A lot of games train your brain. Some of the more broadly applicable skills it can help develop is memory and problem solving. Is it comprehensive; probably not, but like when you go to a gym, you want to train everything in order to improve overall. Chess can be one of your exercises.
Actually they can't. If a manufacturer agrees to the "open handset alliance" agreements, which is required in order to gain access to the google play store, then they are prohibited from manufacturing any handsets with an android fork.
But seriously, this isn't going to end well. Why does someone need to 'grow up', basically you're trying to ridicule someone into conforming to your societal standards. Why should these guys checking out be a problem in a free society?
Considering that the people within mozilla put up such a concerted campaign to get rid of Brendan Eich over an unrelated political matter, kind of goes to show that yes, the people at mozilla are, in fact, stone-cold stupid.
It just looks to me that the staff within mozilla wish they were working for google, and rather than leaving their own mark on the world, they just imitate, and have turned firefox into an orange themed chrome.
It's kind of like IE, google won't do it because they don't need to; there's no serious competitive imperative to do so when people keep buying/using their stuff. If anything, people must like buggy, slow, unreliable and spying phone OS's!
I couldn't find what you were referring to. The problem with telstra was that the previous administration wanted to forcibly buy out telstras copper network, in order to ensure that the NBN had a monopoly. That copper network is still worth heaps of money, and the negotiations were around that cost. At the end of the day, it was an ambitious project, with poor management, and beneath the surface, I suspect there were ulterior motives.
Watching the cerulean moment is like watching a failed public marriage proposal. It's just cringe, and you wonder why someone puts themselves up for such rejection.
The problem MS has is that they can't ignore mobile. Yes their phone business is dead, but the industry isn't. MS's core business is seriously under threat if they ignore mobile or even fail to adequately provide for it.
For instance, the new surface laptop is a direct assault on chromebooks. Google is keen on displacing windows/microsoft, and they're going about it rather methodically. I think that the future of any company is hinged on mobile, it's just how a very large amount of people access the internet today and do things.
Just a correction, the phones were backwards compatible with apps but old phones weren't forwards compatible. WP8 phones could run WP7 apps, and similarly, W10M phones could run WP8 and WP7 apps, but WP7 devices were stuck with WP7 apps.
The big problem was that developersprogressively stopped supporting the platform, and last year, for instance has been really bad. WP7 and WP8 apps were getting pulled, while no replacement for W10M was being offered. I think the reboots caused a lot of this, and in hindsight, it was around 2015 when the strategy changed, and MS was starting to retrench.
It's a dead platform and all that Nadella's comments reveal is that MS has well and truly given up on this round and it doesn't look like anything is going to replace it soon. I liked the UI and a lot of things agree with me in using WP, but you just can't expect the level of functionality of an iOS or android smartphone purely from the lack of third party support.
Part of the problem is though, that steam has been quite anti-consumer. All the criticism levelled at MS over their concerns for windows 8, valve is guilty of with steam. DRM is available, it's not mandatory, but there's a lot of publishers whose only form of DRM is valve's own one, locking the game to steam, no matter where it's purchased. There was a period where it was quite restrictive as well, locking users out of the games. The only thing valve did to build good will was have very aggressive sales, but that has changed now, you don't get the same level of sales anymore, and ever since they opened the flood gates to shovelware, the platform has gotten markedly worse. For a long period, valve self curated, and made sure that only decent stuff went onto steam, however I think the kickstarter thing rattled their cage, and they must have seen that as a big failure to not have captured that market, enter greenlight.
My biggest concern about valve now is how they've quite covertly embraced gambling in their games and platform. With the steam market, cases (in CS:GO), cosmetic items and speculative trading, but in particular the CS:GO cases, they're doing something incredibly unethical in my opinion, by essentially making a poker machine side game to suck in gullible people. Sure, adults can do what they want, but lots of kids play there as well. Once upon a time, paid horse armor was rightfully lampooned, now some dragon law AWP skin or karambit gets all the rage.
Valve tries to make out that they're nice guys, but they're not an ethical company.
I think it's rather disingenuous to publish an article based purely on speculation. The media should be fact checking stories before they are published. Just providing a disclosure statement on someones hunch is unethical in my view because it's not news; someone's having a stab in the dark and hoping that later on it might be right.
Unfortunately we rely on honesty from the media, thing is it's like a maths problem, if a guess is made and it's correct, the method is still wrong. The person making the guess can make out like as if they knew what they were doing, but in reality they didn't have a clue. We rely on the media upholding standards in their 'method' to news gathering, and the degradation of these standards is why the collective mainstream media has been getting things so wrong. The media has burnt quite a lot of good will with proven conspiracies (Journalists collaborating with the Clinton campaign), bias, yellow journalism and basic dishonesty with their readers, not to mention the humiliation of getting their predictions so wrong. I think the that 'post-truth' and fake news hasn't been engaged by the public as much as the media would have liked as a result of that lost good will.
I got hit with this problem on my desktop machine. I was preparing to reinstall the network card drivers, so when I uninstalled them, and rebooted, it began working again with the default ones. Once it worked, I just left it. I was worried that it may have been a hardware failure on my motherboard. Good to now get confirmation that it was a software issue cause by MS.
It had one cool feature, and that was hopping in your space ship and leaving the planet you were on, to go to another one. Apart from that, the game was ridiculously repetitive, and even worse, was missing a lot of features that were being claimed in order to advertise the game.
Considering the game sold many copies, and spurned a lot of good will, I would say it was a good concept in the context of what was advertised. Yes, certainly the actual product was a dud, but the trailers, the hype, people liked what they saw.
All the pre-launch publicity can be viewed as a massive exercise in building hype without actually committing to much at all. The language used irks me a lot as well, as it's bordering schizophrenia, but that's probably the point of it; they don't want to commit to anything, but make people think that's what they're getting. A case in point was the commonly asked question of whether you will see some other player... The answer was always that the universe is so large that statistically speaking it would be almost zero, but never gave the answer of 'no' because that wasn't implemented in the game.
Unfortunately no man's sky is a game which had a reasonably good concept, but it was then taken to a completely absurd level of marketing and spin. I just wonder how much of these problems are due to the forced hand of publishers who want their ROI, and how much was just incompetence from Hello Games?
I have one problem with the term 'fake news' and that it's a new expression for what really is an old problem, albeit with a new take on it. The problem is yellow journalism, it has been around for a long time, and is exactly what we're seeing now. I think by putting a new name to it, they're trying to disassociate themselves with what has been known about for a long time.
I suspect the distinction is being made because I have seen some push from academia to define 'fake news' and it's generally stuff which they are in political disagreement with. If they were dealing with 'yellow journalism', then academia hasn't really got anywhere to work, since it's not exactly a nouveau area of study. Either that, or they're just so ignorant that they haven't got a clue what has happened historically.
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A lot of games train your brain. Some of the more broadly applicable skills it can help develop is memory and problem solving. Is it comprehensive; probably not, but like when you go to a gym, you want to train everything in order to improve overall. Chess can be one of your exercises.
Actually they can't. If a manufacturer agrees to the "open handset alliance" agreements, which is required in order to gain access to the google play store, then they are prohibited from manufacturing any handsets with an android fork.
Chess is a game...
What category do graduates who work as baristas or in bars fall in?
Said the slave owner to the slave...
But seriously, this isn't going to end well. Why does someone need to 'grow up', basically you're trying to ridicule someone into conforming to your societal standards. Why should these guys checking out be a problem in a free society?
There are wireless charging packs available. Kind of pointless, but they've been made.
Considering that the people within mozilla put up such a concerted campaign to get rid of Brendan Eich over an unrelated political matter, kind of goes to show that yes, the people at mozilla are, in fact, stone-cold stupid.
It just looks to me that the staff within mozilla wish they were working for google, and rather than leaving their own mark on the world, they just imitate, and have turned firefox into an orange themed chrome.
I guess their greenhouse gas emissions would have gone down...
Pun intended!
It's kind of like IE, google won't do it because they don't need to; there's no serious competitive imperative to do so when people keep buying/using their stuff. If anything, people must like buggy, slow, unreliable and spying phone OS's!
I couldn't find what you were referring to. The problem with telstra was that the previous administration wanted to forcibly buy out telstras copper network, in order to ensure that the NBN had a monopoly. That copper network is still worth heaps of money, and the negotiations were around that cost. At the end of the day, it was an ambitious project, with poor management, and beneath the surface, I suspect there were ulterior motives.
Actually that mightn't be a bad thing. The last lot of flagship phone prices have seriously gone up significantly.
Watching the cerulean moment is like watching a failed public marriage proposal. It's just cringe, and you wonder why someone puts themselves up for such rejection.
The problem MS has is that they can't ignore mobile. Yes their phone business is dead, but the industry isn't. MS's core business is seriously under threat if they ignore mobile or even fail to adequately provide for it.
For instance, the new surface laptop is a direct assault on chromebooks. Google is keen on displacing windows/microsoft, and they're going about it rather methodically. I think that the future of any company is hinged on mobile, it's just how a very large amount of people access the internet today and do things.
Just a correction, the phones were backwards compatible with apps but old phones weren't forwards compatible. WP8 phones could run WP7 apps, and similarly, W10M phones could run WP8 and WP7 apps, but WP7 devices were stuck with WP7 apps.
The big problem was that developersprogressively stopped supporting the platform, and last year, for instance has been really bad. WP7 and WP8 apps were getting pulled, while no replacement for W10M was being offered. I think the reboots caused a lot of this, and in hindsight, it was around 2015 when the strategy changed, and MS was starting to retrench.
It's a dead platform and all that Nadella's comments reveal is that MS has well and truly given up on this round and it doesn't look like anything is going to replace it soon. I liked the UI and a lot of things agree with me in using WP, but you just can't expect the level of functionality of an iOS or android smartphone purely from the lack of third party support.
Broken pixels... You're obviously holding it wrong!
He was allegedly a nazi collaborator, i.e. a jew who helped in the confiscation of property from other jews, in his mid teens as well...
Part of the problem is though, that steam has been quite anti-consumer. All the criticism levelled at MS over their concerns for windows 8, valve is guilty of with steam. DRM is available, it's not mandatory, but there's a lot of publishers whose only form of DRM is valve's own one, locking the game to steam, no matter where it's purchased. There was a period where it was quite restrictive as well, locking users out of the games. The only thing valve did to build good will was have very aggressive sales, but that has changed now, you don't get the same level of sales anymore, and ever since they opened the flood gates to shovelware, the platform has gotten markedly worse. For a long period, valve self curated, and made sure that only decent stuff went onto steam, however I think the kickstarter thing rattled their cage, and they must have seen that as a big failure to not have captured that market, enter greenlight.
My biggest concern about valve now is how they've quite covertly embraced gambling in their games and platform. With the steam market, cases (in CS:GO), cosmetic items and speculative trading, but in particular the CS:GO cases, they're doing something incredibly unethical in my opinion, by essentially making a poker machine side game to suck in gullible people. Sure, adults can do what they want, but lots of kids play there as well. Once upon a time, paid horse armor was rightfully lampooned, now some dragon law AWP skin or karambit gets all the rage.
Valve tries to make out that they're nice guys, but they're not an ethical company.
I think it's rather disingenuous to publish an article based purely on speculation. The media should be fact checking stories before they are published. Just providing a disclosure statement on someones hunch is unethical in my view because it's not news; someone's having a stab in the dark and hoping that later on it might be right.
Unfortunately we rely on honesty from the media, thing is it's like a maths problem, if a guess is made and it's correct, the method is still wrong. The person making the guess can make out like as if they knew what they were doing, but in reality they didn't have a clue. We rely on the media upholding standards in their 'method' to news gathering, and the degradation of these standards is why the collective mainstream media has been getting things so wrong. The media has burnt quite a lot of good will with proven conspiracies (Journalists collaborating with the Clinton campaign), bias, yellow journalism and basic dishonesty with their readers, not to mention the humiliation of getting their predictions so wrong. I think the that 'post-truth' and fake news hasn't been engaged by the public as much as the media would have liked as a result of that lost good will.
Skip 4 and go to 5...
I got hit with this problem on my desktop machine. I was preparing to reinstall the network card drivers, so when I uninstalled them, and rebooted, it began working again with the default ones. Once it worked, I just left it. I was worried that it may have been a hardware failure on my motherboard. Good to now get confirmation that it was a software issue cause by MS.
It had one cool feature, and that was hopping in your space ship and leaving the planet you were on, to go to another one. Apart from that, the game was ridiculously repetitive, and even worse, was missing a lot of features that were being claimed in order to advertise the game.
Considering the game sold many copies, and spurned a lot of good will, I would say it was a good concept in the context of what was advertised. Yes, certainly the actual product was a dud, but the trailers, the hype, people liked what they saw.
If you want to talk about "universes", the rules that define ours could be fit on a 3 1/2" floppy disk hundreds of times over.
Double density or high density?
All the pre-launch publicity can be viewed as a massive exercise in building hype without actually committing to much at all. The language used irks me a lot as well, as it's bordering schizophrenia, but that's probably the point of it; they don't want to commit to anything, but make people think that's what they're getting. A case in point was the commonly asked question of whether you will see some other player... The answer was always that the universe is so large that statistically speaking it would be almost zero, but never gave the answer of 'no' because that wasn't implemented in the game.
Unfortunately no man's sky is a game which had a reasonably good concept, but it was then taken to a completely absurd level of marketing and spin. I just wonder how much of these problems are due to the forced hand of publishers who want their ROI, and how much was just incompetence from Hello Games?
I have one problem with the term 'fake news' and that it's a new expression for what really is an old problem, albeit with a new take on it. The problem is yellow journalism, it has been around for a long time, and is exactly what we're seeing now. I think by putting a new name to it, they're trying to disassociate themselves with what has been known about for a long time.
I suspect the distinction is being made because I have seen some push from academia to define 'fake news' and it's generally stuff which they are in political disagreement with. If they were dealing with 'yellow journalism', then academia hasn't really got anywhere to work, since it's not exactly a nouveau area of study. Either that, or they're just so ignorant that they haven't got a clue what has happened historically.