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I don't know so many people are against it. I quite like Win 8/8.1 and some of the changes coming in Win 10 annoy me because they're going 'backwards'. I like the new start screen (always hated the old start menu) - though the visible button in the corner to access it in 8.1 is sensible for new users. I love Metro IE too.I use Win 8/8.1 mostly on a non-touch laptop for work and non-touch desktop for home, occasionally on a Surface Pro 1. I have no issues. Likewise I had very few problems with Vista which everyone hated, and basically see Win 7 as Vista with lipstick but no one else really admits that.
Not every change is going to suit every person, or every workflow so I can understand some people being upset but it seems like a lot of other people are just anti-change or jumping on the bandwagon.
One small problem with 8/8.1 is I find the 'close' gesture for metro apps is very difficult for most people using touch (and they don't know how with the mouse). They either don't drag far enough or the system doesn't register the interaction the right way (usually does with the mouse to be fair). The new title bars kind of fix that, but I personally dislike them. Also, sadly, the 'store' is filled with crap. I would love to use more Metro apps, but there are so few that are actually any good I don't bother with most.
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Do Java developers wear glasses because they can't C#?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No, they're already very active because they use a lot of Java everyday.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Quote: they use a lot of Java
Well, most programmers drink a lot of coffee. What's your point?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Similar to what you're pointing at. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Wouldn't that be a spectacle? 
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Eye see you like to wear a monocle good Sir
(Yes I am drinking tea at the moment  )
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No, Java developers wear glasses because they can't F#. 
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I thought it was so that no-one would punch them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I thought it was so that no-one would punch them.
Makes me glad I've got a pair. Two pairs, with reading glasses. I've only ever coded about ten lines of Java in my whole life, for a friend's homework assignment, but I'm sure I have some C# lying somewhere, taunting someone until they have to hit me.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I see glasses more as a language independent Visual Basic need.
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My post http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/5022693/Joy-To-The-World.aspx[^] is totally accurate - but most of you misunderstood. The gray text seemed clear to me at the time, but now that I reread it, it isn't so clarifying as I though.
I refer to a shiny new (albeit somewhat leaky) grandson.
For those of you who still have the illusion that your time for this is unimaginably distantly in the future - the shock of first grandchild is numbing. After that (and the concomitant change in your position in society), the damage, so to speak, is done. I realized that I might as well start to collect them.
I've still a number of years of careful planning as to how to use them to get even with my own immediate descendants - but those tales will unravel only after I commit them.
Again - if any are disappointed (and their fantasies dashed) - I am sorry, but, if my wife permits it . . . inspired.
[modify]
And another thing - for all of the well-wishes from well-wishers. Warm fuzzy feeling, for this is the only online community to which I belong. I remember stuff like that. Thank you all.
[modify EOF]
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
modified 18-Mar-15 11:45am.
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Seems like you want to talk a lot about your gray matter.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Of the many possible ways I could interpret 'gray matter' I'll choose by informing you that the proper description at this time is "slat salt and pepper".
Humph.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
modified 18-Mar-15 12:15pm.
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Pepper is ok, but I don't like slat.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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At least I didn't misspell that with a 'u'.
(I modified the original - without the 'u').
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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What, "pupper"?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ah! So...in a year or so you're going to be promoted from "dad" to "babysitter"? 
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Babysitter? That's my Mrs.' job.*
I prefer to be viewed by the youngin's as something more akin to Mr. Wizard with piggy-back rides.
* Events like 'diaper change' and 'puke sopping' are, in my opinion, purely spectator sports.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I prefer to be viewed by the youngin's as something more akin to Mr. Wizard with piggy-back rides.
You rang? Oh no? Nevermind.
Congrats.
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This is very serious actually. A study from 2006 established that grand parents in France spend 23 millions of hours a week babysitting grand children. This is ... huge !
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Quote: Ah! So...in a year or so you're going to be promoted demoted from "dad" to "babysitter"?
FTFY
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Oh, no - it's a promotion all right!
Over the last bunch of years, the amount of actual "dad" work tends to drop off as they become independent. After the promotion though, they can dump as much work as they like on you!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: After the promotion though, they can dump as much work as they like on you
True! True!
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Guilty as charged.
I suppose another congrats is in place then.
You get the best of both worlds. You get to spoil a kid rotten whenever it fits you.
And whenever they get loud, obnoxious or smelly you just hand them over and say goodbye. 
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