The admittedly bloated beast it is today has one or two features I actually use. I could give you a list if you like, but it's moot until lightroom and photoshop are available.
I started with Gimp, moved to Photoshop. Gimp is a good tool. Really. But there's some things for which one needs Photoshop. And I don't want to have to go back to windows for those things.
I don't know the demographics, but it's really not games that's keeping me personally on Winders. I want Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Creative Suite (not freeware "alternatives", not fiddling around with Wine but those specific applications running natively on, hell, any Linux distro) and something reasonably like the full version of Nero. Give me those working well on Linux, and I will gladly leave Windows and never look back.
If it's about content, let's port the prime content creators.
Incidentally, I've been a karate instructor since before my daughter was born. She started training in grade school, and by the time she reached high school, she was entirely comfortable with being a geek. Word got around and the bullies found others to pick on. Had my own training started earlier, it would have saved a lot of time.
Yeah, I found out in college that you don't want to correct the teacher and then prove it mathematically. He was wrong about a crucial part of power supply design, but I quickly realized I should have kept my damned mouth shut and just gotten that question "wrong". It would have done less damage.
That is a relief, seriously. Now if the Desktop version did, we might have something. I have nothing against tiles -- they may be appropriate for a touch interface, but we need to be practical here.
....AAAnd, if there existed some reasonable, light weight performance and monitoring tiles, the metro (or whatever it's called) interface may even be appropriate for servers in some cases.
No kidding. My daughter asked me about the Surface awhile back. I explained that there are two versions, and the one generally available runs Windows RT, which is on a different processor and isn't compatible with the apps she currently uses. Besides the Windows 7 slate we already have is essentially the same thing, so before we spend a bunch of money, it'd be a good idea to upgrade the slate to 8 Pro (which is surprisingly cheap to do) and see how that goes.
I asked her, why the interest? She said, "they have cool commercials".
That's the one. Anyone want to bet that will be a feature of service pack 1?
That said, I will be buying a Windows 8 Pro upgrade, but only to try to breathe life into a Windows 7 slate that is currently shelfware. Special case, not really indicative of the general public.
There used to be a joke "beware of geeks bearing gifs" but not even geeks get it anymore.
Maybe you youngsters. Get off my lawn...
Yeah, but us old pharts were the ones trying to get rid of GIFs. I remember participating in flamefests on Usenet against Unisys, and trying (unsuccessfully) to get PNGs to work on my website when they were first introduced. Man I'm old. Now I'm depressed. I'm gonna get my lawn chair, crack open a Zima and leer at the pretty joggers when they go by.
I've found that many of the recruiters aren't real either. A high percentage originate offshore, have some obscure short-term contracting job a long way from your current position and want some kind of handling fee from you. It's this century's 419 scam.
My adventure began when my company announced outsourcing a few years back. I ended up transferring to another group and staying on, but for about a year I explored all those annoying recruiter emails and cold calls. More than half of them did not sound real (for a lot of the same reasons a 419 scam doesn't sound real -- unlikely profits, terrible writing skills, difficult to understand on the phone, obviously no technical or recruiting skills) and it eventually came down to wanting a handling fee from me to process the job application. Now, maybe somewhere there are recruiters that operate this way, but my experience has been that legitimate recruiters charge the company, not the recruit. Buyer beware.
If you go back and look at the protests of the sixties, I think you will find that the entire campus didn't spontaneously revolt. It started small, and grew.
But for that to happen, a few people have to have the guts to be first.
I'm actually for this, if they incorporate a story involving Hammil, Fisher, & Ford. I feel it needs that, just as Leonard Nimoy added to the the revisioned Star Trek.
And in fact, the plot really did go exactly nowhere. There was no plan. No coherent story arc, no goal in sight, nothing except a bunch of unrelated plot points. Which is why I'd avoid anything written by him ever again.
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The admittedly bloated beast it is today has one or two features I actually use. I could give you a list if you like, but it's moot until lightroom and photoshop are available.
C'mon, you're just arguing to hear yourself. Lightroom and CS are not negotiable, but I did say "something LIKE Nero".
I started with Gimp, moved to Photoshop. Gimp is a good tool. Really. But there's some things for which one needs Photoshop. And I don't want to have to go back to windows for those things.
I don't know the demographics, but it's really not games that's keeping me personally on Winders. I want Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Creative Suite (not freeware "alternatives", not fiddling around with Wine but those specific applications running natively on, hell, any Linux distro) and something reasonably like the full version of Nero. Give me those working well on Linux, and I will gladly leave Windows and never look back.
If it's about content, let's port the prime content creators.
"[...] I could finally bare every detail of my life to strangers without fear of prying eyes"
Um.... um... where do I begin...
Incidentally, I've been a karate instructor since before my daughter was born. She started training in grade school, and by the time she reached high school, she was entirely comfortable with being a geek. Word got around and the bullies found others to pick on. Had my own training started earlier, it would have saved a lot of time.
How did you have time to lift weights? I was too busy doing homework, reading, studying, etc.
You just have to make time. Cutting out TV was a big part of it. And working out doesn't really take that long.
> Do you think that students should be required to lift weights if they don't want to be bullied? Including girls?
I think there might be a number of answers. I'm sharing what worked for me.
Mod up. Especially the part about lifting weights. The abuse trailed off my HS junior year when I got serious about working out.
Yeah, I found out in college that you don't want to correct the teacher and then prove it mathematically. He was wrong about a crucial part of power supply design, but I quickly realized I should have kept my damned mouth shut and just gotten that question "wrong". It would have done less damage.
That is a relief, seriously. Now if the Desktop version did, we might have something. I have nothing against tiles -- they may be appropriate for a touch interface, but we need to be practical here.
No kidding. My daughter asked me about the Surface awhile back. I explained that there are two versions, and the one generally available runs Windows RT, which is on a different processor and isn't compatible with the apps she currently uses. Besides the Windows 7 slate we already have is essentially the same thing, so before we spend a bunch of money, it'd be a good idea to upgrade the slate to 8 Pro (which is surprisingly cheap to do) and see how that goes.
I asked her, why the interest? She said, "they have cool commercials".
Well then.
"booting directly into the desktop"
That's the one. Anyone want to bet that will be a feature of service pack 1?
That said, I will be buying a Windows 8 Pro upgrade, but only to try to breathe life into a Windows 7 slate that is currently shelfware. Special case, not really indicative of the general public.
There used to be a joke "beware of geeks bearing gifs" but not even geeks get it anymore.
Maybe you youngsters. Get off my lawn...
Yeah, but us old pharts were the ones trying to get rid of GIFs. I remember participating in flamefests on Usenet against Unisys, and trying (unsuccessfully) to get PNGs to work on my website when they were first introduced. Man I'm old. Now I'm depressed. I'm gonna get my lawn chair, crack open a Zima and leer at the pretty joggers when they go by.
But... GIFs are so last century! There used to be a joke "beware of geeks bearing gifs" but not even geeks get it anymore.
Oxford, welcome to the nineties. You might want to check your PC clock. I think the battery died.
And now, it looks like the jobs are moving out of the country.
That turned out really well.
I've found that many of the recruiters aren't real either. A high percentage originate offshore, have some obscure short-term contracting job a long way from your current position and want some kind of handling fee from you. It's this century's 419 scam.
My adventure began when my company announced outsourcing a few years back. I ended up transferring to another group and staying on, but for about a year I explored all those annoying recruiter emails and cold calls. More than half of them did not sound real (for a lot of the same reasons a 419 scam doesn't sound real -- unlikely profits, terrible writing skills, difficult to understand on the phone, obviously no technical or recruiting skills) and it eventually came down to wanting a handling fee from me to process the job application. Now, maybe somewhere there are recruiters that operate this way, but my experience has been that legitimate recruiters charge the company, not the recruit. Buyer beware.
If you go back and look at the protests of the sixties, I think you will find that the entire campus didn't spontaneously revolt. It started small, and grew.
But for that to happen, a few people have to have the guts to be first.
Not for Disney. Touchstone, maybe.
I'm actually for this, if they incorporate a story involving Hammil, Fisher, & Ford. I feel it needs that, just as Leonard Nimoy added to the the revisioned Star Trek.
Involving but not starring. I'm with you.
Hayden in any role would be an automatic must-miss for me.
The concept of Hamil doing Luke as damaged goods would succeed in dragging me into the theater.
And in fact, the plot really did go exactly nowhere. There was no plan. No coherent story arc, no goal in sight, nothing except a bunch of unrelated plot points. Which is why I'd avoid anything written by him ever again.
Just set it 1000 years later and have a new set of characters.
> It's a a kiddie toy franchise, always has been - Disney does quite well with those.
Counter-example: Atlantis: The Lost Empire
And roughly half of their live-action films.
I can't wait!