Are you kidding? I still deal with at least one customer a week screaming that Win 8 is "not suitable for purpose" because, amongst other things, it has no Outlook Express.
All I need now to manage my inbox better is to not have to flip open a laptop to create a new filter whenever something comes through unlabeled on my tablet.
I never use an MS product aside from the XBox by choice, and I use OSX daily, but I think Bill Gates is a legitimately OK dude. I think if he made a return to MS, he could really turn things around for them, particularly with the lessons that Apple has taught the industry.
Also, it occurs me that such an obviously massive geek could be the antidote to the ultra-consumer tech. industry.
Reader fans can liberate their data and they've had years of free service. I know, because I am one. But if making pissy comments on a/. article makes you guys feel better, who am I to deprive you of that?
Consider this: would a company dedicated to RSS, in the way that Evernote is dedicated to notes, have been able to maintain a free service for as long?
This is pretty much how I view all markets. If microtransactions were so distasteful, there'd BE no market for them. For my part, I only buy games that I've heard good things about, and I haven't paid for any DLC in around a year, and I'm primarily a console gamer. There's plenty enough information out there that nobody can really claim to be "suckered" into buying a game that's poor quality, or half-or-more DLC.
Also, Penny Arcade writes with similar sentiments: http://penny-arcade.com/2013/03/01/microtribulations
I don't think it's necessarily an omen of man-/mouse- kind's rise to the seat of overstretched cyber-fascist galactic superpower, but certainly "not the Borg" is questionable. I think the Borg themselves would find fault with such a statement.
This happens pretty much every update cycle. The new OS is still terrible and unfamiliar and incompatible, and the old OS still has good availability. The only difference this time is that somebody wrote an article about.
For the record: I'm an OSX, Android and 360 user. I don't particularly LIKE MS, but this is not the world-shaking revelation that the article and the rest of the comments are going to make it out to be.
I sincerely hope that those concepts are truly alien to any passers-by. With luck, their best approximation of a cruel dictatorship would have wizards riding unicorns through the sky carrying banners reading "MAN I BET YOU JUST HATE YOUR FREE CHEESEBURGERS AND WEEKENDS AWAY IN VENUSIAN PLEASURE DOMES, PUNY EARTHLINGS. WHATEVER."
I love G+, I do. It's pretty, it's barebones and it doesn't try and sell my friends' pastimes to me (Hi, Facebook!) It's where I post stuff so Manageflitter can tweet it for me. Now maybe my conscious decision to drastically reduce my social graph has something to do with it, but G+ just feels very... unbusy.
That said, I get lots of discussion with "randoms" on G+ compared to Twitter.
For about 6 months, it seems. I'm an ex-PC builder/gamer that switched to Mac and Xbox, and I did it because I got sick of the constant upgrade cycles involved in keeping a gaming PC relevant.
You're really gonna blame this on Christmas? You're really trying to tell me that Instagram users WOULDN'T have otherwise taken a billion anachronistic photos of their Wii U/cheap tablet/etc. that look like they were taken in the eighties? I call boolshit.
Idiotic for driving drunk. Even more so for admitting to doing something illegal, stupid and dangerous to self, and admitting it to people who apparently have an interest in the subject's well-being.
Answer: Having to find something other than VR to talk about, and too much sci-fi. HTH.
This article makes even my mod points redundant.
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This is the most ridiculous complaint I've ever heard. Greater variety in LEGO bricks? STOP IT NOW! EVERYTHING MUST BE RED 2X4!
I grew up with LEGO and I still regularly purchase, build and play in my late 20s. The new pieces are AWESOME. So are the new colours. Pick a brick and LDD make prototyping, buying and building your own creations a snap (though you have to manually generate a parts list these days). If that ain't enough to keep LEGO fun and interesting, trade in your kid.
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I guess it's a good thing that the holodeck safeties are on, otherwise the phasers I replicated up would be FATAL to these drones.
Are you kidding? I still deal with at least one customer a week screaming that Win 8 is "not suitable for purpose" because, amongst other things, it has no Outlook Express.
All I need now to manage my inbox better is to not have to flip open a laptop to create a new filter whenever something comes through unlabeled on my tablet.
Not seen Into Darkness yet, but seriously, I have my doubts on this review. First Contact was incredible.
I never use an MS product aside from the XBox by choice, and I use OSX daily, but I think Bill Gates is a legitimately OK dude. I think if he made a return to MS, he could really turn things around for them, particularly with the lessons that Apple has taught the industry.
Also, it occurs me that such an obviously massive geek could be the antidote to the ultra-consumer tech. industry.
Reader fans can liberate their data and they've had years of free service. I know, because I am one. But if making pissy comments on a /. article makes you guys feel better, who am I to deprive you of that?
Consider this: would a company dedicated to RSS, in the way that Evernote is dedicated to notes, have been able to maintain a free service for as long?
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Top form, timothy.
The customizer has pretty serious rollover issues, IMO. But otherwise, they're very nice keyboards.
Look out, grandad! Those darned kids are on your lawn again!
This is pretty much how I view all markets. If microtransactions were so distasteful, there'd BE no market for them. For my part, I only buy games that I've heard good things about, and I haven't paid for any DLC in around a year, and I'm primarily a console gamer. There's plenty enough information out there that nobody can really claim to be "suckered" into buying a game that's poor quality, or half-or-more DLC.
Also, Penny Arcade writes with similar sentiments: http://penny-arcade.com/2013/03/01/microtribulations
I don't think it's necessarily an omen of man-/mouse- kind's rise to the seat of overstretched cyber-fascist galactic superpower, but certainly "not the Borg" is questionable. I think the Borg themselves would find fault with such a statement.
I did read the summary and wonder whether the guy is an Arthur C. Clark fan.
The follow-up mission carries a monkey. He's the pilot.
You are simply seeing a continuation of a trend that started when the original Wii release afterglow wore out.
This happens pretty much every update cycle. The new OS is still terrible and unfamiliar and incompatible, and the old OS still has good availability. The only difference this time is that somebody wrote an article about.
For the record: I'm an OSX, Android and 360 user. I don't particularly LIKE MS, but this is not the world-shaking revelation that the article and the rest of the comments are going to make it out to be.
AND SO... IT BEGINS.
I sincerely hope that those concepts are truly alien to any passers-by. With luck, their best approximation of a cruel dictatorship would have wizards riding unicorns through the sky carrying banners reading "MAN I BET YOU JUST HATE YOUR FREE CHEESEBURGERS AND WEEKENDS AWAY IN VENUSIAN PLEASURE DOMES, PUNY EARTHLINGS. WHATEVER."
I love G+, I do. It's pretty, it's barebones and it doesn't try and sell my friends' pastimes to me (Hi, Facebook!) It's where I post stuff so Manageflitter can tweet it for me. Now maybe my conscious decision to drastically reduce my social graph has something to do with it, but G+ just feels very... unbusy.
That said, I get lots of discussion with "randoms" on G+ compared to Twitter.
For about 6 months, it seems. I'm an ex-PC builder/gamer that switched to Mac and Xbox, and I did it because I got sick of the constant upgrade cycles involved in keeping a gaming PC relevant.
Aaand my mod points timed out yesterday. Curses. Parent is the comment you should all be reading.
You're really gonna blame this on Christmas? You're really trying to tell me that Instagram users WOULDN'T have otherwise taken a billion anachronistic photos of their Wii U/cheap tablet/etc. that look like they were taken in the eighties? I call boolshit.
I'd bet money that a Lamborghini has gotten SOMEONE laid.
Idiotic for driving drunk. Even more so for admitting to doing something illegal, stupid and dangerous to self, and admitting it to people who apparently have an interest in the subject's well-being.
(Not) Looking forward to reading Cory Doctorow's summary of this on boingboing.
Answer: Having to find something other than VR to talk about, and too much sci-fi. HTH.
This is the most ridiculous complaint I've ever heard. Greater variety in LEGO bricks? STOP IT NOW! EVERYTHING MUST BE RED 2X4!
I grew up with LEGO and I still regularly purchase, build and play in my late 20s. The new pieces are AWESOME. So are the new colours. Pick a brick and LDD make prototyping, buying and building your own creations a snap (though you have to manually generate a parts list these days). If that ain't enough to keep LEGO fun and interesting, trade in your kid.
Didn't RTFA because WTF.