And this is where windows really takes a beating - on my wife's very new Samsung ultrabook the drivers for the touchpad are borked and I can turn the crap off but it comes back after being shut down. That's not Microsoft's fault - but it doesn't matter. Just like people don't care when their nvidia card has problems on a linux box. I just want it to work. Paying $1500 for a machine and then going through all the grief I have to get it working, and ending up stuck with it not quite right makes Apple look a lot more attractive.
So it's not just that Windows 8/8.1 has problems- it's also that it's so hard to find a decent PC manufacturer.
It's a dumb joke - but it does make me wonder if the F-5 has this problem and if not - why they chose to make the T-38 with this weaker canopy. The aircraft was already relatively inexpensive.
One of the things that MS has going for it in the minds of many is that it is an OS for getting work done. The Metro stuff really breaks that perception to pieces. I love when I'm in desktop mode and I go to slide the mouse across the screen with the track pad and that pulls up the charm bar with time and date - and what I want is now under it and I need to click around to make it go away.
Or when I go to close a window that's been maximized on the desktop and barely overshoot the little x at the top right and now it's covered by the charms bar...
Search is supposed to replace the start menu - and I am all for that but the search is so poorly implemented. My laptop isn't capable of upgrading to 8.1 so maybe this gets fixed but on 8 it's really bad. If I start typing the word 'pad' - Wordpad does not show up in my search results. Crazy.
Having updates in two places - stupid. And it appears that some updates in the app store wont run until updates in windows update are done. I had two apps pending forever. Then I went over to windows update and found 1 important update that it said would be automatically installed - but it wasn't. I had to kick it off myself. As soon as it finished, the app updates that had been pending finally kicked in and completed. One was the Kindle app which would not open until it did update. It took me 15 minutes or so to figure out the magical order to get it all to work.
I've been using 8 for 2 or 3 weeks now on a brand new Samsung I bought for my wife. There are some nice things and there are a lot of very broken things and all of them scream to me that no one actually used this on a laptop. I can't imagine how they could have and not noticed how painful so much of the UI is. Want to uninstall an app from the home screen? Right click then move the mouse all the way down to the bottom left of the screen - just not too far to the bottom left.
Want to search the store? Open the charms bar. Now you will be tempted to start typing in the search bar. Don't - it defaults to searching what is already installed on your machine. You need to look at the list on the right and scroll down to store, select that and now you can search the store. It is not built into the store - it isn't obvious in any way that this is what you need to do. When in the store it just feels like search isn't possible.
I hear 8.1 fixes the install mess where installing software fills the home page with tons of shortcuts. Since I can't upgrade to it, since Samsung can't be bothered to make their stuff work with it, I don't know but I'd sure love it. Installing MS office left me with multiple columns of junk on my home screen. And I don't know what algorythm drives placing tiles on that screen - but it is insane and constantly fights me. I can rarely get tiles organized just like I would prefer - stuff slips around and leaves unpleasant gaps.
I'm hoping it will improve down the road. I like having multiple players in the OS market. I run Linux for the most part myself but for a number of situations and people in my life I need windows. I really have never been a fan of Apple's approach so I try to be patient with MS.
Here is what ended up getting me out of this mess.
I opened it up, pulled the hard drive and then started it. This got me to a screen where I could hit F4 for recovery. I then popped the SSD back in and hit F4. That put me into a Samsung recovery program.
It took a couple tries but finally I got it to recover to the initial state it shipped in. Now I'm uninstalling all the junk that shipped with it and getting it back to how it was when I bought it.
I've tried F8 with and without shift as I've seen different people say one or the other - but it doesn't matter.
I've actually tried shift, ctrl and so on with every F key. With lots of mashing, holding, etc. you name it. Whatever is happening - it doesn't allow for input from the keyboard to get their in time. I did stop the video and I see that it says something about an acpi bios problem, but I can't get to the bios to do anything about it.
I view the entire process as a lesson learned. I doubt I'll buy from Samsung again and I wont be running the latest OS from MS on anything. I should have bought something running Windows 7.
I've tried all the functions keys - various power button antics - every single thing I can think of. I can't get it out of this startup loop no matter what I do.
It wont boot to sd or usb cd drive - I'm going to try a usb thumb drive.
If the Samsung service place gives me any grief about fixing it I'm just going to pull it apart, wipe the drive and then return it to the retailer. This is a bit of a pain in the neck but after a couple phones and now this laptop I'm starting to realize that Samsung has absolutely no interest in consumers beyond the initial sale. Every part of this experience - trying to contact their service/support people, trying to find answers, etc. has been a long lesson in the fact that they really don't want to do anything to help out people who've already purchased a product from them.
I'd be happy if the update had left my wife's laptop usable at all. I can't complain about how IE renders sites in 8.1 because we can't get into the machine at all since we tried. I'm off to the Samsung service center tomorrow as there's no way I can find to get the system to boot without voiding the warranty.
I really, really loved Agent to the Stars. I think Androids Dream is even better. Those two are my favorites so far. I hope he gets to publish a lot more stories.
I love Scalzi. I'm a self confessed fanboy, read whatever regularly, etc. I did not enjoy Redshirts. It's well executed, I just don't like that kind of story.
Fortunately The Human Division got things back on track.
What put me over the edge was that I went to use my phone as a wifi hotspot and it wouldn't let me. It gave me a message about needing to purchase a special plan to do that.
I bought the phone for full price and unlocked. I don't live in the US and couldn't buy said plan if I wanted to.
I was pretty ticked off. My Galaxy S was also from T-Mobile but did not have that issue. Being able to use it for internet access when other options weren't available is one of the major reasons I'm willing to pay for a data plan.
There might have been other workarounds but that was the last straw. My next phone will be a Nexus device.
I made the mistake of buying a galaxy s3 from t-mobile in the U.S. T-mobile hobbled the thing so badly I switched away from the stock os for the first time. I have to say that there are a few bumps but over all I've loved it. Not waiting on Samsung for ever and ever to get Android updates is probably worth it alone.
I don't have a ton of experience with native English speakers outside of Americans so I didn't want to claim that problem for anyone else.
The lack of third person plural is an interesting thing. The funny thing is in some places in the USA y'all wont do it either. Y'all has become second person singular and "all y'all" is the plural.
Of course every language has it's oddities. I do think getting a functional command of English is pretty easy. I think that part of this is that English speakers are used to hearing it used in so many different ways. I'm trying to learn Hungarian and let me tell you, aside from being intrinsically difficult, native speakers are not used to hearing it from any one but other native speakers who all use it in pretty much identical fashion. (There is one small group that have an 'accent' sort of but I think that's pretty uncommon.)
The really nice thing about having more than one language at your disposal is that you can use the one that works better for the situation. When I'm talking with a Hungarian in English and I'm not sure if they are saying 15 or 50, I just switch to Hungarian numbers and there's not an issue any more.
This adecco page has twitter feed deal at the bottom and it's a riot to read right now. Apparently they haven't caught on that this story is getting a lot of attention yet.
I didn't use git a lot until I got involved using github.
I think it's a great platform that, whatever it's weaknesses has managed to pull of something rather cool. I know sourceforge and others were around a long time before it but github seems to have taken things to another level in regards to involvement.
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I hate the hot corners and the swipe gestures.
And this is where windows really takes a beating - on my wife's very new Samsung ultrabook the drivers for the touchpad are borked and I can turn the crap off but it comes back after being shut down. That's not Microsoft's fault - but it doesn't matter. Just like people don't care when their nvidia card has problems on a linux box. I just want it to work. Paying $1500 for a machine and then going through all the grief I have to get it working, and ending up stuck with it not quite right makes Apple look a lot more attractive.
So it's not just that Windows 8/8.1 has problems- it's also that it's so hard to find a decent PC manufacturer.
Magyar doesn't mean Hungary. It means Hungarian.
something like this?
It's a dumb joke - but it does make me wonder if the F-5 has this problem and if not - why they chose to make the T-38 with this weaker canopy. The aircraft was already relatively inexpensive.
One of the things that MS has going for it in the minds of many is that it is an OS for getting work done. The Metro stuff really breaks that perception to pieces. I love when I'm in desktop mode and I go to slide the mouse across the screen with the track pad and that pulls up the charm bar with time and date - and what I want is now under it and I need to click around to make it go away.
Or when I go to close a window that's been maximized on the desktop and barely overshoot the little x at the top right and now it's covered by the charms bar...
Search is supposed to replace the start menu - and I am all for that but the search is so poorly implemented. My laptop isn't capable of upgrading to 8.1 so maybe this gets fixed but on 8 it's really bad. If I start typing the word 'pad' - Wordpad does not show up in my search results. Crazy.
Having updates in two places - stupid. And it appears that some updates in the app store wont run until updates in windows update are done. I had two apps pending forever. Then I went over to windows update and found 1 important update that it said would be automatically installed - but it wasn't. I had to kick it off myself. As soon as it finished, the app updates that had been pending finally kicked in and completed. One was the Kindle app which would not open until it did update. It took me 15 minutes or so to figure out the magical order to get it all to work.
I've been using 8 for 2 or 3 weeks now on a brand new Samsung I bought for my wife. There are some nice things and there are a lot of very broken things and all of them scream to me that no one actually used this on a laptop. I can't imagine how they could have and not noticed how painful so much of the UI is. Want to uninstall an app from the home screen? Right click then move the mouse all the way down to the bottom left of the screen - just not too far to the bottom left.
Want to search the store? Open the charms bar. Now you will be tempted to start typing in the search bar. Don't - it defaults to searching what is already installed on your machine. You need to look at the list on the right and scroll down to store, select that and now you can search the store. It is not built into the store - it isn't obvious in any way that this is what you need to do. When in the store it just feels like search isn't possible.
I hear 8.1 fixes the install mess where installing software fills the home page with tons of shortcuts. Since I can't upgrade to it, since Samsung can't be bothered to make their stuff work with it, I don't know but I'd sure love it. Installing MS office left me with multiple columns of junk on my home screen. And I don't know what algorythm drives placing tiles on that screen - but it is insane and constantly fights me. I can rarely get tiles organized just like I would prefer - stuff slips around and leaves unpleasant gaps.
I'm hoping it will improve down the road. I like having multiple players in the OS market. I run Linux for the most part myself but for a number of situations and people in my life I need windows. I really have never been a fan of Apple's approach so I try to be patient with MS.
If it was for my use - it would run Linux.
But it's not and so it doesn't. But thanks for the offer.
Here is what ended up getting me out of this mess.
I opened it up, pulled the hard drive and then started it. This got me to a screen where I could hit F4 for recovery. I then popped the SSD back in and hit F4. That put me into a Samsung recovery program.
It took a couple tries but finally I got it to recover to the initial state it shipped in. Now I'm uninstalling all the junk that shipped with it and getting it back to how it was when I bought it.
I've tried F8 with and without shift as I've seen different people say one or the other - but it doesn't matter.
I've actually tried shift, ctrl and so on with every F key. With lots of mashing, holding, etc. you name it. Whatever is happening - it doesn't allow for input from the keyboard to get their in time. I did stop the video and I see that it says something about an acpi bios problem, but I can't get to the bios to do anything about it.
I view the entire process as a lesson learned. I doubt I'll buy from Samsung again and I wont be running the latest OS from MS on anything. I should have bought something running Windows 7.
I've tried all the functions keys - various power button antics - every single thing I can think of. I can't get it out of this startup loop no matter what I do.
It wont boot to sd or usb cd drive - I'm going to try a usb thumb drive.
If the Samsung service place gives me any grief about fixing it I'm just going to pull it apart, wipe the drive and then return it to the retailer. This is a bit of a pain in the neck but after a couple phones and now this laptop I'm starting to realize that Samsung has absolutely no interest in consumers beyond the initial sale. Every part of this experience - trying to contact their service/support people, trying to find answers, etc. has been a long lesson in the fact that they really don't want to do anything to help out people who've already purchased a product from them.
I'm sure you are absolutely right.
I'd be happy if the update had left my wife's laptop usable at all. I can't complain about how IE renders sites in 8.1 because we can't get into the machine at all since we tried. I'm off to the Samsung service center tomorrow as there's no way I can find to get the system to boot without voiding the warranty.
Hardly world wide.
Why did Martha Steward go to jail?
If someone with that kind of money and influence can do time just for talking to cops - what do you think that means for the rest of us?
I really, really loved Agent to the Stars. I think Androids Dream is even better. Those two are my favorites so far. I hope he gets to publish a lot more stories.
I love Scalzi. I'm a self confessed fanboy, read whatever regularly, etc. I did not enjoy Redshirts. It's well executed, I just don't like that kind of story.
Fortunately The Human Division got things back on track.
Yeah - I'd be happier if they worked on ways to improve call quality even if the connection isn't the greatest.
I don't use video too often as there are often issues.
According to this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migration_rate
The net migration rate for the US is much higher than it is for Sweden.
What put me over the edge was that I went to use my phone as a wifi hotspot and it wouldn't let me. It gave me a message about needing to purchase a special plan to do that.
I bought the phone for full price and unlocked. I don't live in the US and couldn't buy said plan if I wanted to.
I was pretty ticked off. My Galaxy S was also from T-Mobile but did not have that issue. Being able to use it for internet access when other options weren't available is one of the major reasons I'm willing to pay for a data plan.
There might have been other workarounds but that was the last straw. My next phone will be a Nexus device.
I made the mistake of buying a galaxy s3 from t-mobile in the U.S. T-mobile hobbled the thing so badly I switched away from the stock os for the first time. I have to say that there are a few bumps but over all I've loved it. Not waiting on Samsung for ever and ever to get Android updates is probably worth it alone.
Thanks.
I don't have a ton of experience with native English speakers outside of Americans so I didn't want to claim that problem for anyone else.
The lack of third person plural is an interesting thing. The funny thing is in some places in the USA y'all wont do it either. Y'all has become second person singular and "all y'all" is the plural.
Of course every language has it's oddities. I do think getting a functional command of English is pretty easy. I think that part of this is that English speakers are used to hearing it used in so many different ways. I'm trying to learn Hungarian and let me tell you, aside from being intrinsically difficult, native speakers are not used to hearing it from any one but other native speakers who all use it in pretty much identical fashion. (There is one small group that have an 'accent' sort of but I think that's pretty uncommon.)
The really nice thing about having more than one language at your disposal is that you can use the one that works better for the situation. When I'm talking with a Hungarian in English and I'm not sure if they are saying 15 or 50, I just switch to Hungarian numbers and there's not an issue any more.
It's an American thing. We use you and your instead of one - just fill in 'one' in the correct form wherever you see 'you' or 'your' and so on.
This adecco page has twitter feed deal at the bottom and it's a riot to read right now. Apparently they haven't caught on that this story is getting a lot of attention yet.
https://www.adeccowaytowork.com/en/career-center
I'm gonna guess clicking through on the facebook deal next to it would lead to similar stuff.
Thanks but it was just a mistake on my part.
I didn't use git a lot until I got involved using github.
I think it's a great platform that, whatever it's weaknesses has managed to pull of something rather cool. I know sourceforge and others were around a long time before it but github seems to have taken things to another level in regards to involvement.
I didn't notice what I did until I read your reply.
I really started using github regularly at the same time that I started using github.
It's grown to so much more than the underlying version control software.