I looked at that shot side by side with a verified Win8 U2 release of the start menu (which is now cancelled) and it's basically the exact same thing. So they already slapped users in the face by saying it will be in a fall update to 8.1 then cancelling it. Now here comes the other hand for slap #2 that they're pretending it's a new development or invention. They just stole it completely from 8.1 U2.

Didn't their market research branch let them know that this has no widespread practical use and nobody wants this? What is the motivation to replace my monitor with this? For an ultra-thin cell phone, it has major piercing damage risk issues. I just don't see this taking off. It's like making a smart watch just because you can but conveniently forgetting that nobody wants one.

Time for a fun trivia question. What language is the majority of the internet written in? (it's a slight majority but it's a majority)

Well then let's name it Slashdot.

As a small business owner, I can tell you that the even more hush hush method of payment is bartering. There's no trail or taxes and honestly I don't think it should be taxed either. That's simply because of the annoyance of estimating value and the near impossibility of drawing it from owner's equity to drawn income.

If I want to pay a 14 year old computer repair enthusiast and intern/assistant without 1000000 forms to fill out, I give them property that can be flipped for cash extremely quickly like game codes from the Nvidia promotion. That's how small stuff will be handled without cash.

That's just dumb. Fiats don't start most of the time. How are they going to crash if they don't start?

Nooo, sexily plug in a bitcoin-enabled USB flash drive into their USB socketed Gstring. Of course, having to flip it around like 17 times before getting it to connect correctly because of its false symmetry might get annoying.

I can't believe I forgot that one! And Dovahkiin.

Fact 1: Most 16 year olds I know these days can't spell.
Fact 2: An adult has 2x the brainpower as a child, especially with decision making, because of frontal lobe rearrangements that happen during teen years

So it's really quite stupid to teach K-5 kids chess instead of reading, writing, and spelling.

They should have just hired Barbara Streisand to handle the situation instead. She's have the same results, just at a lower price.

You underestimate the situation. You've got 4chan. You've got the Star Wars crowd trying to name them Hoth. You've got the Trekkies trying to name it Vulcan. You've got the scientologists trying to name it who the hell even knows what. You've got MS haters trying to name it Windows 9 (because it's so far away). This is like the internet version of World War 3 because there are so many super powers involved.

Oh, that's easy. I have an IQ of 134. I'm very slightly autistic and have a moderate obsession with shapes and patterns but not enough to interfere with my daily life. I absolutely cannot look at a tile bathroom wall without finding shapes and patterns and triangles and angles and symmetry between them though. So when I sit down to design the logical flow of a program, my subconscious already completed the work, I just type it. Like when I wrote a car rental program in college, I read the requirements and immediately drew out exactly what the flow of information between the modules would have to look like to meet the needs. Everyone asked how I solved it that quickly and I had no idea why they didn't because it seemed obvious to me.

My college and high school programming teachers did a good job telling me how programming and variables and memory and instructions ACTUALLY worked and that's what makes me a good programmer. My brain's natural abilities filled in the rest. Like do this but don't do that because garbage collection won't reach it and that's double the size of memory you'd need anyway for that data. That's not a learned ability, it's common sense if you know how programming actually works. So you don't need to "learn" how to not write crappy code in most cases.

Sorry but the console won't get any better over the years and PC hardware will. So even a year from now, everyone will be playing Watch Dogs at a higher quality.

I still like Exile 3 by Spiderweb software better. It's a super ultra mega classic RPG and its map makes Skyrim look small. I think it was released in 1994 or something but it still runs on Windows 7 32 bit today.

You have to be REALLY smart and good at pattern recognition and logic to be a programmer. And I mean extremely, unnaturally good. I completely disagree with the years of dedication and research, as I wrote an entire software suite that was pretty much flawless right out of college. Experience and training is not very important as long as you know how to write good code that's efficient and makes sense to others. The biggest determining factor is how smart you are. That's just how it is. I'm not a famous singer because I suck at singing and I'm not a famous artist because I suck at all forms of art. You don't see me writing a whiny article about it.