Microsoft might have it's head in the sand and think that we're all going to love Metro UI, but it's just not going to happen. You know that there will be an option to use the "classic start menu" (which will probably now just be the start menu), just like there was in XP/Vista/7. Even in the dev. build there's a registry value to flip that turns off the Metro UI and gives you the regular start menu back.
Plus, there's no way this Metro UI bulls--- is going to fly in the workplace. It will be fine for Windows 8 Home Edition, but I'd be willing to bet that most of IT would rather switch their systems to Linux or Mac rather than try to get people to figure out how to use the Metro UI. I know I would.
RTS's don't need a story. Games that are based on A Song of Ice and Fire do. That was more of a statement of my gaming preference anyway; it was not meant to be taken as a factual rating of RTS versus RPG games.
I had been using Chrome for a while, never having used any of the modern versions of Firefox. I had just stuck with IE for much longer than I should have. A few months ago I decided to give Firefox a try, thinking maybe I had missed out on some neat stuff that Firefox people could do that people using Chrome could not. A week later, Firefox decided to start releasing new versions left and right, the first of which made a couple of my vital extensions stop working. That's when I stopped using Firefox.
Chrome is simple and straightforward. Chrome works almost exactly how I want it to right out of the box, whereas I had to tweak Firefox and download a couple more extensions. Chrome automatically syncs everything onto my Google account, including extensions, whereas with Firefox I had to setup an account and rig some other stuff so that I could port my extensions from one installation to another. Firefox is great if your a tweakhead, so I imagine it sits better with the Linux crowd; but anymore I just want stuff to work without having to F with it.
I should mention that I would never recommend that any Windows user replace IE as their system default browser with either of them. Just us Chrome or Firefox, and let Windows keep IE as the default.
But how do you fix this? Who do you replace them with?
In other words, who gets to decide what the difference is between being a dick and being legitimately authoritarian? You? The people being "wronged"? Making admins use their real names would be a bad idea, for the reasons stated above. I don't have an answer, but admins using real names is not it.
One problem though; it's not just because of slower hardware. There's no Motorola Atrix on that list, and being the owner of one, I'm really wondering why.
Well, I don't know what else to say to the EFF other than they can go eff themselves. Really, who the hell thinks that this is a good idea? They're barking up the wrong tree if they think that individuals should be opening up their own wireless connections, and frankly, the fact that they would even put out such a statement smacks of either superb naivete or downright stupidity. If they want to encourage anything, it should be for business and/or ISPs to build more public access WiFi.
...who ever thought that this was a good idea (from the article):
"The devices are installed by vendors that typically receive about 40 percent of the payout on each ticket, with the rest going to local, county and state government."
Honestly? Why don't we let cops get to keep 40% of the revenue collected from the tickets that they write? Oh yeah, because that would be a motivation for them to exaggerate or write false tickets just to get a larger cut.
...and then like, you would like, just connect the stuff together man, and things would just be there, and you would just be like "woah, man, I'm computing", and it would be more real than reality, man.
Really though, what does he suggest as an alternative to files and folders and paragraphs??? It seems this guy's dropped too much acid for one lifetime. I'm for the idea of trying to innovate computer technology, but what does he suggest? Can anyone make sense of what he's trying to get at?
Right, that's what the "(for now)" was about. Companies should realize that they can never "build the best lock" as it were. Someone will always pick the lock.
It seems to me that this is the best possible outcome, honestly. Sony gets to keep their closed system (for now) which is, like it or not, what they want; and GeoHotz doesn't get the wrath of some huge fine levied against him, which is probably what Sony would have done if they could have.
It is indeed a waste of time to say that science "disproves" religion, or that relgion discredits science in any way; however, they each belong in their place. Science should be taught in science class, and religion in religion class, if you attend private school, or church if you do not. I attended a Catholic private school for my grade school, and we were taught in this way. They didn't tell us to ignore religion, but they also taught proper science in the classroom as well. Something like this allows for religion to be taught as science, which can only be detrimental to our childrens' education. I am only glad that I do not live in Tennessee or Louisiana.
This seems like a step backward from existing technology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface
If we can already control computers, prosthetics, etc. with a direct neural interface just by thinking about a direction to move a cursor or how to move an appendage, what possible application could tapping the speech center have?
Did they just decide to completely ignore the fact that almost every major PC builder has been making media center and all-in-one PCs for a number of years? They act like having a computer built into the keyboard is something that's going to revolutionize the market. The Commodore 64 keyboard layout is a joke, and the "Pro" and "Slim" versions are a joke because there are already plenty of alternatives from the big names (HP, Dell, etc.) that have better specs and sell for around the same price, if not less for what you get in these pieces of junk.
Maybe this is their April Fool's Month joke.
Slashdot Mirror
Just in case anyone's running the Windows 8 dev version and hasn't discovered this yet:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RPEnabled=0
Bam! Now it's Windows 7 with upgrades.
Microsoft might have it's head in the sand and think that we're all going to love Metro UI, but it's just not going to happen. You know that there will be an option to use the "classic start menu" (which will probably now just be the start menu), just like there was in XP/Vista/7. Even in the dev. build there's a registry value to flip that turns off the Metro UI and gives you the regular start menu back.
Plus, there's no way this Metro UI bulls--- is going to fly in the workplace. It will be fine for Windows 8 Home Edition, but I'd be willing to bet that most of IT would rather switch their systems to Linux or Mac rather than try to get people to figure out how to use the Metro UI. I know I would.
RTS's don't need a story. Games that are based on A Song of Ice and Fire do. That was more of a statement of my gaming preference anyway; it was not meant to be taken as a factual rating of RTS versus RPG games.
-1 for the RTS (unless it has a good story), +1 for the RPG
I had been using Chrome for a while, never having used any of the modern versions of Firefox. I had just stuck with IE for much longer than I should have. A few months ago I decided to give Firefox a try, thinking maybe I had missed out on some neat stuff that Firefox people could do that people using Chrome could not. A week later, Firefox decided to start releasing new versions left and right, the first of which made a couple of my vital extensions stop working. That's when I stopped using Firefox. Chrome is simple and straightforward. Chrome works almost exactly how I want it to right out of the box, whereas I had to tweak Firefox and download a couple more extensions. Chrome automatically syncs everything onto my Google account, including extensions, whereas with Firefox I had to setup an account and rig some other stuff so that I could port my extensions from one installation to another. Firefox is great if your a tweakhead, so I imagine it sits better with the Linux crowd; but anymore I just want stuff to work without having to F with it. I should mention that I would never recommend that any Windows user replace IE as their system default browser with either of them. Just us Chrome or Firefox, and let Windows keep IE as the default.
But how do you fix this? Who do you replace them with?
In other words, who gets to decide what the difference is between being a dick and being legitimately authoritarian? You? The people being "wronged"? Making admins use their real names would be a bad idea, for the reasons stated above. I don't have an answer, but admins using real names is not it.
I would very much appreciate an invite if anyone has one to spare. Thanks Darren Maas - dleemaas(at)gmail(dot)com
Oh, wait, that s--- is going to cost money? I should have known, I suppose. Oh Microsoft, so close and yet so far away.
I hope you mean they ruined your generation by making everything a matter of law, versus letting them be matters of common sense.
One problem though; it's not just because of slower hardware. There's no Motorola Atrix on that list, and being the owner of one, I'm really wondering why.
Well, I don't know what else to say to the EFF other than they can go eff themselves. Really, who the hell thinks that this is a good idea? They're barking up the wrong tree if they think that individuals should be opening up their own wireless connections, and frankly, the fact that they would even put out such a statement smacks of either superb naivete or downright stupidity. If they want to encourage anything, it should be for business and/or ISPs to build more public access WiFi.
I dunno, there's some bad stuff that goes down there. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Doom-boxart.jpg
Why, what planet do you think we should be trying to travel to? (Hint: "none" is not an answer)
"The devices are installed by vendors that typically receive about 40 percent of the payout on each ticket, with the rest going to local, county and state government."
Honestly? Why don't we let cops get to keep 40% of the revenue collected from the tickets that they write? Oh yeah, because that would be a motivation for them to exaggerate or write false tickets just to get a larger cut.
...and then like, you would like, just connect the stuff together man, and things would just be there, and you would just be like "woah, man, I'm computing", and it would be more real than reality, man. Really though, what does he suggest as an alternative to files and folders and paragraphs??? It seems this guy's dropped too much acid for one lifetime. I'm for the idea of trying to innovate computer technology, but what does he suggest? Can anyone make sense of what he's trying to get at?
Right, that's what the "(for now)" was about. Companies should realize that they can never "build the best lock" as it were. Someone will always pick the lock.
It seems to me that this is the best possible outcome, honestly. Sony gets to keep their closed system (for now) which is, like it or not, what they want; and GeoHotz doesn't get the wrath of some huge fine levied against him, which is probably what Sony would have done if they could have.
It is indeed a waste of time to say that science "disproves" religion, or that relgion discredits science in any way; however, they each belong in their place. Science should be taught in science class, and religion in religion class, if you attend private school, or church if you do not. I attended a Catholic private school for my grade school, and we were taught in this way. They didn't tell us to ignore religion, but they also taught proper science in the classroom as well. Something like this allows for religion to be taught as science, which can only be detrimental to our childrens' education. I am only glad that I do not live in Tennessee or Louisiana.
This seems like a step backward from existing technology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface If we can already control computers, prosthetics, etc. with a direct neural interface just by thinking about a direction to move a cursor or how to move an appendage, what possible application could tapping the speech center have?
Pandora can have the SSNs of everyone I know if they'll just keep providing their free musical goodness.
Did they just decide to completely ignore the fact that almost every major PC builder has been making media center and all-in-one PCs for a number of years? They act like having a computer built into the keyboard is something that's going to revolutionize the market. The Commodore 64 keyboard layout is a joke, and the "Pro" and "Slim" versions are a joke because there are already plenty of alternatives from the big names (HP, Dell, etc.) that have better specs and sell for around the same price, if not less for what you get in these pieces of junk. Maybe this is their April Fool's Month joke.