Not really, no. It will take you forever to press "right, right, right" just to navigate to tile across the screen. The entire point of tiles is that you can poke your finger at any point of the screen at any given time.
This does not apply to controller input, voice input or gestures. You can do some things with voice input by making shortcuts, but that is a very limited control scheme for tiles. Other two are simply terrible.
Effectively: Controller/keyboard = tree based menus (were all but removed from W8 in favor of tiles, one of the biggest usability complaints). Voice input = clear differentiated names on each object on the screen, such as for example a number. Gesture based input = Typically functions similar to controller/keyboard in most implementations. Can be used as poor man's touch in some situations, but is woefully inaccurate and frustrating in that usage scheme.
Not really. It's not really even working on being one yet. It's mainly apple style app store.
Steam on the other hand is a full on distribution system for full featured software. That's quite a bit different. But pretty much everyone expects that one MS graduates from "must copy apple" suicidal rush, it will remember that its strength lies in full featured software and that's when steam's days on windows are numbered.
MS doesn't care. Take a look at massive destruction of windows that was windows 8. They genuinely appear to not care and believe that people like you are acceptable losses in their war for mobile space.
No, the GP is right. MS didn't have a "deal" with Valve. Valve simply did what many others did - used MS OS as platform for their store.
Now MS opened a store of their own, that isn't in direct competition with Valve YET but is clearly headed in that general direction, and Valve execs can read the writing on the wall. So their only option is to make themselves independent of MS platform and push their customers off it ASAP, preferably before MS's own store becomes acceptable for its customers.
Valve isn't new to this kind of bait and switch aimed at customers either. It pretty much forced original steam as "updating system for counter strike" back when it started steam for example. So this is basically two evil giants duking it out while customer will once again be the one bearing the brunt of the damage.
That's like featherweight champion telling Tyson in his prime he could kick his ass in the ring. It's not a very smart move. Especially considering that South Korea is far more reliant on exports to EU than vice versa due to economic structure of each country.
What we'll likely (not) see, but what will happen behind the closed doors is diplomatic wrangling with some member states to put pressure on European Commission. Impact of such action would be far more limited on both ends, and will give South Korean government a pretense to give Samsung that "we tried our best".
For those who don't know, large conglomerates like Samsung are basically a state within state in South Korea and they have immense power in government actions. But not so much as to sink the country in a severe diplomatic and economic row with one of the most if not the most important trading partner.
No, but reality is that military has, throughout human history, been a driver of new technologies.
If military is embracing linux as essentially client/desktop OS, it's a good thing for those who want linux as a viable desktop alternative, and some technological inventions and innovations are likely to find their way into civilian use soon enough.
And in the end, it wouldn't really matter for those killed if they were killed by a ship running linux, windows or macOS, like it doesn't matter to them if the ships are built of steel or carbon fiber, like it doesn't matter to them if missiles use solid or liquid fuel and so on. Because in the end, it's people that kill people. Tools are innocent.
Because they have a vested interest in you staying healthy. That is not infecting other workers and being as productive as possible. It makes financial sense to sponsor better and faster access to health care because losses from having worker not have health care of have access to health care gated by long queues would cause more losses.
Many EU countries have similar system, where you have a state system, and employer can sponsor their workers to get into private clinic that specializes in work place related sickness only as opposed to general practitioner who handles everything (including everything else for said worker).
Issue is, this guy is openly gay and has a partner. He is also in a country that doesn't like NSA very much right now. It's much more difficult to frame someone who's like that than someone who is single, visits a country bought and paid for and actually has sex with people he doesn't know very well.
You need to understand that maintaining herd immunity is of key importance to the current public health. Consider that we actively manage, control and even forbid biological weapons even though they are typically weakened versions of the actual diseases, programmed to not properly spread.
Yet you are claiming that it's a good idea to stop inoculating people for diseases that still exist in the world because they have been eradicated in certain areas. And what happens when there's an outbreak in a couple of decades and we lose a third of our population to it like it has happened before in history? Will you, if you survive it, be able to take responsibility for your actions?
Again: maintaining herd immunity against deadly diseases that pose severe epidemic risk is indeed an end answer to everything, because of the scale of the risk involved.
No. The reason why no one wanted to go to the hospital in 18th century was because that was the time when scientific medicine didn't really exist yet, and hospital mortality was actually higher than going without treatment.
It was the age when stuff like homeopathic hospitals had lower mortality rates than medical hospitals, not because homeopathy worked but because it didn't do anything - which was better than harmful procedures that religion and belief based medicine of the time did.
Your first paragraph is incorrect. Herd immunity is a proven scientific fact. Unless you have revolutionary new information that can prove otherwise, please avoid such sweeping statements.
Societal responsibility however does trump individual control of their body. When you exist in human society, the price for being allowed to benefit from it is conformity to certain basic rules, such as not actively sabotaging that society by becoming a massive epidemic risk to everyone around.
Many people like to talk about rights as if they exist without responsibilities.
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Not really, no. It will take you forever to press "right, right, right" just to navigate to tile across the screen. The entire point of tiles is that you can poke your finger at any point of the screen at any given time.
This does not apply to controller input, voice input or gestures. You can do some things with voice input by making shortcuts, but that is a very limited control scheme for tiles. Other two are simply terrible.
Effectively:
Controller/keyboard = tree based menus (were all but removed from W8 in favor of tiles, one of the biggest usability complaints).
Voice input = clear differentiated names on each object on the screen, such as for example a number.
Gesture based input = Typically functions similar to controller/keyboard in most implementations. Can be used as poor man's touch in some situations, but is woefully inaccurate and frustrating in that usage scheme.
You can get your license upgraded to "pro" which in turn comes with free upgrade option to 7.
It's not advertised but it's there.
You could also just grab the OEM code from your old machine and see if that would work as well if you have one.
Do share, since when did any developer have to make a deal with microsoft to develop for windows?
I'm genuinely intrigued as to what kind of anti-MS bubble one must live in to believe such drivel.
Not really. It's not really even working on being one yet. It's mainly apple style app store.
Steam on the other hand is a full on distribution system for full featured software. That's quite a bit different. But pretty much everyone expects that one MS graduates from "must copy apple" suicidal rush, it will remember that its strength lies in full featured software and that's when steam's days on windows are numbered.
UI is sorta kinda optimized for touch. It's pretty bad for mouse and utter junk for controllers.
MS doesn't care. Take a look at massive destruction of windows that was windows 8. They genuinely appear to not care and believe that people like you are acceptable losses in their war for mobile space.
No, the GP is right. MS didn't have a "deal" with Valve. Valve simply did what many others did - used MS OS as platform for their store.
Now MS opened a store of their own, that isn't in direct competition with Valve YET but is clearly headed in that general direction, and Valve execs can read the writing on the wall. So their only option is to make themselves independent of MS platform and push their customers off it ASAP, preferably before MS's own store becomes acceptable for its customers.
Valve isn't new to this kind of bait and switch aimed at customers either. It pretty much forced original steam as "updating system for counter strike" back when it started steam for example. So this is basically two evil giants duking it out while customer will once again be the one bearing the brunt of the damage.
I'm more confused by the fact that they made it run only RT applications instead of full on desktop x86.
Well, I understand the marketing. They all but slaughtered their desktop OS to get people make software for their shitty phone OS.
Makes me wonder if we'll see x86 windows desktop hacks on XBone soon.
That's like featherweight champion telling Tyson in his prime he could kick his ass in the ring. It's not a very smart move. Especially considering that South Korea is far more reliant on exports to EU than vice versa due to economic structure of each country.
What we'll likely (not) see, but what will happen behind the closed doors is diplomatic wrangling with some member states to put pressure on European Commission. Impact of such action would be far more limited on both ends, and will give South Korean government a pretense to give Samsung that "we tried our best".
For those who don't know, large conglomerates like Samsung are basically a state within state in South Korea and they have immense power in government actions. But not so much as to sink the country in a severe diplomatic and economic row with one of the most if not the most important trading partner.
No, but reality is that military has, throughout human history, been a driver of new technologies.
If military is embracing linux as essentially client/desktop OS, it's a good thing for those who want linux as a viable desktop alternative, and some technological inventions and innovations are likely to find their way into civilian use soon enough.
And in the end, it wouldn't really matter for those killed if they were killed by a ship running linux, windows or macOS, like it doesn't matter to them if the ships are built of steel or carbon fiber, like it doesn't matter to them if missiles use solid or liquid fuel and so on. Because in the end, it's people that kill people. Tools are innocent.
I was talking about EU countries, which typically have that.
Because they have a vested interest in you staying healthy. That is not infecting other workers and being as productive as possible. It makes financial sense to sponsor better and faster access to health care because losses from having worker not have health care of have access to health care gated by long queues would cause more losses.
Many EU countries have similar system, where you have a state system, and employer can sponsor their workers to get into private clinic that specializes in work place related sickness only as opposed to general practitioner who handles everything (including everything else for said worker).
Not really. Keep it behind safe firewall and OS itself is unlikely to become a vector.
At which point other vectors become important. One of them being web browser. Which google is going to keep up to date.
Issue is, this guy is openly gay and has a partner. He is also in a country that doesn't like NSA very much right now. It's much more difficult to frame someone who's like that than someone who is single, visits a country bought and paid for and actually has sex with people he doesn't know very well.
I stand corrected.
In other news, pants are worn on the head.
Nerve sells are basically transistors but with far more options for where the signal will go than binary choice that transistor offers.
If you want to go down that path, first computers were first DNA strands.
If that's too low level for you, then first nerve cells.
You need to understand that maintaining herd immunity is of key importance to the current public health. Consider that we actively manage, control and even forbid biological weapons even though they are typically weakened versions of the actual diseases, programmed to not properly spread.
Yet you are claiming that it's a good idea to stop inoculating people for diseases that still exist in the world because they have been eradicated in certain areas. And what happens when there's an outbreak in a couple of decades and we lose a third of our population to it like it has happened before in history? Will you, if you survive it, be able to take responsibility for your actions?
Again: maintaining herd immunity against deadly diseases that pose severe epidemic risk is indeed an end answer to everything, because of the scale of the risk involved.
Mandatory XKCD moment:
https://xkcd.com/1170/
Explain the rights of an animal in animal society please if they do in fact "predate" humanity.
No. The reason why no one wanted to go to the hospital in 18th century was because that was the time when scientific medicine didn't really exist yet, and hospital mortality was actually higher than going without treatment.
It was the age when stuff like homeopathic hospitals had lower mortality rates than medical hospitals, not because homeopathy worked but because it didn't do anything - which was better than harmful procedures that religion and belief based medicine of the time did.
Your first paragraph is incorrect. Herd immunity is a proven scientific fact. Unless you have revolutionary new information that can prove otherwise, please avoid such sweeping statements.
Societal responsibility however does trump individual control of their body. When you exist in human society, the price for being allowed to benefit from it is conformity to certain basic rules, such as not actively sabotaging that society by becoming a massive epidemic risk to everyone around.
Many people like to talk about rights as if they exist without responsibilities.
That is the favorite argument of abusive parents, frequently used on social workers and police when they come to pick up the child full of bruises.