Hell yeah, I'd use this change as an excuse to "panic brake" on yellow and encourage less tailgating ;)

Hahahahahaha http://www.bubblews.com/assets/images/news/234800599_1367514257.jpg

Well sure I have. But, on the other hand, one illegal copy is made for personal use, one is made for commercial gain. I think, generally, in the eyes of the law, the later is more serious, isn't it?

You know, like how manslaughter during a robbery is a capital crime, but drunkenly running down half a dozen children in your car is few months in prison.

So fork GIMP and call it something else. If the name is the only thing stopping corporates from putting money into it so they can break Adobe's monopoly, that would seem to be easily solved.

The larger argument about "consistency", as if corporate software is consistent in quality, is just too ridiculous to even argue.

Yeah, no. If you're going to be holier-than-thou, you need to actually be holier. Just because American politicians can campaign on family values then take their mistress on a shagging holiday, then still get re-elected after a contrite "sorry I got caught", doesn't make it less hypocritical.

Besides, two wrongs don't make a right, that's just your straw man.

It's what you call an example, and if you were a tech you'd have a lot of examples where you use 'all programs'. Like running WinSCP for the one or two times a year you use it, it's not going to be pinned anywhere.

As for supporting ios, android, OSX, no one does. ios and android are the user's problem, OSX is either the users problem or a trip to the "genius" bar. There's some exceptions on OSX for unis, but there's no 'corporate best practice' for toys.

Linux distros you ssh in, and the users are either too savvy to need support, or never touch anything ever, and aren't allowed to. Plus, linux desktops are also statistically non-existant.

That's the last of your straw man trolling I'm going to bother with, it's entertaining for a while but only so much.

Yeah, just that easy... or not, actually incredibly tedious and starts in a hidden folder with a horrible navigation system for what you're trying to accomplish.

Or they could have left the existing well known system in place, given as you point out ALL the data is still there anyway, and added a new layer for those devices that need a touch friendly option.

Alternatively, they could remove the feature for no reason other than consistency with devices that statistically no one owns and hope that wierdos like yourself convince their pissed off customers that they're wrong. That always works.

Say you need to adjust an image.

Photoshop? (or one of a few Adobe programs all under the Adobe folder)
Irfanview?
ACDSee?
Gimp?
Paintshop?
What _exactly_ am I searching for given I have to know the name first?

You're not a tech, or you wouldn't be asking this series of stupid ass questions.

Yes, your contention that you can put them where you want is the "arrive at 6am so you get the same place every day" equivalent in my analogy. That doesn't help the tech that has to find them, they're not you. They're not "random" in the sense that they're shuffled every time you open the start menu, but they are random in the same way that you can't always immediately find the cups in an unfamiliar kitched, or be sure that's all the cups and not just the "good china", etc.

As to what they're doing. They're trying to help someone do something they don't do often, otherwise they wouldn't need help, so odds are it's not pinned anywhere. They have to find it. What they have to find might be any one of 100 different programs that do similar functions, so they don't know what it's called so they can't just type the name in search, but it's readily apparent from the old all programs what you have installed and it's in a standard order and established companies have established places they put all their crap.

For tech support and "old hands" it's like you used to have a reserved parking spot outside the building, so you knew where you were going to park every morning, and didn't have to "remember" where you car is parked in the afternoon.

And now, you have to park in the multistory next door, where there's a valet that parks your car and returns the keys in the morning, but no valet in the afternoon. So you can get almost the same parking spot every day by getting in super early, or you get a random spot and have to play hunt the car every afternoon.

i.e. the arbitrary sorting/grouping helps no one but people that never need tech support and enjoy faffing with the icons on their iphone all day. Mac users perhaps?

Is that established fact or conjecture? Oh, and it's "a lot".

Yeah, I hope my daughters can turn out to be disease ridden whores, but you know, rich. That's the important part.

Yeah, cause IPv6 addresses are written, a lot, they're not just allocated by one computer to another.

Nope, I want you to keep going like you are until the poor eat the rich. It's going to be fun to watch.

Then why do you care? Or more to the point, it's clear you don't care, so why do you think it's valuable?

I have friends that are a 10 hour drive away that I chat to every day, but I don't need to broadcast those chats to 1000 other disinterested parties, and if you're not doing it "in public" then it's no better than email or XMMP and you're just bullshitting yourself.