The obvious solution is to lower the requirements for gradution. Give everyone a sticker star, everyone's special. After all, if you have the right to a public education, why not have the right to a diploma too? Then once everyone has a piece of paper they didn't do any work to get, none of the criminals will have graduated from high school. Problem solved.
I've relied for years on being able to create and manage folders in the start menu as sub-folders to manage shortcuts.
Have you ever found it faster to type the name of the program you're looking for? Press the Win key and start typing. Don't even need to waste time by using a mouse.
That depends upon your understanding of democracy. Progressives wouldn't like this idea of voting on what the government should do with your money, because that would be "unfair" to the disenfranchised who don't pay any taxes. How would they be represented? How could they vote people into office who will make sure they received hand outs? Without being able to represent everyone, it wouldn't be concidered democracy by many.
And *all* of them there as a duty, not as some sort of power trip.
How would you prevent it from becoming a power trip? It'd be like the people who win a home extreme makeover who (once the show has aired) turn around and flip their property.
I would rather live under a kind-hearted, mentally disabled dictator than under a ruthless, intelligent one.
How would a mentally disabled dictator prevent the power seeking corrupt from manipulating him, to make him the figure head, while they would actually weild the power?
This happens most frequently... when I need to use the phone the most.
Well it's great that you actually have evidence that this is your problem vs. the attitude of bigger-number-must-be-better. It's interesting though how we can see the same problem and think about how to solve it differently. You see this problem and think "Throw more hardware at it." I see that and think "Needs better software".
It's my opinion that a device OS should know that it's a device and not a general computing machine. As a result, not all tasks are equal. The platform should have ways of making sure that the background tasks don't interfere with you using the device. Do apps need to check for updates and status changes? sure. But a good platform wide notification system, and aggresive thread scheduler, could also solve the problem of background tasks stomping on the user experience, and still run on your existing hardware.
On-topic here, the reason the Church (big-C Catholic Church) explicitly outlawed the clergy marrying was because of clergy folks setting themselves up as little hereditary fiefdoms, complete with lines of succession and all the fun politicking and internecine warfare that usually accompanies such an arrangement.
Interesting. I was taught in my history classes that it was because the early church needed land, and effectively introduced clergy celibacy as a trade. The church gives you power while you're alive, and the church gets your land once you're dead.
My Windows Media Center setup was very plug-and-play and is easy to use from 10 feet away. The only issue are website that's use Flash for layout and consequently don't respect the browsers zoom setting.
How about - now call me kooky - using some of the massive parallelism that desktops have been shipping with for the last half-decade?
If you insist kooky. The problem generally isn't CPU, it's the disk. If the disk queue with the dll's is greater than 1, the bottleneck is the disk and no amount of parallelism will help. It gets even worse when that disk has the page file on it. Now memory access isn't even garunteed to be fast.
The reason apps made a comeback is because you can charge for apps.
I don't think that's it. I think apps made a comeback because there were fancy new devices which were a different form factor which didn't match the paradigm used by most websites. Company's wanted a good experience and found it easier to provide that experience by creating an app, having access to OS api's, than by creating a version of the website that worked well with the hand held, touch, form factor. Plus, many consumers only look for a companies app, they don't consider there might be a decent handheld website experience.
Their main business is wasting peoples time, i.e. serving them ads.
I don't see that. Googles main business is providing relevant search results. The result of that being that peoples time is not wasted. Many find Googles search results to be productivity boosters. They make money by monetizing search results, but that will only work so long as the search results are relevant and don't waste peoples time.
I'm sure Microsoft does case studies about the viability of all of it's products periodically. Not knowing how well OS X would take off it would make sense for MS to evaluate whether to bring out a version for OS 9 or OS X around the time of OS X's launch. Turns out they did both in 2001. Plus there's a difference between discontinuing and being close to discontinuing.
All Office products would be better if they lacked support for VBA.
If the tablet is running an x86 processor. Given that devenve.exe is a 32-bit only process, meaning the Visual Studio team haven't bothered to write a x64 version of devenv.exe, I doubt they'd write an ARM version.
This probably helps explain why so many customers have brought printers to me complaining of the defect where B&W print jobs do not print when the color cartidge gets low.
Black and White print jobs will use blue ink. My perfectionist mother can't tolerate printing documents when the blue ink is empty, because the black isn't black enough.
It's 2012 and IE9 still doesn't have a built-in spellchecker for text areas!
If IE had a spell checker you'd call it bloat. When it's still 2012 and browsers running on Windows 8 won't need to worry about it because it'll be built into the OS, would that relieve your frustration?
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The obvious solution is to lower the requirements for gradution. Give everyone a sticker star, everyone's special. After all, if you have the right to a public education, why not have the right to a diploma too? Then once everyone has a piece of paper they didn't do any work to get, none of the criminals will have graduated from high school. Problem solved.
For people who put in that extra effort to keep things clean, everything post-XP has been a letdown.
Are you saying that post-XP has been a letdown because you don't have to put in extra effort?
I've relied for years on being able to create and manage folders in the start menu as sub-folders to manage shortcuts.
Have you ever found it faster to type the name of the program you're looking for? Press the Win key and start typing. Don't even need to waste time by using a mouse.
That depends upon your understanding of democracy. Progressives wouldn't like this idea of voting on what the government should do with your money, because that would be "unfair" to the disenfranchised who don't pay any taxes. How would they be represented? How could they vote people into office who will make sure they received hand outs? Without being able to represent everyone, it wouldn't be concidered democracy by many.
You make it illegal to take personal advantage
How well is that working for us now?
And *all* of them there as a duty, not as some sort of power trip.
How would you prevent it from becoming a power trip? It'd be like the people who win a home extreme makeover who (once the show has aired) turn around and flip their property.
I would rather live under a kind-hearted, mentally disabled dictator than under a ruthless, intelligent one.
How would a mentally disabled dictator prevent the power seeking corrupt from manipulating him, to make him the figure head, while they would actually weild the power?
Every piece of data I've seem shows that we're getting fatter, not skinnier. If the advertising was working we wouldn't be having an obesity epidemic.
Colored tiles are a really bad interface model.
If you think that's true you're going to love the vNext of Visual Studio. They removed the color and made everything grey on grey.
This happens most frequently... when I need to use the phone the most.
Well it's great that you actually have evidence that this is your problem vs. the attitude of bigger-number-must-be-better. It's interesting though how we can see the same problem and think about how to solve it differently. You see this problem and think "Throw more hardware at it." I see that and think "Needs better software".
It's my opinion that a device OS should know that it's a device and not a general computing machine. As a result, not all tasks are equal. The platform should have ways of making sure that the background tasks don't interfere with you using the device. Do apps need to check for updates and status changes? sure. But a good platform wide notification system, and aggresive thread scheduler, could also solve the problem of background tasks stomping on the user experience, and still run on your existing hardware.
I've been waiting and salivating at the promised "Quad" core offerings for smartphones.
Why? Unless you know for sure that a regular task on your phone is CPU bound, adding more cores will just add overhead without making anything faster.
On-topic here, the reason the Church (big-C Catholic Church) explicitly outlawed the clergy marrying was because of clergy folks setting themselves up as little hereditary fiefdoms, complete with lines of succession and all the fun politicking and internecine warfare that usually accompanies such an arrangement.
Interesting. I was taught in my history classes that it was because the early church needed land, and effectively introduced clergy celibacy as a trade. The church gives you power while you're alive, and the church gets your land once you're dead.
My Windows Media Center setup was very plug-and-play and is easy to use from 10 feet away. The only issue are website that's use Flash for layout and consequently don't respect the browsers zoom setting.
If you're that mad about it, just punish him by unfriending him and excluding him from your social circle.
Proposal to rename North Korea to Cagliostro. All in favour?
Aye!
If MS or Apple decides the price is too high, they can opt to not license the patent (and of course not use whatever is the subject of that patent).
So you think that they should not implement the standard and roll their own solution?
How about - now call me kooky - using some of the massive parallelism that desktops have been shipping with for the last half-decade?
If you insist kooky. The problem generally isn't CPU, it's the disk. If the disk queue with the dll's is greater than 1, the bottleneck is the disk and no amount of parallelism will help. It gets even worse when that disk has the page file on it. Now memory access isn't even garunteed to be fast.
The reason apps made a comeback is because you can charge for apps.
I don't think that's it. I think apps made a comeback because there were fancy new devices which were a different form factor which didn't match the paradigm used by most websites. Company's wanted a good experience and found it easier to provide that experience by creating an app, having access to OS api's, than by creating a version of the website that worked well with the hand held, touch, form factor. Plus, many consumers only look for a companies app, they don't consider there might be a decent handheld website experience.
Their main business is wasting peoples time, i.e. serving them ads.
I don't see that. Googles main business is providing relevant search results. The result of that being that peoples time is not wasted. Many find Googles search results to be productivity boosters. They make money by monetizing search results, but that will only work so long as the search results are relevant and don't waste peoples time.
I'm sure Microsoft does case studies about the viability of all of it's products periodically. Not knowing how well OS X would take off it would make sense for MS to evaluate whether to bring out a version for OS 9 or OS X around the time of OS X's launch. Turns out they did both in 2001. Plus there's a difference between discontinuing and being close to discontinuing.
All Office products would be better if they lacked support for VBA.
can you get Visual Studio on a tablet?
If the tablet is running an x86 processor. Given that devenve.exe is a 32-bit only process, meaning the Visual Studio team haven't bothered to write a x64 version of devenv.exe, I doubt they'd write an ARM version.
some people still worry not to be able to work with Office docs on a Mac, probably because a number of years ago Office was discontinued on that OS
When was Office discontinued on the Mac?
This probably helps explain why so many customers have brought printers to me complaining of the defect where B&W print jobs do not print when the color cartidge gets low.
Black and White print jobs will use blue ink. My perfectionist mother can't tolerate printing documents when the blue ink is empty, because the black isn't black enough.
What will be built into the OS? IE or a spellchecker?
The spellchecker.
It's 2012 and IE9 still doesn't have a built-in spellchecker for text areas!
If IE had a spell checker you'd call it bloat. When it's still 2012 and browsers running on Windows 8 won't need to worry about it because it'll be built into the OS, would that relieve your frustration?