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Agreed...I have some friends that would be upset if they were taken away. Some people absolutely hate it though too. Using the tiles should always have been a user choice but they wanted to get that interface in front of as many people as possible as quickly as possible to play catchup with Apple and Google...it was kinda nefarious but I see the logic from a marketing/brainwashing standpoint.
I don't mind it...I don't really use it though, either 
Update: I would add that maybe Microsoft needs to dump the whole 'store' idea and just let developers install programs like they always did...the 'store' thing and all that license key crap is a pain. Making it easier to develop apps for Metro would decrease the resistance to the platform, I think.
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I think when Windows 8 first came out, a lot of the Microsoft faithful forced themselves to like Metro, and were very vocal in labelling anybody who didn't like it as behind the times and resistant to change etc
Now that Microsoft themselves are reversing their decision, if those same people do so too, it will look like they just like whatever Microsoft tells them to like, so I think a lot of them are sticking to their guns
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Or maybe they really did just like it and you're just sticking to your guns
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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'One Windows'?
Maybe it's the beginning of the understanding in Microsoft, that different usage needs different approach.
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Here I was all ready to flame Kent for posting a 2 week article in The Insider to perk me up on a Monday morning; when I get here and see it wasn't originally his fault at all. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Here I was all ready to flame Kent for posting a 2 week article in The Insider to perk me up on a Monday morning; when I get here and see it wasn't originally his fault at all.
Huh, I never looked at the date. I'll have remember to do that!
Glad you didn't flame Kent though. 
Marc
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The week's young and I'm sure Maunder's desire for a consistent number of articles in the Insider rather than a consistent minimum quality level will give me at least one new piece of click bait drivel to flame before the week's over.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Maunder's desire for a consistent number of articles in the Insider rather than a consistent minimum quality level
Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Harsh! 
Marc
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It's the only explanation I can come up with for Kent's occasional "I know that article was crap, but it was a slow day and I couldn't find anything else to link" response.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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PS I can't get up on the right side of the bed, there's a wall about 6" away. Just enough space to shuffle to the corner to fit the sheet; but no chance of getting out of bed there.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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But how do you know that your bed is the right way around in the first place? You might have been getting out on the wrong side all this time? Time to call for one of them Fang Shoo experts!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Just switch your bed around.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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OK, someone needs a hug. And more space on the other side of his bed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I flame to keep away the tears. (By evaporating them before they form.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The organisations that are looking to invent, and dominate the next era of computing are, at their heart, based on advertising revenue, and in the process of owning the future, these companies and their device-based competitors will treat the personal information of consumers as a prized commodity. Nonsense. Oh, don't forget to enter your preferred technologies on your profile page.
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Few organizations have strong opinions and articulated policies on what a check-in should consist of. As long as the check-in is more or less usable in a code review, it's generally considered good enough. We can do better than this by making the contents of check-ins truly useful additions to the development process. Check-in? What's a check-in?
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Germany has not been the biggest fan of tech giants that it believes overreach their influence. Now, a report claims that it is considering a new way to deal with them: regulating them like utilities. Sorry, no search results returned. Have you paid your license fee?
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DARPA's .50 caliber bullets should help snipers remain undetected as they shoot at a target. "I want you to curve the bullet."
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GI Joe and other movies had them. They were extremely expensive.
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Google has replaced the just-in-time (JIT) compiler in Android with an ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler that translates bytecode to native machine code during installation. You know what we used to call that? Compiling your code.
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In that case I can't see what the point NOT to compile BEFORE packaging...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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No compile errors before shipping 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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At the time of packaging you don't know on what machine the software will run, you do know at installation.
What I gather from the story is that pre-compiled software takes up more memory, but is faster than JIT-compiled software. JIT-compiled software has the advantage that it can be translated to machine code that the current machine understands (making cross-platform easier).
By compiling upon installation you DO know on what machine it will run (so that's the advantage that JIT-compiled software has), but for the user it will be pre-compiled as well (so you have the speed of pre-compiled software, but the drawback of more memory used).
I know nothing of compilers or compilation other than that I should press F5 (ok, maybe a bit more), so I hope I got that right 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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On the other hand, many JITters optimise code based on how its actually used (HotSpotting). Pioneered by the Self language, and adopted by Java and V8, along with most modern VMs. Compiling at install-time negates this benefit.
I'm interested to see the interplay here - whether higher-level languages can really approach the speed of C++ when compiling to native in the absence of this information. If nothing else, it will give a good basis of comparison of technologies.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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