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you guys are too clever, I fold

I didn't realize you were a fan!

Proxy-Police State

One 'r' too many...

Are you sure that the plane was Legal?

I think they stuck to the letter of the law when it came to size, so it was probably fly paper.

Which means they'll have to learn Windows 8 by tile and error.

To sum up, Win8 will be a pane.

Unless they can swing a way to run Linux as an app — a sort of Metro Gnome.

Or is there another reason why they haven't videod the "flight".

It's not easy, tracing paper.

Those who suffered through those two fiascoes will know exactly what I mean.

No they won't, the poor devils still can't read!

These days the only people who gripe about the ribbons are people who never gave it an honest chance & are dead-set against change. Coincidentally, those people usually refuse to move away from the Classic Start Menu interface and/or are Linux users (Sorry, Zaine!).

If you put some time into re-learning the way the program works with the ribbon interface you will most assuredly have a bit of a hard time adapting, but once you have, you will find yourself accomplishing things faster than you could with the old 2003-style menus.

I beg to differ on that. I switched to MS Office 2007 when it first came out. I spent quite a bit of time working with the ribbon in the belief that it would be beneficial to me if I put some effort into it. From starting with an open mind, I've come to dislike it. Although I don't care for change for the sake of change I'm not unable to adapt, I'm required to do so all the time. I don't use Linux either 

Are you telling me to beat it?

On a sinking ship one only has to give a rat a plan...

It's not too late for a tattoo...

Talk like that'll get you drummed out of here!

I started out hating it (as I did with W7). I have it both in a VM and on real hardware.
I can live with it if I have to and it's not that hard to make it behave as W7 does.

When it comes to tablets my guess is that it'd be quite good. There's no place for a tablet in my life, though (although I have one that came as a gift).

I'm pleased to see that some old but wickedly expensive DOS stuff, that matters a lot to me, runs fine on the 64-bit version using DosBox.

if it's hidden, or foreign, or "out of area," or something I just don't recognise, I ignore it and let the answering machine kick in

No wonder I can never get through to you!

Farr is older than DoCo?

FARR > DoCo
Mouser > FARR
Holy Moses! Did mouser invent those first-generation tablets?

What's FARR?

The 60's were good — very good —  but during the Cuban missile crisis we were looking over our shoulders quite a bit. Most people living around London, England could tell you whether or not the fire storm would reach them if the capital were hit.

[He]

Hi,

Haha! I play games with telemarketers (and miscellaneous scum) all the time.  

He:    "You are the virus. Now piss off and stop wasting my time and yours!"
hang up speaker phone, achieve high score in pinball game

Bad place for a typo.

Do you mean "He:" instead of "Him:"?  That was deliberate, "Mim:" didn't quite cut it
 

I updated the first post with the article. I hope it's helpful to someone out there.

Thanks for taking the trouble to write this up, and so comprehensively too!
 

I had one of those phone calls today from an "IT company" whose representative was most concerned about the virus that must be on my computer. Would I go to my computer so that he could help me?

I'm fed up with these jerks so,

Me:   "Oh no! Really, a problem with my computer?
          I'll fire it up right away so that you can help me"
He:    "Take your time, sir "
Me:    "It's in another room, so hold on and I'll go there"
set down speaker phone, launch pinball game... 5 minutes elapse
He:    "Sir, are you there sir?"
Me:    "I'm on my way, I don't move very quickly"
He:    "Take your time, sir "
Me:    "Okay"
set down speaker phone, resume pinball game... 5 minutes elapse
He:    "Sir, are you there sir?"
Me:    "I'm at my computer, I'll start it up"
He:    "Take your time, sir "
Me:    "Okay"
set down speaker phone, resume pinball game... 5 minutes elapse
He:    "Sir, are you there sir?"
Me:    "It won't start, must be a virus, thank goodness you called"
He:    "Take your time, sir "
Me:    "Okay"
set down speaker phone, resume pinball game... 5 minutes elapse
He:    "Sir, are you there sir?"
Me:    "It still won't start, I'm working on it"
He:    "Take your time, sir "
Me:    "Okay"
set down speaker phone, resume pinball game... 5 minutes elapse
He:    "Sir, are you there sir?"
Me:    "What should I do, I'm still trying to start it?"
He:    "Take your time, sir "
Me:    "Okay"
set down speaker phone, resume pinball game... 5 minutes elapse
He:    "Sir, are you there sir?"
Me:    "Yes, I've found the virus!"
He:    "What do you mean?"
He:    "You are the virus. Now piss off and stop wasting my time and yours!"
hang up speaker phone, achieve high score in pinball game

Sigh...

That doesn't bear thinking about...

A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"Yes," sighed the universe,
"you're Renegade, pissed"

I will be delighted to do a little write-up over the weekend.

Seventh heaven!

What, four?

and actually existed before DonationCoder.

I've long thought that the period bc was primitive... but bdc must have been the dark ages 

[very]

sometimes it just ends up being like installing an office suite to write a grocery list

Ouch!   
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

(I have some very high quality grocery lists  )

[patteo]

fineprint.com which gives a link back to the review by patteo, here on donationcoder.
 

The new build is progressing  :Thmbsup

Rock on!