Cutter wrote on May 8, 2013, 16:11:

Verno wrote on May 8, 2013, 14:18:
There are going to be many broken Google Glass headsets in the future for people who don't ask permission

Seriously. I was in a bar one night when some perv was palming his cell camera trying to sneak upskirt shots of women in the bar. I confronted the asshole - rather violently and loudly - and the bouncer grabbed the guy while the bartender grabbed his phone to make certain he was doing what I claimed he was. And when they saw it was the case they - and one or two of the guys that were boyfriends of the women he had taken shots dragged the guy outside and beat the living shit out of him before the cops showed up. You just know this is going to be happening down the line with those things at some point.

NegaDeath wrote on Apr 19, 2013, 16:32:

Murden wrote on Apr 19, 2013, 16:06:
I have this cool way to disable metro. When it starts up. Click on the Desktop button.

I don't know why everyone's so upset about metro. Some of it I like, some of it I don't like. When I start up my computer its nice and simple to start up an app I use often, it's right there in front of me. If I need to use something suited to a more windows 7 atmosphere (like surfing the web, using the old interface with favorites bar) I simply click on the desktop button and I have it.

Everyone was happy with windows 7, and it really hasn't gone anywhere. They just added metro to it. Why the confusion? It's all there as it was.

IMO - Metros a step in the right direction, it just needs to be tweaked a bit.

Anyone who says it's confusing hasn't actually spent the time to see what it really is.

This article is a great answer to your question. Odds are if you are posting here you are an enthusiast, or at least technologically adept. The vast majority of people aren't. If something gets moved or changed you can find it, others can't. Removing the start button and the different control styles of the new start screen were enough to completely befuddle people. The lack of any meaningful tutorial only compounded the problem. Hell I have fellow employees that struggle just with using outlook. Throwing metro at them would be like throwing them in the ocean without a life preserver.

Spektr wrote on Apr 18, 2013, 06:14:
I don't know about Iphone but I can only lament that my galaxyS2 is not built around the basic function. Which is or rather should be phonecalls. Well making a phonecall requires a swype gesture answering one also. Then the absence of a physical button for that requires you to look at the screen. In a perfect world I would say that those two facts contribute to deter people from phoning while driving but it's not the case and it only contributes to making people who phone while driving more dangerous as they look at screen and have to use two hands to answer calls or make them.
On android when I got started, if the contacts was pushed to the groups tab it makes the phone tab disappear entirely. As a newcomer I didnt know where it went and for a few days I could only make phone calls from contact list.
My point? in an emergency situation when you are stressed out, are wounded, for a reason have only one hand available ( say your arm is in a cast or you are carrying something) or using someone else's phone. Smartphones are ridiculously hard to use to start with.

Creston wrote on Nov 22, 2012, 00:16:

ViRGE wrote on Nov 21, 2012, 21:34:
21% of you suck and are miserable excuses for human beings.

It's high time we just start taking away fucking licenses for that horseshit. Oh, you can't get to your job without a license, and thus can't take care of yourself? Tough fucking luck. Maybe in six months when you get your license back, you'll not have more important things to do than the actual act of fucking DRIVING.

I'd put all of them in jail for 20 years, but our jails are already too full. So taking away driver's licenses seems like a decent first step.

Creston

Verno wrote on Nov 13, 2012, 11:22:

Enahs wrote on Nov 13, 2012, 11:12:
But the technology changes behind the scenes, with regard to the kernal and the memory management, etc, are by far worthy of a major revision number.

I've heard this one before based on an Arstechnica article but most of the under the hood changes I've read about only have a meaningful impact on Metro apps. This is well reflected in the marginal differentials between them in benchmarks. I've seen very little evidence to support that Windows 8 is more than an incremental upgrade.

Nothing wrong with incremental upgrades per se though and at least Microsoft has priced it appropriately. I just think its a shame that they didn't try to do more, it feels largely like catch up. I'm also not happy that they don't allow sideloading of metro apps, won't allow desktop apps on the store and forced metro instead of making it a toggleable option based on the device you're using.

Verno wrote on Nov 13, 2012, 11:01:

ASeven wrote on Nov 13, 2012, 10:50:
One more nail in the Win8 coffin.

Win8 has the potential of dethroning WinME has the worst Windows ever made.

Nah, WinME was a technical disaster as much as it was a product of greed. Windows 8 without Metro is basically just a cheap version of Windows 7. There's nothing really "wrong" with it per se but giving it a major version number with so few standout features is almost misleading IMHO.

nin wrote on Oct 30, 2012, 09:34:

xXBatmanXx wrote on Oct 30, 2012, 09:33:

wtf_man wrote on Oct 30, 2012, 09:31:
Good Luck and Best Wishes. I hope the inconveniences are remediated as soon as possible.

He never tells us what he plays other than Guitar Hero - but hopefully he has a generator hooked up to his gaming rig and can catchup a bit!

Be glad it isn't the "nin FREEZEOUT OF 2010!" HAHAHAHAHAHAH

He doesn't show logged into steam in months. We might need an intervention, once the power returns.