OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

[Tony G]

Is it cool?

[Tony G]

Really want to pick up a Moto Razr Maxx but Verizon is out of them till 3/12. Grrr!

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Originally Posted by Tony G
Even more maddening, they have shipped me the accessories already and they will arrive this afternoon. So I will have all the stuff to plug the phone into but not the phone.

I hear sometimes they ship early with the accessories if the phone is ready.

I too share in Deb's joy upon the arrival of yon Fed-Ex truck! Turns out Mason was 100% correct and I now have my phone and accessories. I feel like standing on the very steep roof of my house, holding my new phone above my head as though it is a sword, whilst I shout, "I have the the Razr Maxx! The phone with the most battery hours of any! Bring me the finest bagels and muffins in all the land!"

[Tony G]

Ahhh the wonderful few moments between when you bask in the arrival of your new bit of electronic kit and when you run into your first machine error or problem.

[mason reese]

I too share in Deb's joy upon the arrival of yon Fed-Ex truck! Turns out Mason was 100% correct and I now have my phone and accessories. I feel like standing on the very steep roof of my house, holding my new phone above my head as though it is a sword, whilst I shout, "I have the the Razr Maxx! The phone with the most battery hours of any! Bring me the finest bagels and muffins in all the land!"

Really? I was just fucking wit you, trying to get your hopes us.

[Tony G]

I figured it was a 50-50 chance

[-Deborah-]

Is it cool?

I've been gone all night. It's very sexy.

[Tony G]

We are talking about a 13" laptop. right?

[-Deborah-]

Ultrabook but yes. I'm a geek, what can I say?

[Tony G]

it's cool. I am too. The Razr Maxx is sweet too moving up from an original Droid

[edindetroit]

No start button on Windows 8 is way more of a pain than I would have imagined.

You can still get to it but it takes one more step than before. At least it did on the Developer's Preview I tried.

[Tony G]

Really? I was just fucking wit you, trying to get your hopes us.

You wouldn't mind fucking wit me about winning the lotto would you?

[LionsFanInJapan]

You can still get to it but it takes one more step than before. At least it did on the Developer's Preview I tried.

Looks like someone is making an app to do the same thing.

http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-app-to-bring-back-start-menu-on-desktop

[Topweasel]

My biggest issue, is strange, but its the absence of a user friendly way to power down the computer. Most people don't know what their system has set up for pressing the power button, or closing the lid on their laptops. I only spent 20 minutes on it yesterday (just created the VM) but I could only find the option to power down through a ctrl-alt-del.

[Topweasel]

You can still get to it but it takes one more step than before. At least it did on the Developer's Preview I tried.

I didn't take a look at the developers preview, but the consumer preview has an option for the desktop with a task bar, but no actual start menu.

I have some real question on whether or not Metro is ready for applications that are not metro aware, that don't conform nicely into their little hubs. Leaving the start menu for the billions desktop and laptop users who use don't have touch screens, to at least get them used to it, would have been a nice idea.

[Coop]

it's in the lower right corner...little widget that pops up. Has anyone noticed the lack of "control panel" in the consumer preview of 8?