Romania, not so much, no. Anyway, we have Okazii.ro here, which is a Romanian Ebay. However, it's a defective product and I don't want to contribute to a stranger's unhappiness.
The reason you upgrade is for better hardware support, better performance, better security, more productivity.
Better hardware support makes sense if you buy a new computer which Windows 7 no longer supports. Maybe 5 years from now it will make sense. Better performance? Time shall tell. Right now, I am doubtful about that. Oh yes, "it starts faster". With my uptime measuring in months, hardly an advantage. Also, all freshly installed Windows OS start "faster". Better security? Microsoft products have historically had worse security right off the box, maybe it will get better after SP1. More productivity? Please... that's something most people complain about when they try out Windows 8.
So it's not readily available. Of course there are 3rd party applications that do pretty much everything you are looking for, but I find it worrisome that Windows 8 has apps that make it look like WIndows 7. Usually, there was the other way around, as in apps which made your XP look like 7.
I have counted my apps list in Programs and Features. Leaving obvious crap aside, I have 264 software products installed (including games). Some I use maybe twice a year, some I use twice a month, and some are open pretty much all the time. Sure, maybe if you have 30 applications installed, then you could tile them all up or whatever. But I do open and close applications all the time. Paint, for example. I use it to quickly open, crop and save screenshots as much as 30 times a day. No, I don't have it pinned to my taskbar, instead I press start button on keyboard and click it there. Also, my 25+ games that I play regularly are all piled up in a nice toolbar attached to the taskbar. Anyway, if I spend my whole time in a Windows 8 view that's similar to my Windows 7 default interface, why upgrade at all?
Taskbar. Does it have a taskbar readily available at the bottom or side of the screen at all times? Right now, on Windows 7, I have 9 active applications and one-click access to about 40 others. The System Tray holds some more 15 icons out of which 11 allow double-click access to software (the other ones are informative-only). I like this, it helps me quickly get to this or that software without having to perform a few extra steps which take my focus away from what I need to do.
Hmm... maybe I should try that out. I am however more inclined to buy a new one because every time I look at this current router I have I get goose bumps.
Everyone is doing their best to feed the teacher the responses that they believe the teacher wants to be fed.
Interesting. In fact, I tried to screw the teacher with my original essays because I was smart enough both to do it and afford screwing the teacher. That activity, however, was limited to my native language and English. It was fun.
I have a Linksys WRT120N. It sucks fat cock. Wireless network fails on a daily basis and on two machines it never reconnects. Once a week, Wireless module goes down completely, I have to reset the router. About twice a month, my wired bandwidth slows to a crawl (10-50 kB/s) and I have to... you know... reset the router. And about every 6-7 weeks, my PPPoE "forgets" credentials, and I have to enter them again, and... you know... reset the router.
Furthermore, for the last 6 months I was unable to change large parts of router configuration, because every time I click Save, I receive a fat cock-sucking Error 500. For this one, resetting the router doesn't help.
The message I sent across to everybody I know was and is: Stay Away From Linksys.
No. You are absolutely wrong. There are literally over a hundred countries in the world where one can live a long life and never see a gun except a few that some policemen keep in their holsters. And by that I include hunting weaponry too. I myself last saw a gun maybe 9 years ago, one of my friends' father was a hunter and I saw him returning from a hunt carrying a shotgun, and I live in a city of 2 million people. I don't think there are more than 10.000 private people in the whole city who own a gun, and most of them are police- or military-related. Not even private security companies are allowed to own lethal weaponry. At most they carry rubber bullet guns, and that very, very rarely in public. Illegal weapons are literally unheard of. No doubts some of the organized crime bosses own some illegal guns, but then again, they don't carry them in public at all.
Also I would like to point out that TFA pretty much ignores anything else than next century. If this trend accelerates, how would the world look like 500 years from now? If you think that's a LONG time, consider that mankind was traversing oceans 500 years ago.
You don't even need to tank with a Raven while doing missions, you spew long range missiles at rats from 100+ km away, all you need to do is know when to interrupt cycles so that you don't waste missiles on dead rats (hint: you might have as many as 3 salvos in space already when rat dies, so they go to waste). Golem works best, unfortunately you have to train a LOT to get to fly one.
Get T2 drones, Hammerhead IIs are awesome. I personally used an Ishtar droneboat with Sentries, they were tanking for me and I usually didn't even have to move. Awesome.
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Romania, not so much, no.
Anyway, we have Okazii.ro here, which is a Romanian Ebay. However, it's a defective product and I don't want to contribute to a stranger's unhappiness.
I am not from the US.
Not supported, so no I haven't. I'll just give it away to someone I hate :)
Sadly, most of them were male, and those who weren't... could've fooled me.
The reason you upgrade is for better hardware support, better performance, better security, more productivity.
Better hardware support makes sense if you buy a new computer which Windows 7 no longer supports. Maybe 5 years from now it will make sense.
Better performance? Time shall tell. Right now, I am doubtful about that. Oh yes, "it starts faster". With my uptime measuring in months, hardly an advantage. Also, all freshly installed Windows OS start "faster".
Better security? Microsoft products have historically had worse security right off the box, maybe it will get better after SP1.
More productivity? Please... that's something most people complain about when they try out Windows 8.
No but wait a minute... why upgrade to Windows 8, then?
My work mode includes the need to have Skype open, for example. If it's not visible at all times, then I have a problem.
So it's not readily available. Of course there are 3rd party applications that do pretty much everything you are looking for, but I find it worrisome that Windows 8 has apps that make it look like WIndows 7. Usually, there was the other way around, as in apps which made your XP look like 7.
I have counted my apps list in Programs and Features. Leaving obvious crap aside, I have 264 software products installed (including games). Some I use maybe twice a year, some I use twice a month, and some are open pretty much all the time. Sure, maybe if you have 30 applications installed, then you could tile them all up or whatever. But I do open and close applications all the time. Paint, for example. I use it to quickly open, crop and save screenshots as much as 30 times a day. No, I don't have it pinned to my taskbar, instead I press start button on keyboard and click it there. Also, my 25+ games that I play regularly are all piled up in a nice toolbar attached to the taskbar.
Anyway, if I spend my whole time in a Windows 8 view that's similar to my Windows 7 default interface, why upgrade at all?
Yeah, I was just checking that out. Great. Garbage can, here it comes.
Taskbar. Does it have a taskbar readily available at the bottom or side of the screen at all times? Right now, on Windows 7, I have 9 active applications and one-click access to about 40 others. The System Tray holds some more 15 icons out of which 11 allow double-click access to software (the other ones are informative-only). I like this, it helps me quickly get to this or that software without having to perform a few extra steps which take my focus away from what I need to do.
Hmm... maybe I should try that out. I am however more inclined to buy a new one because every time I look at this current router I have I get goose bumps.
I honestly couldn't be arsed. I am now fishing for a newer router, maybe in January I will get a new one. Asus routers look interesting. We'll see.
Everyone is doing their best to feed the teacher the responses that they believe the teacher wants to be fed.
Interesting. In fact, I tried to screw the teacher with my original essays because I was smart enough both to do it and afford screwing the teacher. That activity, however, was limited to my native language and English.
It was fun.
I have a Linksys WRT120N.
It sucks fat cock. Wireless network fails on a daily basis and on two machines it never reconnects. Once a week, Wireless module goes down completely, I have to reset the router. About twice a month, my wired bandwidth slows to a crawl (10-50 kB/s) and I have to... you know... reset the router. And about every 6-7 weeks, my PPPoE "forgets" credentials, and I have to enter them again, and... you know... reset the router.
Furthermore, for the last 6 months I was unable to change large parts of router configuration, because every time I click Save, I receive a fat cock-sucking Error 500. For this one, resetting the router doesn't help.
The message I sent across to everybody I know was and is: Stay Away From Linksys.
Just don't manage them with a Windows Domain forest, please.
No. You are absolutely wrong. There are literally over a hundred countries in the world where one can live a long life and never see a gun except a few that some policemen keep in their holsters. And by that I include hunting weaponry too.
I myself last saw a gun maybe 9 years ago, one of my friends' father was a hunter and I saw him returning from a hunt carrying a shotgun, and I live in a city of 2 million people. I don't think there are more than 10.000 private people in the whole city who own a gun, and most of them are police- or military-related. Not even private security companies are allowed to own lethal weaponry. At most they carry rubber bullet guns, and that very, very rarely in public.
Illegal weapons are literally unheard of. No doubts some of the organized crime bosses own some illegal guns, but then again, they don't carry them in public at all.
Oh man, I just HOPE that ANY technology will be available.
Also I would like to point out that TFA pretty much ignores anything else than next century. If this trend accelerates, how would the world look like 500 years from now? If you think that's a LONG time, consider that mankind was traversing oceans 500 years ago.
You're saying it like it's a BAD thing :)
You don't even need to tank with a Raven while doing missions, you spew long range missiles at rats from 100+ km away, all you need to do is know when to interrupt cycles so that you don't waste missiles on dead rats (hint: you might have as many as 3 salvos in space already when rat dies, so they go to waste).
Golem works best, unfortunately you have to train a LOT to get to fly one.
Get T2 drones, Hammerhead IIs are awesome.
I personally used an Ishtar droneboat with Sentries, they were tanking for me and I usually didn't even have to move. Awesome.
You definitely sound like Michael Jackson with lols attached.
No, but the blackmailed dude's is.
I don't know, man, it seems easier to just throw a cheap hooker their way, snap photos and then blackmail them 'till Kingdom Come.