Advantages of Windows 8?

[Jake]

A third assessment might be that you simply do not understand God and
can't fit Him into this three-dimensional space-time mind-set that we
are fitted into, so you write Him off as an error in people's
imaginative thinking.

----- snip -----

Next time I'll use a lower case g.

Jake

 

[Jake]

Indeed. Virtually any change is made because someone, somewhere, thinks
it's a good idea. Whether we'd agree with them, in the unlikely event
that they deign to tell us _why_ they thought it is a good idea, is of
course a different matter.

Microsoft has been known to initiate changes to lock itself against
other vendors under its "Embrace and Extend" philosophy. The most
damaging example I'm aware of is the use of the backslash in folder
structures when every other OS was already using forward slashes. When
they were able to tie enough proprietary and third party software to
this abomination it became the new standard for PC owners, and much
competing software, say unix utilities, had to be rewritten to run on
it.

These days this strategy includes a layer of patents. It will be
interesting to see what MS claims to have innovated in W8, RT or not.

-J

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

----- snip -----

Next time I'll use a lower case g.

Jake

Perhaps you meant

"Next time i'll use a lower case g"

 

[Ed Cryer]

There is a God.

-J

Less likely now that the Higgs Boson particle has been isolated on
umpteen occasions.
Just keep your eye on practical physics for the next hundred or so
years. We're in for a scientific revolution; and just what technology
it'll produce is beyond imagining! Just as the light-bulb in my bathroom
was beyond the foreseeing of Immanuel Kant.

Ed

P.S. God works in wondrous ways his marvels to produce. But if he's
running homo sapiens as a kind of kindergarten, well, I think we're
about to grow up.

 

[Char Jackson]

In message <[email protected]>, Char Jackson
[]
I take "for no good reason" to mean you don't know the reason, and not
that Microsoft didn't have a reason. For all we know, they had an
excellent reason. We weren't there.

Note that I support your right to be cranky about changes from one OS
to another. The thing I'm complaining about is that you and I don't
know enough to be able to call those changes gratuitous or for no good
reason.
[]
not so much). I am not opposed to sensible change. Senseless change,
OTOH, I do not like.

So since we don't know the reasons for the changes that have been
bothering you, do you concur that calling them gratuitous is
premature? For all we know, they may not be gratuitous at all.

How long do we have to wait for the explanations/reasons to be given?
Or, in some cases, the reasons may have been given but we do not accept
that they _are_ good reasons.

What makes you think the information you seek will EVER be released?
As consumers, we certainly have no right to it, nor do we have an
expectation that it will someday be provided. Or at least I don't.

So we are suppose to just roll over and play dead? Or, to put it another
way, accept changes - which appear to us arbitrary - without any
explanation.

The answer to your last question is quite obviously yes, but that
should have been entirely self-evident and therefore didn't really
need to be asked except as a means to (hopefully) drive a stake into
this discussion.

Buy the product and use it, or don't, but don't for a second believe
that any of us is owed an explanation for the various design decisions
that went into it. That just isn't how things work.

Or take Gene's advice and drop a Xanax. ;-)

 

[Bob I]

Perhaps you meant

"Next time i'll use a lower case g"

+1

 

[charlie]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 03:06:40 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"

In message<[email protected]>, Char Jackson
[]
I take "for no good reason" to mean you don't know the reason, and not
that Microsoft didn't have a reason. For all we know, they had an
excellent reason. We weren't there.

Note that I support your right to be cranky about changes from one OS
to another. The thing I'm complaining about is that you and I don't
know enough to be able to call those changes gratuitous or for no good
reason.
[]
not so much). I am not opposed to sensible change. Senseless change,
OTOH, I do not like.

So since we don't know the reasons for the changes that have been
bothering you, do you concur that calling them gratuitous is
premature? For all we know, they may not be gratuitous at all.

How long do we have to wait for the explanations/reasons to be given?
Or, in some cases, the reasons may have been given but we do not accept
that they _are_ good reasons.

What makes you think the information you seek will EVER be released?
As consumers, we certainly have no right to it, nor do we have an
expectation that it will someday be provided. Or at least I don't.

So we are suppose to just roll over and play dead? Or, to put it another
way, accept changes - which appear to us arbitrary - without any
explanation.

It's either that or Xanax.

To buy/use win 8 ??
I'd rather not, and have MS get the rest of the bugs and unwanted
"features" cleaned up in win 7!
BUT- - - As a stockholder, with a paltry few shares, I hope MS sells the
heck out of win 8!

 

[deuteros]

The only selling feature of windows 7 was xp mode.

And the fact that Windows 7 is better than XP in almost every way.