It is an obvious sign that there are total idiot morons calling for these designs at MS.
It makes absolutely no sense to drastically over-engineer and distort a user interface when the vast majority of users successfully use the simple XP/7 Start interface; which work fine for the masses.
Why not offer options for interfaces. And, KEEP IT SIMPLE!!!
To repeatedly ignore feedback for the disasters (Vista, Millenium, 8.x, and now 10) is like fulfilling the adage:
"To repeat the same actions time after time and expect a different outcome is a definition of stupidity."
(BTW: Einstein did not coin this adage; yet, it is as beautifully simple and elegant a truth as his many other discoveries!)
I acknowledge and generally agree with you here. Still, my point about better educated citizens seems pertinent.
"While the constitution does (guarantee) this right, his/her identity was never intended to be unknown."
I'm sure that the American revolutionaries were doing their best to remain anonymous while circulating pamphlets & putting up posters promoting their cause. Why? Because they knew that they would be punished for spreading those ideas. The Constitution was written so that people wouldn't feel the need to speak anonymously, because there would be no punishment.
Revolutionary pamphlets and posters needed to be anonymous during the revolution. Once sovereign, our Constitution kicks in and protects fellow citizens.
"Slanderous content must be punished. Non-slanderous content should not matter." In the USA, "slander" almost always involves someone making false statements.
And that content needs to be identified and debunked, and the culprit exposed.
You're right, other content should not matter, but it does matter. In the contemporary USA, you can be subjected to physical violence or other forms of reprisal for your speech even if nothing you said is false. Having a First Amendment that prohibits government from infringing on your speech is a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, there are now gangs of people who have appointed themselves as the thought police. They will use every conceivable means to attack anyone who dares express thoughts which run contrary to their politically correct world view.
Agreed. This is unfortunate terrorism, and actually infringes on the Constitution, and needs to be enforced.
This is, I believe, primarily due to a lack of proper education - in history, sociology, politics, and government.
There seems to be a lack of understanding of the intent of our Constitution in avoiding history's mistakes.
"...the ability to accurately identify the poster seems appropriate. Let the posting entity beware!"
The fact that we have to "beware!" when stating facts and expressing personal opinions simply because they are unpopular is precisely why anonymous speech must be protected.
I am unsure about that. What if I were to anonymously state a falsehood that could be injurious?
I get the need to be protected if you have accurate facts, yet false facts/rumors are harmful.
What if spreading false info were potentially punishable? Would you then double-check your info before spreading it?
White-washing something as "alternative facts" is just smoke in the issue. A fact is a fact. Anything contrary is NOT a fact.
Unfortunately, as you have appropriately stated, there are those that abuse the freedom of speech to unduly sway the lazy, poorly educated fellow citizen.
This is a freedom of speech thing. I find the post mildly humorous, yet silly. Yet, I get the message.
The poster has the right to post any non-slanderous content desired.
While the constitution does (guarantee) this right, his/her identity was never intended to be unknown.
Back when the constitution was written, true honesty and pride ruled society.
Things have changed in today's technologically armed society; and laws need to catch-up.
(There are lots of ignorant, uneducated, immature citizens out there; thanks to 800-pound gorilla twisted capitalistic corporations. And I digress from there.)
Slanderous content must be punished. Non-slanderous content should not matter. Educated citizens can see through crap.
In either case, the ability to accurately identify the poster seems appropriate.
Let the posting entity beware!
Of greater importance, the obvious point of the post does, in fact, point to a supremely important topic: corrupt leaders!
Trump is getting away with way too much crap. We need to step up and expose the crimes and make the fixes - as a nation!
He's already been granted it, and has been using it just fine for decades.
I'll bet it is just another totally incompetent middle manager that saw this and went anal over it!
This just more proof if an idiotic, uneducated pool of humans! Get off your high horse, bozo!
I think the "union" thing is mis-information.
It is the US Education system LEADERS - like Ms Voss, and Mr Trump - all puppets of corporations - that are contributing to the mis-education of our kids.
(Corporations need shallow-thinking bodies to maintain their control over (us).)
Consider the the stupidity of the general public here in the US - e.g. look how many people voted for Trump!
And look how many did NOT vote for Sanders, who has education as a top topic on his platform!
IF more of the general public had a useful education, they would have done due diligence in researching EVERY candidates' plans,
and would have seen that Sanders' plans do, in fact, make the best sense.
Way too many voting Americans are way too lazy to do their part here.
Their shallow thinking has them stopping at the first candidate showing signs (misleading or not) that there is an entitlement coming from a vote for them.
Yelling "FIRE" in a movie theater would indeed incite a potentially harmful incident.
Yet, would yelling "TERRORIST" at a Trump rally carry the same weight?
Now to undo prior bad rulings, like the Redskins logo ban, and the removal of Confederate monuments.
I don't condone racism/slavery, yet it seems to me that all those targeted-for-removal Confederate monuments need to remain.
They are not monuments to slavery per se, rather monuments to the people that fought for their country.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, et al..., all had slaves.
I don't see any effort to censor monuments for these peoples, nor would I want to see that.
We ALL need to recognize and remember these folks, and their TRUE character; no matter the degree of their character.
And, we all need to recognize logos as NOT being statements in disrespectful disregard.
It is arrogant and offensive - and unconstitutional - to go about arbitrarily choosing something to ban.
Sex is very close to the last thing on one's mind during anaphylactic shock.
Murder, on the other hand, is much closer to the top of the mind - especially if you could not afford the remedy because it is priced over 30 times cost!
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Hack our elections, will you?!
Well, take this - fidget spinners!
When will Trump realize his damage and incompetence, and resign himself?!
Would the weight of the Labrador help solve the mysteries of the universe?
Well, if a self-driving car hits and kills me, I'll never speak to you again!
(Unless it's my fault.)
Does anyone know how Android fares on this topic?
I find that my Android smartphone gets regular Google crap popups - which are very annoying.
And I cannot determine the best way to disable this crap!
I couldn't agree more!
It is an obvious sign that there are total idiot morons calling for these designs at MS.
It makes absolutely no sense to drastically over-engineer and distort a user interface when the vast majority of users successfully use the simple XP/7 Start interface; which work fine for the masses.
Why not offer options for interfaces. And, KEEP IT SIMPLE!!!
To repeatedly ignore feedback for the disasters (Vista, Millenium, 8.x, and now 10) is like fulfilling the adage:
"To repeat the same actions time after time and expect a different outcome is a definition of stupidity."
(BTW: Einstein did not coin this adage; yet, it is as beautifully simple and elegant a truth as his many other discoveries!)
Is that 1 cubic mile? How big are the batteries?
Do you care to site where this can be verified?
Just another attempt to steal income from unsuspecting open source users.
Capitalism at it's WORST!
"While the constitution does (guarantee) this right, his/her identity was never intended to be unknown."
I'm sure that the American revolutionaries were doing their best to remain anonymous while circulating pamphlets & putting up posters promoting their cause. Why? Because they knew that they would be punished for spreading those ideas. The Constitution was written so that people wouldn't feel the need to speak anonymously, because there would be no punishment.
Revolutionary pamphlets and posters needed to be anonymous during the revolution. Once sovereign, our Constitution kicks in and protects fellow citizens.
"Slanderous content must be punished. Non-slanderous content should not matter."
In the USA, "slander" almost always involves someone making false statements.
And that content needs to be identified and debunked, and the culprit exposed.
You're right, other content should not matter, but it does matter. In the contemporary USA, you can be subjected to physical violence or other forms of reprisal for your speech even if nothing you said is false. Having a First Amendment that prohibits government from infringing on your speech is a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, there are now gangs of people who have appointed themselves as the thought police. They will use every conceivable means to attack anyone who dares express thoughts which run contrary to their politically correct world view.
Agreed. This is unfortunate terrorism, and actually infringes on the Constitution, and needs to be enforced.
This is, I believe, primarily due to a lack of proper education - in history, sociology, politics, and government.
There seems to be a lack of understanding of the intent of our Constitution in avoiding history's mistakes.
"...the ability to accurately identify the poster seems appropriate. Let the posting entity beware!"
The fact that we have to "beware!" when stating facts and expressing personal opinions simply because they are unpopular is precisely why anonymous speech must be protected.
I am unsure about that. What if I were to anonymously state a falsehood that could be injurious?
I get the need to be protected if you have accurate facts, yet false facts/rumors are harmful.
What if spreading false info were potentially punishable? Would you then double-check your info before spreading it?
White-washing something as "alternative facts" is just smoke in the issue. A fact is a fact. Anything contrary is NOT a fact.
Unfortunately, as you have appropriately stated, there are those that abuse the freedom of speech to unduly sway the lazy, poorly educated fellow citizen.
This is a freedom of speech thing. I find the post mildly humorous, yet silly. Yet, I get the message.
The poster has the right to post any non-slanderous content desired.
While the constitution does (guarantee) this right, his/her identity was never intended to be unknown.
Back when the constitution was written, true honesty and pride ruled society.
Things have changed in today's technologically armed society; and laws need to catch-up.
(There are lots of ignorant, uneducated, immature citizens out there;
thanks to 800-pound gorilla twisted capitalistic corporations.
And I digress from there.)
Slanderous content must be punished. Non-slanderous content should not matter. Educated citizens can see through crap.
In either case, the ability to accurately identify the poster seems appropriate.
Let the posting entity beware!
Of greater importance, the obvious point of the post does, in fact, point to a supremely important topic: corrupt leaders!
Trump is getting away with way too much crap. We need to step up and expose the crimes and make the fixes - as a nation!
MS targets declined by 13%, yet total threats still went up.
Implications are that MS targets did, in fact, go up, too, yet, not as much.
10% of 20,000,000 is a much larger number than 10% of 200,000!
Does anyone get a sense of the real affect of targeted percentages?
I know my android phone suddenly gets very sluggish lately. And I do not use it for secure personal stuff.
This is pure bullshit!
He's already been granted it, and has been using it just fine for decades.
I'll bet it is just another totally incompetent middle manager that saw this and went anal over it!
This just more proof if an idiotic, uneducated pool of humans! Get off your high horse, bozo!
I think the "union" thing is mis-information.
It is the US Education system LEADERS - like Ms Voss, and Mr Trump - all puppets of corporations - that are contributing to the mis-education of our kids.
(Corporations need shallow-thinking bodies to maintain their control over (us).)
Consider the the stupidity of the general public here in the US - e.g. look how many people voted for Trump!
And look how many did NOT vote for Sanders, who has education as a top topic on his platform!
IF more of the general public had a useful education, they would have done due diligence in researching EVERY candidates' plans,
and would have seen that Sanders' plans do, in fact, make the best sense.
Way too many voting Americans are way too lazy to do their part here.
Their shallow thinking has them stopping at the first candidate showing signs (misleading or not) that there is an entitlement coming from a vote for them.
Agreed. Sort-of.
Yelling "FIRE" in a movie theater would indeed incite a potentially harmful incident.
Yet, would yelling "TERRORIST" at a Trump rally carry the same weight?
Give us a break!
WTF?!?!?!
We are seeing global governments migrate towards a "1984" "Big Brother" state!
We, the people, need to be sure that this does not happen.
And, we all know that it is corporations that are behind all of this!
I would tend to agree with this.
Yet, not all parents take responsibility like you apparently do.
I am, however, pro-education on living with contemporary technology and contemporary society - even for parents.
How does one define "poor" in this area?
Salaries of under $120K?
Looks to me like they got this one right.
..., all had slaves.
Now to undo prior bad rulings, like the Redskins logo ban, and the removal of Confederate monuments.
I don't condone racism/slavery, yet it seems to me that all those targeted-for-removal Confederate monuments need to remain.
They are not monuments to slavery per se, rather monuments to the people that fought for their country.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, et al
I don't see any effort to censor monuments for these peoples, nor would I want to see that.
We ALL need to recognize and remember these folks, and their TRUE character; no matter the degree of their character.
And, we all need to recognize logos as NOT being statements in disrespectful disregard.
It is arrogant and offensive - and unconstitutional - to go about arbitrarily choosing something to ban.
GROW UP! Get a real education!
Star Trek has always been about societal issues.
Sex is very close to the last thing on one's mind during anaphylactic shock.
Murder, on the other hand, is much closer to the top of the mind - especially if you could not afford the remedy because it is priced over 30 times cost!
Seems to me that "trickle down" tax structure has failed EVERY attempt.
Stockholder get those rewards.Corporations abuse the extra profits.
Don't take my word for it. Have a good, hard look at the last 20-30 years of the economy.
Wish I did not waste my time reading this silliness!
I seriously doubt any correlation between salary and whether one uses spaces or tabs to indent!
For what it is worth, I have my editor pad with spaces when I hit tab.
That way, I can indent with spaces, yet use the tab key.
Can I now get a raise in salary?!
They are SALARIED, not HOURLY! SPACES per hour do not matter!
Yet, that is mildly humorous!
Hindsight is usually 20/20.