Comment Re:Win 8.1 Start Screen is fine (Score 1) 681
It's very similar to the osx launchpad.
You say that as if that were a good thing...
It's very similar to the osx launchpad.
You say that as if that were a good thing...
Do you really think that the only reason people could hate the ribbon is because they don't know how to use it? That's simply delusional. At least now I know where the equally mistaken belief that the only reason people could hate Metro is because they don't know how to use it comes from.
You can just customize it though, just add your commonly used tasks to the home tab of the ribbon and you're set.
True enough. But that doesn't stop the ribbon from sucking.
The advent of all games involving a "social" context, requiring access to the internet, and the use of DLC and micropayments, is what made me give quit gaming entirely. The cheat code business is a side-effect of this. This is one of the items on my short list of things that the internet has made worse.
A number of things, but the three worst, in my view, are that it is very often extremely slow to load (and sometimes fails to load at all), it requires me to allow Disqus to run Javascript, and it involves a third party (Disqus) sitting between me and the blog -- which means that I have to allow myself to be tracked across multiple websites just so I can make a comment.
Sites that use Disqus are sites that don't allow comments as far as I'm concerned.
I disagree. I HATE HATE HATE reddit's commenting system.
This. Disqus is horrible. Even if it worked right, it would still be horrible.
...which is precisely why I don't (and won't) use such commenting systems. Single sign-on is a terrible idea.
I was looking for a used car, found one one craigslist. Got a cashiers check to pay for it received the car and title payed with the check. Tried to get a temporary tag from the dmv but the car was never registered to the guy i got it from.
You should never pay until after the title check and a mechanic has taken a look at the car. Then you don't have to worry about this type of problem.
What are my options? Am i just out of luck?
You have the same options that you'd have if a dealer did this to you: sue. Although if I were in your shoes and the check never cleared, I'd just park the car in the guy's driveway, drop the title & keys in his mailbox and walk away.
But basically, we have different priorities. You feel this isn't stressful. I would find having to validate the title to be stressful.
Clearly we do. A title check is just a stop to the DMV website. It's no more or less stressful than online shopping.
I've had good luck with warranties. Most have been close to break-even.
If I had such experience, I would probably feel differently. But, seriously, I can't think of a single time that I actually used a warranty on anything I had. It's all just burnt money.
I'm afraid that you misread me -- I have no anger at all. I was just surprised to see Best Buy cited as an example of something being done right because that doesn't square with my experience.
I'm also not comparing website prices. I'm comparing prices of equipment sold in my local brick & mortar Best Buy with the same equipment sold in a nearby computer parts store. The nearby store, on average, is priced 2/3 to 1/2 of what Best Buy prices are. This might be influenced by the types of products I tend to buy -- I don't buy Rokus or movies there. I buy networking items: switches, cables, drive enclosures, that sort of thing.
All I know is that literally every item I've priced at Best Buy can be had from other retailers for at least half the price, and when I have gone into Best Buy I have always been pressured to buy stuff I don't want.
The "sleazy" part pretty much comes from the Geek Squad, which is a pure ripoff operation.
Wait until you get a car from a local person that turns out to not have a good title- or was in an accident and reconditioned. Talk about stress.
Not stressful at all, because I can, and do, easily run title and accident checks and get exactly the same information that a dealership would have. Plus, I don't have to worry that the dealership is withholding important information.
As I said above- internet bidding is VERY low stress and laying an 8 year warranty over the top of that erases stress.
Warranties don't decrease my stress level at all -- they merely increase the sense that I've just got ripped off. But that's a personal issue. In any case, you may find the internet bidding process to be low stress, but that certainly isn't true for everybody. The stress comes from interacting with a dealership, and internet bidding doesn't eliminate that.
I keep my cars a long time (or until a high school student totals them from behind).
As do I.
Right now, Tesla will send technicians to you. Once there are enough electric cars on the roads, though, independent mechanic will certainly be able to repair them as well.
Many aspects of the dealership people find unpleasant will still be there with a manufacturer run dealership. One of them is the credit checks for the loans.
I seriously doubt that the credit check for a loan even appears on list of things that people find unpleasant about dealerships. If it does, it's certain to be dead last. At least, when I hear people complaining about dealerships (and in my own complaints about them), "the credit check" has never, ever been mentioned.
There have been numerous such expose's over the past 50 years or so.
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
