"Never mind the fact that the iPod turned the entire music industry on its head. Never mind the fact that most successful notebooks today resemble designs first popularized by Apple. Never mind the fact that the blueprint of the modern day smartphone remains the original iPhone. Never mind the fact that competitors are scrambling wildly to copy the success and design of the iPad. Forget all of these things, because when it comes to Apple, the 'what have you done for me lately?' mentality reigns supreme."
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See what I mean Werecat? Here you are, a geek with years of exp on a site full of geeks with years of exp and nobody can figure out basic tasks without just randomly poking crap and hoping it does something that is replicable.
And we're fricking geeks for God's sake, we are USED to dealing with funky weird tech all damned day, how in the hell is Joe Average and Sally Secretary supposed to figure this broken mess out? I mean who in the hell thought that simply shutting down the PC should be hidden under the universal SETTINGS icon? Does that make ANY sense?
And THAT is why I'm so damned sick of the Win 8 apologists either giving us the "Oh you're just a Luddite that refuses to accept "innovation" or learn new things" or the "Oh you just (insert bunch of keyboard crap)" excuses. I picked up how to get around your average Linux distro good enough to do basic tasks in maybe an hour, Android didn't even take that long, maybe half an hour, but in Win 8 despite having used Windows since 3.1 and computers since 1982 I couldn't do more than surf with the damned thing after a week! And the keyboard commanders...we are supposed to go back to printing "cheat sheets" like its 1985 again? THAT is innovation?
So I'm sorry but Win 8 is NOT new, its NOT innovative, its BROKEN. Its designed for an interface nobody has and goes bonkers if you use a normal PC interface (such as the swipe one minute move the mouse the next when you use a trackpad problem) and even if you DID have a touchscreen there is ZERO context or clues and what little context there is, like settings equal shutdown, is completely WRONG. I agree with the tech writer whose video i posted, Win 8 deserves a product recall because in its current state its just broken, its just not suitable for purpose.
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The third and final WWDC product I want to talk about is - of course - OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While iOS 7 was clearly the focus of this year's WWDC, its venerable desktop counterpart certainly wasn't left behind. Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the first OS X release not to carry the name of a big cat.We already talked about iOS 7 yesterday (after a night of sleep, it's only looking worse and worse - look at this, for Fiona's sake!), so now it's time to talk about the downright stunning and belly flutters-inducing new Mac Pro. As former owner and huge, huge, huge fan of the PowerMac G4 Cube - I haven't been this excited about an Apple product since, well, I would say the iMac G4. This is the Apple I used to love.
Apple held its big keynote event thing at WWDC earlier this evening, but since I was away with friends I've had to read up on it later in the evening. The company announced iOS 7, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and they gave a preview of the new Mac Pro. Especially the Mac Pro impressed me, and while iOS 7's new Holo/Metro-inspired theme looks messy and garish to me, I do commend Apple for finally breaking the mold. This news item will focus on iOS 7 - I'll dive into the Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 tomorrow (it's late here now).
And yes, the PRISM scandal is far, far from over. More and more information keeps leaking out, and the more gets out, the worse it gets. The companies involved have sent out official statements - often by mouth of their CEOs - and what's interesting is that not only are these official statements eerily similar to each other, using the same terms clearly designed by lawyers, they also directly contradict new reports from The New York Times. So, who is lying?This story is getting bigger and bigger. Even though most Americans probably already knew, it is now official: the United States government, through its National Security Agency, is collecting the communications and data of all American citizens, and of non-Americans using American services, through a wide collaboration with the large companies in technology, like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on. Interestingly enough, the NSA itself, as well as the US government, have repeatedly and firmly denied this massive spying on Americans and non-Americans took place at all.Ah, patents - the never-ending scourge of the technology industry. Whether wielded by companies who don't actually make any products, or large corporations who abuse them because they can't compete in the market place or because they're simply jerks, they do the industry a huge disservice and are simply plain dangerous. According to The Wall Street Journal (circumvention link), president Obama is about to take several executive actions to address patent trolls - which may seem like a good idea, but I am very worried that all this will do is strengthen the positions of notorious patent system abusers such as Apple and Microsoft.
With version 13.05, the developers of the Genode OS Framework take measures to ensure that Genode continues to scale well with a growing number of users and the steadily broadening platform coverage. Further highlights are the improved SoC support for Exynos 5, OMAP4, Raspberry Pi, i.MX, and new components for realizing headless systems.At the D11 conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook once again took the stage to be interviewed by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. While most of the interview can be replicated by picking and reading 10 random Apple fanblog stories - there were still a number of very interesting things that warrant some closer scrutiny.
So, the Xbox One disaster continues. Microsoft's policy for dealing with the used games market has reportedly leaked - and it's a clear and direct attack to destroy the used games market. Prices for used games will be set at the retail value of a new game, and retailers have to hook into Microsoft's computer systems and comply with Microsoft's terms and conditions.At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!
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2005-10-19
Totally agree.
It took me absolutely ages just to figure out how to shut down my god damned PC in Windows 8.
It's now a game I play with guests on my media PC. I see how long it takes each of them to figure it out. Most just give up.
In case you're wondering, you have to hover you mouse over the right side of the screen, click a totally inappropriate cog icon (which is the universal icon for settings), and then find the icon amongst five other down the bottom of the side bar.
And this is just one of many such bizarre UI decisions in Win8. It really seems like they came up with this stuff while under the influence.