That's precisely the point. It's _NOT_ 'just a list of applications', it's a random list of applications with a random list of other crap and the place to look for the actual application you want is far from obvious.
If the Windows 7 start menu wasn't an abomination people wouldn't be telling us 'but you just have to type the name of the program'.
And when you start typing the name of what you want to run in the search box, it still doesn't find it?
As the user a few posts above this suggested, if your solution to a crappy _graphical_ user interface is 'but you just have to type the name of the program', then you're doing something wrong.
I think a "menu" style application selection is bad. I can't count how many times I've bounced between different options 2 or 3 levels down and had to start over b/c my mouse moved a few pixels the wrong way.
So the solution to sometimes taking a few seconds to start an application from a menu is to force you to always take a few seconds to start an application by making you switch to a completely different screen where you have to scroll through a field of huge icons searching for the one you want?
just because the app was designed for Metro UI doesn't mean it will not function as normal app would
So the OP said that the benefit of pushing Metrosexual on the desktop was that developers would build apps that would run on tablets, and now you're saying that the apps will function as normal desktop apps and therefore will be useless on a tablet?
I think the Windows 7 Start Menu is a considerable improvement over XP.
I honestly don't see how. I rarely use Windows any more, but when I boot into Windows 7 on my laptop I can never find the program I want to run on the new start menu. As far as I'm concerned it's a disaster zone.
i kinda understand why Microsoft taking this stance on start menu, they need to get the Metro UI on desktop so that developers will make applications for Metro, and in turn it will help the Win8 Tablets gain massive apps in short period of time
Why would a desktop user want to run a Metrosexual app that's designed for a tablet?
That's the same reason for why people always cry about changes in Facebook or Slashdot interface. They feel homeless.
No, they just don't want to have to learn some new crap that's worse than the old crap.
Microsoft buggered up the start menu in Windows 7 and people complained, so they used that as an excuse to completely remove it and replace it with something much worse. Users don't like software changes that make their life harder for no good reason.
Yeah, because writing a cheque for a billion dollars and sending it to the government would be so much like hard work. If Buffett doesn't think he's paying enough taxes, why isn't he voluntarily handing over that money?
Actually, you're right, his behaviour would make him an ideal figurehead for the 'Occupy' movement.
Polls, at the time, showed 80% of respondents saying "yes" to "do we need healthcare reform?" So, in response to your question, EVERYBODY is who the fuck was asking for it.
1. They were asking for 'healthcare reform', not mandatory insurance. 2. Just becasue people think they need something, that doesn't mean it's a priority. I'm guessing that if you asked them to list the most important things Obama should be doing, mandatory health insurance with free condom cover wouldn't have been anywhere on the list.
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I don't understand this at all. Many people spend a large portion of their day reading the web on a CRT or LCD. But somehow when it comes to reading a book on a CRT or LCD, all of a sudden "eye strain" is a problem.
Uh, yes. How often do you go to a web page and read a 100,000 word document from beginning to end without switching to another page, looking at images, or whatever?
I was reading PDFs for research on my CRT for over 12 hours yesterday and never felt a bit of eye strain.
I would guess you're not in your 50s and don't do that every day.
Back in the real world, the 'bio age' will be another incentive to get the hell off this planet before someone wipes us out with an engineered disease. I'm sure the 'humans are a cancer' Greenists are just salivating at the thought.
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Why? It's just list of applications.
That's precisely the point. It's _NOT_ 'just a list of applications', it's a random list of applications with a random list of other crap and the place to look for the actual application you want is far from obvious.
If the Windows 7 start menu wasn't an abomination people wouldn't be telling us 'but you just have to type the name of the program'.
And when you start typing the name of what you want to run in the search box, it still doesn't find it?
As the user a few posts above this suggested, if your solution to a crappy _graphical_ user interface is 'but you just have to type the name of the program', then you're doing something wrong.
I think a "menu" style application selection is bad. I can't count how many times I've bounced between different options 2 or 3 levels down and had to start over b/c my mouse moved a few pixels the wrong way.
So the solution to sometimes taking a few seconds to start an application from a menu is to force you to always take a few seconds to start an application by making you switch to a completely different screen where you have to scroll through a field of huge icons searching for the one you want?
just because the app was designed for Metro UI doesn't mean it will not function as normal app would
So the OP said that the benefit of pushing Metrosexual on the desktop was that developers would build apps that would run on tablets, and now you're saying that the apps will function as normal desktop apps and therefore will be useless on a tablet?
I think the Windows 7 Start Menu is a considerable improvement over XP.
I honestly don't see how. I rarely use Windows any more, but when I boot into Windows 7 on my laptop I can never find the program I want to run on the new start menu. As far as I'm concerned it's a disaster zone.
i kinda understand why Microsoft taking this stance on start menu, they need to get the Metro UI on desktop so that developers will make applications for Metro, and in turn it will help the Win8 Tablets gain massive apps in short period of time
Why would a desktop user want to run a Metrosexual app that's designed for a tablet?
That's the same reason for why people always cry about changes in Facebook or Slashdot interface. They feel homeless.
No, they just don't want to have to learn some new crap that's worse than the old crap.
Microsoft buggered up the start menu in Windows 7 and people complained, so they used that as an excuse to completely remove it and replace it with something much worse. Users don't like software changes that make their life harder for no good reason.
Yeah, because writing a cheque for a billion dollars and sending it to the government would be so much like hard work. If Buffett doesn't think he's paying enough taxes, why isn't he voluntarily handing over that money?
Actually, you're right, his behaviour would make him an ideal figurehead for the 'Occupy' movement.
Polls, at the time, showed 80% of respondents saying "yes" to "do we need healthcare reform?" So, in response to your question, EVERYBODY is who the fuck was asking for it.
1. They were asking for 'healthcare reform', not mandatory insurance.
2. Just becasue people think they need something, that doesn't mean it's a priority. I'm guessing that if you asked them to list the most important things Obama should be doing, mandatory health insurance with free condom cover wouldn't have been anywhere on the list.
Just help me figure out what is actually useful.
Cut regulation, cut spending, cut taxes.
Obvious and simple, but politically impossible.
And now you're getting jobs and economic stability and mandated health care.
Weird. Last I looked 'unemployment' was going down, but so was the number of Americans with jobs.
As for 'economic stability', you'll get that when you stop increasing the national debt by more than a trillion dollars a year.
The funny part is that Obama will probably win the election anyway because the best the Republicans can find to oppose him is Bob Dole #2.
Go back to the old scanners. Try again in a few years with better tech if you actually create some.
Why would you do that when you can sell useless machines now and then sell slightly less useless machines again in a few years?
You seem to be under the impression that the scanners are supposed to achieve something other than enriching the people who make them.
In the end, all big corporations will limit how their competitors can innovate.
Only so long as it has big government to give it a monopoly.
Now that almost 50% of adults own smart phones I'm not sure we should call them smartphones anymore...
The smart people have dumb phones or no phone at all. Only the dumb people need to update Facebook every five minutes.
William Hope Hodgson's "The Night Land" deserves a read. Inspiration for Lovecraft, among others.
Agreed. It could probably be written in half as many words, but it's one of the most memorable SF/horror books I've ever read.
In the UK there's a low emissions zone around the capital that prevents the worst offenders from entering
So no more taxis, buses and diesel trains?
If you buy your music over the 'net, flac isn't an option
Guess you're not a Nine Inch Nails fan.
But they'll be in China and India.
Whenever this comes up it seems like the music industry behaves like a frightened animal in every single instance. Why doesn't it try to play it cool?
What do they have to lose? Without draconian copyright laws they'll be closing their doors in a few years.
Every time I hear that argument, I respond with "Science hasn't proven that unicorns don't exist. But that doesn't offer ANY evidence that they DO."
http://www.google.com/patents/US4429685
I thought it was going to be about 'Global Warming'.
Just part of our decent into a post-industrial dark age, where technology is magic to most folks.
So long as it's like Zardoz, I can live with that.
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I don't understand this at all. Many people spend a large portion of their day reading the web on a CRT or LCD. But somehow when it comes to reading a book on a CRT or LCD, all of a sudden "eye strain" is a problem.
Uh, yes. How often do you go to a web page and read a 100,000 word document from beginning to end without switching to another page, looking at images, or whatever?
I was reading PDFs for research on my CRT for over 12 hours yesterday and never felt a bit of eye strain.
I would guess you're not in your 50s and don't do that every day.
Back in the real world, the 'bio age' will be another incentive to get the hell off this planet before someone wipes us out with an engineered disease. I'm sure the 'humans are a cancer' Greenists are just salivating at the thought.