That's a good list of what was awful about Windows 8, and absolutely none of that was needed, or wanted by users.
It seems to me most of the changes in Windows these days are solely to serve Microsoft's purposes and completely ignore the benefits or disadvantages for users. I'm not talking about improvements or whatever under the covers, if performance or robustness is improved, but changes in functionality, and especially UI. None of it seems gears towards making Windows better or easier to use.
I read it as $2 million per license * 2 million licenses. I can't imagine Oracle is charging anyone $1 per license. This is Oracle we are talking about.
They would charge 6 figures for a batch file written by an intern on Friday afternoon between foozball games 30 years ago.
I'm pretty sure the movie introduced the other varieties of Soylent (red and yellow), with the green kind being a new version with the surprising secret feature.
I haven't seen the movie in decades and don't recall if I finished the book, though.
Well, not to defend Microsoft, but this behavior is probably the most effective way to get the kinds of people who need to be kicked off of IE to actually be kicked off of IE. You know, the users who probably wouldn't even notice that Edge isn't IE in the first place.
The rest of us can take care of ourselves.
Out of all the stupid, evil or self-centered things Microsoft does, this one's frankly pretty low on my list.
I've been living with Windows 8 because I can work around most of the stupidities, but when I bought my wife a new laptop with 8, she hated it so much she traded it to one of the kids for their Windows 7 machine.
If I could ask for one thing in Windows 10, it would be the ability to make the desktop look like Windows 2000. That's the last version of Windows I thought actually looked good (although 7 wasn't bad). But with this stupid cult of "flat" you can't even do that any more. That was one of Microsoft's stupider and more arrogant moves in the UI field, because you could easily write a book out of all the many reasons why the "flat" look is inferior. The flat look is like reverting back to Windows 2, although at least with Windows 2, the color palette was so small stuff didn't all run together.
Good point. Back in the days when I used to run Flash on Linux, I experienced the same problem. I could always tell when Flash was running because the fan would be going full-tilt.
General Relativity is a shining example of this, and the Standard Model is even more so. These theories are among the most accurate predictors of new discoveries, sometimes ridiculously so.
Meanwhile, String Theory is still kicking around, getting more and more complex, but coming up with very little in the way of prediction. I'm not busting on it... I keep up with the latest work (as much as a non-expert can anyway) and find it fascinating (and/or incomprehensible).
We are definitely tapping into something real, but whether or not it's fundamental is another question entirely. Newton seemed fundamental, but wasn't. Einstein seems fundamental, but might not be. It seems like there's usually another layer of reality below the one which seems to be fundamental. But everything we uncover is fascinating.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, "Science is cool".
The OK, the latest release of Flash I updated to about two days ago crashes about 1 out of every 3 times. I use Pale Moon, but it seems to me that Firefox blocking Flash is a lateral move.
Perhaps, but I'm sure it was on his mind. Apple is really good at thinking ahead.
In the long run, disallowing Flash is probably a good thing. I don't use any iProducts, but I pay attention to Apple because they are very influential.
I came to grips with the idea of never being an astronaut when I was about 7. I'd read that there was a height limit of 6 feet for astronauts, which even in the early 70s might have been out of date information. but since my father was taller than that, I figured I would be also.
> like the "perpetual beta" junk that even some of the biggest companies in the business have inflicted on us in recent years.
Funny, some of us have been complaining about that for more than 20 years.
Given that MS is trying to move towards the pattern of releasing early and often, which most other companies are doing is not a reason to assume Windows 10 will have a lot of problems. Now, Microsoft's 30+ year history of disastrous dot-oh releases on the other hand...
I'm probably going to upgrade though. I have Windows 8 and I hate-hate-hate it. I got it with an otherwise nice Samsung laptop. The worst thing that I hate about it isn't the half-baked, half-assed UI changes, because you can mostly work around them, but the performance. It is slow as crap on my laptop. I think a lot of it has to do with the built-in malware software that Windows comes with, but regardless of the cause, it's the disk access that's a boat anchor. S.M.A.R.T doesn't report any problems with the harddrive, but the disk access speed is atrocious, including flash drives. Yes, I intend to upgrade to an SSD, but I could put Windows XP on a VM on that same machine and it would scream. I know because I run a Windows 2003 server VM on another machine, and it's so much faster than the Windows 7 host OS.
I did an experiment with NT 3.51 once. It could boot with as little as 12MB of RAM. You couldn't really use it, but it would boot up. It was an incredibly good OS.
I'm glad to see someone besides me on/, isn't terrified of Facebook.
I use it and I think it's relatively harmless as long as you understand, as Rasperin says, it's a loud speaker. I expect everything I post on FB will be available to everyone, everywhere, forever. I long ago, many years before Facebook was a thing, figured out that if I never posted anything online I wouldn't want my sainted mother to see, I'd never have anything to worry about*. I speak my mind freely, but I would have no problem if my mother, my wife, my boss, my kids or my pastor were to see anything I've posted.
* Now, of course, that doesn't mean some day in the near future agents of the Ministry of Love won't show up at my door to conduct me to a re-education camp for my political views, but at least I know my mother won't be ashamed of me.
Now I don't want to be accused of defending the NSA, but they are not exactly the most transparent organization in the world. Just as with the FBI, CIA and DHS, we can point to their obvious screw-ups and overreaches but I for one believe that the fact that we are not being nickel-and-dimed on the terrorist front is due in part to their work.
I mean, they have the records of 8 scrillion phone calls and access to everyone's hard drives. One would hope that they are actually able to do something with all that.
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That's a good list of what was awful about Windows 8, and absolutely none of that was needed, or wanted by users.
It seems to me most of the changes in Windows these days are solely to serve Microsoft's purposes and completely ignore the benefits or disadvantages for users. I'm not talking about improvements or whatever under the covers, if performance or robustness is improved, but changes in functionality, and especially UI. None of it seems gears towards making Windows better or easier to use.
Probably talking about people like me, who have saved many hours of effort multiple times per year since discovering it over a decade ago.
Or people like me that often browse through the OEIS for fun, and learn lots of cool stuff from the extensive references.
I read it as $2,000,000 per license. This is Oracle we are talking about.
I read it as $2 million per license * 2 million licenses. I can't imagine Oracle is charging anyone $1 per license. This is Oracle we are talking about.
They would charge 6 figures for a batch file written by an intern on Friday afternoon between foozball games 30 years ago.
You mean the Ministry of Silly Databases...
Actually that's the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs...
I'm pretty sure the movie introduced the other varieties of Soylent (red and yellow), with the green kind being a new version with the surprising secret feature.
I haven't seen the movie in decades and don't recall if I finished the book, though.
Well, not to defend Microsoft, but this behavior is probably the most effective way to get the kinds of people who need to be kicked off of IE to actually be kicked off of IE. You know, the users who probably wouldn't even notice that Edge isn't IE in the first place.
The rest of us can take care of ourselves.
Out of all the stupid, evil or self-centered things Microsoft does, this one's frankly pretty low on my list.
I've been living with Windows 8 because I can work around most of the stupidities, but when I bought my wife a new laptop with 8, she hated it so much she traded it to one of the kids for their Windows 7 machine.
If I could ask for one thing in Windows 10, it would be the ability to make the desktop look like Windows 2000. That's the last version of Windows I thought actually looked good (although 7 wasn't bad). But with this stupid cult of "flat" you can't even do that any more. That was one of Microsoft's stupider and more arrogant moves in the UI field, because you could easily write a book out of all the many reasons why the "flat" look is inferior. The flat look is like reverting back to Windows 2, although at least with Windows 2, the color palette was so small stuff didn't all run together.
Yep. I can't remember the last time I chose to use Internet Explorer.
Well, you need something to download a browser on a clean install of Windows. Is it possible to do that with PowerShell?
So supposably, for all intensive purposes, he meant "case in point", right?
Here, here.
I'm not going to flame you, but the Perfect World called and wondered when you were coming back. They miss you.
Good point. Back in the days when I used to run Flash on Linux, I experienced the same problem. I could always tell when Flash was running because the fan would be going full-tilt.
The point I was making is that a hot WWIII seems inevitable now.
Worse. He's claiming that AM has better sound quality than streaming.
If you're talking Sirius XM, then he's got a point.
General Relativity is a shining example of this, and the Standard Model is even more so. These theories are among the most accurate predictors of new discoveries, sometimes ridiculously so.
Meanwhile, String Theory is still kicking around, getting more and more complex, but coming up with very little in the way of prediction. I'm not busting on it... I keep up with the latest work (as much as a non-expert can anyway) and find it fascinating (and/or incomprehensible).
We are definitely tapping into something real, but whether or not it's fundamental is another question entirely. Newton seemed fundamental, but wasn't. Einstein seems fundamental, but might not be. It seems like there's usually another layer of reality below the one which seems to be fundamental. But everything we uncover is fascinating.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, "Science is cool".
The OK, the latest release of Flash I updated to about two days ago crashes about 1 out of every 3 times. I use Pale Moon, but it seems to me that Firefox blocking Flash is a lateral move.
Perhaps, but I'm sure it was on his mind. Apple is really good at thinking ahead.
In the long run, disallowing Flash is probably a good thing. I don't use any iProducts, but I pay attention to Apple because they are very influential.
Nuking both is an option.
Oh yes, because that certainly won't start WWIII.
No, but it will end the suspense of when it's going to start.
Obama's big triumph is that it probably won't be him who needs to deal with it.
I came to grips with the idea of never being an astronaut when I was about 7. I'd read that there was a height limit of 6 feet for astronauts, which even in the early 70s might have been out of date information. but since my father was taller than that, I figured I would be also.
Or maybe they just needed time to scrub all the pictures of the invading Vogon fleet. Don't want people to panic...
> like the "perpetual beta" junk that even some of the biggest companies in the business have inflicted on us in recent years.
Funny, some of us have been complaining about that for more than 20 years.
Given that MS is trying to move towards the pattern of releasing early and often, which most other companies are doing is not a reason to assume Windows 10 will have a lot of problems. Now, Microsoft's 30+ year history of disastrous dot-oh releases on the other hand...
I'm probably going to upgrade though. I have Windows 8 and I hate-hate-hate it. I got it with an otherwise nice Samsung laptop. The worst thing that I hate about it isn't the half-baked, half-assed UI changes, because you can mostly work around them, but the performance. It is slow as crap on my laptop. I think a lot of it has to do with the built-in malware software that Windows comes with, but regardless of the cause, it's the disk access that's a boat anchor. S.M.A.R.T doesn't report any problems with the harddrive, but the disk access speed is atrocious, including flash drives. Yes, I intend to upgrade to an SSD, but I could put Windows XP on a VM on that same machine and it would scream. I know because I run a Windows 2003 server VM on another machine, and it's so much faster than the Windows 7 host OS.
I did an experiment with NT 3.51 once. It could boot with as little as 12MB of RAM. You couldn't really use it, but it would boot up. It was an incredibly good OS.
I'm glad to see someone besides me on /, isn't terrified of Facebook.
I use it and I think it's relatively harmless as long as you understand, as Rasperin says, it's a loud speaker. I expect everything I post on FB will be available to everyone, everywhere, forever. I long ago, many years before Facebook was a thing, figured out that if I never posted anything online I wouldn't want my sainted mother to see, I'd never have anything to worry about*. I speak my mind freely, but I would have no problem if my mother, my wife, my boss, my kids or my pastor were to see anything I've posted.
* Now, of course, that doesn't mean some day in the near future agents of the Ministry of Love won't show up at my door to conduct me to a re-education camp for my political views, but at least I know my mother won't be ashamed of me.
Now I don't want to be accused of defending the NSA, but they are not exactly the most transparent organization in the world. Just as with the FBI, CIA and DHS, we can point to their obvious screw-ups and overreaches but I for one believe that the fact that we are not being nickel-and-dimed on the terrorist front is due in part to their work.
I mean, they have the records of 8 scrillion phone calls and access to everyone's hard drives. One would hope that they are actually able to do something with all that.
I'm going to go out on a limb and hypothesize that you are not Jewish.