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  • L Lost User

    People afraid of what is new

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    Colborne_Greg
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    This is more like people are using there own reputation to bad mouth a company

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      Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:

      specialism

      I saw this used recently on a web site and was about to put a rocket up someone for not using specialisation as I did not think the above was a word (Singlish is a bastardisation of multiple languages). Thankfully I dragged out the trusty Google to check first :-O ... and shut up!

      Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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      Ok nonsense police Specialism is a word http://www.thefreedictionary.com/specialism[^]

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      • C Colborne_Greg

        Is it just me or: is every self proclaimed geek's first response when asked about a product that no one has seen yet - will talk shit about that product before really knowing the product. And no it's not just me.

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        BillWoodruff
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        Of course: it's very important to let mere mortals know we are gods !

        “But I don't want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.” “How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice. “You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.” Lewis Carroll

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          Of course: it's very important to let mere mortals know we are gods !

          “But I don't want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.” “How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice. “You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.” Lewis Carroll

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          Colborne_Greg
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          What do you think about windows 8?

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            What do you think about windows 8?

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            BillWoodruff
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            I only talk about products I haven't seen yet. Ask me about Windows 9.

            “But I don't want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.” “How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice. “You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.” Lewis Carroll

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              I only talk about products I haven't seen yet. Ask me about Windows 9.

              “But I don't want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.” “How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice. “You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.” Lewis Carroll

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              Colborne_Greg
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              ok that's funny

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                What do you think about windows 8?

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                BobJanova
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                But we have seen Windows 8. It has some massive annoyances, the worst of which being the abominable startup screen and lack of a desktop which can fortunately be skipped with third party software – I think you fixed that in 8.1. It also removed most of the styling options for windows (title bar size, colour, scroll bar size, menu text colour etc etc that used to be in Appearance) which means I can't make my machine look like I want it to. I bought a new machine a year or so ago with it on, and I kind of regret not going with 7.

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                  But we have seen Windows 8. It has some massive annoyances, the worst of which being the abominable startup screen and lack of a desktop which can fortunately be skipped with third party software – I think you fixed that in 8.1. It also removed most of the styling options for windows (title bar size, colour, scroll bar size, menu text colour etc etc that used to be in Appearance) which means I can't make my machine look like I want it to. I bought a new machine a year or so ago with it on, and I kind of regret not going with 7.

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                  Its not about seen - its about knowing the product. I am a windows 8 3rd party developer. It is a lot easier to go with what you know. I suggest you stay with the desktop technology until you are comfortable to move forward with the new technology. It's a different world in metro that if you knew nothing about the desktop you would be right now enjoying a technology while getting frustrated with the annoying, hard to understand, desktop.

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                    Its not about seen - its about knowing the product. I am a windows 8 3rd party developer. It is a lot easier to go with what you know. I suggest you stay with the desktop technology until you are comfortable to move forward with the new technology. It's a different world in metro that if you knew nothing about the desktop you would be right now enjoying a technology while getting frustrated with the annoying, hard to understand, desktop.

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                    No, an operating system that only shows me one window at a time is always going to be annoying, and is a complete waste of the resources of my machine and the high resolution monitors that we all have these days. I get frustrated with Ubuntu because I'm not used to it and I can't find anything. I get frustrated with Metro because its interaction paradigm is fundamentally stupid for computers. Ed: the ability to have multiple things open and active at the same time was what made Windows so popular in the first place. This is literally going back to 1990.

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                      No, an operating system that only shows me one window at a time is always going to be annoying, and is a complete waste of the resources of my machine and the high resolution monitors that we all have these days. I get frustrated with Ubuntu because I'm not used to it and I can't find anything. I get frustrated with Metro because its interaction paradigm is fundamentally stupid for computers. Ed: the ability to have multiple things open and active at the same time was what made Windows so popular in the first place. This is literally going back to 1990.

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                      Colborne_Greg
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                      In windows 8.1 I can have 4 programs open at once. - Vertical stacking is not available yet which should be for windows 8.2 in april.

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