Things you just don't get

[archetypal_yuppie]



I could be wrong but it would seem he's indicating that this is not progress and quite possibly regression in terms of usability. That is how I currently feel about Windows 8 even though I am embracing it and not using the shell work arounds on my Surface.

Correct. It very definitely is. It reaks of change for the sake of change.

 

[Balfour]

Also...the ribbon is a weird one.

I think it is a big boon for beginner users. Significantly easier to discover and use the advanced features of word and excel with the ribbon.

For intermediate/infrequent users (or people using addons), it sucks. You are used to menus (ignoring the fact that you also probably have prior excel experience) and now this one set of programs has a completely different interface. If you learn the most common keyboard shortcuts, but rely on the ribbon for more infrequent tasks...you get screwed. One of my least favorite things about the ribbon is that it reacts to your keyboard shortcuts--so if I have the ribbon set to show some buttons I don't use often (or where its faster to click than do shortcuts) and then I use a shortcut to do something like paste-special, the ribbon jumps back to the Home tab. I don't want to see the home tab, I want to be able to click on the button or toolbar I had brought up before.
The worst is if you have some 3rd party or addon toolbar and are alternating between some basic formatting or cut/paste stuff and using those tools...every time you make a basic adjustment, you have to click back to the toolbar (which is usually on the far right end of the window) and then click through the toolbar's buttons (which usually start on the far left side of the window).

For advanced users...whatever. Learn the new shortcuts and move on with your life. The improvements in 2007/2010 over 2003 are completely worth it, and you can just hide the ribbon and pretend its not there. There's a learning curve, but you are a professional--if you don't do it now, you will just have to do it later when your old shortcuts get depreciated or your clients refuse to cater to your 11 year old software.

Yeah, but some of the new shortcuts are really stupid - I now have to press a three key combination to insert emails or files into an email in Outlook. One of the most common commands - which cretin thought moving to a three key combination over a two key combination was a good idea!

 

[HRoi]

I'm amazed at the number of stuff women carry into work these days. In my office there are a lot of women who walk in with a big briefcase, lunch bag and purse. They look like Sherpas.

Others walk in with roll-aboard suitcases. What do they have to bring into work?? We hardly print things so all you need at the office is your laptop, mobile phone, and then your lunch if you bring it.

 

[ethanm]

I'm amazed at the number of stuff women carry into work these days. In my office there are a lot of women who walk in with a big briefcase, lunch bag and purse. They look like Sherpas.

Others walk in with roll-aboard suitcases. What do they have to bring into work?? We hardly print things so all you need at the office is your laptop, mobile phone, and then your lunch if you bring it.

And then they swing their free arm violently back and forth, even more than usual (unbalanced creatures), and I fear that I'm going to get ball tapped by a flailing woman who is then going to accuse me of ****.

 

[MrG]



I'm amazed at the number of stuff women carry into work these days. In my office there are a lot of women who walk in with a big briefcase, lunch bag and purse. They look like Sherpas.

Others walk in with roll-aboard suitcases. What do they have to bring into work?? We hardly print things so all you need at the office is your laptop, mobile phone, and then your lunch if you bring it.

I've long wondered this, too, especially the ones with the rolling suitcases. I don't understand what in the world they could possibly have in there, but I've always assumed they're just incapable of organizing properly, never throw anything away, and it just builds up. I also assume they all have martyr complexes and need to make sure we all know how hard they're working.

 

[Harold falcon]

They have their pills in their purses.

 

[Piobaire]

I've noticed it's usually fat slovenly women with the rolling suitcase to work thing.

 

[EastWesterner]

Insanely buff individuals unless it's for sports purposes. It's so...unpractical.

 

[GreenFrog]

No wonder piob drives a big Benz SUV. To spaciously pack his assortment of suitcases for work!

 

[Find Finn]



I'd donate much money to be able to "do some volunteer work" with Katherine Jenkins and/or Anna Netrebko.

Katherine Jenkins is pretty hot, if I remember correctly.

Insanely buff individuals unless it's for sports purposes. It's so...unpractical.

It's healthy, it's nice to be in shape and you feel great after having worked out.

 

[EastWesterner]

Katherine Jenkins is pretty hot, if I remember correctly.
It's healthy, it's nice to be in shape and you feel great after having worked out.

I said insanely buff guys, like the ones that are as huge as a fridge. Crowded places, like a club for example - who's gonna have an easier time moving through the crowds ?

Being toned or even going for that extra layer of muscle is ok, but when you start going crazy on that weigh stuff and pumping yourself like a balloon you won't see me "getting" you any more than I'd get someone who's an esthetic surgery addict such as Donatella Versace.

Moderation, that's all there is to it

 

[otc]



Katherine Jenkins is pretty hot, if I remember correctly.
It's healthy, it's nice to be in shape and you feel great after having worked out.

I don't know who she is, but in this tiny google news thumbnail it kind of looks like Bhowie is "doing some volunteer work" with her.

 

[Find Finn]



I said insanely buff guys, like the ones that are as huge as a fridge. Crowded places, like a club for example - who's gonna have an easier time moving through the crowds ?

Oh those, small penis syndrome and inferiority complex, there's no sport reasoning behind it, as the only sport where it would remotely make sense is linebacker.

 

[otc]

I get that.

In not particularly concerned with my caloric intake but I prefer diet coke these days.
Doesn't taste as overly sweet, doesn't leave your teeth feeling like they are coated in a tooth rotting film, doesn't get sticky if you spill it (handy for throwing rowdy parties)... And once you are user to the aftertaste, doesn't taste bad.

 

[L'Incandescent]

People who park on the driveway and drive on the parkway.