That is true. The ribbon is cumbersome and it has certainly slowed me down. The main problem for me is the tools are now hidden behind tabs, so you're constantly click, click clicking your way across to find what you need (apart from web browsers, I really hate tabs). I much prefer to have ALL my toolbars laid out in front of me, and they're static. Add to the fact that there is no standard 'File Edit View' style, then you're stuck with having to try and memorise each ribbon for each different program.
I got round this with excel 2010 by deleting all the ribbon menus bar one and cramming all my tools onto one ribbon. no more click,click, clicking my way to find what I want...I have a static toolbar again (and I hate all this mouse-over preview 'feature'; things jumping around in the background it causes me to lose focus). Surprise, surprise, my use of excel has gone back to previous levels of productivity....It's retarded, there should be an option to have the standard toolbar menu or a ribbon menu; keep us all happy - and it is possible - CAD 2010 has this option.
Go take a look at ebay and see how many second hand surface rt's there are for sale. It's a total dud, and people who got burned are desperate to offload them.
Flat, minimalist 'design' (And I use that word loosely) is all the rage these days. Take a look at google+...it looks fucking hideous. There are plenty of other websites following this shitty trend, miles of brilliant whitespace everywhere, no borders around anything to give it some context, It gives me a headache and ensures I won't visit again. Office 2013 is just as awful; NOT ONLY DO THE RIBBON MENUS SHOUT AT YOU, it's a bland wasteland of empty ideas, with only three colour schemes - brilliant white, off white and slightly more off white.
It all looks bad now, but in 5 years time people will be shaking their heads thinking 'Just what the fuck were we doing?'
And not a single ad in sight, anywhere. Best $8 a month we ever spent. Add another $5 for a proxy to get regional NF content, why on earth would we ever want ad infested cable?
I tried installing steam on my kubuntu system, but it wouldn't play any games, it said something about needing the latest opengl version, and to do that I needed the latest graphics drivers.. So i went to download the latest graphics drivers from ATI, only it didn't work and I ended up with a laptop that did not boot. After hours trying to find a solution, I left it and did a reinstall. Life is just too short, and I don't have time for this shit. Fortunately my home area was left intact after the reinstall.
After that I pretty much forgot about steam. Maybe they will fix this issue one day, maybe they won't. Just my experience trying to get steam working on a linux machine.
Awful, awful awful. Put some fucking DEPTH into the design. I'm getting more and more fed up with all this flat, monochrome bullshit 'look' with kilometres of wasted white space either side, and squashed text in the middle.
I installed office 2013 today...my god, what a retard of a design. I see slashdot is following the same path to hell.
I think a lot of corporations will simply slipstream classic shell into their custom win8 installs, and save a small fortune on retraining costs and endless support calls. I installed it on my win7 machine at work. I simply couldn't stand the cramped, gimped default start menu and even worse, the removal of recent documents menu, which i use all the time (That is where the real rot started, i think).
It was also the only thing that made win8 vaguely useful when i worked with the release preview for testing purposes. It lets you disable metro entirely so you never have to interact with it, and when you've turned off all the metro crap, you have a more or less OK system.
There was also the stacker disk compression technology that Microsoft blatantly ripped off from Stac Electronics (anyone ever hear from them ever again?)
Any company that has gotten in to bed with Microsoft has always come of second best; Nokia is no different; just another addition to a long, long list.
The e90 was a lovely phone, but plagued with all the usual nokia bad/idiotic design decisions:
Cannot charge up via usb, and have to use a proprietary 2mm nokia charger (generic ones do not work)
non-standard 2.5 mm audio jack, so you cannot use any cheap, generic 3.5mm earphones ones off the shelf without an adaptor
microphone that wasn't soldered on (!), so it detaches and nobody can hear you and you have to resort to hands free
flaky wi-fi that constantly drops signal
flaky bluetooth that works depending on which way the wind is blowing, and what day of the week it is
slow and unresponsive at times
I also had a 'flagship' N97 for a while, OMFG what a piece of shit that thing was, I won't even go into all the issues THAT thing had.
Then you had the N8, yet another 'flagship' product with serious issues...
Nokia *cannot* make smartphones for toffee, coupled with an epic fail of a mobile platform in winders 8, after leaving symbian and meego users high and dry, they are on a flaming failtrain of a downward spiral. I won't go anywhere near ANY of their products ever again. It's really no surprise they are doing so badly in the smartphone marketplace.
Main problem is Metro is a complete bomb. The rot started with Win7, and the severely gimped start menu they forced on people. I cannot use it, I had to install classic shell on my work PCs to get my productivity back (no recent documents, wtf is all that about?)
They really went over the cliff with metro tho. It's a complete POS that most people DO NOT WANT.
Surface RT has bombed, and the X-BONE will bomb as well. Microsoft are up the creek without a paddle. They haven't got a clue.
I have 4 monitors at my work. I'm a GIS (look it up) techie so I need many many windows open simultaneously. Win8/Metro would be a huge fail for us. Fortunately I could install classic shell and permanently forget all about that abortion formerly known as metro if push came to shove.
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That's why you root your android device; in fact it's the first thing you do to it - install remove anything you want...
That is true. The ribbon is cumbersome and it has certainly slowed me down. The main problem for me is the tools are now hidden behind tabs, so you're constantly click, click clicking your way across to find what you need (apart from web browsers, I really hate tabs). I much prefer to have ALL my toolbars laid out in front of me, and they're static. Add to the fact that there is no standard 'File Edit View' style, then you're stuck with having to try and memorise each ribbon for each different program.
I got round this with excel 2010 by deleting all the ribbon menus bar one and cramming all my tools onto one ribbon. no more click,click, clicking my way to find what I want...I have a static toolbar again (and I hate all this mouse-over preview 'feature'; things jumping around in the background it causes me to lose focus). Surprise, surprise, my use of excel has gone back to previous levels of productivity....It's retarded, there should be an option to have the standard toolbar menu or a ribbon menu; keep us all happy - and it is possible - CAD 2010 has this option.
It's retarded, the
Go take a look at ebay and see how many second hand surface rt's there are for sale. It's a total dud, and people who got burned are desperate to offload them.
Flat, minimalist 'design' (And I use that word loosely) is all the rage these days. Take a look at google+ ...it looks fucking hideous. There are plenty of other websites following this shitty trend, miles of brilliant whitespace everywhere, no borders around anything to give it some context, It gives me a headache and ensures I won't visit again. Office 2013 is just as awful; NOT ONLY DO THE RIBBON MENUS SHOUT AT YOU, it's a bland wasteland of empty ideas, with only three colour schemes - brilliant white, off white and slightly more off white.
It all looks bad now, but in 5 years time people will be shaking their heads thinking 'Just what the fuck were we doing?'
And not a single ad in sight, anywhere. Best $8 a month we ever spent. Add another $5 for a proxy to get regional NF content, why on earth would we ever want ad infested cable?
I tried installing steam on my kubuntu system, but it wouldn't play any games, it said something about needing the latest opengl version, and to do that I needed the latest graphics drivers.. So i went to download the latest graphics drivers from ATI, only it didn't work and I ended up with a laptop that did not boot. After hours trying to find a solution, I left it and did a reinstall. Life is just too short, and I don't have time for this shit. Fortunately my home area was left intact after the reinstall.
After that I pretty much forgot about steam. Maybe they will fix this issue one day, maybe they won't. Just my experience trying to get steam working on a linux machine.
Awful, awful awful. Put some fucking DEPTH into the design. I'm getting more and more fed up with all this flat, monochrome bullshit 'look' with kilometres of wasted white space either side, and squashed text in the middle. I installed office 2013 today...my god, what a retard of a design. I see slashdot is following the same path to hell.
Because they have more money than god and they have shit for brains.
It was also the only thing that made win8 vaguely useful when i worked with the release preview for testing purposes. It lets you disable metro entirely so you never have to interact with it, and when you've turned off all the metro crap, you have a more or less OK system.
They need a miracle. A farking huge one, at that.
Ha ha, you are so funny :)
Actually, 7 isn't too bad an OS; you just have to install classicshell to get rid of the severely kneecapped start menu they tried to force on folks.
That's what a lot thought....but when you boot up NT 4.0 you get the 'Based on NT Technology' splash screen.
V +1 = W
M + 1 = N
S + 1 = T
Any company that has gotten in to bed with Microsoft has always come of second best; Nokia is no different; just another addition to a long, long list.
Cannot charge up via usb, and have to use a proprietary 2mm nokia charger (generic ones do not work)
non-standard 2.5 mm audio jack, so you cannot use any cheap, generic 3.5mm earphones ones off the shelf without an adaptor
microphone that wasn't soldered on (!), so it detaches and nobody can hear you and you have to resort to hands free
flaky wi-fi that constantly drops signal
flaky bluetooth that works depending on which way the wind is blowing, and what day of the week it is
slow and unresponsive at times
I also had a 'flagship' N97 for a while, OMFG what a piece of shit that thing was, I won't even go into all the issues THAT thing had.
Then you had the N8, yet another 'flagship' product with serious issues...
Nokia *cannot* make smartphones for toffee, coupled with an epic fail of a mobile platform in winders 8, after leaving symbian and meego users high and dry, they are on a flaming failtrain of a downward spiral. I won't go anywhere near ANY of their products ever again. It's really no surprise they are doing so badly in the smartphone marketplace.
They need to drop the price to $100 and unlock the bootloader so people can reformat and install linux or android on it.
They really went over the cliff with metro tho. It's a complete POS that most people DO NOT WANT.
Surface RT has bombed, and the X-BONE will bomb as well. Microsoft are up the creek without a paddle. They haven't got a clue.
Dance, monkey boy, dance...
Nokia should have gone with android. I'll never buy another nokia phone ever again
Oh. My. God.....
Now I can finally sort out that wobbly dinner table :)
It means that they haven't got a clue, not a single, solitary one...
http://geek-news.mtv.com//wp-content/uploads/geek/2012/11/picard-facepalm2.jpg
I'll be sure to skip this 'update'
I have 4 monitors at my work. I'm a GIS (look it up) techie so I need many many windows open simultaneously. Win8/Metro would be a huge fail for us. Fortunately I could install classic shell and permanently forget all about that abortion formerly known as metro if push came to shove.