{"id":889,"date":"2012-02-29T17:39:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T22:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=889"},"modified":"2012-02-29T22:38:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T03:38:51","slug":"a-single-image-review-of-the-windows-8-consumer-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"A Single-Image Review of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The default desktop background\/log in image is the ugly 8-betta. Thanks to the GIMP and general orneryness for the flip.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Win8CPDesktopDead.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Win8CPDesktopDead-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Win8CPDesktopDead\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-890\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis, even more than the DP, is a media-consumption OS &#8211; either we are watching the end of general purpose computers, or it will be holding the &#8220;Every other Windows release is a miserable failure&#8221; pattern.  Touchscreens are horrible interface devices where other options are available, and optimizing for them makes horrible interfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Edited to switch to a deader version (<a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Win8CPDesktopFlip.png\">old version<\/a>) and add <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Win8CPDesktop.xcf\">source XCF<\/a> with the background edges fixed and all the objects on separate layers for other&#8217;s editing pleasure.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The default desktop background\/log in image is the ugly 8-betta. Thanks to the GIMP and general orneryness for the flip. This, even more than the DP, is a media-consumption OS &#8211; either we are watching the end of general purpose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=889\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,1],"tags":[23,177],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-entertainment","category-general","tag-hate","tag-windows8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}