Gmail will let you set up virtual email addresses. So you can register as MrBig+Facebook@gmail.com instead of MrBig@gmail.com.
Sadly, I've run into plenty of services which won't let me sign up because they claim that my email address contains invalid characters when my email address contains the '+' character.
when I want to switch to the app I want to use I have to scroll through a list of apps I used once for two minutes which are still 'open' and then when I get to the app I want I find it's been 'closed' by the OS and now has to start again from scratch.
That hasn't been my experience on the Win8 RP. Perhaps this is an area where Windows has a more usable experience over Android.
I have found that using the keyboard to start apps with the start screen requires more steps than with Win 7. First of all, nearly everything I do with the Start Screen apparently ends up in the Settings section. This is slightly mitigatable by finding the Start Screen option to show Administrative Tools, but I don't want to show them, I just want them to be searchable. Either way, the separation of settings and apps is stupid. When I'm searching after having hit the Win key, I'm searching the OS, not a specific subset of the OS. And it's really annoying to try and remember if what I'm looking for is an app or a setting.
Also, why did the hot keys in the context menu go away? I start programs with administrator privileges and in Win 7 I could hit the context menu key and then press 'a'. But in Win 8, I press the Context Menu key, which brings up the app bar, and then I can either grab the mouse or hit the left arrow key five times. Not nearly as an efficient use of the keyboard.
I don't mind the start screen, if I'm using a mouse it doesn't seem to make much of a difference over the start menu, but it for sure is worse when driving my workflow with the keyboard.
I don't think that too many are complaining about how well the TSA agents are performing what they've been told to do, I think everyone is complaining about what they're being told to do. If the purpose of the TSA is to make air travel safer, do you feel it is accomplishing that? Do you think it is accomplishing that efficiently or effectively? Do you think it is being done at an irrevocable cost of our freedoms and human dignity?
You mentioned WinRT in your parenthesis as an example. Taking out your parenthsised example, I quoted your statement in full, and certainly quoted the point your statement was trying to make.
If the point you were trying to make was that developers would need to make changes to their apps to make use of new API's, that statement is true, but it would not be unique to Windows Phone. That statement is true for every platform out there.
Worse still, given the amount of rework which devs will need to undertake to port their existing Windows Phone 7 apps to Windows Phone 8
Actually app devs shouldn't have to do a thing. Microsoft has repeated that all Phone 7 apps will run on Phone 8. I'm sure someone will have an app that'll have trouble, but it's clear that Microsoft's goal is to make it such that no devs will need to rework anything for their apps to work.
I don't know if you have to link accounts, it was just a suggestion in the event it was what you're looking for. I don't know what you're trying to accomplish. I have a couple Live ID's and I linked them, and it can be a handy way of switching from one account to the other. It's certainly not the greatest thing. Is there anything you can do with on Live ID that you can't do with another?
Historically someone who behaves differently than everyone else could be labeled suspicious. It's how those in control suppressed rebelious thoughts. It's the same reason why the masses generally concider scientists to be suspicious.
Windows 8 is shaping up to be another Vista-sized flop
I keep on hearing that Vista was a flop, but looking at their quarterly reports the Windows division kept on making money the quarters that Vista was their latest OS. Now it's true that they may have spent more money making Vista than what they earned back from it (I haven't seen any data on that one way or the other), but from what data I've seen Vista earned Microsoft money. Given that it's a business, I struggle to call a positive ROI a flop.
The only time the Windows division has lost money was this past quarter. So by that standard Win 7 is the worst OS they've produced, it's the only one to have lost money in a quarter. Now that could be interperted in multiple ways: Win 7 is such a success that everyone bought it right when it came out and so there's no need to buy it now (2.5 years later), or enough of the market likes Win 8 that they're holding out for Win 8 later this year and aren't buying more copies of Win 7 now. At least Vista was able to constantly turn a profit.
It may have been fine for you, but it's during this time that most people experienced untold amount of computer headaches. The anti virus thrived because of Win9x and Win XP. With BSOD's and OS memory leaks occuring to every user, the average person found it a pain to use these OS's. People have just gotten used to problems that never should have been problems in the first place. Do you think the "I'm a Mac" ad's were based on the ease with which people used their Windows computers? No, the ads were hitting on experiences nearly everyone had been having for a decade.
How do these cities solved the "last mile" problem? Do the telecom's own the cord going into the house? Does the residence own the cord? Does the city own the cord and the telecom's rent the cords from the city?
The modern standard for the various switches and pedals in a car have indeed been invented by Cadilliac
At the time Cadilliac did that, did they take out some sort of IP around it? Or were enough people sensible enough about it that no sort of IP monopoly would have been enforcable around 'where to put the pedals in a car'?
why not just take the Catan board from the shelf and play?
Game setup and tear down time. Also, I remember when I was a kid there was a while when all of my siblings liked playing Monopoly on our home computer (I forget if it was win 3.1 or win 98). Anyway, in between all of the hectic things which went on in the house there were multiple saved games on the computer. Each file name had the names of the players in the title. When we'd find time to play, we'd find the file name with the kids that could play, and resume the game where it last left off. As players would rotate in and out, we'd just switch the file to the latest game that had those players.
I don't think that those are mutually exclusive. To me the fighting interests are "We want accurate historical records maintained of how decision were made, by whom and why." and "We want cost effective government".
In what way does a system knowing when I take resources from it, constitute an invasion of privacy?
I think of invasion of privacy as a situation where some entity that I don't interact with, puts forth effort to acquire information about me. In the smart meter situation, I'm taking something (power) from another entity. That entity has full rights to know when I'm taking from it, and how much I'm taking from it. If I decide to not take any more 'things' from the power company, the power company isn't going to put forth effort to spy on me, or invade my privacy in any way.
I personally don't see how a smart meter is an invasion of privacy; the power company is the one supplying you with power and should be able to manage their network.
If anything the downside to smart meters has been that people who think their environmentally friendly and end up using smart meters, only to find out that their power bill ends up going up, because they're not being as power conscious as they thought they were. This hurts their ego, so they declare an invasion of privacy.
Even though I don't think that there are any dangers from the RF aspect of these, why don't the power companies avoid the complaints by using some sort of "broadband over the power line" solution?
Ideally they could install another wire to be the communication wire from the reader, to the local hub, but the overhead on that would be tremendous.
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Gmail will let you set up virtual email addresses. So you can register as MrBig+Facebook@gmail.com instead of MrBig@gmail.com.
Sadly, I've run into plenty of services which won't let me sign up because they claim that my email address contains invalid characters when my email address contains the '+' character.
oar != ore
which consequently demotes the metro stuff to being glorified widgets
No arguments there.
when I want to switch to the app I want to use I have to scroll through a list of apps I used once for two minutes which are still 'open' and then when I get to the app I want I find it's been 'closed' by the OS and now has to start again from scratch.
That hasn't been my experience on the Win8 RP. Perhaps this is an area where Windows has a more usable experience over Android.
I have found that using the keyboard to start apps with the start screen requires more steps than with Win 7. First of all, nearly everything I do with the Start Screen apparently ends up in the Settings section. This is slightly mitigatable by finding the Start Screen option to show Administrative Tools, but I don't want to show them, I just want them to be searchable. Either way, the separation of settings and apps is stupid. When I'm searching after having hit the Win key, I'm searching the OS, not a specific subset of the OS. And it's really annoying to try and remember if what I'm looking for is an app or a setting.
Also, why did the hot keys in the context menu go away? I start programs with administrator privileges and in Win 7 I could hit the context menu key and then press 'a'. But in Win 8, I press the Context Menu key, which brings up the app bar, and then I can either grab the mouse or hit the left arrow key five times. Not nearly as an efficient use of the keyboard.
I don't mind the start screen, if I'm using a mouse it doesn't seem to make much of a difference over the start menu, but it for sure is worse when driving my workflow with the keyboard.
What I also found really annoying about apps is you can't easily close them.
But there's rarely a need to close them. If you don't close them they suspend, and get cleaned up with the OS needs the memory resources.
I don't think that too many are complaining about how well the TSA agents are performing what they've been told to do, I think everyone is complaining about what they're being told to do. If the purpose of the TSA is to make air travel safer, do you feel it is accomplishing that? Do you think it is accomplishing that efficiently or effectively? Do you think it is being done at an irrevocable cost of our freedoms and human dignity?
The reason why I suspect Tracking Protection lists might not work in Metro IE, is because I have yet to see a way to configure them from the Metro IE.
Do the tracking protection lists work in Metro IE?
You mentioned WinRT in your parenthesis as an example. Taking out your parenthsised example, I quoted your statement in full, and certainly quoted the point your statement was trying to make.
If the point you were trying to make was that developers would need to make changes to their apps to make use of new API's, that statement is true, but it would not be unique to Windows Phone. That statement is true for every platform out there.
Worse still, given the amount of rework which devs will need to undertake to port their existing Windows Phone 7 apps to Windows Phone 8
Actually app devs shouldn't have to do a thing. Microsoft has repeated that all Phone 7 apps will run on Phone 8. I'm sure someone will have an app that'll have trouble, but it's clear that Microsoft's goal is to make it such that no devs will need to rework anything for their apps to work.
Why do I have to link accounts
I don't know if you have to link accounts, it was just a suggestion in the event it was what you're looking for. I don't know what you're trying to accomplish. I have a couple Live ID's and I linked them, and it can be a handy way of switching from one account to the other. It's certainly not the greatest thing. Is there anything you can do with on Live ID that you can't do with another?
Have you tried linking the accounts? What talking do you want the accounts to do with each other?
Historically someone who behaves differently than everyone else could be labeled suspicious. It's how those in control suppressed rebelious thoughts. It's the same reason why the masses generally concider scientists to be suspicious.
Windows 8 is shaping up to be another Vista-sized flop
I keep on hearing that Vista was a flop, but looking at their quarterly reports the Windows division kept on making money the quarters that Vista was their latest OS. Now it's true that they may have spent more money making Vista than what they earned back from it (I haven't seen any data on that one way or the other), but from what data I've seen Vista earned Microsoft money. Given that it's a business, I struggle to call a positive ROI a flop.
The only time the Windows division has lost money was this past quarter. So by that standard Win 7 is the worst OS they've produced, it's the only one to have lost money in a quarter. Now that could be interperted in multiple ways: Win 7 is such a success that everyone bought it right when it came out and so there's no need to buy it now (2.5 years later), or enough of the market likes Win 8 that they're holding out for Win 8 later this year and aren't buying more copies of Win 7 now. At least Vista was able to constantly turn a profit.
XP was fine for me from SP1
It may have been fine for you, but it's during this time that most people experienced untold amount of computer headaches. The anti virus thrived because of Win9x and Win XP. With BSOD's and OS memory leaks occuring to every user, the average person found it a pain to use these OS's. People have just gotten used to problems that never should have been problems in the first place. Do you think the "I'm a Mac" ad's were based on the ease with which people used their Windows computers? No, the ads were hitting on experiences nearly everyone had been having for a decade.
why aren't they as secure as they possibly can be short of not existing?
Because first to market wins.
How do these cities solved the "last mile" problem? Do the telecom's own the cord going into the house? Does the residence own the cord? Does the city own the cord and the telecom's rent the cords from the city?
The modern standard for the various switches and pedals in a car have indeed been invented by Cadilliac
At the time Cadilliac did that, did they take out some sort of IP around it? Or were enough people sensible enough about it that no sort of IP monopoly would have been enforcable around 'where to put the pedals in a car'?
Precisely why would Microsoft Office need DirectX?
Offload certain calculations to the GPU. Office applications are used to crunch big numbers.
why not just take the Catan board from the shelf and play?
Game setup and tear down time. Also, I remember when I was a kid there was a while when all of my siblings liked playing Monopoly on our home computer (I forget if it was win 3.1 or win 98). Anyway, in between all of the hectic things which went on in the house there were multiple saved games on the computer. Each file name had the names of the players in the title. When we'd find time to play, we'd find the file name with the kids that could play, and resume the game where it last left off. As players would rotate in and out, we'd just switch the file to the latest game that had those players.
I don't think that those are mutually exclusive. To me the fighting interests are "We want accurate historical records maintained of how decision were made, by whom and why." and "We want cost effective government".
iGoogle and my.yahoo are the primary reasons I "use" both services.
So do you have an opinion on how they stack up against my.msn ?
In what way does a system knowing when I take resources from it, constitute an invasion of privacy?
I think of invasion of privacy as a situation where some entity that I don't interact with, puts forth effort to acquire information about me. In the smart meter situation, I'm taking something (power) from another entity. That entity has full rights to know when I'm taking from it, and how much I'm taking from it. If I decide to not take any more 'things' from the power company, the power company isn't going to put forth effort to spy on me, or invade my privacy in any way.
I personally don't see how a smart meter is an invasion of privacy; the power company is the one supplying you with power and should be able to manage their network. If anything the downside to smart meters has been that people who think their environmentally friendly and end up using smart meters, only to find out that their power bill ends up going up, because they're not being as power conscious as they thought they were. This hurts their ego, so they declare an invasion of privacy. Even though I don't think that there are any dangers from the RF aspect of these, why don't the power companies avoid the complaints by using some sort of "broadband over the power line" solution? Ideally they could install another wire to be the communication wire from the reader, to the local hub, but the overhead on that would be tremendous.