it was there, but you'd still have no idea if it was the middle of the night or lunch time, which is why you really wanted to know the time there in the first place. Now that time is meaningless and you still don't know what you want to know. I'm sure it would be quicker (the way it is now) to look up the time for where ever you were interested in, and then instantly know what to expect. If you change it, you now need to look up if 4am is lunch time or breakfast or bedtime or whatever.
Plain and simple, what you want to know about these far away places is not really "what time is it" as in the numerical time, but what time is it as in morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night, etc. This stupid idea does nothing to fix that.
Every place will learn a new relationship with the hours.
And anyone traveling there will have no idea what that relationship is, and will be confused for the duration of their stay, as the "time" is now meaningless.
The question has been posed before, but given the timeliness of Daylight Savings Time, we think the question may evoke some new, heartfelt attitudes and beliefs
It was a stupid question before, and it is a stupid question now. Also, Daylight Savings Time has nothing to do with it beyond having the word "time" in common. Much like those "In related news" links that were quite often not at all related.
apply it to seats on an airplane, which is a far better proxy for explaining the limits of network capacity, and you can see they're just as flawed as the original argument.
So your ISP/Airline has 100 seats on a flight, but sells 120 tickets, going on the assumption that not everyone will show up for the flight.
Maybe the folks that say the CO2 increase is not human caused are correct after all. Aliens are getting rid of us by pumping CO2 into our atmosphere. ;p
The unit's security processor also monitors movement, and a user can select a setting that will wipe or lock down the PC's data if it is moved to another location...
Might want to set it to be fairly insensitive if you live in an area likely to have earthquakes.
Isn't the contents of the tanks kind of nasty? Will opening the tanks to the vacuum of space be enough to evaporate it all out?
... it was always an absolutely HORRIBLE idea. ...
For you, possibly.
But I have used the backsapce key to go back a lot. Indeed, it is present on Windows Firefox, but the Firefox that came with Debian has it disabled, and I find myself constantly hitting the backkspace key and watching nothing happen.
I agree with another comment, it should at least be configurable. That way, both you and I can be happy. :)
It may have been convenient for you, but that does not change the fact that it was a horrible idea. If you had never driven before, and built a custom car with the brake pedal and the accelerator reversed, it might work fine for you, but it would not be a good idea in general. Agree; configurability is king.
Wife got a new laptop, win10. Tried figuring how to do something in Win10 (was different than earlier versions). Couldn't. Did a search. Default was BING. No luck. Entered same search terms into Google, and as well as serving up relevant looking links, it gave me the answer outright. Google knows more about Win10 than BING does. WTF?!?
And Edge crashes her laptop a lot.
I have 8.1 on my machine, and out of the box it was a disastrous mess (8.0 when I started). But I have been able to fix it to my liking (uninstall all the Metro Apps, replace with real desktop software, boot to desktop, Classic Shell).
Wife's new machine came with 10. I don't like it. I don't know if I can fix it. Edge locks up her whole computer a lot. MSIE does to a certain extent too. She is always complaining about it. The first time I tried figuring something out, I did a search, and it defaulted to BING and it could not find answers. I copied the search terms and pasted it into Google, and it answered my question on the results page. I didn't have to go further. Google knows more about Windows 10 than BING does. It's pathetic. I know I would probably get used to it, but I don't want to. Every time I see the "start tile menu", I wonder why anyone would like the design.
She was trying to print something and the dialog box was too big, and the buttons were off the bottom of the screen. Not an insurmountable problem, but she didn't know what to do. The title bar was touching the top of the screen, so can't just move it up; had to resize down, then move up. It really should never have appeared that way. This is not the dawn of the GUI. A modern OS should not have issues like that. Every website can find out from your browser what your screen resolution is, so the bloody OS should damn well know. Worse yet, the damned task bar is transparent, so she could see the PRINT button, but couldn't understand why she couldn't click on it! I hate the transparent crap, and I see no reason to have it.
It's not better than 8.1 with Classic Start Menu.
Agreed. Win8.1. Set to boot to desktop. Use Classic Start. Replace all metro apps with real software. That brings it mostly back to normal.