If Windows 8 is a spork

Why are people that are actually using it so happy about it? I've not used it myself, so i'm not the right person to judge, but the vast majority of people i know who use windows 8 are more then happy to use it and claim it's superior to windows 7.

I'm not entirely sure that all the bad press is due to it being a spork, i think it's due to all those people who haven't used it, but think they need to judge based on what they read.

I'm going to go with the only reliable source there is, the users and they seem to be perfectly happy with it.

of all possible cimpanies

they had to go with EA? the company renowned for releasing unfinished games?

They reached a new low for me when a friend of mine bought Tiger Woods 14. there are courses in the main game that aren't included, you have to get them as DLC. the game is riddled with errors. Many errors are so obvious, i'm left wondering if they do any testing or quality assurance on their games.

I'm trying to avoid their games like the plague, EA is nothing like the beautiful company called Electronic Arts back in the 80's

i should know better by now

but i'm still surprised people aren't happier with Nokia/winphone.

I love my Lumia 900 and am waiting for the launch of the Lumia EOS. It'll probably be expensive, but i'm quite likely to get one nonetheless.

So the Lumia with winphone isn't as good as it's apearing to me, has my Microsoft fanboyism finally got the better of me?

I can't shake the feeling

that there's plenty of people out there who want N-Korea to take action, so they have a reason to overthrow the regime. Problem is that from what i understand, the majority of the people who live there believe what the regime tells them and the few that don't, are put into camps. Overthrowing the regime might not acomplish anything, which means there might be no solace for the people of N-Korea anyway and that's just sad.

:)

I'd be highly surprised if this is not par for the course for the majority of reg readers.

I do try and teach people to help themselves though, many of my friends are now proficient at installing windows on their computers and have more then a basic grasp of what's out there.

My mom's 65 and only just now getting into the world of computers altogether, i mostly leave her to her own devices as well. She does have the added benefit of being an avid gamer (and scourge of my friends in my younger years playing SNES), so i'm quite sure she'll figure it out too.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, yadayadayada.

possibly one of the dumbest things i've ever read

Phones turn off, but you'd have a hard time trying to turn your drunk off.

I make a LOT of handsfree calls and always tell the other party that i'm driving and may tune them out if traffic demands it. Alcolhol impairs your abilities, from reaction times to sight and everything in between. Alcohol has this effect on any and all, while handfree calls will only affect some.

And someone researched this? Really?

hmmm

If they don't have to be THAT old, then why not add space harrier to the list?

If there's one game that cost me a lot of money, it's that one.

wtf?

Again i'm reading about possible PS4 toys, which seem like a 1 on 1 copy from the pad used by the WiiU.

Why am i yet to read about the Microsoft Illumiroom? Which imho is going to be a gamechanging feature?

For gods sake, i don't want to read about Sony making crap copies of Nintendo gear, i want to read about things that are actually new.

why?

Why am i reading the PS4, from which we know next to nothing and am i not reading about what most likely will be the killer feature on the new Xbox, the illumiroom?

It's one of the most amazing things i've ever seen. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/illumiroom/

If this is going to be on the Xbox 720, or whatever they're going to call the thing, i'm going to have to start saving money, as this is the best thing ever.

someone please tell me

when this patent madness will end?

Surely patenting a room design is impossible? Or has the world truely gone mad?

not going to use it anymore

I've hardly ever used it to begin with and have now resolved never to use it again. They may be backpeddeling at 150 BPS, there's no guarentee that 1: they wont use your pics anyway and 2: they'll silently change the policy in time anyway.

I fully understand that social media are looking for new ways to make money and to a certain extent, i support that, but i draw the line at crap like this.

weird

Why are people being blasted for using the tax rules to their advantage? surely it's the rules that need to be changed if this is the result of it.

I don't blame rich people for trying to pay as little as they can, we all do that. It's the rules that facilitate this that need to be looked at.

And yes, i think Google should pay a shitload more tax, just look at how much they made in the past few years.

i'll take a pass

That one sentence makes it perfectly clear why.

Trying to make the Wii U as cheaply as possible.

It's the reason why i think the Wii was ultimately crap too, it was cheaply made and performed as such. As i've probably said many times before, i'm the proud owner of a slew of consoles, oldest being my beautiful SNES and i'm yet to have a problem with any of them, aside from my PS2, which i did have to replace after 4 years of hardcore use. I also can't understand why Nintendo seems to be unable to provide with premium models that actually add value for money.

Anyway, i'm ranting at Nintendo again, can't help it these days.

now there's the apple i know and hate

Old habbit die hard apparently.

This is getting funnier now though, Apple is trying to prove that they're playing fair and everyone else isn't.

what can i say

But thanks to the fanbois, for giving me continuous reminders of one of the reasons i hate apple so much.

There's really little else to say, these people don't even see how close to cultist they've become.

lumia900 user here!

I've been promoting it since the day i got it. If anything, this is the best device if you live in a Microsoft world.

I have company email, which is Exchange, almost a given nowadays.

I have hotmail, which belongs to Microsoft.

I have an Xbox360, all my stuffs from there is on the phone too.

Everything works happily side by side and it was a breeze to set everything up.

I think Nokia/Microsoft need to put more focus on consumers, as i personally think they have the business side down pat.

To put this in perspective, i've always had much love for Nokia and have been working in the wonderfull world of Microsoft for almost 15 years now, so it makes sense for me to follow this path.

oh noes!

so big brother IS watching.

Now on to something that's actually new please!

hmmmm

not sure how to comment on this one without sounding biased, as all know how much i hate apple.

I'm leaning towards Richard's comments. Apple is more then happy to use other's stuff, but doesn't return the favor. Apple was the biggest whiner about how they where treated unfairly for many many years, but at the first oppertunity they get to show all those "unfair" parties how it should be done, they've turned into the worst patent enforcer ever. If any company could ever be accused of fighting unfairly, it's bloody Apple.

And how the hell has Samsung become the bad guy here? Apple took the fight to Samsung and not the other way around.

If you want to make a case about patents being valid and usefull in cases, i agree with you, but with Apple that's simply not the case. Patents should be used to let the creator get paid for his/her work, not for obvious trolls like Apple to try and bully away the competition. If you make a case for Apple's way of maintaining patents, then with all do respect, you are an idiot.

biased

let me take on the roll i like most, that of a fervent Apple hater.

Thing is that Apple started this battle, Samsung simply picked up the glove and is obviously more then willing to see it through to the end. Samsung didn't start this war, but i certainly hope they finish it.

bah, apple, spending years whining about how they're treated unfairly, but as soon as the tables are turned, they do the exact same thing. Shameless hypocracy.

meh

hotmail looks fine on my winphone, so i expect few changes to be honest.

I've actually been a hotmail users almost since they exist and still actively use the account.

keeping my fingers crossed!

easy enough to do, here's hoping you'll shoot the lappy my way :D

wtf

I thought Anonymous took on large corporations and governments and such and wasn't about fucking over joe average? What's the catch here? this is not their normal MO.

lol!

You know what, i like their new toy too (not going to buy it though).

It makes me realize i'm no better then the average fanboi really. If it says Microsoft on the box, i'm likely going to like it.

That however does not mean i'll relent from berating fanbois, or Apple in general.

uh oh!

i'm 6 foot 8 :(

i'll go kill myself now, i probably have the BMI of 2 Japanse men.

great

but i still don't believe the speed of light is fixed and that it cannot travel beyond 300000 Km/sec.

For some odd reason researchers seem to believe that if you suck all the molecules out of a container, you have a vacuum, a container filled with nothing.

I see things a bit differently, as i see a container without molecules definately not containing "nothing". That we lack the understanding of what's left, doesn't mean you can call it "nothing", it's something, we just don't understand what it is.

continuing from that, i most certainly do believe that light traveling through space has a speed limit of the aforementioned 300000 Km/s, but i also believe that if you where able to let light move "beyond" (for lack of a better word) space, it's speed would become nearly limitless.

i know, very theoretical stuff, but a limit for the speed of light doesn't really work for me and it doesn't explain some of the weirder things in the universe (like how the farthest galaxies seem to be moving away from us the fastest).

The fun thing about any theory obviously being that there's very little rules, if you can think of it, it's a valid theory, untill someone comes up with hard proof to the contrary.

oh noooooo

now that everyone's cutting off TPB, i can no longer get torrent downloads! it's so unfair.

Oh wait, there's 50000 more where the TBP came from.

Oh wait, is that an open proxy?

oh wait, is that a new URL?

heck, i didn't know there was a piratebay.ru

for every door that closes, 10 new ones open.

What i fail to understand, is the reason for these bans? surely the enforcers must know this solves little to nothing, so why waste so much time and money on it?

bah, Sony

Weren't they looking at personalizing games, so it'd be impossible to resell your games when you're done with them? didn't buy the PS3 and not going to buy the PS4 either. I'll stick with Microsoft, the 360 has served me well over the past years.