Yep; exactly.

But it feels soooo good for them to say things that they think are sophisticated, that they can't apply some elementary logic to the situation.

A worm is not sophisticated because he thinks the whole world is mud. Kind of the opposite.

And where do you think we educate them on those good practices? That's right; it's not in their pocket with the smart phone.

It went from "faster than matters" to "even faster than matters". All SATA drives are fast enough, you don't notice the difference between normal ones and ultra fast ones.. I have a Samsung XP941 (the "proprietary" drive that you can easily buy) and a regular 840 Pro in my desktop. You can benchmark the difference easily, but you don't notice it, at all, in day to day operation.

There's no reason for most children to have pocket Internet connected computers.

Heck, we have our family computer in the living room. So a pocket Internet connected computer would kind of defeat the point ...

While AMD fans cry foul, it really is true that AMD drivers are worse on Windows than nVidia drivers. It isn't the massive gap like on Linux, but it is there. OpenGL stuff sees particular issues, with slower performance or even stuff outright failing to run on AMD cards, but other issues as well. My 7970M in my laptop has been headaches since I got the thing and only recently got up to a competent level.

Problems aside, they are just slow with updates for things like Crossfire. Multi-GPU support generally requires game specific profiles to work well, or even work at all. nVidia is quite fast at getting their SLI profiles out, but AMD hasn't had an update to Crossfire profiles since 2014.

AMD just doesn't focus on the software side of things like nVidia does. Their hardware development team seems to be top notch but their software development is lacking.

OK, now can we admit its not a "religion of peace"?

(quick, mod him down, he said something we don't like! Plus all religions are equally evil - Presbyterians are just itchin to shop off some heads! Plus, wascally wepubwicans!)

That's the only reason. A number of people, in particular geeks that are Windows haters in general, have decided Windows 8 is horrible, unusable, etc, etc and thus refuse to upgrade to it. So something like this is a Big Deal(tm) for them. Of course if any of them actually just quit complaining and used it they'd find it works great. The interface is a big uglier with the whole flat style (Window Blinds and ShadowFX fix that if you really care) and the start screen is less efficient than the start menu (Start 8 fixes that nicely) but it isn't a big deal. The OS itself is compatible with essentially everything (between home and work I've tested a lot of stuff on it) and it is fast and stable.

However this is a case of feels over reals so they complain, hence why you are hearing about this.

It is time to stop selling 7 now. Windows operates on a 10 year lifecycle, split in half. After the first 5 years it goes in to "extended support" meaning patches but no new features. So that's a good time to stop selling it. Also, you don't want to sell a laptop with an OS that will go completely out of support right away and require an upgrade. Again, a reason to stop selling it.

Hence new systems are going 8 only for support.

Also, despite the whining, it is a fine OS. It's only real issue is the start screen is inefficient to us. Not impossible, not insurmountable, just inefficient. You can use a system with it just fine. What's more, it is a real easy problem to fix. Buy Start 8, or get Classic Shell for free and you're done, a classic start menu that works nice.

It makes sense to only support and ship 8 (or rather 8.1) on systems these days.

Um, uh ... because ... science! Women! Memes!

Why not both? I deal with industrial controls somewhat frequently, and it is a common approach to take multiple inputs, align them into comparable units, then weight them according to their importance and add them together. Typically this is done in such a way that if the usual governing input fails, the remaining inputs, combined with the control logic, will guide the system into a safe state.

Which reinforces the OP's point that shops need to offer more than aisles of product and a cash register. I went into a hobby store yesterday to look at, and possibly buy, an RC truck. I'm completely new to the hobby so I had many questions, such as "what would you use 5 channels for in an RC truck", "can the model with the brush motor be upgraded to brushless, and how much would that cost", "Can the 2WD models be upgraded to 4WD", etc etc. I needed a sales person who knew how to help me find what would be best for me. Instead, the shop was staffed by a 10 year old kid (not kidding) and a couple of older kids whose ages were a bit ambiguous but definitely under 16. I'm sure they are good kids but they don't know how to be a good salesperson.

This is kind of an extreme case but you can't sell product if you put no effort into selling product! In this case Amazon prices are the same as hobby shop prices (probably due to strict MSRP rules) so I would have been happy buying locally. And it doesn't help that nowhere are there comparison charts between some of the different RC models. Traxxas has about 8 different versions of the 1/10 Slash truck, but no table of differences. I expected a 30 minute education and buying experience, but now I have to research all over the internet, through countless forums, to answer all my newbie questions. Give me a decent salesperson any day of the week.

I have and you are right, they made it a very good game, just stating that on release all those 9 and 10 scores were BS, based on what people wanted it to be, not what it was. As it stands now, solid 9.

The mafia style tactics were probably a reference to the sad case of Karen Silkwood, a whistleblower in the nuclear industry who had died under mysterious circumstances only a few years earlier.

Valve is one of those devs that can do no wrong in most people's eyes. They'll get high scores because of who they and, and because of what people want Halflife to be.

You want an example of shit like that happening? Look at Civilization 5. It wasn't a great Civ game. It wasn't BAD, but it was a step down from 4 in most ways. Realistic scores would have been 7/10 or so. However all the reviews were glowing. Why? Because reviewers WANTED it to be good. They love Civ, have loved it for a long time, and have an emotional investment in it being good. So they reviewed the game they wanted it to be, not what it was.

Unless HL3 was complete shit, it would get off the charts good reviews because people want it to be good so badly.

Yes DOTA 2 and CS:GO are very popular, but innovative they are not. CS:GO is just Counterstrike. New graphics and some tweaks, but same game it ever way. DOTA 2 is just another MOBA, one of very many, not the biggest out there (that's League of Legends) and it borrows heavily from other games. They are popular not because they are amazing new titles doing never before seen stuff, they are popular because it is the same shit people like, well executed and pushed on the most popular PC game store.

Not hating on that, but this idea that Valve is some sort of amazin' developer that only puts out revolutionary titles is a false one. Lately all they've "pumped out" are rehashes that are popular for doing what has been done before and people liked, not because they moved in a new direction.