I'm in Australia, and was taught metric at school, but we only converted in 1966 (I think) when decimal currency was introduced to replace the British pound and pence we had. So my parents were all taught imperial, and growing up my dad referred to everything as miles, feet and inches.
So, when asked to estimate the length of something, I'll use either imperial or metric depending on whichever will give me the closest to a whole. eg. I'll estimate a foot, or half a metre, or an inch, or a centimetre, whichever is most appropriate.
If America "converted" to metric, you'd all have an extra method of referring to the measurements of everything. It's not going to stop everyone from thinking imperial. At least not for a couple of generations.
They wow you with eye candy and showing how easy it is to move windows around, and draw random lines, and zoom in on photographs. Who is spending all their time doing these tasks?
Show me the same interface with someone doing real work, like coding/writing documents, or touching up artwork, or working with spreadsheets - the stuff we spend 99.9% of our time doing. Methinks the new GUI would show many many weaknesses.
DRM promised to do all this to you and more. And yet, you purchased DRM-protected content? Hardly a nightmare, more of a told-you-so. Please, everyone, when content is only available DRM-protected, pirate it instead. This is the only way to discourage these companies from abusing us.
The current situation of anti-spyware programs is that we all have our preferred applications, and we don't trust any of the others because of stories about 'bad' anti-spyware programs that pretend your system is infected with all sorts of programs just so that you go 'wow, this program is great - look at all the spyware it found and cleared away. My previous anti-spyware program XXX is a piece of crap'.
With Microsoft involved, they're obligated to position themselves at the top of the 'reliable' list of anti-spyware products. They definitely won't have a list of fake spyware to protect you from.
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Well, we'll see what their telemetry says in Metro - I'm guessing people will flock back to the Start button. Oh wait....
I want to hear about the patients who have been training 8 hours a day for 6 weeks. Do they have something better to do?
I'm in Australia, and was taught metric at school, but we only converted in 1966 (I think) when decimal currency was introduced to replace the British pound and pence we had. So my parents were all taught imperial, and growing up my dad referred to everything as miles, feet and inches. So, when asked to estimate the length of something, I'll use either imperial or metric depending on whichever will give me the closest to a whole. eg. I'll estimate a foot, or half a metre, or an inch, or a centimetre, whichever is most appropriate. If America "converted" to metric, you'd all have an extra method of referring to the measurements of everything. It's not going to stop everyone from thinking imperial. At least not for a couple of generations.
They wow you with eye candy and showing how easy it is to move windows around, and draw random lines, and zoom in on photographs. Who is spending all their time doing these tasks? Show me the same interface with someone doing real work, like coding/writing documents, or touching up artwork, or working with spreadsheets - the stuff we spend 99.9% of our time doing. Methinks the new GUI would show many many weaknesses.
It'll only be good if the audience is armed.
things of value to you were devalued by acts of others
Nope - it only shows that you overvalued the item in the first place.
DRM promised to do all this to you and more. And yet, you purchased DRM-protected content? Hardly a nightmare, more of a told-you-so. Please, everyone, when content is only available DRM-protected, pirate it instead. This is the only way to discourage these companies from abusing us.
Nope. There is a separate file called hibernate.fil (I think) that's stored in the root folder of the same drive containing your Windows folder.
The current situation of anti-spyware programs is that we all have our preferred applications, and we don't trust any of the others because of stories about 'bad' anti-spyware programs that pretend your system is infected with all sorts of programs just so that you go 'wow, this program is great - look at all the spyware it found and cleared away. My previous anti-spyware program XXX is a piece of crap'. With Microsoft involved, they're obligated to position themselves at the top of the 'reliable' list of anti-spyware products. They definitely won't have a list of fake spyware to protect you from.