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Comment Re:Moral objection (Score 1) 393

We've long established that the source of the human "soul" is in the brain.

We have established nothing. We have no idea what soul or consciousness is. Maybe my computer has a soul too? Does it die when I reboot it? Does adding another hard drive makes my computer more intelligent and with a bigger soul? This is weed-talk!

Comment Re:Wow... (Score 0) 491

The lack of visual clues in windows8? What about iPad? My friend showed me what he could do with his iPad and I was impressed, but I would have never thought about gestures with 4 fingers :) I have never seen anybody complaining about iPad interface. Seriously, I have seen NO SINGLE TITLE that would say that iPad interface lacks visual clues. Anyway, as a desktop user I find the idea of tiles in start menu quite useless and guy/gal who came up with name "charms" for the right side menu should be beaten to death with pink fluffy teddy bears.

Comment Re:Start button sucks! (Score 1) 628

I do not think you have used windows 8 much. It is pretty good system that needs a few tweaks. Other than that it is not that difficult to get used to. The big deal about start button just surprises me. If people cannot handle simple change like this then are they even able to learn anything new? What if their favorite grocery store closes or bread is no longer available? Are they going to starve to death?

Comment Start button sucks! (Score 0) 628

I really hate start button. Who really needs it? There is one on the keyboard already. Booting to the desktop seems nice but what is the point? I always want to launch something and go to the start menu anyway. I would really like to see separation of metro/desktop apps though. If I do not want to run any apps in metro mode I do not want to see them in start menu nor I want them opening when I double-click on some file. The default metro-style image viewer in windows8 does not have the most important feature - slideshow or even possibility to show the "next" picture. If I want to see images in folder I cannot. I have to close the app and open it again. Just like in 1992 :) On development side Metro-style apps are poorly supported. Default MVVM style development with tombstoning/activation is not implemented properly in Visual Studio and multiple half-baked open source libraries with layers and layers of artificial abstractions just piss me off :) Also the lack of acceptance by users and attempts to enhance window8 interface means that development APIs will change again pretty soon. Moving target with not much meat on it... I'll pass for now.

Comment Re:Seriously, are MS devs really using Win8? (Score 1) 628

It worked great in 1995. Somewhere around 2000 folders started to suck. When MS introduced start menu search I abandoned my futile attempts to categorize software into folders. Manual categorization just does not work if you are really working. Install 3 versions of Visual Studio, 3 SDKs, office, few third party dev apps and start menu becomes an unmanageable mess.

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