View Poll Results: Do you prefer us lobbing Potatoes or Grenades to take care of spammers?
Lob potatoes to just stun them
2
16.67%
Lob grenades and remove them from the TMS pool permanently
10
83.33%
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Mustangs Coast to Coast
4/16/13 | 01:33 PM
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Joined: December 14, 2007
Posts: 20,005
Likes: 4
From: State of Jefferson Mountains USA
It freaking took me an hour yesterday to find and format the old windows media player on W8. 
The new default 'music player' sucks - you can't even stop the audio - as in stop - much less close the app unless you ctrl/alt/del to bring up task manager. Same for their sucky pdf reader.
Although I've learned my way around it (would be easier if I had a touchpad mouse device but oh! my perfectly good XP model won't work), its that they hide so many common things that you therefore have to hunt for. Ridiculous!
Calling the latest operating system a “failure” and Microsoft’s leaders “idiots,” a top tech website has proclaimed the PC era over. Windows is coming to a dead end, they say.
“Look at the numbers: Metro-interface operating systems have already failed,” Vaughn-Nichols wrote in an essay on the site
. “Microsoft is betting all its chips on the silly notion that Metro will be the one true interface for its entire PC and device line.”
“Idiots,” he wrote.
While Vaugh-Nichols is clearly opinionated, his perspective was supported by IDC analyst Jay Chou, who told The Wall Street Journal a similar story last week: “The reaction to Windows 8 is real.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/...#ixzz2QelMe500
The new default 'music player' sucks - you can't even stop the audio - as in stop - much less close the app unless you ctrl/alt/del to bring up task manager. Same for their sucky pdf reader. Although I've learned my way around it (would be easier if I had a touchpad mouse device but oh! my perfectly good XP model won't work), its that they hide so many common things that you therefore have to hunt for. Ridiculous!
Calling the latest operating system a “failure” and Microsoft’s leaders “idiots,” a top tech website has proclaimed the PC era over. Windows is coming to a dead end, they say.
“Look at the numbers: Metro-interface operating systems have already failed,” Vaughn-Nichols wrote in an essay on the site
. “Microsoft is betting all its chips on the silly notion that Metro will be the one true interface for its entire PC and device line.”“Idiots,” he wrote.
While Vaugh-Nichols is clearly opinionated, his perspective was supported by IDC analyst Jay Chou, who told The Wall Street Journal a similar story last week: “The reaction to Windows 8 is real.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/...#ixzz2QelMe500
4/16/13 | 04:05 PM
It freaking took me an hour yesterday to find and format the old windows media player on W8. The new default 'music player' sucks - you can't even stop the audio - as in stop - much less close the app unless you ctrl/alt/del to bring up task manager. Same for their sucky pdf reader.
Although I've learned my way around it (would be easier if I had a touchpad mouse device but oh! my perfectly good XP model won't work), its that they hide so many common things that you therefore have to hunt for. Ridiculous!
Calling the latest operating system a “failure” and Microsoft’s leaders “idiots,” a top tech website has proclaimed the PC era over. Windows is coming to a dead end, they say.
“Look at the numbers: Metro-interface operating systems have already failed,” Vaughn-Nichols wrote in an essay on the site. “Microsoft is betting all its chips on the silly notion that Metro will be the one true interface for its entire PC and device line.”
“Idiots,” he wrote.
While Vaugh-Nichols is clearly opinionated, his perspective was supported by IDC analyst Jay Chou, who told The Wall Street Journal a similar story last week: “The reaction to Windows 8 is real.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/...#ixzz2QelMe500
The new default 'music player' sucks - you can't even stop the audio - as in stop - much less close the app unless you ctrl/alt/del to bring up task manager. Same for their sucky pdf reader. Although I've learned my way around it (would be easier if I had a touchpad mouse device but oh! my perfectly good XP model won't work), its that they hide so many common things that you therefore have to hunt for. Ridiculous!
Calling the latest operating system a “failure” and Microsoft’s leaders “idiots,” a top tech website has proclaimed the PC era over. Windows is coming to a dead end, they say.
“Look at the numbers: Metro-interface operating systems have already failed,” Vaughn-Nichols wrote in an essay on the site. “Microsoft is betting all its chips on the silly notion that Metro will be the one true interface for its entire PC and device line.”
“Idiots,” he wrote.
While Vaugh-Nichols is clearly opinionated, his perspective was supported by IDC analyst Jay Chou, who told The Wall Street Journal a similar story last week: “The reaction to Windows 8 is real.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/...#ixzz2QelMe500
4/16/13 | 04:26 PM
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Joined: March 9, 2011
Posts: 16,041
Likes: 6
It freaking took me an hour yesterday to find and format the old windows media player on W8. The new default 'music player' sucks - you can't even stop the audio - as in stop - much less close the app unless you ctrl/alt/del to bring up task manager. Same for their sucky pdf reader.
Although I've learned my way around it (would be easier if I had a touchpad mouse device but oh! my perfectly good XP model won't work), its that they hide so many common things that you therefore have to hunt for. Ridiculous!
Calling the latest operating system a “failure” and Microsoft’s leaders “idiots,” a top tech website has proclaimed the PC era over. Windows is coming to a dead end, they say.
“Look at the numbers: Metro-interface operating systems have already failed,” Vaughn-Nichols wrote in an essay on the site. “Microsoft is betting all its chips on the silly notion that Metro will be the one true interface for its entire PC and device line.”
“Idiots,” he wrote.
While Vaugh-Nichols is clearly opinionated, his perspective was supported by IDC analyst Jay Chou, who told The Wall Street Journal a similar story last week: “The reaction to Windows 8 is real.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/...#ixzz2QelMe500
The new default 'music player' sucks - you can't even stop the audio - as in stop - much less close the app unless you ctrl/alt/del to bring up task manager. Same for their sucky pdf reader. Although I've learned my way around it (would be easier if I had a touchpad mouse device but oh! my perfectly good XP model won't work), its that they hide so many common things that you therefore have to hunt for. Ridiculous!
Calling the latest operating system a “failure” and Microsoft’s leaders “idiots,” a top tech website has proclaimed the PC era over. Windows is coming to a dead end, they say.
“Look at the numbers: Metro-interface operating systems have already failed,” Vaughn-Nichols wrote in an essay on the site. “Microsoft is betting all its chips on the silly notion that Metro will be the one true interface for its entire PC and device line.”
“Idiots,” he wrote.
While Vaugh-Nichols is clearly opinionated, his perspective was supported by IDC analyst Jay Chou, who told The Wall Street Journal a similar story last week: “The reaction to Windows 8 is real.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/...#ixzz2QelMe500
Last edited by 11SHELBYGT500; 4/16/13 at 04:28 PM.
4/16/13 | 04:35 PM
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Joined: December 14, 2007
Posts: 20,005
Likes: 4
From: State of Jefferson Mountains USA
I used the mp several times (audio books) but the pop up display doesn't give you full controls like the former windows media player. I can neither stop the audio nor close the app when I'm done. And rather than being able to load several chapters and play in succession, I have to load each chapter one at a time.
And I don't like that ugly backdrop.There was simply no need for ms to make it so cumbersome for keyboard users.
4/16/13 | 04:47 PM
Windows 8 sucks and I refuse to use it. 
4/16/13 | 04:52 PM
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Joined: March 9, 2011
Posts: 16,041
Likes: 6
I'm plenty used to it.
I used the mp several times (audio books) but the pop up display doesn't give you full controls like the former windows media player. I can neither stop the audio nor close the app when I'm done. And rather than being able to load several chapters and play in succession, I have to load each chapter one at a time.
And I don't like that ugly backdrop.There was simply no need for ms to make it so cumbersome for keyboard users.
4/16/13 | 05:00 PM
4/16/13 | 05:10 PM
Swamp Donkey Man Cans
Joined: August 20, 2007
Posts: 4,352
Likes: 2
From: Massachusetts
It freaking took me an hour yesterday to find and format the old windows media player on W8. The new default 'music player' sucks - you can't even stop the audio - as in stop - much less close the app unless you ctrl/alt/del to bring up task manager. Same for their sucky pdf reader.
Although I've learned my way around it (would be easier if I had a touchpad mouse device but oh! my perfectly good XP model won't work), its that they hide so many common things that you therefore have to hunt for. Ridiculous!
Calling the latest operating system a “failure” and Microsoft’s leaders “idiots,” a top tech website has proclaimed the PC era over. Windows is coming to a dead end, they say.
“Look at the numbers: Metro-interface operating systems have already failed,” Vaughn-Nichols wrote in an essay on the site. “Microsoft is betting all its chips on the silly notion that Metro will be the one true interface for its entire PC and device line.”
“Idiots,” he wrote.
While Vaugh-Nichols is clearly opinionated, his perspective was supported by IDC analyst Jay Chou, who told The Wall Street Journal a similar story last week: “The reaction to Windows 8 is real.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/...#ixzz2QelMe500
The new default 'music player' sucks - you can't even stop the audio - as in stop - much less close the app unless you ctrl/alt/del to bring up task manager. Same for their sucky pdf reader. Although I've learned my way around it (would be easier if I had a touchpad mouse device but oh! my perfectly good XP model won't work), its that they hide so many common things that you therefore have to hunt for. Ridiculous!
Calling the latest operating system a “failure” and Microsoft’s leaders “idiots,” a top tech website has proclaimed the PC era over. Windows is coming to a dead end, they say.
“Look at the numbers: Metro-interface operating systems have already failed,” Vaughn-Nichols wrote in an essay on the site. “Microsoft is betting all its chips on the silly notion that Metro will be the one true interface for its entire PC and device line.”
“Idiots,” he wrote.
While Vaugh-Nichols is clearly opinionated, his perspective was supported by IDC analyst Jay Chou, who told The Wall Street Journal a similar story last week: “The reaction to Windows 8 is real.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/...#ixzz2QelMe500
Last edited by 07S197; 4/16/13 at 05:11 PM.
4/16/13 | 05:17 PM
Cobra Member
Joined: October 18, 2011
Posts: 1,467
Likes: 0
From: North Carolina (currently deployed)
I didn't want to post FedEx plane crashes out of bad taste, but they crash soo much they made a movie about it.
http://youtu.be/IyOu9xCNMK0
http://youtu.be/IyOu9xCNMK0