I knew someone would reply that they wished the IRS records would be released:)
I actually think that wouldn't be the end of the world, either - but the big difference is that the IRS doesn't kill people (and if they do, I hope a whistleblower steps up).
1. I honestly was frustrated by this yesterday, yet I just went and tried it and it is working. Not very fast, but it is working. Chalk this up to "just dumb" I guess. 2. I like the histogram, but I'm not a big fan of the files/s metric. On further investigation, this only happens when you do operations that previously gave no feedback at all except the progress bar and time remaining. This is firmly in the "just dumb" category, and I retract my criticism.
Like I said, the "guts" seem fine. I have no need for hyper-v but it sounds nice, and yes, startup seems decent. The price is right, but is mitigated somewhat by the fact that it is adware.
That said, I must defend Apple on Macs. The Macs aren't closed at all. You can run arbitrary code on them, they give you a Unix command line - they can even boot other operating systems. In fact, the MacBooks make pretty darned good Windows laptops.
I installed it on an old XP machine. Why? It was suffering from Windows rot and so I needed to re-install Windows. Installing XP seemed silly, so I went looking for a downloadable copy of 7. I found Microsofts seemingly "too good to be true" offer of $40 for 8, so I downloaded and installed it.
Yikes, what a mess. The "guts" are fine - it seems exactly like Windows 7. But the interface is going to go down as a "teachable moment" at colleges, I think. It is quite literally two completely separate GUIs crudely duct-taped together. It's a lot like running a virtualized instance of another OS on a separate screen. The one side is mostly unaware of what the other side is doing. They even have two totally separate "control panels" now.
In XP I used to run a utility that let me hit a button and start typing the name of the application I wanted to run, and then enter. Vista and 7 had this built-in when you hit the Windows key. Now, the Windows key brings up the Start Screen, and while you can still start typing, the results come up in a separate area and you need to click on them. So now I'm back to a utility that lets me quick-start applications! Full circle.
Oh, and file transfers are now counted in "files per second" rather than "megabytes per second". I certainly hope some MS engineers resigned in disgust over that little change.
So to answer your question... no, there is no reason to put Windows 8 on a desktop or laptop. And it looks to me like even a Surface would be a pain in the ass. There's no file browser on the full-screen side, so you still have to poke around in Windows Explorer with your finger. Control Panel is still necessary, since not all settings are available in the full-screen side - so you have to poke around with your finger there as well. I know that Windows has had tablet versions almost forever, but they all really needed a stylus.
That makes no sense - one of the other stories today is how a single model of Samsung is outselling any single model of iPhone. How can the 2nd place company be a monopoly? Smartphones are actually a healthy competitive marketplace.
I bought Windows 8 and stuck it on an XP computer that was suffering from Windows rot. Since re-installing Windows is a multi-night ordeal, I felt that doing it again with XP, given it's short remaining life, was silly, and MS was offering the Pro version of 8 for just $40... and I soon found out why! Ads! LOL... it may not be "controversial", but it sure was shocking. How the mighty have fallen...
Incidentally, Windows 8 has a lot of usability problems. The ads are the least of the problems. I think my wife wants to kill me for ruining "her" computer.
Properly? Wow. He released EVERYTHING, not just data that pertained to alleged abuses. It's roughly analogous to an IRS employee leaking everyone's tax returns because he suspects his boss is cheating on his taxes.
How much beer, soda pop, kitty litter, dog food, and dinner are you willing to haul 10 blocks on foot?
In NYC we had a folding "old lady cart". If I had the kids with me, I used the stroller. If the amount was too excessive or if I didn't have the cart with me, they would deliver for $5. A car was not an option, since I didn't own one!
Now I'm in the suburbs, and we have a co-op opening up about the same distance away. It will be interesting to see how I use it. For a bag or two, I'd definitely still walk - but I suspect that I'll mostly be stopping by on my way home from somewhere else, which means I'll have the car. On a nice day, I already use my bike to get groceries at the local store - but that's mostly because the parking lot is so insane there that it's faster for me to bike if it's just a few items. It also lets me bike, which is rare out here in the suburbs (but still more sane than in NYC).
Still, don't blame this guy (or his company). Blame the local politicians who did not evacuate everywhere they should have and blame the people who ignored the evacuation orders. Blame over-restrictive anti-gouging laws which remove any financial incentive to rush fuel to where it is needed.
Blaming a guy who has regular delivery of diesel when everyone is lining up for gasoline is kind of non-nonsensical, anyway. Diesel would not have helped those people.
I know I know, the sheer AUDACITY of a government that works for the people.
Well, you can't have it both ways. If it is OK for the unions to ally with elected officials to intervene in the economy, then it is OK for businesses to do the same. I object to both.
It is the job of unions to stand up for all their members, weak or strong.
Why the hell would I want to be a part of that? Protect the lazy? No, thanks.
If yours is the prevailing attitude of unions, then no wonder they are losing so many members.
And the idea that they can prevent someone genuinely incompetent from being sacked (even in "socialist" countries in the EU or wherever) is just nonsense.
It is not nonsense. Incompetent or just plain lazy people are protected by the union quite vigorously. You have to get them on a technicality, and when you do you have to be prepared for retaliation and harassment.
he just happens to employ people who aren't in a union?
He runs a tiny shop with under a dozen guys. They have never expressed any interest in being in a union. The same guys have worked at the shop for decades. It's so bad that he has to remove the identification from his trucks when he does jobs inside the city. When he's going to be doing a long-term job where the union will get wise to non-union work occurring, he just hires a union guy to stand next to the truck so that they lay off of him.
The difference is that professionals buy John Deere, whereas they don't buy Harbor Freight. You'd be nuts to buy something built like a farm tractor to mow your lawn, where a $200 crap mower from Sears will last you for years. A commercial guy would blow through that mower in a few weeks and will look for quality.
If I were to buy something like a bench grinder, I might actually buy from Harbor Freight. Sure, it would be crap, but my lifetime total grinding needs (sharpening lawn mower blades once a year, sharpening the chisel once in a while, deburring a piece of cut shelf, etc) probably amount to a week's use in a pro setting.
It's like the Colonel's 11 secret herbs and spices. If you trust the brand, it's a plus - if you think that KFC is including human remains as a "spice", it's a negative. In this case, it lets you know that there is something unique about this new Intel SSD that no other brand has. Whether that is good or bad depends purely on your feeling about Intel's level of competence in designing SSD controllers.
My wife is in healthcare. Some of the examples include:
Nurses who fabricate information that is put into the patient's chart. Orderlies who fail to clean up operating rooms, restock supplies, or refill oxygen bottles - even when told to do so. Repeatedly. For reasons that continue to astonish me, the union feels it is in their best interest to protect even workers like this.
How does management fire these people? They wait for them to come in late a few times, which is actually an offense that the union will accept as grounds for dismissal. Fortunately, lazy people at work are also lazy people at home, so you can get them fired when they inevitably show up late a bunch of times. But it can take months, and meanwhile patients are at risk of their lives and the hospital is at risk of lawsuit.
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I knew someone would reply that they wished the IRS records would be released :)
I actually think that wouldn't be the end of the world, either - but the big difference is that the IRS doesn't kill people (and if they do, I hope a whistleblower steps up).
I would except it's our only Windows machine, and every once in a blue moon you need Windows.
Nope, it's because I'm an idiot and confused the copy dialog with the empty trash, move to trash, and move files dialogs.
1. I honestly was frustrated by this yesterday, yet I just went and tried it and it is working. Not very fast, but it is working. Chalk this up to "just dumb" I guess.
2. I like the histogram, but I'm not a big fan of the files/s metric. On further investigation, this only happens when you do operations that previously gave no feedback at all except the progress bar and time remaining. This is firmly in the "just dumb" category, and I retract my criticism.
Like I said, the "guts" seem fine. I have no need for hyper-v but it sounds nice, and yes, startup seems decent. The price is right, but is mitigated somewhat by the fact that it is adware.
Two things:
1. I'm a moron, and so while items/s is a meaningless metric, it is only used when you aren't doing something where MB/s makes more sense.
2. You'll see it if you move something, not during a copy.
I got lured in by the price as well, but honestly I prefer Vista, which really isn't the worst nightmare on earth now that it's all patched up.
Good point - forgive the brain fart. It just caught my eye as a completely useless metric.
Definitely get into asbestos removal. Asbestosis won't hit for 30 years.
Try moving files to the trash, emptying the trash, or moving files to another folder.
If the software is free, where can I download it?
I, too, have traded my iPhone for an Android.
That said, I must defend Apple on Macs. The Macs aren't closed at all. You can run arbitrary code on them, they give you a Unix command line - they can even boot other operating systems. In fact, the MacBooks make pretty darned good Windows laptops.
I installed it on an old XP machine. Why? It was suffering from Windows rot and so I needed to re-install Windows. Installing XP seemed silly, so I went looking for a downloadable copy of 7. I found Microsofts seemingly "too good to be true" offer of $40 for 8, so I downloaded and installed it.
Yikes, what a mess. The "guts" are fine - it seems exactly like Windows 7. But the interface is going to go down as a "teachable moment" at colleges, I think. It is quite literally two completely separate GUIs crudely duct-taped together. It's a lot like running a virtualized instance of another OS on a separate screen. The one side is mostly unaware of what the other side is doing. They even have two totally separate "control panels" now.
In XP I used to run a utility that let me hit a button and start typing the name of the application I wanted to run, and then enter. Vista and 7 had this built-in when you hit the Windows key. Now, the Windows key brings up the Start Screen, and while you can still start typing, the results come up in a separate area and you need to click on them. So now I'm back to a utility that lets me quick-start applications! Full circle.
Oh, and file transfers are now counted in "files per second" rather than "megabytes per second". I certainly hope some MS engineers resigned in disgust over that little change.
So to answer your question... no, there is no reason to put Windows 8 on a desktop or laptop. And it looks to me like even a Surface would be a pain in the ass. There's no file browser on the full-screen side, so you still have to poke around in Windows Explorer with your finger. Control Panel is still necessary, since not all settings are available in the full-screen side - so you have to poke around with your finger there as well. I know that Windows has had tablet versions almost forever, but they all really needed a stylus.
That makes no sense - one of the other stories today is how a single model of Samsung is outselling any single model of iPhone. How can the 2nd place company be a monopoly? Smartphones are actually a healthy competitive marketplace.
On what planet does 0.003 * 1e9 = 3e8? Do you work for Verizon?
I bought Windows 8 and stuck it on an XP computer that was suffering from Windows rot. Since re-installing Windows is a multi-night ordeal, I felt that doing it again with XP, given it's short remaining life, was silly, and MS was offering the Pro version of 8 for just $40... and I soon found out why! Ads! LOL... it may not be "controversial", but it sure was shocking. How the mighty have fallen...
Incidentally, Windows 8 has a lot of usability problems. The ads are the least of the problems. I think my wife wants to kill me for ruining "her" computer.
If you ask me, this site has been going downhill ever since they dropped Latin and started posting in English.
*PROPERLY* released information about?
Properly? Wow. He released EVERYTHING, not just data that pertained to alleged abuses. It's roughly analogous to an IRS employee leaking everyone's tax returns because he suspects his boss is cheating on his taxes.
How much beer, soda pop, kitty litter, dog food, and dinner are you willing to haul 10 blocks on foot?
In NYC we had a folding "old lady cart". If I had the kids with me, I used the stroller. If the amount was too excessive or if I didn't have the cart with me, they would deliver for $5. A car was not an option, since I didn't own one!
Now I'm in the suburbs, and we have a co-op opening up about the same distance away. It will be interesting to see how I use it. For a bag or two, I'd definitely still walk - but I suspect that I'll mostly be stopping by on my way home from somewhere else, which means I'll have the car. On a nice day, I already use my bike to get groceries at the local store - but that's mostly because the parking lot is so insane there that it's faster for me to bike if it's just a few items. It also lets me bike, which is rare out here in the suburbs (but still more sane than in NYC).
Still, don't blame this guy (or his company). Blame the local politicians who did not evacuate everywhere they should have and blame the people who ignored the evacuation orders. Blame over-restrictive anti-gouging laws which remove any financial incentive to rush fuel to where it is needed.
Blaming a guy who has regular delivery of diesel when everyone is lining up for gasoline is kind of non-nonsensical, anyway. Diesel would not have helped those people.
Fuck You.
Well thought out arguments, there. You showed me!
I know I know, the sheer AUDACITY of a government that works for the people.
Well, you can't have it both ways. If it is OK for the unions to ally with elected officials to intervene in the economy, then it is OK for businesses to do the same. I object to both.
It is the job of unions to stand up for all their members, weak or strong.
Why the hell would I want to be a part of that? Protect the lazy? No, thanks.
If yours is the prevailing attitude of unions, then no wonder they are losing so many members.
And the idea that they can prevent someone genuinely incompetent from being sacked (even in "socialist" countries in the EU or wherever) is just nonsense.
It is not nonsense. Incompetent or just plain lazy people are protected by the union quite vigorously. You have to get them on a technicality, and when you do you have to be prepared for retaliation and harassment.
he just happens to employ people who aren't in a union?
He runs a tiny shop with under a dozen guys. They have never expressed any interest in being in a union. The same guys have worked at the shop for decades. It's so bad that he has to remove the identification from his trucks when he does jobs inside the city. When he's going to be doing a long-term job where the union will get wise to non-union work occurring, he just hires a union guy to stand next to the truck so that they lay off of him.
The difference is that professionals buy John Deere, whereas they don't buy Harbor Freight. You'd be nuts to buy something built like a farm tractor to mow your lawn, where a $200 crap mower from Sears will last you for years. A commercial guy would blow through that mower in a few weeks and will look for quality.
If I were to buy something like a bench grinder, I might actually buy from Harbor Freight. Sure, it would be crap, but my lifetime total grinding needs (sharpening lawn mower blades once a year, sharpening the chisel once in a while, deburring a piece of cut shelf, etc) probably amount to a week's use in a pro setting.
It's like the Colonel's 11 secret herbs and spices. If you trust the brand, it's a plus - if you think that KFC is including human remains as a "spice", it's a negative. In this case, it lets you know that there is something unique about this new Intel SSD that no other brand has. Whether that is good or bad depends purely on your feeling about Intel's level of competence in designing SSD controllers.
What objective standard?
My wife is in healthcare. Some of the examples include:
Nurses who fabricate information that is put into the patient's chart. Orderlies who fail to clean up operating rooms, restock supplies, or refill oxygen bottles - even when told to do so. Repeatedly. For reasons that continue to astonish me, the union feels it is in their best interest to protect even workers like this.
How does management fire these people? They wait for them to come in late a few times, which is actually an offense that the union will accept as grounds for dismissal. Fortunately, lazy people at work are also lazy people at home, so you can get them fired when they inevitably show up late a bunch of times. But it can take months, and meanwhile patients are at risk of their lives and the hospital is at risk of lawsuit.