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Why the FUCK doesn't America have technical talent anymore? China has 2.6 million mechanics. It has almost as many mechanics as there are people living in Chicago.
The last 5 years or so, we've seen the rise of fledgling operating systems into popularity, such as iOS and Android: operating systems designed specifically for portable devices. The argument initially portended; "desktop operating systems are too hard to interface with on small touch devices".
Windows 8 changes everything.
The move away from the traditionally small menus for launching, and a hidable, scroll-menu with larger icons ("Ribbon" and "metro" are terms you may hear to describe it") represents a global embrace by microsoft of the touch interface.
You may look at this and think that it's more difficult to use, or is inefficient. The windows method, when using a mouse, has ALWAYS been inefficient, because the start menu is fixed, unlike alternatives including litestep. People have accepted it, as they should accept this, because of the phenomena known as baby duck syndrome: you're afraid to adapt away from something that you have been using for almost twenty years.
It's been said, of physics, that the unification of quantum physics and relativistic, classical physics will be the most important invention for a hundred years, and would shape the state of mankind for thousands.
Windows 8 is the first step to unifying devices; Tablets no longer run operating systems with limited features; They will run windows 8 Computers will continue to run desktop operating systems Mobile phones will use a variant of windows 8, optimised for smaller interfaces, still using the metro result.
Windows 8, good OS or bad, is the first step in the right direction.
One where hand held devices, laptops and desktops are going to be using the same system, with the same tools, available to everyone.
Hating Windows 8 is hating the future. The FOSS movement will follow. Apple will follow.
Is Google capable of at least imitating some basic ai, or they just throw unlimited computing power at problems and hope some montecarlo performs better than bruteforcing, or at least no one will will call them out?
If there's anytime microsoft needs to be bullied in, it's right now. they need to get bullied back into shape like how they got bullied to drop the metro crap and add back the start menu. everyone should be bulling microsoft
