I think Windows 8 is a strange Microsoft logic thing.
Windows Mobile failed in large part because the UI was a desktop UI on a phone or tablet.
Windows 8's UI is pretty much a phone/tablet UI forced on to a desktop...
I used WP8 for about 6 months and it is actually a nice mobile OS except for the lack of apps. It just is not a good UI for a laptop/desktop.

Really? Well if you like it then fine but since the start screen is limited to just "metro" apps it is mostly useless to me.
As far as the rest. Frankly I move between IOS, Android, Windows, Linux, and OS/X every day. I use all of them and have no real problem moving from one to the other.
Windows 8 is a case of too much pain for the gain. If you really have to try insulting people just because they do not agree with you that is your issue. As I said the 8 interface is fine for tablets but not so much for a traditional desktop or laptop.

But by default it is off and they added back a start like button.

"99% of the people bashing the windows 8 interface haven't used it for more than an hour."
As someone that has used and liked AmigaOS, MacOS, OS/X, LinuxKDE, LinuxGnome, Windows, Windows95, 98, 2000, XP, and 7.... If I use a UI for an hour and still hate it I am done.
Windows 8 UI works well on tablets, it is okay on touch devices, it is useless on a traditional desktop or laptop.
The core OS is actually really good but the UI is bad for the majority of users. It gives little to no added value for the pain provided.

Yes.
You only get the tiled interface on Tablets and maybe touch devices....
In other words the way it really should have worked from the start.

I think Microsoft needs to start the countdown after that version is no longer for sale.
Windows 8 is loved about as much as Windows Me and Windows Vista.

Health care still uses faxes. Lots of semi-confidential information + routine signature requirements + an industry staffed largely by computer-illiterates = an amazing quantity of images of sheets of paper transmitted via the switched telephony network.

While it's true that low-interest voters tend to be low-information voters, there is also the problem that highly-interested voters are often highly misinformed voters. You have fundamentalist preachers frightening their congregations to vote in favor of bans on same-sex marriage by telling them horror stories about gay couples adopting babies to molest; or dogmatic political organizations telling their members to vote against a candidate because she's going to take their handguns and hunting rifles away, when all she said was that she'd look into restricting sales of assault weapons. Voters who haven't been mainlining bullshit propaganda crafted to "mobilize the base" can actually have a better grasp of the truth.

"Transgender people often end up having myriads of surgeries, taking many pills (often until they get cancer), seeing psychologists for years, and spend most their lives being unhappy until some time after the switch. So yeah, it's a problem for them and it goes way beyond wearing clothes."
So maybe society needs to find a better treatment for this disorder?

Exactly correct. It only takes a few nut cases to cause a lot of problems.
I also have to wonder why Slashdot is even covering this? The weather channel and ESPN are not covering this. I wish Slashdot would stick to tech and geek specific news.
It is not like every general news site is not covering this story.
 

But the Job of the OS has not. VMS is actually a great OS for this kind of system. Frankly it is a real shame that is in the Hands of HP today.

Frankly I find most political cartoons useless flamebait. They tend to shallow and tend to be more preaching to choir than a source of useful dialog. I would like to see more publications decide to not print things that do not help.

But they need to decide to do that out and not be forced to do that out of fear.
Self censorship based on your ethic and morals is a good thing.
Censorship based on fear of violence is a bad thing.

News Flash.
The US's ICBMs are from the 1960s and the US still uses tankers and strategic bombers from the 1950s.
Good stuff lasts.

The US did not overextend itself in Vietnam.
In Vietnam we really didn't fight a war to win it.

True but I would also like to see a change to the must carry law.
A broadcast channel could only charge the cable company a carriage fee for customers that can see the channel OTA with set top antenna.
All broadcast channels that are carried must be carried as part of the basic package and that the highest resolution broadcast.
So if CBS wants to charge it must give the consumer the option of watching for free using rabbit ears. So if the cable company does not want to pay the consumer can still get the OTA broadcasts.