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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Also, if you swipe in from the right side of the screen and select search, a list of all programs will pop up.
Which is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. It's a usability disaster. Again, the number of cognitive steps you have to go through is ridiculous; it's form over function.
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: I use the search feature a lot (Start Screen > Type > Click).
Thank you, I was browsing the comments to see if anyone wrote this. I used launchy on windows XP, I used the search function on the start bar in Windows 7, and I use the same now on the start screen of windows 8.
The Start Bar or Start Screen are becoming irrelevant. Mac OSX has spotlight, and Ubuntu has their app search system too. Once you get in the habit of quick typing for the app you want, you will soon learn how much quicker this is than manually looking for the app and clicking on it.
Windows 8 has some really nice features that windows 7 doesn't have. That said, windows 7 is prettier. Otherwise for what I use them for there really isn't much difference. (until you are forced to use SQL 2012) 
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Using Win8 doesn't mean you have to use their "app store" Email client. Just hit Windows Key + D, go to the desktop and run whatever Email client you ran in Win7. Using Thunderbird here on Win8 and it works great. I don't think I ever use any of the new store apps myself. Just saying that using Win8 doesn't mean you have to switch over to doing things with the new apps.
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There are plenty of articles about returning the look and feel of W7 to W8, including the Aero Theme. If you want to start in desktop and maybe get the start menu back, there are plenty of tools that do both. I'm happy with Classic Shell which does both and is free, but other tools may suit your needs as well or better.
If you dislike the Start Screen as much as I do, spend some time to replace the utilities that are only available as W8 apps (mail, image viewer, music player, etc.) with a desktop utility, and reassign your default applications to prevent switching to an app when double-clicking a document file.
Also, to take advantage of the actual improvements of W8, here's a site listing all the new (and old) keyboard shortcuts: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/keyboard-shortcuts[^]
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Be very, very careful what you say in the house. I'm sure there was a bracelet or something that the money could have been spent on.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: select 10 e-mails for a sub folder I have to click bottom right 'move' then over
to the left for the folder.
Yeah, the "move" mechanism is awkward.
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Why don't you try Windows 8.1 instead I heard somewhere that it appeared on the internet against Microsoft wishes...
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Stormcage Confinement Facility[^] from Doctor Who.
I quote:
According to an interview with Alex Kingston, she thinks Stormcage is some kind of a prison planet and it is particularly unpleasant to stay there.
I quote again:
...the lower level of the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff is used for shooting the section of Stormcage in which River is held.
I think that says it all.
BTW, I am now the owner of www.stormcage.co.uk, which is nice.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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And what exactly are you going to sell from that? 
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Witty as a fourteen year old.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
"Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
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I'm guessing storms in cages.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
"Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
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Does he do an entry level version? A storm in a teacup, perhaps? Or a tempest in a bucket?
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In a RED bucket.
No I just wanted the site for future use.
May make it a Who/B7/Gerry A kinda site.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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The Internet Association is among a group of US trade bodies behind a new campaign calling for politicians to take action over patent trolls.
I totally agree with the sentiment. It would be like me patenting "Automatic Association of Welsh With Sheep Sha Loving", there's no merit in it and it's in the public domain, but by 'eck I could earn a fortune.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
"Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
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I would appreciate it if not every elephanting idea could be patented. 
I do not deny that patents have their merit but "online store-locators" yeah sure... displaying a map on your website is patented?
I guess most of those "software patents" are just nonsense...
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Those things can only be patented in the US, over here in europe we don't have patents on ideas or Software - at least one thing seems to be better here 
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johannesnestler wrote: in europe we don't have patents on ... Software
It is more restrictive but they do exist. The restrictions probably make it harder to abuse it profitably.
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The problem is also the outrageous fines commonly granted in US courts, and, as a side effect, the equally outrageous fees for lawyers. It drives lawyers and entire companies of lawyers to ever more absurd concepts of milking cash from people and companies alike, in the name of law.
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Mrs. Wife drove back home and pulled the key out of the ignition. At precisely that moment, the key's blade on the fob snapped off and can't be repaired. If it had snapped off while it was in the ignition I'm sure it would have been a tow-away and VW would have had to replace the unit in the steering wheel. We have a brand new spare fob and key which we're now using. So I phone the dealer and they tell me some fobs can be repaired in Angela Merkel's backyard and our newer-style fob cannot. To get a new one means they have to laser cut a new key blade and assemble a new fob. How much, £184 including VAT. 
By golly, car manufacturers know how to bleed you. They know you can't go anywhere else. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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