Where you see inconsistency, another person sees customization.
What if you want to be a desktop icon user where every square inch of your desktop is organized into a pile of messy icons (but you know where every single app is...) What if you want to be able to launch everything form a simple "text field" that you only need to type a name to get your app... What if you want to be able to pin every application you use on a regular basis...
Windows 8 offers you roaming profiles, single-signon, profiles on a USB-key, dramatically faster boot times and resume times, lower power useage, higher security, better modern device support (USB 3.x, very large drives)...
Roaming profiles have been a part of NT for as long as I can remember... I never use them then (but I have played) and I will continue to not use them for my PC Game Console. Single Sign-on... available in XP. I could log in to all the apps that supported it when I had my XP build, including Sharepoint. But I guarantee I won't link my Steam to my Windows User ID, and without Office/Outlook... what's the point? Profiles on USB Key... not sure about the point of this. I wouldn't install Steam to my profile keyring, and loading up my game on another PC will just fuck up my settings. "Faster" stuff (lumped together...): Sure... we'll see. "Security": Pretty vague, but you mention sandboxes. The only thing that matters. We'll see how that works out. My current Windows install support USB 3... I used it for backup a few times.
So, new from that list: App sandboxing, which I've yet to see work, and can only imagine how my old apps will handle that.
I don't think it has any purpose to the main reason I use Windows. Steam. I may as well have the Steam My Library list set as my desktop. I don't have e-mail setup (I'd get it from the gmail web app anyway...), there's no Outlook or Office installed to track meetings. For my Contacts, I have to revert back to the Steam Friends list. Otherwise, I use my android phone for all the non-gamers I talk to on a regular basis.
So Windows 8 offers me... weather? Wait, I have that on my phone too. I'm not seeing the point to Metro.
I suppose the argument is that physicists were involved? We could replace that one key words and you basically described the whole lobbying process and many people have issues with the way that money is spent:
A team of [managers] has worked 10 years on this, writing hundreds of pages of papers to coerce funding out of federal institutes but you can spot the flaw in their plans after 30 seconds of thinking and writing an Internet comment?
I'm not saying the GP was right or wrong, but I had to point out the comparison.
a.) The unions don't like that we have no union, so they lobbied to do this to "encourage" the labor force to unionize...
b.) The fact that we have no union makes them feel like they can eliminate overtime and get away with it...
I'm a developer, and I've been in a union (non-it work) before. It wasn't better for me or the company. I was far less motivated to do anything and I threw away part of my paycheck to some guy who was only motivated to do less.
To be perfectly honest though, I haven't worked an hour of overtime in the past 10 years.
I just put Tomato on my v1.0 WRT54G router and it breathed new life into it. I had previously been running DDWRT. I'm not sure if the submitter can do "option 66" with Tomato but it has everything else.
There are a lot of different voltages for DC transformers, but taking a look around my house this past year I spotted mostly 12VDC. I had one 20VDC (Laptop) but the rest were 12. In the past, I've seen 6 and 9 volt transformers, but I rarely see these anymore.
What bothers me is all the new LED bulbs that have transformers in them (guessing, because they get hot!... feels like wasted energy) to power the LED bulbs when you could have just run a 12VDC line and powered them all on a central transformer like garden lights. I'd think it would be more efficient to run DC to lighting and certain outlets like those where small devices would sit (with standard plugs as you mention) and keep 112-120VAC for things like the appliances.
You could also centralize a backup battery (easily) to keep your lights on if the power suddenly surges.
I was thinking more along the lines of: One of my parents sends me a hundred emails a day (spam/jokes/annoyance) and I might respond to one a month, but my friend sends me maybe one a month and I respond to most of his, but I wouldn't say he was closer than my parent.
We fill out a time sheet that requires 40 hours a week or it takes from our Paid Time Off. On the sheet is project time (billed to client) and non-project time (requires explanation.) I'm not a fan of the system, and I've been billing my full 8 hours/day to the current project but I was told recently that they were looking at comparing that time to the issue tracker logged time. The company is growing, so I hope I can nudge that aspect away from the thought process. I'm not holding up my hopes since I'm one of the "new guys."
From what I'm told by a friend in the business, it's still common for devs to hop from studio to studio on loan or being laid off from one place to the next because they finished X project. What I hear is that it's a crap shoot if the studios will keep you after release.
Scrum/Agile can also be as bad. My last job we had "Scrum meetings" and were confronted if we didn't get at least 6 hours of "work time" on any particular task per day. If we didn't log every single change we made in the issue software we were asked what we were doing during that time. They could have checked the commit logs to see what changes I made during that day, but that's apparently not in their report. Heaven forbid I have a slow day or a meeting that prevents me from logging my 6 hours of time.
At my current location, the management doesn't attend Scrum meetings and it's night and day as far as what is reported. People here actually work together, but there is talk of linking "issue time" to "billed time" and I can see that quickly devolving into a pissing contest as well.
Sunlight can potentially be "piped" in via mirrors and columns. You could also setup some sort of moving tables to alternate what craps get light on any particular day. I'm not a plant expert by any means, but I'm pretty sure they don't need light every minute of every day to grow.
Finding software is pretty easy with the search field. If you didn't want to use that, there was an expandable interface, but I hated the fact that I had to shift click icons to open a new copy. Like when I wanted more than one terminal: If I wanted to re-use another terminal window, I'd click on it in the preview... not click the icon I used to launch it. Otherwise, there are a lot of nice features to the interface. Deserving of the hate? Maybe not, but the marketing was bad.
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Can I use my Google email to log in? Does Microsoft leave that open enough that Amazon or Google could allow that?
And if we don't have a Live ID (and never intend on getting one?)
Where you see inconsistency, another person sees customization.
What if you want to be a desktop icon user where every square inch of your desktop is organized into a pile of messy icons (but you know where every single app is...)
What if you want to be able to launch everything form a simple "text field" that you only need to type a name to get your app...
What if you want to be able to pin every application you use on a regular basis...
Windows 8 offers you roaming profiles, single-signon, profiles on a USB-key, dramatically faster boot times and resume times, lower power useage, higher security, better modern device support (USB 3.x, very large drives)...
Roaming profiles have been a part of NT for as long as I can remember... I never use them then (but I have played) and I will continue to not use them for my PC Game Console. ... available in XP. I could log in to all the apps that supported it when I had my XP build, including Sharepoint. But I guarantee I won't link my Steam to my Windows User ID, and without Office/Outlook... what's the point? ... not sure about the point of this. I wouldn't install Steam to my profile keyring, and loading up my game on another PC will just fuck up my settings.
Single Sign-on
Profiles on USB Key
"Faster" stuff (lumped together...): Sure... we'll see.
"Security": Pretty vague, but you mention sandboxes. The only thing that matters. We'll see how that works out.
My current Windows install support USB 3... I used it for backup a few times.
So, new from that list: App sandboxing, which I've yet to see work, and can only imagine how my old apps will handle that.
I don't think it has any purpose to the main reason I use Windows. Steam. I may as well have the Steam My Library list set as my desktop. I don't have e-mail setup (I'd get it from the gmail web app anyway...), there's no Outlook or Office installed to track meetings. For my Contacts, I have to revert back to the Steam Friends list. Otherwise, I use my android phone for all the non-gamers I talk to on a regular basis.
So Windows 8 offers me... weather? Wait, I have that on my phone too. I'm not seeing the point to Metro.
I suppose the argument is that physicists were involved? We could replace that one key words and you basically described the whole lobbying process and many people have issues with the way that money is spent:
A team of [managers] has worked 10 years on this, writing hundreds of pages of papers to coerce funding out of federal institutes but you can spot the flaw in their plans after 30 seconds of thinking and writing an Internet comment?
I'm not saying the GP was right or wrong, but I had to point out the comparison.
It doesn't seem to work anymore, but for a while they had "http://rim.jobs"...
$27.63 doesn't equate to a specific yearly pay either: $27.63 * 40 * 52 = $57,470.40
It's an odd set of numbers. $30.00 I can see, $25.00 ... what's the significance of that $7.63 or $2.37? Why not round it?
Well, there's two ways you can look at this...
a.) The unions don't like that we have no union, so they lobbied to do this to "encourage" the labor force to unionize...
b.) The fact that we have no union makes them feel like they can eliminate overtime and get away with it...
I'm a developer, and I've been in a union (non-it work) before. It wasn't better for me or the company. I was far less motivated to do anything and I threw away part of my paycheck to some guy who was only motivated to do less.
To be perfectly honest though, I haven't worked an hour of overtime in the past 10 years.
I just put Tomato on my v1.0 WRT54G router and it breathed new life into it. I had previously been running DDWRT. I'm not sure if the submitter can do "option 66" with Tomato but it has everything else.
There are a lot of different voltages for DC transformers, but taking a look around my house this past year I spotted mostly 12VDC. I had one 20VDC (Laptop) but the rest were 12. In the past, I've seen 6 and 9 volt transformers, but I rarely see these anymore.
What bothers me is all the new LED bulbs that have transformers in them (guessing, because they get hot! ... feels like wasted energy) to power the LED bulbs when you could have just run a 12VDC line and powered them all on a central transformer like garden lights. I'd think it would be more efficient to run DC to lighting and certain outlets like those where small devices would sit (with standard plugs as you mention) and keep 112-120VAC for things like the appliances.
You could also centralize a backup battery (easily) to keep your lights on if the power suddenly surges.
I was thinking more along the lines of: One of my parents sends me a hundred emails a day (spam/jokes/annoyance) and I might respond to one a month, but my friend sends me maybe one a month and I respond to most of his, but I wouldn't say he was closer than my parent.
Social interaction is the best time to get pizza and stay up way too late playing D20 and other board games.
We fill out a time sheet that requires 40 hours a week or it takes from our Paid Time Off. On the sheet is project time (billed to client) and non-project time (requires explanation.) I'm not a fan of the system, and I've been billing my full 8 hours/day to the current project but I was told recently that they were looking at comparing that time to the issue tracker logged time. The company is growing, so I hope I can nudge that aspect away from the thought process. I'm not holding up my hopes since I'm one of the "new guys."
You need some metric for the burn-down chart. They chose hours.
From what I'm told by a friend in the business, it's still common for devs to hop from studio to studio on loan or being laid off from one place to the next because they finished X project. What I hear is that it's a crap shoot if the studios will keep you after release.
Scrum/Agile can also be as bad. My last job we had "Scrum meetings" and were confronted if we didn't get at least 6 hours of "work time" on any particular task per day. If we didn't log every single change we made in the issue software we were asked what we were doing during that time. They could have checked the commit logs to see what changes I made during that day, but that's apparently not in their report. Heaven forbid I have a slow day or a meeting that prevents me from logging my 6 hours of time.
At my current location, the management doesn't attend Scrum meetings and it's night and day as far as what is reported. People here actually work together, but there is talk of linking "issue time" to "billed time" and I can see that quickly devolving into a pissing contest as well.
Sunlight can potentially be "piped" in via mirrors and columns. You could also setup some sort of moving tables to alternate what craps get light on any particular day. I'm not a plant expert by any means, but I'm pretty sure they don't need light every minute of every day to grow.
Only because I've driven over it about 50 times:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=chicago&hl=en&ll=41.578422,-87.616525&spn=0.014366,0.033023&hnear=Chicago,+Cook,+Illinois&gl=us&sqi=2&t=h&z=16&vpsrc=6
Why remove it? Treat it on the bottom floors and pump the clean water back to the top.
What's the number of livable spaces for each of those?
Wait... There was a sequel to Titanic?
"Sorry boss, it's winter and I need to work earlier daylight hours. Can you open at 6am?"
"No problem (ex)employee, here's your last check. Feel free to bypass us when you are job hunting this coming spring."
Finding software is pretty easy with the search field. If you didn't want to use that, there was an expandable interface, but I hated the fact that I had to shift click icons to open a new copy. Like when I wanted more than one terminal: If I wanted to re-use another terminal window, I'd click on it in the preview... not click the icon I used to launch it. Otherwise, there are a lot of nice features to the interface. Deserving of the hate? Maybe not, but the marketing was bad.