Yeah. once you get over the fact that the start menu is now a start screen (and you can bypass that anyway) its really quite nice. Takes a bit of new muscle memory (depending on the way you did things before, i always launched things by "windows key -> type program name" so i had no real change), but that new muscle…

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You mean "most evil of special interest groups" isn't a quantitative fact? But they have 47% more evil units than the nearest competitor!

I use google voice. But before that I used handcent and really liked it.

indeed. Most games at a low resolution and most of the settings turned down yields the same quality or better as xbox. Which brings up the next point, with a PC, you can be modular enough to upgrade the graphics card/CPU separately (i just bought a new cpu/ram/motherboard (to replace stuff that was 4-5 years old), but…

What bothers me the most is when people pronounce it "Aries" ... She's both Aeris or Aerith depending on which game youre sourcing from, but I feel its never pronounced Aries. And that bugs me because I used to have a bunch of FF nerds that lived near me in college that called it that.

I dont need to come crying to anyone. I already have a desktop with linux on it as well... I just happen to have a windows machine for gaming/casual usage.

Just use the button on the keyboard. It's what I used in windows 7 anyway. gives you more room for task icons. assuming you multi-task. and if you just run facebook its not like you need to cry about a minor thing anyway

Yes. THERE IS. You are talking about the "Modern UI"/metro. which is 100% optional. (i use it to launch apps, start menu style, but there are replacements for that too).

I'm starting to think that I didn't give myself enough time to acclimate to the windows store before returning to the warm embrace of desktop only programs....

I had that problem where I wasnt quite convinced, but most of my problems were lack of drivers for stuff in the early early betas. Since then I've barely used metro for anything other than for launching desktop programs.

if you move the mouse to the bottom left where the start button SHOULD be a context pops up you can click. I can totally see my grandparents going the button isnt right here where it should be! and in the process move the mouse to the bottom left to show me and it pops up. But then again, they probably will never…

If you actually use it... 99% of things are optional. Right click in metro pops up the context bar at the bottom instead of at the mouse. if you can't figure that out. you're dumb. that doesnt require a guide. its just different.

You aren't paying more to fix something that should be baked into the OS. You are paying more for the hundreds of other performance benefits.

While I don't know how this is fully implemented or if it matters. Even from a cold boot of having my desktop unplugged it's a faster boot than windows 7.

Because the start menu isn't the full OS experience.

No, but double voting is the topic at hand. Just because it's less significant doesn't mean it should be ignored.

No. but the problem has 2 solutions. more lax voting laws or easier to get an ID. Being from Chicago where the policy is "vote early, vote often", I'd say I prefer stricter voting laws. Which means we need to work on ID laws.

The witness could potentially be in on it, technically. I would imagine government issued ID's could reduce the level of fraudulent voting... and if ID's are too hard to get, make ID's easier to get, don't make the voting laws more relaxed.