But what good does that do these people that are apparently all befuddled by the same functionality built into the start menu in Windows 7? Hell, it's even simpler in W7 than OSX, because you only need to hit one key before you can start typing.
I just don't know how much simpler and more efficient people want it to be. If they're looking for an ever-present dock (the only possible thing I could think of being simpler than the W7 start menu, although you can obviously emulate all the functionality of it through the quick launch bar already), and don't want to deal with the trivial matter of using a third party program to give them a direct OSX clone of a dock in W7, then obviously they shouldn't be using Windows 7 in the first place.
Like I said, if a person is really having trouble using the Windows 7 start menu, the problem has to be the user, because I just can't see how...and if the complaints are merely cosmetic in nature ("Ugh, scrolling is just so lame!!") than they're even less relevant to the conversation than the functionality complaints.
Oh, I understand completely that my opinion doesn't count for everyone else. But you guys are doing the equivalent of wearing sneakers while bitching how hard it is to tie your shoes. Just put on your helmet, bop on down to the shoe store, and get yourself some slip-ons if it's such a fucking pain in the ass to you that you have to whine about it on a forum that's not even about sneakers in the first place...
I hope you have a better day tomorrow. The fact that you're wishing death on me over an internet argument is indicative of either a seriously bad day or a mental imbalance, but good luck either way...
I said I don't give a shit about a person's OS decision. But, just like when I see those morons on TV complaining about the color of a few rooms in a house they're looking at as if it's completely unchangeable, when I hear people complaining about trivium that is easily compensated for (with even less effort than the trivium itself) I call them on it. If the complaining about the flyout menus is not due to efficiency, which the typing method far exceeds (unless you don't know how to type a handful of letters quickly, which, once again, is the fault of the user, not the OS), then what's the argument? Aesthetics? Is it not "snappy" enough? What exactly makes flyout menus so much more attractive to a person that they feel the need to complain about it on a post about a completely different OS?
If you're stuck in your ways and don't want to use the new methods because you're not familiar with them or efficient with them, fine, but say that. Don't say there's some flaw with the menu itself when the flaw is actually your inability to compensate. Until this thread I have literally never heard someone complain about the Windows 7 start menu in my life, and I associate with people all the way from technology-fearing geriatrics to professionals that earn their living's with this stuff. Purely anecdotal, I admit, so feel free to retort and tell me of the hordes in your circle gnashing their teeth over the lack of fly-out menu's in Windows 7 on a regular basis.
As to your "if you cut your throat nobody cares" comment: go fuck yourself. Learn some respect.
I don't give a shit about your choice in OS or anyone else's, but these complaints are just silly. It reminds me of all the 'House Hunters' shows I've seen where people look at a house and bitch about the fucking color the walls are painted, as if they're going to find the perfect house decorated in their personal style right off the bat and repainting a few rooms is the equivalent in their mind to completely renovating the kitchen.
The fact is, there are a multitude of ways one can both navigate the start menu and open a program in Windows 7, more than there were in any other version. What more do they need to do to improve it? I can't think of a single more efficient way of opening a program than the 'windows key-type a few letters of the name' method. I bet I can launch any program on my computer quicker than you can navigate to it even within the start menu itself.
If you're ever spending more than a second or two in the start menu with Windows 7 the problem isn't Windows, it's you.
If you seriously have this much trouble using the Windows 7 start menu, than I don't understand why you use a Windows PC in the first place. The start menu in 7 is fucking clown shoes simple. I can't even imagine what is causing people so much difficult here...
I know, right? I'm trying to imagine how the hell people are having such difficulty navigating the fucking start menu and for the life of me I can't...
If you can't navigate the extremely simple and easy to use start menu on Windows 7, get a fucking Mac already. I know kids with ages in the single digits that can utilize a Windows 7 start menu perfectly well using all the various methods for navigating to and opening a program. The problem obviously isn't Windows 7 if a person can't...
There's many ways to access a program, it's not like you have to use the "type it's name" method if you don't wish to. You can put icons on your desktop. You can pin it to the start menu. You can navigate to the standard program list on the start menu. You can put it in the quicklaunch bar. You can create your own keyboard shortcuts.
People are bitching about this just to bitch. I've literally never had an easier time launching any program, even the ones that I use once in a blue moon, as I've had on Windows 7.
It's certainly much faster than clicking through multiple windows to get at what you're looking for, especially as concerns control panel stuff that most people rarely use. For the 20 or so programs I use on a daily basis, they're pinned to my Start Menu and thus immediately available in a single click.
It's funny, but my father (ex-hippy, anti-establishment guy that he is) taught me from about that age about my rights as concerns police and how to handle myself around them. Granted, when he was not much older than I was at that age he was getting his head cracked by baton-happy riot police in one protest or another, so that probably has a lot to do with it.
It's important to teach our kids their rights, especially these days with all the bullshit surveillance, monitoring of online accounts, "enhanced security screening", and all the other Orwellian fuckery going on these days...and it's equally important to demonstrate your willingness to stand up for them to your kids as well. Imagine how much different our own lives would be if we'd grown up watching mommy and daddy just capitulate and do whatever the goon with a badge tells them to?
There are good cops out there that genuinely want to help people, but there are a scary amount of cops that were just jock bully fuck-heads in school and want the freedom to be a state-sponsored bully in their adulthood. I suspect that the police officer involved in this case was the latter. I bet he feels pretty powerful bullying a 11 year old girl, though, that's for sure...
This, a thousand times this. I don't fucking know why they're doing it, but an annoying number of TV shows I DVR cut off in weird places. It would be a simple matter to just have the series recording just keep recording for 5 minutes beyond the stated program end time, except for the fact that even with 2 tuners, because the most popular programs all occupy the same time slots, I can't even do that without losing the first 5 minutes of another program I've got set up to record. It's so fucking irritating and makes me want to cancel my cable subscription even more.
I really wish I knew why they did that. Are they trying to squeeze an extra few minutes of commercials in or what? At this rate, we're going to be down to 15 minutes of programming for every 30 minute block within a few years...
As someone that worked at Blockbuster for a few years back in the day, believe me, that's nothing new. In my day we had just rolled out the "Rewards" program, and holy crap was it a nightmare with all the fine print and random rules they had attached to how people could collect their rewards. Hell, they had us pushing "Gold Rewards" plans on people, promising them that, as a "Gold" account they could call down to the store and reserve any movie, but we were also directed by corporate not to hold a movie if a customer came into the store wanting it.
That place was awful for giving conflicting direction (among many other things). Probably why they're a smoldering heap these days...
The rare AC comment worthy of mod points...not that I have any, of course.
I agree, the whole cap bullshit is just their way to squeeze out a new revenue stream, now that something like 50% of adults are rolling with smart phones these days, the days of unlimited anything are fast coming to a close. They don't have to entice people to dump their dumb phones and switch as much anymore, so now it's time to start gouging those that did by figuring out the most efficient way to bill them for the maximum amount they possibly can without having a net loss in total customers each month. Even outside of the contracts locking people into their service for 2 years, what are the odds that a person is going to downgrade to a dumb phone anyway? We're hooked on our smart phones now. The first hit is always cheap or free.
The other fun thing to do is to answer the phone and then when they start talking just start doing something like giggling, laughing, screaming or breathing heavy and see how long they will stay on the line.
That's always been the tradition in my home, ever since I was a wee child playing on the kitchen floor listening to my mother play her games with the poor sap that had the misfortune to have our number in his list of people to cold call, trying to sell something that no reasonable person would buy over the phone anyway...
We have a tradition for junk mail, too. Anything that has a postage-paid return envelope, we stuff full of whatever extraneous non-identifying paperwork (usually other junk mail circulars and flyers) we have laying around...the more the better...and mail it on back to them at their greatly increased (due to excessive weight) expense. I really wish just once I could be there when the person on the receiving end opens our credit card application and finds a bunch of those shopper stopper coupons, fast-food napkins; hell, my mother even sent one back with ketchup and relish packets inside.
You want to get taken off a mailing list quickly, start sending them back a bunch of random crap at their expense. We rarely get junk mail from the same place more than a few times anymore...
Lawyers for McCarren say she was investigating possible misuse of government resources and following a county official when she and her cameraman were pulled over by seven police cars. The official had called police about a suspicious vehicle.
McCarren says police dislocated her shoulder and tore her rotator cuff in the incident. Neither she nor her cameraman, Peter Hakel, was ever charged with any violations.
[...]
Questions still remain unanswered as to why police were unable to produce video of the incident from their cameras.
Prince George's County Police vehicles are required to have dashboard video cameras operating as part of an understanding with the U.S. Department of Justice reached in 2004.
Police have denied repeated media outlet requests to review the video.
At the time of the incident county officials, including County Executive Jack Johnson, said none of the cameras in the seven police cars was working.
This is based on the RIAA's argument that mp3s sold online were merely licensed when arguing in the ReDigi lawsuit, but asserted they were sales through iTunes when arguing that they didn't need to pay an artist the contractually higher percentage of royalties due her for licensing her music as opposed to selling it.
My guess is video games are goods and/or services depending solely on which is more beneficial to the MAFIAA goon in court, and nothing at all logical.
Wouldn't the amount of electronics in today's cars render them vulnerable as well?
Or do we only have to worry about EMP in that regard?
Either way, the production and transport of gasoline will be impacted as well, obviously. I wouldn't be surprised if the government nationalized all the gasoline reserves just to make sure they've got enough to power the Humvees that would surely be dispersed all over the United States in this scenario. I imagine Martial Law would be declared nationally pretty soon after a disaster of this magnitude.
In Summer 2007, Dr. Gaurav Khanna, a professor in the Physics Department of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth independently built a message-passing based cluster using 8 PS3s running Fedora Linux. This cluster was built with support from Sony Computer Entertainment and was the first such cluster that generated published scientific results. Dubbed as the "PS3 Gravity Grid", this PS3 cluster performs astrophysical simulations of large supermassive black holes capturing smaller compact objects
The problem lies in the fact that they can no longer replace the individual units if they fail, as new units come with the new firmware, so many were pretty much forced to abandon their development, as they were dealing with dozens of units that were running under load for long periods of time.
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But what good does that do these people that are apparently all befuddled by the same functionality built into the start menu in Windows 7? Hell, it's even simpler in W7 than OSX, because you only need to hit one key before you can start typing.
I just don't know how much simpler and more efficient people want it to be. If they're looking for an ever-present dock (the only possible thing I could think of being simpler than the W7 start menu, although you can obviously emulate all the functionality of it through the quick launch bar already), and don't want to deal with the trivial matter of using a third party program to give them a direct OSX clone of a dock in W7, then obviously they shouldn't be using Windows 7 in the first place.
Like I said, if a person is really having trouble using the Windows 7 start menu, the problem has to be the user, because I just can't see how...and if the complaints are merely cosmetic in nature ("Ugh, scrolling is just so lame!!") than they're even less relevant to the conversation than the functionality complaints.
Oh, I understand completely that my opinion doesn't count for everyone else. But you guys are doing the equivalent of wearing sneakers while bitching how hard it is to tie your shoes. Just put on your helmet, bop on down to the shoe store, and get yourself some slip-ons if it's such a fucking pain in the ass to you that you have to whine about it on a forum that's not even about sneakers in the first place...
I hope you have a better day tomorrow. The fact that you're wishing death on me over an internet argument is indicative of either a seriously bad day or a mental imbalance, but good luck either way...
I said I don't give a shit about a person's OS decision. But, just like when I see those morons on TV complaining about the color of a few rooms in a house they're looking at as if it's completely unchangeable, when I hear people complaining about trivium that is easily compensated for (with even less effort than the trivium itself) I call them on it. If the complaining about the flyout menus is not due to efficiency, which the typing method far exceeds (unless you don't know how to type a handful of letters quickly, which, once again, is the fault of the user, not the OS), then what's the argument? Aesthetics? Is it not "snappy" enough? What exactly makes flyout menus so much more attractive to a person that they feel the need to complain about it on a post about a completely different OS?
If you're stuck in your ways and don't want to use the new methods because you're not familiar with them or efficient with them, fine, but say that. Don't say there's some flaw with the menu itself when the flaw is actually your inability to compensate. Until this thread I have literally never heard someone complain about the Windows 7 start menu in my life, and I associate with people all the way from technology-fearing geriatrics to professionals that earn their living's with this stuff. Purely anecdotal, I admit, so feel free to retort and tell me of the hordes in your circle gnashing their teeth over the lack of fly-out menu's in Windows 7 on a regular basis.
As to your "if you cut your throat nobody cares" comment: go fuck yourself. Learn some respect.
I don't give a shit about your choice in OS or anyone else's, but these complaints are just silly. It reminds me of all the 'House Hunters' shows I've seen where people look at a house and bitch about the fucking color the walls are painted, as if they're going to find the perfect house decorated in their personal style right off the bat and repainting a few rooms is the equivalent in their mind to completely renovating the kitchen.
The fact is, there are a multitude of ways one can both navigate the start menu and open a program in Windows 7, more than there were in any other version. What more do they need to do to improve it? I can't think of a single more efficient way of opening a program than the 'windows key-type a few letters of the name' method. I bet I can launch any program on my computer quicker than you can navigate to it even within the start menu itself.
If you're ever spending more than a second or two in the start menu with Windows 7 the problem isn't Windows, it's you.
If the typing eats you up inside, pin those programs to the fucking start menu and they will always be there in one fucking click.
I think the problem these people are having with Windows 7 is that it's not OSX.
If you seriously have this much trouble using the Windows 7 start menu, than I don't understand why you use a Windows PC in the first place. The start menu in 7 is fucking clown shoes simple. I can't even imagine what is causing people so much difficult here...
I know, right? I'm trying to imagine how the hell people are having such difficulty navigating the fucking start menu and for the life of me I can't...
If you can't navigate the extremely simple and easy to use start menu on Windows 7, get a fucking Mac already. I know kids with ages in the single digits that can utilize a Windows 7 start menu perfectly well using all the various methods for navigating to and opening a program. The problem obviously isn't Windows 7 if a person can't...
There's many ways to access a program, it's not like you have to use the "type it's name" method if you don't wish to. You can put icons on your desktop. You can pin it to the start menu. You can navigate to the standard program list on the start menu. You can put it in the quicklaunch bar. You can create your own keyboard shortcuts.
People are bitching about this just to bitch. I've literally never had an easier time launching any program, even the ones that I use once in a blue moon, as I've had on Windows 7.
To my eternal shame...
It's certainly much faster than clicking through multiple windows to get at what you're looking for, especially as concerns control panel stuff that most people rarely use. For the 20 or so programs I use on a daily basis, they're pinned to my Start Menu and thus immediately available in a single click.
It's funny, but my father (ex-hippy, anti-establishment guy that he is) taught me from about that age about my rights as concerns police and how to handle myself around them. Granted, when he was not much older than I was at that age he was getting his head cracked by baton-happy riot police in one protest or another, so that probably has a lot to do with it.
It's important to teach our kids their rights, especially these days with all the bullshit surveillance, monitoring of online accounts, "enhanced security screening", and all the other Orwellian fuckery going on these days...and it's equally important to demonstrate your willingness to stand up for them to your kids as well. Imagine how much different our own lives would be if we'd grown up watching mommy and daddy just capitulate and do whatever the goon with a badge tells them to?
There are good cops out there that genuinely want to help people, but there are a scary amount of cops that were just jock bully fuck-heads in school and want the freedom to be a state-sponsored bully in their adulthood. I suspect that the police officer involved in this case was the latter. I bet he feels pretty powerful bullying a 11 year old girl, though, that's for sure...
Love it. +1!
or cut off at odd times.
This, a thousand times this. I don't fucking know why they're doing it, but an annoying number of TV shows I DVR cut off in weird places. It would be a simple matter to just have the series recording just keep recording for 5 minutes beyond the stated program end time, except for the fact that even with 2 tuners, because the most popular programs all occupy the same time slots, I can't even do that without losing the first 5 minutes of another program I've got set up to record. It's so fucking irritating and makes me want to cancel my cable subscription even more.
I really wish I knew why they did that. Are they trying to squeeze an extra few minutes of commercials in or what? At this rate, we're going to be down to 15 minutes of programming for every 30 minute block within a few years...
I don't know but I'm sure I'll have another ToS to accept on my PS3 anyway...
As someone that worked at Blockbuster for a few years back in the day, believe me, that's nothing new. In my day we had just rolled out the "Rewards" program, and holy crap was it a nightmare with all the fine print and random rules they had attached to how people could collect their rewards. Hell, they had us pushing "Gold Rewards" plans on people, promising them that, as a "Gold" account they could call down to the store and reserve any movie, but we were also directed by corporate not to hold a movie if a customer came into the store wanting it.
That place was awful for giving conflicting direction (among many other things). Probably why they're a smoldering heap these days...
The rare AC comment worthy of mod points...not that I have any, of course.
I agree, the whole cap bullshit is just their way to squeeze out a new revenue stream, now that something like 50% of adults are rolling with smart phones these days, the days of unlimited anything are fast coming to a close. They don't have to entice people to dump their dumb phones and switch as much anymore, so now it's time to start gouging those that did by figuring out the most efficient way to bill them for the maximum amount they possibly can without having a net loss in total customers each month. Even outside of the contracts locking people into their service for 2 years, what are the odds that a person is going to downgrade to a dumb phone anyway? We're hooked on our smart phones now. The first hit is always cheap or free.
The other fun thing to do is to answer the phone and then when they start talking just start doing something like giggling, laughing, screaming or breathing heavy and see how long they will stay on the line.
That's always been the tradition in my home, ever since I was a wee child playing on the kitchen floor listening to my mother play her games with the poor sap that had the misfortune to have our number in his list of people to cold call, trying to sell something that no reasonable person would buy over the phone anyway...
We have a tradition for junk mail, too. Anything that has a postage-paid return envelope, we stuff full of whatever extraneous non-identifying paperwork (usually other junk mail circulars and flyers) we have laying around...the more the better...and mail it on back to them at their greatly increased (due to excessive weight) expense. I really wish just once I could be there when the person on the receiving end opens our credit card application and finds a bunch of those shopper stopper coupons, fast-food napkins; hell, my mother even sent one back with ketchup and relish packets inside.
You want to get taken off a mailing list quickly, start sending them back a bunch of random crap at their expense. We rarely get junk mail from the same place more than a few times anymore...
Dead or alive, you're coming with me!
There are too many cases when something goes wrong the police tape unexpectally cuts out.
Or this one where seven independent police tapes unexpectedly cut out!!
And police wonder why people are automatically defensive and nervous around them...
Lawyers for McCarren say she was investigating possible misuse of government resources and following a county official when she and her cameraman were pulled over by seven police cars. The official had called police about a suspicious vehicle.
McCarren says police dislocated her shoulder and tore her rotator cuff in the incident. Neither she nor her cameraman, Peter Hakel, was ever charged with any violations.
[...]
Questions still remain unanswered as to why police were unable to produce video of the incident from their cameras.
Prince George's County Police vehicles are required to have dashboard video cameras operating as part of an understanding with the U.S. Department of Justice reached in 2004.
Police have denied repeated media outlet requests to review the video.
At the time of the incident county officials, including County Executive Jack Johnson, said none of the cameras in the seven police cars was working.
Oh, they're not worried about their dash cams. They can always "lose" the footage if it's too damaging...
This is based on the RIAA's argument that mp3s sold online were merely licensed when arguing in the ReDigi lawsuit, but asserted they were sales through iTunes when arguing that they didn't need to pay an artist the contractually higher percentage of royalties due her for licensing her music as opposed to selling it.
My guess is video games are goods and/or services depending solely on which is more beneficial to the MAFIAA goon in court, and nothing at all logical.
Wouldn't the amount of electronics in today's cars render them vulnerable as well?
Or do we only have to worry about EMP in that regard?
Either way, the production and transport of gasoline will be impacted as well, obviously. I wouldn't be surprised if the government nationalized all the gasoline reserves just to make sure they've got enough to power the Humvees that would surely be dispersed all over the United States in this scenario. I imagine Martial Law would be declared nationally pretty soon after a disaster of this magnitude.
It's in my link.
In Summer 2007, Dr. Gaurav Khanna, a professor in the Physics Department of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth independently built a message-passing based cluster using 8 PS3s running Fedora Linux. This cluster was built with support from Sony Computer Entertainment and was the first such cluster that generated published scientific results. Dubbed as the "PS3 Gravity Grid", this PS3 cluster performs astrophysical simulations of large supermassive black holes capturing smaller compact objects
The problem lies in the fact that they can no longer replace the individual units if they fail, as new units come with the new firmware, so many were pretty much forced to abandon their development, as they were dealing with dozens of units that were running under load for long periods of time.