Haven't get my hands on Windows 10 yet

Finally Windows 8 is now in rear mirror as people start getting Windows 10. But I am no hurry to install it yet. Hard disk is running low with bigger-than-ever-picture uploads... I guess I will wait a bit on getting it. Perhaps someone will say Windows 10 may have some severe problems. (Not very likely though) Look forward to play with it at a store when they installed it there.

The return of the Start button is so welcoming. 8.1's start button is better than nothing but not good enough. The guy who suggested taking it out has committed such huge sin that I will never ease my wrath on. Waita minute, but the new start menu is so wide? But I hope that's customizable.

But Mac doesn't have Start button either and nobody complained? Well Mac users don't go Start->Programs and find their things, they have to know the name of it with Command-Space or the spotlight in upper right. They are used to never ever get a list of programs they have. They are used to the horrible Finder. And they are all fanboys who put up with whatever the Mac give them

I've heard the idiot Charm bar is out. Good. Those full screen tiles are such moron (not modern) design.

I've heard minesweeper and Hearts will be gone. Well 8.0 got rid of them too? They just have to kill those classic simple games. I still haven't recovered from losing Chess Titan.

Waita minute... what else am I getting besides the start button. I've learned to use without it. If I need to pull out notepad.exe? I got Windows-R for Run button. I don't need Cortana, never need to talk to a computer like Knight Rider. See some features here.

PIXELS

Whoa, huge Pac Man terrorizing town! Whoa huge Galaga thing really attacking us! Donkey Kong throwing barrels! Aliens using video game to attack! Gotta be able to play the game to save the world!

I did not and will not watch the Pixel movie. But I probably captured all the movie try to say. Yes the 80s were great in video games. People who lived through that time all loved the simple entertaining video games. 80s die hard gaming fans should line up to see this movie right? (Despite you may get shot by some crazy guy at the theater and the world just shrug)

But waita minute, but what alien would attack earth with this... This idea is um, sorry, stupid. Look if aliens really copied Pac Man and Donkey Kong they would have been harmless 2D. And Pac Man has NO eyes.

It is very hard to come up with a reasonable good plot with old video game characters to have a winning movie. I didn't watch Wreck-It-Ralph either but I think that plot is being a bit more reasonable. But Ralph is a new character. If you really want a go for video game theme, just focus on one... but Van Damme's Street Fighter was pretty bad. Video games is perhaps best played not watched.

Pluto flyby

Wow, such great human achievement for New Horizons to go all the way out to Pluto... the last of the original 9 planets. Those great pictures taken would entertain the scientists and enthusiasts for a long time. Now do we have some vivid pictures from stars and galaxies even further away? Saw some of those in over-sized books at bookstores that no one buy.

It is so remarkable to be able to send a little spacecraft that far away to a moving target. Such awesome calculations, who says math is useless? I am not so sure why the Hubble Telescope can't take a good look at Pluto when it can look at things even further away. (Ok, I need to read this, plenty of (basic) math in this explanation, again who says math is useless).

This little planet has 5 little moons... travel in a radically different path than other planets... and now we know there is a heart shaped thing on Pluto. Now this little spacecraft is also quite remarkable. It's got a nuclear battery! Wow it can convert decaying plutoninum into electricity!

This is such incredible milestone of space exploration. I am glad it didn't crash into something in the Asteroid belt. How far can it go? Will it ever lose contact?

New York - revisited

I rarely ever travel, but a decade or so ago I traveled to New York and it was winter time, meaning can't stay out for too long and I vowed to come back in a summer and I did this time.

First time ever on American Airline and its got an Android pad on each seat on one flight... There is the 3D World map app that is fun to play with which even give you a cockpit view.

New York is still the big walk-able city and a car is really not so recommended in Manhattan. Yes, its subway is complex and dark but they aren't that bad. They don't use smart card Ventra like Chicago, still magnetic stripes but you have to swipe it (not insert it). Good thing is it tells you balance and the smarter Ventra doesn't until you get the red x for insufficient funds. Yes, traffic jam everywhere in New York. So don't let that ruin vacation mood. Many street musicians there, probably broadway musicians wanting extra cash.

This time I do not see as many graffiti as was a decade+ ago. Still crowded in many places. Still bags of garbage on streets. Its Canal Street Chinatown has shrinked a bit, not many interesting stores, just many grocery stores with live seafood lying around just like Hong Kong. Not that many exciting Chinese restaurants there and still kinda busy. Mandarin Chinese seems to be more mainstream than Cantonese over there. Yes, There are other Chinatowns in Flushing and Brooklyn too worth checking out. Since the fire destruction of Penang restaurant in Chicago Chinatown I just never can find another Malaysian one, there is a couple in the Little Italy. Good food. Chicago need those! Chnatowns have only restaurants, toy shops and ladies clothing shops. Not much else. Not a single men's clothing shop where do they expect men to find clothes?

Time Square and its many interesting stores surrounding that area are worth checking out. The 9/11 memorial is worth checking out. Gosh how I wish I can visit the Museum of Mathematics. Wish have time to revisit the big Central Park too.