I've been around slashdot for probably at least a decade, and seen some pretty stupid crap here. But seriously, this takes the cake. No one else is reporting anything like this. The picture in the "article" is clearly a bad photoshop of mardi gras beads, and the front page of the linked site has a picture of Chewbacca superimposed on a Martian hill.

I can maybe see samzenpus thinking that he had a real scoop on a big story, but he should have at least ran it by some of the other people there. Someone there must have at least a semi-functioning brain. Or maybe he could have looked into the domain registration, and seen that the domain was registered a few days ago to the leader of the New Orleans Bigfoot Society.

Crap like this is a lot of why decent discussion on nerdy things is dying on this site.

Actually, you can search the store. It's just that it's as completely unintuitive as every other design choice they made for the Metro UI. From the start screen, start typing. In the search bar that shows up, click on "Store". Whoever decided to not put a search box in the actual store app should be fired.

I have Windows 8 on my laptop, and overall I like it. It feels much snappier than 7 did (Not sure if it's simply because it's a fresh install, or lack of Aero?), and boot times are really good.

However, the entire Metro UI feels half baked and like a last minute addition. Opening, and then closing a Metro app does not take you back to where you were, it forces you back to the start screen. You then have to alt-tab back to the window that you were at. I had to Google where the Shut Down option was (Yes, I know that I can just press the power button, but I very rarely shut it completely down. I usually either restart, or put it in sleep or hibernate depending on what I'm planning). For the record, the shut down button is now in the Settings panel for some unknown reason.

As far as the start button, there was NO reason for that to be eliminated. They could have kept the metro UI, and start screen, and still had the start button. Removing that and forcing the start screen is just forcing a poorly designed UI on everyone. The really frustrating part is that in Vista & Win7, they had made a ton of improvements to the start menu. It was really, really useful and intuitive. Much more so than the crap they have now.

There's also quite a bit of half baked system settings screens that use the metro UI. For example, in the Devices & Printers screen, you can add and delete printers, but I haven't found any way to do anything else, like adjust settings, view the print queue, etc. Right clicking does nothing. You can still go to the Win7 style control panel, but that's somewhat hidden, and not nearly as easy to access as it was in Win7 (Unless I'm missing something).

Don't even get me started on Minesweeper and Solitaire now. Both used to be games that you could open in a window, and quickly play while you were waiting for a task to finish. Minesweeper is now an over 130MB additional download, which wants you to log in to xbox live to play, forces full screen, and takes several seconds to load. I know that the games aren't a major part of the OS, but it really epitomizes how much usability has been lost in Windows 8, and how they're trying their hardest to force metro UI on everyone.

But this patent is for e-reader devices. That's obviously COMPLETELY different from what you posted.

/sarcasm

I bet there's quite a few people who would spend close to their entire net worth to get to space. I probably would. What's the point of having so much money if you can't do something really cool with it?

If I'm running for the most powerful office in the world, and giving a prepared speech the day after an event like that happened then yes, I would fully expect to give a coherent and cogent response. It's not like they interviewed him on the runway, standing next to a still smoking plane while his wife was gasping for fresh air.

This is what AC is referencing. 7th paragraph down.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-beverly-hills-fundraiser-20120922,0,2317962.story

Sadly, this isn't an Onion article.

Years ago I was pulled over on that stretch of I-15, near Baker. I had been going in excess of 140, but was able to slow down to 106 before the CHP could get me with his radar. The cop never threatened or implied that he'd take me to jail, he just wrote the ticket and let me go.

In California, exceeding 100mph is a mandatory court appearance. When I went, the courtroom was full of people, probably over 40 of them, all charged with going over 100mph, all pulled over on the same stretch of road that I was pulled over on. The judge went down the line hitting every one of us with a $500 fine. That court was pulling in an incredible amount of money every day from people exceeding 100mph.

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-Wikipedia

Of course apologists are already planning for this, it won't be the first (Or last) time that they have to come up with something. They did the same when it was proven that the Earth isn't flat, when it was proven that the Earth isn't the center of the universe, the discovery of dinosaur bones, the discovery of radiocarbon dating, the discovery of the age of the Earth, the discovery of the age of the universe, the ability to see galaxies billions of light years away, the discovery of global warming, the theory of evolution, and countless other discoveries. It will probably be something as simple as "God put those bacteria there to test us!" I'd be willing to bet that Ken Ham already has some new ridiculous exhibit planned for his "museum" to cover this situation too.

Because none of the applications that I use daily run on Linux? No Adobe Lightroom, no Photoshop, no QuickBooks, no MS Office. And no, F-Stop, Gimp, gnuCash and OpenOffice are not viable alternatives.

You keep using your free OS. I'll keep making shit loads of money using my relatively inexpensive one.

Usenet died? No one told my media/Sick Beard server. I just upgraded to a 3TB drive, too.

Job begs to differ.

He must care some. After all, he clicked on the story to read it.

/Remember getting a mouse for my Apple IIc, and thinking what a horrible input method that it was, and that it would never catch on.

Hell, if you're in Southern California or Arizona, you can buy one on Monoprice, have it shipped overnight via OverniteExpress, and still have it cheaper than the cheapest cables in most b&m stores. In one case, when I was living in Fullerton (About 25 miles from their warehouse), I ordered some cables at around 5AM, and they had it delivered to me less than 6 hours later.