@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I literally use absolutely no Windows 8 apps. I hate them so much. So jarring and weird and none of them work well. Just a bad idea. I've tried several and not a one of them has had any value that I could ascertain.

I have yet to use any either - I haven't bothered to look through the store either.

There is no way to find anything. The store is completely worthless. If you don't already know about what you want and its exact name you are completely SOL.

The community here runs on Ubuntu too.

This is the Unreal engine. So tons of games will be based on that.

That's pretty cool. LIDAR is a fascinating technology to me.

well...happy belated Birthday from me!! @joefriedman

Yes. Their BeyondRAID is always the same.

@Chamele0n said:

@scottalanmiller I think you will be surprised, give it a fair shot. The hardware/software compatibility is infinitely better than windows. Give it a couple months to sink in, but I bet you by 6 moths you will love it. (If you are already a Unix fan)

We were members last year and while we generally liked it found that we just never used it and now we are back where there isn't one again.

@Dashrender said:

I'm sure someone will be happy about this...

All of NTG will as we are all Office 365 and iPads.

Good luck!

@scottalanmiller said:

If you are worried about governments locking weapons of people they don't want to be armed, do you not think that they would not unlock those that they want armed? Or just hackers in general.

The government would allow those it wants to have guns to have them without this idiotic safety. It wouldn't be worth the risk of malfunction to give these to, say, Cops or military personal.

I thoughts People are just crazy.. Oh no How about dissolving these Ants into Bottle of Beer?

@Dashrender said:

Wow.. Windows 8 is only 18 months old - this does seem kind of quick to me. But yeah when you consider that Windows 7 is 5 years old this year I suppose it makes sense.

And @scottalanmiller who, besides you and NTG, Truely buys into the Windows vision? No company large or small I know of stays anywhere near on top of things like Windows versions. LOL a thought question, not a real one.

I'm very much into the Windows ecosystem. With the exception of Hyper-V and the now-defunct TMG, the MS platform is an amazing dynamo of interoperability and centralized management.

@scottalanmiller good point

Here is a talk that I gave:

http://www.mangolassi.it/topic/24/cloud-computing-architecture-scott-alan-miller-speaking-at-spicecorps-dfw-2012

So cool.

@Nic said:

The more diverse the ecology, the better for gaming.

Yes indeed.

Nothing about how ATMs are handled is very comforting. Security is taken very loosely with them and scams using them are way too easy.

@Nara said:

With the exception of manufacturing and companies dealing in physical items, the office isn't the company anymore. It's just where people come to work. Keeping legacy infrastructure around goes against that culture shift.

That's very true. It's amazing how so many people are missing that.