so glad i still have windows 3.1 up and running as well as DOS 3.0.
fondlescreen technology might work good with 8, but for a REAL computer, it needs REAL software.
Itâs a culture thing, there is a lot of pressure to swing for the fence and hit that big home-run. So you get a lot of wild swings, keep in mind that the old home-run king Babe Ruth was also an all-time leader in strike-outs.
Appleâs approach, relatively frequent releases and incremental changes, works well and doesnât run the risk of misses like Vista was and Windows 8.
Maybe now that Microsoftâs old guard is out there will be some improvement.
Mark Gosdin
When I noticed that those in the âtech communityâ who were defending Win8 admitted that for Win8 to be usable one had to install 3rd party programs I realized that Win8 was indefensible. Even on my touchscreen ultraportable it isnât all that usable. I really dislike that the touch-designed Win8 apps are massively dumbed down: I expect that from iOS and Android (GMail app canât even style text, for shame!) but Windows 8 is a ârealâ OS on real hardware.
I think Windows has already reached their peek, nothing else they can do but throw glitter and turn the speakers up so loud the squealing distracts everyone from what theyâre pumping out.
so a Twilight OS?
Endless saga, yes. 
I tried to make a Facebook account to follow Sentai because thatâs their only way of communicating with the outside world.
Turns out that one must provide a phone number to make a Facebook account nowadays, presumably so they can sell my number to their ad companies. I didnât realize that Facebook was actually worse than Google+.
âŚwish I had a cache of âburner phonesâ like the guys in all the action shows nowadays seem to. B)
Iâve been on FB for quite a few years now, and Iâve not gotten any phone calls from âadâ companies. I only get calls from local companies like lawn care and pest companies like I did before I signed up.
When I had a FB account, it was because the feature/dumb phone I had had it in the menu somewhere, and I assume the browser for the phone allowed it to sign in without me having to do anything. The moment I couldnât have a remember me function, I basically stopped using it (and 90% of my FB was with that phone as well⌠so all the whining about how FB change how they looked went over my head. Eventually I deleted the account because I wasnât using it)
Too often on Facebook when I try to view something (even thee full text of a post) it says that I have to log in to do so. Social media = 
I love how the Google TV app Crunchyroll uses allows me to use my BD/DVD playback controls on my remote to watch stuff.
So big purchase by FacebookâŚ
Wearing Google Glass automatically transforms one into a âglassholeâ. The only way to not be one is to not wear them.
If Google Glass had existed when the âHow to be a Dickâ episode of Metalocalypse (S2E02 - DethLessons) had been made, William Murderface would be wearing them. If thereâs any justice in the world, he will be wearing a parody of them in a future ep of Metalocalypse.
How can a movie be both 21:9 and 1920*1080?
letterbox type thing? 823 pixels of the 1080 is the actual show, and the rest is black bars above and below it.
So if I were to watch a 19201080 21:9 bluray on a 25601080 21:9 display it would be a vertical upscale?
Either youâll get a frame effect, or it would be a vertical upscale. Depends on how its coded.
Fun fact: DVDs did a vertical scaling, in BOTH directions as the format it used was between 4:3 and 16:9. Actually, all the 4:3 TVs were technically doing a vertical down scaling all this time because of that crazy res they used, and DVDs just used it for its format, but they have a flag or something that told the player what the ratio was.
I havenât heard anything from this since its posting on March 3rd which doesnât really surprise me. What does surprise me though is that the idea even made it this far and was proposed in the first place.
:dry::huh:
Also in other cell phone related news, this one seems to make sense. Though even with Microsoft owning the rights to the original character, Cortana will never be the same unless she actually speaks with Jen Taylorâs voice. This would be a fun glorified toy to play with just as Siri is and nothing really more than that IMHO.
:laugh:
Iâd be more than happy to have to root my phone and come to loggerheads with my phone providers over their questionable service practices if in return the NSA would buzz off.
This doesnât sound like something that the US Congress should be involved with, but as long as theyâre involving themselves in this sort of thing how about they get Verizon to give me a router that isnât a complete joke. They want me to pay for a gigabit/300Mbit wifi-N router upgrade. The fee that I pay for this bogus, Fast Ethernet 54Mbit wifi-G router should have paid for that upgrade many times over.
So while Congress is ignoring âserious businessâ to strong-arm the phone companies, could we get them to mete out some ISP justice for me please? 