What MS could have done to make it a bit better is to allow the standard vertical scrollwheel most mice come with nowadays to scroll the start screen; down = right, up = left (because you always started at the TOP of the start menu, naturally you'd scroll DOWN for more, while the start screen starts at the LEFT, requiring you to scroll RIGHT for more).

What the hell's wrong with your system? That's exactly what it does, at least on 8.0 (haven't "upgraded" to 8.1 because they cut a feature that I regularly use). My mouse wheel is not capable of side-scroll, but I just tested with vertical scrolling and it works exactly like you describe.

Of course, the reason I had to test that is because it's not something a sane person should ever need to do. You have a keyboard, right? Type the first few letters of the program name (or type the file name), hit Enter, and behold the launching of your program. Just like you've been able to do for the last 7+ years, since fucking Vista (to say nothing of Win7).

My question is, does the Constitution apply abroad or not. The Federal Government is petitioning both sides depending on whether or not that particular case works in in favor of their goals or not.

How do you think Hillary made $100,000 in Futures trading? Genius or Luck?

soon. please?

" I want is XP updated to modern code
so..you want something that's easy to break, easy to infect, but written with modern code?

You can NOT use modern code and have the PoS known as XP.

", fixed sizes"
what? Are you lying? becasue almost nothing you said is true.

It's not a fallacy when the hater provides nothing objective other then 'its teh suxors.'

Tiles:
Easy to see what you need based on color alone, quicker then reading.
Easier to organize
hot keyable
If you aren't using search in either windows 7 or 8, you aren't really using the OS well.
win f isn't hard to use. I suppose you could have a menu with a complete list of every file, but that's seem pretty cumbersome.
You can adjust there size , or not, depending on whats easier.
I don't use the OS to look at the OS, I use it to quickly get what I need to do work or play games.

Along those same lines my second grader's report on the civil war was just fucking garbage. I mean, it barely mentioned the manifold reasons behind the civil war. It focused on slavery and BARELY hinted at federalism at all, or the cultural divide. It was only one page long too!

In seriousness, the point of a metaphor in politics is to dumb something down to a point where people who are ignorant on the issue can be motivated to act in a certain way. "Ignorant" here including myself, I don't really understand QoS (without looking it up on wiki that is). To expect a public discussion to be accurate on anything remotely technical is asking for dissapointment. Or is an attempt to confuse voters into apathy.

" And Windows 8 as is is ONLY oriented towards tablets"
false.

wrong.
Netflix pays for their bandwidth. I pay for mine. Now Verizon, AT&T and others want to get paid a third time.

" Netflix doesn't give a damned about Net Neutrality,"
And AT&T, doesn't? Verizon? Google?

"they care about money"
well dur. But both of those aren't opposite.
You notice companies that will make money either way are still jumping in and saying AT&T and verizon is wrong?

" They could change their business model tomorrow to one that wasn't crushing the ISP's infrastructure "
it' snot, and the people already pay the ISPs. IF they can't handles it, then they need to get the fuck out of the kitchen.

hey there.
Laptop can be used for gaming, just not 200 dollar ones. guess what? 200 dollar desktops also can't be used for gaming.
There are a lot of laptops that an run the newest games at the highest graphic levels.

I suspect you just like to hate MS and anything they change.
Tiles make accessing everything a lot easier.
Easier to search, 1 click access to everything I use even semi-regularly.
I don't want the start button back. I'ts baffling to me anyone would want it back, at best it's two additional clicks, at worse it led to hunting around looking for something.

I like hulu plus. There are show wouldn't have found otherwise.
Sure, maybe you aren't interested in there subscription shows, but that doesn't make it bad. It makes it bad for you.

Brooklyn 99, Life on Mars to just name 2

", but I can also see the appeal in keeping things simple."
The universe is not simple. AS we find out more, classification become more precise.
To do otherwise is to embrace ignorance at the cost of discovery.

Not true.

Some MRI systems use them
Several non metalic catalyst use them
Some sensors use them.

They are being used more and more as different engineering issues are solved.