What they should do is stop hiding the concept of the "home folder" from the user so much. It would be a lot easier than providing a bunch of library links to subfolders within the home dir.

Fun fact: They aren't actually called "My" Documents and such, they're just called "Documents" and explorer sticks the "My" prefix on them. Do a dir on your home folder and you'll see the actual folder names.

The main thing for me is the default taskbar layout. Why does it use unnecessarily huge icons by default (even before Win8 and it's touchscreen stuff)? Why does it group all the windows of one application into one button, making it take longer to switch to specific windows? Why doesn't it display names of the open windows by default even if there's plenty of space on the taskbar?

Microsoft seems to have a fetish for hiding as many words and buttons as possible from the user. That seems to be their definition of "user friendly".

Well, it doesn't really matter whether it's a script or a compiled executable. You run the file, and it executes. If you really need to know, you use file, but the truth is you can simply treat it as a black box executable file in all but a couple corner cases.

To the contrary, I love bloatware because it means other people are subsidizing my PC that I'm going to be installing a fresh OS upon receiving anyway.

I'm just wondering where the let sidebar is. When you have a fluid-width site, you generally want to have a sidebar on the left for readability.

That's not a very good argument because it's directly affecting someone else. You wouldn't let someone drive drunk, because they might possibly injure or kill other people. Pregnant drinking is exactly the same. Or worse, because it's not like a baby can get Fetal Alcohol Syndrome insurance.

I think they only installed it on their consumer line anyway, not any corporate models.

Still waiting for the reverse three strikes, where an IP holder gets punished if they send 3 false notices.

Can't tell if this is sarcastic or not.
It's generally faster to hit a modifier key than it is to move your fingers all the way over to the pgup/down/etc area. I'd much rather hit Ctrl-A/E for Home/End, Ctrl-U/D for pgup/down, etc. I'd take shell-like or vim-like keys any day.

From that link:

The company selling this cable does make objective assertions about this cable which are blatantly false. Just because most of it is subjective doesn't mean there aren't some objective lies mixed in.

I could have sworn there was a story about this a couple days ago. Get your shit together Dice.

It's fine for parents to not get their child vaccinated. However, that child should not be allowed in public schools or other functions.

The real loser in all of this is the child, however. It's not fair for the child that their redneck anti-vax parents should be able to put their health at risk. I find it hilarious that conservatives tend to be "pro-life" yet support someone's right to not get vaccinated, as if a fetus is somehow more important than an actual child.

Great idea!

-Poettering

Comcast hates their customers. News at 11.