your point makes no sense to what I said in my post. i'm talking about the lack of backward compatibility and forcing users to upgrade while it could be easily avoided and your arguing with the number of PC : gamers vs office...seriously ?

but how can you shun Windows 8 while its the only windows OS available in stores pre-installed ? MS do force customers to use Windows 8 when they buy a pc since they come pre-installed with Win8. Unless they take some refurbished pc or laptop with Win7

Although join.me is by logmein this one seems to be free so try to use join.me instead of a connection pc 2 pc is what your looking for. works great for troubleshooting a complete noob that messed is pc up and calls you at midnight to fix his pc.

Theres also teamviewer that works in a similar way like join.me and logmein. You can remotely log in a pc and work on it. Skype also has a share screen function so you might look at that as well

By not making a smooth transition, you open yourself to new problems and probably a wall of hesitation and strong defence. For example, making the new version of DirectX only available to new versions of Windows 8 and same thing with Windows 7 when xp was available was just plain wrong especially for developpers and gamers alike.

Let's face it, a big portion of pc users are gamers which are very important for the pc industry. I rather have a smooth transition than forcing me to use Windows 8 at a certain point. While its true that I don't see a neccessity to get Windows 8 for now its starting to show that certain apps and games are Windows 8 only or so imcompatible that Windows 8 might be the solution

Any studies with the effect of eating meat from a genetically-engineered pig ? I know it's for research but cloning pigs for eating could be a temporary solution for over population as everyone knows that the bigger the city the bigger the need for meat. Or you can think of people who need food. this cloning tech could be a solution. Not the best one but better than nothing

Wasn't that Honey Whisky. A bee's going through a wood beam like it was nothing would pretty make me run in fear

1 thing I know is that if you put 280 million people on a software chances are you will get it hacked eventually. Increase that number to billions and your chances increase with numbers I like. Maybe if big companies like Sega, Sony, Microsoft and all others think their creations arent hackable (I'm serious...I think they think people don't hack console games) like they think they are, with this number of people using consoles, I hope in a good evil way, it gets hacked so easily they will have to put more emphasis on computer games and stop making idiot low quality ports like we have most of the time right now.

It did, it sucks electricity out of those power plants. In turn, those power plants when they use more electricity creates heat because of those datacenters. by creating heat the temperature of a that region shift and changes too fast which in turn changes the humidity level, the wind and lastly creating the Hurricane /sarcarms

In the UK...visit the province of Québec in Canada. 14,975% tax with what you virtually buy anything that has solid matter in the province and for the income tax which I don't have the numbers directly because its progressive income tax., its around 30% and more if you have a higher salary...you pay more. When I started I payed around 25% but the higher the salary I got, the more I payed. Last time I checked it was around 45% so its too freak'n high if you ask me.

I was about to write that but you took the words out of my mouth. This also applies to other other domains as well. Replacing "jobs" with another. But I would complain if x companie shuts down to open up in a 3rd world country just to save money... now thats a different story but doesn't apply here in any case.

WHAT ?? xbox one and PS4 plays game ? Don't bullshit slashdot'ers man. It's not nice

then don't think about it. I see news about people not taking their meds when they should of in the first place and resulted in the death or beating of someone they knew in their lives..etc etc. He just gave advice (not medical cause it doesn't take a phD to tell this) to not stop his meds... FFS, its prevention he did. Not that hard concept to grasp

when a person ask for advice ( on /. ) and a complete stranger tells him to not stop taking meds...its not useless in my book. Any person that takes this kind of medication with any level of intelligence will usually think about stopping his meds. So mspohr tried to do prevention. Unless your antisocial or something, prevention is not useless lol

Heres the thing, people that take these meds that are Schizophrenic or other mental illness will(or could or can...etc) stop meds cause they feel better especially when they are on meds. The usual normal human behavior dictates that we should stop taking meds which I saw regularly around me unfortunately. So telling him to not stop taking meds when he feels like he's on the right path or felling good or happy is a legitimate reply and answer.

and telling your team about your medical issues, the symtoms, effects and everything they should know would be a good idea. That helps building trust as well.