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Since the first beta leak.. well.. since the first pre-beta image leak, Windows 8 has had a mixed reaction. Some believe that the new Metro-- or Modern-- interface has seriously affected their workflow, whereas some accepted the Start Screen as a welcomed addition and replacement to the cluttered almost 20 year old Start Menu. "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other."
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Quote: the antithesis of a power user Seriously? WTF is he smoking? That's certainly not been my experience. I have found windows 8 to be better, faster and more reliable than windows 7. And windows 7 was by far their best OS to date; windows 8 is even better. I personally have found it to be very power-user friendly.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I'm assuming/hoping he means, "Metro is the antithesis...".
Win 8 hasn't really been that bad, once I turned off that charms menu as much as possible, and learned, "Windows key, start typing" to run apps. You're also right: it's been faster (startup mostly) than previous Windows, and at least as reliable as Weven.
TTFN - Kent
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But have you been able to upgrade to 8.1? I haven't yet.
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I updated my win8 netbook/tablet without any problems (excluding those caused either by its wifi sucking or downloads speeds being heavily throttled while the windows store app was in the background) several months ago. IIRC I did it between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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From what I've read, the majority of upgrade failures appear to be centered around desktops, which is what I have.
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My (old) desktop's still running Win 7. When I ever stop procrastinating and get around to it, I intend for my new one to be running Win 8.1 (needed for mixed DPI support after I buy a 4k monitor and for the win9 upgrade path).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yep! Very easy. Works like a charm!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Mine didn't.
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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He's talking about the new UI. Its hardly brimming with features. You can't even edit a text file easily.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Underwhelmed by the latest version of your favourite black slab? You're not alone – here's where the smartphone makers should really be focusing their efforts. Here's a thought: how about making something that works well as a phone? (with great battery life)
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Fine by me. My 2 year old phone works fine, I hope it lasts another 30 years! I'd say good news, less waste produced.
Wout
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The future of the smartphone will be to destroy it.
There's no need to glue any I/O device directly onto the computing/networking unit. We have to break all those modules apart and apply them in our wearable's and gadgets where needed. The computer/networking unit will just have to soak all that wireless transmitted data up and feed it to it's apps; preferably without the user ever having to interact with it in any way.
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Rounded curves?
Seriously?
Article states: I'd also like them to do How does that help with getting "innovation" to live again?
..and how is it going to help us, again?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Mayer is trying to move Yahoo squarely into competition with both Google and Microsoft, in an attempt to regain control over one of its key revenue streams. "Just what makes that little old ant think he'll move that rubber tree plant?"
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Space rock to pass by Earth 2.1m miles away, but astronomers say 270-metre object poses significant danger in case of impact ... but not that close
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With sites like Codecademy and Stack Overflow, there are plenty of ways to learn programming and get help online — but there’s nothing like a live human being who can answer your questions and look at your code, according to the co-founders of a new website called HackHands. Insert credit card for solution to, "Need codez plz"
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At $1/min they've made it just cheap enough where people people that didn't use google before will still not use it but now they can get the code they want without the taunting and being called the lazy people they are.
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Checks in he mail.
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To me the value of Scrum is in proper execution of the ceremonies. Over the past few months I’ve had this sinking feeling that I completely missed the point. Now I’m ready to admit it: I got it wrong. I’m using process as a crutch, and my bet is that you and everyone on your team is too. One size (or methodology) never fits all
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A coworker recently forwarded me the Mashable article, "10 Programming Languages You Should Learn in 2014." Although the article provides some useful information on today's most popular programming languages and urged aspiring developers to learn at least one of those languages, I think there's some equally important advice to consider when deliberating on a programming language to invest your time in. Bonus question: Is there a customer willing to pay you to learn something?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Bonus question: Is there a customer willing to pay you to learn something?
Absolutely. That's how I learned just about every programming language that I know so far. It's absolutely fantastic when you can get paid and work with someone who's willing to mentor you on the language as well. However...
Learning a programming language is about 10% of the equation at best. The technology stack, framework, tools, processes -- these are all different depending on the "core" programming language. Yes, there's some crossover, but the real wall to climb isn't the programming language. And just knowing a language doesn't find you work, you have to have demonstrable experience usually spanning several years in order to land a job in that "language."
Marc
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Bonus question: Is there a customer willing to pay you to learn something?
I'm trying to learning Ruby, CoffeeScript and AngularJS for a pair of projects at work now; but at only 2 or 3 days/month for each project remembering details of what I was doing is taking is taking an annoying share of the total time and I'm rarely able to keep anything in my headspace long enough to progress even if I wasn't trying to learn 3 new platforms at once. I'm just glad I haven't had to touch the css alternative both projects picked yet.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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