[Sangman]

Fox, on 08 April 2013 - 10:20 AM, said:

So far there has not been a reason to install another Windows, I can use all softwares I need.

And why would I want to change my desktop from this:



To something like this:

Don't be dumb. This is the desktop in Windows 8:



Like I've said before... if you know how to work with a PC you'll barely be in the start menu at all. How much time did you spend staring at your start menu in Windows 7? :/

It seems to me there really are a lot of misconceptions about Windows 8. I can't blame you, I had my doubts about trying it as well... but I gave it a shot and I'm content with it. Performance is better than Win7 and I don't mind the start menu at all..

[Inspector Lagomorf]

I still refuse to get it.

[Kathy]

Because...?

2Sang:
1. Who's Cedric Haegeman?
2. Euro Track Simulator 2

Still, I prefer keeping almost everything in the start menu leaving desktop clean. Except some txt documents.

[Person of Color]

Windows 7 for life!

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[Kathy]

Is your room as messy as your desktop?

[Ronin]

486DX2, on 09 April 2013 - 12:49 PM, said:

Windows 7 for life!

Laughing my ass off at the little boys and pics of fox dicks!

If people don't look at your pic this post will probably seem a bit odd.

[Person of Color]

Cathy, on 09 April 2013 - 12:57 PM, said:

Is your room as messy as your desktop?

No.

[Master Fibbles]

Cathy, on 09 April 2013 - 12:43 PM, said:

Still, I prefer keeping almost everything in the start menu leaving desktop clean. Except some txt documents.

I also try to keep my desktop clean. I used to not have a whole lot pinned to the taskbar but since Windows 8 changed the start menu to a screen, I decided to pin the things I use the most to the taskbar.

[Fox]

486DX2, on 09 April 2013 - 01:10 PM, said:

No.

I bet it is not.

[Jeff]

486DX2, on 09 April 2013 - 12:49 PM, said:

Windows 7 for life!

Yep.

Also, certain software I use is not supported by Windows 8. I mean, it runs, but the people who make the software don't provide support for anyone that runs on Windows 8. They support Windows 7 though.

I'll probably be running Windows 7 until the "end of life" support, whenever that may be.

[Master Fibbles]

I applied for a contract position that, based on the description, seems to indicate that the US government (or one department within it) is migrating from XP to Windows 7.

There are lots of places that aren't using 7 because they haven't (or don't want to) upgrade their software to software that works in the new OS. So many companies are concerned about backwards compatibility and so many end-users don't want to pay what it cost to either change software to a new one or to upgrade to a compatible version.

[Forge]

i have win7 on the house computer. tweaked to my taste so on the surface it looks and acts like win xp. i have another hard drive laying around somewhere. i may motivate myself to put debian linux on it someday and have a duel boot box.

the wife has win 8 on her laptop, but other than adding a start button to the taskbar at her request, she won't let me mess with it. she knows i like to pull everything apart to see what makes it tick and things have a tendency to stop working the way she wants when i'm done with it.

[Kathy]

Mr.Flibble, on 10 April 2013 - 06:21 PM, said:

There are lots of places that aren't using 7 because they haven't (or don't want to) upgrade their software to software that works in the new OS. So many companies are concerned about backwards compatibility and so many end-users don't want to pay what it cost to either change software to a new one or to upgrade to a compatible version.

The XP is 12 years old dammit...

[Master Fibbles]

Yes. And there are database software suites out there that corporations and libraries use that are older and don't work with the latest anything. In fact, the CMS that my school uses is not compatible with IE9. I'm not even sure I can get it to work properly with IE8 anyway. I remember that my old school didn't upgrade anything past XP because finances or something used some out of date software that "worked" and needed XP. So many things to try to make work and some people just can't be bothered.

Like I said, the US government organization is hiring to contract people to go migrate their computers to 7 from XP...whatever they were using that required the XP set up is apparently not being used anymore.

[High Treason]

What about using XP Mode? I haven't tried it yet, but I've heard it is useful.

That was something holding me back, most of my Video, Imaging an Audio programs will not work under Windows 7, but as the Copyright notice on the start screens says 1998, I decided it was time to upgrade (such as that Vegas 12 I got, damn CUDA rendering is the future!).

Governments are always behind, most of the millenium bug nonesense was because our government were still using punch cards in accounting or something. And these are the people that think they can police the internet... Rather concerning to say the least.

[Person of Color]

Vegas still uses CUDA? Holy shit. Everything uses DirectCompute/OpenCL now.

That's really weird considering how dismal the 600 series compute performance is. My Radeon 6970 runs a train on the 680 in some benchmarks.

[High Treason]

It does OpenCL too.

The ATi's are better at some things, such as stupid Bitcoin mining, something to do with ALUs vs CUDA/Fermi cores.

[Forge]

High Treason, on 10 April 2013 - 09:17 PM, said:

Governments are always behind, most of the millenium bug nonesense was because our government were still using punch cards in accounting or something. And these are the people that think they can police the internet... Rather concerning to say the least.

lol
all their security computers, servers, etc are always the latest & greatest

the junk that the "every day" soldier uses is the equipment that's always outdated. it took them forever to switch from NT to XP because of common every day programs that weren't compatible. They're nothing special in of themselves, but if you remove them you basically stop things in their tracks. Programs that controlled supplies, maintenance, web conferencing, etc.

[Person of Color]

Just got a new external screen on the ol' Nomad. Damn those things crack easily.

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[Fox]

I just threw my wireless mouse at the wall. Oh my god, wireless sucks so so bad.

[Person of Color]

http://sonicgivesadv...rape.ytmnd.com/

[Kathy]

Fox, on 12 April 2013 - 04:20 PM, said:

I just threw my wireless mouse at the wall. Oh my god, wireless sucks so so bad.

I've never had problems with mine.

[Sangman]

Cathy, on 09 April 2013 - 12:43 PM, said:

Because...?

2Sang:
1. Who's Cedric Haegeman?
2. Euro Track Simulator 2

1. One who knows his way around Google can find out my real name in an instant so it doesn't matter anymore at this point.

2. Yeah good game

[Sangman]

High Treason, on 10 April 2013 - 09:17 PM, said:

most of the millenium bug nonesense was because our government were still using punch cards in accounting or something

no not really

[Kathy]

Sangman, on 13 April 2013 - 01:27 AM, said:

1. One who knows his way around Google can find out my real name in an instant so it doesn't matter anymore at this point.

I'm a bit paranoid about it. Well, ok, not just a bit.

[Jeff]

High Treason, on 10 April 2013 - 09:17 PM, said:

That was something holding me back, most of my Video, Imaging an Audio programs will not work under Windows 7, but as the Copyright notice on the start screens says 1998, I decided it was time to upgrade (such as that Vegas 12 I got, damn CUDA rendering is the future!).

Governments are always behind, most of the millenium bug nonesense was because our government were still using punch cards in accounting or something. And these are the people that think they can police the internet... Rather concerning to say the least.

CPU encoding, although slower, produces better quality videos than GPU encoding.

[Jimmy]

Sangman, on 13 April 2013 - 01:32 AM, said:

no not really

Sang is right. It had more to do with the fact that banks and other agencies were using two digits for the year to save space. So instead of 1999, they would just write 99 in their spreadsheets and shit. It really wasn't that big of a deal and really showed that the general populace knows dick all about computers.

[Fox]

By the way, since it took me some time to upgrade from Windows 98, I actually a problem with the two digits at some point.

[Person of Color]

Fox, on 13 April 2013 - 02:13 PM, said:

I actually a problem with the two digits at some point.

hello linksys i accidentally the date

[Kathy]

The whole thing?