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I will NOT be upgrading Greta or Wendell to Windows 8, and here is part of the reason why.... (scroll down below 'Free Billy")
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IMO, Windows 8 may be fine on a tablet or a touch screen PC, but why force a tablet interface on regular desktops and laptops? And with what is explained in the article...I dunno. Even if I find the idea of Windows 8 on a tablet good, if these restrictions and licensing stuff are true....
Windows 8 could be a much bigger bomb that Windows ME or Vista, but only time will tell.
For the record, I am one of the very few who loved Windows Vista, but still, it bombed because of initial poor driver support, slow file transfers, and bad reviews driving people away from it. By the time Vista SP2 came out, it was rather good.
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^ This. I did try the Developer Preview once, but seeing that the Metro Start Screen didn't bode too well for a mouse-and-keyboard only setup I had to bypass it for the traditional Start menu.
Forcing consumers to use a different approach to starting applications is like taking the wheels and pedals off a car in favor of a not-so-tried-and-true driving setup. The steering wheel, stick shift and pedals were there for like a century or so, and yet the driving population still finds it as a viable approach.
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Grapes' post made me think of Ricky Nelson's Garden Party.
As for Mountain Lion, nope, gonna hold out for 6 months for drivers. The six months without printing when I upgraded to Lion was just insane.
The Best Medicine > Magic. Because SCIENCE! can prove the former.
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Sandy has it right. I am in no way saying helping people is a bad thing. Hurting yourself in the process is what, unfortunately, I was encouraged to do, what I was often emotionally forced to do, and what I know others have been encouraged and forced to do. I think a great deal of this intersects with the way general culture views females and the way it views autistic people. One group is expected to give unconditionally and the other group is seen as selfish or wrong by default. And heck, females are often seen as selfish by default, too. Combine the two and you all too often have people conditioned to sacrifice themselves in efforts to be seen as worthwhile. I don't want my daughters to waste their years like I did.
When the people you try to impress lock you outside* when you said you'd meet them inside and then lie about it and blame you for it, when they require all or nothing devotion, when your life isn't your own but a constant game - that is not right. Anyone is capable of breaking anyone if they stop looking at the other person as someone to respect. I am by no means saying other women never inflict this on their own or that other autistic people never inflict this on their own. I hope that was clear when I spoke of the women I learned I would not grow up to be. Other people somewhat like me were more often than not the very people I broke myself for, Ben included. It is a matter of intersection and a fact of life that too many people will take advantage of those they deem more vulnerable than themselves.
It isn't black and white. I'm not saying ditch people you care for. I'm saying don't lose yourself over them. I'm not perfect, and I wrote what I did in part as a message to some teenage girls that they shouldn't bend over backwards for me. Alternating their selves won't make me like them any more than I already do. I already like them just fine.
I was definitely not telling people to hide your talents, Wade. Just the opposite! But don't go overboard, either, as Sandy was saying. I am a nurse of sorts. I'm not a needles and guts nurse, I'm an emotional nurse. I'm sisterly and daughterly as I am motherly. That's my main talent. Not what I'm perfect at, but what I'm best at. Being unconditional love personified. From what I've experienced and what many other people have experienced, that (and this also applies to the male equivalent, etc.) is probably the easiest talent in the world for other people to take advantage of and harden and/or break hearts over.
*This was not a metaphor. I was literally locked outside somewhere I was supposed to meet someone, repeatedly. It could be used as a metaphor, however.