DAMMIT!! I got a steam email saying that Assetto Corsa was on sale for 50% off. Clicked on the link and realized that I was 4 MINUTES LATE!!!!! Ugh I'm so pissed.
Finished my last official day of school today. Just got my A2 exams left and i am done (until uni). I was also told by someone today that their gtx660 can play gta5 @ 1080p60 with ultra settings and all of the advanced settings turned on. The BS was real. Especially since even a titan would struggle with that, but they also said that the titan wasn't very good at playing games in a loud voice so i guess that told me... :/
I was accepted into tech support at my school to repair and troubleshoot computers. It's the first time it was available, and had a very limited number of students that could be a part of the program. I'm very pleased about it.
windows 10 is neat still want my w8.1 style start screen back though, however they seem to have completely disabled it darn it microsoft EDIT: darn you microsoft, the start screen OPTION being gone is one thing, but you greyed out the charms bar in the options? you fucking assholes, charms bar was the best new feature you guys have ever put in an OS
They're just killing off useless features. I've used the charms bar a total of 0 times, and I completely ignore the start screen tiles idiocy.
project spartan is actually pretty awesome, definitely something i'd consider using once it starts getting addons (which there very well could be already, i already switched back to my w8.1 partition(need me my charm bar, fuck people who say it's useless, i can't use an OS without it now) so haven't checked), so i guess msoft has that going for them
I'm using an older build of Win10 that I downloaded a while back right now, and I don't really like it. Although, the new folder icons look cool, but that's it. Than again, it might have changed with the newer builds. One reason why it doesn't quite look right to me could be because of the fact that it won't let me change the resolution to anything higher than 1028x1024. That's probably just a problem with VM box though. --edit-- Just had a look, build 9926.
Just came back from school's graduation "celebration" and all I thought was good of it was one teacher, (the one teacher who left and we still love), and everything else was a euphemized circlejerk showing us that we were leaving.
The charms bar is pretty confusing to the average person. It took me a while to figure out where all the application specific settings were for metro apps. The average consumer buying a tablet would have had no chance, closing an application requires me to go all fruit ninja up on the touch screen, once again the average consumer would be crying by this point. The user interface in windows 8 can occasionally do neat things, but they never tell you how to use them other than the nag message they give you. There are no design cues to suggest what you are supposed to do etc. The best part of owning a windows tablet is that you know you dont need to have any security on it because no one can make it past the operating system anyway, if someone wants to do something on it then they have to tell me what they want to do so that i can do it. When the IT admins were trying to find out why it wasn't working with school wifi i had to show them how to navigate the device. The UI works on touchscreens but it really isn't optimal, its even worse on the desktop. But on a touch screen the metro start menu was actually pretty good, other than the all programs section which was a total mess. The handwriting recognition works really well too, but it also worked just as well on windows CE pocket edition so i cant see how they could screw that up, well apart from the fact that the cursor will go missing often when using a wacom tablet (or any non touchscreen input including a mouse) and the hand writing recognition. The windows keyboard only works in windowed applications meaning you have to download and install a keyboard application if you want to use a keyboard in a full screen application and most of them tab out since you have clicked the window that the keyboard is in when using such applications. Splitting the screen in two haves to have two programs open at once works about 30% of the time, this is because they use the same gesture for splitting the screen and displaying the multi tasking list. Also note that since charms dont work in full screen applications if you are using a tablet you are totally screwed if you want to do anything. Since occasionally its almost impossible to close a full screen application depending on the program. Windows on a tablet is really cool. But half of the Windows 8 features dont work, the ones that were intended for touch screen devices dont even work on the devices they were designed for. Im glad they are removing most of that stuff with windows 10, even if they do get rid of the rather neat metro start screen on tablets i am willing to sacrifice that for a single user interface that works. Source: 6 months of using a windows 8.1 tablet for school work. TLDR: Windows on a tablet is cool. Windows 8 on a tablet is janky as hell. Removing many Windows 8 features and replacing them with a single user interface that works well and scales would be neat. Windows 10 looks like it could be good, or maybe it will work even worse on tablets. I have no idea. But it does seem to work nicely on a VM on PC so i can at least be happy in that.
