This is the most ignorant, useless release of Windows 8 ever made. Change for change sakes it seems.
I recently tried installing it on my netbook with a resolution of 1024x600 (the typical netbok resolution) and I cannot run a SINGLE metro apps because my resolution is not at least 1024x768. What is that bullshit? The apps can scale at all? They expected this to be on some older devices that supported it, so why the limitation? I know future Surface devices will have to meet a certain standard, but why throw compatibility out the window? Why not an 800x600 resolution minimum? That way you'll know everyone within a reasonable time period (not the short time period of 2 years ago where my netbook sits) can use the full features.
There reasoning I think is so app developers don't have to cater to tons of resolutions, which is fine. FOR A MOBILE DEVICE. They expect Windows 8 to be used on Desktops but completely cripple usability.
It's true I only really use the start menu for searching programs and rarely go straight to the icon itself. But the search is even worse in Windows 8! I hit the WinKey and start typing. I type in "device" looking for the Device Manager. Nothing. There are some metro quicklinks for installing hardware and whatnot, but not the Device Manager. Not until I search "device m" does it show up.
Meanwhile in Wndows 7, I type just "d" and there it is, as well as everything else that starts with "d".
Now the sad part is, I would use it if it still had the start menu. It runs wonderfully on my netbook. It scrolls smooth and everything is snappy.
But it's useless. The XP I ran before worked better.
And all this crap they're giving to corporate users is hopefully gonna hurt them. It'll run terrible, it'll *feel* terrible. Maybe they've just decided to give this area to linux like Apple has and just focus on consumers. Well that's fine and dandy but the Apple user experience on a laptop or desktop is not in any way horrendous, while Metro leaves me feeling frustrated.
Can't wait for Windows 9 now. Its sure to be good.
The last books in the Hitchhiker's series: book 5 "Mostly Harmless", and book 6 "...And Another Thing".
They were both fantastic books, the latter being not quite a good but still a fun read.
As I understand it, Douglas Adams was in a dark place when he wrote "Mostly Harmless", which led to the rather depressing ending.
I don't know if he planned to write a 6th book himself, but he died before he could in any case. Eoin Colfer picked up the 6th book, and made an interesting emulation of Adams writing.
But the bloody endings. Both books touch upon that the universe doesn't always leave a happy ending for the good guy. But the ending of 5 was unfair but clever in that it related back to what had been told to the characters early on. Book 6 didn't teach me squat and seemed rushed at end and left me the feeling he didn't know how to end it, so simply followed the same vein as the 5th book.
In any case, I think the ending of book 6 could do with a rewrite and I'm sure there are some who would argue that the entire book needs a rewrite.
The series was fantastic and I'm happy to have read them, but I still feel things should have turned out better for the late Dentarthurdent.
I would love to live in a world where we are integrated with our devices like some futuristic sci-fi story. Where we remove our hands from the wheel and the car takes over, or it automatically taxis us home when we're drunk.
I just don't think I could put that amount of trust into any corporation. With the massive amount of password leaks lately and just the general track records of greedy corporations, they would need a HUGE incentive to get me on board.
For instance, if they were transparent with their security protocols, showed that they followed them, and held themselves to a much higher standard then just the bare minimum that most corporations seem to.
Even Google which has been a pretty great company has begun it's decline and is losing it's grasp of the "Don't Be Evil" slogan. I guess they are getting to big for their own good and probably won't change their path (eg. the removal of the option to remove their tracking data on your google account, the almost forced use of G+, and the discontinuation of Google Labs).
No on felt the need to mention what the "laser power system" is, but what I gather it's just concentrating the power into a beam to wirelessly charge the UAV without landing. I don't know what the strength/distance of the beam is though.
A lot of those games are i n the high hundred/low thousands range in cost because of rarity. Not to mention the effort gone to collect and preserve the collection it definitely equals out.
You're a company. The fact that any constitutional rights apply to you is because of dirty lawmaking. Kindly screw off. I *hope* you can only piss off the people so much before they realize "Hey, that's pretty dumb."
Officicial installers mean in this case, compiled by the person who wrote the code instead of someone mirroring or forking his code. It's just that simple.
Where are you pulling this from? He said he's releasing the source, but charging for a pre-compiled version. What is so hard to understand?
If you don't know how to compile from source, then you essentially pay him to compile for you.
In those countries where they do filter and block websites, the internet is broken. No one has any free speech. Political opposition is just blocked along with anything "offensive" like pornography. Anything the government does not agree with is shut down. That is very broken and for a country that considers itself the home of the free, then those systems would be considered completely corrupt and unethical.
But who cares. It's all for the greater good.
The greater good.
The greater good.
I've known of it. I've visited. Never liked it. The userbase tend to pick one thing to completely obsesses about for a week before they move on and it causes all the posts to be completely the same. It's also just kids who haven't seen a lot of content that has existed for a long time and get excited easily. Also, I use Ad-block so there is no revenue there. If I do visit, it's directly to the URL and not google, so no referrals there.
I love it. It's so open and shut in favor of The Oatmeal. He never incited anyone. He in fact mentions that he DIDN'T incite anyone and that it was FunnyJunk who messaged their userbase to confront The Oatmeal, or at least very heavily implied they should. Everything The Oatmeal has done is retaliatory, in defense, and FJ has been on the offense for the entire situation.
God knows why. Money I suppose. The Oatmeal's comics are popular and probably bring a lot of traffic when the comics are linked to FJ and not The Oatmeal.
Everytime the owner of FJ speaks he tries to paint himself as the one being hurt, but all the damage is self-induced by the bad PR he's constantly causing by sending rude messages and generally un-gentlemanly behavior.
Now if this ever does reach court, I'm sure it'll be decently long as FJ tries to throw everything it can at The Oatmeal because if they lose the Streisand Effect will hit even harder. I'm sure at least some users will leave, but more importantly they'll lose many potential users just because of they'll be shown beforehand how FJ operates.
Either way, I'm going to just grab some popcorn and enjoy. I can't wait for The Oatmeal's response to this. Should have just complied with the takedown request (it was a request, The Oatmeal never once filed a DMCA) but apparently the owner of FJ just can't stand being told (asked) what to do.
I wanted to RTFA but I'm too busy masturbating and I really need to finish this game like RIGHT NOW AAARGH! .. Also I need to do my college work, I'm going out with friends tonight and I work all weekend.
What? I don't fit into your little schema mister Doctor? Well that's odd, because if I sure as heck don't fit in there then you really screwed up.
The world needs to calm down. A few kids fiddling with their joysticks and yelling on Call of Duty isn't going to doom the human race into extinction. I know some pretty out there nerds and they get laid just fine, and have female friends just like every demographic. There are 2 sides to every coin and some peoples coins just happen to be covered in acne and instead of a head it's a controller.
It's still legal tender, we all came from the same Bank of Life.
Ha, I think I got a little fancy at the end there.
You're arguing naming semantics, but it's a problem no matter what you call it. They are growing, much of it settles to the bottom, and the pieces are so small that they get eaten by fish mistaking it for algae, which later get eaten by *gasp* Humans.
I wasn't 100% spot on. I was just going by memory. I mistook ocean for gyre. So sue me, I'm not an oceanographer and I have never even touched waters more open than a great lake.
I've seen smaller things being called islands. There is a true definition and their is a social definition. Most people would call a mound of dirt in the middle of a pond to be an "island".
And all this technicality is irrelevant in the end. All this bad stuff going on, and you're hung up that I called a patch of garbage so large it is view-able from a satellite an island. I'm not sorry for using the wrong word, but I'am sorry that you felt the need to pick at something so arbitrary.
You mean like the bombs used in World War 2?
Or the ecological disasters like the garbage islands in each major ocean and the continued clear-cutting of thrid-world countries, to name a few?
Long term thought does not seem to be something you're capable of, and is a handicap for most people. We weren't programmed to think long term so it literally is a difficult concept for some people.
No it doesn't, it just shows that they don't target private software, for better or for worse. All they're doing is simply leaving it up to the user to update their software. They don't need to do it, and they chose not too.
They won't target the software, but they will target the malware targeting that software. Apple is just taking a more active stance on it, and they need to if they want to keep their "no viruses/malware" slogan going strong.
It's more the just plain freedom in combining lego and lincoln log structures together.
I'm speaking specifically the adapter itself, which are all ingenius, not just the logs themselves.
Lincoln Logs to Lego adapter? Brilliant.
Though that time spent looking for that *one* piece I think will double, and become increasingly frustrating.
Also, these things look like a huge threats to people heels.
Yes, we can all talk in big, condescending words and completely ignore that the cartoon series is universally considered cannon and the comic only ran a few issues. But we don't and we won't.
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This is the most ignorant, useless release of Windows 8 ever made. Change for change sakes it seems.
I recently tried installing it on my netbook with a resolution of 1024x600 (the typical netbok resolution) and I cannot run a SINGLE metro apps because my resolution is not at least 1024x768. What is that bullshit? The apps can scale at all? They expected this to be on some older devices that supported it, so why the limitation? I know future Surface devices will have to meet a certain standard, but why throw compatibility out the window? Why not an 800x600 resolution minimum? That way you'll know everyone within a reasonable time period (not the short time period of 2 years ago where my netbook sits) can use the full features.
There reasoning I think is so app developers don't have to cater to tons of resolutions, which is fine. FOR A MOBILE DEVICE.
They expect Windows 8 to be used on Desktops but completely cripple usability.
It's true I only really use the start menu for searching programs and rarely go straight to the icon itself. But the search is even worse in Windows 8! I hit the WinKey and start typing. I type in "device" looking for the Device Manager. Nothing. There are some metro quicklinks for installing hardware and whatnot, but not the Device Manager. Not until I search "device m" does it show up. Meanwhile in Wndows 7, I type just "d" and there it is, as well as everything else that starts with "d".
Now the sad part is, I would use it if it still had the start menu. It runs wonderfully on my netbook. It scrolls smooth and everything is snappy.
But it's useless. The XP I ran before worked better.
And all this crap they're giving to corporate users is hopefully gonna hurt them. It'll run terrible, it'll *feel* terrible. Maybe they've just decided to give this area to linux like Apple has and just focus on consumers. Well that's fine and dandy but the Apple user experience on a laptop or desktop is not in any way horrendous, while Metro leaves me feeling frustrated.
Can't wait for Windows 9 now. Its sure to be good.
The last books in the Hitchhiker's series: book 5 "Mostly Harmless", and book 6 "...And Another Thing".
They were both fantastic books, the latter being not quite a good but still a fun read.
As I understand it, Douglas Adams was in a dark place when he wrote "Mostly Harmless", which led to the rather depressing ending.
I don't know if he planned to write a 6th book himself, but he died before he could in any case. Eoin Colfer picked up the 6th book, and made an interesting emulation of Adams writing.
But the bloody endings. Both books touch upon that the universe doesn't always leave a happy ending for the good guy. But the ending of 5 was unfair but clever in that it related back to what had been told to the characters early on. Book 6 didn't teach me squat and seemed rushed at end and left me the feeling he didn't know how to end it, so simply followed the same vein as the 5th book.
In any case, I think the ending of book 6 could do with a rewrite and I'm sure there are some who would argue that the entire book needs a rewrite.
The series was fantastic and I'm happy to have read them, but I still feel things should have turned out better for the late Dentarthurdent.
I would love to live in a world where we are integrated with our devices like some futuristic sci-fi story. Where we remove our hands from the wheel and the car takes over, or it automatically taxis us home when we're drunk.
I just don't think I could put that amount of trust into any corporation. With the massive amount of password leaks lately and just the general track records of greedy corporations, they would need a HUGE incentive to get me on board.
For instance, if they were transparent with their security protocols, showed that they followed them, and held themselves to a much higher standard then just the bare minimum that most corporations seem to.
Even Google which has been a pretty great company has begun it's decline and is losing it's grasp of the "Don't Be Evil" slogan. I guess they are getting to big for their own good and probably won't change their path (eg. the removal of the option to remove their tracking data on your google account, the almost forced use of G+, and the discontinuation of Google Labs).
No on felt the need to mention what the "laser power system" is, but what I gather it's just concentrating the power into a beam to wirelessly charge the UAV without landing. I don't know what the strength/distance of the beam is though.
We focus protons the same and we can start catching some ghosts.
Who you gonna call? SCIENCE!
A lot of those games are i n the high hundred/low thousands range in cost because of rarity. Not to mention the effort gone to collect and preserve the collection it definitely equals out.
You're a company. The fact that any constitutional rights apply to you is because of dirty lawmaking. Kindly screw off. I *hope* you can only piss off the people so much before they realize "Hey, that's pretty dumb."
What the hell does "The sigh" mean?
Officicial installers mean in this case, compiled by the person who wrote the code instead of someone mirroring or forking his code. It's just that simple.
It's basically just donation.
Where are you pulling this from? He said he's releasing the source, but charging for a pre-compiled version. What is so hard to understand? If you don't know how to compile from source, then you essentially pay him to compile for you.
In those countries where they do filter and block websites, the internet is broken. No one has any free speech. Political opposition is just blocked along with anything "offensive" like pornography. Anything the government does not agree with is shut down. That is very broken and for a country that considers itself the home of the free, then those systems would be considered completely corrupt and unethical.
But who cares. It's all for the greater good.
The greater good.
The greater good.
I've known of it. I've visited. Never liked it. The userbase tend to pick one thing to completely obsesses about for a week before they move on and it causes all the posts to be completely the same. It's also just kids who haven't seen a lot of content that has existed for a long time and get excited easily. Also, I use Ad-block so there is no revenue there. If I do visit, it's directly to the URL and not google, so no referrals there.
I love it. It's so open and shut in favor of The Oatmeal. He never incited anyone. He in fact mentions that he DIDN'T incite anyone and that it was FunnyJunk who messaged their userbase to confront The Oatmeal, or at least very heavily implied they should. Everything The Oatmeal has done is retaliatory, in defense, and FJ has been on the offense for the entire situation.
God knows why. Money I suppose. The Oatmeal's comics are popular and probably bring a lot of traffic when the comics are linked to FJ and not The Oatmeal.
Everytime the owner of FJ speaks he tries to paint himself as the one being hurt, but all the damage is self-induced by the bad PR he's constantly causing by sending rude messages and generally un-gentlemanly behavior.
Now if this ever does reach court, I'm sure it'll be decently long as FJ tries to throw everything it can at The Oatmeal because if they lose the Streisand Effect will hit even harder. I'm sure at least some users will leave, but more importantly they'll lose many potential users just because of they'll be shown beforehand how FJ operates.
Either way, I'm going to just grab some popcorn and enjoy. I can't wait for The Oatmeal's response to this. Should have just complied with the takedown request (it was a request, The Oatmeal never once filed a DMCA) but apparently the owner of FJ just can't stand being told (asked) what to do.
Already done. Search slashdot for it. It'll be used to power small implants and uses sugar from the blood.
All this is happening to BC after just a few years of existing, while it took quite a bit longer for the national cash to get screwed up.
I wanted to RTFA but I'm too busy masturbating and I really need to finish this game like RIGHT NOW AAARGH!
.. Also I need to do my college work, I'm going out with friends tonight and I work all weekend.
What? I don't fit into your little schema mister Doctor? Well that's odd, because if I sure as heck don't fit in there then you really screwed up.
The world needs to calm down. A few kids fiddling with their joysticks and yelling on Call of Duty isn't going to doom the human race into extinction. I know some pretty out there nerds and they get laid just fine, and have female friends just like every demographic. There are 2 sides to every coin and some peoples coins just happen to be covered in acne and instead of a head it's a controller.
It's still legal tender, we all came from the same Bank of Life.
Ha, I think I got a little fancy at the end there.
The reality is if they do it again they'll be put on suspension with pay for 6 months. Easiest vacation ever.
You're arguing naming semantics, but it's a problem no matter what you call it. They are growing, much of it settles to the bottom, and the pieces are so small that they get eaten by fish mistaking it for algae, which later get eaten by *gasp* Humans.
I wasn't 100% spot on. I was just going by memory. I mistook ocean for gyre. So sue me, I'm not an oceanographer and I have never even touched waters more open than a great lake.
I've seen smaller things being called islands. There is a true definition and their is a social definition. Most people would call a mound of dirt in the middle of a pond to be an "island".
And all this technicality is irrelevant in the end. All this bad stuff going on, and you're hung up that I called a patch of garbage so large it is view-able from a satellite an island. I'm not sorry for using the wrong word, but I'am sorry that you felt the need to pick at something so arbitrary.
You mean like the bombs used in World War 2?
Or the ecological disasters like the garbage islands in each major ocean and the continued clear-cutting of thrid-world countries, to name a few?
Long term thought does not seem to be something you're capable of, and is a handicap for most people. We weren't programmed to think long term so it literally is a difficult concept for some people.
No it doesn't, it just shows that they don't target private software, for better or for worse. All they're doing is simply leaving it up to the user to update their software.
They don't need to do it, and they chose not too.
They won't target the software, but they will target the malware targeting that software. Apple is just taking a more active stance on it, and they need to if they want to keep their "no viruses/malware" slogan going strong.
So which researcher gets the first taste?
It's more the just plain freedom in combining lego and lincoln log structures together.
I'm speaking specifically the adapter itself, which are all ingenius, not just the logs themselves.
What until we find out employee paychecks are considered company funds and they aren't allowed to purchase them with their own money.
Is the BEST THING EVER!
Lincoln Logs to Lego adapter? Brilliant.
Though that time spent looking for that *one* piece I think will double, and become increasingly frustrating.
Also, these things look like a huge threats to people heels.
Yes, we can all talk in big, condescending words and completely ignore that the cartoon series is universally considered cannon and the comic only ran a few issues. But we don't and we won't.