Seems a little silly to put the user input checking in db code instead of server code.

Probably a bad SQL query join that checked for the existence of a value. If you mistype a code it might be found. If you enter no code, there might be matches.

That would be nobody. Nobody has purchased it.

Apparently someone has released a patch for explorer.exe to let the Windows 7 version run on Windows 8. All the articles I found predate the Windows 8 RTM.

I like dumb terminals. Especially, e.g. having access to my home server via SSH. The difference is some people want to run their own local server and software and be able to pick up any device and use with it. That's not MS-specific, they're just jumping on a wider bandwagon enabled by the Internet. We're moving to an era of (semi-) device-agnosticism.

You don't have to worry about them being homo if they can't even get an erect letter in their sentence.

I've had Windows do exactly that. It turned out to be a hardware issue causing the blue screens, but the updates rolled back after a few failed boots.

WHQL drivers from Windows Update are usually older than what you can install from NVIDIA directly. Also, delaying could mean the update gets recalled before you decide to try.

At least for physical media, this paves the way for 4K video on something not much larger than current media. Sure, physical media is dead and all that. But I still buy it. It also makes streaming 4K more feasible.

I actually use a hackintosh on OS X (still stuck at 10.9 because I'm lazy) as my primary OS, thanks to my older version of Final Cut Pro that I still love. But I've never understood the foaming mouth outrage at Windows 8. And other than some (admittedly, user-hostile) discoverability problems, it functions alright with a mouse and keyboard. Windows 10 makes the apps capable of being windowed, which is the biggest complaint anyone had over Metro other than the start screen itself.

Not visual acuity. Motor skills. If you've ever watched an aging person (80+ or Parkinson's) click and drag an icon because their double-click is so slow and they can't hold their hand still enough, you'd know what I'm talking about.

OS X's full-screen mode has a similar discoverability problem to Windows 8. The first time I accidentally put an app in full-screen on OS X, I couldn't figure out how to bring it back down to a window. Mousing to the top of the screen brought no response. You have to actually hold the mouse there for several seconds to get any response. When the same happened in Windows 8, it was no more and no less frustrating. At least on Windows 8, you have a hardware key to leave a full-screen app (Windows logo key) - sure beats CTRL+CMD+F.

The Metro interface hitting desktops is a lazy way to allow library/binary compatibility of apps without any thoughts. It swear it hit Windows Server as almost an experiment. On the other hand, Windows hasn't had a decent full-screen terminal or command line since Windows ME. OS X finally has one. I think Powershell users might actually be OK with using a terminal in the new UI...eventually. And no - I'm not a Powershell user, but I know in at least the command line, you can use tab completion and the quotes come for free. And OS X's bash requires quotes for spaces, too.

Just stop being a Mac apologist if you're not willing to admit Apple has made nearly as many user-hostile moves. I want to upgrade to Final Cut Studio 3 but I can't (without paying big money on eBay). It was replaced with Final Cut Pro X without warning and completely dumped the UI. And the new UI was so bad, that Conan featured a segment on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Windows 8 honestly isn't that bad. The start screen is good for more than just tablets. It's definitely aimed at children and old people who may not have the clicking dexterity to navigate smaller icons, much like how OS X's dock with magnification does. The big problem with Windows 8 was not making the UI discoverable (unless you are using touch) such as the badly named charms bar or the menu options in full-screen apps. Power users get by just fine by pressing the start key or clicking start and then typing right away - exactly how it worked in Windows 7, but with a bit of a context loss due to it being full screen.

Windows 8's tablet convergence was only a clone of what OS X had already started (but abandoned more quickly). OS X's "start screen", Launchpad, is a direct clone of their iOS home screen and they launched their own Mac app store around the same time. OS X was definitely headed there.

I was at the red light in front of them in the right turn lane. They thought I was turning and they punched the gas. It's not that hard to understand.

Oh I bet they focus-grouped Metro. On a touch-screen handheld. They somehow forgot to reconcile that with traditional desktop users that still exist even after the launch of Windows 8.

lean unseasoned beef. The problem there is that the iron content has its own metallic taste (and salting/koshering would help remove this residual blood). MSG tends to also taste salty.

I would say that the flavor of sharp (or blue) cheese has a high umami/glutamate content.

It means he rear-ended me and that he was at fault.