I use Hyper-V at work since I need to have a bunch of Windows VMs around. It's pretty nice. But I tried installing linux, either Fedora or Ubuntu, and it bombed out. Plus it ties you to Windows.
Since the poster mentioned possibly moving to a linux host in the future, and also mentioned wanting to run linux VMs, I'd rule Hyper-V right out of consideration.
I'd go with VirtualBox just on cost alone. If that doesn't suit your (poster's) needs, then you can shell out some money for VMWare. Xen is not the way to go for beginners. For that I'd buy the "Art of Xen" book and come back to it later.
Uh, we're also at the same levels were were in March of 2010 and March of 2011. Mind explaining why he wasn't ousted then?
Not getting canned in 2010/2011 probably has more to do with Ballmer selling the upside to Win8, Surface, Microsoft entering the hardware market, changing phone strategy, you know, his "vision" for where the company would go in the upcoming year or two.
That future is now here. Win8 is released. Partnership with Nokia for Win8 Phone are cemented. Surface is out. This holiday season is going to see some retail activity and I doubt people are going to buy another "we just need 3+ more years to retool" sort of plea.
I think this is kinda cool, the creative/useful apps people make that use the power of the modern smartphone - accelerometers, GPS. Geez, just think that 20+ years ago the idea of having a small computer along to measure/record driving data, and then graph information, would have been a dream, stuff only for F1 racers with huge bucks. But no... most the reactions are legal piling on.
This country is messed up... most people can legally own guns (and the manufacturer of said guns have no liability for a person's actions, say they shoot their coworkers at a chicken processing plant), but an app writer that writes a data recording/visualization app has to deal with legal threats (when a careless user harms themself).
Now, onto the H1-B thing: I do believe it is used to drive down wages.
Sure, that's one side effect, but then other questions come up.
Such as, who do you vent your anger at, the person here on that visa (what you seem to be doing), or the corporation issuing the visa request? The corporation that apparently can't find citizens to do the work (bullshit of the highest degree; they just aren't looking hard enough or want to use free market supply flooding to lower costs).
I'm exempting the gov't for any blame for this, because having an immigration policy at all is healthy. People have always been able to come here, I don't see cutting that off as good.
With all due respect, you seem like xenophobic GOP dumf*ck that places ALL the blame on immigrants, and places NONE on corporations and their hiring policies. The cognitive dissonance is shocking: if a corporation takes legal advantage of something, that's smart business. If a PERSON takes legal advantage of something (say... gets a job to make a living), they are a parasitic leech.
Fuck the GOP and other idiots that think like this. They are the butthole of politics.
How about this: imagine a text editor released under both GPL and BSD.
Developer A takes the GPL version, extends it, makes it nicer, etc. but the new file format isn't fully compatible with the original. Developer B takes the BSD version, extends it, makes it nicer, etc. but the new file format isn't fully compatible with the original.
Which version is the USER better off with, if they need to extract their data in a format they can take somewhere else? The one where the source code changes are available, or the one where they aren't?
I knew the man was dead in the water before the primary even ended, when he did his "I'm a normal guy!" speech when he talked about having to go through late HS and early college with "a truly ugly car" and someone said "Uhhh...that "ugly car" was a BRAND NEW LUXURY CAR that rolled straight out of daddy's plant and into your garage Mittens" and that was when I knew this guy was DOA, when even his "I'm normal!" story ends up involving luxury cars handed out by daddy? Yeah they were fucked, the LAST thing you run in a bad economy is a Grey Puopon spoiled little rich kid.
I first thought he was doomed when Ann Romney talked about how poor they were as students, having to live off their investment income. WTF?! yeah, drawing enough interest off your investments to LIVE is being poor. STFU, they have no way to understand the difficulties 99% of the citizens have having to juggle an actual family budget.
1) The debt is largely due to Bush tax-cuts, which the republican house won't consider undoing 2) The deficit has decreased every year of Obama's presidency. yes it has, look it up and deal with the a fact-based reality 3) Predicting the future is hard to do.... what do you think Romney would have done BETTER? He basically advocated the same fiscal policy as Bush 43, that's the one that got us in this mess.
I don't support the next generation getting the free ride, particularly for students who are the most likely to have no trouble paying their loans back! This is silly popularism striking again.
The only solution I see that satisfies this belief, is a two-fold change:
1) Gov't backs loans up to different amounts based on the undergrad degree or area of study. Just pulling some numbers out of the air, say you major in liberal arts, max student loan is $40K. major in STEM, max student loan in $60K. major in something that feeds into business/law/medicine, max student loan is $80K. Grad degrees will work similarly.
People will moan and groan, but the bottom line is corporations already set the value of various degrees - it's called the average starting salaries they pay. If students on permanently on-hook for their loans (can't be shed in bankruptcy proceedings, etc.) then the natural response is to limit the loan amount based on the field of study.
2) Universities will also moan and groan, but fundamentally they aren't pricing their products fairly. Not throwing liberal arts under the bus, but every college I've heard of charges the same per credit hour, no matter what the class. Yes there are different fees for private vs public, in-state vs out-of-state, but a 3 credit history class costs the same as a 3 credit science class. Ergo, a natural change, reflecting the actual value on the degree (which is again as stated in #1, what corporations actually pay for holders of those degrees), is to charge different amount for courses. Pulling numbers out of the air again, liberal arts classes will cost $500 per credit hour, stem classes cost $800 per credit hour, whatever it works out to.
As for your attitude towards the next generation - honestly ask if your attitude scales up to serve the entire nation.
For software developers to unionize, it would take a combination of several things:
1) An enormous rise in the population of developers in lower cost of living countries than the U.S.
Imagine that India and China produce software engineers at the same rate as the U.S. That means over time, there will eventually be 6 times as many software developers in India and China compared to the U.S.
2) Offshoring jobs becomes more and more popular with U.S. corporations due to legal changes (aggressive corporate lobbying to allow more non-citizen hiring, to rollback various other restrictions), infrastructure improvements especially networking and power related, etc.
Corporate America would flip out when they have access to X U.S. developers and 6X India+China developers.
The combination of these two factors would create massive downward pressure on salaries - simple supply and demand. Over time, salaries freefall and U.S. developers flee the professions. At that point, the remaining U.S. software developers unionize to attempt to protect their profession.
And yeah, that means you, the rock-star programmer reading this. I get it, you're so awesome you create your own salary physics in your local vicinity. Excellent for you. The reality is most developers, including most who *think* they are awesome rock-star programmers, honestly aren't (they may be good but not orders of magnitude better than average) and face outsourcing/outshoring and so on. When corporations have the ability to literally employ 5-10 people to your one lone awesome self, all except the Linus Torvaldses of the software development world are gone.
That's what it'll take to unionize. Even the right-wingiest free-marketiest anarcho-capitalistic Randian liberterian zealot would unionize. They'd be force to choose between swallowing their anti-union rhetoric, leaving the profession, barely ekeing out a living in a job considered blue-collar along with a newly revised lower salary scale, or leaving the U.S. and punting all the rights they wouldn't have a prayer of retaining elsewhere.
I'd laugh my ass off if your neighbor has something you need, say electric generator, fuel, <insert whatever it is that you might also have in which case they have MORE>, and you need their help, and they turn around and use your logic on you.
Exchanging your control of the device for having every piece of information scanned, categorized, and resold by Google would be reason enough for someone to buy a Win RT tablet.
So Microsoft has stated they will guarantee full privacy of your info that is stored in SkyDrive?
If your going to pull the "grass isn't always greener" argument, then Microsoft still loses, as their device is more expensive, will everything else (their treatment of your data) the same.
If you will make us one and guarantee us exclusivity for a period of time, we will guarantee a large minimum order."
I don't think you can dismiss this so casually... ponying up money to make it happen was a risk Apple was willing to do, and I'm sure there were some other cash transfers to assist with the R&D costs associated with developing this display tech.
If it were that easy and such a no-brainer, then I guess ALL other notebook manufacturer are lazy and incompetent?
Except there is NOWHERE for my money to go. I can't vote with my wallet, because every vendor makes the exact same fucking thing, without the slightest variation. This a total failure of the free market.
Uh... this isn't a failure of the free market, this is more that the free market doesn't find serving your demands to be worthwhile. Sorry.
Next, the operating system vendors need to get their heads out of their asses and finish implementing proper multi-resolution support instead of the half-assed job they've been getting away with for decades because of the persistent assumption that higher-resolution = bigger-surface-area!
This isn't just an OS problem, it's the apps that don't always handle multi-resolution support as well. It's easy for the OS to change, but when the apps look like crap or are unusable, reality sets in.
Is it ok to use parabolic microphones during this covert surveillance conducted without a warrant?
If so, is it ok to use advanced signal processing technology to covertly and without a warrant see as well as listen through the walls of a home that has EM emanating from a wifi router in the house?
If so, is it ok to use EM emanating from the police car radio, incidental to routine police communications to covertly and without a warrant see as well as listen through the walls of a home?
If so, is it ok to deliberately project EM from the police car --- say in the form of a simple flashlight -- onto the private property to get a better look?
Am I now, by asking these questions, suspect?
That depends on how well you can argue all the above is "reasonable".
I remember reading somewhere about a system that does away with the concept of "files" entirely, and the whole coding process is based around smart navigation - what's on your screen could be pulled from many different locations at once without you having to know where from - shame I can't recall where I read that exactly.
This would be a matter of Civil liability. I don't know any Libertarian that is against that. The people who built it can and would be sued into oblivion for negligence, provided it really was negligence determined by a jury of our peers. It would not be in any individual or companies interests to knowing build and operate faulty equipment of such a type.
Now that is an idealist's view, just sue to cover damages. But in the real world, lawsuits take years, and corporations never admit or assume responsibility. Sued into oblivion? Won't matter, corps will just create small subsidies or contract all work out to some shell corp with slightly more assets than needed, so they can be sued and folded to protect the parent.
Both things which libertarianism abolishes, but current government supports in spades.
libertarians abolish what exactly - illegal activities, greed, corruption, the reality that some people/organizations will screw you over for their benefit, and not care at all what you say?
Those who support government are childish and dangerous, if not naive. Your beliefs are based on the doctrine of "Power doesn't corrupt".
They try to fill a niche where your smartphone isn't large enough for what you need, but your laptop isn't portable enough.
How about ebook readers?
There is almost none of that in a normal person's life. I've yet to meet someone that has dumped their smartphone or computer for their tablet and as such they really don't need it.
I have two of these kinds of people in my family.
And no, they don't live with me so they aren't utilizing my other computers. I know many others that get by with just a netbook, since all they really do is social media, websites, and email.
I think Slashdot (in general) is seriously out of touch with the usage patterns and needs for the AVERAGE person.
Tablets are going to fade away as the fad passes.
I keep hearing this and what comes to mind is some old fart defending mainframes against PCs.. PCs are just a fad, I haven't met any company that dumped their mainframe for PCs, PCs will fade, etc. They just couldn't wrap their mind around a device that gets more and more useful as new generations release.
Are you happy on Win7? Good for you; if you are on Win7 & have no other devices or intention of sharing data on anything but your trusty desktop, then frankly the benefits of Win8 are lesser.. There's a new & vastly improved task manager; Win8 is faster in almost all metrics, and there are some nice desktop GUI enhancements that you'd likely appreciate, however the face of IT is changing to one where it will be rare to have just the one computer, and Windows 8 has that front & center of the design.
I'm happy on Win7, but have run Win8 for a few months at work (yeah, I'm one of those lucky people). I find Win8 absolutely fine when I stick to desktop/classic mode, which is most of my usage.
The downside is the integration and work flow between Metro and Desktop is god awful. I'd explain but I see Ars Technica already did a better job that I can. Read their review under the "Mixed Mayhem" header (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/windows-reimagined-a-review-of-windows-8/5/). I find it a nightmare and confusing; I think the general public will we have a really tough time trying to do simple things like view pictures, save files, and find them again, when it all changes arbitrarily based one what app and which mode you are operating in.
I've got some money saved up for an upgrade to my Win7 notebook, and I think my best way to spend it is on an SSD rather than Win8.
Don't just hang out with people like you. It will help a lot.
This is absolutely correct. Especially in a college setting, get out there and try some different clubs or sports. Yes, sports - try for an intramural team, or dorm-level rec league, anything. I forced myself into running and volleyball and it was worth the effort.
Spending all your time with other computer science types leads to tunnel vision. Slashdot has this problem, call it the "tablet effect" whereby posters dominantly pooh-pooh tablet computers, because they don't see the use for them. Yet Apple and Google are selling millions of these things, clearly somebody is finding them useful (or the industry is under mass hypnosis, another BS excuse).
Maybe Gore should have won his own state, thus rendering Florida and any alleged shenanigans there irrelevant. If you can't convince the voters who know you best to send you to the White House.....
In 2000, TN electoral votes: 11, FL electoral votes: 25.
Yeah, I totally see how TN would have overshadowed FL voting shenanigans.
If that's what the law states, then I'm glad the Texas AG is doing his job and upholding it since that the law that the democratically elected legislature passed.
What a great concept, upholding laws passed by democratically elected legislatures. Maybe republicans will apply that to other issues like the Affordable Care Act, or abortion...
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I use Hyper-V at work since I need to have a bunch of Windows VMs around. It's pretty nice. But I tried installing linux, either Fedora or Ubuntu, and it bombed out. Plus it ties you to Windows.
Since the poster mentioned possibly moving to a linux host in the future, and also mentioned wanting to run linux VMs, I'd rule Hyper-V right out of consideration.
I'd go with VirtualBox just on cost alone. If that doesn't suit your (poster's) needs, then you can shell out some money for VMWare.
Xen is not the way to go for beginners. For that I'd buy the "Art of Xen" book and come back to it later.
Uh, we're also at the same levels were were in March of 2010 and March of 2011. Mind explaining why he wasn't ousted then?
Not getting canned in 2010/2011 probably has more to do with Ballmer selling the upside to Win8, Surface, Microsoft entering the hardware market, changing phone strategy, you know, his "vision" for where the company would go in the upcoming year or two.
That future is now here. Win8 is released. Partnership with Nokia for Win8 Phone are cemented. Surface is out. This holiday season is going to see some retail activity and I doubt people are going to buy another "we just need 3+ more years to retool" sort of plea.
I think this is kinda cool, the creative/useful apps people make that use the power of the modern smartphone - accelerometers, GPS. Geez, just think that 20+ years ago the idea of having a small computer along to measure/record driving data, and then graph information, would have been a dream, stuff only for F1 racers with huge bucks. But no... most the reactions are legal piling on.
This country is messed up... most people can legally own guns (and the manufacturer of said guns have no liability for a person's actions, say they shoot their coworkers at a chicken processing plant), but an app writer that writes a data recording/visualization app has to deal with legal threats (when a careless user harms themself).
Now, onto the H1-B thing: I do believe it is used to drive down wages.
Sure, that's one side effect, but then other questions come up.
Such as, who do you vent your anger at, the person here on that visa (what you seem to be doing), or the corporation issuing the visa request? The corporation that apparently can't find citizens to do the work (bullshit of the highest degree; they just aren't looking hard enough or want to use free market supply flooding to lower costs).
I'm exempting the gov't for any blame for this, because having an immigration policy at all is healthy. People have always been able to come here, I don't see cutting that off as good.
With all due respect, you seem like xenophobic GOP dumf*ck that places ALL the blame on immigrants, and places NONE on corporations and their hiring policies. The cognitive dissonance is shocking: if a corporation takes legal advantage of something, that's smart business. If a PERSON takes legal advantage of something (say... gets a job to make a living), they are a parasitic leech.
Fuck the GOP and other idiots that think like this. They are the butthole of politics.
How about this: imagine a text editor released under both GPL and BSD.
Developer A takes the GPL version, extends it, makes it nicer, etc. but the new file format isn't fully compatible with the original.
Developer B takes the BSD version, extends it, makes it nicer, etc. but the new file format isn't fully compatible with the original.
Which version is the USER better off with, if they need to extract their data in a format they can take somewhere else? The one where the source code changes are available, or the one where they aren't?
I knew the man was dead in the water before the primary even ended, when he did his "I'm a normal guy!" speech when he talked about having to go through late HS and early college with "a truly ugly car" and someone said "Uhhh...that "ugly car" was a BRAND NEW LUXURY CAR that rolled straight out of daddy's plant and into your garage Mittens" and that was when I knew this guy was DOA, when even his "I'm normal!" story ends up involving luxury cars handed out by daddy? Yeah they were fucked, the LAST thing you run in a bad economy is a Grey Puopon spoiled little rich kid.
I first thought he was doomed when Ann Romney talked about how poor they were as students, having to live off their investment income. WTF?! yeah, drawing enough interest off your investments to LIVE is being poor. STFU, they have no way to understand the difficulties 99% of the citizens have having to juggle an actual family budget.
I realize the dumbfuck is strong with you, but
1) The debt is largely due to Bush tax-cuts, which the republican house won't consider undoing
2) The deficit has decreased every year of Obama's presidency. yes it has, look it up and deal with the a fact-based reality
3) Predicting the future is hard to do.... what do you think Romney would have done BETTER? He basically advocated the same fiscal policy as Bush 43, that's the one that got us in this mess.
I don't support the next generation getting the free ride, particularly for students who are the most likely to have no trouble paying their loans back! This is silly popularism striking again.
The only solution I see that satisfies this belief, is a two-fold change:
1) Gov't backs loans up to different amounts based on the undergrad degree or area of study. Just pulling some numbers out of the air, say you major in liberal arts, max student loan is $40K. major in STEM, max student loan in $60K. major in something that feeds into business/law/medicine, max student loan is $80K. Grad degrees will work similarly.
People will moan and groan, but the bottom line is corporations already set the value of various degrees - it's called the average starting salaries they pay. If students on permanently on-hook for their loans (can't be shed in bankruptcy proceedings, etc.) then the natural response is to limit the loan amount based on the field of study.
2) Universities will also moan and groan, but fundamentally they aren't pricing their products fairly. Not throwing liberal arts under the bus, but every college I've heard of charges the same per credit hour, no matter what the class. Yes there are different fees for private vs public, in-state vs out-of-state, but a 3 credit history class costs the same as a 3 credit science class. Ergo, a natural change, reflecting the actual value on the degree (which is again as stated in #1, what corporations actually pay for holders of those degrees), is to charge different amount for courses. Pulling numbers out of the air again, liberal arts classes will cost $500 per credit hour, stem classes cost $800 per credit hour, whatever it works out to.
As for your attitude towards the next generation - honestly ask if your attitude scales up to serve the entire nation.
For software developers to unionize, it would take a combination of several things:
1) An enormous rise in the population of developers in lower cost of living countries than the U.S.
Imagine that India and China produce software engineers at the same rate as the U.S. That means over time, there will eventually be 6 times as many software developers in India and China compared to the U.S.
2) Offshoring jobs becomes more and more popular with U.S. corporations due to legal changes (aggressive corporate lobbying to allow more non-citizen hiring, to rollback various other restrictions), infrastructure improvements especially networking and power related, etc.
Corporate America would flip out when they have access to X U.S. developers and 6X India+China developers.
The combination of these two factors would create massive downward pressure on salaries - simple supply and demand. Over time, salaries freefall and U.S. developers flee the professions. At that point, the remaining U.S. software developers unionize to attempt to protect their profession.
And yeah, that means you, the rock-star programmer reading this. I get it, you're so awesome you create your own salary physics in your local vicinity. Excellent for you. The reality is most developers, including most who *think* they are awesome rock-star programmers, honestly aren't (they may be good but not orders of magnitude better than average) and face outsourcing/outshoring and so on. When corporations have the ability to literally employ 5-10 people to your one lone awesome self, all except the Linus Torvaldses of the software development world are gone.
That's what it'll take to unionize. Even the right-wingiest free-marketiest anarcho-capitalistic Randian liberterian zealot would unionize. They'd be force to choose between swallowing their anti-union rhetoric, leaving the profession, barely ekeing out a living in a job considered blue-collar along with a newly revised lower salary scale, or leaving the U.S. and punting all the rights they wouldn't have a prayer of retaining elsewhere.
I'd laugh my ass off if your neighbor has something you need, say electric generator, fuel, <insert whatever it is that you might also have in which case they have MORE>, and you need their help, and they turn around and use your logic on you.
That would be sweet indeed.
Exchanging your control of the device for having every piece of information scanned, categorized, and resold by Google would be reason enough for someone to buy a Win RT tablet.
So Microsoft has stated they will guarantee full privacy of your info that is stored in SkyDrive?
If your going to pull the "grass isn't always greener" argument, then Microsoft still loses, as their device is more expensive, will everything else (their treatment of your data) the same.
Sounds like the hardware support issues Linux has faced from the beginning, and somehow it happened.
If you will make us one and guarantee us exclusivity for a period of time, we will guarantee a large minimum order."
I don't think you can dismiss this so casually... ponying up money to make it happen was a risk Apple was willing to do, and I'm sure there were some other cash transfers to assist with the R&D costs associated with developing this display tech.
If it were that easy and such a no-brainer, then I guess ALL other notebook manufacturer are lazy and incompetent?
Except there is NOWHERE for my money to go. I can't vote with my wallet, because every vendor makes the exact same fucking thing, without the slightest variation. This a total failure of the free market.
Uh... this isn't a failure of the free market, this is more that the free market doesn't find serving your demands to be worthwhile. Sorry.
Next, the operating system vendors need to get their heads out of their asses and finish implementing proper multi-resolution support instead of the half-assed job they've been getting away with for decades because of the persistent assumption that higher-resolution = bigger-surface-area!
This isn't just an OS problem, it's the apps that don't always handle multi-resolution support as well. It's easy for the OS to change, but when the apps look like crap or are unusable, reality sets in.
Is it ok to use parabolic microphones during this covert surveillance conducted without a warrant?
If so, is it ok to use advanced signal processing technology to covertly and without a warrant see as well as listen through the walls of a home that has EM emanating from a wifi router in the house?
If so, is it ok to use EM emanating from the police car radio, incidental to routine police communications to covertly and without a warrant see as well as listen through the walls of a home?
If so, is it ok to deliberately project EM from the police car --- say in the form of a simple flashlight -- onto the private property to get a better look?
Am I now, by asking these questions, suspect?
That depends on how well you can argue all the above is "reasonable".
Anyone care to explain where, precisely, the above amendment specifies that it only applies to indoor, private property?
Apparently the word "unreasonable" is the key.
I remember reading somewhere about a system that does away with the concept of "files" entirely, and the whole coding process is based around smart navigation - what's on your screen could be pulled from many different locations at once without you having to know where from - shame I can't recall where I read that exactly.
Smalltalk?
Or perhaps Light Table?
This would be a matter of Civil liability. I don't know any Libertarian that is against that. The people who built it can and would be sued into oblivion for negligence, provided it really was negligence determined by a jury of our peers. It would not be in any individual or companies interests to knowing build and operate faulty equipment of such a type.
Now that is an idealist's view, just sue to cover damages. But in the real world, lawsuits take years, and corporations never admit or assume responsibility. Sued into oblivion? Won't matter, corps will just create small subsidies or contract all work out to some shell corp with slightly more assets than needed, so they can be sued and folded to protect the parent.
Both things which libertarianism abolishes, but current government supports in spades.
libertarians abolish what exactly - illegal activities, greed, corruption, the reality that some people/organizations will screw you over for their benefit, and not care at all what you say?
Those who support government are childish and dangerous, if not naive. Your beliefs are based on the doctrine of "Power doesn't corrupt".
And libertarians believe "might makes right".
They try to fill a niche where your smartphone isn't large enough for what you need, but your laptop isn't portable enough.
How about ebook readers?
There is almost none of that in a normal person's life. I've yet to meet someone that has dumped their smartphone or computer for their tablet and as such they really don't need it.
I have two of these kinds of people in my family.
And no, they don't live with me so they aren't utilizing my other computers. I know many others that get by with just a netbook, since all they really do is social media, websites, and email.
I think Slashdot (in general) is seriously out of touch with the usage patterns and needs for the AVERAGE person.
Tablets are going to fade away as the fad passes.
I keep hearing this and what comes to mind is some old fart defending mainframes against PCs.. PCs are just a fad, I haven't met any company that dumped their mainframe for PCs, PCs will fade, etc. They just couldn't wrap their mind around a device that gets more and more useful as new generations release.
Are you happy on Win7? Good for you; if you are on Win7 & have no other devices or intention of sharing data on anything but your trusty desktop, then frankly the benefits of Win8 are lesser.. There's a new & vastly improved task manager; Win8 is faster in almost all metrics, and there are some nice desktop GUI enhancements that you'd likely appreciate, however the face of IT is changing to one where it will be rare to have just the one computer, and Windows 8 has that front & center of the design.
I'm happy on Win7, but have run Win8 for a few months at work (yeah, I'm one of those lucky people). I find Win8 absolutely fine when I stick to desktop/classic mode, which is most of my usage.
The downside is the integration and work flow between Metro and Desktop is god awful. I'd explain but I see Ars Technica already did a better job that I can. Read their review under the "Mixed Mayhem" header (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/windows-reimagined-a-review-of-windows-8/5/). I find it a nightmare and confusing; I think the general public will we have a really tough time trying to do simple things like view pictures, save files, and find them again, when it all changes arbitrarily based one what app and which mode you are operating in.
I've got some money saved up for an upgrade to my Win7 notebook, and I think my best way to spend it is on an SSD rather than Win8.
Don't just hang out with people like you. It will help a lot.
This is absolutely correct. Especially in a college setting, get out there and try some different clubs or sports. Yes, sports - try for an intramural team, or dorm-level rec league, anything. I forced myself into running and volleyball and it was worth the effort.
Spending all your time with other computer science types leads to tunnel vision. Slashdot has this problem, call it the "tablet effect" whereby posters dominantly pooh-pooh tablet computers, because they don't see the use for them. Yet Apple and Google are selling millions of these things, clearly somebody is finding them useful (or the industry is under mass hypnosis, another BS excuse).
Maybe Gore should have won his own state, thus rendering Florida and any alleged shenanigans there irrelevant. If you can't convince the voters who know you best to send you to the White House.....
In 2000, TN electoral votes: 11, FL electoral votes: 25.
Yeah, I totally see how TN would have overshadowed FL voting shenanigans.
If that's what the law states, then I'm glad the Texas AG is doing his job and upholding it since that the law that the democratically elected legislature passed.
What a great concept, upholding laws passed by democratically elected legislatures. Maybe republicans will apply that to other issues like the Affordable Care Act, or abortion...