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Comment Re:I want to be shocked, but honestly I'm not (Score 1) 206

by Tmackiller on Sunday March 23, 2014 @01:02PM (#46557715) Attached to: They're Reading Your Mail: Microsoft's ToS, Windows 8 Leak, and Snooping

Well, this seems to point out a lack of online policing, or "internet police". That day seems almost upon us.

Comment Re:Interesting (Score 1) 914

by Tmackiller on Thursday March 20, 2014 @09:46AM (#46533459) Attached to: Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences

I'm glad someone got it. +2 groodies to you.

Comment Interesting (Score 1) 914

by Tmackiller on Thursday March 20, 2014 @09:10AM (#46532963) Attached to: Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences

Surely instead of lengthening the actual sentece, you could say, make a prisoners perception of 15 minutes last 15 years, therefore rehabilitating them with a pill. Of course I'm only musing, it is of course a rediculous concept.

Comment Re:Apps (Score 1) 170

by Tmackiller on Thursday March 13, 2014 @09:11PM (#46479237) Attached to: VLC Finally Launches App For Windows 8

Get an internet TV, and a network harddrive, samsung does a great one - it has a file browser. Using an entire computer for a media centre is sacrilege, if you love the tiles and apps so much, get an xbox and use that, XboxOne's kinect voice controls actually work quite well. The point I was trying to make was that metro is ergonomically retarded for a desktop or laptop. Fuck your metro Fanboyishness (sp), you're making excuses by saying it's good at something it was never made to do, but agreeing with the fact that it's awful at what it is supposed to do.

Submission + - Did I stumble upon Microsoft's endgame for MetroOS or was this obvious?

Submitted by Tmackiller on Thursday March 13, 2014 @07:58PM

Tmackiller writes: A lot of controvercy has been stirred up by Windows 8/8.1 particularly the Metro interface, it's desktop incompatibility, it's flawed ergonomics and impracticalities for an office environment. I agree, it's not a decent UI for a desktop or laptop (without modifications). I was reading the comments on this article, particularly SuricouRaven's quote "They are putting out these features everyone hates right now,because doing so establishes them as something in Microsoft's long-term interest."
BAM! It hit me. They're playing the long game, and I've been extremely shortsited. I remembered
this video from way back in 2007.Microsoft's redefinition of Desktop computing! Is this where we're going? Interactive tabletop desks by Windows 10? I'm still undecided as to whether or not it's a good thing.

Comment Re:Apps (Score 2) 170

by Tmackiller on Thursday March 13, 2014 @07:16PM (#46478539) Attached to: VLC Finally Launches App For Windows 8

They may want to take a market share in mobile devices, but do you see MacOSX putting Tiles and Apps on their desktop devices? No. Marketing Department sshould be fired.

Comment Apps (Score 3, Insightful) 170

by Tmackiller on Thursday March 13, 2014 @07:03PM (#46478405) Attached to: VLC Finally Launches App For Windows 8

Does anyone NOT using a touchscreen device use apps on windows 8? I've been running VLC for Windows since I got Win8, just after it came out and had no problems with it as a traditional program, in fact it's the only media player I use for video. Isn't this a waste of developer's time? Why won't microsoft give up on apps and tiles? 8 isn't THAT bad without them...

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