Yeh, kinda. I'm trying to envision a suit doing html however.

Which is exactly why the Ribbon is the most copied office suite interface ever made. Every other application has moved to the ribbon.

Oh wait. Sorry, this happens every time I take an Alka Seltzer Plus.

Allow me to illustrate for them. There is an application in OSX named Launchpad It looks remarkably like Metro. Big icons for the applications. Click on one, and it opens the program.

Not many people use Launchpad. So what to do? What's this docklike thing at the bottome of the screen that pops up when I take my mopuse down there. Yup, it's a dock. Take a program icon and take it over to the dock, and it will open for your viewing pleasure.

But wait! Maybe you are old school, and want to tough it out. Go to the Applications folder, and choose the program you want from there.

Choices, choices, choices.

I prefer the dock, as apparently most do. But for some reason, Apple didn't choose to ram it's choice down people's throat.

Whic is to say, why microsoft chose to alienate a large portion of their users by removing the choice is almost unbelievable. This is n illustration of easy choices, not installing third party software, so I'm not comparing the OS - only the choice

Offer the option of interfaces, for to not understand that some will like, and some won't, but you discard those who don't is the very definition of Churn

Again the new interface "works". We all know that. It is however, stupid in many people's eyes. And the intervening 7 years have not made it any less stupid.

Microsoft - like it's fanbois - must figure that if you disrespect and ignore the customer's wishes long enough, they'll quit complaining and leave you alone.

Because everyone has to do exactly as you do. The way I fiigure it, if you weren't supposed to ever turn the thing off, there wouldn't be that option.

Sorry muchacho, I power down all my devices. Kinda more secure that way., kinda uses less electricity, and like, we always have our computers plugged in. Or in your world we just let the power run out? You see If I'm travelling and all my computers are packed in their boxes and on the plane, is just leaving them turned on for a few days the way we should do it? And the desktops, where do I get the 3000 mile long extrension cord?

My experience is that MS Office doesn't play well with others - or even with itself. Try sending a PC Powerpoint to a Mac Office PowerPoint, and you'll not likely enjoy th difference. If Microsoft programs can't even play with their own selves, then no thanks.

I've achieved remarkable compatibility by using Open Office on all my machines, no matter the OS.

Microsoft is becoming the outlier here.

A little old man calls 911. "I have a problem here!

The police come over and ask what the problem is....

"Those dIsgusing people on the other side of the street are running around the house naked. They are doing it right now! It's terrible and has to stop!"

"But Sir, I can't see anone doing that"

"Of course not, you need these binoculars!"

You're right that "first past the post" is a big part of the problem. But that's far from the whole story.

For one thing, "Repubmocrats" do NOT have 100% of the power. It may be near 100%, but it isn't 100% -- for example currently two U.S. senators, four major city mayors, and hundreds of state and local officials across the U.S. are elected independents or members of 3rd parties.

That means that quite a few voters across the U.S. have actual experience in ELECTING someone who is not a member of the two major parties. Those sorts of successes can make it more easier for some voters to justify taking a chance on a 3rd-party candidate.

Also, the Tea Party (for another example) has made huge inroads into mostly Republican territory in recent elections. One can argue that this has created huge problems for the traditional Republican leadership that disagrees with Tea Party ideology. In some elections, this has resulted in long-standing prominent members of the Republican party losing primaries and/or general elections.

The video you posted labels this the "spoiler effect" when it leads to, say, a Democrat being elected. But the very term "spoiler effect" is not a neutral term -- it's a propaganda term used by the 2 major parties to convince people to keep them in power.

We could, instead, call this the "disenfranchisement effect," where the two-party system focus on candidates A and B might disenfranchise voters who hate both and would prefer to vote for C. According to the spoiler effect logic (and your video), the C voters supposedly should learn between elections that their votes were "wasted" by voting for C, and thus come back and vote for A or B in the next election.

But that's not the only choice the C voters have. They could also (1) not vote at all, because they believe they've been effectively disenfranchised by the two parties or (2) continue to vote for a candidate like C, as the only candidate who represents their views. (One could certainly argue that at least condition (1) is incredibly important in the U.S. today, given the "get out the vote" efforts both parties employ, and also the fact that most adults don't even bother to vote in most U.S. elections.)

The point of all this is that while "first past the post" gives a mathematical tendency toward two party domination, it does NOT guarantee that the two parties will always stay the same -- one could eventually be replaced by another, or (more often) one or both parties could shift ideological ground significantly to retain members in the face of increasing defections in major elections.

This in fact has happened many places with the Republicans for example, where Tea Party affiliates have forced the Republican party candidates to change their ideologies or else lose elections. Rather than seeing it as a "spoiler" effect to lose an election, many voters instead see it as effective "disenfranchisement" and refuse to continue voting for candidates they hate. The only choice of the Republicans is to nominate candidates that have a chance of winning... and thus, to retain power, they must actually respond to those voters who cast votes for 3rd parties (or didn't even vote at all).

So, it's not quite as dire as people make it out to be. Yes, "first past the post" sets up some unhelpful constraints, but significant change is still possible. We can start by refusing to use 2-party propaganda terms like "spoiler effect," since that implies that one of the top two candidates somehow "deserves" to win. Untrue. If a 3rd-party candidate draws enough votes away from one of the top 2 candidates, the major party candidate FAILED to attract enough votes to win. That's not a 3rd-party candidate "spoiling" an election -- that's a major party "losing" an election by failing to satisfy enough of the electorate.

The honest answer is, we can only guess.

An answer that's snarky but perhaps accurate is that (a) he said whatever would get him elected, and/or (b) lacks the ability to resist those around him.

Don't get too upset. Considering how much Congress works against the People's interests, the status quo is looking a lot safer than reform at the moment.

Funny, My better half instantly adapted to linux mint touchscreen after we took W8 off of it. Your incredibly stupid fetus argument tell me you know nothing about Linux.

Yes, it has one.

That does not make it any good.

That isn't the point. The point is if you have an integral mail program, you should make at least some attempt to accommodate people. Los of people still have POPmail. And the suggestions are ludicrous, from changing ISP's to opening a gmail account, then forwarding all your POPMail to that, then using the integral program to that account, and reading it in the Windows mail reader.

And yes, I've had to install T-Bird or the like.

I was waiting for that one. Yes, make sure that you call anyone who doesn't like something about Windows an idiot. A long proud tradition that started with Windows Vista not having drivers for contemporary equipment. Stupid idiots should have developed ESP or something.

With all due respect, fanboi, What do you do for customers that want their applications shortcutted on the desktop? Call them idiots, and bask in the glow of knowing your superiority over stupid people? You and Microsoft's problem is that you think that anyone who doesn't do things your way is an idiot. Hate to break it to you, but there are people smarter than you, and people who are smarter than me, who want applicataion shortcuts on their desktops.

I've seen forced updates, I've seen security settings changed from not updating to auto updates, I'veseen applications settings changed, and the time honored tradition of updates resetting program preferences or just causing the application to fail.

It depends on the definition of "problem". It's obvious that you touch the screen, and the program opens. Or do some gyrations with a non touch screen to do the same. Yeah it works, but it's a stupid phone os grafted onto a laptop/desktop environment. And I do have a philosophical problem with that. And you don't even need a phone OS to deal with a touchscreen. When my better half decided that she had enough of Windows 8, I installed Llinux Mint on her touch screen laptop, and it works just fine. And she doesn't have any of the problems she did when it was running W8 or 8.1.

More the assumptions that I can't figure it out. Knowing something is stupid or clumsy is not an inability to figure it out. I worked with Windows 8 for a year before I decided it didn't fit with my idea of what personal computing should be. And I adapted by abandoning it, which has turned out to be a very good and productive move.

So, you have this boxy thing mounted in the middle of the park bench. The promo photo has two attractive people awkwardly trying to look chic sitting next to something about he size of an old-school VCR bolted to the middle of the bench. Of course, you'd naturally stick your 32 oz triple malt latte on it, and any 9 year old with angry daddy issues will beat it with the nearest rock. Meanwhile, it provides no shade at all.

Great idea, utter failure in implementation. Instead:

1) Put the solar panel (even if small) on a pole OUT OF THE WAY so it lets you sit on the !@# seat, and provides at least a modicum of shade. Better yet, made the overhead cover the length of the bench so the shade is usable and you get some protection from light rain.

2) Put the USB charge port under the seat. This provides automatic protection from accidental strikes and also doesn't provide an automatic target for 9 year olds with angry daddy issues.

As it sits now, it's practically a show case example of some bad engineering product a la Dilbert.

Yeah, I don't get the opposition, either. Considering nearly every writer I know loves books stores of all kinds, including used book stores, it seems absurd to object to reselling a digital one in exactly the same way physical ones have been resold in the past. I tend to assume most of it boils down to the fear if someone can resell once they'll resell a bunch of times.

I hereby declare you as having no idea what you're talking about.

Look fanboi, why not use your massive knowledge of all that is true and good to refute what I wrote. Oh..... wait....... you can't.