presented from the perspective the Government want's you to have.
Film at 11.
Yeah, that.
Notice a complete lack of anything bad happening in Iraq/Afghanistan on TV. Absolutely no outrage over the war, only brave soldiers coming home to new Ford Mustangs...yeah, that.
I don't get why people have such a hard time comprehending this:
Win 8 is Microsoft's entry into the mobile market, not the PC market, they ported it to the PC market... well to make money. They had to enter the mobile market to stay competitive, everything else was secondary.
That explains why they took out the start button when you go into "desktop" mode!
Knowing Microsoft, they'll probably release SP2 for Win7, which puts the "Modern" UI on top of it too
The best part is it took them years to get people to use the built-in themes so apps would look right on every version of Windows, according to the user prefs.
Then they totally ignore it and render everything manually so it looks wrong everywhere. I just had a look at upgrading to Visual Studio 2012 (literally a few hours ago) and the IDE is now just a big grey square. Dark grey icons on a light grey background, even the title bar stays gray when the window is active. The file icons are grey huge 8-bit size pixels. It's ugly as sin.
(Note that the popup dialog has different colors and styles than the main window - isn't that against their own guidelines?)
Colors give hints, they let you identify those little toolbar icons, they make you more productive. Yellow icon, open file. Blue icon, save. All the icons with red balls are related to each other... something to do with breakpoints!
Now all that visual information has been thrown away (from "visual" studio, no less) and it just looks like death. What are they planning to do? Run it on EGA systems with only 8 colors?
If this is the future Windows mindset then it's dead, yes. If only Linux wasn't so fragmented and removed from store shelves...
Knowing Microsoft, they'll probably release SP2 for Win7, which puts the "Modern" UI on top of it too, and then make SP2 a prerequisite for every security update that comes out after it.
This is the really scary part.
They've already started doing it to all their applications, the OS has to be next.
All Microsoft needed to do with the UI is *nothing*.
To be fair, they needed a tablet OS.
OTOH they could have left the start button in Windows 8.
They could even put it back in, but they don't seem to be going to do so......and THAT is the reason Windows is dead. Nobody's getting angry. Nobody's going around throwing big chairs at the people who came up with "Metro".
Bit of a generalization there. Notice a trend in the music industry for retro everything? Album of the year went to a band influenced by the 1800s, probably lamenting that none of those original works were ever recorded. The current #1 album on the charts is Justin Timberlake's throwback to the 50s and 60s. That digital collection would be enjoyed just fine.
Doesn't mean the kids *want* the stuff from the 50s and 60s, they're just starry eyed thinking how brilliant Justin Timberlake is for even knowing about that old stuff.
And the only reason they're listening to Justin Timberlake is because the record industry is busy marketing him and his amazing album.
So how come it can be done in the UK and still sold at the same price? Either there's a subsidy in place or the manufacturing cost is a negligible part of the selling price.
Pick and place machines don't cost more to operate in the UK than in China.
When all one needs is a match to cause chaos at any one of the 100,000+ gas stations across the country, it seems rather strange that we're raising the physical security flag on this.
Nothing strange about it, they're after a budget allocation and some new offices so they can deal with the menace more effectively.
I've just applied for a patent on a device I call a "fuse". You can put arrays of them in a thing I call a "fuse box". They prevent too much current from passing along a wire.
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The value of one U.S. dollar is exactaly one U.S. dollar. The value doesn't change, how much you can buy with it however, does change.
Sure, but it doesn't change by 20% in one day.
(Then 'correct' itself the next day...etc.)
presented from the perspective the Government want's you to have.
Film at 11.
Yeah, that.
Notice a complete lack of anything bad happening in Iraq/Afghanistan on TV. Absolutely no outrage over the war, only brave soldiers coming home to new Ford Mustangs...yeah, that.
Modern "news" channels are basically just a loop of the five worst things that happened in the world today.
Film at 11.
Or just a sufficient PC...
Or he doesn't really do any work on it.
I don't get why people have such a hard time comprehending this:
Win 8 is Microsoft's entry into the mobile market, not the PC market, they ported it to the PC market... well to make money. They had to enter the mobile market to stay competitive, everything else was secondary.
That explains why they took out the start button when you go into "desktop" mode!
Is it worth throwing a minimum of 5-8 years of your life away for money?
Five years of my life in a cozy cell with three squares a day for $100 million? Where do I sign up?
Knowing Microsoft, they'll probably release SP2 for Win7, which puts the "Modern" UI on top of it too
The best part is it took them years to get people to use the built-in themes so apps would look right on every version of Windows, according to the user prefs.
Then they totally ignore it and render everything manually so it looks wrong everywhere. I just had a look at upgrading to Visual Studio 2012 (literally a few hours ago) and the IDE is now just a big grey square. Dark grey icons on a light grey background, even the title bar stays gray when the window is active. The file icons are grey huge 8-bit size pixels. It's ugly as sin.
Screenshot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Visual_Studio_Express_2012_for_Desktop.png
(Note that the popup dialog has different colors and styles than the main window - isn't that against their own guidelines?)
Colors give hints, they let you identify those little toolbar icons, they make you more productive. Yellow icon, open file. Blue icon, save. All the icons with red balls are related to each other ... something to do with breakpoints!
Now all that visual information has been thrown away (from "visual" studio, no less) and it just looks like death. What are they planning to do? Run it on EGA systems with only 8 colors?
If this is the future Windows mindset then it's dead, yes. If only Linux wasn't so fragmented and removed from store shelves...
If Windows 8 filled that need, we wouldn't be posting in this thread, now would we?
You've got him there...
Knowing Microsoft, they'll probably release SP2 for Win7, which puts the "Modern" UI on top of it too, and then make SP2 a prerequisite for every security update that comes out after it.
This is the really scary part.
They've already started doing it to all their applications, the OS has to be next.
All Microsoft needed to do with the UI is *nothing*.
To be fair, they needed a tablet OS.
OTOH they could have left the start button in Windows 8.
They could even put it back in, but they don't seem to be going to do so... ...and THAT is the reason Windows is dead. Nobody's getting angry. Nobody's going around throwing big chairs at the people who came up with "Metro".
I've learned to adapt.
You bent over and dropped trousers for the Metro interface designers?
That would only equal to clicking the "Desktop" button from the Start Screen once after each boot.
Day after day after day....
Question is: Will it stay on the desktop or will it be a constant battle trying to escape from the Metro screen?
Anyone actually read that thing?
War and Peace is shorter than the Apple/iTunes EULA (and less densely written).
Bit of a generalization there. Notice a trend in the music industry for retro everything? Album of the year went to a band influenced by the 1800s, probably lamenting that none of those original works were ever recorded. The current #1 album on the charts is Justin Timberlake's throwback to the 50s and 60s. That digital collection would be enjoyed just fine.
Doesn't mean the kids *want* the stuff from the 50s and 60s, they're just starry eyed thinking how brilliant Justin Timberlake is for even knowing about that old stuff.
And the only reason they're listening to Justin Timberlake is because the record industry is busy marketing him and his amazing album.
Well for my generation my parent's music collection is vinyl. It has some value beyond musical.
I'd check out the prices of vinyl on eBay before making that judgement...
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>quote>Re: "Bitcoin frenzy"
There's no 'frenzy', here, I can promise you that.
In my opinion, no.
Reporters use the units of energy, so that the total would look much bigger than it is.
So...why don't they use kilowatt hours?
"Never put down to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity."
Considering that most people pay for their electricity by the kilowatt hour, the megawatt hour is not a bad unit to be using.
Ummm, yes, but they didn't use megawatt-hours, did they?
So how come it can be done in the UK and still sold at the same price? Either there's a subsidy in place or the manufacturing cost is a negligible part of the selling price.
Pick and place machines don't cost more to operate in the UK than in China.
Can you sell them to the crew of the Enterprise? The number of exploding consoles they have...
That smoke you see is the fuse doing its job correctly. How else could they repair them in time for next week's show?
When all one needs is a match to cause chaos at any one of the 100,000+ gas stations across the country, it seems rather strange that we're raising the physical security flag on this.
Nothing strange about it, they're after a budget allocation and some new offices so they can deal with the menace more effectively.
Is it web-enabled, cloud and smart? No? Then you ain't got nothing these days.
I've got a contact in Shenzhen who promises me they can provide a cloud-enabled controller for my fuse boxes at very good price.
I highly doubt I could take out a city block from my bedroom outlet.
You're not trying very hard.
The trick is to put something *into* the wires. Something like a Marx generator should do the trick.
fail.
I've just applied for a patent on a device I call a "fuse". You can put arrays of them in a thing I call a "fuse box". They prevent too much current from passing along a wire.