I was wondering where the next "innovation" would take place. I suppose the next "innovation" in their store will be that it is 10% smaller and allows voice commands.
You pretty much nailed my thoughts on the matter. We still need the people and the advances in science to build increasingly advanced robotics to replace the human workers.
When your job is replaced by a robot, where are you going to work?
I really hope that there are only about 5 people in your office, or else it seems like your company is employing morons.
Yeah. All those people who can't type are such morons. They're just as bad as the people who don't compile their own stuff from source. It's just so easy and useful in everyday life.
It uses the site's name, along with your password and your configuration settings, to generate a password. This allows one master password to be used which generates unique passwords for every site.
Easy for me to remember, hard to guess. Even if I was keylogged, they wouldn't know what settings I had since I don't use the default settings.
The Steam client itself works just fine. The problem is Valve's distribution system. I had 4 games that were listed as supported. Of those, two of them would not install (as in you can click the install button and it would give a message that it was installed but there would be nothing downloaded). One of them installed but would not launch. The last is TF2, and I really don't care to play that.
I'm not faulting them, it's still beta after all. I'm just not excited about a new platform to play games that are mostly available outside of Steam already with the added bonus of more TF2.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but from the tone of your other posts in this tread I'm thinking you're not. Apple attempted to rewrite computer history with this lawsuit and they were correctly dismissed. They should be hit with frivolous lawsuit fees.
All of your arguments are subjective. The entire post can be reduced to "I don't like it and it doesn't fit in to the way I think computers should work".
For me, my workflow is unaltered. I do the same things in 8 as I did in 7. I don't miss the start orb.
There are plenty of reviews with objective evidence showing that there is no real speed difference between 7 and 8 for accomplishing the same tasks. I'm sure we could both filter through them and find some that fits our confirmation bias.
To sum it all up: I like it just fine, just like I prefer Mint over Ubuntu. YMMV
Nothing of what you have mentioned in your post applies to my use of Win8. Metro and the classic desktop actually do meld together quite nicely once you get used to the new tools you've been given in Win8.
It's pretty much the opposite of the widgets on every other OS, but in reverse. Except now I can pin a metro app next to the classic desktop in a 20/80 split and retain full functionality between both of them.
I imagine if we were both cavemen and I came to you and showed you a fork you'd say "What the hell do I need a fork for, I have fingers to eat with" Then that Asian caveman shows up with chopsticks and we both think he's crazy.
If a new user can't figure out that alt-tab, win-e, win-tab, or hitting any of the corners activates things then this hypothetical user would have trouble finding the start button/gnome button on any other GUI as well.
Or a simple right click -> open with would work as well.
Most of my games are run through Steam, so I don't have to search for them.
It seems like a lot of people feel they *need* to upgrade. If you're accomplishing everything you want to do under Win7, stay there. Nobody is telling you to upgrade.
I did one PC from 7 to 8 because I got it cheap and I like to play with new stuff. It's the same reason I jump Linux distros. That being said, I like 8. I haven't felt the need to install a start menu replacement. I purposely skipped reading about or watching any videos of peoples opinions of 8 before I got it. I've gone back and read what people have complained about and very little holds true for me.
Again, if you're on 7 and it's working fine for you, don't feel like you need to buy 8. If you're on XP and feel like it, 8 is a fine upgrade path when support ends.
Yes, we all live together. But it's my personal right as an introvert to keep my information to myself. I choose the ways in which my information is used, not a corporation.
Companies can ask to use my information and I am free to say "no". This is the world we live in together. This is reality. INTJ
The idiotic mouse in the corner is as arbitrary as the click on the button menu. It's just as arbitrary as the systems that have right click on the desktop for the menu.
In either case, the windows (aka super) key never misses.
Of course I respect the fact that people use their computers in different ways. There's nothing wrong with sticking with Win7. I am simply of the opinion that Win8 is not terrible by any measure. It's just different. In a lot of ways it's better for people that use keyboard shortcuts. The touch portions of the UI don't get in the way as people have been led to believe.
Anything that I do frequently is pinned in the taskbar in the exact same way that it was in Win7. The keyboard shortcuts work exactly the same as it was in 7.
Under Win8 I can place a 20% tile next to the classic desktop (so the desktop automatically shrinks) thus preventing the items I have on the desktop from being hidden. I don't need to min/max the app. It's a decent size and it's not in the way of anything while performing its function.
It doesn't take me longer to do anything. On average I'd say I probably get things done faster because I don't have to look at the list of 'all programs' because I've already paired it down on the Metro side for anything I don't have pinned.
I don't feel any more lost going from Win7 to Win8 than I did when I used my first Linux distro. Sure it's different, but it's not confusing.
For the TL:DR version: This shit is different. Some people would like to judge a book by its cover. Try reading the book, it's not as bad as the book burners would lead you to believe.
Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go upgrade to Wheezy so I can do some Steam Linux Beta.
To quote LouisCK "Everything is amazing, and nobody is happy"
If you're still supported and everything works the way you want, then there is no need to update. If you feel that you *must* update your system because everyone else is, then you're very susceptible to groupthink.
You don't see this pursued very often. Many people choose a very different path when confronted with something they feel they have no control over. Some do go AWOL, some do drugs, some attempt suicide, and some succeed with suicide.[1]
We aren't privy to everything he thought when he was doing all of this. I've seen enough of the military to know that there could be a number of reasons that he could have come unhinged. We'll probably never know the full reasoning behind his thoughts.
I don't think I'd have gone the same route as he did.
[1] Source is myself with 12 years of Navy service with 2 years of running a large urinalysis program and 5 years as an instructor. I've had 3 suicides, 3 AWOL, probably 5 attempted suicides, and I couldn't tell you how many positive piss tests within that 12 years. Stress does crazy things.
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I was wondering where the next "innovation" would take place. I suppose the next "innovation" in their store will be that it is 10% smaller and allows voice commands.
You pretty much nailed my thoughts on the matter. We still need the people and the advances in science to build increasingly advanced robotics to replace the human workers.
When your job is replaced by a robot, where are you going to work?
I really hope that there are only about 5 people in your office, or else it seems like your company is employing morons.
Yeah. All those people who can't type are such morons. They're just as bad as the people who don't compile their own stuff from source. It's just so easy and useful in everyday life.
To be fair, nobody expected a kind of Spanish Inquisition.....
*blaring music*
This is kind of what the password hasher plugin does.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/password-hasher/?src=userprofile
It uses the site's name, along with your password and your configuration settings, to generate a password. This allows one master password to be used which generates unique passwords for every site.
Easy for me to remember, hard to guess. Even if I was keylogged, they wouldn't know what settings I had since I don't use the default settings.
I just ran Acid3 on IE10 and Palemoon 15.3.2-x64. Both achieved 100/100. That said, I only use IE10 when some site doesn't work properly in Palemoon.
Does this mean Pluto is a planet again? Someone check that data!
I've got my popcorn popped, butter is on it, it's all salted up. I'm ready to watch this show.
It's gonna be good.
Yes, it's failing because people think they need a touch screen to use Windows 8. It works just fine without a touch screen.
The Steam client itself works just fine. The problem is Valve's distribution system. I had 4 games that were listed as supported. Of those, two of them would not install (as in you can click the install button and it would give a message that it was installed but there would be nothing downloaded). One of them installed but would not launch. The last is TF2, and I really don't care to play that.
I'm not faulting them, it's still beta after all. I'm just not excited about a new platform to play games that are mostly available outside of Steam already with the added bonus of more TF2.
http://www.michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=340
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but from the tone of your other posts in this tread I'm thinking you're not. Apple attempted to rewrite computer history with this lawsuit and they were correctly dismissed. They should be hit with frivolous lawsuit fees.
All of your arguments are subjective. The entire post can be reduced to "I don't like it and it doesn't fit in to the way I think computers should work".
For me, my workflow is unaltered. I do the same things in 8 as I did in 7. I don't miss the start orb.
There are plenty of reviews with objective evidence showing that there is no real speed difference between 7 and 8 for accomplishing the same tasks. I'm sure we could both filter through them and find some that fits our confirmation bias.
To sum it all up: I like it just fine, just like I prefer Mint over Ubuntu. YMMV
Then learn how to speed talk and use voice to text. You'll never type as fast as that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Speech_and_listening
Nothing of what you have mentioned in your post applies to my use of Win8. Metro and the classic desktop actually do meld together quite nicely once you get used to the new tools you've been given in Win8.
It's pretty much the opposite of the widgets on every other OS, but in reverse. Except now I can pin a metro app next to the classic desktop in a 20/80 split and retain full functionality between both of them.
I imagine if we were both cavemen and I came to you and showed you a fork you'd say "What the hell do I need a fork for, I have fingers to eat with" Then that Asian caveman shows up with chopsticks and we both think he's crazy.
You make it sound like they'd be stuck.
If a new user can't figure out that alt-tab, win-e, win-tab, or hitting any of the corners activates things then this hypothetical user would have trouble finding the start button/gnome button on any other GUI as well.
Or a simple right click -> open with would work as well.
Most of my games are run through Steam, so I don't have to search for them.
It seems like a lot of people feel they *need* to upgrade. If you're accomplishing everything you want to do under Win7, stay there. Nobody is telling you to upgrade.
I did one PC from 7 to 8 because I got it cheap and I like to play with new stuff. It's the same reason I jump Linux distros. That being said, I like 8. I haven't felt the need to install a start menu replacement. I purposely skipped reading about or watching any videos of peoples opinions of 8 before I got it. I've gone back and read what people have complained about and very little holds true for me.
Again, if you're on 7 and it's working fine for you, don't feel like you need to buy 8. If you're on XP and feel like it, 8 is a fine upgrade path when support ends.
Control-Alt-Delete and click the power icon. Much easier.
Yes, we all live together. But it's my personal right as an introvert to keep my information to myself. I choose the ways in which my information is used, not a corporation.
Companies can ask to use my information and I am free to say "no". This is the world we live in together. This is reality.
INTJ
The idiotic mouse in the corner is as arbitrary as the click on the button menu. It's just as arbitrary as the systems that have right click on the desktop for the menu.
In either case, the windows (aka super) key never misses.
Of course I respect the fact that people use their computers in different ways. There's nothing wrong with sticking with Win7. I am simply of the opinion that Win8 is not terrible by any measure. It's just different. In a lot of ways it's better for people that use keyboard shortcuts. The touch portions of the UI don't get in the way as people have been led to believe.
I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers.
Anything that I do frequently is pinned in the taskbar in the exact same way that it was in Win7. The keyboard shortcuts work exactly the same as it was in 7.
Under Win8 I can place a 20% tile next to the classic desktop (so the desktop automatically shrinks) thus preventing the items I have on the desktop from being hidden. I don't need to min/max the app. It's a decent size and it's not in the way of anything while performing its function.
It doesn't take me longer to do anything. On average I'd say I probably get things done faster because I don't have to look at the list of 'all programs' because I've already paired it down on the Metro side for anything I don't have pinned.
I don't feel any more lost going from Win7 to Win8 than I did when I used my first Linux distro. Sure it's different, but it's not confusing.
For the TL:DR version: This shit is different. Some people would like to judge a book by its cover. Try reading the book, it's not as bad as the book burners would lead you to believe.
Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go upgrade to Wheezy so I can do some Steam Linux Beta.
To quote LouisCK "Everything is amazing, and nobody is happy"
If you're still supported and everything works the way you want, then there is no need to update. If you feel that you *must* update your system because everyone else is, then you're very susceptible to groupthink.
Unfortunately, yes. There are still some people with their eyes open around here. It seems like less and less every day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientious_objector
You don't see this pursued very often. Many people choose a very different path when confronted with something they feel they have no control over. Some do go AWOL, some do drugs, some attempt suicide, and some succeed with suicide.[1]
We aren't privy to everything he thought when he was doing all of this. I've seen enough of the military to know that there could be a number of reasons that he could have come unhinged. We'll probably never know the full reasoning behind his thoughts.
I don't think I'd have gone the same route as he did.
[1] Source is myself with 12 years of Navy service with 2 years of running a large urinalysis program and 5 years as an instructor. I've had 3 suicides, 3 AWOL, probably 5 attempted suicides, and I couldn't tell you how many positive piss tests within that 12 years. Stress does crazy things.
Seems like this post was done while at the bar while sipping on an appletini.
Palemoon is also x64. It is unaffected by this change.
http://palemoon.org/