The vast majority of games available will be unlicensed commercial games. In a time where many rom sites have been shut down why is archive.org exempted from this? Is it because right holders are more lenient about arcade games?
Well, (AFAIK) so far they're the only manufacturer to do this. You have plenty of choices in Android land. But of course I don't like it and I hope other Android manufacturers don't copy this. It was bad enough when Microsoft included ads for their own products in Windows 10.
The Mi band isn't terribly accurate. The step counting might be but the heart beat counting it is not: I usally use the Mi Fit app to track my heart beat rate in real time when I'm on the treadmill and the Mi readings are sometimes very close to those of the treadmill but sometimes it just gives nonsense values. Also, I've noticed it can guess pretty accurately when I fall sleep but sometimes when I wake up it still thinks I'm sleeping.
The more expensive devices are probably a bit more accurate but I wouldn't trust their readings too much.
It's too bad because continuous monitoring might actually be able to detect anomalies that indicate disease.
Discovered the same thing one day my step count was huge and realised the device had counted my guitar playing as steps.
Now I take the device off before playing
Those numbers you posted refer to games that run natively on each OS. Valve has been collaborating with Wine to improve game compatibility and they have turned it into something called "Steam Play" which launches Windows games via that special version of Wine. Of course compatibility is not perfect buy you can run many games that aren't in that list of 5358 which run natively.
Wouldn't all these workflow problems if the cameras just transferred the image instantly to your smartphone (will you will be carrying anyways)?
I don't know jack about regular cameras but someone has to have done something like this. Transferring the photos via bluetooth or something.
They say cheaper streaming boxes will explode the number of customers. But if the reason those people don't play is that they can't afford the hardware how are they gonna be able to afford the games then? Especially since the cost of a console is 5x to 8x the price of an AAA game.
Maybe they will lower the prices expecting to make it up with the increased number of players but I doubt that.
They're not comparable since one is inserting publicity about a product of yours when people visit your website and the other is showing ads in a freaking OS
I haven't seen a Chrome ad in the Google home page in years. And I don't use any kind of ad blocking software. Maybe at some point I checked a box that said "I don't want to see this anymore" and Google respected that or they realised it wasn't gonna work but the effect is that Google doesn't bother me with that.
Now it seems Windows 10 has an imitator. Ads delivered by the OS what a "great" invention.
Xiaomi must have razor thing margins since their phones are really cheap for what you get but IMO this is an stupid way to destroy an image that has taken years to create. Microsoft can - somewhat - (see the news about removing the Edge publicity screen when trying to install other browsers) get away with it because Windows has no direct substitutes (meaning you don't have many options if you want to run Windows apps reliably (so I'm discounting Wine)) but Xiaomi has dozens of Android phone manufacturers which make products that can easily substitute Xiaomi's phones.
So he had been playing an average of 8 hours per day since release date? I guess that guy had a job. I can see why the wife wanted to run away.
I know some women complain when their SOs play even a bit of videogames but in this case she had reason to be angry
LG tried something similar with the G5 and it wasn't a big hit. I don't know the reason. Probably because the phone itself didn't sell too well. It didn't make the base phone a lot bigger or anything so that proves it can be done and, at least, they could put a removable battery without a very big impact.
There isn't (and never will be) a complete alternative but at least Valve are paying the guys at Wine to make improvements to the compatibility of games so there's money (and good progress) being put into that.
To this day Linux (in particular desktop environments) feels brittler to me than Windows. Many times there's updates that won't go smoothly or for some reason the X server stops working and I have to troubleshoot it but there may arrive the day when I feel that's better than Windows.
If the EU got on Google for anticompetitive practices regarding Android they could surely look into this too.
I'm European and I for once think that would be a good use of my money
Yep. That's the problem. I wouldn't have any problem if it was free with ads or paid and clean but, no, they can't allow that.
If I could get Windows 10 without the spying and ads I would use it (despite the IMO horrible UI) as it is I'll stay on Win 7 for as long as I can
Isn't it the "summary" in Slashdot the entire contents of the twits? Yes, you gotta visit the actual twits if you want to see the pics but...is that that bad?
Yep, that's exactly why they're doing this: The middle tier phones are good enough for most people so people are buying more of them and fewer flagships.
Here in Spain many people are buying Xiaomi phones which offer incredible value for the price. Samsung just can't hope to be in a good position if they don't do a major overhaul to their middle line.
...remove features that everybody wants...and then add them back and sell that as an improvement.
Now seriously: I hate the modern dumbing down of UIs. Yes, I understand they're geared towards non geeks and many also designed for touchscreens but at least give us the option to also have a "classic",dense, keyboard-and-mouste-optimized UI. And, at the very least have some way to configure the "advanced" options, even if it's something as ugly as Firefox's "about:config"
At the end it boils down to "you must know what you're doing".
Kernel development deals with very low level concepts and most people don't undestand them. If you don't know what you're doing you will undoubtely make mistakes and since the OS is the layer on which everything runs mistakes in kernel code have rippling effects throught the system and all the software you run on it.
You could write Linux (the kernel) parts in something other than C but that won't save you from having to know the gory details
That really sucks. I hope Windows games work fine in Wine/Whatever-the-name-of-the-Valve-compatibility-layer-is by the time is no longer feasible to stay on Win 7
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The vast majority of games available will be unlicensed commercial games. In a time where many rom sites have been shut down why is archive.org exempted from this? Is it because right holders are more lenient about arcade games?
Well, (AFAIK) so far they're the only manufacturer to do this. You have plenty of choices in Android land. But of course I don't like it and I hope other Android manufacturers don't copy this. It was bad enough when Microsoft included ads for their own products in Windows 10.
The Mi band isn't terribly accurate. The step counting might be but the heart beat counting it is not: I usally use the Mi Fit app to track my heart beat rate in real time when I'm on the treadmill and the Mi readings are sometimes very close to those of the treadmill but sometimes it just gives nonsense values. Also, I've noticed it can guess pretty accurately when I fall sleep but sometimes when I wake up it still thinks I'm sleeping.
The more expensive devices are probably a bit more accurate but I wouldn't trust their readings too much.
It's too bad because continuous monitoring might actually be able to detect anomalies that indicate disease.
Discovered the same thing one day my step count was huge and realised the device had counted my guitar playing as steps.
Now I take the device off before playing
Those numbers you posted refer to games that run natively on each OS. Valve has been collaborating with Wine to improve game compatibility and they have turned it into something called "Steam Play" which launches Windows games via that special version of Wine. Of course compatibility is not perfect buy you can run many games that aren't in that list of 5358 which run natively.
Wouldn't all these workflow problems if the cameras just transferred the image instantly to your smartphone (will you will be carrying anyways)?
I don't know jack about regular cameras but someone has to have done something like this. Transferring the photos via bluetooth or something.
They say cheaper streaming boxes will explode the number of customers. But if the reason those people don't play is that they can't afford the hardware how are they gonna be able to afford the games then? Especially since the cost of a console is 5x to 8x the price of an AAA game.
Maybe they will lower the prices expecting to make it up with the increased number of players but I doubt that.
...the 21st century is wonderful
Your comment was pretty interesting. Now, if you hadn't managed to misspell "its" every single time it'd been even better :P
Now it seems Windows 10 has an imitator. Ads delivered by the OS what a "great" invention.
Xiaomi must have razor thing margins since their phones are really cheap for what you get but IMO this is an stupid way to destroy an image that has taken years to create. Microsoft can - somewhat - (see the news about removing the Edge publicity screen when trying to install other browsers) get away with it because Windows has no direct substitutes (meaning you don't have many options if you want to run Windows apps reliably (so I'm discounting Wine)) but Xiaomi has dozens of Android phone manufacturers which make products that can easily substitute Xiaomi's phones.
So he had been playing an average of 8 hours per day since release date? I guess that guy had a job. I can see why the wife wanted to run away.
I know some women complain when their SOs play even a bit of videogames but in this case she had reason to be angry
LG tried something similar with the G5 and it wasn't a big hit. I don't know the reason. Probably because the phone itself didn't sell too well. It didn't make the base phone a lot bigger or anything so that proves it can be done and, at least, they could put a removable battery without a very big impact.
There isn't (and never will be) a complete alternative but at least Valve are paying the guys at Wine to make improvements to the compatibility of games so there's money (and good progress) being put into that.
To this day Linux (in particular desktop environments) feels brittler to me than Windows. Many times there's updates that won't go smoothly or for some reason the X server stops working and I have to troubleshoot it but there may arrive the day when I feel that's better than Windows.
If the EU got on Google for anticompetitive practices regarding Android they could surely look into this too.
I'm European and I for once think that would be a good use of my money
Yep. That's the problem. I wouldn't have any problem if it was free with ads or paid and clean but, no, they can't allow that.
If I could get Windows 10 without the spying and ads I would use it (despite the IMO horrible UI) as it is I'll stay on Win 7 for as long as I can
Isn't it the "summary" in Slashdot the entire contents of the twits? Yes, you gotta visit the actual twits if you want to see the pics but...is that that bad?
Left wing on economic policies? Can you elaborate a bit?
Yep, that's exactly why they're doing this: The middle tier phones are good enough for most people so people are buying more of them and fewer flagships.
Here in Spain many people are buying Xiaomi phones which offer incredible value for the price. Samsung just can't hope to be in a good position if they don't do a major overhaul to their middle line.
...remove features that everybody wants ...and then add them back and sell that as an improvement.
Now seriously: I hate the modern dumbing down of UIs. Yes, I understand they're geared towards non geeks and many also designed for touchscreens but at least give us the option to also have a "classic",dense, keyboard-and-mouste-optimized UI. And, at the very least have some way to configure the "advanced" options, even if it's something as ugly as Firefox's "about:config"
At the end it boils down to "you must know what you're doing".
Kernel development deals with very low level concepts and most people don't undestand them. If you don't know what you're doing you will undoubtely make mistakes and since the OS is the layer on which everything runs mistakes in kernel code have rippling effects throught the system and all the software you run on it.
You could write Linux (the kernel) parts in something other than C but that won't save you from having to know the gory details
That really sucks. I hope Windows games work fine in Wine/Whatever-the-name-of-the-Valve-compatibility-layer-is by the time is no longer feasible to stay on Win 7
For something released that often I actually think the year/month naming is better than a version number.
May be that the greatest problem is that in the US drivers aren't used to roundabouts?
Thanks!