I'd be able to pack more useful programs into the launcher window and have less wasted screen real estate. Seriously, with those Duplo squares, you have an icon, a little text, and roughly 60+% space wastage.
Why? This start menu is supposed to be for the DESKTOP crowd? Why constrain them with something stupid meant to augment a touch interface? You're still going to have the Start Screen for tablet interfaces. So it makes SENSE to use squares there. Just, not for the desktop interface.
Howsabout a Mayan...oh wait, we already passed the end of that calendar and are still here.
Space rocks? No. If I have to listen to Steven Tyler screeching out "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" one more time *I* will contract space madness and go on a killing spree.
Ahhh... the 1981 Regan years started this order. Continued by Obama for 8 years and Bushes for a total of 12 years before him. What a sad state our country is in now.
Oh. I see! Clinton was just too busy getting blowjobs during his tenure right?
Simply because some scumbag COULD be dangerous with the info doesn't mean the cops' desire to be unwatched watchers trumps legitimate use of the technology.
1) The file: open, save, close is really designed around a dual floppy paradigm. It makes no sense at all with SSD hardware.
What would make sense? You still open files. You still save them. And you still need to close them (or have some means of releasing locks on them so that they can be moved/copied/backed up/etc).
2) As the number of system services require notification increase integrated notification handling becomes key
This is, essentially, what an idea "Event Viewer" should be doing.
3) As device types become much more variable (ranging from a watch to a 55+" TV) graphics need to switch more readily
You're mistaking form-factor for something that actually matters.
When you're talking about a 55" TV, you're talking about what? SD Widescreen? HD? SHD? 4K? What? Resolution's the issue, not the device itself.
And the answer isn't necessarily "waste more space so stuff remains clickable on high-res or touchscreens"
4) As input devices became more variable applications needed to take better advantage of them
So Microsoft and application developers should be building in NATIVE SUPPORT for my left-right testicle-twitch control unit? And my retrofitted Atari Paddle controller should be AWESOME in Excel right?
Face it. Standard desktop is 1-3 monitors, a keyboard, directional controller (mouse or mouse simulant (rollerball, touchpad, or joystick)), speakers and a microphone.
If Microsoft wants to give the OPTION for new interfaces, great! But forcing everyone (including enterprise partners, where retaining costs MONEY), over to a new UI paradigm when there was nothing intrinsically wrong with the old one, is Just Fucking Stupid.
There are basically NO functionality enhancements added to Windows 8 that required such a drastic UI revamp for desktop users. And there was DEFNITELY no reason behind applying that crap to Server 2012! I've also used Win8 as a tablet interface. It works fairly nicely. But I STILL don't want it replacing my desktop UI!
The Mac interface is a LOT closer to classic Windows (XP through 7) than Windows 8 is.
Oh bullshit.
I think the Windows 8 interface is ass-tastic too. But I own an MBP (job requirement) as well and the interface is not "a lot closer to Classic Windows" than 8 is.
No, it's your hardware provider that is your problem, not Google.
Wrong. It's not up to Samsung what's installed on my Galaxy S4.
The "updates" are FREE, there's zero reason not to be on the current release.
Wrong. If my wireless provider doesn't release an update, I'm shit out of luck unless I want to root my phone, which voids my warranty and can negate my service contract. It'd also piss off my employer, as they're the ones supplying the phone and service and we have a contractual obligation with them NOT to root the phone.
Contact your hardware provider and bitch to them, not Google.
Again, the hardware provider isn't the one who controls this situation.
For me? Frequently. I have an IP phone I use for work. Plus I'm pulling files in or pushing files out to clients. I have multiple chat sessions open. Plus remote control software so I can work on clients.
For my parents? Frequently. They both watch different Netflix streams. My mom uses Skype. I'm remote in to fix things for her.
My brother. Frequently. His kids are watching a Netflix stream. His wife is shopping or fiddling on Facebook He's connecting to work to put orders for the next day in while playing games online.
Basically, this sort of usage isn't uncommon. Even for technical peons. And, as noted, the original example is becoming more and more common every year.
I'm in a major metropolitan area (Chicago) and the best I can do is a 6mbit/0.5mbit DSL connection AT&T. And, worse, I couldn't call AT&T tomorrow because my current plan is grandfathered in at that speed! They've artificially limited connection speed in my area to 3mbit/384kbit.
My only other choice is to get a DSL line from the company that controls my landlord's cable system. A crappy fly-by-night Satellite/DSL reseller called Suite Solutions. The problem there? As mentioned, they're a reseller. So they're selling me the same shitty 3/384 connection and charging more.
The shitiest part? We HAD Comcast here, and our landlords tossed them out because the kickbacks to them weren't large enough.
You know it's pretty fucking bad when you're pining for Comcast, one of the worst companies in the world.
The whole point is not that you get 50 bajillion exabits a picosecond to a single connection.
It's so your connection can accommodate multiple high-speed connections simultaneously.
You can pull down your Netflix movie while your son is watching YouTube, your daughter is downloading her courseware for next semester and your wife is downloading a new copy of Office she bought from the Microsoft store. All without interfering with one another.
Gasoline is a wealth redistribution program if ever there was one with hard earned dollars going to fund cartoon empires with medieval sensibilities all around the globe.
Yeah. But with gasoline. You get...gasoline. Something for something.
With "carbon credits" you get...what? Some guy going "Good for you dude! And thanks for the cash!". Something for nothing.
due to the prevalence of technology and military groups, good weather, and clear skies.
And the largest contributing factor? A bunch of UFO loonies calling in every gnat, housefly, thermal mirage, and assorted hallucination brought about by acid and peyote trips.
Just throw classic shell on it, 8.1 is way better than 7. XP was great in it's day - as windows goes - It's day was just stretched a bit longer than it should have because Vista.
Not quite. Win8 (and by extension) Windows 10, still has problems where previously unified interfaces for controlling system behavior have been split between Metro/Modern apps and traditional windows.
One example: in Win7 I click the network icon in the notifications area and a small window pops up with the connections; I can then right-click a connection and select Status for information on what IP/DNS is currently assigned or Properties to get to its security information.
Clicking the network icon on Win10 does the same thing as Win8: giant Metro panel covering a large portion of the screen, most of it wasted in "Airplane Mode" that I have no use for, and right-clicking the connection only has options that are more at home in a cellphone than in a desktop OS: estimated data usage, metered connection, forget this network. Clicking "View Connection Settings" opens another Metro-style "PC Settings" window that is designed for touch, so OS standards like right-clicking don't work.
In short, it's still trying to integrate two different UI designs, and it still doesn't work. It's not as terrible as Win8 at it, but it's still in plenty of places to be annoying. It's also very inconsistent in what gets a Metro panel and what doesn't.
Conversely, denying someone a position because they do or do not happen to have a dick is also a bad move.
If I deny a nursing position to a man because "men aren't compassionate enough to be nurses," wouldn't you say that's a bad thing?
Having come from the field of nursing, that's NOT how they get rid of guys.
Basically, BECAUSE you're a guy, it means you're superhumanly strong, so that 800 lb double-knee patient who just shit the big-boy-bed down the hall can be gotten out of bed by you all by your lonesome, regardless of body mechanics, or regardless of how it affects YOUR patient load.
And you get female nurses of limited skills and unlimited volume talking to you like you're an idiot. But when you refuse to allow them to talk to you that way, you're being an unprofessional, misogynistic prick, and therefore must be fired for cause and a black mark set on your record.
And the laws regarding what can and cannot be said about a person by a former employer?
Slashdot Mirror
So Doctor Rockso (I DO GRAPHENE!)?
Damn.
Graphene. Just say "no" to drugs?
You can disable her.
But I want to butt fuck her...
You two need to take your date-rapey roofie fantasies elsewhere.
Seriously. Are mostly-empty SQUARES *really* the best way to organize program launchers in a desktop menu system?
I'd be MUCH happier if they implemented the ability to convert the launchers to bars (see example image, note, I know it's just a crude mockup).
http://www.evilnet.net/Windows...
I'd be able to pack more useful programs into the launcher window and have less wasted screen real estate. Seriously, with those Duplo squares, you have an icon, a little text, and roughly 60+% space wastage.
Why? This start menu is supposed to be for the DESKTOP crowd? Why constrain them with something stupid meant to augment a touch interface? You're still going to have the Start Screen for tablet interfaces. So it makes SENSE to use squares there. Just, not for the desktop interface.
If you're not out there shoveling, the terrorists WIN!
Welcome our new giant lizard overlords!
WE ALL GONNA DIE!
Oh wait. We aren't?
Howsabout a Mayan...oh wait, we already passed the end of that calendar and are still here.
Space rocks? No. If I have to listen to Steven Tyler screeching out "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" one more time *I* will contract space madness and go on a killing spree.
I know! ALIEN INVASION!
Soylent green? It's...people man! PEOPLE!
Ahhh... the 1981 Regan years started this order. Continued by Obama for 8 years and Bushes for a total of 12 years before him. What a sad state our country is in now.
Oh. I see! Clinton was just too busy getting blowjobs during his tenure right?
Because if you read the initial post. The guy is going "BLAME YOUR DEVICE MAKER!"
And I pointed out "Hey. The stopping points aren't necessarily JUST your device maker. Like in my case, it's my service provider."
To be followed up with "HEY! BLAME YOUR SERVICE PROVIDER (or your device maker, just in case...)"
Now that I've hung a lampshade on the moved goalposts of the original argument, we NOW have, from you "Hey! Blame whoever's stopping you!"
Which was the original gist of my argument in the first place.
Well fucking DUH.
Simply because some scumbag COULD be dangerous with the info doesn't mean the cops' desire to be unwatched watchers trumps legitimate use of the technology.
It is the hardware provider in much of the world. If you have shitty carriers, blame the shitty carriers. Otherwise, blame the hardware providers.
And now! With more moving goalposts!
We blame global warming on cow farts!
DOWN WITH FARTING COWS!
It's aided by off-gassing volcanoes.
DOWN WITH OFF-GASSING VOLCANOES! And down with farting cows just in case!
And the ocean, as it warms, is retaining less CO2!
DOWN WITH WARMER OCEANS! And down with off-gassing volcanoes, and farting cows, just in case!
And it's the fault of our dependence of fossil fuels!
DOWN WITH FOSSIL FUELS! And down with warmer oceans, off-gassing volcanoes and farting cows, just in case!
1) The file: open, save, close is really designed around a dual floppy paradigm. It makes no sense at all with SSD hardware.
What would make sense? You still open files. You still save them. And you still need to close them (or have some means of releasing locks on them so that they can be moved/copied/backed up/etc).
2) As the number of system services require notification increase integrated notification handling becomes key
This is, essentially, what an idea "Event Viewer" should be doing.
3) As device types become much more variable (ranging from a watch to a 55+" TV) graphics need to switch more readily
You're mistaking form-factor for something that actually matters.
When you're talking about a 55" TV, you're talking about what? SD Widescreen? HD? SHD? 4K? What? Resolution's the issue, not the device itself.
And the answer isn't necessarily "waste more space so stuff remains clickable on high-res or touchscreens"
4) As input devices became more variable applications needed to take better advantage of them
So Microsoft and application developers should be building in NATIVE SUPPORT for my left-right testicle-twitch control unit?
And my retrofitted Atari Paddle controller should be AWESOME in Excel right?
Face it. Standard desktop is 1-3 monitors, a keyboard, directional controller (mouse or mouse simulant (rollerball, touchpad, or joystick)), speakers and a microphone.
If Microsoft wants to give the OPTION for new interfaces, great!
But forcing everyone (including enterprise partners, where retaining costs MONEY), over to a new UI paradigm when there was nothing intrinsically wrong with the old one, is Just Fucking Stupid.
There are basically NO functionality enhancements added to Windows 8 that required such a drastic UI revamp for desktop users. And there was DEFNITELY no reason behind applying that crap to Server 2012!
I've also used Win8 as a tablet interface. It works fairly nicely. But I STILL don't want it replacing my desktop UI!
The Mac interface is a LOT closer to classic Windows (XP through 7) than Windows 8 is.
Oh bullshit.
I think the Windows 8 interface is ass-tastic too. But I own an MBP (job requirement) as well and the interface is not "a lot closer to Classic Windows" than 8 is.
Easier said than done.
Sure, I could get out of my current lease. By paying the lease in full up-front.
(Read: When hell freezes over.)
And you have some people for whom this just is not an option.
Whether the constraint is economic or some other unspecified reason.
No, it's your hardware provider that is your problem, not Google.
Wrong. It's not up to Samsung what's installed on my Galaxy S4.
The "updates" are FREE, there's zero reason not to be on the current release.
Wrong. If my wireless provider doesn't release an update, I'm shit out of luck unless I want to root my phone, which voids my warranty and can negate my service contract. It'd also piss off my employer, as they're the ones supplying the phone and service and we have a contractual obligation with them NOT to root the phone.
Contact your hardware provider and bitch to them, not Google.
Again, the hardware provider isn't the one who controls this situation.
For me? Frequently. I have an IP phone I use for work.
Plus I'm pulling files in or pushing files out to clients.
I have multiple chat sessions open.
Plus remote control software so I can work on clients.
For my parents? Frequently.
They both watch different Netflix streams.
My mom uses Skype.
I'm remote in to fix things for her.
My brother. Frequently.
His kids are watching a Netflix stream.
His wife is shopping or fiddling on Facebook
He's connecting to work to put orders for the next day in while playing games online.
Basically, this sort of usage isn't uncommon. Even for technical peons.
And, as noted, the original example is becoming more and more common every year.
Good for you.
I'm in a major metropolitan area (Chicago) and the best I can do is a 6mbit/0.5mbit DSL connection AT&T.
And, worse, I couldn't call AT&T tomorrow because my current plan is grandfathered in at that speed!
They've artificially limited connection speed in my area to 3mbit/384kbit.
My only other choice is to get a DSL line from the company that controls my landlord's cable system. A crappy fly-by-night Satellite/DSL reseller called Suite Solutions.
The problem there? As mentioned, they're a reseller. So they're selling me the same shitty 3/384 connection and charging more.
The shitiest part? We HAD Comcast here, and our landlords tossed them out because the kickbacks to them weren't large enough.
You know it's pretty fucking bad when you're pining for Comcast, one of the worst companies in the world.
The whole point is not that you get 50 bajillion exabits a picosecond to a single connection.
It's so your connection can accommodate multiple high-speed connections simultaneously.
You can pull down your Netflix movie while your son is watching YouTube, your daughter is downloading her courseware for next semester and your wife is downloading a new copy of Office she bought from the Microsoft store. All without interfering with one another.
You obviously missed what I said about the interface for network controls not being unified.
You have portions of your controls in the Network Sharing Center and portions in the sidebar. Instead of a unified interface in one place or another.
In short, stupid, schizoid design.
Amongh many other things, with carbon credits you get less CO2 pumped into the atmosphere
Really? HOW?
What evidence do you have that the company selling you the "carbon credit" is actually DOING anything.
Basically what you're doing is the same thing you're doing when you drop something in the offertory at Mass.
A wealth redistribution program
Gasoline is a wealth redistribution program if ever there was one with hard earned dollars going to fund cartoon empires with medieval sensibilities all around the globe.
Yeah. But with gasoline. You get...gasoline. Something for something.
With "carbon credits" you get...what? Some guy going "Good for you dude! And thanks for the cash!". Something for nothing.
due to the prevalence of technology and military groups, good weather, and clear skies.
And the largest contributing factor? A bunch of UFO loonies calling in every gnat, housefly, thermal mirage, and assorted hallucination brought about by acid and peyote trips.
Just throw classic shell on it, 8.1 is way better than 7. XP was great in it's day - as windows goes - It's day was just stretched a bit longer than it should have because Vista.
Not quite. Win8 (and by extension) Windows 10, still has problems where previously unified interfaces for controlling system behavior have been split between Metro/Modern apps and traditional windows.
One example: in Win7 I click the network icon in the notifications area and a small window pops up with the connections; I can then right-click a connection and select Status for information on what IP/DNS is currently assigned or Properties to get to its security information.
Clicking the network icon on Win10 does the same thing as Win8: giant Metro panel covering a large portion of the screen, most of it wasted in "Airplane Mode" that I have no use for, and right-clicking the connection only has options that are more at home in a cellphone than in a desktop OS: estimated data usage, metered connection, forget this network. Clicking "View Connection Settings" opens another Metro-style "PC Settings" window that is designed for touch, so OS standards like right-clicking don't work.
http://i.imgur.com/8Csqe77.png
In short, it's still trying to integrate two different UI designs, and it still doesn't work. It's not as terrible as Win8 at it, but it's still in plenty of places to be annoying. It's also very inconsistent in what gets a Metro panel and what doesn't.
Men AREN'T compassionate enough to be nurses. That's why we don't apply for those positions! You're making my point! Source: my wife is a nurse.
And women in nursing eventually turn into lazy, tactless, soulless, cackling harridans. The REAL reason why men don't stay in nursing positions.
At least, this was the situation that chased me from my nursing position 13 years ago.
My compassion had nothing to do with it. I simply had had enough of the inconsiderate bitchiness and declined to stay employed in the nursing field.
Oh well. At least the stress levels working in IT is lower. And if I break a computer, I can fix it.
Conversely, denying someone a position because they do or do not happen to have a dick is also a bad move.
If I deny a nursing position to a man because "men aren't compassionate enough to be nurses," wouldn't you say that's a bad thing?
Having come from the field of nursing, that's NOT how they get rid of guys.
Basically, BECAUSE you're a guy, it means you're superhumanly strong, so that 800 lb double-knee patient who just shit the big-boy-bed down the hall can be gotten out of bed by you all by your lonesome, regardless of body mechanics, or regardless of how it affects YOUR patient load.
And you get female nurses of limited skills and unlimited volume talking to you like you're an idiot. But when you refuse to allow them to talk to you that way, you're being an unprofessional, misogynistic prick, and therefore must be fired for cause and a black mark set on your record.
And the laws regarding what can and cannot be said about a person by a former employer?
*Wink*wink*nudge*nudge*