For me anyway, it's much faster to move my hand away from the mouse than to click 3 menus deep. I can't see how it'd be longer for anyone unless they are disabled. Have we come to a society where lifting your damn hand is too much effort?

You are correct. But honestly for me it was the first thing I tried because I assumed they wouldn't remove that feature just because it doesn't show a big text field. I would have been mad if they did, and they didn't. If people are too stupid to make that experience that took me 2 seconds, then, yeah, Microsoft fucked up. And maybe they did, you have to account for the laziness and intellect for your user base.

No. It's just faster to some people to type than to move a mouse on the screen. I wish I could use the same shortcuts on Ubuntu desktop for instance. I don't want to have to remember under which sub-sub-sub-menu some guy decided it made sense to file a shortcut, I'd rather just remember the name of the shortcut and type away.

I just find it much faster to type "Control Panel" than to move the mouse and click three or for times. This applies to both W7 and W8. To each their own I guess.

Like in the past. Hit the "Windows" key, type "Control Panel", and it'll show up. I never had a problem with Windows 8 because in Windows 7 I always hit "Windows key" and started typing whatever I was looking for. Did you really have to Google that?

Most engineers don't travel, sales people do. I'm a pre-sales engineer, and I have to travel around all of EMEA. I expense plane tickets, meals, hotels, gasoline and tolls, etc. I probably don't cost as much in expenses than in salary, but I would make an educated guess of 30-50%. What is true, however, is that I'm probably better paid than a developer of similar competency. About 50% of our developers are outsourced to China so there's that..

I recently learned on the Scishow Youtube channel that the world produces enough food to feed about 11 billion people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD-yN2G5BY0

The problem is not the food production, it's how we waste it. The US imports 4 times more food than it physically can consume (even factoring in the obesity and things like this). I got this from a TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/tristram_stuart_the_global_food_waste_scandal.html

If guns don't kill people, I don't see how Tor hacks. Also, last week somebody almost killed my wife with his car, so clearly we should ban all cars.

If he didn't want to get publicly humiliated maybe he shouldn't have posted publicly. He's stupid, and twice so.

Oh is it? http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/82769/

You know you thought about this. http://xkcd.com/651/

I own a Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook. I don't want to bother looking up (or flipping the device back as I type this) the exact model but it basically has got an i5@1.7Ghz, 6 GB of RAM and Windows 8 (I like it, suck it up).

I can confirm that the device boots up disturbingly fast - either from a cold boot or from Sleep. I didn't time it but it feels like ~15-25 seconds. That gets me to the Welcome screen of Windows, and I can log in instantly. But if I try to start Visual Studio right after booting, I can definitively tell - from the LED - that the 5,400 drive is a problem. Right after booting, as Windows is, I assume, starting the various services and stuff, I can really feel the pain. I don't feel that on my main PC, which has got less RAM (4 GB) but a full-fledged SSD where the OS resides.

I paid 500 euros for that Ultrabook (Amazon repackaged). And for that price, I'm happy as a clam with that PC. If I allow something like 30 or 45 seconds for the session to actually completely open, the thing is blazing fast. A 7,200 RPM drive would drain the battery quicker (I have something like 6 hours of autonomy if I'm just coding - compiling from time o time - or just web surfing). I'd rather have a 256 GB SSD, but the price of those rose 30% in the last year so that might have put my PC around the 800/900 euros price point which, to me is not worth it.

This is not an advertisement or anything, just a direct feedback from a rather happy customer understanding the pros and cons of the technologies vs the price.

Alternatively you can MAJ+Click and that'll open in a new window.

Yes you are correct, that can be annoying and it used to frustrate me. But then I realize, 90% of the time I look for a program, not a setting, so for the 10 remaining percent, I can make the effort of clicking. But you are correct, that's a regression from W7 and they should make it a setting.

The worst part for me is that most people complain about Metro without realizing it works exactly like the Windows 7 start menu - shortcuts are identical. It only changes a little bit if you're an elderly who click instead of using the keyboard (which is much faster, even in W7).