Windows 8

[Gene E. Bloch]

I thought I'd better try and.... yes you can. I put a DVD+R in and
selected format. Then copied some files, ejected the DVD and reloaded
it and copied some more.

The reason I knew it wouldn't work is that my neighbour tried some
years ago using In-CD under XP and he couldn't add files and I never
tried myself but assumed it would format the whole disc, which it
doesn't.

So I was absolutely wrong.

Maybe only "relatively" wrong

And honest...

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

On 05/03/2012 08:04, Char Jackson wrote:

I heard of someone recently who is still using floppy disks......;-)

Well, at least it isn't paper tape or audio cassettes...

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Waving the mouse around and clicking a bit usually brings up
what you want on the desktop.

Reminds me of Mystery Meat Navigation, from Vincent Flanders' Web Pages
That Suck. http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/mysterymeatnavigation.html

 

[Gordon]

Well, at least it isn't paper tape or audio cassettes...

Or punch cards.....

 

[Char Jackson]

I heard of someone recently who is still using floppy disks......;-)

Don't pick that scab so soon.

 

[Steve Hayes]

Don't pick that scab so soon.

And some of us are still constrained to read newsgroups because we've been
doing it for so long that we don't realise that the world has moved on to
Twitter and Facebook.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

And some of us are still constrained to read newsgroups because we've been
doing it for so long that we don't realise that the world has moved on to
Twitter and Facebook.

Guilty as charged

 

[BillW50]

In

DVDs are a great deal less expensive for off-site backup of data
files than hard drives etc.

Are you sure? Since cheap TB hard drives I think they are pretty close
when priced by the GB.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In

Are you sure? Since cheap TB hard drives I think they are pretty close
when priced by the GB.

Especially if you take reusability into account (or were you thinking
DVD RW?).

 

[SC Tom]

Especially if you take reusability into account (or were you thinking DVD RW?).

And if your time has any value to you at all, hard drives are considerably cheaper than DVDs. If I'm backing up my AV
drive with 148GB of stuff on it, I can start the imaging process and go do something else. When it's done, it'll also
shut itself down. If I was to back up that same drive to DVD using 4.7GB disks, that's swapping them out at least 32
times (assuming no loss for overhead and no compression). That's a lot of time to sit there and open and close that tray

 

[Omni]

RE[4]: Comment by orestes
by Morgan on Tue 20th Mar 2012 07:14 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Comment by
orestes"
“I'm a pretty big fan of Metro, though I don't "squee". It's on my phone and
my Xbox; I find it to be visually pleasing, lightning fast, and easy to use.
It has made the Xbox game controller into a decent wireless remote for using
the device as a set top box.

On a non-touch desktop PC however, it leaves a LOT to be desired. I love how
much faster the OS is than Vista, and even 7 in some ways. But using Metro
as a Start menu replacement is a step backwards in my experience. I'm really
hoping that Metro will be turned off by default for the Professional lines
of the OS, and an option to be turned off with the Home and Ultimate
editions. Otherwise I don't see widespread adoption in the IT world, and
perhaps another backlash like we had with ME and Vista previously.

Which makes me wonder, does Microsoft really intend to keep up this "every
other consumer OS version sucks" model? Windows 95 was terrible compared to
98SE, which was miles better than its successor, Windows ME. XP was great,
but Vista blew. Windows 7 is nothing short of amazing.


(And yes, I know I left out Windows 2000. It was a vast improvement over the
9x series, but was business oriented. Also it was the basis for XP, so it
can be seen as the bridge from 9x to the current versions.)â€

http://www.osnews.com/comments/25703

 

[deuteros]

The UI looks much like Windows Phone 7 which is one MAJOR reason I use
an Android phone, IMHO Windows Phone 7 was a huge step backwards from
Windows Mobile.

From what I hear from people who own a Windows phone, it's lightyears
beyond Windows Mobile.

 

[XS11E]

From what I hear from people who own a Windows phone, it's
lightyears beyond Windows Mobile.

I've run both, I found Windows Phone 7 a very large step backwards from
Windows Mobile.