Ever since it was found out Brandon Eich contributed $1000 to Prop 8 people decided to quit using Firefox and use something else instead. Even if Eich resigned people still hate Mozilla for being gay-bashing bigots.
I have a lot of friends who tell me they won't use Firefox or anything else from Mozilla because they aren't gay friendly. I should note those friends are not technical but are political experts.
That is why people want to stick with XP/7 instead of 8.X because they don't like the Modern GUI (It was called Metro until Microsoft was sued over the name) and feel like it is a giant step backward to the 1992 MS-DOS days of AOL for DOS or the old Prodigy of everything in small Windows that you cannot even re-size or have any 'visual clues' how they work like the Desktop and Start Menu of the Classic Windows has.
For example 'visual clues' in the Classic Windows have minimize and maximize buttons and the "X" button means close. These Modern GUI Windows, where are the 'visual clues'? It breaks the way Windows is supposed to work.
You have to drag the mouse to the bottom or top right side of the screen to access the 'Charms Bar' to do stuff in it, and Windows-C as a shortcut. I tried the touchscreen and it is a nightmare trying to make the correct type of swipe. Sometimes it does things you don't want it to do.
Plus a lot of desktop apps cannot be converted to Modern GUI mode because it lacks the gadgets the desktop has to make things easier to use. The Visual Studio IDE for example has so many tool icons and toolbars that not all of it will fit in a Modern GUI screen. It would need a major rewrite of the GUI, and force all developers to relearn all of their Visual Studio skills.
Remember when Office 2007 made that Ribbon bar? It was worse than Clippy the Office Assistant type of annoying.
Many compared Modern GUI to New Coke, the Classic Version was always better. If not for Desktop mode I could not use my Windows 8.1 Pro device.
Modern UI isn't ready - that's why so many people hate it. How do you make desktop better? It is already perfect. But development must go on - there is a need to make something new that people would buy.
So, you start a new thing and add continuously "new features" that are simple and elementary as hell. Years of safe development of elementary features that may simply be included in the first version of software - but they aren't. In Windows 8.1 you don't need to stick with static background colors. Wow, what an update and development achievement. Couldn't foresee that user would like that.
I think that Modern UI becomes more and more user-friendly but it takes time because you simply cannot make final product with first version because then the next versions wouldn't shine.
I found it usable for 90% of the use cases but that last 10% is incredibly frustrating. It's been a long time since I've used Office so I can't conjure up an example but I remember trying to do something with tables that was fairly straight forward in Office 2003 it was nearly impossible in 2007.
I think they give you a key by registering for 90 or 180 days to evaluate it and try it out for free. Make a virtual machine in Vitualbox.
I choose Virtualbox because it has a GNU/Linux and OSX version, unlike VirtualPC so you can run virtual machines on GNU/Linux and OSX systems.
Some people like VMWare, others QEMU, and some use what Microsoft has. But Microsoft has these evaluation ISOs for free for a limited time so if one runs out, just reformat and reinstall it in a virtual machine to test it out.
I think so because Windows XP POS has support until 2019 and businesses still need to develop POS apps for their embedded POS systems. Even if the consumer XP has dropped support the POS version of XP has not yet.
Too many ATMs and POS systems that still run XP, give them until 2019 to switch to Windows 8 POS systems.
The original was very buggy and did not even support Unicode and error-ed out and crashed.
Using the #ebook hashtag it favors tweets with it in it, getting a lot of indie authors to follow her account on Twitter. She can only do 100 favorings at a time due to limits, but it seems to work. She uses favorings due to the British spelling.
You have to get a Twitter API account with the keys, install the Twitter library for Python 2.7 and fill in the foo and bar etc stuff with your special API keys, and it works.
Hi there I am 45 years old. Been out of work since 2002.
In my prime I earned $150K/year as a programmer analyst writing business software for mostly Microsoft Windows platforms. That was before the Dotcom bubble burst and the market got flooded with younger cheaper labor developers who only studied in hacker school for three months how to become a developer with no college degree and high school dropouts. They work for like $20K/year and write sloppy code with security flaws and poor quality.
I've been programming since I was 12 in 1980 learning BASIC on 8 bit microcomputers, and learning COBOL and FORTRAN on mainframes using punch cards. At first I made mistakes and failed like any other person learning how to be a programmer. I learned from my mistakes and kept getting better. Over my life I learned over 37 different programming languages on countless different platforms. But none of that matters anymore.
Many people I worked with at my age, most of them did suicide because of the stress of working or not being able to find a steady job. Those who stayed in the computer industry became software consultants and got ripped off by broker agencies and in most cases not paid for their work or even being given credit for it, some ended up homeless, others ended up disabled from the stress like me.
This industry can eat you up and spit you out.
I was able to earn money as a 'super debugger', a phrase made by Rear Admiral Grace Hopper when I heard once of her speeches on programming and debugging and how using less code is faster and better, etc. She used to carry some copper wire on her wrist as a bracelet, when they decommissioned some mainframe core memory it was wire wrapped. She would show it to young people like me to teach me that wasting code is wasting memory and resources, and that if you can do the same thing with less code, it runs faster, uses less resources, and less memory.
But nobody seems to want to take her seriously anymore, even if she is a pioneer into computer science, and had invented a lot of the tech we still use today. In her time they claimed it was not possible to have a programming language, they also claimed women could not do computer work, and she proved them wrong on both counts.
Anyway some of my friends who survived, ended up working in fast food and retail and clerk jobs, because nobody wants to hire a person over 30 these days for programming work, and even if they do it is software contracting and they get ripped off.
One of my friends Michael David Crawford who was a Senior Engineer at Apple and Drobo and other places wrote this in his email response:
Dear Friends,
I was until quite recently out of work for three solid years despite
my having for well over fifteen solid years received ~35 software
engineering employment or consulting inquiries from recruiters - also
known as "headhunters" as well as "brokers" - ...
... While at the same time I found it Damn near impossible even to
_find_ the kinds of software publishers I hoped to work for, let alone
any actual open job opportunites, due the quite common lack of street
or postal addresses on corporate websites.
I rsolved to take matters into my own hands by once and for all
putting a permanent end not only to my own chronic unemployment but
that of a half-million of my colleagues in the engineering
professions.
I recently read at Soylentnews (http://soylentnews.org/) that there is
expected to be by 2020 a shortage of one million software engineers in
the United States alone.
I remain dumbfounded, given that there is presently a _surplus_ of
500,000 software engineers as well as that chronic unemployment - the
kind that creates large, unexplainable gaps in one's resume, therefore
rendering one largely unemployable - is quite steadily growing worse
over time.
It Does Not Have To Be This Way.
Behold:
Local Jobs, Local Candidates:
The Global Computer Employer Index
http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/
Note that my _entire_ site consists of naught but static hand-coded
Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict as well as Valid CSS2. There has never been
any software of _any_ sort behind any of the many commercial websites
I've operated since 1994, nor - quite likely - will there _ever_ be.
My Global Computer Employer Index is built _entirely_ by hand, through
careful, diligent and patient online research, as well as offline
literature research in public and University libraries.
I learned all about how to do that when I majored at first in Optical
Astronomy then later Physics at Caltech - the California Institute of
Technology in Pasadena, as well as at the University of California
Santa Cruz, where I obtained my B.A. in Physics in 1993.
You could really help a vast quantity of hungry, hurting people out
were you to lay this mail into the hands of _anyone_ you genuinely
feel would benefit from or would be interested in it.
It is liberal tyranny, not distributed fascism. It is Liberal Democrats who have been indoctrinated into a system that rejects logic, reason, and critical thinking. A system that tells them what to believe and what to do. It has been used in public schools, colleges, and universities, and it is MKUltra level brainwashing.
It brings out the evil nature in human beings and then calls it good. It rejects ethics and morals and replaces them with a liberal ideology. It reject the idea of a God, and worships the Earth instead. It has become a secular religion that worships nature and materialism. If you ever read George Orwell's works of "1984" and "Animal Farm" it is the very things he warned us about.
ThoughtCrime, Newspeak, MiniTrue, MiniLove, and a fake democracy that is no different from a tyranny but called a democracy.
Conservative Republicans are no different than Liberal Democrats, they both do the exact same things. I have rejected them both and become a Pirate Ninja, and formed a Pirate Ninja party.
I have a lot of friends who tell me they won't use Firefox or anything else from Mozilla because they aren't gay friendly. I should note those friends are not technical but are political experts.