Really? Have you guys even used Windows 8? It's virtually exactly the same as Windows 7. Even the hated "start screen/new UI/Metro" performancs exactly the same as the Win 8 start menu for the majority of people that use it

1. Click the lower left of your screen (Windows 7 and 8)
2. Type the first 3 or 4 letters of the program you want to run (Windows 7 and 8)
3. Hit Enter to launch it (Windows 7 and 8)

In addition, I'm the only one that runs Windows 8 in my office because everyone else hates it. Yet they all come up to me and say "See, even you're still running Windows 7." I tell them to look closer, it's 8, yet they couldn't even tell the difference because the desktop is the same, which is where I spend 100% of my time.

Ignore the stupid Metro UI if you don't like it. I do. Was there nothing you ignored in Windows 7? You played Purple Palace all day? Or you like Windows 7 inspite of Purple Palace? Get over your complaining about an OS you haven't even used.

I understand the difference very well. Price. If you were thinking of Knowledge, that can be found anywhere, including in an IT shop that has someone capable of building their own SAN.

Oh, and re. MTBF. Are you saying that NetApp doesn't use the exact same drives you can buy off the shelf and just load their own firmware on it and slap their sticker on it?

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A flat tax will NEVER happen. Sure it's a good idea, but what politician is willing to do this? Because if they did, millions of jobs would be lost instantly. The entire tax industry (H&R block, KPMG, Deloitte & Touche, etc) gone. No politician wants to be the one that voted for a 10% jump in unemployment, even if it would be the best in the long term.

sure, XboxLive, with a $50/year fee.... You can't even watch Netflix on the Xbox with a paid Netflix subscription without XBox Live. As for the cheap/free game selection, I haven't looked in a while, but wasn't very good. I was under the impression that the dev fees for XBox were to high for most of the small game devs.

I think the idea of "cheap console games", if it exists, will happen with this console. We can get $0-$10 games on our smartphones and tablets, but those are almost always 1-player games on a tiny screen. If this offers a cheap marketplace for console-style games, I think it's great.

Is negotiating a higher price not possible?

Schools and some government branches often have devices, esp. printers, on public IP addresses. Several good reasons for it, but of course it can get abused

I support several small medical practices. They don't (or say they don't) have enough money to upgrade their systems. Like any small business, potential savings in the future don't always translate to extra income now. New systems are expensive and often included monthly fees from the software providers. In addition, if their analog, handwritten system has been working for decades, there's not a lot of incentive to switch.

Yet people still insist on buying 1080p TV's instead of 1080i TV's. Just goes to show that people will buy 4K TV's just because they are 4K, not because the content will take advantage of it.

Guppy IQ Test
Q) Do you eat your own babies?
End of Test

This was demonstrated in the first 5 minutes of Idiocracy.

Before you copy your reply to another similar (yet not the the same) post, you should read the post. I do not use 3rd party applications. I didn't even infer that in my post. As I said, the NewUI (a microsoft product, built-in, not 3rd-party) is basically a replacement to the Start Menu. I use it to start applications. That's it. I don't use the NewUI Apps and App Store because I'm not on a tablet, I'm on a desktop. If I had a Microsoft Tablet, I would use the NewUI and App Store. I said the author of the YouTube video is an idiot because he says windows 8 is unusable. That is completely false, because I use it just fine, as well as many others.

I've been using it just. I put up with the NewUI instead of the Start Menu when I have to, but other than that, I spend 99.9% of the time on the desktop and it works just like Windows 7. I haven't used the NewUI/Metro Tiles/Apps or Store since the first day I installed it, and I have no plans to either.

10 years is a ridiculous amount of time to be in prison for something like this. Child molesters and murderers get less time.