Why would anyone want to completely change their view so that they can click on a saved app when they don't have to? I installed Windows 8 on my main machine because I heard about some of the non-metro updates/improvements and I knew there were several free/cheap third-party applications that I could install to bring back the start menu.
For two days, I tried to give the metro start menu a chance. At first, I tried to pin everything I use often to my taskbar and metro start page. Unfortunately, I found the task bar was too cluttered for my tastes and I hated having to go back and forth between the desktop and metro for basic things.
I hated how many extra steps they made you go through to shutdown the computer. Of course, later I found out you can just hit Alt + F4 from the desktop to bring up a shutdown menu.
The search in metro was also a huge peeve. In Windows 7, the search was all inclusive. It didn't matter if I was looking for an app, settings, or files. Everything was there. In Windows 8, you have to click a category for anything but applications. Don't get me wrong, I understand having categories. What I don't get is why they don't have an "All" category and why it is not default. When I search for things I go from general to more specific, no the reverse.
The last thing I found immensely annoying was the metro split screen. I have a 23 inch monitor on my desktop. With that much real estate, you have room for two applications side by side. Unfortunately, Windows 8 does not let you do a 50/50 split between two metro apps. Only one-third/two-thirds or two-thirds/one-third. It doesn't make sense on a large screen.
In the end, I got fed up and finally purchased a copy of Start 8. It looks and acts almost exactly like Windows 7's start menu and lets me boot directly into the desktop app. If I actually want to get into the metro start, I just hold down the Windows key for a couple of seconds. I have my top four/five application pinned to my taskbar and the next five/six pinned to my Start 8 menu. If Microsoft added a "desktop mode" for those of us that are using it as a desktop OS and polished their metro interface to remove the mentioned usability nightmares, the OS would probably be widely accepted. without the need to purchase third-party interface apps.
Many a gun proponent has been turned by having a spouse or child killed. The rest just don't believe it can ever happen to them.
The reverse is also true. Many anti-gun people change their stance when they have been in a violent situation such as assault, rape, kidnapping, or home theft. What's your point?
You hope someone shoots my kids yet someone I am the monster? Some logic you have there.
Human laws are not laws of the universe. They do not make something impossible to happen. Gun laws do not prevent gun smuggling and gun ownership. They simply prevent legal gun ownership. I would rather the criminals were no the only ones with guns.
No, bullets fired out of guns by the gunman killed the people.
Since we cannot control the gunman before the fact, the only way to stop this is to control either the guns, the bullets or both.
Except you can't control the guns/bullets either. If we could, criminals wouldn't have them.
Yes. Aside from target shooting, guns are made to kill. I somehow doubt if someone was attacking you or someone you care about you would have a problem with killing them in order to get them to stop. If you are starving, I somehow doubt you would have a problem with killing an animal with one even if you are a vegetarian. Sometimes killing is justified.
Like because it is cheaper and easier to make movies that way? If something looks fake when there is not enough blur, it is because movie makers have not bothered figuring out how to make their scenes look more realistic at a more realistic frame rate. It has nothing to do with the video technology. It is like complaining that color TV looks too realistic and they should stay with black and white. These days people only watch black and white TV whenever they are feeling nostalgic. I applaud Jackson for trail blazing the path to higher frame rates in movies.
It sounds like if there is a World War 3 and any humanity manages to survive, we will be extinct in 600 years since WWIII will probably set us back far enough that we will not have the means to stop the 4179 Toutatis when it comes around for the last time.
If you there is a movie/TV show that is a must-have, buy it. If you go physical, don't forget to buy an extra player for storage since eventually it will be hard to find one to play those disks. Hopefully the video ports don't change too many times to where you will need a bunch of adapters. With physical or digital, if you want the best, be prepared to keep on having to "upgrade" to higher quality versions at full retail price. While streaming is not going to offer the best picture of the time, I would assume that services will upgrade the base video quality of their collection over time.
Most movies/TV shows are not must-haves that you are going to watch again, and again, and again.
I already have a Hulu Plus, Netflix, and Amazon Prime subscription but I will try this when I get a chance. Personally, I wish I could just subscribe to one service but no one seems to be willing to offer everything in one place. If I could get unlimited play, no commercials, at least two simultaneous plays, virtually any movie/TV show, new releases/episodes being added within 6 months of release, at least Netflix/Hulu quality streams, a good rating/suggestion system, and usability on a wide range of devices/OSes. I would gladly pay $30 - $50 a month. I would like an offline mode too but that would just be a nice extra.
I am curious. What would everyone else here be willing to pay for those features.
Nonsense. Based on the population data from Wikipedia, there are over four Chinese to every one American. Only a quarter of China would be needed to watch all of the US.
It'll be a very long time before world peace is achieved,
That depends highly on your definition of "world peace".
That is the exact reason "world peace" will never be achieved. No one can agree on the definition and there is always someone who is willing to force their views on other by the point of a knife/gun/warhead.
You are forgetting that a significant number of Windows users have already been using either have a Android or iPhone/iPad. Someone has to be buying those games.
I think you need a better mouse. I rarely have issues pushing the middle wheel without scrolling. I actually find it irritating not having a wheel/button combo since I both scroll and middle click all the time. Some mice these days even have a left/right tilt built into the button/wheel also so that you can horizontally scroll.
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Where are my flying tanks!?
So put them on the metro page.
Why would anyone want to completely change their view so that they can click on a saved app when they don't have to? I installed Windows 8 on my main machine because I heard about some of the non-metro updates/improvements and I knew there were several free/cheap third-party applications that I could install to bring back the start menu.
For two days, I tried to give the metro start menu a chance. At first, I tried to pin everything I use often to my taskbar and metro start page. Unfortunately, I found the task bar was too cluttered for my tastes and I hated having to go back and forth between the desktop and metro for basic things.
I hated how many extra steps they made you go through to shutdown the computer. Of course, later I found out you can just hit Alt + F4 from the desktop to bring up a shutdown menu.
The search in metro was also a huge peeve. In Windows 7, the search was all inclusive. It didn't matter if I was looking for an app, settings, or files. Everything was there. In Windows 8, you have to click a category for anything but applications. Don't get me wrong, I understand having categories. What I don't get is why they don't have an "All" category and why it is not default. When I search for things I go from general to more specific, no the reverse.
The last thing I found immensely annoying was the metro split screen. I have a 23 inch monitor on my desktop. With that much real estate, you have room for two applications side by side. Unfortunately, Windows 8 does not let you do a 50/50 split between two metro apps. Only one-third/two-thirds or two-thirds/one-third. It doesn't make sense on a large screen.
In the end, I got fed up and finally purchased a copy of Start 8. It looks and acts almost exactly like Windows 7's start menu and lets me boot directly into the desktop app. If I actually want to get into the metro start, I just hold down the Windows key for a couple of seconds. I have my top four/five application pinned to my taskbar and the next five/six pinned to my Start 8 menu. If Microsoft added a "desktop mode" for those of us that are using it as a desktop OS and polished their metro interface to remove the mentioned usability nightmares, the OS would probably be widely accepted. without the need to purchase third-party interface apps.
Many a gun proponent has been turned by having a spouse or child killed. The rest just don't believe it can ever happen to them.
The reverse is also true. Many anti-gun people change their stance when they have been in a violent situation such as assault, rape, kidnapping, or home theft. What's your point?
As medical equipment becomes more connected, more and more.
You hope someone shoots my kids yet someone I am the monster? Some logic you have there.
Human laws are not laws of the universe. They do not make something impossible to happen. Gun laws do not prevent gun smuggling and gun ownership. They simply prevent legal gun ownership. I would rather the criminals were no the only ones with guns.
No, bullets fired out of guns by the gunman killed the people. Since we cannot control the gunman before the fact, the only way to stop this is to control either the guns, the bullets or both.
Except you can't control the guns/bullets either. If we could, criminals wouldn't have them.
Yes. Aside from target shooting, guns are made to kill. I somehow doubt if someone was attacking you or someone you care about you would have a problem with killing them in order to get them to stop. If you are starving, I somehow doubt you would have a problem with killing an animal with one even if you are a vegetarian. Sometimes killing is justified.
No. The gunman killed the kids. The gun and bullets were simply the tools used. Should all computers be banned because hackers use them to hack?
That depends, do computers serve a purpose other than hacking?
Yes they do and guns have more purposes other than killing innocents.
In what way?
No. The gunman killed the kids. The gun and bullets were simply the tools used. Should all computers be banned because hackers use them to hack?
there is a reason we use 24.
Like because it is cheaper and easier to make movies that way? If something looks fake when there is not enough blur, it is because movie makers have not bothered figuring out how to make their scenes look more realistic at a more realistic frame rate. It has nothing to do with the video technology. It is like complaining that color TV looks too realistic and they should stay with black and white. These days people only watch black and white TV whenever they are feeling nostalgic. I applaud Jackson for trail blazing the path to higher frame rates in movies.
What's a commercial?
What evidence do they have that she was going to export them?
And they were off by 139,500 miles!
It sounds like if there is a World War 3 and any humanity manages to survive, we will be extinct in 600 years since WWIII will probably set us back far enough that we will not have the means to stop the 4179 Toutatis when it comes around for the last time.
We are talking legal ways to obtain content for viewing. Ripping Netflix, Redbox, and libary DVDs/Bluerays is an illegal means to obtain the content.
Uphill both ways? Or are you going to add that when telling your future grandkids?
If you there is a movie/TV show that is a must-have, buy it. If you go physical, don't forget to buy an extra player for storage since eventually it will be hard to find one to play those disks. Hopefully the video ports don't change too many times to where you will need a bunch of adapters. With physical or digital, if you want the best, be prepared to keep on having to "upgrade" to higher quality versions at full retail price. While streaming is not going to offer the best picture of the time, I would assume that services will upgrade the base video quality of their collection over time.
Most movies/TV shows are not must-haves that you are going to watch again, and again, and again.
I already have a Hulu Plus, Netflix, and Amazon Prime subscription but I will try this when I get a chance. Personally, I wish I could just subscribe to one service but no one seems to be willing to offer everything in one place. If I could get unlimited play, no commercials, at least two simultaneous plays, virtually any movie/TV show, new releases/episodes being added within 6 months of release, at least Netflix/Hulu quality streams, a good rating/suggestion system, and usability on a wide range of devices/OSes. I would gladly pay $30 - $50 a month. I would like an offline mode too but that would just be a nice extra. I am curious. What would everyone else here be willing to pay for those features.
Nonsense. Based on the population data from Wikipedia, there are over four Chinese to every one American. Only a quarter of China would be needed to watch all of the US.
How expensive was college when you went?
It'll be a very long time before world peace is achieved,
That depends highly on your definition of "world peace".
That is the exact reason "world peace" will never be achieved. No one can agree on the definition and there is always someone who is willing to force their views on other by the point of a knife/gun/warhead.
What kind of apps do you buy?
You are forgetting that a significant number of Windows users have already been using either have a Android or iPhone/iPad. Someone has to be buying those games.
I think you need a better mouse. I rarely have issues pushing the middle wheel without scrolling. I actually find it irritating not having a wheel/button combo since I both scroll and middle click all the time. Some mice these days even have a left/right tilt built into the button/wheel also so that you can horizontally scroll.