Nope, it's the right place, you are talking about OS-X and esp. Win8 ad nauseam in the lounge, this is different.
Here I'm asking people who've actually experienced most of the changes in peripherals over the history of the GUI three different questions about what they've used, when and how they've used them and under what circumstances and OS platforms. Maybe some lurkers with experience and a tale to tell will sign up and join the discussion, that'd be refreshing.
One question is for those folks to project their past experiences into the future of peripherals and the GUI . . . oh . . . and I did made a joke about google glass, my bad.
I made an offhand comment about Microsoft trying not to get left out in the cold in this latest equivalent of the GUI, networking, and WWW boats that sailed without them.
As regards using something without commenting, anyone who lived through Win286, the Win3.x incarnations up through W4WG and the time the world 95'd itself to its knees knows to wait for the bugfix 8.1 version where they even put the TaskBar back where some idiotic UI design committee had borken it off before taking a test drive.
BTW, if you can set your disdain for NetBooks aside for just a second, you can probably figure out that there was a reason they were switched wholesale to Win7 ASAP, despite the price point hit. Had you actually used one with WinXPh3 and its artificial 1 MB RAM ceiling on a NetBook you might even have to agree that it was as inadequate as the folks on the NetBook fora were saying at the time mine was down and booting to a live session from an ubuntu Desktop CD for ten days while I researched options. That and the horrible experience I had with HP's Windows support led me to ubuntu's NetBook remix, a doubling of my addressable memory and all my problems being fixed, thank you very much.
I think we can all agree that a factory fresh install of an OS with exactly one app installation (FireFox) shouldn't really crash and burn after just two months use by anyone. So, no, we never really covered that one either.
Can we talk about peripherals and the GUI now?
Here I'm asking people who've actually experienced most of the changes in peripherals over the history of the GUI three different questions about what they've used, when and how they've used them and under what circumstances and OS platforms. Maybe some lurkers with experience and a tale to tell will sign up and join the discussion, that'd be refreshing.
One question is for those folks to project their past experiences into the future of peripherals and the GUI . . . oh . . . and I did made a joke about google glass, my bad.
I made an offhand comment about Microsoft trying not to get left out in the cold in this latest equivalent of the GUI, networking, and WWW boats that sailed without them.
As regards using something without commenting, anyone who lived through Win286, the Win3.x incarnations up through W4WG and the time the world 95'd itself to its knees knows to wait for the bugfix 8.1 version where they even put the TaskBar back where some idiotic UI design committee had borken it off before taking a test drive.
BTW, if you can set your disdain for NetBooks aside for just a second, you can probably figure out that there was a reason they were switched wholesale to Win7 ASAP, despite the price point hit. Had you actually used one with WinXPh3 and its artificial 1 MB RAM ceiling on a NetBook you might even have to agree that it was as inadequate as the folks on the NetBook fora were saying at the time mine was down and booting to a live session from an ubuntu Desktop CD for ten days while I researched options. That and the horrible experience I had with HP's Windows support led me to ubuntu's NetBook remix, a doubling of my addressable memory and all my problems being fixed, thank you very much.
I think we can all agree that a factory fresh install of an OS with exactly one app installation (FireFox) shouldn't really crash and burn after just two months use by anyone. So, no, we never really covered that one either.
Can we talk about peripherals and the GUI now?